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Delhi

Delhi Metro resumes after 169-day COVID hiatus. (PTI Photo)

After over 5-month hiatus, Delhi Metro resumes today with social distancing

Trains will operate in batches of four-hour each from 7-11 am in the morning and 4-8 pm in the evening in the first stage, officials said

Institutions of Higher Education and coaching institutes have been allowed to reopen subject to Standard Operating Procedure. (PTI)

Schools, colleges, gyms to reopen in Delhi

Single drivers in cars will be exempted from mask mandate

 Family members show photos of their missing children in the Mundka fire, at Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital in New Delhi, Saturday, May 14, 2022. Twenty-seven people have died so far in the Mundka fire. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary)

Mundka fire tragedy: Building had single entry-exit point, no fire NOC

Toll may go beyond 27 as 19 people are still missing and remains are being found

A COVID-19 symptomatic air traveller being taken for isolation on an ambulance at T-3, IGI Airport, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Private offices, dine-in facilities in restaurants closed in Delhi amid Covid scare

Earlier, the private offices were working with 50 per cent of workforce

A man walks along the Rajpath street near India Gate amid smoggy conditions. (AFP)

Delhi most polluted capital in the world in 2021: Report

In 2021, none of the cities in India met the prescribed World Health Organization air quality standards, report shows

Mumbai

Many dabbawalas have been struggling to feed their own families since April last year. (Photo: PTI)

India's pandemic-hit lunchbox men battle food delivery start-ups

The 130-year-old 'dabbawala' network has tied up with a trendy restaurant chain to take on India's billion-dollar start-ups

Maharashtra Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray (Twitter)

Maharashtra govt to promote monsoon tourism in Konkan, develop state as cinema hub

Minister Aaditya Thackeray said the focus was on how to maximise the tourism sector's contribution to the state's GDP

The precinct will be Mumbai's first rooftop drive-in theatre. (Photo: Twitter)

Reliance announces launch of premium mall 'Jio World Drive' in Mumbai

The mall, spanning across an area of 17.5 acres, has been opened in Bandra Kurla Complex

People buy firecrackers despite the government urging public to restrain from bursting crackers during Diwali festival in view of current COVID-19 status, in Thane district, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. (PTI)

Mumbai civic body bans firecrackers, fireworks ahead of Diwali

However, BMC has permitted the use of 'mild' crackers on Laxmi Pujan, saying people can use 'anar' and fulzadi within their private premises

Kolkata

Visitors use umbrellas to protect themselves from rain outside Victoria Memorial in Kolkata on Saturday. The very severe cyclonic storm Bulbul over the Bay of Bengal is likely to make landfall between West Bengal-Bangladesh coasts by late Saturday evening or night, bringing in its wake very heavy rain and gale wind. (Photo: PTI)

Cyclone Bulbul weakens, crosses West Bengal

In it bulletin at 9 pm, the India Meteorological Department informed that the cyclone would weaken further and gradually.

Policemen wearing face masks keep vigil at barricades of a coronavirus containment zone in Kolkata. The Union government has extended the ban on flights to the city in view of the growth in infectionsn. AP)

Ban on flights to Kolkata extended to July 31

Mamata Banerjee requested an extension of the ban in view of the rise in COVID-19 cases

Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy

Mukul Roy booked for taking bribe, moves Calcutta HC for anticipatory bail

Sources claimed that he played a crucial role behind the recent induction of a group of Tollywood actors into the BJP.

P S Bhopal. (Photo by arrangement)

Heritage vessel to sail again in Kolkata before Durga Puja

Kolkata is set to witness the comeback of a UK-built Paddle Steamer, 'P S Bhopal' in a new avatar with a charm of the British era

West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee

Senior govt doc dies in state, CM tweets tribute

The doctor died at a private hospital in Salt Lake at 1.30 am on Sunday

In Other Cities

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, (Image source: PTI)

Grand Alliance to organise human chain in Bihar against farm laws

Does he think the agitating farmers are justified in hitting the streets, questions Tejashwi Yadav

The 21-kilometre distance crossing 16 stations was covered in less than 30 minutes and with minimal disruption to traffic along the route. — By arrangement

Hyderabad Metro helps shift donor organ from LB Nagar to Jubilee Hills

Since the harvested heart had to be transplanted to a recipient’s body in two hours, the best resources had to be put in place

 The nearly 20-foot tall wall, a portion of which collapsed, is on the way to the highest point of the fort.

Hyderabad rains: Another wall collapse in Golconda Fort

The incident follows the one on Thursday when a wall of the Quilashapur fort of Sarvai Papanna in Jangaon district came down

People wear masks in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, in Kochi on March 21, 2020. (PTI)

All families in a Kochi apartment complex under quarantine

One foreign returnee from Dubai disobeyed quarantine restrictions