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Barber shops, salons and spas will also start functioning in non-prohibited localities while e-commerce websites will be allowed to commence the delivery of non-essential items in red zones as well.

After a marginal dip in the number of fresh cases below the 500-mark for the past two days, TN recorded 639 new cases on Sunday, which included people who had arrived from other states.

Over 350 nurses have quit jobs at private hospitals here and left for their homes in Manipur and other parts of the country, notwithstanding the spurt in Covid-19 cases.

Only about 10 per cent of this stimulus can be traced as direct additional budgetary cost to the central exchequer.

Tagging the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said legal action should be taken against the Hindi news channel.

The official said there are around 60 correctional homes in West Bengal, housing nearly 25,000 inmates and of them, close to 7,000 are convicts while others are undertrials.

Migrants' tragedy is "too unfortunate", Gadkari said and emphasised that it was high time that employment avenues through development is created in villages, rural, backward and far-flung areas shorn of development.

The rule comes days after around 50 passengers who arrived in Bengaluru from Delhi on May 14 refused to be quarantined and created a ruckus.

A senior minister said it was unanimously agreed upon that the lockdown has to be extended in certain parts of the state, especially in red zones such as the Mumbai and Pune.

Sanjeet Sen, who used to take weekend football classes in his apartment complex before Covid-19 lockdown, has found an innovative way to keep his students in practice.

A photograph of Mohammed Yaqoob (23) weeping and cradling his friend Amrit's lifeless body in his lap went viral on Saturday.

Privatising six new airports under public-private partnership (PPP) model would generate significant economic effect and would lead to creation of new jobs, said GMR Group Chairman GM Rao.

Seventeen policemen who were in contact with the ACP and the SHO have been quarantined.

Hearing three petitions challenging the suspension of internet services in the area, the division bench comprised of Chief Justice T B N Radhakrishnan and Justice Arijit Banerjee.

Lockdown was first announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 24 for 21 days in a bid to combat the coronavirus pandemic. It was first extended till May 3 and again till May 17.

Banerjee said on Thursday that her government made arrangements for 105 more trains to bring back people stuck in different parts of the country amid claims by opposition parties that the state was not eager to ferry home stranded labourers and pilgrims.