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Home ministry issues SOP to streamline change of crew at Indian ports

Sign-on/sign-off procedures specified for merchant shipping vessels; seafarers to intimate travel and contact history for last 28 days to ship owner or RPS agency

Mumbai, Pune, Indore: 11 places where the situation is 'especially serious'

The central government has constituted six Inter-Ministerial Central Teams to make on-spot assessment of the Covid-19 situation in these places

Covid-19: Stranded migrants can work during lockdown, but conditions apply

No interstate movement allowed; registration with local authorities must

Cashew industry in Kerala expects lifting of curbs to help start processing

Most units will not take in fresh kernels and will only work on partially-processed stocks lying with them

How will new lockdown guidelines impact different sectors of the economy?

The services such as aviation, hotels, malls, etc. would have to wait for a much longer time

Covid-19: Govt extends visas of stranded foreigners in India till April 30

The foreign nationals are stranded in the country due to the 21-day lockdown announced on March 24 to curb the spread of the disease

Covid-19 lockdown: Let trucks move to prevent shortages, Centre to states

According to the communique, empty trucks or goods carriers should also be allowed to operate while on way to pick up goods, or returning after completing a delivery

About 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members, primary contacts quarantined: MHA

The Union Home Ministry, told reporters during a daily briefing that out of about 2,000 such Tablighi Jamaat members in Delhi, 1,804 have been shifted to quarantine

Beyond the 'laxman rekha'

Ensuring lasting pharma security is vital

Home Ministry's list of what's closed, exempt during coronavirus lockdown

The Home Ministry on Tuesday listed organisations that will be closed-and exempt--during the 21-day nationwide lockdown against the coronavirus announced by Prime Minister

Take action against those harassing people from Northeast: MHA tells states

There have been cases where people, including athletes and sportspersons, from the Northeast have been harassed by linking them to Covid-19

Union Home Ministry gives 60-day exemption to NGOs to file annual returns

Reasons cited by them include being dependent on their accountants or CA firms, who somehow ignored the deadlines, difficulties like floods and mis-handling of log-in or passwords by their CAs.

Delhi violence: Shah takes stock of law-and-order situation at review meet

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday held a review meeting to take stock of prevailing law and order situation in Delhi in view of the violence that engulfed the North-East district of the national capital.The meeting was attended by Home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, CP Delhi Amulya Patnaik, and Special CP, Law & Order SN Shrivastava.According to the ministry, no major untoward incident has been reported in the last 36 hours in any police station of North-East Delhi.Prohibitory orders under Section 144 will be relaxed for a total of 10 hours tomorrow in view of the improvement of the situation."So far, 48 FIRs, pertaining to clashes, loss of lives/property, etc., have already been registered and further FIRs would be registered in due course. Police has detained/arrested 514 suspects for questioning so far. Further arrests would be effected in the course of the investigation," Home Ministry said.The Ministry claimed that 35 persons have lost their lives in these tragic ...

Preparations for Census, NPR at peak; exercise to begin from April 1

The ministry said this after a conference of the directors of the census operations on status of preparatory work around Census 2021 and NPR update

Nirbhaya case: Home Ministry receives mercy petition of convict Pawan Gupta

The ministry will forward the petition to President Ram Nath Kovind for his consideration and decision

Congress, CPI(M) hold protests against Amit Shah's rally in Kolkata

CPI(M) leader Sujan Chakraborty led a large rally in Santoshpur in south Kolkata while Congress activists took out a protest march from Beckbagan to Park Circus

Home ministry gets ED report on PFI, seeks inputs from states, agencies

The PFI has on several occasions denied having any link with any protest against the CAA in the country

Govt has no intention of scrapping Article 371, Amit Shah assures Northeast

Referring to the problems of militancy and inter-state boundary disputes in the region, the home minister said the Modi government was committed to their resolution

No information on group called 'tukde tukde gang': Govt tells Parliament

Two Congress members had asked the government if an organisation called the 'tukde gang' has been identified.

Ram temple trust to have office in Delhi's Greater Kailash: Home Ministry

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the trust will have 15 members, including one from the Dalit community.