Day: March 29, 2021

Showing a sharp upward trend, Tamilnadu today registered 2,279 new cases, and the total number of inflections has touched 8,81,752.

In the midst of a fierce election campaign in Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee – injured earlier this month – held a roadshow in wheelchair in high-stakes Nandigram, which votes in the second phase of the State elections.

A case has been filed against Deputy Speaker and AIADMK leader Pollachi V Jayaraman, his son Praveen and six other members for threatening a DMK functionary.

Tamilnadu Chief Electoral Officer Satyabrata Sahoo today said a report has been sent to the Election Commission of India on DMK leader’s A Raja’s comments on Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami’s birth.

With his comments on Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami’s birth snowballing into a huge row that might cost the DMK heavily in the 6 April Assembly elections, former Union Minister A Raja, who a couple of days ago refused to express regret, tendered an open apology today.

Hospitalisations and death rates among the elderly in the US are falling, marking hopeful signs that a Covid-19 vaccinnation push aimed first at older Americans is bearing fruit, a media report said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that New Delhi will donate military equipment used the country’s in the 1971 Liberation War to be displayed in museums in Bangladesh.

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera warned that the coming days and weeks will be difficult and painful due to the critical health situation the country is currently facing, with more than 7,000 daily Covid-19 cases registered in recent days.

The death toll in a collapse of a residential building in the Egyptian capital of Cairo has increased to 23, the civil defence service said on Sunday.