Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will take his oath, along with eight others, as the newly elected members of the state Legislative Council today at 1 PM. Thackeray was one among the nine candidates belonging to the ruling and opposition parties who were declared elected unopposed to the Council last week.

The biennial elections for the nine seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, which fell vacant on April 24, were scheduled to be held on Thursday.

In what comes as a huge relief for e-commerce firms, the new Union Ministry for Home Affairs (MHA) guidelines under Lockdown 4.0 has directed such that both essential and non-essential items can be delivered by e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, etc to all places outside containment zones.

This means that the entire range of products on online shopping sites are now open for all citizens, irrespective of them residing in red, orange, green, or buffer zones, with the sole exception of containment zones, where e-commerce activity has still not been permitted.

After the Centre announced that the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown will be extended till May 31, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that a detailed plan to ease restrictions in the national capital will be announced on Monday.

"Delhi govt will prepare the detailed plan for Delhi based on the Centre's guidelines and announce it tomorrow," he wrote on Twitter.

The coronavirus scare has reached the Rashtrapati Bhawan after an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) of Delhi Police posted there tested positive for the virus.

The 58-year-old was posted at Rashtrapati Bhawan Police Lines, away from the Rashtrapati core area, which houses the residence of the President of India, officials said.

The low-pressure deep depression in the Bay of Bengal, named as Cyclone 'Amphan' has intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) informed on Sunday.

The weather agency further said that it would further intensify into an extremely severe cyclonic storm during the next 24 hours.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday expressed his condolences regarding the extremely tragic deaths of 24 migrants in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh's Auriya district early this morning. The Prime Minister further said that the government is "promptly involved" in relief work. Several other politicians, too, expressed their grief regarding the unfortunate incident.

The renowned American departmental store-chain, JC Penney, is the latest and largest victim of the economic difficulties arising out of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-necessitated restrictions across the globe and by extension, the US, which is currently the epicenter of coronavirus contamination in the world. The company filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday, after having witnessed a decline in business for almost two decades past, with the COVID-19 crisis simply exacerbating its financial strain.

As the COVID-19 tally in India neared the 86,000-mark on Friday, while the death toll topped the 2,700-mark, India finally crossed China in the recorded number of positive cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection. As of 9:15 AM on this day, the COVID-19 tally in India has reached 85,940, which includes 53,035 active cases; 30,152 cured, discharged or migrated patients, and 2,752 deaths.

As the states in India's eastern coast brace for Cyclone Amphan, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted wind speeds reaching up to 55-65 kmph and gusts of up to 75 kmph on Saturday. The cyclone system is predicted to form by this evening over the southwest Bay of Bengal.

With the cyclonic system evolving from 'Depression' to 'Deep depression' and then into the 'Cyclonic storm' category the wind speeds too will rise to 75-85 kmph gusting at 95 kmph.

At least 24 migrant labourers were killed and several others injured in the wee hours of Saturday after the trailer truck they were travelling home in collided with a DCM van in the Auriya district of Uttar Pradesh, around 200 km from state capital Lucknow.

The road accident occurred at around 3 AM, sources confirmed, making this the latest in a series of unfortunate incidents involving stranded migrant workers meeting their hapless fate after facing scores of difficulties while traversing home to their native states, mostly on foot.

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