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Ravindra, member of an NGO that works closely with the rural sector in AP and Telangana, says time may have come to push the large-scale manpower towards farming and rejuvenation of natural resources.

While Batra Hospital will be offering 50 isolation beds and is partially converted as COVID hospital; Cygnus Orthocare Hospital has been fully made COVID-dedicated offering 40 isolation beds.

The former Maharashtra Chief Minister also expressed his disappointment over the announcements made by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman regarding the Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package.

The BSP supremo also asked the Central and state governments and the Railways to be serious over the issue of sending migrants home safely.

Of the 103 deaths reported since Friday morning, 49 were in Maharashtra, 20 in Gujarat and 10 were from West Bengal alone.

Heath centre supervisor in Jalpaiguri allegedly consumed pesticide as he was facing opposition from a section of the centre's employees over setting up covid testing centre.

As part of its strategy to attract investments from China post Covid-19 disruptions, the UP government had, through an ordinance, sought to amend all but four labour laws in the state.

The NIA also named Osama-bin-Javid, Haroon Abbas Wani and Zahid Hussain in the chargesheet as accused who carried out the terror strike on November 1, 2018 in Kishtawar.

The 80-km-long strategically crucial road at a height of 17,000 feet along the border with China in Uttarakhand was thrown open by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh last week.

Ruling out any foul play, the police said that the deceased, Digvijay Trivedi (32) was travelling to a court in Palghar’s Dahanu when their car turned turtle after he lost control of the vehicle near Charoti Naka on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway.

The gates of the Himalayan temple were opened at 4.30 am by its chief priest Rawal Ishwari Prasad Nambudiri in the presence of a limited number of shrine board officials.

Gyanesh Bharti, Commissioner of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, shall hold the additional charge of the commissioner of the NDMC.

Migrants were left with fewer options for employment. Cash running out, workers had begun looking for options to exit the state. Those who did not register online to travel to their home states decided to look for buses to travel back.

Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said to and fro movement of passengers from railway station to home has been allowed on the basis of confirmed e-tickets.

Drug patents in India are an important issue as many countries depend on generic drugmakers to make and sell cheaper versions of critical drugs to them.

In an early morning accident in Guna, around 180 km from Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, eight Uttar Pradesh-bound migrant workers were killed and nearly 55 injured when the truck they were travelling in collided with a bus, the MP police said.