While Maharashtra has reported the fastest growth rate of Covid-19 cases in India, it has performed better than Spain, Italy and the UK. Officials have attributed the delay to an early lockdown since March when the state had cases in two digits.

It was on the banks of this contested lake that Indian and Chinese troops came to blows on the night of May 5-6, triggering deployment of troops by both sides at multiple points along the LAC in eastern Ladakh.

Over two days next week, June 16 and 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with state chief ministers.

Retailers point to an interesting trend over the last couple of weeks. They say only a quarter of pre-lockdown customers are contributing to more than half the revenues they earned earlier.

The 25-year-old skilled worker who is now looking at MNREGS to survive is not alone.

According to IMD's district forecast and warnings, Mumbai, Thane and Palghar are very likely to receive thunderstorms, accompanied with lightning and gusty winds with speed reaching 30 to 40 kmph at isolated places, on Friday.

Till now, Mumbai has reported 54,085 cases and 1,954 deaths. Of these, 1,418 cases and 97 deaths were reported on Thursday. The city recorded 97 deaths for a second consecutive day — its highest single-day toll so far.

Army sources said the troop movement, not similar to the deployment in eastern Ladakh, took place in the depth areas of all three sectors -- western, middle and eastern – of the 3,488-km boundary that India shares with China.

“This shows that the lockdown has been successful,” ICMR chief Dr Balram Bhargava said while presenting the results Thursday. The second phase of the survey is being carried out in containment zones.

Delhi coronavirus news update: All three municipal corporations in Delhi are ruled by the BJP, and have targeted the AAP-led Delhi government on this issue in the past too.

Calling it an “internal report” of the US government, the Indian government said Washington has “no locus standi” to comment on the issue.

The order is significant since the Rs 3 lakh crore demand from non-telecom PSUs accounts for almost 65 per cent of the total Rs 4.7 lakh crore demand from all companies, including private and state-owned telcos.

It warned the five most affected states — Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh — that going by current trends, they are projected to fall short in terms of ICU beds and ventilators between June and August.

Police in Bengaluru were due to file a chargesheet on May 20, when the 90-day period since her arrest ended, but did so only on June 3.

The impact of changing over 1,000 names officially in government records will not only be expensive, but laborious too; signage will be changed on highways and railway stations, corrections will be made on government records, postal and attached services etc.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said this in a letter on June 1 to BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who had raised the observations made by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in Parliament in December 2019.

For example, while a train from Bandra in Mumbai to Ghazipur City in Uttar Pradesh this week was booked to over 130%, trains coming to Mumbai from Gorakhpur (UP), Howrah (West Bengal), Darbhanga (Bihar), Patna and Jaipur have seen an average of 30% seats filled.

The estimate is based on a “preliminary assessment” of the city corporation's records, the official said. Tamil Nadu had reported 326 Covid deaths till Wednesday evening, including 260 within Chennai city limits alone.

In Beijing, asked about reports of troops on both sides disengaging and moving back to their previous positions, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a media briefing that both the countries are taking steps to ease the situation along the borders.

Kejriwal said his administration will implement Lt-Governor Anil Baijal’s order scrapping its decision to reserve beds in the Capital for Delhi residents and to treat patients from across the country in “letter and spirit”.

On his visit to Raigad last week, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had announced an immediate assistance of Rs 100 crore to the district, while declaring plans to provide assistance over and above prevailing norms.

Out of a total strength of 2,14,062 students studying in schools that have classes I to VIII, only 1,00,049 (46.74 per cent) have remained connected to studies through various online learning initiatives that were begun by the department as well as the state government.

Pro V-C of Pune University, Dr N S Umrani, said that while for degree courses, the academic year would begin from July 15, for postgraduate courses, it would be August 1. There is a possibility of beginning the offline academic year along with online for all, barring first-year students.

Overall, 21 Indian universities and institutes have found a place this year among the world’s top 1,000, as opposed to 25 last year. IIT-Bombay retains its status as country's top university, followed by IISc-Bangalore.