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Nitish Kumar Is In Search Of Trains To Bring Migrant Workers Back To Bihar.

Nitish Kumar Is In Search Of Trains To Bring Migrant Workers Back To Bihar.

Till yesterday afternoon, Nitish Kumar was so firmly against bringing back those from his state who are stranded elsewhere in the country that he described the proposition as "an injustice to the principle of the lockdown." His comment, made last week, served as self-defence - he was alone among major states in doing little to bring students and migrant workers back to Bihar. It also did double time as a rebuke to his counterpart in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who dispatched buses to Rajasthan to help students from his state who were desperate to be home.Today, Nitish Kumar,…
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WhatsApp Beta For Android Now Has A Messenger Rooms Shortcut.

WhatsApp Beta For Android Now Has A Messenger Rooms Shortcut.

WhatsApp is reportedly testing the Facebook Messenger Rooms integration on the beta version of its app for Android. The development was spotted in the version 2.20.139 beta for Android. This essentially means that the Facebook-owned messaging app is testing a shortcut on its platform that will lead users directly to the Messenger Rooms. Facebook recently announced that the company has rolled out Messenger Rooms feature in a few countries that allows users to group chat with as many as 50 people. Facebook also announced that the company will integrate Messenger Rooms on Instagram and Facebook Portal but there is no…
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Mamata Banerjee Said That From 4th May Standalone Shops Will Be Allowed To Open But No Gathering Will Be Permitted.

Mamata Banerjee Said That From 4th May Standalone Shops Will Be Allowed To Open But No Gathering Will Be Permitted.

Bengal is likely allow tea stalls, cigarette shops, buses and taxis in the areas least affected by coronavirus, or "green zones", from May 4, a day after the nationwide lockdown is due to end.Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, while listing possible relaxations, asserted, however, that the lockdown would continue in her state till May-end."We need to be at our homes for little more. Masks are mandatory in Bengal. Whether coronavirus leaves today or tomorrow we don't know. No research can confirm that. But the general idea is it will ease out by May end and June. We will have to follow…
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Half Salaries of the Chief Minister And Some Other Government Officials Will Get Deferred.

Half Salaries of the Chief Minister And Some Other Government Officials Will Get Deferred.

The Meghalaya government has decided to defer a part of the salaries of cabinet ministers, bureaucrats, and some other sections of government employees as measure to cut its expenditure amid the Coronavirus crisis.Half of the salaries of the Chief Minister, his cabinet colleagues and all ranks of IAS, IPS and IFS will get deferred, Chief Secretary M S Rao said in a notification issued on Tuesday.A part of the gross salaries of All India Services officers on deputation to the state will also be deferred, he added.
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Migrant Labourers, Students, Pilgrims Or Tourists Who Do Not Have Symptoms Of Coronavirus Can Return To Their Home.

Migrant Labourers, Students, Pilgrims Or Tourists Who Do Not Have Symptoms Of Coronavirus Can Return To Their Home.

Migrant labourers, students, pilgrims or tourists who do not have symptoms of coronavirus can return to their home states now, the Centre has said, issuing a set of guidelines nearly five weeks after the announcement of the countrywide lockdown that thousands stranded. The order comes a day after the Centre was asked to respond to issue by the Supreme Court, which was hearing a set of petitions asking that migrant labourers who do not have COVID-19 be allowed to go home. The Centre has already allowed Uttar Pradesh to ferry back its migrants from Haryana a move that led states…
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Suresh N Patel On Wednesday Took Oath As The Vigilance Commissioner.

Suresh N Patel On Wednesday Took Oath As The Vigilance Commissioner.

Eminent banker Suresh N Patel on Wednesday took oath as the Vigilance Commissioner in the anti-corruption watchdog CVC, officials said.Mr Patel, who is in Ahmedabad, was administered the oath of office by Central Vigilance Commissioner Sanjay Kothari through video conference. He had been member of the management committee of Indian Banks' Association, member of Bankers' Institute of Rural Development at NABARD, president, state level Bankers' Committee in Andhra Pradesh and also the president of the Bankers' Institute of Rural and Entrepreneurship Development, according to a statement issued by the Personnel Ministry.
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Over A Dozen People Bitten By Stray Dogs In A Single Day In Maharashtra.

Over A Dozen People Bitten By Stray Dogs In A Single Day In Maharashtra.

Over a dozen people were bitten by stray dogs in a single day at a village in Thane district of Maharashtra, a health official said on Wednesday.The incidents occurred at Zidke village near Ambadi Phata area in Bhiwandi taluka on Tuesday, the official said.Medical officer of Ambadi Phata Rural Hospital, Dr Mahesh Wargade, said that at least 13 persons were bitten by stray dogs on March 29.
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Violence Flared Near IIT Hyderabad Campus In Telangana.

Violence Flared Near IIT Hyderabad Campus In Telangana.

Violence flared near the IIT Hyderabad campus in Telangana on Wednesday as hundreds of migrant workers employed at a construction site near the engineering college demanded salaries and permission to go home.The workers attacked the officials of the construction company who had come to request them to resume the work and the police who arrived later to pacify them, throwing stones and vandalising vehicles. At least one police officer was injured.Around 2,600 workers - many from states like Bihar and Madhya Pradesh - complain that though they have been housed in facilities near the campus and receiving food, they have…
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BJP MLA In Uttar Pradesh Threatens A Muslim Vegetable Seller.

BJP MLA In Uttar Pradesh Threatens A Muslim Vegetable Seller.

In an appalling show of arrogance, a BJP MLA in Uttar Pradesh threatens a Muslim vegetable seller outside his home and warns him against "being seen anywhere in the area". The vendor, repeatedly asked to state his name, had given a Hindu name, and brought upon himself a torrent of abuses from Brijbhushan Rajput.The ruling BJP's notice to another party MLA for urging people to boycott Muslim vegetable vendors amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown apparently had no effect on Mr Rajput, who is on camera intimidating the vegetable seller and his young son outside his home in Lucknow.The MLA from…
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