Name: The Silent Pandemic: Mental health in times of Covid-19
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Description: As the nation battles an ever growing pandemic, there's another silent storm brewing. A conversation that often goes quiet, here's a look at mental health in times of a crisis.

As the nation battles an ever growing pandemic, there's another silent storm brewing. A conversation that often goes quiet, here's a look at mental health in times of a crisis.&nbsp;

As the nation battles an ever growing pandemic, there's another silent storm brewing. A conversation that often goes quiet, here's a look at mental health in times of a crisis.

The Home Ministry on Monday allowed Universities and higher education institutions to conduct final examinations, laying to rest speculations that the HRD Ministry would cancel exams this year due to the Covid-19 crisis. The University Grants Commission has decided against scrapping exams for graduating students. In a meeting held on Monday, the higher education regulator decided to advise universities and colleges to conduct final semester exams by September-end. Universities and colleges will assess the graduating batch through an examination conducted in either online or offline or blended mode. Students who cannot appear for the final semester or final year exam, the universities will hold a special exam after September. The UGC notification earlier told varsities to hold term-end exams from July 1 to July 15 and declare results by the end of the month.

Delhi's Covid-19 tally on Monday breached the one lakh-mark as the national capital recorded 1,379 fresh coronavirus cases&nbsp;in past 24 hours.&nbsp;There were 48 more deaths in this period&nbsp;and the total cases now stand at 1,00,823.&nbsp;The silver lining, however, is the recovery rate, which has exceeded 70 per cent. According to Delhi government's daily bulletin, as many as 749 patients recovered in this period.&nbsp;Till now, 72,088 people have recovered, 25,620 are active cases and 3,115 patients have succumbed to the deadly disease. This means that the city has a case fatality rate of 3 per cent.&nbsp;On June 23, the national capital had reported its highest single-day spike of 3,947 cases.&nbsp;However, in the last few days, the number of fresh cases&nbsp;have&nbsp;oscillated, not showing a particular trend in figures.&nbsp; &nbsp;

After&nbsp;Bharatiya&nbsp;Janata Party chief JP&nbsp;Nadda&nbsp;attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for not attending the parliamentary committee on&nbsp;defence's&nbsp;meeting, the Congress launched a counter-attack and said the BJP chief had become a &lsquo;poorer version&rsquo; of malicious BJP spokespersons.&nbsp;Congress leader&nbsp;Randeep&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;Surjewala&nbsp;said&nbsp;raised question about deduction of&nbsp;₹11,000 crore 'dearness&nbsp;pay' of the armed forces.&nbsp;He asked didn't the estimates committee of Parliament, headed by former BJP chief MM Joshi, submit a report saying the&nbsp;defence&nbsp;expenditure was the lowest in 56 years -- since 1962.&nbsp;The Congress also raised the issue of shelving of the plan to carve out 90,000-strong "Mountain Strike Corps" to counter the Chinese build-up on borders.

The Maharashtra government on Monday decided to allow hotels along with lodges and guest houses outside containment zones from July 8 at 33% of their capacity. The permission has been granted on the condition that these entities adhere to social distancing norms and other protocols. The Arogya Setu app will be compulsory and the order has asked guests to minimise use of housekeeping services. Contactless payment methods like QR codes, e-wallets have been encouraged for both check-ins and check-outs, while number of guests in elevators have been restricted. The government has asked restaurants to provide e-menus to guests and use disposable paper napkins. Room services and takeaways have been encouraged, instead of dine-ins.

The Haryana cabinet on Monday cleared 75% reservation in private jobs for residents of the state. The council of ministers had on January 31 deferred a proposal to approve the draft private sector quota bill and referred it to the law secretary for vetting. Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), the coalition partner of the BJP in the state, had promised to provide 75% quota to Haryana youth in its election manifesto. But, chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar was non-committal earlier. Before Haryana, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's government in Andhra Pradesh had introduced the reservation for local youth in private sector jobs.

