Lucknow

The chief minister stressed on encouraging industrial, commercial and business establishments to set up COVID-19 helpdesks to keep people safe from the virus.

The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister also thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sanctioning international airport status to the Kushinagar airport at a Union Cabinet meeting.

Twenty Indian Army personnel including a colonel were killed in the clash with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Monday night.

The incident was reported from Gonda district where Rs 2.6 lakh was approved for digging a pond near Vijay Shukla's house. However, the village head and the secretary used a JCB machine instead of providing jobs to workers to dig the pond.

The matter was highlighted when allegations surfaced that some people had taken money in lieu of getting candidates to pass the exam in Prayagraj district.

Stating that the lockdown has been extended till June 30, Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Rajendra Kumar Tiwari said relaxations will be given in a phased manner.

He said states like Gujarat, Delhi, Punjab, Telengana, Karnatanka, Rajasthan, and Haryana have told them that they have no or very few persons left to be sent back to UP.

At a meeting with senior state officials to review the lockdown situation, he said the skill-mapping, which is in progress, should be completed in 15 days and the data should be prepared, an official spokesperson said.

Principal Secretary Medical and Health Amit Mohan Prasad said passengers will have to follow the laid-down home quarantine protocol.

In a circular issued on Sunday afternoon, the state government has now allowed patients to carry their phones in isolation wards after making the disclosure to the officials concerned.

Casa Everz GmbH, the owner of Germany-based healthy footwear brand Von Wellx, will be shifting its entire shoe production of over three million pairs annually in China to India with an initial investment of Rs 110 crore.

In a letter addressed to the Congress leader, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi said the government has accepted her plea made on May 16 to the CM regarding migrant workers.

News18 came across the four men, all of them autorickshaw drivers who share the same last name and native place, when they were on the Lucknow-Barabanki highway after covering about 1,400 kilometres with the sole purpose of getting back to their families.

According to sources, Uttar Pradesh government is eyeing on food processing industry which was in abundance in Wuhan province of China before the coronavirus outbreak.

This is Modi's first rally in 2017 in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.