Warehouse workers of Instacart and Amazon in New York walked off their jobs on Monday demanding greater safeguards against the coronavirus, even as both companies are hiring hundreds of thousands of new workers to handle a surge in delivery orders. Though the strike had little impact on consumers, the pressure is building on delivery giants to address mounting discontent among low-wage workers who are on the front lines of the pandemic, serving the needs of those who can keep safe working from home. US senators have also written to Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to express concerns. Amazon said it had adjusted its practices, including increasing cleaning of its facilities and introducing staggered shift and break times.

Warehouse workers of Instacart and Amazon in New York walked off their jobs on Monday demanding greater safeguards against the coronavirus, even as both companies are hiring hundreds of thousands of new workers to handle a surge in delivery orders. Though the strike had little impact on consumers, the pressure is building on delivery giants to address mounting discontent among low-wage workers who are on the front lines of the pandemic, serving the needs of those who can keep safe working from home. US senators have also written to Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to express concerns. Amazon said it had adjusted its practices, including increasing cleaning of its facilities and introducing staggered shift and break times.

Fifteen days should be enough time for states to send migrant workers - stranded in cities across the country since the imposition of nationwide lockdown - home, the Supreme Court said on Friday. The top court also asked all states to create employment opportunities for migrants returning home.&nbsp;The hearing comes days after the top court took suo moto cognisance of the issue and passed several orders to help migrants reach home.&nbsp;The Centre said over 42,00 Shramik Specials have been run till June 3 to transport 1 crore migrant workers to their homes across the country.
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The&nbsp;Home Ministry in its affidavit before the Supreme Court said that there is no need for a CBI probe into the Nizamuddin Markaz case where the Tablighi Jamaat gathering led to a spike in coronavirus cases across the country since March.&nbsp;The Centre&nbsp;also rejected claims that Delhi Police failed to stop the gathering from happening.&nbsp;The affidavit filed by the Centre before the Supreme Court has said that the investigation into the Nizamuddin matter is being conducted on a day-to-day basis in accordance with the law and all efforts are being made to submit a report in a time-bound manner.

Epidemiologists at the state-run Dr MGR Medical University have estimated that Chennai may see 1.5 lakh Covid-19 cases and around 1,600 fatalities by the second week of July, if the current rate of growth holds. The university manages the medical colleges in Tamil Nadu and its estimations have been done by the government for Covid-19 preparedness. The medical varsity started its projections from April 18 and presented it to the government in the first week of May. According to the predictions of his team, Tamil Nadu may see 1.3 lakh novel coronavirus cases and 769 fatalities by June 30.

According to the Johns Hopkins University data, there are more than 66&nbsp;lakh confirmed Covid-19 infections globally, and at least 3,91,295 people have lost their lives in the pandemic so far. The United States, Brazil, and Russia&nbsp;are the worst-affected countries.&nbsp;&nbsp;The US tops the list with over 18.72&nbsp;lakh cases and 1,08,211 deaths.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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From reports of a possible postponement&nbsp;to hosting the World T20 behind closed doors,&nbsp;speculations around the future of the tournament have being doing the rounds for quite a while now. But&nbsp;Wasim&nbsp;Akram&nbsp;feels that hosting it without fans is not a good idea. During a chat with The News, the&nbsp;former Pakistan captain said that you can not have a cricket World Cup without spectators. He feels that a World Cup is all about big crowds, spectators coming from&nbsp;all parts of the globe to support their teams. It's all about the atmosphere and you cannot get it behind closed doors. Akram added that ICC&nbsp;should wait for a more suitable time to host the event, once the pandemic subsides and restrictions are eased.

In a bid to conserve resources to fight the pandemic, the&nbsp;Ministry of Finance has put approval for new schemes&nbsp;on hold for the current financial year. Schemes already approved for this fiscal year have also been put on hold until the end of March 2021, except those come under&nbsp;the Atmanirbhar Bharat and Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana.&nbsp;

With the BCCI&nbsp;eager to find an alternate window for the postponed 13th season of the IPL, the board is keeping all options open, even if that means taking the cash rich league out of India. A BCCI&nbsp;official told ANI&nbsp;that having an IPL&nbsp;in some other country is a possibility but that would be the last option. The official added that they have done it in the past and they can do it again&nbsp;but the first preference will be to host it in India. There were also reports that ICC was likely to postpone the World T20, which may leave BCCI&nbsp;with an option to host the IPL&nbsp;in October-November. To which the board official said that no decision on that has been taken as of now and the BCCI&nbsp;will wait for clarity over the future of World T20 before discussing anything further.

The Supreme Court on Friday sought Centre's response on fixing a cap on Covid-19 treatment by private hospitals. Earlier the court had asked the govt why can't private hospitals, who have got free land from the govt, treat poor Covid-19 patients for free. The court had asked the govt for a list of such hospitals. The court will again hear the matter after a week.

Amid the virus scare, the Italian football annual cup competition&nbsp;Coppa&nbsp;Italia&nbsp;has locked the dates for the semi-final and final match. Italian Sports minister Vincenzo&nbsp;Spadafora&nbsp;on Thursday confirmed that the semis will be held on 12th and 13th June followed by the final on June 17. On June 12, Ronaldo led&nbsp;Juventus is set to play against AC Milan and on the next day,&nbsp;Napoli will host Inter Milan in the 2nd semifinal.&nbsp;Serie A&nbsp;said that Italian football will resume with the Cup Competition and they will go-ahead to resume the league from June 20.

As the Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc on this year's Badminton calendar, Badminton World Federation announced the cancellation of the Hyderabad&nbsp;Open Super 100 Tournament. The event which was slated to start from August 11 was marked to be the restart of the disrupted Badminton season. This came after the Badminton Association of India in compliance with the Indian government's guidelines informed the BWF&nbsp;that no event can be conducted in the near future due to the rising&nbsp;number of&nbsp;Covid-19 cases&nbsp;in the country.&nbsp;

With the religious&nbsp;places set to open next week after over 2 months of lockdown, the Centre has issued new safety guidelines. No jostling crowds, no making offerings and receiving prasad, vermillion dots or holy water will be allowed at the places of worship. There should also be no physical singing and only recorded music should be played as far as possible. Similarly common prayer mats should be avoided and worshippers should bring their own. Touching of idols and holy books won't be allowed. Wearing of masks and social distancing will be mandatory at all places of worship.

As the Formula 1 2020 season inches closer towards the 3rd July return date, Red Bull opened up its factory in England to prepare for the return. The delayed 2020 Formula 1 World Championship has 8 races proposed in Europe&nbsp;and all teams are now returning to work. 7 Formula 1 teams based out of the UK had collaborated under the name of 'Project Pitlane' in a bid to help build ventilators for Covid-19 patients. The F1's return to action will see the Austrian Grand Prix on 3rd July followed by Hungarian GP as the racing&nbsp;circus will also travel to England, Italy, Spain and Belgium.&nbsp;

The iconic Disney World facility in Orlando is all set to host 22 NBA&nbsp;teams as the league plans a restart in July. The proposal of having 22 teams to play both the conferences at the same facility in a bio-secure environment was approved by the owners of the NBA&nbsp;teams after being proposed by Commissioner Adam Silver. The matches will be played without fans at the resort as the teams will continue to live there till the season is over. There will be a 14-day quarantine before the start and strict medical protocols will be followed by the league's medical authorities.&nbsp;

Spanish clubs Real Madrid and Atletico&nbsp;Madrid have decided to come together through an initiative called Madrid for Madrid in a bid to fight against the Covid-19 crisis. The 2 clubs from the same city have launched a&nbsp;fundraiser that aims to help the vulnerable families of Madrid hit by the global pandemic. With more than 27000 deaths, Spain is one of the worst affected nations due to the pandemic.&nbsp;

As the United States of America struggles to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, Major League Soccer teams have been given a go-ahead to restart training for the rest of the season which will restart very soon. There will be strict medical protocols and tests will be carried out on players and staff every 48 hours as they come out of a 3-month long hibernation to restart training. The MLS&nbsp;season was suspended in March and is expected to resume next month under strict supervision and in empty stadiums.&nbsp;

English Premier League side Tottenham has been forced to take a 175 million pound loan from the Bank of England to continue the operations and pay the salaries of non playing staff. After posting a massive 200 million pound loss, Spurs were forced to take the loan as they also qualified for the government's Covid Corporate Financing Facility during the times of the pandemic. The amount given by the bank will be used to keep running the operations but can't be used to buy more players.

Delhi recorded 1,359 fresh coronavirus cases on Thursday, which took the Capital's Covid-19 tally past the 25,000-mark. The death toll due to the disease mounted to 650, authorities said. The highest single-day spike of 1,513 cases in the national capital was recorded on Wednesday. A total of 44 fatalities were reported on Thursday. Meanwhile, in an order on Thursday, the Delhi government said 56 private facilities were directed to reserve a proportionate number of beds for Covid-19 patients in the EWS category.

World number 2 and 19-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal is unsure about his participation at the US Open due to Covid-19. The 4-time singles champion in New York said that the city had been one of the worst hit places in the world by the virus and he needs more clarity before making the decision. Tennis across the world has been suspended since March, Wimbledon was cancelled for the first time in 75 years as US Open officials will have to take a call about the tournament which&nbsp;was scheduled to start from 31st August.&nbsp;

Any employee residing in a Covid-19 containment zone should be allowed to work from home and the period will not be counted as leave, the health ministry said on Thursday listing out rules for reopening of offices. The new SOPs say an entire office building need not be closed if one or two cases of Covid-19 are reported there and work can resume after disinfecting the&nbsp;premises. However, if there is a larger outbreak, the entire building will have to be closed for 48 hours. Hand sanitisers and thermal screening provisions are must at the entrance. Offices in containment zones will remain closed.

In the biggest single-day spike so far, India recorded 9,851 coronavirus cases and 273 deaths in the last 24 hours. According&nbsp;to the health ministry data released on Friday morning, the total number of Covid-19 cases has gone up to 2,26,770 and the death toll stands at 6,348. Last few days, India has seen a sharp spike in the number of infections since the lockdown restrictions have been lifted.
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