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Academic and historian Ajay Dandekar says the reverse migration will result in a "massive economic and societal crisis".

The devastating speeds the air-swirler brought meant that a trail of destruction was a foregone conclusion. It was the human cost that was to be minimised.

In India, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia, more than 50 million persons in each country were estimated to be without handwashing access, according to the study.

As a precautionary measure, a contact tracing exercise is being done in the jail premises. It is yet to be known as to how many staffers came in contact with the infected officer. It is being suspected that the officer got infected outside the jail as no...

The women went to the victim's house posing as health workers and told the family that they have medicine to prevent COVID-19 infection, which everyone must consume to keep their families safe, police said.

The manual has been prepared at a time when students have increased access to the digital world with classroom teaching suspended due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

The reduction in carbon emissions across the globe also seems to have played a hand in additional warming of the sea.

Vardhan said the present COVID-19 pandemic crisis also reminds the people that the global institutions of governance need to become more democratic, transparent and representative to be credible and effective.

The civic body had declared 16 hospitals as designated COVID-19 facilities in an order on May 16 and directed them to provide 50 per cent of their beds for patients referred by the AMC, a release stated.

The Congress leader Gandhi told Yogi Adityanath the 1,000-odd buses made available by the party would remain where they are till 4pm on Wednesday and he should use them and allow permission to ply them to help ferry migrants to their homes safely.

No reason has been cited for the abrupt top-level reshuffle, which comes as a surprise since Sanjay Kumar is said to be in the good books of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

On the other hand, IndusInd Bank, Hero MotoCorp, Bharti Airtel and Asian Paints finished in the red.

The total subsidy from the government is estimated at about Rs 3,109.52 crore.

The cyclone is expected to make a landfall between West Bengal and Bangladesh coast this afternoon or evening.

The Railways said the fares will be normal, but second seating (2S) fare will be charged for general (GS) coaches being reserved.

A banking Trojan known as Cerberus is used by cybercriminals internationally and it is taking advantage of the pandemic to impersonate and send SMSes, asking users to download an embedded malicious link.