State-owned broadcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio from Friday began broadcasting weather reports on Mirpur, Muzaffarabad and Gilgit in PoK in their prime-time news bulletins.

The nationwide lockdown since March 25 and cancellation of international flights to contain the spread of COVID-19 has forced non-resident Indians (NRI) and foreign nationals to prolong their stay in India.

The incident took place on the night of May 6 at a village under Bango police station limits. The accused were arrested on Thursday, said Pankaj Patel, Sub Divisional Officer of Police, Katghora area.

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

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.

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Following directions from the Centre, Dr Guleria, who is a pulmonologist, and Dr Manish Soneja from the AIIMS department of medicine left for Ahmedabad on special Indian Air Force flight on Friday evening, official sources said.

The order comes as Karnataka generated nearly Rs 200 crore in revenues due to the sale of alcohol this week.

The Centre in its revised guidelines said there will be no need for testing prior to discharge of mild and moderate Covid-19 cases, while severe patients will be tested once.

Saad Kandhalvi and six others were charged with flouting of lockdown orders and booked under the Epidemic Disease Act, 1897 and the Indian Penal Code on March 31.

The police said that the duo is suspected to have smuggled heroin in and other drugs from Pakistan by camouflaging as many as six rock salt consignments through the Indo-Pak border at Attari in Amritsar between 2018 and 2019.

Gokhale, the prime minister said, also provided exemplary leadership to India's freedom movement and made 'outstanding contributions towards education and social empowerment.'

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.

Subscribers of BSNL postpaid services complained that SMS facility which was suspended on May 6, has still not been restored.

The 47-year-old, who was a qualified ophthamologist, was rushed to a hospital when he fainted soon after ingesting the chemical component.

Contrary to the claims that the migrants are not being asked to pay train fares, the labourers were not just made to bear the cost of travel but also overcharged.

Police said the two accused youths from UP's Banda are absconding and efforts are on to nab them.

In a letter to the Mayor, BJP leader Sanjay Waghule alleged that there was no transparency in the civic body's coronavirus relief activities, which is why party corporators would not make any contribution to the fund.

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.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel and other senior politicians of the state called up Jogi's family and enquired about the 74-year-old leader's health.

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.

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

Seeing an improvement of the situation, the authorities allowed private telecom operators to resume their services from Friday night but asked them to keep Internet connection barred.

A case was registered against the two men for allegedly posting an objectionable WhatsApp message against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

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

NIA, along with Punjab and Haryana police, arrested alleged notorious narco-terrorist Ranjit Singh from Sirsa.

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.

Several states including Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have already raised the taxes on liquor to give boost to their revenue.

While many other districts across Tamil Nadu, even ones which saw an initial spike, have managed to reduce cases, Chennai firmly remains in the red zone with 2644 active cases.

Amit Shah issued a statement saying that rumours about his health were being spread through social media.

The workers started arriving at the bridge from the Delhi side on Friday afternoon and wanted to go home at the earliest, officials said.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said 23,596 people were currently under observation at their homes, and 334 at different hospitals.

A 25-year-old man with serious injuries fell unconscious after the accused attacked him, alleging that he was a 'coronavirus carrier'.

Tripura has reported 118 cases, Assam 59, Meghalaya 12 cases, Manipur two while Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh have reported a case each till Saturday morning 8 AM.

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

With a population of around 25,000, the gram panchayat is a hub of potato chips (dry & raw) manufacturing units and attracts potato suppliers, traders and workers who find employment here.

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

The labourers had managed to reach the temple town of Tarapith from Purba Bardhaman district during the lockdown and started on foot from there towards neighbouring Jharkhand on Friday night.

Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij said over 1.5 lakh migrant workers have applied on the government portal, expressing their willingness to return back to work in the state

The government also extended the timings for groceries and vegetable shops from the present 5 pm till 7 pm, effective Monday, throughout Tamil Nadu.

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 accused, identified as Saddam Hussain Pinjara, was on Saturday produced before a Jhalawar court which sent him to two days' police remand.

Kishor, who earlier worked with the BJP but turned into its strident critic of late, reacted with indignation, saying he would retire from public life if the allegations were proven true.

Ramanagara is one of the eight districts in Karnataka that had not seen a single coronavirus case until now, despite being close to the capital city and falling en route the two red zone districts of Bengaluru and Mysure.