The Chennai Corporation has ordered that all ATMs need to be disinfected after every use amid the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus. It also said that the government offices and private establishments permitted to open under essential services category during the lockdown must disinfect twice a day. They should also ensure social distancing and frequent handwashing and appoint exclusive personnel for disinfection. The civic body has warned that the offices and private establishments that violate the new rule would be sealed.

The Chennai Corporation has ordered that all ATMs need to be disinfected after every use amid the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus. It also said that the government offices and private establishments permitted to open under essential services category during the lockdown must disinfect twice a day. They should also ensure social distancing and frequent handwashing and appoint exclusive personnel for disinfection. The civic body has warned that the offices and private establishments that violate the new rule would be sealed.

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 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;

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 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.

In a major blow to the&nbsp;opposition Congress ahead of the June 19 Rajya Sabha polls for&nbsp;four seats from the state, two party MLAs have resigned as&nbsp;members of the Legislative Assembly.&nbsp;Gujarat Assembly Speaker Rajendra Trivedi said&nbsp;Congress MLAs Akshay Patel and Jitu Chaudhary met him on&nbsp;Wednesday evening and handed over their resignations, which he accepted.&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 the 182-member state Assembly, the ruling BJP has&nbsp;103 MLAs and the opposition Congress now has 66 legislators.&nbsp;Of the four Rajya Sabha seats from the state set to go&nbsp;for polls on June 19, three are currently held by the BJP and&nbsp;one by the Congress.&nbsp;

Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed CBI's review petition challenging senior Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram's bail in INX Media case.&nbsp;Dismissing the plea, a bench said they are convinced that the&nbsp;bail&nbsp;order, of which review has been sought, does not suffer from any error.&nbsp;The CBI had registered its&nbsp;in 2017, alleging irregularities in a Foreign Investment Promotion Board&nbsp;&nbsp;clearance granted to the INX Media group for receiving overseas funds of&nbsp;₹305 crore in 2007, during Chidambaram's tenure as finance minister.&nbsp;

The UK&thinsp;govt said on Thursday that fugitive businessman Vijay&nbsp;Mallya&nbsp;will not be extradited anytime soon as there are legal issues involved.&nbsp;Mallya&nbsp;is currently in the United Kingdom trying to evade extradition to India. The UK&nbsp;high commission spokesperson said confidential legal issue needs to be resolved before&nbsp;Mallya&rsquo;s&nbsp;extradition can be arranged.&nbsp;Mallya&nbsp;who founded the now-defunct Kingfisher airlines, fled to Britain in March 2016 after facing accusations of financial irregularities amounting to over&nbsp;₹9,000 crore.&nbsp;Mallya&nbsp;has consistently claimed that the charges he faces are baseless and the Centre refused to take him up on his offer to clear his loans.&nbsp;

Amid nationwide outrage following the brutal killing of a pregnant elephant late last month, Kerala chief minister&nbsp;Pinarayi&nbsp;Vijayan Thursday said that the culprits would be brought to book. Announcing on twitter that the police and forest department will jointly probe the killing, the chief minister said&nbsp;the focus is&nbsp;on three suspects.&nbsp;Vijayan also said it was unfortunate that some people were using this tragedy to unleash a hate campaign.&nbsp;The elephant was fatally injured after it ate a pineapple stuffed with crackers which exploded in her mouth and broke her jaw.&nbsp;Reportedly two suspects have been arrested.&nbsp;

A Delhi court on Thursday denied bail to Jamia&nbsp;Millia&nbsp;Islamia scholar&nbsp;Safoora&nbsp;Zargar, saying it found "no merits" in her application.&nbsp;Zargar, also the media coordinator of the Jamia Coordination Committee, was arrested by Delhi Police's Special Cell after being accused of hatching a conspiracy to incite communal riots in the national capital's northeast area in February this year. Additional Sessions Judge at the Patiala House Court, Dharmendra Rana,&nbsp;however, directed the jail officials to provide adequate medical aid and assistance to&nbsp;Zargar, who is pregnant.

