India

The three heavily built wooden chariots of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra are traditionally pulled manually over a distance of three kilometre twice during the nine-day festival of the Trinity at Puri.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said the maintenance allowance being given by his dispensation to migrant workers returning to the state has given a new direction to the public welfare schemes.

Ladakh has so far reported one death while 68 people have been cured of the disease and discharged from the hospitals.

The meeting comes in the wake of rising cases of the coronavirus in Delhi which reached 36,000 and the pandemic so far claimed more than 1,200 lives in the capital.

The police personnel manning the self-balancing electric scooters will have a public address system attached to their face masks.

Three months after sedition cases were taken up against students, the police have been caught on the wrong foot, failing to follow-up with chargesheets within deadlines.

The tally of confirmed cases also saw the biggest one-day jump of over 14,000 and reached 3.13 lakh as per the latest numbers announced by states and union territories.

The matter came to light after a professor at Bangabasi Evening College in Kolkata noticed the objectionable depiction in his daughter's textbook.

It is further stated that while most doctors have a medical cover, the struggle has mainly been about ensuring protection for their staffers, the NHRC said.

Apart from Kerala, Tamil Nadu demanded 10 Shramik Special trains, followed by Jammu and Kashmir (9), Karnataka (6), Andhra Pradesh (3), West Bengal (2) and Gujarat (1).

The body of 42-year-old Anwar Ali, who had collapsed outside a government office, was removed using a garbage collection van by four municipal workers even as a couple of policemen watched standing nearby.

Principal Secretary, Health, Amit Mohan Prasad said 7,609 of the total infected have recovered. The state has 4,642 active COVID-19 cases.

All markets, market areas and shops, except malls, were allowed to reopen in the state from June 5 on the odd-even basis in non-containment zones.

The Tamil Nadu government on May 8 had moved the top court challenging the High Court order saying that the closure of such shops would lead to 'grave losses' in state's revenue.

India's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Nagaraj Naidu, was speaking at a virtual high-level debate on the 'Impact of Rapid Technological Change on the Sustainable Development Goals and Targets' here on Thursday.

The top court was hearing a plea by a doctor, who alleged that front line healthcare workers engaged in fight against Covid-19 are not being paid salaries or their salaries are being cut or delayed.