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There was, however, no loss of life in the incident, police said, adding the cause behind the fire was yet to be ascertained.

Sources say that the skill mapping of labourers in the quarantine centres have begun which will ensure that the state can prepare a database of its migrants — an exercise which has never been carried out before. Sources say, migrants have been told to sub...

The workers were ferried by 196 Shramik Special trains, said a South Central Railway (SCR) zone press release.

Earlier this week, the government had announced that scheduled domestic commercial passenger flights will resume in a calibrated manner from May 25 onwards.

The CDS had also donated one-day salary for the PM-CARES fund along with all other defence services’ personnel who had donated in March soon after the fund was started.

The excise department issued the directive after observing that only 10 to 15 per cent of liquor being sold at vends was being scanned, which was a blatant violation of the order.

Sixty COVID-19-related deaths were also reported in the state during the day, taking the death toll to 1,577.

Acceding to their plea for a reprieve in the meantime, the judge granted Bharathi interim bail till June 1.

District Magistrate Andra Vamsi, who chaired a meeting in this regard said, "The villagers along with the common public has been told to inform control room about the movement."

The Telangana State Higher Education Council (TSHEC) announced the schedule for common entrance tests, which are to be held online.

The government has provided exemption and moratorium on payment of various taxes and debt as part of the package.

South Delhi Municipal Corporation said the school was in a residential colony and there was a huge demand from residents for disinfecting the compound and the road and the workers got sprayed by mistake.

Diabetics, people on dialysis, those suffering from coronary disease, lung infection or kidney disease fall into the category named co-morbidity, he said.

With 42 deaths and 598 discharges, there are 1,297 active corona cases in the state, the department said in its mid-day bulletin. A 32-year-old man from Bengaluru Urban became the 42nd COVID-19 related fatality in the state.

Gas output at 2.16 billion cubic metres in April was 18.6 per cent lower than 2.65 bcm production in the same month a year back, data released by the oil ministry showed.

Madhya Pradesh has so far reported 6,170 coronavirus cases, including 2,850 in its commercial city Indore, 1,153 in state capital Bhopal and 504 in the religious town of Ujjain,