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.
The government has issued guidelines which it named ‘Mission Begins Again’ saying that movement for non-essential activities will be restricted within the neighbourhoods in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
Taking suo motu cognizance of the twin deaths due to police excesses, a Division Bench comprising Justices PN Prakash and B Pugalendhi directed the jurisdictional judicial magistrate to conduct an enquiry into the custodial deaths of the father and son who were lodged in Kovilpatti sub-jail in Thoothukudi district.
'Health department will also start door to door screening in these areas through rapid antigen test to identify suspects. It will be mandatory for residents to install Aarogya Setu app and they have to undergo thermal as well as symptomatic screening every time they step out of their houses for buying daily needs domestic items,' DM Gurugram said.
However, a decidedly critical development that has happened in parallel was Wednesday’s all-party meeting to assess the situation in the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan that devastated the state on 20 May, when Covid-19 was at its peak.
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how many of us are committing the cruellest act on a daily basis. Our cruelty to other humans is not just limited to gluttony; it is engaging in a hedonistic lifestyle that is characterized by excess when millions are mired in abysmal poverty.
