Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday called up Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi&nbsp;Adityanath&nbsp;and urged him to take stringent action against those involved in the killing of two sadhus in Bulandshahr.&nbsp;Thackeray said he is&nbsp;with the Uttar Pradesh government in tackling such heinous crimes.&nbsp;He pointed out that on April 16, a similar incident of two sadhus and their driver being lynched had taken place in Palghar in which the Maharashtra government had initiated strong action.&nbsp;The Chief Minister said he had also appealed to his Uttar Pradesh counterpart that nobody should attempt to give the Bulandshahr incident any communal overtones.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday called up Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and urged him to take stringent action against those involved in the killing of two sadhus in Bulandshahr. Thackeray said he is with the Uttar Pradesh government in tackling such heinous crimes. He pointed out that on April 16, a similar incident of two sadhus and their driver being lynched had taken place in Palghar in which the Maharashtra government had initiated strong action. The Chief Minister said he had also appealed to his Uttar Pradesh counterpart that nobody should attempt to give the Bulandshahr incident any communal overtones.

India, which expects to be elected to an eighth term on the UN Security Council later this month, on Friday said, it will continue working at the UN for an effective response to international terrorism and reforming the multilateral system. External affairs minister S Jaishankar launched a brochure outlining India&rsquo;s priorities for its campaign, during the election scheduled for June 17. The brochure set out India&rsquo;s five key priorities as - new opportunities for progress, an effective response to international terrorism, reforming the multilateral system, a comprehensive approach to international peace and security, and promoting technology with a human touch as a driver of solutions. Jaishankar said, India&rsquo;s approach will also be guided by the &ldquo;five Ss&rdquo; set out by PM Modi - sammaan (respect), samvaad (dialogue), sahayog (cooperation) and shanti (peace) in order to create samriddhi (prosperity).

In yet another blow to the&nbsp;opposition Congress ahead of the June 19 Rajya Sabha polls for&nbsp;four seats from the state, a third MLA has resigned. Morbi MLA Brijesh Merja sent his resignation&nbsp;to Gujarat Assembly Speaker on Friday, who has accepted it. Two party MLAs Akshay Patel and Jitu Chaudhary had resigned on Wednesday evening.&nbsp;The Congress has accused the BJP of trying to break&nbsp;the opposition party to win the Rajya Sabha polls. However,&nbsp;the ruling BJP dismissed the charge, saying MLAs were leaving&nbsp;the Congress as they were &lsquo;unhappy&rsquo; with the party leadership.&nbsp;

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;

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.

First arrest has been made in the brutal killing of a pregnant elephant in Kerala. The state Forest Minister said that a man has been arrested in the case that sparked a widespread outcry. The elephant died after eating a pineapple stuffed with crackers&nbsp;kept as bait to protect crops from wild boars. Chief Wildlife Warden said that the man, who is in his forties, allegedly handled explosives himself and also helped others use it. The crackers exploded in the elephant's mouth and it walked for days in agony before it went into a river and died standing on May 27.

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.

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.

Manu Sharma, who killed model Jessica Lal in 1999 and has now been released from jail after serving 17 years, has said that he is deeply sorry for the pain that he caused to Jessica's family. In an interview to Hindustan TImes, Sharma, who before early release has caused much outrage, said he has tried his best to be a better person in all these years and hoped that people will give him another chance. He also expressed his gratitude to Jessica's sister Sabrina, who had earlier written to the Tihar authorities that she had forgiven Sharma.

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.

The Health Ministry on Thursday released the standard operating procedure for restaurants and hotels which included measures like allowing only asymptomatic staff and guests inside the premises and proper crowd management. The ministry asked employees who are at higher risk, like older staff members or those who are pregnant or have underlying medical conditions, to take extra precautions. For hotels and hospitality services, it asked them to ensure a proper record of the guest's travel history and medical condition, along with ID and self-declaration form. Luggage has to be disinfected before being sent to the rooms.&nbsp;In SOPs released for restaurants, the ministry has curtailed the seating capacity to 50 per cent. Disposable menus are advised to be used. Instead of cloth napkins, use of disposable paper napkins should be encouraged. Hotels and restaurants have been&nbsp;asked to continue thermal screening and use of sanitisers.&nbsp;

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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Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik said that the state government has announced weekend shutdown in 11 districts in order to reduce frequency of people coming out of their homes in the ongoing month of June. The CM said that the restriction would mean that people will be at their homes for full 8 days in the month of June, news agency ANI reported.&nbsp;&nbsp;Odisha has reported close to 2400 coronavirus cases and 9 deaths so far.

