Practo, a leading digital healthcare start-up on Saturday announced that Covid-19 tests are now available on the platform. Bengaluru-based Practo has partnered with Thyrocare to conduct the detection tests, which has been authorised by the Government of India and the Indian Council of Medical Research. Practo is starting the test with Mumbai residents and will soon expand it to the rest of the country. A valid doctor's prescription, duly filled Test Requisition Form signed by the physician, and a photo ID card has to be presented at the time of testing. The test will be available at a cost of Rs 4,500 and can be booked online.

Practo, a leading digital healthcare start-up on Saturday announced that Covid-19 tests are now available on the platform. Bengaluru-based Practo has partnered with Thyrocare to conduct the detection tests, which has been authorised by the Government of India and the Indian Council of Medical Research. Practo is starting the test with Mumbai residents and will soon expand it to the rest of the country. A valid doctor's prescription, duly filled Test Requisition Form signed by the physician, and a photo ID card has to be presented at the time of testing. The test will be available at a cost of Rs 4,500 and can be booked online.

The southwest monsoon is expected to reach the Kerala coast around June 1, the India Meteorological Department said on Thursday. The IMD changed its initial forecast, which had predicted monsoon could be delayed by a week due to Cyclone Amphan. The maximum temperatures are likely to recede from Thursday in north India, which is reeling under a severe heatwave. Temperatures north and central India have soared over 47 degrees celsius at a few places for the past four-five days.

India has effectively ruled out the US offer of mediation on the current standoff with China along the Line of Actual Control. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivastava on Thursday said India is 'engaged with the Chinese side to peacefully resolve' the current situation in response to a question on US President Donald Trump&rsquo;s offer to mediate between the two sides. The govt said India and China are engaged at both the military and diplomatic levels to peacefully resolve the matter, and that diplomatic channels are at work both in New Delhi and in Beijing. He added that there are at least five bilateral agreements between the two sides, to ensure of peace and tranquility in the border areas.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to all chief ministers on Thursday, and sought their views on extension of the ongoing nationwide lockdown beyond May 31.&nbsp;The telephonic conversations of the home minister came just three days before the end of the fourth phase of the lockdown. The nationwide curbs, which were first imposed on March 25 to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, and has been extended thrice.

The annual Amarnath Yatra, earlier curtailed on account of the coronavirus pandemic, will this year be held only for 15 days, say reports.&nbsp;Pilgrims will be allowed to travel to the holy shrine only from the Baltal route.&nbsp;The Amarnath Shrine Board has however said, a decision on the pilgrimage would be taken after a fresh review of the coronavirus situation in the near future.&nbsp;The 42-day-long yatra to the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas was scheduled to start from Pahalgam in Anantnag district and Baltal in Ganderbal district on June 23.

Delhi saw its highest single-day rise of 1024 fresh cases with its tally of confirmed cases rising to 16,281 and death toll to 316. This was the first time when Delhi reported over 1000&nbsp;Covid-19 cases in a single day. India's tally increased to 158,333 and the death toll to 4,531, registering a growth of 6,566 cases and 194 deaths in 24 hours. Over 6,000 fresh cases have been registered in India for the seventh straight day, while the recovery rate improved further to over 42 percent.

A lower court has pulled up the Delhi Police on its probe into the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February 2020. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana, during a hearing at the Patiala House Court, said, perusal of the case diary reveals a disturbing fact. The investigation seems to be targetted only towards one end. Upon inquiry, inspectors Lokesh and Anil, have failed to point out what investigation has been carried out so far regarding the involvement of the rival faction. The court made the observation during a hearing on the custody of Jamia Millia Islamia student Asif Iqbal Tanha, who was arrested by the police last week. The observation is extremely significant since a majority of the arrests made by the police in connection with the riots, are those who were part of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The &ldquo;rival faction&rdquo; therefore would be pro-CAA elements who may have taken part in the communal violence.

Around 97&nbsp;lakh migrants have been transported to their states since the special train service was started on May 1, the centre told the Supreme Court on Thursday. The top court had on Tuesday taken suo motu cognisance of the plight of the migrants and had said that there have been inadequacies and lapses on part of both central and the state governments. The central government said it would not stop its efforts or the train service "till even a single migrant remains".

Taking cognisance of the plight of migrant workers, the Supreme Court issued interim directions to centre, states, and UTs that need to be implemented immediately. The Court said:&nbsp; 1. No fare either by train or bus will be charged from migrant workers. Railways to share fare but no fare from migrants 2. All migrants who are stranded shall be provided food by the concerned state at places publicized and notified to them so that they can meet both ends.&nbsp; 3. The originating state should provide food and water and thereafter food should be given by railways. Post reaching, the state shall give transport, food and meals from stations to their villages. This is applicable to both camps on the way or buses. 4. States shall speed up registration of migrant workers and build help desks near places where they are stranded, where they would be asked to board buses or trains at an early date. Complete information needs to be publicized so that migrants are aware of the arrangements made for them. 5. The Court added, that whenever a migrant is found walking on the road they will be taken to the camps at the earliest and help them with facilities. The Apex Court will take up this matter next on June 5.

