Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar urged the state government to impose a complete lockdown in India's financial capital - Mumbai - amid rising COVID-19 cases

Maharashtra lockdown: The 'lockdown-like' restrictions, which exclude essential services, will come into effect from 8 pm on April 14 and remain in force till 7 am on May 1

The video of PM Modi's speech and the inattentive chief ministers reminded everyone of the good old first-benchers in school who always used to be a step ahead of the lessons being taught in class

All government, private educational institutes including coaching institutes barred from holding physical classes till April 17. Medical, paramedical and nursing institutes have been excluded from this order

The active case count of COVID-19 infection in Maharashtra has surged to 4,30,503, whereas the count of recoveries rose to 25,22,823 as of April 4. Maharashtra is the worst-affected COVID-19 state in the country, accounting for 58.19 per cent of active cases in the country

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The district administration imposed restrictions in view of the rising number of cases after Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray reviewed the situation

According to Maharashtra's health department, the Pune division's COVID-19 tally has increased to 5,24,760 with 1,765 new cases, while six fatalities took the death toll to 11,742

In Maharashtra, the weekly tally has shown a rising trend and increased from 18,200 to 21,300 in the last four weeks

In the wake of rising coronavirus cases in Pune, hotels will close at 11 pm instead of 1 am, whereas non-essential activities will be allowed on roads between 11 pm and 6 am

Colleges are also set to reopen, Chief Minister Hemant Soren told newsmen after a meeting of the Jharkhand State Disaster Manangement Authority

Delhi boy Laksh Gupta revealed that he got an offer of 100 per cent scholarship to study at the Higher School of Economics in Russia after he won a gold medal at the International Economics Olympiad.

Post the pandemic, offline or physical learning centres including schools and coaching institutes have taken a hit, while online classes have thrived

Classes from 9 to 12 in schools, last year classes of university and college, coaching centers and government training institutes have been directed to be opened from 18 January, says CM Ashok Gehlot

However, other schools across Maharashtra that don't come under BMC jurisdiction will reopen on November 23.

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Under the Unlock 5 guidelines, states and union territories have been given the flexibility to take a decision on reopening of schools and coaching institutions in a graded manner

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The coronavirus-induced lockdown was first announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 25 and was extended in phases till May 31. The unlock process of the country began on June 1 with the graded reopening of commercial, social, religious, and other activities

Unlock 4: Schools, colleges, educational and coaching institutions, swimming pools and indoor theatres will continue to remain closed, while social activities will be allowed with a limit of 100 people, as per the order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs