The Centre on Friday appointed senior IPS officer SN Srivastava as the new Commissioner of Delhi Police. The 1985-batch officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory cadre, Srivastava will replace incumbent&nbsp;Amulya&nbsp;Patnaik, whose one month extension to the post will end on Saturday. Srivastava, is presently the Special Commissioner, and he has been given additional charge of Delhi Police Commissioner till March 1, 2020 and until further orders. Earlier, Srivastava headed the Delhi Police Special Cell and was instrumental in the arrest of scores of Indian Mujahideen operatives.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

The Centre on Friday appointed senior IPS officer SN Srivastava as the new Commissioner of Delhi Police. The 1985-batch officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory cadre, Srivastava will replace incumbent Amulya Patnaik, whose one month extension to the post will end on Saturday. Srivastava, is presently the Special Commissioner, and he has been given additional charge of Delhi Police Commissioner till March 1, 2020 and until further orders. Earlier, Srivastava headed the Delhi Police Special Cell and was instrumental in the arrest of scores of Indian Mujahideen operatives.

&nbsp; The Supreme Court Tuesday took&nbsp;suo&nbsp;motu&nbsp;cognizance of the problems and the miseries of migrant&nbsp;labourers&nbsp;who have been stranded in different parts of the country after the Covid-19 lockdown.&nbsp;A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M R Shah issued notice to the Centre, states and Union Territories and sought their replies by May 28 on the steps taken to redeem the situation.&nbsp;The top court listed the matter for May 28 and asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to assist it on the issue.&nbsp;The top court&rsquo;s notice comes barely 10 days after another bench refused to intervene on a petition that wanted the government to identify stranded&nbsp;migrant workers, take care of their needs and provide free transport to them.&nbsp;

The Centre has said a total of 60,490 patients have recovered so far from coronavirus across the nation which means the recovery rate continues to improve and presently it is 41.61%. Lav Agarwal, the Joint Secretary in the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Tuesday that the fatality rate is one among the lowest in the world, it is 2.87% now.&nbsp;4.4 deaths per lakh population have been reported for the world, while India has reported about 0.3 deaths per lakh population. This&nbsp;Centre said this&nbsp;has been due to lockdown, timely identification and management of coronavirus cases.&nbsp;

The Bharatiya&nbsp;Mazdoor&nbsp;Sangh, RSS'&nbsp;labour wing, has decided to increase its offensive against the state governments that have made changes to the labour laws.Various state governments including BJP-ruled Madhya&nbsp;Pradesh, Uttar&nbsp;Pradesh&nbsp;and Gujarat have made changes to the labour laws in favour of factory owners and employers to increase output and make up for the loss that was incurred due to the lockdown. The BMS&nbsp;has come up with a 5-stage plan that includes setting up help desks for workers and labourers and reaching out to&nbsp;MPs&nbsp;across political lines. In addition to this the organisation has planned massive outreach programmes and seminars to raise awareness about changes in the laws.&nbsp;

NCP Supremo Sharad Pawar on Tuesday scoffed at the rumours of a rift within the Maharashtra ruling coalition. In an interview to NDTV, Pawar stressed that there was no threat to the coalition while taking a swipe at former CM Devendra Fadnavis. The Maratha strongman termed Fadnavis an "impatient" man. Pawar's meeting with Maharashtra governor and CM Uddhav Thackeray on Monday sent the rumours mill abuzz about an impending political crisis in the state.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday ordered the military to scale up the battle preparedness,&nbsp;visualise&nbsp;worst-case scenarios and asked them to resolutely defend the country&rsquo;s sovereignty.&nbsp;Xi who is the head of the two-million-strong military with prospects of lifelong tenure in power, made the remarks while attending a plenary meeting of the delegation of the&nbsp;People''s&nbsp;Liberation Army and People's Armed Police Force during the current parliament session.&nbsp;He ordered the military to think about worst-case scenarios, scale up training and battle preparedness, promptly and effectively deal with all sorts of complex situations.&nbsp;His comments came in the backdrop of the nearly 20-day standoff between India and China at the Line of Actual Control.&nbsp;

Prime Minister Narendra&nbsp;Modi&nbsp;held a high-level security review meeting with the National Security Advisor, Chief of Defence Staff and the three Service chiefs on Tuesday over the border standoff with China. He later also a held a meeting with Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla&nbsp;on the matter. Earlier in the day,&nbsp;Defence Minister Rajnath&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;too had held a meeting with the CDS and Service chiefs regarding the tension on the Line of Actual Control.&nbsp;According to reports,&nbsp;Singh asked about troop deployment and expressed his full support for the Army's response to Chinese aggression.&nbsp;The Indian and Chinese sides have held six rounds of talks since the tensions flared up at the border on May 5 but failed to de-escalate&nbsp;the situation.

Nearly 2 lakh people have been affected and&nbsp;1,000 hectares of farming land submerged after incessant rain for the past 5 days led to flooding in 7 districts of Assam.&nbsp;The people affected by the flood in Goalpara and Tinsukia districts have already been provided shelter in 35 relief camps, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority said.&nbsp;The Brahmaputra was flowing above the danger level in Jorhat district, while Jia Bharali&nbsp;river was over the danger mark in Sonitpur district, the Central Water Commission said.&nbsp;The Assam government on Tuesday directed deputy commissioners to ensure adequate relief material and repair of embankments as that state braces itself with heavy rainfall predicted for the next few days. In Meghalaya&nbsp;too heavy rains have&nbsp;thrown&nbsp;life out of gear in the state with landslides and flood-like situation reported from various districts. A red alert has been sounded for all low-lying areas. Heavy rainfall has been predicted for Arunachal, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura&nbsp;as well.&nbsp;

The Indian Council of Medical Research has said that no major side-effects of hydroxychloroquine have been found in studies in India and its use should be continued in preventive treatment for COVID-19 but under strict supervision. While addressing reporters on Tuesday, ICMR's&nbsp;Director General Balram Bhargava&nbsp;said except for nausea, vomiting and occasional palpitation&nbsp;they have found no other major side-effects of&nbsp;hydroxychloroquine.&nbsp;The ICMR's statement came against the backdrop of the World Health Organization (WHO) suspending the testing of the drug in COVID-19 patients temporarily in its global study following safety concerns.

As many as 960 foreigners, members of the Tablighi Jamaat, who came to India on tourist and e-visas, are liable to face a jail term of up to five years, Delhi Police told the High Court. The Delhi police pointed out that these foreigners violated their visa conditions by joining the religious congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin, and can be prosecuted under Section 14 of the Indian Foreigners Act, 1946. Section 14 provides for penalty for contravention of provisions of the Act, and prescribes a jail term of maximum five years.

Delhi sweltered under a scorching heat wave on Tuesday as the mercury soared to 47.6&deg;C in Palam area and most places recorded maximum temperatures six notches above normal.&nbsp;The Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative figures for the city, recorded a maximum of 46 degrees Celsius. However, the IMD&nbsp;said that&nbsp;some respite from heat was expected on Thursday due to a fresh western disturbance and easterly winds. Dust storm and thunderstorm with winds gusting up to 60 kilometres per hour is likely over the National Capital Region on Friday and Saturday, the IMD&nbsp;added.&nbsp;

Railway Minister Piyush&nbsp;Goyal&nbsp;lashed out at Maharashtra govt again on Twitter over the issues of special trains to ferry migrants home. The minister tweeted that the Railways had arranged for 145 trains to operate from Maharashtra&nbsp;but only 13 trains had been used till 3pm due to lack of passengers. He further tweeted requesting Maharashtra&nbsp;govt to cooperate and bring&nbsp;migrant passengers to station on time to avoid delays. The Indian Railways too issued a statement that it had mobilised 145 to depart from Maharashtra&nbsp;at a very short notice but due to lack of passengers the first train left the station only at 12.30pm. Railway&nbsp;minister's tweet and Indian Railways statement comes as Piyush&nbsp;Goyal&nbsp;and the Maharashtra&nbsp;govt are engaged in a war of words on twitter over shramik&nbsp;trains since the last two days.&nbsp;

According to a study by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative or CHRI, 12 people have died for alleged violation of the national lockdown due to police brutality. The study tracked the deaths of 12 people across the country from March 25th to April 30th based on media reports. 3 of the 12 were cases of suicide wherein the victims took their lives due to the humiliation because of the public beating. Out of the 12, in only 2 cases the police personnel involved have been suspended pending enquiry. 3 deaths were reportedly custodial. Highlighting the lack of police accountability, the human rights group&nbsp;has sent a petition to the National Human Rights Commission for investigation into these 12 deaths.

