With a distinction being made between restaurants and bars, and the 9 pm curfew, high-end establishments that serve liquor are in a quandary about whether to open at all As per the latest orders from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) detailing the measures to be taken to reopen the economy, loosely being termed the "Unlock 1.0" plan, hotels and restaurants have been allowed to open up from 8 June in non-containment zones across the country.

This should have come as a cause for cheer in the F&B industry but has caused confusion and even disappointment in some quarters as the same order lists bars as prohibited in the current reopening plan, to be reviewed at an unspecified later date. “This is something we have been waiting for and now

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Meat bought from China's wet markets faces ban after kittens were fed dead cats

cat meat from China. Thousands of kittens were force-fed dead the cat meat at a lab in Beltsville, in the US state of Maryland, in aid of experiments studying the parasite which causes 'toxoplasmosis', a potentially fatal food-borne illness in humans.The US Dept of Agriculture research lab is no longer allowed to practice its kitten experiments after allegedly using cat meat and puppy parts from Chinese wet markets in its research between 2003 and 2015.Last year the Kitten Act 2018 was passed calling for the kittens to be adopted out and banning the experiments.Now a new Chinese Wet Markets Bill is being floated, which would ban US taxpayer money being spent at Chinese wet markets in future.

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Piers Morgan stopped by police after he's caught speeding on way to celebrity golf event

Piers Morgan has explained how he was pulled over by police officers for speeding on Friday.The Good Morning Britain host claimed he was "late [and] rushing" at the time.The 53-year-old spoke out in view of his 7.5 million Twitter followers about what happened prior to the Paddy Power Golf Shootout.The outspoken journalist admitted to breaking the rules as he said those that stopped him had been both "polite" and "respectful".Piers revealed all in reply to a controversial video from July last year, which was published on the micro-blogging site in light of George Floyd's death.The upload was captioned: "Judge for yourself...

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Beyonce and Kim Kardashian among stars honouring Breonna Taylor

Beyonce and Kim Kardashian West were among the stars honouring a black woman shot dead by police.

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Indian travel firm Yatra scraps merger deal with US-based Ebix

Ebix had agreed to buy Yatra in 2019 for an enterprise value of $337.8 million, aiming to beef up its portfolio of Indian travel companies, including Mumbai-based Mercury Travels and Delhi-based Leisure Corp.Indian travel services company Yatra said it is seeking damages against Ebix for breaching terms of their merger agreement, including clauses on representations and covenants.Ebix did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.Separately, Yatra said it has implemented certain cost-saving measures starting April, including cutting management salaries by half and freezing salary hikes to weather the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business.Shares of Yatra were about 8% lower in extended trading.This story has been

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Businesses must act responsibly as Covid restrictions are eased early

The pressure had been building for weeks. Business organisations, large and small, across multiple sectors, had been dialing up the rhetoric and putting pressure on Government to reopen the economy more quickly than first planned.

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Mail ballots from Tuesday's election push Biden over the top

WASHINGTON – After primaries and caucuses in 42 states and the District of Columbia, Joe Biden has won the last few delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president as states worked to tally a surge of mail ballots.Indiana, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island were among the seven states, plus the district, holding elections Tuesday. But a huge increase in vote-by-mail ballots, driven in large part by the coronavirus pandemic, meant election officials were still counting ballots Friday.Democrats don't hold winner-take-all contests in which the top vote-getter wins all the delegates.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Joe Biden ‘disturbed’ by Trump’s celebration of latest unemployment report

U.S. Presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden said on Friday that he was “disturbed” seeing President Trump celebrating the latest unemployment report that showed unemployment rates drop from 14.7 per cent in April to 13.3 per cent.

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Joe Biden has officially clinched the Democratic presidential nomination and will face President Trump at the polls.

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Mail ballots from Tuesday's election push Biden over the top

WASHINGTON – After primaries and caucuses in 42 states and the District of Columbia, Joe Biden won the last few delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president late Friday as states worked to tally a surge of mail ballots.Indiana, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island were among the eight states holding elections Tuesday. But a huge increase in vote-by-mail ballots, driven in large part by the coronavirus pandemic, meant election officials were still counting ballots Friday.Democrats don't hold winner-take-all contests in which the top vote-getter wins all the delegates.

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Student questions why restaurants and bars reopening, but venues for grad ceremonies not

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]It’s not just her child’s graduation Michelle is worried about. She wonders how high schoolers in smaller communities with less venues available will be able to celebrate, if at all.She says the Saskatoon Inn is willing to help her out, but right now it can only allow 15 people.

