* + >!$ % & ? ? ? ,'!?,)-40 ,#-.-,. ,./0) 1/.2/& %& B %3(# =( (*(E #0( 675 %!+ !0% ! =( $(."0 .4/*3 <"%=. <"4<=*(3=# 0* *(%=. *0B!C =$D=*( 88 :8 %! .=! (E= #=*"0 #=0%4# "=*$0=#" $("#=$4* "C$(#=<=$ D0'=C3=$= @. &>67 ,,# 6-6 @= ( = & @%$@ . .6 - R his note. ment of passengers, services to Earlier, the railways decid- be provided in coaches, and ed on the allotment of trains in arrangements with States/UTs consultation with the States. for booking of tickets would be The problem started when the done by MoR. Sending States/ Centre accused the West UTs and MoR would ensure Bengal Government of not that all passengers are com- taking steps to facilitate move- pulsorily screened and only ment of trains to the State with symptomatic passengers are $ % *(3 $(."0 migrant workers. allowed to board the “Publicity of train schedule, train. he tragic deaths of migrant protocols for entry and move- Tworkers in road accidents in several parts of the country have forced the Road and %&& Transport Ministry to ask the Union Home Ministry and ' the States to earmark dedicat- *(3 $(."0 ed lanes for the ( pedestrians. ver dozen of migrant These lanes should have Olabourers were killed and provisions for food and med- New Delhi: Providing huge many others injured in a truck ical assistance at certain inter- relief to people, specially in the and bus collusion in vals to facilitate easy move- &!)*(!,,)#(+3&*5)&+ country’s small towns and Naugachhia, near Bhagalpur in ments of migrant workers who 7(&" !(*8 !-2:/;"< cities, the railways will run 200 Bihar on Tuesday. According to have hit the roads to reach &'!(&!)!**)+',-./ ! "#$ % special passenger trains from reports, the truck fell off the their destinations. &'!)!', /0 June 1, the national trans- road after the collision. Sources said the Home Mumbai: Hundreds of *(3 $(."0 in consultation with Ministry States/ UTs should designate porter said on Tuesday. The workers had started Ministry is in the process of &'!+1#(, 2 migrant labourers gathered of Home Affairs (MHA) with- nodal authorities and make These trains will have non- their journey on bicycles six issuing a separate advisory to 3(!+',)!', -4 on an approach road to n the wake of the ongoing out any consultation with the necessary arrangements for air conditioned second class days ago from Kolkata and they the States to ensure safety +1#() 02 Bandra Terminus here on Itussle between the Centre State Governments. receiving and sending such coaches and will run daily. might have boarded the truck measures for the migrants Tuesday before the depar- and West Bengal, the Union The Home Ministry has stranded persons. Based on They will be plied in addition somewhere en route. The dri- walking on roads to reach ,,+'!&(5(,)!', ture of a Shramik Special Home Ministry on Tuesday put the responsibility on the the requirements of States/UTs, to the Shramik Special and the ver and cleaner of the truck, their home. +1#() 0 train for Bihar, leading to took over the control of oper- States to inform the migrant the train schedule, including air-conditioned special trains which was coming from Bengal As many as 1,253 road '(,!',06+1#()- chaos in the area for some ating trains for migrant labour- workers about the schedule of stoppages and destination which are currently being via Katihar, fled from the accidents claimed 456 lives time. The incident occurred ers. Invoking powers vested in trains and bring the stranded would be finalized by MoR. operated on the Rajdhani spot. between March 24 and May 19 road accidents which left 694 over a month after hundreds the Disaster Management Act, people to nearby railway sta- The same would be communi- routes connecting 15 major Elsewhere, three migrant and left 930 persons injured seriously injured. of migrant workers had the Union Home Secretary tions. cated by MoR to the States/UTs cities to Delhi. labourers were killed and over during the lockdown. According to a study com- assembled near the Bandra Ajay Bhalla issued new “Ministry of Railways for making suitable arrange- All categories of passengers 12 injured after a vehicle fer- A report submitted to the piled this week, a road crash is station demanding transport Standard Operating Protocols (MoR) would permit move- ments for sending and receiv- will be allowed to book tickets rying them overturned on the Centre by a road safety organ- 10 times more fatal to someone for their repatriation to their (SoP) which entitles Railways ment of Shramik Special trains ing such stranded workers,” the which will be available Jhansi-Mirzapur highway on isation has shown that 180 than getting infected with native places in the wake of to allow Shramik Special trains in consultation with MHA. All Home secretary has written in online. late Monday night. migrants lost their lives in coronavirus. the lockdown. # # ! ! !" #$% # & '( & ' *(3 $(."0 .4/*3 ' ) % -5+6-7 6+-8 9+7-9 <"4<=*(3=# $%& '( s life in several parts of the n yet another sensational Acountry started limping ! * 6+,,: :8 ,+:98 Idaylight killing during lock- he coronavirus death toll )$ * +! back to normalcy on Tuesday ; 6+6,6 569 8+),- down in Uttar Pradesh, a dalit Trose to five in the State following relaxation in lock- Samajwadi Party leader, whose when a person succumbed to down norms, the country saw -.0.0 $ 6)+88, -00,+58) wife is also a sitting pradhan, the disease in Bhubaneswar on )% ( a massive spike in the number #; 8+585 6-9 -+- was shot dead along with his Tuesday. )%, of coronavirus cases with the % .