Severe heatwave conditions prevailed in parts of Rajasthan on Tuesday, with the mercury touching 50 degrees Celsius in Churu district. This is the second-highest maximum temperature recorded in Churu district in the month of May in the last 10 years. The district had recorded a high of 50.2 degrees Celsius on May 19 in 2016.&nbsp;The weather office has predicted severe heat wave conditions will continue in parts of central and north India till Saturday.&nbsp;&nbsp;

BJP leader Devendra&nbsp;Fadnavis&nbsp;has said that&nbsp;Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's&nbsp;remarks on his party's role in the Maharashtra government are&nbsp;aimed at pinning the blame for failure in handling the Covid-19 situation on the Shiv&nbsp;Sena&nbsp;and Chief Minister&nbsp;Uddhav&nbsp;Thackeray.&nbsp;He also distanced the BJP from the demands for&nbsp;imposition of President's rule in the state and dismissed&nbsp;speculations that the Opposition was trying to&nbsp;destabilise&nbsp;the&nbsp;government.&nbsp;Fadnavis&nbsp;said speculative statements like Opposition&nbsp;trying to&nbsp;destabilise&nbsp;the&nbsp;Sena-led government are being&nbsp;purposefully made to divert the attention of people from the&nbsp;government's failure.&nbsp;

The Congress on Tuesday accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi&nbsp;Adityanath&nbsp;of targeting Dalits by saying that a large proportion of migrant workers returning home are infected with coronavirus.&nbsp;Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi&nbsp;Vadra&nbsp;had on Monday taken on&nbsp;Adityanath&nbsp;over his remark that 75 per cent of UP workers returning from Mumbai are infected, questioning the math.&nbsp;In a video clip,&nbsp;Adityanath&nbsp;was also heard saying that 50 per cent of workers returning from Delhi have coronavirus and 25-30 per cent from other states are similarly infected.&nbsp;The Congress said&nbsp;most migrant workers are Dalits or belong to &lsquo;backward castes&rsquo; and&nbsp;CM&rsquo;s misleading statement could lead to&nbsp;social hatred.&nbsp;&nbsp;

After a senior cardiologist was detained by police in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday intercepted the official vehicle of the Chief Medical Officer&nbsp;Bandipora&nbsp;while he was&nbsp;enroute&nbsp;to a quarantine&nbsp;centre.&nbsp;Two videos of the CMO Dr&nbsp;Tajamul&nbsp;Hussain shouting at the police personnel posted at a checkpoint in the northern district have gone viral on social media.&nbsp;Dr&nbsp;Tajamul&nbsp;was travelling in his official vehicle, on which an emergency light is installed. In the video, he is seen telling the police officials&nbsp;you&nbsp;are harassing doctors.&nbsp;

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday urged the government to come clean on the border standoff with China. Demanding transparency from the government on what is going on, Gandhi said that "it becomes difficult for us to have a position without understanding the facts". He added that the government should make it clear to the people of India what exactly is happening on the border.&nbsp;

The Rajasthan government has restored the working hours for factory workers to eight hours per day.&nbsp;On April 24, the government had increased the working hours to 12 from 8 hours per day to reduce the requirement of workers in all the registered factories due to the coronavirus spread.&nbsp;The order issued last month to increase working hours was initially for three months for factories registered under the Factories Act. But it has been withdrawn in a month's time.&nbsp;Many state governments had faced flak over the move, with&nbsp;labour&nbsp;rights activists calling the changes in the&nbsp;labour&nbsp;laws dictatorial.&nbsp;

The Indian Army has increased its presence in Uttarakhand following reports of a Chinese troop build-up in an area on their side of the LAC, The Indian Express has reported. In eastern Ladakh also the Army has inducted additional troops and has enhanced round-the-clock surveillance of the LAC through UAVs. The report added that the Army has also increased its presence along the boundary with China in Uttarakhand following reports that Chinese troops have been deployed in increased numbers in the Guldong sector.

Quarantine is for commoners not our netas. Union Minister Sadananda Gowda landed in Bengaluru on Monday and refused to quarantine himself, as is mandated by the Karnataka govt for every individual arriving in the state. Gowda justified it, saying that these rules apply to citizens but not to him, as he has important responsibilities. Soon after the Karnataka govt amended its quarantine order to exempt ministers and state officials engaged on Covid duties.

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