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Sources said that after receiving credible information that the top Hizbul Mujahideen commander had come to visit his home in Beighpora village in Pulwama district, security forces moved in quickly to seal all entry and exit points of the village.

Shops across the state sold 36.37 lakh litres of Indian Made Liquor valued at Rs 182 crore and 7.02 lakh litres of beer valued at Rs 15 crore, a state excise official said in a statement.

As per latest data of UP health department, 118 patients were found positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday taking the tally to 2,880 patients in the state.

Mufti was initially detained on August 5 last year when the Centre abrogated the special status of the erstwhile state and bifurcated it into two union territories -- Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir.

In an order, Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said priority will be given for return to India to compelling cases in distress, including migrant workers, labourers who have been laid off and those faced with expiry of short term visas.

The revenue department in May 2015 had imposed the anti-dumping duty on imports of the chemical, sodium citrate, from China for five years.

As the states start running special trains to bring back migrants, a majority of them, who went to different states to earn better living, are forced to return home with no money at all. Many of them were forced to eat scarcely.

Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily said migrant labourers are panicky, wanting to return to their native places as there are no jobs, food or proper shelter available to them

These remarks come amid several state governments giving relaxations and opening up liquor shops in accordance to the guidelines issued by the Home Ministry.

There are over 6,300 Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Janaushadhi Kendras (PMBJK) functioning in 726 districts of the country, the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers said.

The fourth floor 'A' wing from gate number 1 to gate number 3 of Delhi's Sashtri Bhavan has been sealed and is being disinfected.

Senior virologists and epidemiologists said the lockdown period was not utilised well enough to do such studies that could give a fair idea on the prevalence of the infection in the community. Some said there was a total failure on this front.

Two special flights are set to operate on Thursday to evacuate Indians stranded in the United Arab Emirates due COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian Consulate in Dubai has announced.

Police had to face a tough situation on Monday as migrant workers, stranded in the state amid the lockdown and wanting to go back to their homes in different parts of the country, came out on the roads at a few places including Yamunanagar and Jind distri...

Kejriwal said it is sad that people were not maintaining the mandatory six feet or two metre distance from one another at some shops and requested everyone to not take any risk.

The man from Thrissur, who won the 10 million dirhams (USD 2.7 million) prize at the Big Ticket draw in Abu Dhabi, will spend a big part of the money to repay a loan of 700,000 dirhams, a report said.