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19.09.2022 / 15:01

Hiring, expansions: Indian businesses gear up for festive sales free of Covid-19

festivals of Durga Puja and Diwali between September and November. E-commerce majors Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart have already announced deeply discounted sales.

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Navratri 2021: Temples reopen, Durga Puja carnival cancelled. Check latest Covid SOPs in your state

Navratri 2021 festival. The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government had announced promised last month that it would allow the reopening of places of worship for the devotees from October 7. However, the state government has issued detailed guidelines for the management, handling the religious places, for district administration and the general public amid the fear of third Covid-19 wave.

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West Bengal releases new guidelines for Durga Puja amid Covid. Details here

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Travel plan amid Covid? Full list of states that need RT-PCR reports, vaccine certificates

Covid-19 restrictions in place, every state has certain requirements, and in order to visit that state, you must fulfill that requirement. So, it is important to understand what are the essential requirements that need to be a part of one’s travel documents - be it carrying a negative RT-PCR report or producing vaccine certificates

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Delhi's Durga Puja to go online; home delivery of prasad, COVID test for priests

COVID-19 test for priests and cooks are some of the unique measures that Durga Puja organisers in the national capital have come up with to safely host the festival in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.Some organisers said they will rope in two priests to avoid any last-minute scrambling if the main priest gets infected with COVID-19, while others plan to maintain a record of visitors for easy contact-tracing.Most Durga Puja committees in Delhi have decided not to allow entry of people and limit physical darshan to their members only.The Chittaranjan Park Kali Mandir Society, which organises one of the biggest Durga puja festival in Delhi, has decided not to allow entry of general public to the temple premises this year due to

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Covid-19: Durga Puja pandals to be no-entry zones for visitors, says Calcutta HC

Durga Puja festivities in West Bengal are gearing up in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Calcutta High Court on Monday directed that all 34,000 Durga Puja pandals in the state to be made "No-Entry" zone for visitors.

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₹50,000 grant on COVID-19 equipment: Calcutta HC

₹50,000 grant for procuring coronavirus protection equipment. The rest of the grant should be used for strengthening public-police bonding.A division bench comprising justices Sanjib Banerjee and Arijit Banerjee directed that the grant provided by the Mamata Banerjee government to the Durga Puja committees cannot be used for any other purpose.

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India’s coronavirus cases are surging, but holidays expected to make it worse

United States with the world’s most novel coronavirus infections, India is bracing for a surge of cases in coming weeks as it heads into its main holiday season with an economy freed of virus restrictions.The recent experience of the southern state of Kerala, which was praised for its initial handling of the pandemic, indicates how rapidly the situation can worsen. Reported infections there have jumped by five times since it celebrated the 10-day harvest festival of Onam in late August, far outpacing the two-fold increase in cases nationally over that time.Still, cash-short state governments are reluctant to stop people from venturing out during the money-spinning Hindu festivals of Durga Puja, next week, and Diwali in mid-November.

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Police ask Kolkata Durga Puja organisers to follow all covid- 19 regulations

KOLKATA : Kolkata Police on Friday asked Durga Puja organisers in the city to rigorously follow all COVID-19 regulations and ensure that revellers mandatorily wear masks while entering the marquees during the five-day festival which will begin on October 23.City Commissioner of Police Anuj Sharma also said that puja committees should ensure that revellers adhere to the physical distancing norms inside pandals and are given masks by puja committees if they do not have them.He asked organisers to mark spaces for revellers near the pandals in keeping with the physical distancing norms and make separate entry and exit points in them. "Please don't compromise on COVID safety guidelines already stipulated by the government.

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Doctors warn Mamata of massive coronavirus spike post Durga Puja

Kolkata: Expressing concern over the unrelenting surge in COVID-19 cases in Bengal, doctors here have written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, urging her to take stricter measures to restrict public gathering during Durga puja, as it might "lead to a tsunami" of infections.BR Satpati, an advisor at the health department and member of the state's COVID-19 expert committee, however, asserted that the government was taking requisite measures to ensure people's safety.Members of Joint Platform of Doctors, in their letter to Banerjee, referred to the steep rise in coronavirus cases in Kerala after the recent Onam festival, and a similar situation in Spain following International Women's Day celebrations and a football match to make their

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India's contracting economy rebooting from coronavirus blow

NEW DELHI – Millions of distressed Indian manufacturers and traders are counting on the eagerly-awaited October-December festive season to rescue them from their coronavirus catastrophe. But spending may be the last thing on the minds of many Indians who have lost their jobs or businesses in the pandemic downturn, and pressure is building for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to do more to regain the momentum of growth that, at 8.2% in 2016-17, made India one of the fastest growing major economies.

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Durga Puja pandals to be open from all sides, hand sanitisers at entry points: Mamata issues Covid guidelines

₹50,000 to each Durga puja committee of the state, Mamata announced in a press conference.The state will provide ₹2,000 to hawkers for Durga Puja. For this, a list of 75,000 hawkers prepared, Mamata added.On Wednesday, a government official said that state has made adequate provision to meet the power demand in the metropolis and districts during the festive days."We are making a provision of five per cent excess demand for power this Durga Puja than the previous year.

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