The Morning Filter Welcome to The Morning Filter, your guide to the busy news day ahead. We hope you are staying safe. Here are the latest updates and the big news stories to follow today:
1) Coronavirus | Latest Numbers The number of positive cases reported in India stands at 81,874 with 2,649 fatalities.
2) INS Jalashwa returns to Maldives to repatriate Indians INS Jalashwa with 700 Indians, including 100 women and children, will depart for Kochi on Friday night.
3) State governments can lift foodgrains for migrants from Friday, says Paswan Enough foodgrain stock lying in State godowns for free distribution to 8 crore migrant workers for two months, the Minister says.
4) Plea in Delhi HC to release nearly 3,300 Tablighi Jamaat members from quarantine centres The petition, which is likely to come up for hearing on Friday, sought direction to the authorities to comply with the guideline of 14-day quarantine and to constitute a high level committee to enquire as to whether continuous confinement of the members is violative of the provisions of the Constitution.
5) Supreme Court to hear Tamil Nadu appeal in Tasmac case The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Friday via video-conferencing an appeal filed by the State government against a Madras High Court order of May 8 to close liquor shops in the State, with immediate effect, to enforce physical distancing till the COVID-19 lockdown is lifted or modified.
6) Take decision on online sale of liquor in Delhi by Friday: High Court During the hearing on Thursday, the Centre said several States have commenced online sale of alcohol, while Delhi government told the court that a decision would be taken before Friday.
7) Online booking, wearing masks must to board Haryana transport buses plying from Friday Initially, the buses will ply from ten depots of Ambala, Bhiwani, Hisar, Kaithal, Karnal, Narnaul, Panchkula, Rewari, Rohtak and Sirsa on select point-to-point routes.
8) Ghaziapur Mandi closed for 2 days after two COVID-19 cases reported from marketplace - follow up An official said a surveillance team has started contact tracing for the two infected officials of the APMC and added that 11 staff members will undergo COVID-19 test on Friday.
9) Andhra to release financial assistance to farmers on Friday The first installment of YSR Rythu Bharosa-PM Kisan scheme would be transferred to farmers bank accounts on Friday.
10) Debate swirls around adding Africa Cup of Nations to list of postponements The Olympics, the Euros and the Copa America, all scheduled for this summer, have already been put back a year.
11) Delhi High Court to hear plea on bank cheques validity The plea seeks direction to Centre and RBI regarding extension of bank cheques validity from 3 months to 6 months to mitigate losses arising due to COVID-19.
12) NIA summons journalist Manash Jyoti Baruah for questioning on anti-CAA violence, Akhil Gogoi case Manash Jyoti Baruah, a senior journalist with a Guwahati-based news website, received the NIA notice over the phone and was asked to appear before the agency on Friday at its Sonapur office on the outskirts of the city.
13) Rajasthan Minister Meghwal to be airlifted to Gurgaon Hospital on Friday Rajasthan Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Bhanwarlal Meghwal was hospitalised after a paralytic attack. He was admitted to the state-run SMS Hospital in Jaipur on Wednesday.
14) CIC to hear RTI applications from Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir from Friday The Central Information Commission will start hearing appeals and complaints of RTI applicants pertaining to Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh from Friday, nearly nine months after the erstwhile State was split into two Union Territories.
15) Hockey legend Balbir Singh Senior suffers two more cardiac arrests, remains critical The triple Olympic medallist had suffered a cardiac arrest on Tuesday morning as well and has been on ventilator support since then.
Morning Filter will return tomorrow. | 
Sitaram Panchal died of cancer at 54 New Delhi: After Inder Kumar’s sudden death, Bollywood industry got another shock this mornin...
Post a Comment