The combined consumption of diesel and gasoline in India this month is poised to plunge by as much as 20% from March, as streets in major cities like Mumbai & New Delhi go quiet.
Supreme Court also indicates it may withdraw some of the Covid-related issues being taken up by different high courts across the country and instead take them up itself.
CM Hemant Soren said selected offices of the central & state govt and private sector have been exempted from the total shutdown while others will remain shut.
The Delhi CM had announced the lockdown, saying the health system was under extreme pressure due to a large number of Covid patients & might collapse if strict action was not taken.
The high court said lessons should be taken from the past lockdown as reports show migrant workers are again going back as Delhi govt announced a six-day lockdown.
The town of Unjha is on a mission to break the Covid transmission chain. To that end, it has voluntarily closed an important temple & its spice market, the biggest in Asia.
With hearses running out, hospitals such as Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Memorial Hospital are being forced to use trucks to transport as many as 10 bodies at a time to the cremation.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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