Kamal Dayani, Principal Secretary, GAD, confirmed to this paper that an officer of the Protocol (section) tested positive. “We have alerted his 4-5 team members not to come to office for a few days. The office will also be sanitised tomorrow,” said Dayani.

Mumbai, Thane and Pune together account for 80.8 per cent of state's Covid count and its death toll. Solapur, Nashik, Jalgaon, and Aurangabad are the only other districts to cross 100 mark in death toll.

Close to 600 SRPF jawans posted in various parts of Maharashtra have tested positive for Covid-19. The rapid rate of infection in the SRPF also led the Maharashtra Police to advise them to set up Covid Care Centres at their own facilities across the state.

The home quarantine period will last for 17 days after the diagnosis, and if no symptoms are seen during this period, there will be no need for another Covid-19 test.

The AMC revised its list of micro containment zones and placed over 4,500 additional households with a population of approximately 19,000 persons under containment.

Released recently after testing positive for coronavirus, Tahawwur Hussain Rana has been re-arrested by US authorities based on a provisional request from the National Investigation Agency.

The circumstances of the death of the 20 soldiers have increased chances of an escalation into a military conflict on the LAC since adherence to old protocols and SOPs will now be very hard to enforce.

The sweeping economic distress triggered by the Covid pandemic and lockdown has pushed countless out of jobs, set off one of the biggest reverse migrations in recent times and pushed millions of small businesses to the edge.

With a 125-workday mandate to create public infrastructure, with the involvement of 11 central departments, the Rs 50,000-crore initiative will focus on job creation in 116 districts in six states

The drop in new cases in Dharavi is characterised by a steep fall in the doubling time of 18 days in the last week of April to 78 days as of June 19.

The L-G also said it was possible that “individuals who are positive (and) may have moderate to severe illness necessitating hospitalization” can be missed if they are isolated at home.

The Congress asked the government to immediately clarify its position on China’s claim to the entire Galwan Valley in Ladakh.

In most cases, WCD department, police and district, taluka and village level child protection committees have been receiving alerts or calls are being received by helplines like CHILDLINE including from the minor girls.

The day was especially good for the Sainik School, Kapurthala as two of its former students won trophies — Jasnoor Singh was awarded with the Chief of Air Staff Trophy and declared the ‘Best in Flying’ and his batchmate Jagdeep Singh declared the ‘Best in Aerobatics’.

Though competitive sport has resumed in different parts of the world without spectators and with stringent regulations — the English, German and Spanish football leagues, for instance — it was back to pre-Covid days in Auckland, and Dunedin the day before.

Patel replaces former bureaucrat Vijay Kelkar, who chaired NIPFP for almost six years. He is scheduled to join June 22 and will have a four-year tenure, NIPFP said in a statement.

While NCP co-chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and some 30 central leaders were told to be present at the party office in Kathmandu, 70 delegates from the provinces were seated at designated places in the Capital.

While Gandhi said the all-party move came late, Mamata Banerjee said the meeting sent a good message, as it showed the country was united behind its soldiers.

The Delhi government termed the order as “arbitrary”, and said it will “seriously harm” people. It said the new policy would discourage people from getting tested and further strain the city’s already overstretched medical infrastructure and health workers.

The Chinese statement came on a day several foreign governments — the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, and the Maldives — expressed their condolences on the killing of 20 Indian soldiers.

Following the Prime Minister’s remarks that no one had intruded into Indian territory, CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said: “Then there is no conflict? Why have our brave soldiers been martyred? Why this all-party meeting?”

From Rs 24,000-25,000 for isolation beds, the rates have been reduced to Rs 8,000-10,000. For ICU beds without ventilator, the rates have been reduced from Rs 34,000-43,000 to Rs 13,000-15,000. ICU beds with ventilators, which earlier cost Rs 44,000-54,000 a bed a day, have been recommended to be charged at Rs 15,000-18,000 a bed a day.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh too weighed in and sought answers while former Generals that The Indian Express spoke too had their own observations on practices on the Line of Actual Control, clauses in border agreements and the implementation on the ground.

Earlier this week, Primus Super Speciality Hospital lodged a complaint with the district authorities and police against its nurses, accusing them of “abandoning patients”.