The National Commission for Women has received over 250 complaints since the countrywide lockdown was imposed to control the spread of coronavirus. Out of these 69 were cases of domestic violence, which the NCW&nbsp;says&nbsp;has been increasing every day.&nbsp;NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma said the number of cases of domestic violence must be much higher but the women are scared to complain due to constant presence of their abuser at home. She added that because of the lockdown, women are not able to reach out to the police.&nbsp;

The National Commission for Women has received over 250 complaints since the countrywide lockdown was imposed to control the spread of coronavirus. Out of these 69 were cases of domestic violence, which the NCW says has been increasing every day. NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma said the number of cases of domestic violence must be much higher but the women are scared to complain due to constant presence of their abuser at home. She added that because of the lockdown, women are not able to reach out to the police.

At least 3 people are reportedly dead in cyclone-related incidents in Maharashtra. Hours after making landfall,&nbsp;with windspeed&nbsp;to 120kmph, in Alibaug, the severe cyclonic storm has now weakened into a deep depression and moved towards Nashik&nbsp;with a&nbsp;reduced windspeed&nbsp;of&nbsp;65-75 kmph. Several houses have been destroyed and power supply disrupted as trees and electric poles were uprooted due to the winds. In Mumbai, traffic was stopped on the Worli sea link as the city braced for the cyclone and flights, trains services were also suspended for hours. Limited damage has been reported from Gujarat as the cyclone changed its path.&nbsp;

There was a deep rooted conspiracy behind the riots and 'murder' of IB officer Ankit Sharma during northeast Delhi violence as he was 'specifically targeted' by a mob led by suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain, the police told a Delhi court in its charge sheet on Wednesday. The Crime Branch of Delhi police filed the charge sheet before Metropolitan Magistrate Richa Parihar, who fixed the matter for consideration on June 16. After killing Sharma, the mob had thrown his body in a nearby drain and was fished out the next day, police said. The chargesheet noted that a&nbsp;witness standing on a terrace had captured a video on his mobile phone, in which a group of persons are seen dumping the dead body in the drain

Hearing a petition seeking direction to the Centre to amend the Constitution and change the name of the country from India to Bharat, Chief Justice of India SA&nbsp;Bobde&nbsp;told the petitioner on Wednesday that India is already called Bharat in the Constitution. While declining to entertain the plea, the top court said the petition could be considered as a representation to the government.&nbsp;The petitioner argued that the English name India did not represent the culture and tradition of the country; instead, its origin is Greek, and it is derived from the word 'Indica'.

The govt on Wednesday eased travel restrictions for a limited section of foreign nationals. As per the new guidelines, foreign nationals in selective categories will be allowed to enter the country. Foreign healthcare professionals, researchers, engineers, and technicians whose services are required in laboratories, factories and other facilities part of the Indian healthcare sector will be allowed to enter the country. To avail of this relaxation, the individual will have to secure a letter of invitation from a recognized and registered healthcare facility, registered pharmaceutical company, or accredited university based in India. Foreign nationals with expertise in engineering, managerial, or design who wish to travel to India on behalf of foreign business entities located in the country will also be permitted to travel to India. Registered business entities in India can also invite foreign technical specialists and engineers for installation, repair and maintenance of foreign-origin machinery and equipment facilities.

Reports say economic offender and fugitive businessman&nbsp;Vijay Mallya&nbsp;may be flown to India.&nbsp;Mallya will be accompanied by CBI and ED officials.&nbsp;If Mallya lands in Mumbai at night, he will have to spend some time at the CBI office in the city.&nbsp;If he lands during the day, he will directly be produced in a court, where the CBI will seek his custody. Later, the ED would also seek his custody, reports quoting sources said. Vijay&nbsp;Mallya will be lodged at Mumbai's Arthur Road jail.&nbsp;Mallya is wanted in India in the Rs 9,000 crore&nbsp;loan default&nbsp;case involving 17 banks. He lost his appeal in the UK top court on May 14 against extradition to India.