Abu Dhabi-based sovereign investor Mubadala Investment Company will buy 1.85% stake in Mukesh Ambani's Jio Platforms for&nbsp;₹9,093&nbsp;crore, RIL&nbsp;said on Friday.&nbsp;With the sixth deal, Jio has raised ₹87,655&nbsp;crore by selling 18.97% of its stake in less than seven weeks. The latest transaction gives Jio Platforms an equity valuation of ₹4.91 lakh&nbsp;crore and an enterprise value of ₹5.16 lakh&nbsp;crore.

The Delhi govt has barred eight labs from carrying out coronavirus tests citing "flouting of testing protocols and taking too long to report results". The government also believes that the labs, by testing asymptomatic and low-risk individuals in violation of the testing guidelines, are effectively creating a bottleneck where people who desperately need to be tested have to wait. There is now fear that banning these labs will hurt the Capital's testing capacity amid a spike in Cocid-19 cases. According to the Hindustan Times, the eight labs together were able to carry out 4,000 tests a day.

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The Delhi govt has barred eight labs from carrying out coronavirus tests citing "flouting of testing protocols and taking too long to report results". The government also believes that the labs, by testing asymptomatic and low-risk individuals in violation of the testing guidelines, are effectively creating a bottleneck where people who desperately need to be tested have to wait.
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((Page 9)) Wednesday night&rsquo;s minor tremor in Noida was the fourteenth to hit Delhi and the National Capital Region over the past two months, but the increased frequency may not necessarily indicate a major one is coming, say seismologists. Still, monitoring them is key to being prepared , they add.

Amid reports of people being turned back or made to wait for a long time at hospitals, the Delhi government has issued a new standard operating procedure for treating coronavirus patients. According to the rules, Covid-19 patients shall be brought to the triage area from the ambulance without asking for any details. This process must be completed in 15 minutes and doctors on call must attend to the patient within an hour. If beds are not available at the hospital, then it will be entirely the responsibility of the hospital to transfer the patient to another one.
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Union health minister Harsh Vardhan stressed the need for ramping up testing, coupled with aggressive surveillance, contact tracing and stringent containment and perimeter control measures with Covid-19 cases and fatalities rising in the national capital.&nbsp;According to Union health ministry data, Delhi has reported 606 virus deaths and&nbsp;23,645 cases till Thursday. The Union health minister also said that the high rate of infection in the healthcare workers was also a serious issue. He said&nbsp;it indicates poor infection prevention control practices in healthcare settings and needs to be attended to on priority.

The All India Institute of Medical Science in Delhi has turned to be a 'hotspot' of coronavirus infection with as many as 479 persons, which include staff as well as their dependents, testing positive for the highly contagious disease.&nbsp;Among&nbsp;those testing positive&nbsp;are also&nbsp;two faculty members, 17 resident doctors, 38 nursing staff,&nbsp;74 security staff and hospital attendants each and 54 sanitation staff.&nbsp;The&nbsp;AIIMS has scaled up its testing.&nbsp;Most patients are&nbsp;tested before admission to wards and before taking to OTs. A new rapid test, called CBNAAT, which gives results in 2 hours is now available at AIIMS. This may help to reduce exposure of healthcare workers in hospitals.&nbsp;&nbsp;

A station house officer in Uttar Pradesh&rsquo;s&nbsp;Ambedkar Nagar district was suspended after he&nbsp;led a cavalcade of vehicles during his farewell procession on being transferred to another location.&nbsp;The display of flamboyance by the SHO had violated the social distancing rules laid down by the government.&nbsp;The matter came to light after a video of the cavalcade passing through a narrow road was widely shared on social media. In the clip, half-a-dozen motorbikes carrying policemen, none of them wearing masks, lead the way for an open-air black jeep on which three constables,&nbsp;who were&nbsp;also without masks, are standing in&nbsp;close proximity.&nbsp;

As many as 2,550 foreigners who attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in New Delhi have been banned from entering India for 10 years for flouting visa norms. Last month the Delhi police told the High Court that as many as 960 members of the Jamaat, who came to India on tourist and e-visas, are liable to face jail term of up to five years. The police pointed out that the foreigners violated the conditions of their visas by joining the religious congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin, and are hence culpable for prosecution under Section 14 of the Indian Foreigners Act, 1946.

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