The Delhi government on Thursday issued an advisory on preventive measures to control a probable locust attack in the national capital. It called for organising awareness programmes for the public and farmers to prevent the attack of swarms of locusts in the national capital territory. It said that since the swarms usually fly during the day and rest at night, they should not be allowed to rest. The advisory asks concerned authorities to spray insecticide as needed. The locust swarms which first attacked Rajasthan have now spread to four other states - Punjab, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

The Karnataka&nbsp;govt has again suspended incoming transport from 5 neighbouring states to contain the&nbsp;coronavirus infection in the state. No flights, trains, or other vehicles will be allowed to come to the state from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan. The ban will be observed for 8-10 days before a review will be conducted. The state government took the decision after it turned out that most of the fresh coronavirus cases have been of people travelling in from other states or countries.

Briefing the media, Principal Scientific Advisor to the govt, Prof K. Vijay Raghavan said, 30 groups in the Indian industry and academia are working on developing the Covid-19 vaccine. He said, vaccines take 10-15 years to develop but India is trying to develop it in a year but for that, we need a parallel process. He added that when the vaccine is made it will not be a switch, everybody, from the youngest to oldest will need a vaccine. In a unique initiative, he said the AICTE and CSIR have embarked on a drug discovery hackathon, this is a high-end hackathon where students are trained with information on how to do computational drug discovery and those promising will be selected.

In what could blow up in the govt's face, the Centre seems to be admitting that it is not paying the 85% rail travel fare of migrant workers, something that union ministers have repeatedly told the public. After Supreme Court pulled up the Centre, asking who is paying for the transportation of migrant workers, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Court on Thursday, that, either originating state pays their fare, or the receiving state. Mehta said originating state picks up migrant workers and gets them to railway stations, where they are screened, meals during their travel are provided by the railways free of cost. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a press conference had said the union govt is bearing 85% of the train fare for migrant workers, while states were bearing the remaining 15%.

BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra has been admitted to a private hospital in Gurugram&nbsp;after he showed symptoms of COVID-19, according to reports.&nbsp;Patra is one of the most visible BJP faces on news channels and is very active on social media. Reports indicate that he has been admitted to Medanta&nbsp;hospital in Gurugram.&nbsp;

The Supreme Court has sought clarity from Centre on the policy that a state can not reject migrants from entering, who pays the fare and knowledge to a migrant that he or she does not have to, the mechanism to let a migrant know when he or she will get transport instead of waiting indefinitely without any information, and arrangement of food and shelter till they go back to their home states. The Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it has moved 97 lakh migrant workers to date, further underlining that it has taken &ldquo;unprecedented steps&rdquo; to send then home.

A big bang explosion and a thick cloud of smoke is seen rising in the air as security forces blew up a car laden with large amount of explosives in Pulwama on Thursday. The car was abandoned by a terrorist when challenged by the forces. A repeat of the deadly Pulwama attack of 2019 was averted. The massive explosion damaged several houses in the area. Residents had already been cleared out before the blast, the police said.

Security forces prevented a massive car bomb attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama on Thursday morning after they stopped a vehicle carrying around&nbsp;50 kg of explosives. Based on intelligence inputs, a white Hyundai Santro car with a fake registration number was signalled to stop at a check point, but it tried to break the barricade, the police said. Security forces opened fire. The driver escaped leaving the explosives laden car. The IED&nbsp;was later defused by the bomb squad.&nbsp;The plan had chilling similarities with last year's terror attack in Pulwama, in which over 40 soldiers were killed as a suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into a CRPF convoy.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday lashed out at the central govt on the issue of migrants. In a video message, Gandhi said that the entire country has heard the pain of the migrants, but the govt is deaf to it. The video is part of the party&rsquo;s &lsquo;SpeakUp&rsquo; campaign to help raise the voice of the poor, migrants, small businesses and the middle class people before the central government. ((Byte))

A Delhi based mushroom farmer turned messiah for 10 migrant labourers as he gave wings to their dream of going back home amid the Covid lockdown. The desperate group of migrant labourers tried to get a seat on a special train to home in Samastipur in Bihar, but to no avail. Their employer, Papan Singh Gehlot, a mushroom farmer in Capital's Narela, then stepped in and bought flight&nbsp;tickets for the group of 10 to fly back home.

Mysterious deaths of a large number of bats in eastern UP's Gorakhpur and Ballia have triggered panic among the locals. People are scared as bats have been linked to the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic. The forest department officials suspect that the bats might have died due to excessive heat. The carcasses of the mammals have been sent to the Indian Veterinary Research Institute in Bareilly to ascertain the exact cause of their death.

Out of the 15 hottest cities in the world in the last 24 hours, 10 were in India with the others in neighbouring Pakistan, according to weather monitoring website El Dorado. Rajasthan&rsquo;s Churu recorded the country&rsquo;s highest temperature of 50 degrees Celsius on Tuesday. Bikaner, Ganganagar and Pilani were the three other cities from Rajasthan on that list. The others in the list of hottest cities were New Delhi, Bikaner, Ganganagar, Jhansi, Pilani, Nagpur Sonegaon, Akola, Banda and Hisar.

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