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Calgary restaurants reopening with closed washrooms brings ‘really difficult’ challenges

The lifting of some COVID-19 restrictions is bringing a new challenge for Calgarians: what do you do when you can’t use the washroom at the restaurant you’re eating in? Gil Tucker takes a closer look.

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Dani Dyer breaks lockdown rules to party with 14 other people at birthday celebration

DANI Dyer has been caught breaking the coronavirus lockdown rules for a second time after attending a party with 14 other people. The Love Island star, 24, was filmed with a large group of both male and female pals as they celebrated a friend's birthday.

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Celebrity Gogglebox viewers rage as stars 'break lockdown' in each other's homes

Celebrity Gogglebox viewers were furious watching Friday's show as they accused the Channel 4 show stars of breaking lockdown rules.

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Princess Märtha Louise of Norway Shares How Her Interracial Relationship Has Endured Racism

Princess Märtha Louise of Norway took to Instagram to express how her interracial relationship with author Shaman Durek has opened her eyes to the racist ways of the world. "Being @shamandurek's girlfriend has given me a crash course in how white supremacy is at play and the way I have consciously and subconsciously thought of and acted towards black people," said the princess in her message.

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Coronavirus: City of Toronto encourages restaurants, aesthetic services to prepare for ‘safe reopening’

coronavirus pandemic, the City of Toronto is encouraging restaurants and aesthetic services to be ready for reopening when given to go-ahead.According to a City statement on Friday, approximately 8,000 restaurants and 3,500 personal service and aesthetics businesses (hair salons, barbershops, tattoo parlours, nail salons etc.) were closed or heavily impacted by public health opening regulations since the Ontario government put in place emergency orders related to the pandemic.Closed businesses weren’t given the approval to reopen as of Friday, but the municipality encouraged owners and operators to be ready for “safe reopening” when the province lifts restrictions put in place.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest

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Gabrielle Union and John Legend lead celebrities paying tribute to Breonna Taylor on her 27th birthday

was shot eight times and killed in Louisville, Kentucky this March when police entered her home without prior warning. Her family is now filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the policemen involved, who have been placed on administrative leave following the incident.And as protestors continue to call for justice over her death, stars took the change to lift her story up on social media.Gabrielle Union wrote: ‘#BreonnaTaylor should be celebrating her 27th birthday today but she was murdered as she slept by police.

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Celebrity Gogglebox: How is Channel 4 show still being filmed through lockdown?

Gogglebox is more relevant than ever.It’s a show about families staying at home on the sofa, watching TV and discussing it – which is what many families across the country are doing.Celebrity Gogglebox kicks off on Friday, June 5 at 9pm, and there will be seven episodes in total.But with social distancing still in place, how are they able to keep filming the Channel 4 show during lockdown? Here we take a closer look.In line with health and safety concerns due to the coronavirus pandemic, Studio Lambert has changed the way it’s filmed.Normally there would be a crew in another room in the house operating the cameras.But due to the lockdown measures, households can no longer invite the camera crew in.Instead, the families have been given

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Coronavirus: EU to gradually lift restrictions on non-essential travel in July

European Union will not fully open internal borders before the end of June, meaning restrictions on travel to and from other countries will only start easing in July, EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said on Friday.She told a news conference after a video call among EU and Schengen zone interior ministers that most governments would lift internal border controls by June 15, but that some were not ready to do so until the end of the month.“So that means that (all) internal border controls are lifted by the end of June, I guess.

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Nova Scotians permitted to celebrate graduations under strict health guidelines

COVID-19 pandemic.But Dr. Robert Strang, chief medical officer of health for Nova Scotia, had some good news on Friday after he announced that high school graduates will be able to celebrate as long as public health guidelines are followed.At a press briefing, Strang announced an exemption under the Public Health Act to allow community organizations, businesses or municipalities to hold celebrations that would recognize graduates.This would be in lieu of traditional graduation ceremonies.“Living with COVID-19 continues to be a balance for us all.

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500 McDonald's restaurants will open for delivery next week

McDonald's is reopening 500 of its UK restaurants for delivery next week, according to a report.

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Meghan Markle Pens a Letter of Support to Her Animal Care Patronage

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has written an open letter to her animal care patronage, Mayhew, as the organization continues its work amid the coronavirus pandemic.In the letter, Meghan revealed that she will sponsor an animal kennel in her son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor's name in order to keep an interim home available for an animal in need. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is showing support for one of her dearest patronages, Mayhew, a U.K.-based animal care organization.

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Strictly Discs in Wisconsin, in a Pandemic: 'I Try to Remind Myself Everything is a Small Step Towards Progress'

Angie Roloff and her husband Ron opened Strictly Discs in Madison, Wisconsin, after Ron left a career in the biomedical research field to pursue his love of music full time. Nearly 31 years later, the couple made the difficult decision to shutter in-store operations due to COVID-19, roughly a week before Governor Tony Evers forced a mandatory shutdown of all non-essential businesses.

