`Shoot violators on sight´: India creaks under strain of total nationwide coronavirus lockdown
(WorldNews Asia)

One day into the world´s largest coronavirus lockdown, Indian state officials were sending mixed messages to a population of almost 1.4 billion struggling to adjust to the prospect of three weeks confined to their homes. Health and law and order are devolved matters under India´s federal system, and in the southern state of Telangana the chief minister warned that extreme measures would be taken if people did not observe the lockdown. `If people do not listen and stay indoors, we will be forced to implement a 24-hour curfew,` said K Chandrashekar Rao. `If people continue to be on the streets, then the army has to be called out and shoot at sight orders may be issued.` Download the new...