Internal circulars indicate govt to lift lockdown by mid-June

The Department of Personnel and Training issued a notice that announced postponing the start of a post-graduate degree course for senior bureaucrats at IIM Bangalore

Lockdown revelations

Many social organisations and activist groups, including those affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as also ones that profess Leftist ideology, have found the lockdown a revelation. On April 14, the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), which is the trade union arm of the RSS, organised a lecture by Krishna Gopal on the birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar. Gopal is one of the top leaders of the RSS and has handled its Dalit outreach over the years. According to the BMS, the lecture was streamed live on its Facebook page, and as many as 6,000 of its workers