Day: May 21, 2020

Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Thursday openly reprimanded his senior cabinet colleague J C Madhuswamy for verbally abusing a woman representing a farmers’ organisation, saying his behaviour is “unbecoming of a Minister.”

Tamilnadu today reported 776 more Covid-19 cases, with 567 of them from Chennai alone.

With a view to tide over the financial crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown, the Tamilnadu government today ordered massive cuts in expenditure, while stopping Leave Travel Concession (LTC) to all its staffs and teachers for the current fiscal.

The State government today granted permission with restrictions to resume shoot for small screen serials following request from FEFSI and television producers association during coronovirus lockdown.

Officials have turned down reports which claimed that temples managed by the State Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments department in Tamilnadu would allow devotees from 1 June.

China has reported 33 new coronavirus cases, including 31 asymptomatic ones, majority of them in Wuhan, the first epicentre of the COVID-19 where the city’s 11 million people are being tested in order to prevent a second wave of the deadly virus, health authorities said today.

Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee President Ajay Kumar Lallu was granted bail on Wednesday by a court in Agra for staging a protest against the administration for refusing to allow buses offered by his party to ferry stranded migrants.

A POCSO Court in Nagercoil has granted six-day custody of sex crimes accused Kasi to police.

Online bookings have commenced today for trains that it will operate from 1 June. The Railways has issued a list of 100 pairs of trains that it will run from 1 June putting in operation popular trains such as Durontos, Sampark Krantis, Jan Shatabdis and Poorva Express.