A day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced certain relaxations in the third phase of the lockdown in the national capital, a heavy traffic jam was witnessed at Palam-Dwarka flyover on Monday.
Cab-hailing platforms Ola and Uber on Monday said they have resumed services in areas within the Orange and Green Zones, and have introduced requirements like wearing masks to ensure safety of riders and driver partners.
Jaipur on Monday reported 4 more deaths due to coronavirus taking district death toll to 48. In addition to this, the city also witnessed 12 more coronavirus positive cases as it crosses the 1,000-mark with total at 1,005.
From Delhi to Bengaluru, Kolkata to Mumbai, India woke up to long queues outside liquor shops hours ahead of their opening post relaxation in lockdown curbs starting today (May 4). #LiquorShops was the No 1 trend on Twitter as photos of people lining-up outside alcohol shops spread on the social media and news channels.
The evaluation of answer sheets of the Uttar Pradesh Board examinations for classes 10 and 12, will finally begin from Tuesday. The Board Secretary Neena Srivastava said that the evaluation process of answer sheets would last 20 days at various centres, while observing social distancing norms.
Three men including a father-son duo were arrested here when they were allegedly found preparing grape wine and another gruel-based intoxicant at their home in Chennai, police said on Monday.
Various state governments had allowed wine and liquor shops to operate from 10 am to 6 pm starting today, as lockdown 3.0 came into effect. With this, the government had also laid down several guidelines, which outlined the need to maintain social distancing norms while standing in the queue to purchase liquor.
It was love across the borders that culminated on a wedding on the borders. Arvind Kumar, 28, wanted to marry Chhaya Rani, 25, but the problem was that he lives in a corona red zone in Uttar Pradesh while his bride to-be was a resident of a green zone in Uttarakhand.
Maharashtra resumes sale of liquor: As per the new guidelines, liquor manufacturing units in rural and urban areas, and industrial townships, barring MMR and Pune region can restart working. Also, the shops that function should have 50 per cent labour capacity.
A top White House official tasked with tackling the coronavirus pandemic said Sunday that those who failed to abide by the federal mitigation guidance while protesting against local lockdown measures were engaging in "devastatingly worrisome" behaviours.
According to the new guidelines given out by the Uttar Pradesh government, liquor shops which are not located in shopping malls can be opened from 10 am to 7 pm with social distancing norms in place to ensure that not over five persons are there at a time.
At least 87 Manipuris, who were stranded in Assam for days and returned to Imphal on Saturday, have tested negative for COVID-19, health department officials informed.
Coronavirus worldwide cases have crossed 3.5 million mark taking positive patients toll to 3,563,596 including 248,135 deaths while 1,153,847 have recovered, according to the latest figures by the Worldometer.
Two African lion cubs, born last month at Hyderabad's Nehru Zoological Park, came out for the first time in a day crawl on Sunday.
Notification from Home Secretary clarified that order regarding movement of persons amid lockdown is not extended to those categories of persons who are otherwise residing normally at places other than native places for purposes of work etc and those who wish to visit their native place in normal course.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Sunday said it will resume sale of liquor from its outlets from Monday, but will impose a new "prohibition tax" to discourage people from consuming alcoholic beverages.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday declared that time was ripe to re-open the national capital, stating during a video message that he was holding discussions with the central government to device a plan which would allow the life in the national capital to limp back to normal
Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday announced to open liquor shops in orange and green zones districts between 10 am to 7 pm.
The third phase of the countrywide lockdown begins Monday with "considerable relaxations", but curbs will continue in containment areas so that the gains achieved so far in the fight against COVID-19 are not "squandered away", officials said Sunday.
There is sufficient stock of medicines in the country and people should not indulge in panic buying amid the coronavirus outbreak, said All IndiaChemists and Druggists Association president Jagannath Shinde on Sunday.
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