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The NHRC has sent notices to the Haryana government and the Gurgaon police commissioner over reports that a young Manipuri woman was allegedly racially abused and beaten up by some locals in the city.

She was first abused by an elderly woman in a racial tone and as the altercation started she was branded "corona" by the crowd, the rights panel said quoting reports.

"The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of media reports that a 20-year-old girl hailing from Manipur, was subjected to racial discrimination and brutally attacked by some locals from Faizapur, Gurugram in Haryana just for passing through the locality on Sunday afternoon," the NHRC said in a statement.

The commission further observed that it is "disgusting" that a woman from northeastern part of her own country has been subjected to "racial discrimination and physical assault by a local family in the NCR," it said.

Accordingly, a notice has been issued to the chief secretary, Government of Haryana, and the commissioner of police, Gurgaon, seeking a detailed report, within four weeks along with status of the investigation being conducted by the police after registration of the FIR and relief or counselling provided by the authorities to the victim, the statement said.

The commission would also like to know about the present health condition of the victim and the status of the medical treatment being provided to her by the district authorities, it added.

Gurdas Singh Badal, a former MP and the younger brother of Akali stalwart Parkash Singh Badal, has died at the age of 90.

Gurdas Badal breathed his last at a private hospital in Mohali around midnight last night. He is survived by his son and a daughter.

He had been unwell following his wife's death in March and died due to age-related ailments.

He was the father of Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal.

Samajwadi Party leaders Akhilesh Yadav on Friday took a dig at the Atmanirbhar economic package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, suggesting that self-reliance and loans do not go together.

The opposition leader posted a make-believe conversation in which a student asks what is meant by a loan and also seeks to know the meaning of self-reliant .

Are loan and self-reliance synonymous, the student asks. I will ask Delhi and tell you, the teacher replies.

Yadav did not elaborate on the teacher-student joke he tweeted in Hindi. But the apparent reference was to the loans announced in the Rs 20 lakh crore self-reliance package to revive the economy hit by the COVID-19 crisis.

Yadav had earlier termed the package a jumla , or empty rhetoric.

What kind of solution is this, he had asked in an earlier tweet.

Farmers are being asked to take loans. This is not the time to talk in the air about the future but to give immediate relief to farmers, he said.

India's exports contracted by a record 60.28 per cent to USD 10.36 billion in April amid the coronavirus lockdown, official data showed on Friday.

Imports too tumbled by 58.65 per cent to USD 17.12 billion in April from USD 41.4 billion in the same month last year, according to the data by the commerce and industry ministry.

The trade deficit narrowed to USD 6.76 billion. Trade deficit in April 2019 stood at USD 15.33 billion.

The 490-km Leh-Manali highway, which connects Ladakh with Himachal Pradesh, is expected to be reopened for traffic on May 18 as the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has completed the snow clearance work on the strategic road, officials said on Friday.

Project Himank and Project Deepak of the BRO have cleared snow from 16,050 ft high Baralacha Pass and 17,480 ft high Tanglang La Pass, which are considered the most challenging stretches for snow clearing teams, they said.

Snow accumulation in these sectors was over 35 feet at some places and has an average height of 15 feet, the officials said.

Reformed underworld don N Muthappa Rai died battling cancer at a private hospital here on Friday, hospital sources said.

Rai, 68, was suffering from brain cancer for the past one year and was admitted at Manipal Hospital on Old Airport Road, where he died at 1.34 am, they said.

Rai is survived by two sons.

"After a prolonged illness and hospitalisation, we regret to inform the demise of 68 years Mr Muthappa Rai.

He breathed his last at 1.43 am today," the hospital said and conveyed its condolences to the bereaved family.

Hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal on Friday announced to lay off nearly 13 per cent of its workforce -- over 600 employees -- via Zoom calls, along with salary cuts for the rest of the employees for at least the next six months starting June, with higher cuts going up to 50 per cent for people in senior roles.

