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.

Nepal parliament has delayed taking up the constitutional amendment for the new Nepal Map that was to be taken up by the House of Representative.&nbsp;The recently released new Nepal Map, which shows&nbsp;Indian territories&nbsp;as its territories, can get legal backing only after the constitution is amended.&nbsp;No reason has been given why Constitution Amendment Bill for Nepal Map was removed from the agenda. The initiative was taken by the government with the opposition Nepal Congress yet to endorse it in its central committee meeting.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Four passengers on board special&nbsp;Shramik&nbsp;Special trains were found dead in Uttar Pradesh&rsquo;s Ballia and Kanpur.&nbsp;Police said one of the victims was 58-year-old Bhushan Singh, a resident of Bihar&rsquo;s Saran district.&nbsp;He was found dead in the Surat-Hajipur&nbsp;Shramik&nbsp;special train in Ballia on Tuesday evening. The other man found dead in Ballia was travelling in the&nbsp;Madgaon-Darbangha&nbsp;train.&nbsp;Meanwhile in Kanpur, two middle-aged migrants on board the Jhansi-Goraphpur&nbsp;Shramik&nbsp;trains were found dead.&nbsp;

The annual Kheer Bhawani Mela and Yatra, scheduled for May 30, will not take place due to the coronavirus pandemic. Mubarak Singh, president of the Trust, said the&nbsp;Dharmath&nbsp;council decided to cancel the fair and pilgrimage this year keeping in view the peoples' health. However, prayers would take place at the shrine, Singh said and added, its video would be uploaded on internet for devotees across J&amp;K and the country. &nbsp;It's a religious festival where Hindus hold prayers at the temple and local Muslims set up stalls to sell puja materials and&nbsp;make arrangements&nbsp;for the fair.

In perhaps the first admission of the mishandling of the Covid-19 crisis in Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata&nbsp;Banerjee&nbsp;said the sudden spike in cases is because of mismanagement and wrong planning adding that we are all responsible. She appealed to the PM, and Home Ministry to look into the sending of Shramik&nbsp;special trains to Bengal, so that there is no spike in cases. Didi, post an administrative meeting with district officials, said that the returnees from 5 states,&nbsp;Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu&nbsp;will be put in institutional quarantine while those from other states,&nbsp;will be screened and put in home quarantine and monitored by the state health department.

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has contended that there there will be a new world after the pandemic ends. Rahul&nbsp;during a video interaction with American health expert and Harvard Global Health Institute director Ashish Jha&nbsp;also said&nbsp;that the balance of power between China and the US will change after the pandemic.
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China on Wednesday said that the situation at the border with India is "overall stable and controllable," and both the countries have proper mechanisms and communication channels to resolve the issues through a dialogue and consultation.&nbsp;The comments by the Foreign Ministry spokesman came in the backdrop of the continuing standoff between the militaries of India and China at the Line of Actual Control.&nbsp;Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao&nbsp;Lijian, during a media briefing, said that China's position on the border related issues is clear and consistent.&nbsp;

US president Donald Trump, on Wednesday, tweeted that the United States is &lsquo;ready, willing and able&rsquo; to mediate in India and China&rsquo;s border dispute.&nbsp;Trump said the US had already informed both countries of its decision to arbitrate. He also referred to the border tension as &lsquo;raging&rsquo;.&nbsp;Several areas along the LAC in Ladakh and North Sikkim have seen a military build-up by the Indian and Chinese armies, in a sign of escalating tension and hardening of positions by the two nations two weeks after they were engaged in separate face-offs.&nbsp;The nearly 3,500-km-long LAC is the de-facto border between the two countries.&nbsp;

It's one of the most tragic images of the migrant crisis that has gripped the poor in India. A video of a baby playing with the shroud over her mother's dead body at Muzaffarpur railway station in Bihar is heart-breaking to say the least. The kids appears to be trying to wake up her mother thinking she is asleep. Unaware that her mother is dead. According to reports, the woman had travelled from Gujarat on train and was unwell due to lack of food and water. She collapsed shortly before the train rolled into Muzaffarpur.

