- In Odisha As many as 12523 persons in the state tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. In quarantine: 7012
Local contacts: 5511 - Odisha registered its highest single day Covid-19 death of 27 people taking the toll due to the pandemic in the state to 2430, informed Health Department.
- India reported 2.59 lakh new Covid cases, taking its tally to 2.6 crore. The death count rose to 2,91,331 after 4,209 more patients died in the last 24 hours
- The Haryana police have registered a case against 350 unnamed farmers for allegedly attacking government employees and stone pelting during the protest against Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar who had inaugurated a COVID hospital here last week.
- Over 40 countries have supplied COVID-19 related equipment and material to India through the Indian Red Cross Society amid the surge in COVID-19 cases, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday.
- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will take a call on lifting the lockdown in Delhi over the weekend, after a discussion with Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal.
- Pinarayi Vijayan, who guided the CPM-led Left Democratic Front to a historic second successive term in the April-May election - was on Thursday afternoon sworn in as Kerala Chief Minister, with his all-new 20-member cabinet
- COVID-19 turned out to be the cruelest for the family of eminent sculptor Padma Vibhushan Raghunath Mohapatra as the virus claimed lives of him and his two sons in just 12 days. While Raghunath and his son Prashant died on May 9 and May 19, respectively, his eldest son Jashobant succumbed to the virus at around 1 PM today. He was 52.
- The Income Tax Department is going to launch its new e-filing portal www.incometax.gov.in on June 7, 2021.
- Odia newsman and founder of Dolagovind Newspaper Museum and Research Centre Sashank Sekhar Dash has been placed in the OMG book of Records.
- The government aims to ramp up India's daily testing capacity for COVID-19 to 45 lakh by end of June from the current capacity of 16-20 lakh per day, the Centre said on Thursday as a record 20.55 lakh tests were conducted in a span of 24 hours.
- An Air Force pilot was killed in an MiG-21 aircraft accident in Punjab late on Thursday
- Black Fungus has been declared as notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act in Odisha.
- Families in Madhya Pradesh who have lost their loved ones to COVID-19 will be compensated with rs 1 lakh, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said.
- A group of 116 former civil servants have written an open letter to PM Narendra Modi urging the Centre to provide for a free vaccination to all Indian citizens and ramp up RT-PCR testing in both rural and urban areas.
- The due date of filing Income Tax Returns (ITRs) for financial year 2020-21 (or assessment year 2021-22) for individuals has been
extended by two months till September 30. For companies, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has extended the ITR filing deadline by a month till November 30. - ByteDance is waiting to find out whether the Biden administration will revive former President Donald Trump's efforts to force the sale of TikTok's U.S. arm.
- In a bid to save Covid-19 patients losing their lives due to unavailability of medical oxygen, Gurudwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha in Guru Nank Colony of Vijayawada has commenced Guru Nanak Oxygen Langar.
- Eight people have died of black fungus in Haryana as the state has so far reported 316 cases of the deadly infection, officials said on Thursday.
- The Sports Authority of India will extend medical and accident insurance cover to more than 13,000 athletes, coaches and support staff from this year. This is in keeping with the decision of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to ensure the safety and well-being of all athletes and support staff in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic in India.
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