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From June 1, municipal corporations would decide if residential colonies, mohallas, municipal wards or police-station areas, municipal zones, towns could be designated as containment zones. The new guidelines for the extended lockdown, however, will be comparatively much stricter for 13 worst COVID-19-hit cities. These cities are considered the worst COVID-19-affected locations and form about 70 per cent of the positive cases in the country. The 13 focus cities are Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Thane, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata and adjoining Howrah, Indore, Jaipur, Jodhpur and Chengalpattu and Thiruvallur. The last two cities are from Tamil Nadu. However, Maharashtra is the only state with three worst-hit cities of India. The fresh guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs for the extended lockdown will give powers to states to take strict measures as per their need without diluting Centre's norms. The indications came during two detailed meetings held on Thursday -- … [Read more...] about Lockdown 5.0: In ‘exit plan,’ positive sign for Metro, malls, restaurants

The Centre on Saturday announced that the nationwide lockdown will be extended till June 30 in containment zones and added that essential economic activities would be permitted in a staggered manner outside those zones. International air travel and operation of Metro Rail in various states, however, will not be permitted till further notice. … [Read more...] about In lockdown 5.0, international air travel, metro services to remain suspended

Govt. nod awaited “The viaduct and the station had been completed in March. The inspection was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will resume operations on the entire route as soon as we get the government’s nod,” said Alkesh Kumar Sharma, managing director, KMRL. … [Read more...] about CMRS sanction for Kochi metro’s Pettah extension

Malls, restos may open outside containment zones; greater power to states Three days ahead of completing 68-day countrywide lockdown, the Centre is learnt to have come up with a roadmap of an exit plan from the crisis in its fourth extension of the restrictions ‘5.0’, which may allow malls and restaurants to reopen and limit restrictions only in containment zones. Other activities expected to get the government nod could include movement of Delhi Metro and opening of more markets. There is a possibility of allowing religious places to function. But distancing norms, use of face cover and Aarogya Setu mobile app would be the key entry tickets everywhere. However, education institutes are supposed to function online only in the further extension expected to cover aminimum of 10 days as the lockdown 4.0 ends on May 31. The Centre in the new range of restrictions would sharpen focus on containment zones, which would have to be geographically defined based on factors such as … [Read more...] about Lockdown 5.0: Stricter guidelines in 13 worst-hit cities, ‘exit plan’ for rest

Hundreds of demonstrators returned Thursday to the Minneapolis neighborhood at the center of the violence, where the nighttime scene veered between an angry protest and a street party. At one point, a band playing in a parking lot across from the 3rd Precinct broke into a punk version of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” Nearby, demonstrators carried clothing mannequins from a looted Target and threw them onto a burning car. Later, a building fire erupted nearby. … [Read more...] about George Floyd protesters set Minneapolis police station afire