India

The Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan will be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 20 through video conference in the presence of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and deputy chief minister Sushil Modi.

Food will also be provided through community kitchens and home delivered to select sections of the population such as the aged, he said in a statement on Thursday.

Paresh Dhanani, leader of opposition in Gujarat, had challenged voting in the election through postal ballot. Denying a stay on the June 19 election, the court fixed the matter for after four weeks.

Both Delhi and Beijing have spoken of the desire to deescalate and preserve a peaceful relationship following this week's clash in the Himalayas, but many experts are skeptical about how feasible, or sustainable this is.

There is a kind of loneliness within the larger community of musicians, artists and instrument makers, which only those from the depressed castes understand and feel, say the performers.

Sixty-seven fatalities have been recorded in a 24-hour span, the Delhi health department bulletin said.

According to an official order, home-quarantine will be considered only for those officials who furnish medical report of having tested positive for COVID-19.

According to an office memorandum issued by the Union health ministry on Tuesday, CGHS beneficiaries who have tested positive for COVID-19 have been allowed to purchase one pulse oximeter per family.

The Delhi government had directed district magistrates and other officials concerned to set up 20,000 beds within a week to ramp up medical infrastructure in the city.

The coronavirus death toll in the city mounted to 1,837 on Tuesday while 1,859 fresh coronavirus cases took the tally in the national capital to over the 44,000-mark.

The National Population Register in its current format is causing fear, apprehensions and insecurities in the minds of the people of Andhra Pradesh, said deputy CM Amzath Basha Shaik Bepari.

As many as 20 Army personnel, including a Colonel, were killed in the violent clash between the Chinese and Indian armies on Monday night.

The PIL filed by state Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan traced the history of reservation policies in Tamil Nadu and said by way of the Constitution 93rd Amendment, the state was empowered to make any special provisions by law for providing quota.

They torched China's flag, effigy and Chinese products amid high-pitch sloganeering calling for a strong response to the action of the China's People's Liberation Army, officials said.

It has also sought a direction to the Centre to lay down minimum standards of relief under the Disaster Management Act to be provided to persons affected by coronavirus as well as by the lockdown.

State-broadcaster Prasar Bharti said that the address will be telecast live at 6:30 am.