Qutub Minar, Humayun's Tomb and a host of other centrally-protected monuments in Delhi were reopened for visitors after being shut for over three months due to the Covid-19 crisis. All guidelines, including social distancing and sanitisation measures, will be followed at these heritage sites. Wearing of masks will be mandatory and no one will be allowed to enter without it.
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Taking a swipe at the Yogi&nbsp;Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government over the killing of eight policemen by gangster Vikas Dubey, the Shiv&nbsp;Sena&nbsp;warned that notorious history sheeter&nbsp;should not become &lsquo;Dawood Ibrahim of Nepal&rsquo; for India.&nbsp;In its mouthpiece Saamana&nbsp;the&nbsp;Sena&nbsp;said&nbsp;that the killings of the police personnel during a raid has exposed the&nbsp;&lsquo;encounter specialist&rsquo;&nbsp;UP government and asked what has changed since Yogi&nbsp;Adityanath&nbsp;became the chief minister in March 2017.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Saamana&nbsp;editorial said that&nbsp;Dubey is said to have fled to neighbouring Nepal, and pointed out&nbsp;to the porous border and current relations with Nepal.&nbsp;

The National Investigation Agency&nbsp;has filed a chargesheet against six persons including former DSP of Jammu and Kashmir Police, Davinder Singh and Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Syed Naveed&nbsp;in a terror case.&nbsp;Davinder Singh was suspended from J&amp;K police after he was arrested on January 11&nbsp;this year while ferrying two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists in a vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway.&nbsp;The case was initially lodged by J&amp;K police which was later taken over by the NIA.&nbsp;Earlier, the Delhi police had told the court that Babu and others were planning to execute terror attacks in Delhi and other parts of the country as well as carry out targeted killings of protected persons.

Heavy rainfall in&nbsp;Maharashtra and Gujarat continue&nbsp;to wreak havoc in the two states. In the last 24 hours, 100mm rainfall was recorded in Mumbai's&nbsp;suburbs and in Thane district. The Powai lake started to over flow due to heavy downpour on Sunday. The Met department has said&nbsp;Mumbai, and other parts of&nbsp;&nbsp;Konkan&nbsp;will receive&nbsp;heavy showers over the&nbsp;next 24 hours.&nbsp;Kutch&nbsp;and surrounding areas in Gujarat, is also likely to receive&nbsp;heavy to very heavy rainfall over the next three days.&nbsp;7 NDRF teams have been deployed in parts of Gujarat after IMD alert.
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National Security Advisor&nbsp;Ajit&nbsp;Doval&nbsp;held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister and State Councilor Wang Yi over video call, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Monday.&nbsp; According to a report in the Hindustan Times the video call took place on Sunday&nbsp;right before the People&rsquo;s Liberation Army were reported to have taken the&nbsp;first few steps to move back&nbsp;from the standoff points in the&nbsp;Galwan&nbsp;area. The MEA in a statement said&nbsp;the&nbsp;duo had a frank and in-depth exchange of views on the recent developments in the Western Sector of the India-China border areas.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Hindustan Times report said talks were&nbsp;focused on what is being described as&nbsp;&lsquo;full and enduring restoration of peace and&nbsp;tranquillity&rsquo;&nbsp;along the Line of Actual Control. The two sides also spoke about working together to avoid such incidents in future,&nbsp;the report quoted&nbsp;a top government official saying.&nbsp;

The Uttar Pradesh DGP on Monday raised the reward on gangster and notorious history-sheeter Vikas Dubey for the second time from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2.25 lakh. At least three police personnel, including two sub-inspectors and a constable, were suspended on Monday on charges of laxity in duty in connection with the death of eight policemen in Kanpur. The Police also suspect Vikas Dubey's wife Richa Dubey of aiding her husband in criminal activities. According to the police, Richa, who had contested and won Zila Panchayat election from Bihar's Dhimau village, was aware of her husband's illegal activities and provided full support to him.

