The celebrations for Lord Jagannath's annual Ratha Jatra began in Puri on Friday with the 'Naba Jauban Darshan' of the sibling deities, during which they are worshipped in their youthful appearances after spending 14 days in 'Anasara Ghara' or quarantine.
The Sikkim Government is taking steps to revive the tourism industry in the state. With ease in restrictions, the footfall of tourists has increased. Stakeholders associated with the tourism industry have welcomed the govt's decision. "The government has decided to open Sikkim for tourists. If everything remains fine, more relaxations will be given to boost tourism," said Sikkim's Tourism Additional Secretary Kapil Meena. Sikkim has around 1900 active cases of COVID.
On Tuesday Kerala reported 14,373 new cases and 142 deaths taking the total death toll to 13,960.
Germany is easing strict restrictions on travel from Britain, Portugal and some other countries that were imposed because of the rise of the more contagious delta virus variant.
According to official data, an economy of Rs 11,000 crore is generated in Himachal Pradesh through tourism.
Pandemic restrictions on travel between Canada and the U.S. began to loosen Monday for some Canadians.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says people in England will no longer be required by law to wear face masks in indoor public spaces and to keep at least 1 meter (3 feet) apart as soon as later this month, confirming plans to reopen society despite rising coronavirus cases.
The Tokyo Olympic torch relay is scheduled to visit all 47 prefectures of Japan over 121 days.
It seems like Nepal is not taking the ongoing pandemic situation seriously as the restrictions on the public vehicles have been lifted by the local authorities despite third wave warning.
The Centre on Tuesday asked all states to focus on the five fold-strategy for effective COVID-19 management and said the process of relaxing restrictions should be "carefully calibrated".
Mary Kom will take off for Assisi in a day or two to join the eight other Olympic-bound boxers, who are set to leave for Tokyo from there itself.
Salons, beauty parlours have been allowed to open from 11am to 6pm with 50 per cent seating capacity provided staff has been vaccinated.
The decision came a week after the RBI granted an "in principle" approval to Centrum Financial Services for setting up a small finance bank, thereby clearing the decks for the takeover of th crisis-hit PMC Bank by Centrum and BharatPe as equal partners.
India is clubbed with Afghanistan, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, in group 1 countries with serious COVID-19 situation.
The permitted range for fishing will be expanded from 6 nautical miles, or some 11 km, to 9 nautical miles, or some 16.7 km, the office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Israel's military liaison to the Palestinians, said in a statement.
The Jharkhand government on Wednesday extended the lockdown-like restrictions till July 1, as per an official notification. This is the seventh time that the COVID-related curbs, first imposed in the state on April 22 for a week, were extended. The ongoing measures were scheduled to end on June 24.
With the pandemic still raging, the Tokyo organisers have prescribed stricter regulations for travellers from 11 countries including India for the Games beginning July 23.
CM Nitish Kumar said said that essential and non-essential shops can now remain open till 7 pm. Public parks and gardens can open from 6 am to 12 pm.
The Tamil Nadu government on Sunday extended coronavirus lockdown in the state for one more week, until June 28.
Uttarakhand govt on Sunday announced that a curfew will be imposed in the state from June 22 to June 29.
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