Citizens have started an online petition on Change.org demanding justice for the pregnant elephant who became the victim of human cruelty in Kerala on Tuesday. The petition says, perhaps a more important question to ask is why we hear so much about voiceless deaths, and not enough about prosecutions? Due to loopholes in the judicial system how many will actually end up being sentenced?. It adds, that the law in India does not assign long prison sentences to crimes against animals, it pushes for rigorous sentencing with hefty fines. The elephant's death triggered outrage on social media with several condemning those responsible for the attack.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday revoked the controversial Public Safety Act against former IAS officer-turned-politician Shah&nbsp;Faesal&nbsp;and two PDP members, including the maternal uncle of former chief minister&nbsp;Mehbooba&nbsp;Mufti.&nbsp;According to separate orders issued by the Home Department, the PSA against&nbsp;Faesal, who was a 2010-batch IAS topper, Sartaj Madani, uncle of Mufti, and Peer Mansoor, her political advisor during her tenure as chief minister, was revoked "with immediate effect".&nbsp;Faesal, who was under detention after scrapping of Jammu and Kashmir's special status, was booked under the PSA in February this year, with his detention being extended barely hours before it was to come to an end.&nbsp;

&nbsp;After storming the Maharashtra coast with wind speeds of up to 120 kmph&nbsp;and heavy rains on Wednesday afternoon, Cyclone Nisarga has started weakening and its intensity will reduce further by evening, the India Meteorological Department has said. It made landfall at 12.30 PM at Alibaug and the process was completed by 2.30 PM.&nbsp;Trees have been uprooted and electric lines snapped at places in Raigad district due to gusty winds. At least 40,000 people have been evacuated from low lying areas. According to officials there was no major impact of the cyclone in Gujarat but&nbsp;63,700 people living close to the coast in eight districts to safer places as a precautionary measure.&nbsp;

At least five workers were killed&nbsp;due to burn wounds&nbsp;and over 40 were injured when a blast in the broiler of an&nbsp;agro-chemical factory in&nbsp;Bharuch sparked an inferno. An India Express report noted that such was the intensity of the what&nbsp;it called a mysterious blast inside the chemical factory that it was heard up to a three-kilometer radius.&nbsp;Images from the factory showed plumes of smoke billowing from the site of the incident.&nbsp;The injured have been admitted in Bharuch civil hospital and two other private hospitals.&nbsp;&nbsp;As a precautionary measure, the&nbsp;authorities have&nbsp;shifted&nbsp;nearly&nbsp;5,000&nbsp;people staying in two&nbsp;neighbouring&nbsp;villages. Fire tenders have been rushed to the spot to control the blaze.&nbsp;The factory manufactures 20 types of chemical components.&nbsp;

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday appealed to the Centre to give one-time assistance of Rs 10,000 each to migrant workers amid the coronavirus crisis. In a tweet, she said financial aid should also be provided to those engaged in the unorganised sector to help them cope with the ongoing economic crisis arising out of the lockdown.&nbsp;Banerjee suggested that a portion of the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund or PM-CARES could be used for the purpose.

Amid a border standoff with China, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday asked the government to make it clear whether or not Chinese soldiers have entered India.&nbsp;Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had on Tuesday said that a "sizeable number" of Chinese troops have moved into eastern Ladakh and India too has taken all necessary steps to deal with the situation.&nbsp;Rahul Gandhi tweeted,&nbsp;&nbsp;"can the govt please confirm that no Chinese soldiers have entered India?"&nbsp;He also shared a report about India and China holding a top-level military meet on June 6 in a bid to resolve the troops' standoff in eastern Ladakh.&nbsp;Rahul&nbsp;said the govt must tell the country what exactly is happening "as its silence is fuelling speculation and uncertainty".
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Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal has approved the premature release of Jessica Lal murder convict Manu Sharma, who is serving a life sentence. The move comes after the Delhi Sentence Review Board, which comes under the Delhi government had recommended his premature release last month. Manu Sharma, son of former Union minister Venod Sharma, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court in December 2006 for killing Jessica Lal in 1999. A trial court had acquitted him, but the high court reversed the order and the Supreme Court later upheld his life sentence in April 2010.

