Chandigarh, June 2 -- As the Central Government eased Covid-19 triggered restrictions across the country under unlock 1.0, the Chandigarh Administration on Monday issued fresh guidelines allowing more relaxations in the opening of shops, inter-state movement, functioning of government and private offices, among others. In line with Centre's guidelines, the restaurants, hotels, shopping malls and religious places will also be permitted to re-open from June 8 onwards in the city.

A day after changing the night curfew timings from 9 pm to 5 am, the Administration has allowed the shops to open from 10 am to 8 pm. However, the shops selling essential items such as medicines, milk, bread, vegetables, fruits etc have been exempted from the time r...