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Govt seeks to improve performance, branding of top Indian universities

NEW DELHI : The human resource development (HRD) ministry Friday took a set of decisions to improve performance monitoring and branding of top Indian universities.The higher education department asked the 20 institutes of eminence (IoEs) to quickly get on to the job as unlocking of the covid-19 lock-down continues, and come up with a three year vision document.

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How Beauty Entrepreneur Angela C. Styles, Made A Way With No Blueprint

UnBossed Podcast here: Raising money as an entrepreneur isn’t as straightforward or glamorous as it often appears on social media. Serial entrepreneur and Emmy award-winning beauty industry vet Angela C.

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Kourtney Kardashian opens up about educating her children on white privilege and racism

Kourtney Kardashian knows that the work starts at home. The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star opened up about her responsibility to teach her three children about white privilege and racism.

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Senior Chinese, Indian diplomats hold talks ahead of military-level dialogue

NEW DELHI: A day ahead of talks between top military commanders of India and China to defuse tensions along their common border, the foreign ministries of the two countries held discussions on Friday and agreed to not let differences become disputes and to manage their differences properly.The foreign ministry delegations were led by Naveen Srivastava, Joint Secretary (East Asia) on the Indian side and Wu Jianghao, Director General in the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Indian foreign ministry said in a statement.

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Luisa Zissman shares rare peek at her huge garden as she celebrates 33rd birthday in lockdown

The Apprentice star Luisa Zissman is known for not doing anything in half measures and that reigned true as the stunning mum-of-three celebrated her birthday during lockdown. Luisa, who turned 33, shared a rare peek at her huge garden, which fans once labelled a “national park” due to its sheer size, and posted a photo of two bouncy castles.

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Marvel star Angelina Jolie celebrates 45th birthday by donating to NAACP

Maleficent star donated the large sum ahead of her birthday yesterday (June 4), showing her support to the organisation in its fight for racial equality, social justice, and legislative reform.Although she did not mention the Black Lives Matter movement or the recent protests taking place around the world, Angelina said in a statement that she stands with NAACP and urges Americans to address the "deep structural wrongs" in society."Rights don't belong to any one group to give to another. Discrimination and impunity cannot be tolerated, explained away or justified," the actress said (via ET).

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Priyanka Chopra and other Indian stars branded ‘hypocrites’ for calling out racism after promoting skin lightening creams

Black Lives Matter movement while endorsing skin lightening creams.Priyanka, 37, shared a lengthy caption last week urging people to end the ‘race war’ following George Floyd’s death. She wrote: ‘Wherever you live, whatever your circumstances, NO ONE deserves to die, especially at the hands of another because of their skin color.

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PI Industries’ sanguine outlook brings relief to investors

₹100 crore during to covid-19 in March quarter. As a result, operating earnings during the quarter fell by ₹22 crore.Revenues in the domestic business dropped 12%, due to delays in product placements.

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How will restaurants adapt to new COVID-19 safety measures?

: Restauranteur Ernie Tsu talks about how restaurants will have to change in order to adapt to new COVID-19 safety measures put in place as the country begins to reopen.

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Wagamama expands deliveries to 100 restaurants and launches new click + collect service

Wagamama is expanding its delivery operation to 100 restaurants nationwide and launching a new click + collect service, the chain said today.

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Kanye West Named Forbes' Highest Paid Musician Of 2020

Ahead of him on that list, sits his wife’s sister Kylie Jenner, who reportedly earned $590 million in large part to her popular cosmetics company. He beat out Elton John, Arianna Grande and the Jonas Brothers to land at the top slot. Other Black celebrities in the top ten: Tyler Perry (#6 at $97 million), LeBron James (#9 at $88.2 million) and Dwayne Johnson (#10 at $87.5 million).The list is being published at a precarious time in the music industry. The touring that heavily contributes to artists’ revenues has ceased as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. West, who publicly protested his absence from the magazine’s Billionaires list, provided the publication with ample receipts of his income.

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Angelina Jolie Donates $200,000 to NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Angelina Jolie has donated $200,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund following the unjust murder of George Floyd, reported People. Jolie made her donation ahead of her 45th birthday on June 4, which she celebrated at home with her six children.

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Breonna Taylor Should Be Celebrating Her 27th Birthday. Here's How to Help Bring Her Killers to Justice.

Courier Journal.Between the coronavirus pandemic and the justified outrage over the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, the name “Breonna Taylor” didn’t rise to the top of most people’s full newsfeeds. After immense public pressure, the office who was filmed kneeling on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes with second degree murder and second degree manslaughter in his death, and the three other officers who were on the scene have been charged with aiding and abetting murder.

