On the first day of lockdown 3.0 on Monday, the streets of the national capital saw more cars, traffic jams at a few places and even arguments over validity of passes. Mostly, jams were seen ahead of police pickets and borders which remained for one and a half hours, during the peak office hour....
Thanks to COVID-19, it was a toned down version of the granduer usually associated with the wedding of a presiding deity at the world famous Madurai Meenakshi temple. The celestial wedding between Lord Sundareswar (Lord Shiva) and Meenakshi Amman (Goddess Parvathi) was performed in a minimalistic manner at the Sri Meenakshi Sundareswara...
Desperate to say "cheers" after a 40-day Covid-19 induced shutdown kept them home and dry, hundreds of tipplers stood in serpentine queues for their turn to buy liquor at licensed shops in cities and towns across Karnataka on Monday....
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will set out a plan for easing the countrys COVID-19 lockdown restrictions next week, Minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Gove said. ...
A research institute here has submitted to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, a community transport model based on a detailed study of the best practices in various countries, and more specifically on the basis of a detailed field research in some of the Boroughs of outer London, to be replicated here in the aftermath of COVID-19. ...
Soon after Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi announced that her party will bear expenses on rail tickets for stranded migrants across India, senior party leader Ahmed Patel on Monday said he had asked all state units to mobilise all possible resources for the cause and urged people to make it a "people's movement". ...
A large number of people were seen queuing up outside liquor shops in different parts of Rajasthan on Monday from early morning as the state excise department announced the opening of liquor and wine shops in all three zones (red, green and orange - except the containment and curfew zones) in the state in lockdown-3....
It was the moment tipplers in Andhra Pradesh seemed to be waiting for more than 40 days, as they queued up in hundreds as soon as the liquor shops opened in the state on Monday. ...
Congress offer to pay for the railways tickets of migrant workers seems to be a well thought out strategy....
After long queues outside liquor shops in the national capital took social distancing norms for a ride, the Resident Welfare Associations (RWA's) in the city have urged the government to immediately close down all liquor vends and review arrangements....
