India

The border guarding force has the maximum confirmed cases of the disease among the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), also known as paramilitary forces.

The petition, filed by Madurai resident KK Ramesh, has alleged that Covid-19 has been "deliberately created by China as biological weapon against India".

NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, set up a 5-member Committee to probe Thursday's gas leak incident in the chemical factory, in which 11 people were killed and 1,000 were exposed.

Forex traders said a positive start of domestic stocks and significant foreign fund inflows supported the local unit.

More such incidents have come to light in the last two days, though Karnataka government is officially maintaining that all stranded Kannadigas are welcome back home.

The five southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala together consume as much as 45 per cent of all liquor sold in the country, the report by Crisil said.

A total of 38 labour laws have been temporarily relaxed for 1,000 days to boost the industrial and business sector as lakhs of labourers have returned to the state.

This is the second largest single-day figure of positive cases, an official said.

The Delhi government in a statement said that it took this decision to encourage people to avoid long queues by applying for an e-token.

While Singhvi has never have been a grassroots leader, he enjoys complete trust of the Gandhis, in all critical cases has stood by the party like a rock, and in court ensured a fighting chance for the Congress.

Of the total 35,902 active cases, 4.8 per cent patients are in ICU, 1.1 per cent on ventilators and 3.3 per cent are on oxygen support.

Maintaining that the administration was taking all precautionary steps,the minister said the factory was not being operated, but personnel were trying to get it to readiness.

BJP-nominated Rajya Sabha member Sambhaji Raje had earlier asked Fadnavis to apologise for "hurting the sentiments" of the followers of Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj through his tweet.

The plan is to run two trains every day to Odisha, West Bengal, UP, Bihar and Jharkhand, one train each day to Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan from May 8 to 15 and one train daily to Manipur and Tripura from May 8 till all the stranded people are transported...

The factory owner did not inform the administration about the incident, which only came to light after the hospital authorities alerted the police.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said for India, this time of coronavirus crisis was also one to extend help to those in need all over the world.