From today, India has allowed opening the doors of public places like shopping malls, religious places and restaurants in several states. There have been a set of strict do's and don’ts for the people, authorities for each of these places. To add to it, these places have been cleaned and provisions for adherence to social distancing and other protocols been made.

In Maharashtra and Gujarat however, shopping malls and religious places of worship across the country. Are not ready to open their doors in view of the rising cases of coronavirus.

In a new grim milestone, the global number of coronavirus cases has crossed the 7 million mark. While the deaths have surged to more than 402,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

As of Monday morning, the overall number of coronavirus cases stood at 7,006,436, while the death toll increased to 402,699. The University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.

The US continues with the world's highest number of confirmed cases and deaths at 1,940,468 and 110,503, respectively, according to the CSSE.

As part of its "Swachh Rail-Swachh Bharat" initiative, the Indian Railways has installed bio toilets across 68,000 coaches.

"A total of 49,487 bio-toilets have been installed in 14,916 coaches during 2019-20. This takes the cumulative number of bio-toilets to more than 2,45,400 fitted in 68,800 coaches with a coverage of 100 per cent," the Indian Railways said in a statement.

This comes at a time when the country is dealing with an unprecedented health crisis caused by the deadly coronavirus.

Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder and tennis champion Serena Williams' husband resigned as a member of the Reddit board. He urged the firm to replace him with a black candidate.

The decision by the Reddit co-founder comes amid the US protests. For killing of George Floyd showing police brutality and racial inequality on the blacks. Ohanian further said that he would be donating $1m (£800,000) to Know Your Rights Camp. Which is a non-profit started by former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

The coronavirus pandemic in India grew by the highest number yet today when 9,887 fresh cases were detected in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of coronavirus patients in India increased to 236,657. India overtook Italy to become the sixth nation to record the most number of coronavirus cases in the world. Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh witnessed the biggest spike in daily coronavirus infection count on Friday.

A record number of coronavirus fatalities were confirmed in the last 24 hours. Coronavirus infection claimed as many as 294 lives on Friday — the highest number of deaths reported in a day.

Days after the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir found an IED-laden car in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district which was a part of a terrorist attack plan. Intelligence sources said that Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists are planning to conduct another Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device attack on security forces in Kashmir valley.

Security forces have been put on high alert to foil any such attack by Pakistan-based terror group.

On May 28, a joint team of forces recovered an improvised explosive device (IED) from a Santro car in Ayengund area of Rajpora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The IED was defused successfully by the bomb disposal squad and a major attack was averted.

A Jammu and Kashmir Police officer had told Zee News that security forces had received inputs 4-5 days ago about the movement of the vehicle carrying IED. He said a bomb disposal squad was called to the spot as soon as the IED-laden car was spotted.

Former Indian cricketer Anil Kumble admitted that the saliva ban is something which players will "find hard to manage".

"Based on medical advice, we believe that saliva could be the major contributor to carrying this disease and that`s why we banned the use of saliva. although it`s second nature in cricket. That`s something that players will find hard to manage," ESPN Cricinfo quoted Kumble as saying during a webinar, organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday.

Last month, the International Cricket Council`s (ICC) Cricket Committee, chaired by Kumble,  had recommended changes to ICC regulations including prohibiting the use of saliva to shine the ball amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Amid the rising coronavirus COVID-19 cases in national capital. the Delhi government on Wednesday (June 3) passed an order making it mandatory for all asymptomatic passengers arriving in Delhi to home quarantine themselves for seven days. It is to be noted that in its earlier advisory Delhi government had asked the travellers to remain in home quarantine for 14 days.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led government in Delhi hasinstructed all district magistrates to ensure that the new order is implemented properly.

The order signed by Delhi Chief secretary and chairman of executive committee of Delhi Disaster Management Authority(DDMA) Vijay Dev said that. airport, railway and transport departments has been asked to submit passenger manifests to the office of the principal secretary of revenue department on daily basis.

Meanwhile, the Uttarakhand government has decided to extend the 14-day quarantine period to 21 days. for those returning from 75 worst coronavirus-hit cities of the country including Delhi, Noida, Agra, Lucknow, Meerut, Varanasi, Chennai and Hyderabad.

Several parts of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana will have to brace for heavy rainfall on Tuesday. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in its weather bulletin.

According to the weather agency, rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and strong winds will lash areas including Karnal, Sonipat, Panipat in Haryana.

While Shamli, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Modinagar, Meerut, Bijnor, Aligarh, Mathura, Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh over the next two hours. Areas in the national capital too will witness light to moderate rains during this time.

An MLA of the ruling BJP in Gujarat was admitted to a hospital on Monday after he tested positive for coronavirus, his office said. The legislator had a fever since the last few days and he eventually tested positive for coronavirus infection, said a release by his office.

He was admitted to a hospital on Monday, the release said. He is the third MLA from Gujarat to be infected by the virus.

Earlier, two MLAs - one from the BJP and the other from the Congress - had tested positive for coronavirus infection.