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The services were suspended for nearly two months since the lockdown was announced on March 24.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, hearing the matter through video-conferencing, agreed to hear the petition which has sought setting aside of directions or 'fatwa' restraining Muslim women from entering the mosques.

Sitharaman said that if the money under devolution was linked to conditions it would have been against the constitutional federalism and its spirit, but that is not the case.

Thousands of BMS activists started demonstration on the roads, roof tops, in front of houses, before government offices and later sent a memoranda to the President of India requesting to negate the anti-labour acts of state governments.

Alleging that health infrastructure in Mumbai has collapsed completely, state BJP unit president Chandrakant Patil on Wednesday said the state government had failed to announce any package for the poor and the needy.

The Cabinet also approved modifications in the existing 'Partial Credit Guarantee Scheme' -- a portfolio guarantee for purchase by PSBs of bonds or commercial papers (CPS) with a rating of AA and below.

The 'Dhaman-1' ventilators were developed by Rajkot-based firm Jyoti CNC which had "donated" 866 of them to the state government last month in view of the acute shortage of such equipment, said Principal Secretary, Health, Jayanti Ravi.

Only intra-district ordinary service has commenced in Kerala and there would be no services in containment zones.

The train took the diverted route of Sambalpur City-Jharsugud-Rourkela-Tatanagar instead of the normal route via Bhadrak-Balasore-Hijli Kharagpur-Tata, a railway official said.

The deceased, identified as Ram Biswas, was found lying on a sidewalk of a highway in Chennai and was spotted by passers-by who tried to revive him. He was taken to a nearby hospital, but was declared brought dead by doctors.

Mumbai has recorded 757 of the total 3,156 deaths in India, which is almost 24 per cent. New York accounts for 17.16 per cent of the total number of deaths in the US with 15,786 casualties.

An analysis of news reports in national media shows that more than 100 migrant workers were killed in accidents since March 24, while hundreds of others sustained injured. Moreover, many of the injured in such accidents were reported to have suffered crit...

India is set to take over the chairmanship of the Executive Board amid growing calls to investigate how the coronavirus originated in China's Wuhan city and subsequent action by Beijing.

On the night of May 16, ailing Amrit took his last breath at Shivpuri hospital in Madhya Pradesh.

Chennai continued to witness an upward trend of infections as 552 new cases were added today, as the overall numbers reached 7,672.

The division bench also asked the government to ensure a gap of two days between the two papers and set up a helpline for the students appearing in the exams.