The Maharashtra government has issued show cause notices four prominent private hospitals in Mumbai for not following rules with regard to COVID-19 treatment and warned of strict action against hospitals violating norms.

The notices to Bombay, Jaslok, Hinduja and Lilavati Hospitals were served after an inspection by Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Monday.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirmed the second outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, adding another health crisis for a nation which is already fighting the coronavirus and the largest measles outbreak on the plant.

Eliot L Engel, the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs at the US House of Representatives, on Monday, said that he was extremely concerned by China's ongoing aggression along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on the India-China border in Ladakh, and accused China of being a 'bully' to its neighbours time and again.

The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in India crossed the 1.98 lakh-mark by Tuesday, while the death toll has reached the 5,600-mark as well. It is to be noted that 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.

At 9:30 AM on this day, the COVID-19 tally in the country has reached 1,98,706 cases, which includes 97,581 active cases; 95,527 cured, discharged, or migrated patients, and 5,598 deaths.

Today (June 2) is celebrated every year as Telangana Formation Day as this is the day when the Telangana state officially came into existence under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of Parliament in 2014.

On February 8, 2014, the Telangana Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha with support from the Congress and BJP. The Telangana Bill was passed by Rajya Sabha with the support of the BJP and other opposition parties.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Union Home Minister Amit Shah discussed on Monday the state's preparedness for Cyclone Nisarga, which is predicted to hit the west coast on June 3.

Thackeray, in the meeting held through video conferencing, said Mumbai city, its suburbs, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Ratnagiri, and Sindhudurg are on alert for the cyclone.

Punjab National Bank (PNB), the country's second-largest state-owned lender, on Monday said it has reduced its repo-linked lending rate (RLLR) by 40 basis points (bps) to 6.65 per cent from 7.05 per cent.

The bank's marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) has also been revised downwards by 15 bps across all tenors.

US President Donald Trump has sent out of warning claiming the military will be deployed if states and cities failed to end the protests sparked after the death of George Floyd.

Trump, while addressing himself as the law and order president, said that he was deploying thousands of heavily armed soldiers and cops to prevent further protests in Washington.

A terrorist was gunned down by security forces on Tuesday in an encounter at the Saimoh area of Tral in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)'s Awantipora on Tuesday. J&K Police and security forces are carrying out the search operation in the area. The identity of the eliminated terrorist remains unknown.

A top police official said that one terrorist has been killed in the encounter so far while two more are believed to be trapped in the area.

The probe into two Pakistan High Commission has revealed that they wanted to acquire information about the movement of Army units and hardware via trains.

Two officials of Pakistan High Commission, identified as Abid Hussain and Muhammad Tahir, were arrested and were declared 'persona non grata' by India on charges of espionage.

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