With migrants now allowed to proceed in vehicles to their destinations, locals are helping them by making trav...Read MoreAmid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from Hyderabad.
*Telangana finance department has released Rs 7,000 crore towards Rythu Bandhu payment to farmers.
* Update at 9.28am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 1,886; cases climb to 56,342 in India, reports PTI quoting Union health ministry
*Nagpur-bound migrants get food and footwear in Nizamabad
*The Telangana finance department released Rs 1,200 crore towards loan waiver of all farmers who had taken loans of Rs 25,000 or less.
*Lack of proper information about e-pass registrations and trains has left migrant workers running from pillar to post. With no local transport available, migrants are trudging towards the Secunderabad railway station to board trains, unaware that it was shut.
*The municipal administration and urban development (MA&UD) department has instructed residential welfare associations (RWAs), gated communities, apartments owners and residents to refrain from allowing maids and domestic helps till May 15.
*Following a tremendous response to liquor sales on first day, liquor shop owners lifted ₹140 crore worth stocks from 19 government depots