Breaking News, Latest Updates May 26 | HIGHLIGHTS

As per the information provided by Mehul Choksi's lawyer, Vijay Aggarwal told ANI, "I have spoken to his family, and they are happy and relieved that his whereabouts are now known. Efforts are being made to speak to him so that one can know the clearer picture of how he was taken to Dominica."

Calcutta High Court five-judge bench to hear the Narada scam case at 11:00 am tomorrow.

As per the information provided by IMD, "Cyclonic storm Yaas is likely to move further northwestwards and weaken gradually into a deep depression during next 3 hours over Jharkhand."

Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi is in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Dominica, reports Antigua media.

First Oxygen Express train carrying 120 MT Oxygen left Jharkhand's Tatanagar for Karnataka's Bengaluru today evening after Cyclone Yaas.

COVID-19: Assam reports 5,699 new cases, 90 deaths and active cases 52,884 today.

As per the information provided by Defence Minister's Office, "Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will launch the ‘Services e-Health Assistance and Tele-consultation (SeHAT) OPD Portal via video conferencing facility tomorrow at 11.30 AM."

Punjab reports 4,124 fresh COVID cases, 6,397 patient discharges, and 186 deaths in the past 24 hours.

Tamil Nadu reports 33,764 fresh COVID cases, 29,717 patient discharges, and 475 deaths in the past 24 hours.

Maharashtra: Local crime branch of Pune Railway Police has arrested two people for smuggling rare species of tortoise, fish, and lizard from Pune railway station.

Gujarat records 3,085 cases of COVID-19, 10,007 patient discharges, and 36 deaths in the past 24 hours.

Restoration work underway at Dhamra, Odisha severely affected following landfall of cyclone Yaas.

Telangana reports 3,762 new COVID cases, 3,816 patient recoveries, and 20 deaths in the past 24 hours.

Kerala reports 28,798 new COVID cases and 151 deaths in the past 24 hours. 

As per the information provided by Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, "Night curfew timing has been changed in 36 cities of Gujarat. Now, the curfew will remain in force between 9 pm and 6 am (instead of 8 pm to 6 am)."

As per the information provided by Ministry of Electronics and IT, "Government of India respects the Right of Privacy and has no intention to violate it when WhatsApp is required to disclose the origin of a particular message."

Food distribution drive for the needy underway outside Delhi's Lok Nayak Hospital. 

Karnataka: Mangalore City Police seized 200 kgs of ganja loaded in from a truck and arrested four people.

As per the information provided by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, "As per my knowledge, no state govt has been able to procure a single dose of vaccine till now. Vaccine companies have denied speaking to the state governments."

As per the information provided by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, "There's no vaccine in Delhi; for 4 days vaccination centres for the 18-44 age group are shut & not just here but across India, several centres are shut. Today when we should have opened new centres, but now we are also shutting the existing ones, which is not good." 

Boats and shops damaged after landfall of Cyclone Yaas in Odisha. Check posts barricades blown away with the wind at Udaipur near the West Bengal-Odisha border.

As per the information provided by Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij said, "What is the base of announcements that the third wave will come or that it will impact only children? There is no evidence. However, we’re ready for it."

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to hold a meeting with his cabinet ministers on 30th May over various issues including farming, crops, crop procurement, availability of seeds, fertilisers, COVID, lockdown among others. 

IPS Subodh Kumar Jaiswal takes charge as the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He has been appointed as Director for a period of 2 years.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said that there will be a gradual lifting of lockdown in the national capital and called for ramping up vaccination on a war footing. He said that several vaccination centers in the national capital are shut due to a shortage of doses and urged the Centre to procure foreign vaccines.

The Jharkhand government on Tuesday extended the lockdown-like restrictions with stricter provisions till June 3 to contain Covid-19 surge in the state. This is the third time that the restrictions, first imposed on April 22 for a week, are extended. The ongoing measures were scheduled to end on May 27.

'The Health Safety Week now stands extended till June 3 with all restrictions imposed earlier,' the Chief Minister's Office said.

A Delhi Police head constable was dismissed from service and his two accomplices were arrested for allegedly kidnapping a dacoity accused and hiding him at a police station in Delhi. Head Constable Rakesh Kumar had demanded Rs 3 lakh from the accused's sister for his safe release. Varun Kumar, the accused, was involved in a dacoity case in Gandhi Nagar in March.

 The Covid-19 toll in West Bengal rose to 14,674 after 157 more people succumbed to the disease on Tuesday while there has been a slight dip in the number of daily cases, the health department bulletin said.

The daily case count of the state dropped marginally to 17,005 from 17,883 on Monday. The coronavirus caseload in the state is now 13,01,978.