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The Association of Health Service Doctors has made a representation to the chief minister, saying that if a patient is "clinically stable", the person should be allowed to use mobile handsets in the ward.

Some of the doctors also said the lockdown did not yield the expected results, as migrant movement was allowed amid the spike in cases, and curbs were eased abruptly.

The woman's husband had taken her and their two children to the beach at nearby Puthucurichy and later to a friend's house nearby,where she was forced to drink liquor and sexually assaulted in front of her son.

A case was registered against the accused, identified as Krishna alias Basu, under Section 376 of the IPC (rape) and the POCSO Act on Friday, a police official said.

As per sources a few doctors had even tapped into their bureaucratic connections in order to be shifted to duties where the chance of getting infected with Covid-19 is less.

Marwah had served as a former governor of Manipur, Mizoram and Jharkhand.

As many as 1,20,547 people applied online for permits and 1,10,763 applications were approved. Offline permits are also available in excise department offices.

In her written complaint on Thursday, she has also claimed that several persons, some of them abroad, were getting calls from a number registered in her name by a caller who identifies herself as Dr Arti Lalchandani and uses abusive language.

The Indian delegation will be led by Lt General Harinder Singh, the general officer commanding of Leh-based 14 Corps, while the Chinese side will be headed by the Commander of the Tibet Military District.

Religious places within containment zones shall remain closed for public and the ones outside these zones will be allowed to open from June 8, according to the SOP issued by the Union Health Ministry.

Justice Jyoti Singh disposed of the plea moved by a Residents Welfare Association (RWA) of Naraina Vihar after the municipal corporation of the area said it has no objection if the colony repairs the boundary wall and the Delhi Police and Railways said th...

More than seven lakh people of Jharkhand work in states like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bengal, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu and Nagaland.

A tally announced by different states and union territories on Friday night showed the number of confirmed cases having risen to 2,28,038 and the death toll to 6,557.

On the basis of their bus tickets, passengers would be allowed to commute to bus stand or from there to home, in accordance with the COVID-19 control measures, SOPs and other guidelines.

The railways traced four senior officials who came in contact with them and all have been asked to go on home-quarantine, an official said.

Arushi Jain, a private doctor, in her plea has questioned the Centre's new Standard Operating Procedure of May 15 for front line COVID-19 Health Care Workers (HCWs) by which it has ended the 14-day mandatory quarantine for them.