1. Russia has said that the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) will soon complete the approval process for the Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine

2. Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA), which swept the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) elections winning 18 of the 28. It has staked its claim to form the new council.

3. Retired judge Surendra Kumar Yadav, who gave the verdict in the Babri mosque demolition case last year, took oath as the deputy lokayukta or the up-lokayukta in Uttar Pradesh today.

4. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with Governors of various states on April 14 on the COVID-19 situation

5. Online registrations for this year's Amarnath Yatra will commence from April 15.

6. Mamata Banerjee was banned from campaigning in Bengal for 24 hours this evening over speeches that the Election Commission said violated the rules.

7. Sushil Chandra has been appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner of India. He will replace Sunil Arora as India's top poll official and take charge on Tuesday. He will serve for a 11 months before retiring on May 14, 2022

8. The Centre today extended the ceasefire agreement with three insurgent groups of Nagaland for another year till April next year.

9. The Election Commission (EC) on Monday declared that polls to the three Rajya Sabha seats from Kerala falling vacant later this month will be held on April 30.

10.The Maharashtra state board exams for classes 10 and 12 have been postponed by the state government as the state battles its worst crisis in the pandemic.

11. A petition asking for some verses to be removed from the Quran was dismissed today by the Supreme Court, which also fined the petitioner rs50,000 for filing a "frivolous" request.

12. The Indian government has taken a major step to prevent the spread of corona. Air Passengers will no longer be provided with food on the plane for less than two hours.

13. The proposal to set up the Bagchi-Shankar Cancer Hospital and Research Center has been approved by cabinet . The proposal to set up the Karunashraya Palliative Care Center has also been approved. Subrata Bagchi and Sasmita Bagchi have pledged Rs 340 crore for this. The state government will provide free 20 acres of land for the palliative care center. The center will provide free medical care to patients. Subrata Bagchi and his wife Sushmita Bagchi will pay Rs 130 crore for this

14. Vikram Handa has set up a company called Epilson Advanced Materials Pvt Ltd in southern Karnataka. India's first lithium-ion battery device is being manufactured there. All these tools are made from raw materials from Sajjan Jindal’s steel plant. Handa now aims to produce 100,000 tonnes of synthetic graphite anode by 2030 with an investment of around Rs 6,000 crore at the plant

15. New Vice Chancellors have been appointed at two universities in the state. Professor Umaballav Mohapatra has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor of Rajendra University in Balangir district, while Prof. Sanjay Shatapathi has been appointed as the Vice  Chancellor of Kalahandi University.