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Senior advocate Indira Jaising, appearing for the petitioners, told the bench that pregnancy of these medical professionals is at an advance stage and they need a further priority in the priority already given to pregnant women.

As many as 3,817 prisoners were released last month on interim or regular bail, parole or extended parole.

Then there are the particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs) which are not being able to access healthcare that is critical to their survival because of social distancing norms.

The accident left 16 migrant workers dead and one injured while three others survived. All of them were working in a steel manufacturing in Jalna.

Customers will have the option to log in to the online portal and generate a unique e-token for a particular store, which will remain valid for one hour.

The daily wage workers told police that they had paid Rs 3,000 per head to the truck drivers for taking them to Uttar Pradesh.

The new academic session for freshers may begin in universities from September and for already enrolled students in August in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country.

The Uttar Pradesh government has approved an ordinance to exempt various industries in the state from different labour laws for three years to revive the state's economic activities which have come to a grinding halt amid the Covid-led lockdown.

The former UP CM had gone to the Medanta Hospital for his routine checkup but the doctors admitted him for monitoring his health over stomach and urine-related issues.

The mayor said she and her family members resorted to the precautionary measure against the coronavirus spread a few days after her daughter-in-law and nephew returned from Delhi's red zone.

Gas leaked from a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam in the early hours of Thursday and quickly spread to villages in a five-kilometre radius, killing at least 11 people and impacting about 1,000.

In the last six days (May 1-6), as many as 2,017 cases have been recorded -- May 1 (223), May 2 (384), May 3 (427), May 4 (349), May 5 (206) and May 6 (428).

A case was registered against four accused for kidnapping and gangrape on Wednesday on a complaint lodged by the victim's brother.

The minister asked the department to prepare an urgent action plan for possible omission of excess chapters in text books of all classes depending on the time-frame of the academic year.

Sunita Narain, director general at the Centre for Science, said styrene can be more dangerous if it reacts with oxygen in the air and converts into Styrene di-oxide.

This will be a joint initiative of the ministries of AYUSH, health, and science and technology through the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) with technical support from the ICMR, Harsh Vardhan said.