India

The special appeal has been listed for June 9 before a division bench of the court in Lucknow, comprising justices Pankaj Jaiswal and Dinesh Kumar Singh.

There are more than 600 million migrants in the country and out of them, at least 140 million are in major cities alone, he said.

This is the fifth death of leopards this year in the state. Earlier in April, during the coronavirus lockdown, four leopards were killed in Upper Assam’s Golaghat and Jorhat districts.

Former Director-General of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) V K Saraswat supported the idea of online teaching in the absence of regular classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

People had also panicked after reports of gas leak near the US Vitamin Company near Indira apartment, in east Govandi. However, firemen in their initial probe did not find any leakage.

Microfinance institutions should create programmes like venture capital to create entrepreneurs in rural India, Muhammad Yunus said.

Though the temples are holding daily poojas and rituals, they were not open to the public till now, with COVID-19 induced lockdown restrictions in place.

In a bulletin issued on Saturday, the Delhi health department said the death toll from coronavirus infection has risen to 761 and the total number of cases mounted to 27,654.

Sources said the Railway Board chairman has asked zonal heads to monitor the punctuality of these trains, adding the number of trains being run on the network is currently small so the punctuality has to be 100 per cent.

After the cess was imposed, liquor sales dropped "drastically" in the national capital in May, prompting the makers to urge the government to reduce the 70% special cess imposed on alcoholic beverages.

Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' had announced in April that CBSE will be reducing the curriculum for the next academic calendar for all the classes to make up for the lost time due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

The salon owner, Mohan of Madurai district, spent his savings earmarked for the education of his daughter Nethra to buy and distribute groceries and vegetables for the poor during the lockdown.

The 61-year-old, a senior DMK leader in the state capital representing Chepauk-Triplicane constituency, was admitted on June 2 at Dr Rela Institue in Chennai's Chrompet area.

The Chief Minister on Friday held a meeting with the tourism and transport department, also stakeholders, regarding revival of tourism in the state.

The plea contended that since all the benches are sitting now and cases are being filed by e-filing, there would be no impediment in hearing 'not-so-urgent' pending and fresh matters.

The plea, filed by Congress MP Anumula Revanth Reddy, alleged that the Telangana chief minister's son expanded his farmhouse by violating environmental laws.