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Gurugram reported 17 more coronavirus positive cases on Wednesday, the highest in the city in a day since the nationwide lockdown.

Assam reported its 45th Covid-19 case on Thursday, and along with it the fortuitous capture of a "most wanted" car thief who had been playing cat-and-mouse with police in the state and neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh for more than a year.

The Centre on Thursday approved the state government’s proposal of commencing construction of chariots for June 23 Rath Yatra at Puri. The Centre has also allowed the Odisha government to take a decision on its own whether to hold Rath Yatra or not.

A Rajasthan-registered bus, which carried 43 pilgrims from Ajmer Sharif that falls in the red zone, to Silchar on Wednesday, has now become cause of worry for Assam after five of its passengers have tested positive in the past 24 hours, which has pushed the state’s total positive cases to 49 on Friday.

Actor Partha Sarathi Ray has rekindled his passion for making sketches during the lockdown.

Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday appealed to the state government to provide monetary relief of Rs 7,600 and 10 kilograms of rice to each jobless poor person, besides ensuring jobs to all MGNREGA card holders and bringing towns under the national labour scheme.

Dakshina Kannada district minister Kota Shrinavas Poojari has announced on Wednesday that all textile and readymade shops in the district will be allowed to open from Thursday.

After a day’s struggle, a Shramik special train with 1,200 labourers left from Hisar to Katihar in Bihar on Wednesday afternoon.

A total of 37 migrant labourers, travelling in a transport vehicle without permission to Bihar, were stopped by the police near Julana town. They were sent them back to Punjab after sanitization.

The first Covid-19 patient of Assam, Jamal Uddin has been cured and released from Silchar Medical College Hospital on Wednesday afternoon. He was released after three consecutive negative tests, said Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in his Tweets.

The city is all set to get its first level-2 (L2) Covid-19 facility at the Sector 39 new district hospital to cater to mild to aggravated symptomatic patients. Tata Projects Limited (TPL) will develop the 170-bed building under the public-private partnership (PPP) model.

The police have booked a man for molesting a 14-year-old girl.A case has been registered on the complaint of the girl's family who claimed that the accused had been stalking the girl from the last few months.

Residents' Welfare Associations (RWAs) from several sectors have protested the conversion of schools in residential sectors like 20, 41, 56 and 34 to quarantine centres.

As many as 10 Odia singers joined hands to perform at a virtual music concert recently to express solidarity with the nation in its fight against Covid-19. The online music festival was organised by a popular social media platform.

Contrary to expectations, a very poor turnout was witnessed at liquor shops that opened in Haryana on Wednesday after around one-and-a-half months of lockdown.

"They should have been put up in separate rooms, if available, instead of huddling them under sheds with few common facilities like toilets and bathrooms, to ensure isolation to minimise spread of infection.

Twenty more persons, including 17 from Ganjam and three from Mayurbhanj, tested positive for Covid-19 increasing the number of infected persons in Odisha to 205, the health department updated on its website on Thursday.