India on Tuesday said the United Nations report saying that about 6,500 Pakistani fighters are present in Afghanistan vindicates its long-standing position that Pakistan is an epicentre of international terrorism.

The United Nations report has said that about 6,500 Pakistani fighters are present in Afghanistan with Pakistan based terror groups like Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba having around 1000 armed fighters in the landlocked South Asian country.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday asked people to stay alert and stay indoors for two days as cyclonic storm `Nisarg' inched closer to the west coast.

Mumbai on Tuesday received fresh rainfall as 'Nisarga' is likely to turn into a Severe Cyclonic Storm soon. Mumbai Police has already prohibited any presence or movement of one or more persons in public places along the coast like beaches, promenades, parks and other such places near the coastline to prevent the loss of life and property.

The recovery rate of COVID-19 cases in the country has now gone up to 48.07%, from 11.42% on April 15 while the fatality rate has come down to 2.82%, the government said on Tuesday.

Addressing a media briefing, Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, a total of 95,527 patients have been cured of COVID-19 in the country till date, with 3,708 patients reported to have recovered in the last 24 hours.

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.

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