A mob on Tuesday disrupted the funeral of a Covid-19 victim in Jammu and forced his family members to flee with the half-burnt body. The administration had to intervene and the cremation took place at another place as per protocol. A 72-year-old man from Doda district became the fourth victim of coronavirus in Jammu region. The family said that a mob pelted stones and they had to run with the half burnt body. They alleged that the security officials present at the scene didn't help.

The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday said that LG Polymers has absolute liability for the loss of life in the recent gas leak incident at its Visakhapatnam plant. The green court imposed ₹50 crore penalty&nbsp;on the&nbsp;South Korea based company which it said will be&nbsp;used as compensation for the the&nbsp;victim's&nbsp;kin&nbsp;and for environment restoration.&nbsp;A styrene gas leak from the plant had killed 12 people and affected another 1,000&nbsp;on May 7, besides causing environmental damage.&nbsp; &nbsp;

As cyclone Nisarga began landfall, Mumbai police has stopped vehicular movement on Bandra-Worli sea link, while the NDRF has advised people not to step out for six or seven hours at least. After the landfall the severe cyclonic storm is very likely to maintain its cyclonic storm intensity for about 6 hours, while moving north-northeastwards across north-central Maharashtra. Visuals showed gusty winds and choppy sea in Raigad, Sindhudurg and Mumbai.

A big win for security forces in the Kashmir Valley. 3 terrorists, including a top Jaish commander, have been killed in an encounter in Pulwama. Forces said that&nbsp;Fauji Bhai, a top bomb-maker Jaish-e-Mohammed, was among&nbsp;those killed.&nbsp; The operation was conducted by a joint team of security personnel that had been tracking Fauji Bhai, also known as Ismail, who has also been linked to the car bomb intercepted in Pulwama on May 27.

Raigad, Sindhudurg&nbsp;and&nbsp;Aibaug&nbsp;near Mumbai have been lashed with heavy rainfall and gusty as tropical storm Nisarga made landfall. A high tide warning has been issued in Mumbai as well. 43&nbsp;teams of National Disaster Response Force have been deployed in areas expected to be affected along Maharashtra and Gujarat coasts.&nbsp;This is the second cyclone to strike India in two weeks and the first to hit the financial capital in over a 100 years.

An Indian-origin man opened his house to shelter dozens of 'Black Lives Matter' protesters on Monday night after they took to the streets of Washington after the 7 PM curfew rule. Rahul Dubey provided shelter to about 60 people and saved them from being arrested by the police, reported Associated Press. Scores were protesting on the streets of Washington against the killing of George&nbsp;Floyd when police started rounding them. Dubey managed to wave them inside his house even as the cops chased them till the entrance.

The Enforcement Directorate has filed the chargesheet against former union minister P Chidambaram, his son Karti Chidambaram and others in connection with the INX Media money laundering case. Earlier, the CBI had charged Chidambaram and others with allegedly receiving ₹10 lakh as bribe for clearing foreign investment for INX Media. The ED has alleged that in 2007, Chidambaram as FM, had facilitated a huge transfusion of foreign funds to INX Media, then owned by former media baron Peter Mukerjea and his wife Indrani Mukerjea. His son Karti Chidambaram allegedly had received kickbacks for the deal.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a telephonic conversation with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday where the two leaders spoke about several issues, including the coronavirus situation in the two countries and the situation on the India-China border. Trump conveyed his desire to expand the ambit of the G7 to include other important countries including India. He has extended an invitation to PM Modi to attend the next G7 summit to be held in the US. PM Modi said India would be happy to work with the US and other countries to ensure the success of the proposed Summit.

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