According to the ministry's data updated at 9am, 21 fresh deaths were reported from Maharashtra, two each from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and one from Punjab.
Health ministry is set to reimburse the railways ministry its expenditure on Covid-19-related activities, after a Union Cabinet takes a decision in this regard.
A round-up of the most important reports in major newspapers around the country – from TOI and HT, Express and The Hindu to The Telegraph, Mumbai Mirror and The Tribune, as well as top financial dailies.
Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Luv Aggarwal said Covid-19 was still in the local transmission stage in the country, as total number of cases reached 1,071.
India fortunately has Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme and GIS maps. But states need access to this data and undertake planning as though this were war time.
While Chandra Shekhar Azad is a streetfighter who has caught the fancy of Dalit youth, Anil Antony is the face of the BJP’s fresh social engineering attempt.
Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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