HIGHLIGHTS AT 9 15 PM

    New Delhi, May 19 (PTI) These are the top stories at 9:15 pm:

    Nation

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    Super cyclone 'Amphan' weakens as it rolls towards Indian shores, lakhs evacuated
    Kolkata/Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Super cyclone 'Amphan' weakened into an extremely severe cyclonic storm over the west-central Bay of Bengal Tuesday afternoon as it rolled towards the Indian shores in West Bengal and Odisha where lakhs of people were evacuated from vulnerable areas and shifted to safety, officials said.

    DEL110 LDALL VIRUS
    COVID-19: Cases rise further across states; Govt says mortality rate much lower in India
    New Delhi: Hundreds more people tested positive on Tuesday for the deadly coronavirus infection across the country with a large number of them having returned from other states or from abroad, even as officials said India's mortality rate has been very low and it has taken much longer here for the tally to hit the one-lakh mark than many other countries

    DEL115 VIRUS-LD HEALTH MINISTRY
    India records 0.2 COVID-19 deaths per lakh population as against global figure of 4.1
    New Delhi: India has so far about 0.2 COVID-19 deaths per lakh population as against the global figure of 4.1, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday, even as the number of fatalities due to coronavirus infection in the country rose to 3,163 and the total cases climbed to 1,01,139.

    BOM25 MH-VIRUS-CASES-LD TOPE
    2,100 new coronavirus cases in Maha, 1,202 discharged: Tope
    Mumbai: Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 2,100 new coronavirus patients, taking the number of cases in the state to 37,158, Health Minister Rajesh Tope said.

    DEL114 UP-LOCKDOWN-4THLD-CONG BUSES
    Autorickshaw, car numbers in Cong list of buses for migrant workers, says UP govt; party protests
    Lucknow/New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government Tuesday said the list of 1,000 buses offered by the Congress to ferry migrant workers contained registration numbers of autorickshaws and cars, triggering a protest by the opposition party at the state’s border.

    DEL98 JK-4THLD ENCOUNTER
    Separatist leader's son among two terrorists killed in encounter in Srinagar
    Srinagar: Two terrorists, including Junaid Ashraf Khan 'Sehrai' whose father is chairman of the separatist conglomerate Tehrek-e-Hurriyat, were killed on Tuesday after a 15-hour long gun battle with security forces in a densely populated area in downtown Srinagar, officials said.

    DEL99 LOCKDOWN-RAIL-SHRAMIK-LD STATES
    No consent required from destination states to run Shramik Special trains: Railways
    New Delhi: After a political slugfest between the centre and the states over the movement of migrant workers on the Shramik Special trains, the railways on Tuesday said the consent of the destination states is not required to operate such trains.

    MDS16 KL-2ND LD MIGRANTS
    Guest workers walking along railway track stopped in Kerala; Another group 'attacks' police
    Kannur (Kerala), May 19 (PTI) Lack of work and dwindling finances coupled with "inadequate supply" of food made life so miserable for a group of around 100 migrant workers in Kerala that they took the extreme step of setting out on a long march on foot back home thousands of kilometers away.

    Legal

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    SC allows probe of FIR against Arnab Goswami over Palghar news show but quashes 14 related cases in some relief for the journalist
    New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to quash the initial FIR against Republic TV Editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami over his news show on the Palghar mob lynching but gave some relief by setting aside related multiple FIRs and complaints holding they had a "stifling" effect on the exercise of freedom and expression.

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    DL-HC-BOIS LOCKER ROOM
    Plea to remove groups like Bois locker room from social media; HC seeks Centre, platforms' reply
    New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Tuesday sought response of the Centre on a plea seeking directions to it to ensure social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram remove illegal groups such as 'Bois Locker Room', "for the safety and security of children" in cyberspace.

    Business

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    BIZ-LOCKDOWN-STUDY HEADLINES
    COVID-19 dominates headlines; Migrant labour crisis most-trending news: Study
    New Delhi: As a nationwide lockdown continues to fight the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19 has accounted for up to 42.2 per cent of mainstream news headlines during this period while a resultant migrant labour crisis has emerged as the most-trending news, a new study showed on Tuesday.

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    BIZ-FINMIN-CONTRACTS
    Govt extends deadline to fulfill contractual obligations by up to 6 months
New Delhi: The Finance Ministry has extended the deadline for fulfillment of contractual obligations of all government projects, including public-private partnerships (PPP), which were due for completion on or after February 20, by up to six months in view of COVID-19 crisis.


    Foreign

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    Kathmandu: Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli on Tuesday asserted that Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura belong to Nepal and vowed to "reclaim" them from India through political and diplomatic efforts, as his Cabinet endorsed a new political map showing the three areas as Nepalese territory.

    FGN41 VIRUS-US-HCQ-LDALLTRUMP
Washington: US President Donald Trump has disclosed that he is taking antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine daily to ward off the deadly coronavirus, though health experts have warned it may be unsafe. ANB
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