Modi places India under 'total lockdown'

Published: March 24, 2020, 10:50 p.m.

India is to impose sweeping nationwide restrictions in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced. Also in the programme: Olympic postponement, an athlete responds; and we remember Manu Dibango. (Picture: A woman watches Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi"s address to the nation on a cell phone, in Kangra, India. Credit: EPA)