Government cuts fuel duty and reassures steady supply as global oil prices spike, while firmly rejecting speculation about lockdown and urging people to avoid panic.
Anupama Parameswaran plays Anitha, a woman grappling with isolation and emotional turmoil during the COVID-19 lockdown. The film captures the struggles of personal and family life under strict pandemic restrictions.
A stray leopard forced a lockdown-like situation in Salumbar town in the Mewar region of Rajasthan on Wednesday evening as the sleuths of the wildlife department and police put up barricades and advised people to stay indoors for 2-3 hours.
This is the first time in the 128-year history of the modern games, conceptualized by French Baron Pierre de Coubertein, that the ceremonial opening of the Olympics is being held outside the main stadium.
The Walt Disney Co.'s premier Disney resort, according to The Hollywood Reporter, shut its doors on Monday, requiring all visitors present at the time of the announcement to remain inside the park until they could show a negative test result. The theme park visitors can be seen frantically sprinting to the closed gates in a number of viral pictures and videos.
While every government must seek to strike a balance between the need for economic activity and a public health emergency, as indeed West Bengal has tried to do, there is no perfect method of actually achieving this, nor a model that can be uniformly applied because of differences in demography and socio-economic factors.
The new study found that women, older adults, and those with a higher annual household income were significantly more likely to meet the WHO's physical activity guidelines.
In these zones, during the lockdown, all private and government offices will remain shut and only essential services will be available. All the transport services will also remain suspended till further notice.
The objective is to avoid inconvenience to travellers due to crowding and long queues at the inter-state border checkpoints.
The complainant used to work as a manager for the firm which organises exhibitions of paintings of artists. He had gone to Delhi for some official work in March but got stuck there due to the COVID-19 lockdown and stayed in a lodge in Delhi. He spent the cash given to him by his office, the official said.
