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.

Following up on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package to restart the economy hit by the coronavirus pandemic, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday laid out a comprehensive plan focused on the revival of cash-strapped MSME sector.

In the first part of a series of announcements, Sitharaman said measures are focused on 'Getting back to work' which means enabling employees and employers, businesses, especially Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, to get back to production and workers back to gainful employment.

Recording the highest single-day count of 1,495 new COVID-19 cases, the tally in Maharashtra reached 25,922 on Wednesday, the official data released by the state's health department showed.

The state also reported 54 deaths, including 40 in worst-hit Mumbai, taking the death toll to 975.

The Delhi Metro has started preparations for the resumption of train services and protocol for social distancing is being worked upon although the date of opening is not been finalised, the DMRC said on Wednesday.

Metro services in the national capital were suspended on March 25 as the nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus began. The lockdown has since been extended twice and the curring phase is due to end on May 17.

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