A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) moved in Delhi High Court has sought directions that PM CARES Fund be brought under the ambit of Right to Information Act (RTI) and be made transparent.

The petition said that PM CARES is a ‘public authority’ within the ambit of Section 2(h) of the RTI and prayed for a direction to the trust to display the details of the fund collected and the purpose it is being utilized for, on its website.

Food delivery platform Swiggy started on Thursday online processing and home delivery of alcohol in West Bengal after obtaining approvals from the state government.

The company is offering the service in Kolkata and Siliguri, days after first launching delivery in Jharkhand and Odisha.

In a huge diplomatic win for India, fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya is likely to be extradited from United Kingdome to India, reports have said.

The speculations come in the wake of the rejection of Mallya application by the High Court of Justice, London against his extradition to face trial in India. The plea was rejected last month and it vindicated the investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), as Mallya has raised various concerns regarding the admissibility of evidence and the fairness of the investigation, the tactics aimed at diverting attention from his own acts.

Days after the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir foiled a Pulwama style terrorist attack after intercepting a vehicle laden with explosives, intelligence sources have said that Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists are planning another Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) attack on security forces in Kashmir.

Following the inputs, security forces have been put on high alert.

Mahatma Gandhi's statue outside the Indian Embassy in Washington DC was vandalised on Wednesday by a group of unidentified people involved in the protests against the murder of a black man George Floyd at the hands of a policeman at Minneapolis.

The United States Park Police has launched an investigation into the matter.

The number of coronavirus cases in India has marked significant and consecutive highest jumps over a major part of the last two weeks.

On Wednesday, the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in India crossed the 2.07 lakh-mark, while the death toll breached the 5,800-mark as well. With this, India has now become the world's seventh worst-hit country in terms of coronavirus cases, according to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) COVID-19 tracker.

As the number of coronavirus cases in the national capital shows no signs of stopping, Delhi government on Wednesday passed an order making it mandatory for all asymptomatic passengers arriving in Delhi to home quarantine themselves for seven days.

Notably, earlier, the home quarantine period for passengers arriving in Delhi, as mandated by an advisory passed by the Delhi government, was 14 days.

Tamil Nadu has crossed the grim milestone of 25,000 total coronavirus cases, the only second state in India to do so after Maharashtra. On Wednesday, the Southern Indian state recorded a new high of 1,286 cases, while the numbers in capital city Chennai also went past the 1000-mark, with 1012 cases. The state currently has 11,345 active cases and has seen 208 deaths, of which a large number have been senior citizens and those with co-morbidities.

As protests rage across the United States over the murder of a black man George Floyd at the hands of a policeman in Minneapolis, Former US President Barack Obama expressed his support and felt that change is around the corner.

I know enough about that history to say: There is something different here, the former US President said.

The tension between India and China seemed to deescalate on Wednesday ahead of Corps Commander meeting between the two countries scheduled for June 6.

Indian and Chinese troops have been engaged in a bitter face-off in several areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh for nearly a month.

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