Hello and welcome to bbc world news. Italy is set to tighten its coronavirus lockdown, after the number of deaths jumped by more than 600 in a single day. Reports suggest that from saturday, parks and Public Gardens will be shut down and people will only be allowed to exercise around their own homes. The death toll is the biggest daily rise since the virus first emerged in the country a month ago and comesjust a day after italy overtook china as the country with the most deaths recorded from the virus. The hardest hit region of italy remains lombardy in the north. Sima kotecha has more from rome some people in italy are calling it the nine 11 of italy because of what has happened. The death toll has now surpassed china and if you look at the population of china and the population of italy, that is incredibly alarming. 1. 4 billion people in china, in italy 64 million so questions being asked as to why that has happened here. Most of the fatalities north of the country where authorities
Urdu and Urdu literature was celebrated in the UK as the Uttar Pradesh-based non-profit Rekhta Foundation had their first cultural programme outside India in London this weekend.
YAVAR Abbas and Noor Zaheer
NOOR Zaheer was on the campus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi in December 2019 when she got a phone call from London-based Yavar Abbas.
“I’m in the middle of a protest, it’s noisy can we talk later?” she asked. “Please, can you step away for a few minutes? I need to speak with you,” said Yavar. “Will you marry me?”
The setting of this long-distance proposal was unsurprising. For a leftist author, feminist and intellectual like Noor, the JNU protest marked yet another struggle in her life as a fearless and outspoken activist. The thing that raised eyebrows, however, was that her suitor was nearly 100 years old.