- % 8+,78 8: +7-6 son in Sambhal on Tuesday. “A 75-year-old patient of addition of nearly 6,119 new 4 % ,+97 6- +96: The incident took place over Cuttack suffering from severe cases and 145 deaths on laying of road in the area. comorbidities and chronic pul- & -- Tuesday. 3 < +976 8) 6+)5, Soon after the killing, monary disease was admitted The total numbers of infec- .= = % +,:9 8 6+76 senior officers rushed to the to the AIIMS Bhubaneswar case in the last 24 hours. Two cases reported in the tion across the country swelled %;& +)) -: 6+7, spot and heavy police force was Emergency but unfortunately In Jajpur, 30 West Bengal Khordha quarantine centres to 1,06,446 with Maharashtra deployed to avert confrontation passed away within a few returnees and a Telangana are Gujarat returnees. Two alone recording 37,136 cases between the two groups. hours. Later, he was tested and returnee tested positive, taking locals in Baleswar also tested and Tamil Nadu and Delhi cent patients have recovered so for 20 per cent of the cases) at cause of concern for the State Victim Chhote Lal found to be positive for Covid- the district’s total to 168. positive. Of the four cases in contributing 688 and 500 new far,” said the Health Ministry. 37,136 cases and a total 1,325 as Mumbai’s Dharavi — the Diwakar (45) is husband of 19,” said the Health and Family Bhadrak’s total rose to 95 Cuttack, three returnees are in cases respectively. Rajasthan Of the fresh deaths record- deaths while Gujarat has 12,141 largest slum area — witnessed Kamlesh Diwakar, who is a vil- Welfare Department. after detection of 21 new cases. quarantine centres (including also added 338 new cases dur- ed as on Tuesday Gujarat reg- cases and 719 deaths. 1,353 cases. lage pradhan of Fatehpur Meanwhile, on the day, All are in quarantine centres. one each Maharashtra, ing the day. The overall addi- istered high of 25, Bihar record- Tamil Nadu has 12,448 Similarly, another Capital Shamshoi under Behjoi area. 102 more positive cases were While 12 of them had returned Telangana and Tamilnadu) tion of new cases for the day ed nine deaths, West Bengal six, cases and 85 deaths, Delhi has city Ahmedabad is causing Chhote Lal had a dispute reported in the State. Of these, from West Bengal, one while the other is a local case. stood at 5,931 with number still Delhi six, Karnataka three and 10,554 cases and 166 deaths, worry with 262 new coron- with a family of the village over Jajpur district registered 31 returned from Andhra Another case reported in coming in around 10. 30 pm. Odisha one. Madhya Pradesh 5,465 cases avirus cases in the city taking the road construction work cases, Jagatsinghpur 23, Pradesh, two from Tamil Nadu Nayagarh is a Surat The total death toll due to Tamil Nadu recorded a and 258 deaths, Rajasthan the number coronavirus cases on Tuesday morning. The Bhadrak 21, Kendrapada eight, and six from Gujarat. Two returnee. the virus in all the States and high of new 688 cases, Delhi 5,854 cases and 139 deaths, to 8,945. Ahmedabad has members of the other family Khordha four (including two in Surat returnees also tested pos- However, the total number Union Territories touched 500, Gujarat 395, Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh 4,926 cases and recorded 576 deaths with 21 opened fire at Chhote Lal and Bhubaneswar) and Puri and itive in Angul. of recovered cases rose to 307 3,301, according to the Union 338, Karnataka 149, Uttar 123 deaths, West Bengal 2,961 fresh ones on his son Sunil Diwakar (22), Cuttack districts four each, Out of the 23 found posi- when 30 more patients recov- Health Ministry. The number Pradesh 145, West Bengal 137, cases and 250 deaths, Odisha Tuesday. killing them on the spot. Angul two, Baleswar two, tive in Jagatsinghpur, 20 had ered on Tuesday. Of these, 20 of active Covid-19 cases stood Bihar 72 and Odisha 102. 978 cases and 15 deaths, Bihar Likewise Chennai regis- Surprisingly the local res- Sambalpur two and Nayagarh returned from West Bengal are from Ganjam, five from at 59,799 while 42,307 people Maharashtra tops the list of 1495 cases and 9 deaths and tered two fresh deaths on idents were engaged in making one.