New Delhi

A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan, conducting hearing through video-conferencing, asked the government to file its response on the petitions and posted the matter for hearing next week.

Over the past two days, a political slugfest over Shramik Special trains had begun between Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal and the Maharashtra government.

The airports in Mumbai in Maharashtra and Hyderabad in Telangana will handle 50 and 30 flights respectively everyday from Monday, aviation officials said.

The Chief Justice said the government was violating its own social distancing norms and asked will the coronavirus know it’s in the aircraft and it’s not supposed to infect.

The moment the magistrate observed orally that he was going to grant bail, police officials moved an application seeking arrest of Devangana and Natasha under another FIR 50/2020 and police custody for 14 days. The court, however, gave police their custod...

Acknowledging that the recent situation on account of Covid-19 might have caused constraints, the COAI noted that the authority, however, has started conducting the online open house discussions (OHD) on various topics.

A circular issued earlier this week stated that the convicts in this age group are more susceptible to COVID-19 and the emergency parole will be given to decongest the jails, officials said on Saturday.

Joint Secretary in the Union Home Ministry, Punya Salila Srivastava, said the railways have engaged over 2,600 'Shramik' special trains since May 1 for transportation of the migrant workers.

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.

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.

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.

This is the second such letter written by Soren requesting permission to run chartered flights.

There is a post-default curing period of 90 days for the rating to move from default to speculative grade and generally 365 days for default to move to investment grade.

The order stated that railway zones have been seeking necessary guidelines from the Board for opening of catering units at stations.

An MHA Joint Secretary said the lockdown has been extended till May 31 in public interest for which fresh directives have been issued keeping only a limited number of activities prohibited.