An employee prays as his bus proceeds to the Lord Venkateswara temple in Tirupati on June 8, 2020. The temple will open to general public on June 11. Lord Venkateshwara temple will be open to locals alone for the next few days as a test run, before welcoming pilgrims.
Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar
With the State government easing lockdown guidelines, hotels reopened in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.
Photo: K.V.S. Giri
The iconic Vidyarthi Bhavan, known for ‘benne dosa’, re-opened with safety measures at Gandhi Bazar, Basavangudi, in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Photo: V Sreenivasa Murthy
As per the Home Ministry’s standard operating procedure for restaurants, servers have to wear masks, gloves and face shields while serving food to customers. A scene at People's Park restaurant in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
Photo: M. Periasamy
People standing in queue to enter a shopping mall in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
Photo: K.R. Deepak
Markets opened partially in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. The Union Territory’s administration has said that restrictions on public movement and non-essential activities as per the last order issued on May 31 will continue to remain in force till further orders.
Photo: Nissar Ahmad
People rushing to board a bus in Kolkata, West Bengal.
Photo: Rajeev Bhatt
Security guards screen employees before as they enter the Central Building in Pune, Maharashtra. Offices in the State resumed functioning with 10% workforce.
Photo: Jignesh Mistry
Housekeeping staff at Viviana mall sanitises the premises in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Malls are yet to be opened for public in Mumbai.
Photo: Vibhav Birwatkar
In order avoid crowding, the Maharashtra government allowed shops on just one side of a road to open in a day. A view of the marketplace at Bhuleshwar in South Mumbai on June 8, 2020.
Photo: Vivek Bendre
Devotees maintain physical distancing while offering prayers at the Immaculate Conception cathedral in Puducherry on June 8, 2020.
Photo: S.S. Kumar
A devotee is being sanitised as she enters the Peddamma temple in Hyderabad, Telangana.
Photo: Nagara Gopal
Temple staff check the body temperature of devotees before allowing them inside Doddaganapathy temple in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Photo: V Sreenivasa Murthy
Devotees sanitise their hands before paying obeisance at the supreme temporal seat at Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab.
Photo: R.V. Moorthy
Devotees stand in a queue and maintain physical distancing as they wait to enter Sri Manakula Vinayagar temple in Puducherry.
Photo: S.S. Kumar
A devotee offers puja at Chintpurni temple in Vishwas Nagar, New Delhi. Even as the guidelines prohibit touching of idols and spraying holy water, these rules were flouted on the Day-One of reopening of places of worship.
Photo: Sandeep Saxena
Devotees stand in queue to offer prayers at the historic Jama Masjid in Old Delhi. They were advised to bring their own mats in view of COVID-19 pandemic.
Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
The Sacred Heart Cathedral Church in New Delhi decided not to open its doors today, even as the government allowed reopening of all places of worship.
Photo: R V Moorthy