- India witnessed a decrease of 91,191 in active cases in last 24 hrs. The Centre said that at 2.08 Lakh cases, declining trend in new cases is maintained. The country has recorded 2,43,50,816 total recoveries so far, of which, 2,95,955 patients recovered during last 24 hours.
- Khurda reported a sharp spike of 2021 new COVID-19 cases as Odisha registered 11623 fresh infections during the last 24 hours. The COVID-19 tally in the state reached 726003 with 110373 active cases.
- The government has appointed CISF chief Subodh Kumar Jaiswal and former Maharashtra DGP as the new Director of CBI.
- Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Yaas made its landfall at 9 am north of Dhamra and south of Balasore around Bahanaga block coast, informed Odisha Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Pradeep Kumar Jena.
- Former Legislator from Bhanjanagar Assembly constituency, noted Actor and Lawyer Umakanta Mishra died at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar. He was 82.
- The Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar airport has been closed from 11 pm today till 5 am on May 27 in view of cyclone Yaas.
- The Congress amplified the "toolkit" issue today demanding that Twitter affix the "manipulated media" tag to the tweets of several Union ministers who allegedly posted the "forged document" from their official social media handles.
- Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar was suspended by Railways today after his arrest in the kidnapping and murder of a 23-year-old wrestler inside Chhatrasal Stadium in Delhi.
- A powerful cyclone headed for India's east coast Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of nearly two million people just a week after another huge storm claimed at least 155 lives on the west coast.
- West Bengal's former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who tested positive for COVID-19 last week, was admitted to a hospital in Kolkata today after his health condition deteriorated, officials said.
- Sunil Bansal, who headed the dairy business of Yoga guru Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved, died of COVID-19, the company said on Monday, adding it had no "role in his allopathic treatment." Mr Bansal, 57, who was Vice President in the Dairy Division of Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, died on May 19.
- Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, currently serving as the Director General of Central Industrial Security Force, has been appointed as the new CBI Director. Jaiswal, a 1985-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, is a former Maharashtra director general of police.
- Gujarat Secondary & Higher Secondary Education Board will conduct Class 12 exams as per the existing system. Exams of science & general streams will begin on July 1. Part-1 of science stream will have MCQs &descriptive writing in Part-2," said Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama.
- The Maharashtra government on Tuesday put a ban on home isolation in 18 of its districts that are in the Covid-19 red zone which means that home isolation will not be allowed for Covid-19 patients in these districts. Pune,Satara, Solapur, Mumbai city, Mumbai suburbs,Thane,Sindhudurg,Raigad,Aurangabad,Osmanabad,Beed,Hingoli,Latur,Nanded,Amravati,Akola,Dhule,Nagpur.
- M.B. Rajesh, CPI(M)legislator representing the Thrithala constituency in palakkadand the Left DemocraticFront (LDF) candidate, wasselected Speker of the 15thKerala Legislative Assembly on Tuesday
- With the Centre-set deadline for the social media platforms to comply with its new rules ending on Tuesday, the digital and legal worlds were rife with speculations over the consequences of non-compliance. Facebook said it would engage more with the Centre before eventually complying, while Twitter declined comment.
- The Railways has cancelled a total of 124 trains passing through East Coast Railway (ECoR) jurisdiction for the cyclone.
- WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court against the government's new digital rules that take effect today, saying these would compel it to break privacy protections.
- Heavy security has been deployed at Singhu border around the national capital in wake of 'Black Day' being observed by farmers to mark six months of their protest against the three farm bill.
- With several states gradually floating global tender for Covid-19 vaccines in view of the surge in cases amid the second wave of the pandemic, there is good for Mumbai as the financial capital’s civic body has received bids for the supply of Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Sputnik in response to its global tender for one crore doses.
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