The Congress and JD(S) in&nbsp;Karnataka have opposed the move to name a flyover in the city after freedom fighter and Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar.&nbsp;The 400&nbsp;metre&nbsp;long flyover, is&nbsp;scheduled to be inaugurated by Chief Minister B S&nbsp;Yediyurappa&nbsp;on Thursday, which happens to be Savarkar's birthday.&nbsp;Leader of Opposition and Former Chief Minister&nbsp;Siddaramaiah&nbsp;termed the move to name the flyover after&nbsp;Savarkar as an insult to freedom fighters from&nbsp;Karnataka's&nbsp;soil and urged&nbsp;Yediyurappa&nbsp;to drop it and instead name it&nbsp;after a freedom fighter from the state.&nbsp;

After Rahul Gandhi sparked a political storm by saying that the Congress was only playing a supporting role in Maharashtra coalition government, the former Congress president talked to Maharashtra Chief Minister&nbsp;Uddhav&nbsp;Thackeray on phone on Wednesday and assured his party's full support.&nbsp;Rahul's statement&nbsp;had&nbsp;led to speculations that all is not well in Maharashtra coalition government and it is likely that the Thackeray-led government would soon fall. The Congress leader, however, praised CM Thackeray and asserted that his government was doing a good job to combat the coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp;

Against the backdrop of the recent political activities in Maharashtra and with just a few days remaining for the fourth phase of the lockdown to end,&nbsp; Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday held a meeting of key leaders of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi. The political scene in the state hot up after a BJP&nbsp;delegation led by former chief minster Devendra Fadnavis&nbsp;recently met state Governor B S Koshyari and complained to him about the "failure" of the government in tackling the Covid-19 crisis. The ruling coalition on Tuesday accused the opposition party of trying to destablise the state government and maintained that the numbers are in its favour. It also said that the government was "strong and stable".

The Madras High Court Wednesday&nbsp;recognised&nbsp;former Chief Minister J&nbsp;Jayalalithaa&rsquo;s niece J Deepa and nephew J Deepak as &ldquo;class II legal heirs&rdquo; of her estate and other assets worth more than ₹900 crore.&nbsp;An application filed before a division bench by&nbsp;Deepak,&nbsp;granted him and his sister the right to administrate all the properties left behind by late Jayalalithaa.&nbsp;The court suggested that the late chief minister's&nbsp;Poes&nbsp;Garden residence &ndash; &lsquo;Veda Nilayam&rsquo; &ndash; could be turned into an official residence-cum-office, instead of converting it entirely into a memorial, as desired by the government.&nbsp;

The central government is likely to extend the lockdown in some form by two more weeks after May 31 to stop the spread of coronavirus, but there could be even more relaxations in the offing, says a report by News18. A top home ministry official reportedly described the next phase as 'lockdown extension in spirit', and said that the focus would be on 11 cities that account for nearly 70% of Covid-19 cases in the country. These 11 cities include the six major metros - Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad, and Kolkata, as well as Pune, Thane, Jaipur, Surat, and Indore.

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.

A day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacked Modi govt over handling of the Covid crisis and dubbed lockdown as a failure, union minister Ravi Shankar hit back. Prasad said that Rahul Gandhi has been weakening India's fight against coronavirus from the very beginning. He further added that Rahul's campaign against govt&nbsp;is based on falsehood. ((Byte))

Why can&rsquo;t private hospitals who were given land free of cost treat Covid-19 patients for free, the Supreme Court asked on Wednesday. Seeking a reply from Centre on the matter in a week, the apex court said hospitals which can treat such patients for free or at a nominal cost must be identified.

Biotechnology major Biocon on Wednesday said it has received approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for a medical device to treat critical Covid-19 patients. The go-ahead is for an extracorporeal blood purification device called 'CytoSorb' to reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines levels in confirmed Covid-19 patients admitted to the ICU with confirmed or imminent respiratory failure. Studies have shown that Covid-19 patients who develop serious complications experience a 'cytokine storm', also known as Cytokine Release Syndrome, which leads to excessive inflammation, organ failure, and death. The licence granted to Biocon will be effective until control of the Covid-19 outbreak in the country. The device was introduced by Biocon in India in 2013 and since then, many patients undergoing organ transplant and sepsis treatment have benefited from it.

The government has brought in a Gazette notification that will allow the PM CARES fund to receive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funding from corporates, according to a report by India Today. The notification, brought in by the Corporate Affairs Ministry on May 26, states that sub-section (1) of section 467 of the Companies Act, 2013 has been amended to also make PM CARES fund eligible to receive CSR funding from corporates. So far, only the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund was eligible to receive CSR funding.

The Karnataka govt wants to open the religious places in the state from June 1. Chief minister BS Yeddiurappa has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting that the state be allowed to reopen temples, mosques, churches and other religious places. Religious places have been shut across the country since late March, when PM Modi announced a total lockdown to break the chain of coronavirus.

Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria&nbsp; flew an LCA Tejas during at the inauguration of the 2nd LCA Tejas squadron&nbsp;Air Force Station Sulur in Tamil Nadu. The IAF has operationalised its No 18 Squadron, equipping it with the fourth generation LCA Tejas aircraft.&nbsp;Tejas is an indigenous fourth generation tailless compound delta wing aircraft. The aircraft is equipped with fly-by-wire flight control system, integrated digital avionics, multimode radar and its structure is made of composite material.

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