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Bhubaneswar, April 25 : To dodge lockdown restrictions, a group of 38 persons from Odisha and Andhra Pradesh undertook a five-day journey from Chennai along the sea route to return to their native villages.However, after reaching Patisunapur coast in…

Jaipur, April 25 : Thirty-four members of a Ludhiana-based family, who are stranded in Ajmer since the last one month following the clamping of the nationwide lockdown to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, have seen it all — poverty, hunger, domestic viol…

New Delhi, April 25 : To ensure supply of essentials, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) opened the Rohtang Pass on Saturday, three weeks ahead of the schedule, senior BRO officers said.The snow clearance for opening the 13,500-ft high Rohtang Pass,…

Guwahati/Agartala, April 25 : The Assam government will allow inter-district movement of nearly one lakh people from Saturday, officials said.In most of the northeastern states, many shops and small business establishments were opened, but the latest…

Thiruvananthapuram, April 25 : It took two days of networking by Kalpetta CPI-M legislator C.K. Saseendran at the hilly constituency in Wayanad district to unite a four-year-old boy, Jugal, with his parents after a gap of one month.Speaking to IANS, …

New Delhi, April 25 : With the Union government’s order allowing standalone shops to open, it is the states who have to take a final call to implement the order.Many states are yet to decide. In national capital where all districts have been categori…

New Delhi, April 25 : Despite the central government’s order to allow the opening of standalone shops amid the lockdown, shopkeepers in Delhi will have to wait a little longer as the Delhi government is yet to decide on the implementation of the orde…

New Delhi, April 25 : RSS’ economic wing — the Swadeshi Jagran Manch, will kickstart a campaign from Sunday to boycott Chinese products, it said.Though it has been a stated position of the organisation for long, but it assumes new significance in vi…

Hyderabad, April 25 : The ongoing lockdown, which has crippled the economy for more than a month and sparked unprecedented distress, has turned the so-called lower middle class into the new poor identities of the society.Teachers in unaided private s…

Mumbai, April 25 : With nearly 25 per cent of the annual cotton production still lying unsold with farmers, a prominent farm activist has accused traders linked with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of creating hurdles in the government’s efforts to proc…