
With more curbs lifted, next couple of weeks will be crucial for Puducherry
The Hindu
Administration hoping to maintain trend while opening up economic activities
With more curbs lifted from the lockdown phase that ends at midnight on June 14, the next couple of weeks could be crucial in determining the impact of the unlocking on the COVID-19 situation, health officials say. While new relaxations followed a consistent decline in fresh infections, positivity rate and mortalities, the administration is hoping to maintain the downward trend while opening up more economic activities. For a large part of May, the Union Territory was reporting between 1,500 to 1,900 new cases a day while deaths were in the 20-30 range with a peak of 34 deaths on May 23, while since June 1, these numbers have come down to the 500-1,000 range with fatalities too dropping to around 10 or below.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











