The role of the central government will eventually be limited to announcing a step-wise and smaller list of barred activities nationally and defining national directives on COVID-19 management

It is learnt that the defence minister has already conveyed to top military brass that there was no need for reviewing the implementation of any of the key projects along the LAC in Ladakh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand or in Arunachal Pradesh

The operations have restarted in the South and East Zones, including cities such as Bangalore, Mangalore, Hyderabad, Vizag, Chennai, Coimbatore, Kochi, Calicut, Guwahati, Siliguri, and Bhubaneswar, among others, following the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) guidelines easing the restrictions for lockdown 4.0, it said

\"The start of operations and modalities will depend on the directions of the MHA and state government regarding the lockdown and its opening after May 31,\" he added

Brazil, now Latin America's hardest-hit country, is second, with more than 347,000 cases and more than 22,000 deaths. Third on the list is Russia, with more than 344,000 reported cases and more than 3,500 deaths

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The Ministry of Corporate Affairs \"will begin identifying the benches initially in Delhi and Mumbai where more than half of the incorporated companies in India are registered\"

The situation in Eastern Ladakh deteriorated after around 250 Chinese and Indian soldiers were engaged in a violent face-off on the evening of May 5 which spilled over to the next day before the two sides agreed to \"disengage\" following a meeting at the level of local commanders

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While there has been massive retrenchment across sectors, a large number of workers have complained of part-payment or non-payment of wages

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Uncertainities about sustained demand, high costs of operation, competition in a turbulent sector weigh heavy on airlines' minds as they devise a reboot plan in a post-lockdown world

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The Ministry is also planning to declare the board exam results by July-end and evaluation process has already begun for exams which were conducted before the lockdown was announced

The airport is the third in the national capital region after Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport and Ghaziabad's Hindon airport

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The department said that the period of extension (three and six months) may be decided based on the specific circumstances of the case and the period for which performance was affected by the force majeure events

On March 29, the MHA had issued an order under Section 10(2)(I) of the DM Act asking all employers to pay wages to employees on due date without any deduction even if the establishment was closed

The MHA has also made an appeal to the state governments to arrange rest places, with adequate facilities for sanitation, food and healthcare, on routes where migrants were known to be already travelling on foot