- Sunil Jain, Managing Editor of Financial Express, passed away on Saturday owing to post-covid complications. He was 58.
- As many as 11,732 persons in the Odisha state tested positive for the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, informed the health department official stoday. New Positive Cases:11732 ,Inquarantine:6569, Local contacts: 5163,
- Mamata Banerjee’s brother Ashim Bandhopadhyay was undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at Medica Hospital in Kolkata and succumbed to the virus this died 15th may21.
- PM Narendra Modi took a high level meeting here today to review the preparedness of States and Central Ministries/Agencies concerned to deal with the situation arising out of Cyclone ‘Tauktae’.
- The IAF has kept 16 transport aircraft and 18 helicopters on op readiness in peninsular India in preparation for the Cyclone Tauktae which is expected to cause very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall along the western coast of India in the next few days. en bestowed with the best professor of the year honour by Asian Education Awards (AEA) this year.
- The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Saturday asserted that no one should be denied vaccine, medicine, hospitalisation or treatment just because they do not have an Aadhaar. The UIDAI made it clear that Aadhaar should not be misused as an excuse for denial of any essential service.
- Haffkine Biopharmaceutical Corporation Ltd, Indian Immunologicals Ltd and, Bharat Immunologicals and Biologicals Corporation Ltd have recived central grants towards scaling up for production of Covaxin after Bharat Biotech agreed to share the vaccine formulation
- The GST Council will have to decide on states’ demand for fiscal support and GST rate-related demands in addition to assessing the GST compensation requirement in FY22
- The Ministry of Railways on Saturday informed that Andhra Pradesh has received its first Oxygen Express in Nellore with 40 metric tonnes (MT) of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO).
- The Delhi government announced on Saturday a grant of Rs1,051 crore for the three municipal corporations to pay salaries of healthcare workers and other employees amid the second coronavirus wave.
- The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a gathering of Hamas militants in the Palestinian territories.
- Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday said that India will have 51.6 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses by July end including the 18 crore doses already administered.
- West Bengal government announced a complete 15 days lockdown in the state in order to curb the rise in Covid infection, informed state Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay The lockdown restrictions shall come into effect from May 16.
- The Chhattisgarh government has extended the lockdown in Raipur district till May 31 in order to curb further spread of the coronavirus. The extended lockdown shall have certain new conditions in the guidelines.
- In a letter to Union Health & Family Welfare Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Pradhan sought 19 more PSA oxygen plants in 15 districts in addition to 21 oxygen plants being set up across various districts of Odisha.
- With 513 out of 700-plus districts of the country reporting Covid positivity rate of over 10 per cent in signs of considerable infection, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday directed officials to ensure door-to-door testing in villages and an urgent audit of ventilators provided to the states by the Centre.
- As many as 11732 more persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Odisha during the last 24 hours as the tally surged to 612224.Khurda district reported highest 1710 fresh cases, followed by Cuttack (870) and Angul (700).With this, the number of active cases in the state mounted to 107403. A total of 56842 samples were tested in Odisha, yesterday.
- In a first, the Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC) will start COVID vaccination at doorstep for senior citizens in the Silk City of Odisha. The vaccination at doorstep for senior citizens will begin from May 17 (Monday), informed Ganjam district administration today.
- In order to help employees of IT, ITeS and private companies move in the twin city of Odisha during the lockdown and weekend shutdown imposed to prevent spread of Covid-19, the Police Commissionerate started e-permission for them.
- India logged 3.11 lakh fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, taking the overall caseload to 2.46 crore. The country recorded 4,077 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths to 2.7 lakh.
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