Clashes erupted in the Shahpur locality of Ahmedabad when police and paramilitary forces tried to enforce the lockdown, asking people to stay indoors.

The company also bypassed the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification, which mandates that modernisation and expansion of existing projects needs an environmental clearance (EC).

Coronavirus Pandemic LIVE Updates: Tamil Nadu today reported 526 fresh cases of the coronavirus as well as four deaths. At least 279 of the new cases were reported from state capital Chennai.

Priority was accorded to pregnant women and children to embark the ship first and bunk allocation was also undertaken by the ship's crew catering to age and medical requirements, officials said.

Justice Deepak Gupta emphasised the apex court must stand up for the rights of the deprived and underprivileged classes, including the minorities, who cannot be deprived of their rights just because they disagree with the government on certain issues.

Maharashtra remained the worst hit state with a total number of cases rising to 19,063, followed by Gujarat which has reported 7,402 cases.

Besides SBI, other members of consortium are Canara Bank, Union Bank of India, IDBI, Central Bank of India and Corporation Bank, they said.

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh had recently written a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, requesting him to make necessary arrangements for the nearly 400 Kashmiri students stuck in the state.

The stranded people hail from Tamil Nadu and they were working in the United Arab Emirates.

The charge of provocation to cause riots has been levelled against the workers allegedly for helping the migrant workers.

His wife was working as an auxiliary nurse midwife at a local sub health centre. She was living in a government quarter, the police said.

The police tried to prevent the villagers from going near the plant but the latter ran past the former and staged a sit-in protest near the factory gate.

Similarly, for the students in northeast Delhi, the wait for the exams has become a "test of patience" as they were postponed first in the area due to law and order situation, and later due to the coronavirus outbreak, resulting in a four-month-long wait for the exams.

Inmates of Mohali’s Paraplegic Rehabilitation Center (PRC) and their family members residing there are making cloth face masks

With the lockdown in effect, and construction, industrial and vehicular activity (which cumulatively contribute 75% of Delhi’s PM 2.5 levels) down to a crawl, the capital has been experiencing record levels of clean air.

The temperature at the styrene storage tank, where the vapour leak occurred, has come down, as well as the PPM (ambient air quality) level in RR Venkatapuram village.

Among the 48 active cases, maximum 31 are in the unit that guards the Delhi Metro followed by 13 in the Mumbai international airport guarding unit.

AIIMS director and pulmonologist Dr Randeep Guleria and Dr Manish Soneja of AIIMS' department of medicine, flew in on a special Indian Air Force plane on Friday, an official said.

To further decrease the infant mortality rate in the Union Territory to single digit by 2022, an action plan has been developed which is being implemented at various levels, a spokesman said.

The application for early hearing said the country is suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has declared nationwide lockdown due to which people are not allowed to go out except for essential services.

The Madras HC on Friday ordered closure of liquor outlets noting that no social distancing was being maintained. It, however, allowed doorstep delivery of booze through online mode.

She was reported missing after her mother passed away on Wednesday and her body was found near the new private ward block of the hospital on Saturday, they said, adding that she fell to her death from a building.

Retnamswamy is the second person of Indian origin to be remanded at the IMH for psychiatric evaluation after the incident involving face masks.

In case the petitioners move a representation to the DMRC, it is supposed to dispose of the plea within four weeks by a reasoned order after taking inputs from authorities concerned.

The resumption of the classes are planned so that students can complete their remaining academic components. Examinations will be completed by July 31, said the JNU.

The unit said it is committed to working closely with the concerned authorities to investigate the cause of the incident, prevent recurrence in future and secure the foundation for care and treatment.

In a tweet, PM Modi also noted that tens of thousands of Indian soldiers also made the sacrifice in the second World War.

The toll of 68 shared by the Delhi government in its health bulletin on Friday is based on data collected from 10 hospitals, including AIIMS, Safdarjung Hospital, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College.

The RPSC Junior Legal Officer examination was held on December 26 and 27 last year. The answer key of the written exam was released on the website of RPSC on January 24.

A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh passed the order in view of a high-power committee's recommendation that it would be dangerous to put the prisoners back in jail as the risk still remains high.

INS Jalashwa, participating in Indian Navy's "Operation Samudra Setu" to bring home Indians stuck in foreign countries due to COVID-19 pandemic, has departed from Male port for Kochi with 698 Indian nationals on board on Friday night.

No fresh death due to the virus was reported in this period. Delhi has so far reported 68 deaths.

Retail liquor business in the state is currently run by the government, through the AP State Beverages Corporation Limited,

Our eyes are open to what Pakistan is doing, Singh said, hours after the NIA arrested a "notorious narco-terrorist" who acted as a conduit for Pakistan-based terror groups.

The labourers, working in a steel factory in Jalna, left for their home in Madhya Pradesh on foot. Exhausted, they slept on the tracks near Karmad, not knowing that traffic of goods trains had not ceased despite lockdown.

The leaders are apparently trying to cash in on the Covid-19 situation in a bid to impress chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy through distribution of essential articles​ ahead of a cabinet expansion.

Eight constables who tested positive for Covid-19 were posted in West Bengal, while one was stationed in Odisha.

In a five-page letter, Dhankhar responded to the CM, who accused him of 'forgetting' that she was the elected head of government in the state and he was merely a 'nominated' one.

Taking a dig at the TRS-led state government, Sanjay asked ministers to make a field visit to know the ground reality and the problems faced by the farmers.

Senior BJP leader and Union minister Prakash Javadekar said the entire country is together in fighting the coronavirus but the Congress is busy "fighting" Modi and the government.

The Hyderabad MP alleged that the lockdown was announced in an unplanned manner without providing relief to migrant labourers from states, including Bihar, UP, West Bengal and Jharkhand.

Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac said that while aimed to collect Rs 2,000 crores, the state government could raise only Rs 250 crores in April.

"UP has stopped testing for the past two days and should start testing on a large scale, while adopting transparency in this regard. Hiding data and the truth can prove fatal," Priyanka Gandhi said.

His remarks came two days after Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund voluntarily decided to wind up its six debt schemes due to liquidity issues amid the coronavirus crisis.

He was governor of Bihar from July 24, 2009 to March 8, 2013 and of Tripura between March 25, 2013 and June 29, 2014. He had also served as governor (additional charge) of West Bengal from December 2009 to January 2010.

The MP from Uttara Kannada has also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the 'Digital colonisation' by a a corporate entity.

The people of the state are paying a heavy price because of the poor response to the crisis by the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP alliance government in the state, the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly alleged.

In a letter to the prime minister, Yechury said the political executive in the country is proving its "incompetence by knee-jerk reactions" and suggested measures that need to be put in place to fight coronavirus.

The MP from Uttara Kannada has also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the 'Digital colonisation' by a a corporate entity.

The Congress leader demanded that 1 lakh tests should be done from the current 40,000 as the country has testing kits in stock.