Two Indian Army soldiers lost their lives after an avalanche hit an army post in North Sikkim.

These soldiers were part of the army's patrolling-cum-snow clearance party when the incident occurred.

The two soldiers have been identified as Lieutenant Colonel Robert TA and Sapper Sapala Shanmukha Rao. The army confirmed their death in an official press release.

North Korea is likely to have replaced the head of the country’s main intelligence agency and the Supreme Guard commander entrusted with the responsibility of protecting Kim-Jong-un and his family.

According to the South Korean daily, Lt. General Rim Kwang-il was promoted as the director of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, replacing Jang Kil-song last December.

Amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak that is spreading across India like wildfire, clashes erupted in Sendhwa on the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh border on Thursday after thousands of hungry and thirsty migrant labourers went on a rampage after waiting for nine hours for food. Cellphone videos recorded from the spot show hundreds of people screaming and running on the shoulder beside the National Highway 3. They jammed the traffic on the streets and even pelted stones at the police.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray was among nine candidates belonging to the ruling and opposition parties who were declared elected unopposed to the state Legislative Council on Thursday.

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

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday mandated that no classified information shall be handled through e-office, which means classified files shall not be processed in e-office during work from home.

As per reports, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) would evaluate the existing security protocol for remote access of classified files in consultation with MHA and come up with guidelines as well as standard operating procedures for handling classified information in e-office.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will address a press conference at 4 pm on Thursday on the second tranche of measures related to Atmanirbhar Bharat.

It will be a follow up on the first tranch of the Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revive the economy hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Delhi Police has busted an illicit liquor hideout in the Wazirpur area and seized raw liquor, furnace and some chemicals from the place. Five people have been arrested.

DCP Vijayanta Arya informed that the Ashok Vihar police team had received information that some people had set up a liquor furnace in the Wazirpur area to fulfill the demand for alcohol during the lockdown period.

As coronavirus is spreading like wildfire, showing no signs of stopping in the near future, World Health Organisation (WHO) executive director Michael J Ryan on Wednesday said that this deadly virus is just another 'endemic' virus that never goes away just like the HIV infection.

This virus just may become another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away. HIV has not gone away, CNN quoted Dr. Michael J Ryan as saying.

In a tragic news, at least six migrant workers were killed after they were hit by a Uttar Pradesh state bus near Muzaffarnagar on Wednesday night.

The accident happened at the Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur highway at around 11 PM. The victims used to work in Punjab as daily wage labourers and were walking back to their home in Bihar's Gopalganj.

The coronavirus pandemic continues to trouble the country despite efforts from the central and state governments to stop its spread. The third phase of the nationwide lockdown with "considerable relaxations" is currently in place till May 17. However, governments are also keeping in place necessary curbs so as to not lose all the gains that have been achieved in the battle against the virus.

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