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside the Delhi High Court order asking the NIA to produce judicial records on transfer of civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha from Delhi to Mumbai in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. A bench of Justices Arun Mishra, Navin Sinha and Indira Banerjee said that the high court had no jurisdiction in entertaining Navlakha&rsquo;s bail plea and held that courts in Bombay had the jurisdiction in the case. The top court also expunged adverse remarks of the high court against the National Investigation Agency (NIA) made in its May 27 order while dealing with the bail plea. The apex court had earlier stayed the May 27 order of the high court by which the NIA was pulled up for acting in haste in taking away activist Gautam Navlakha from Tihar Jail to Mumbai.

The number of Covid-19 tests in India crossed the 1 crore mark on Monday, news agency PTI reported quoting an ICMR official. At least 200,000 samples have been tested daily between January 22 and July 5 in the 1,100 laboratories that were identified, upgraded or established across the country to ramp up testing and prevent the spread of infections. Covid-19 testing labs are capable of performing about 350,000 tests a day currently, an increase from about 10,000 tests per day in early February.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said that though the number of coronavirus disease cases has crossed one lakh in the national capital, there is no need to panic. The CM stated that around 72,000 people have recovered from the virus in the Capital. Listing the work done by his government to check the spread of coronavirus, Kejriwal said, &ldquo;Out of 25,000 active patients, 15,000 are being treated at home and death rate has also come down."

The BJP on Monday hit back at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who has been consistently&nbsp;attacking the govt on defence and economic issues. Taking a dig at his absence from standing committee on defence, BJP chief JP Nadda tweeted that the Congress MP "does not attend a single meeting" of the panel but continued to question the armed forces. "Rahul Gandhi belongs to that glorious dynastic tradition where as far as defence is concerned, committees don't matter, only commissions do," Nadda added.

A new Kuwaiti law aimed at reducing the number of foreign workers in the country threatens the jobs of lakh of Indians in the gulf nation. The bill proposes that the number of Indians, who form the largest expatriate community in Kuwait, be reduced to 15% of the country&rsquo;s 48 lakh population. There are around 14 lakh Indians in Kuwait and 15% quota would mean their presence reducing to around 6.5-7 lakh. Kuwait&rsquo;s PM Sheikh Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah has proposed reduction in the number of expats from 70% to 30% of the total population.

The Indian and Chinese troops have mutually withdrawn in the tense Galwan Valley which had witnessed a blood clash on June 15 that left 20 Indian soldiers dead, reports said. The Hindu newspaper reported that the Chinese troops have &ldquo;shifted&rdquo; back two kilometres from the site of the clashes at Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh. Reports also said that a buffer zone has been created between the Indian and Chinese troops. Temporary structures are also being removed by both sides and physical verification has also been conducted.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday once again targeted the Narendra Modi government, calling its demonetisation policy and implementation of Goods and Services Tax failures. In a tweet, he also said that these policies along with the government&rsquo;s failure in handling of the coronavirus situation will be studied by the Harvard Business School.

The licence of a private hospital in Uttar Pradesh&rsquo;s Meerut has been suspended after a video showing its staff member providing fake Covid-19 report had gone viral. In the video, the person can be heard saying that they provide Covid-19 negative report for Rs 2,500, officials said, adding that the man has been identified and an FIR has been registered.

As monuments under the Archaeological Survey of India gear up to reopen on Monday, the Taj Mahal&nbsp;will not reopen for tourists owing to a spike in Covid-19 cases in Agra. Agra district magistrate&nbsp;stated that all monuments, including Agra Fort and Akbar tomb, will be closed in the city until further notice. The decision was taken in a meeting between a district level Covid-19 team and ASI members on Sunday evening, who stated that the reopening of the monuments will allow tourists in and foster crowds increasing Covid&nbsp;risk. Agra currently has 71 containment zones and saw 55 new Covid-19 cases in the past 4 days. In other sites,&nbsp;practices, like sanitisation, social distancing&nbsp;and wearing masks will have to be followed, in line with new Covid-19 rules.

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