After two persons were taken into custody for the death of an elephant in Kerala, Congress treasurer Ahmed Patel has lashed out to people who misrepresent facts to divide the society.&nbsp;Patel, who is a close aide of Congress president Sonia Gandhi,&nbsp;tweeted: "It is sad that the climate in our country has become so bitter that even in the tragic death of an elephant, some are trying to misrepresent the facts to twist into an issue of one community Vs the other?"&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

The Delhi University Students' Union on Thursday reached out to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and requested him to provide a special package for the varsity students. The&nbsp;DUSU wrote to the CM demanding rent waiver for students who are living away from their homes, and a financial package as a concession through the direct money transfer to their accounts. The&nbsp;DUSU President in a statement said that it was the government's responsibility to make sure students were not hampered by the crisis.

The Supreme Court on Thursday has sought finance ministry's reply by June 12, on waiver of interest on loans during the moratorium period.&nbsp;The top court said there were two aspects under consideration in this matter &mdash; no interest payment on loans during the moratorium period and no interest to be charged on interest. On May 26, the top court had asked the Centre and the RBI to respond to the plea challenging the levy of interest on loans during the moratorium period. To which,&nbsp;RBI replied saying it would not be prudent as it will risk the financial viability of the banks.
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Amazon.com is in early-stage talks to buy a stake worth at least $2 billion in telecom operator Bharti Airtel, according to a report in Reuters, underlining the growing attraction of India's digital economy for US tech giants. The planned investment, if completed, would mean Amazon acquiring a roughly 5% stake based on the current market value of Bharti, which is India's third-largest telecom company with more than 300 million subscribers. The discussions between Amazon and Bharti come at a time when global players are placing major bets on the digital arm of Reliance Industries, which owns Bharti's rival Jio. Reliance's digital unit has raised $10 billion in recent weeks from Facebook, KKR and others. An Amazon spokeswoman said the company does "not offer comments on speculation of what it may or may not do in future."

Ken&nbsp;Juster, the&nbsp;US Ambassador to India, has&nbsp;apologised&nbsp;for desecration of Mahatma Gandhi&rsquo;s statue in the United States. The statue was&nbsp;vandalised&nbsp;with graffiti and spray paint outside the Indian embassy in Washington.&nbsp;Juster&nbsp;on twitter said he was sorry&nbsp;to see the desecration of the Gandhi statue.&nbsp;The incident is reported to have taken place on the intervening night of June 2 and 3. The officials of the Indian embassy informed the State Department and registered a complaint with the local law enforcement agencies.&nbsp;

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday described the comprehensive strategic partnership with India as a 'new level' of bilateral cooperation based on trust. He&nbsp;complemented Prime Minister Narendra Modi for playing an &ldquo;important part&rdquo; in &ldquo;stabilising&rdquo; the Indo-Pacific region during the difficult times.&nbsp;The two leaders during their first virtual bilateral summit discussed a range of issues including trade,&nbsp;defence, education as well as the Covid-19 crisis.&nbsp;The summit was held after Morrison had to cancel his trip to India in&nbsp;January,&nbsp;2020 due to the devastating bushfires season in Australia.&nbsp;

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi outside the Indian Embassy in Washington DC has been vandalized amid the ongoing protests against the custodial death of George Floyd. An investigation has been launched by the United States Park Police, news agency ANI reported. US Ambassador to India Ken Juster in a tweet apologised for the incident. Floyd&rsquo;s death, a case of police brutality, has led to civic unrest across America.

The death of a pregnant elephant in Kerala after it ate a pineapple stuffed with explosives will be investigated by the central government, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday. The minister tweeted that the government had taken "very serious note" of the killing of the elephant and that no stone will left unturned to investigate it properly and nab the culprits. "This is not an Indian culture to feed fire crackers and kill," the minister added.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that India and Australia share deep and extensive ties based on the shared interest and values between the two nations. The prime minister held his first virtual summit with the Australian PM Scott Morrison on Thursday. The Ministry of External Affairs said that the virtual summit was held as PM Morrison&rsquo;s visit to India could not take place amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The prime minister said that the time is ripe and perfect to further strengthen relations between India and Australia.

With more than 1,500 fresh coroanvirus cases on Wednesday, Delhi's Covid-19 count has breached 23,000. This is the highest number of new cases to emerge in a single day in the national capital. The total number of coronavirus cases in the national capital reached 23,645. The death toll also increased to 606 after nine more fatalities. Spike in Delhi comes at a time when Mumbai, which has been worst hit by the pandemic, has started to see a downward turn in the infections rate.

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