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Nova Scotia’s bars, restaurants and barber shops to reopen after coronavirus shutdown

COVID-19 pandemic.Under the province’s reopening plan, dining rooms can start allowing customers again starting Friday.Most of these businesses will be required to operate at 50 per cent capacity to ensure proper physical distancing.And staff must wear personal protective equipment such as masks and gloves.Hair salons and barber shops will also be offering a different experience for customers, and many will likely raise prices to cover lost business and increased overheard.Some health services will also reopen, including dentists, optometrists, chiropractors and physiotherapists.This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 5, 2020.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Questions about

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Moj Mahdara Is Uniting the Beauty Industry for Good

By Reporting by If 2020 has made anything clear, it's that there's power in unity. From protesters raising their voices together to demand justice to nationwide crowdsourcing to get hospitals more PPE, community has never been more important—even in the time of social distancing.

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Cannes announces 2020 official lineup after film festival gets canned, no Indian films in race; See Full List

The much-awaited Cannes Film Festival which happens around May every year was cancelled this year owing to the Coronavirus pandemic. Indian celebrities like , , and others who usually walk the red carpet for brands also did not get to put down their best fashionable foot forward.

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Mother and daughter celebrate unsung heroes of Covid-19 with surprise gifts

A mother and daughter have been turning up on people's doorsteps to surprise them with a homemade cake as a way to thank them for their efforts during the Coronavirus panademic.

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How to hack Netflix – the secret codes that will unlock hidden content

Netflix has been a saviour for those of with access to the streaming platform while we've been stuck indoors for hours on end during the coronavirus lockdown. We can also safely bet that there have been plenty of moments where you feel like you've watched everything the site has to offer across movies, television, cartoons and documentaries.

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Tiger King’s Jeff Lowe ‘signed on’ for reality TV show about his zoo which will ‘divulge information’ about Joe Exotic

TIGER King's Jeff Lowe has revealed he's signed up to star in a reality TV series with wife Lauren. The Netflix star, who shot to notoriety on the docuseries, said that he "will divulge a lot more information about the relationship between" himself and jailed Joe Exotic on the show.

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Kylie Jenner tops Forbes' highest earning celebrities list despite losing billionaire status

highest earning celebrity of 2020 - thanks to the mammoth sale of her brand Kylie Cosmetics.The star, who netted over $500 million for the sale, beat the likes of Kanye West, professional athletes and actors to the top of the list.

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Indian-origin pharma boss banned for price-fixing in UK

LONDON : An Indian-origin pharmaceutical industry chief has signed undertakings that ban him from holding a director role at any UK company for the next five years, in connection with his role in companies that were allegedly involved in illegal arrangements such as price-fixing of drugs.Amit Patel, a former director at the pharmaceutical companies Auden McKenzie and Amilco, was the subject of a UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation, which concluded with the ban on Thursday."Company directors have a responsibility to make sure their companies comply with competition law.

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Lorraine says cutting comments would get her in trouble on Celebrity Gogglebox

Lorraine Kelly has ruled out taking part in Celebrity Gogglebox over fears she would lose friends due to her off the cuff comments. Speaking ahead of the new Channel 4 series of Celebrity Gogglebox, which kicks off this tonight, Lorraine chatted, 60, to Denise Van Outen and her partner Eddie about filming the fly-on-the-wall series.The Essex based couple are just two of a string full of celebs taking part in the show.Laughing, Denise said: "It is basically an extension of our lockdown."We haven't moved from our sofa.

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Australia’s Live Music Industry Details $345M Recovery Plan

according to LPA data.As the territory enters its 12th week of lockdown, those glory days are in the rearview.It’s “well and truly time for the Federal Government to get behind Australia’s arts and entertainment industry and deliver a comprehensive and properly funded plan so our world-class industry can get back to work,” comments LPA CEO Evelyn Richardson in a statement.“Unlike some other parts of the economy, a gradual re-opening process is not commercially viable for most of our industry,” she adds. “We can’t re-open venues that only have dozens in the audience.

Not a billionaire, but Kylie Jenner is highest-paid celebrity, Forbes says

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kylie Jenner and Kanye West on Thursday topped the annual Forbes list of the highest paid celebrities, but sports stars, including Roger Federer and Lionel Messi, dominated the top 10.

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The tragedy of Indian H-1B visa holders with US-born kids

WASHINGTON : Many Indians, mostly on H-1B visa, have said that they feel being left out as their US-born children are ineligible to travel to India due to the restrictions put in place by the Indian government in view of the coronavirus pandemic.

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