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Even if legislators wish to visit their home districts or want to attend meetings be travelling away from their residences, identity cards issued by the state Legislative Assembly would be recognised as an e-pass, he said.

Dave added that the pandemic has given the opportunity to the judiciary to rise to the occasion and prove that it is proactive.

At least 15 flights are scheduled to arrive at the Goa International Airport at Dabolim in South Goa on Monday.

Workers on board a train that was coming from Bengaluru and was to run till Darbhanga in Bihar said they were not given food or water during the journey which took three-four days.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to visit Cyclone Amphan hit South 24 Parganas district on Saturday and take stock of the situation.

The spike in the numbers has been sharp this week with nearly 5,500 new cases and 160 deaths getting reported on an average every day, according to data of different states and union territories.

Addressing a meeting of opposition parties, he also asked why the lockdown was being eased when the coronavirus cases were still rising.

The study has predicted that confirmed COVID-19 cases reported daily will show a rising graph till the end of June.

Though there were reports of two cyclone-related deaths in Bhadrak and Kendrapara districts, Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) P K Jena claimed the causes were different.

The present inflection point in Indo-Nepalese border tensions has evolved into an awkward position where neither of the two states can realistically backdown without losing face.

Lakhs of people were rendered homeless as cyclone Amphan cut a path of destruction through half a dozen districts of West Bengal, including state capital Kolkata on Wednesday night.

Two days after the worst cyclone in years devastated the two states, PM Narendra Modi reviewed the situation with chief ministers Mamata Banerjee and Naveen Patnaik.

India has suggested to Pakistan that both countries coordinate locust control operation along the border and even offered to supply pesticides. However, Pakistan is yet to respond to the proposal.

The deputy CM has also written to the railway ministry, requesting for 262 trains for sending the remaining migrants stranded in the national capital to their native states, in the next four days.

The petitioner told the court that subsequent to the filing of the petition, the Delhi government has started distributing pulses as per the scheme with effect from May 16.

The ministry has taken steps to ensure that only certified players across the entire supply chain are allowed to supply body coveralls to governments, an official statement said.