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According to a health ministry advisory, the 5,312 isolation coaches have been parked at 215 railway stations. However, as of now, no patient is being treated in any of them.

The expert panel said that even as the application was for the expansion of plant’s capacity from 415 TPD to 655 TPD, it would only take up the clearance for the existing operation, which was functional without environmental clearance.

The junior engineer got fever on May 18 and he was on leave since then. He was admitted to the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital on May 20.

Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Monday chaired a high-level meet in Gandhinagar to assess the preparedness of the state machinery to tackle all eventualities.

The Odisha government has also prohibited all sorts of public congregations across the state till month-end, Chief Secretary AK Tripathy said.

The IMD said that the depression in the Arabian Sea is slated to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm 'Nisarga' and cross north Maharashtra and Gujarat coasts between Harihareshwar in Raigad district and Daman on June 3.

The court said frontline workers, including doctors, nurses, police personnel, sanitation workers and so on, are performing a 'herculean' task by putting their lives at risk to protect the lives of others.

The passengers were limited to 40 per cent of the capacity of each vessel to ensure social distancing and no one was allowed to board the ferries without masks.

So far, no damage to crops or trees has been reported due to these short-horned grasshoppers, which have been killed by spraying of pesticides, officials said.

The weather bureau earlier this week said that monsoon rains were likely to hit India around June 1. This was a revision of its earlier onset forecast of June 5. In 2019, the monsoon had hit Kerala on June 8.

Domestic services were suspended in India due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown and resumed after a gap of two months on May 25.

Sources said a high-level meeting was convened at the railway headquarters to resolve the matter. They indicated that the three states have raised concerns over the rising cases of the coronavirus as the reason behind their opposition to movement of train...

If required, CCTVs and public address system too should be installed in markets for better monitoring and enforcement of the precautionary measures, said DM Abhishek Prakash.

The announcement comes hours after the state government passed an order lifting curbs on inter-state and intra-state movement of persons and goods as part of relaxing lockdown restrictions.

The lockdown also brought little respite for the cash-strapped Punjab government, which collected over Rs 1 crore in just 13 days, in the the form of fines from erring Punjabis for violating lockdown rules in the state.

For resuming inter-state and intra-state bus services, a separate order will be issued by the transport department, officials said.