Stressing that the company needs to prepare itself for things getting worse, Goyal said that multiple aspects of his business have changed dramatically over the last couple of months and many of these changes are expected to be permanent.

A NSCN(IM) militant wanted in connection with the killing of a former MLA and 10 others in Arunachal Pradesh was arrested by security forces from Longding district, an official said.

Personnel of the Indian Army in a joint operation with district police apprehended the rebel identified as self- styled 'Sergeant Major' Puman Wangsu from a forest near Longphong village in the district, Kohima-based Defence spokesman Lt Col Sumit Kumar Sharma informed.

Based on a specific intelligence input, the joint team launched an operation in the forest located close to the village.

The school education department is now busy preparing the halls for the 10th standard board examination for which the hall tickets would be issued to the candidates after May 18, Tamil Nadu Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan said on Friday.

A princess from Austria, who was married to Indian-origin chef Rishi Roop Singh, passed away at the age of 31 after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest in Houston, Texas, reported Fox News. She is survived by her husband and a two-year-old son, according to Indian Express.

The rupee pared initial gains and provisionally settled 2 paise lower at 75.58 against the US dollar on Friday as investors awaited fresh cues from further announcements on the fiscal stimulus package.

As per Third Advance Estimates for 2019-20, total Foodgrain production in the country is estimated at record 295.67 million tonnes which is higher by 10.46 million tonnes than the production of foodgrain of 285.21 million tonnes achieved during 2018-19: Government of India

The Odisha government on Friday asked 12 district collectors in the coastal region to remain prepared as a cyclonic storm 'Amphan' is brewing over the Bay of Bengal.

Chief secretary Asit Tripathy on Friday held a review meeting to ensure all precautionary measures are in place to face any eventuality that may arise due to the cyclone.

All coastal district collectors especially north Odisha collectors have been asked to closely monitor the situation.

An elderly man was killed and his wife injured when some unidentified men stormed into their home and attacked them with a rod, a police official said on Friday.

Sadar SHO Amarjit Singh identified the deceased as Kashmir Singh, 70, a resident of Guru Nanak Nagar along the Mehtan-Mehli Phagwara bypass road.

The assailants attacked the old man with a rod, hitting him on his head on Thursday night, and he died on the spot. His wife Supita, 60, suffered minor injuries, the SHO said.

A 45-year-old migrant worker from Rajasthan, who walked 30km from his residence to catch a Shramik Special train, collapsed and died near the Vasai Road railway station, an official said on Friday.

The incident took place on Thursday evening and the deceased was identified as Harish Chander Shankarlal, a resident of Bhayander in adjoining Thane district, he said.

He had walked nearly 30km from his local residence to catch a Shramik Special train at the Vasai Road station in the district to travel to his hometown in Rajasthan, the official said.

The low pressure system over southeast Bay of Bengal is expected to concentrate into a depression today evening or night & further intensify into a cyclonic storm over south & adjoining central parts of Bay of Bengal by tomorrow evening: IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra

Onset of southwest monsoon over Kerala likely to be delayed by four days; expected to hit southern state on June 5: IMD

Low-intensity earthquake of magnitude 2.2 hits Pitampura in Delhi: National Centre for Seismology

Close to 1,000 representatives of environmental action groups, locals and academics have asked the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change not to grant extension of clearance to the state-run Kashang hydropower project in geologically fragile Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh.

Aatish, the sole surviving member of the family, who were found murdered on Thursday in Preetam Nagar under Dhoomanganj police circle in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj, has been arrested for masterminding the killings.

Two persons, including a woman, were killed and 14 others injured when a mini-truck in which they were travelling, was hit by another vehicle in the Girthan village in Jalaun in the wee hours of Friday.

There were 46 migrant workers in the mini-truck and were returning from Mumbai.

All the injured persons have been admitted to the hospital in Orai.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed grief over the incident and has directed district officials to ensure proper treatment of the injured.

He has also announced Rs two lakh each for the kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 each for those seriously injured in the accident