Day: May 15, 2021

Tamilnadu today recorded 33,658 positive cases, even as 303 fresh deaths took the toll to 17,359 so far.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report to the UN Security Council obtained Friday by The Associated Press that the smooth transfer of power to a new interim government, which took power in March, brings renewed hope for the reunification of the country and its institutions and for a lasting peace. But he said progress must continue on the political, economic and security tracks to enable elections to go ahead on December 24.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 on the Richter scale hit Nagaland on this morning, as per the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).

Concerned over rising cases of Mucormycosis or Black Fungus amongst Covid 19 patients, the Odisha government on Friday constituted a seven-member state-level committee to monitor such cases in the state.

As cyclone Tauktae furthers closer into the Indian West Coast, the Central Water Commission (CWC) on Saturday issued an ‘orange bulletin’ for Kerala and Tamilnadu, predicting a severe flood situation in the two states.

South Korea’s former interior minister Kim Boo Kyum has been officially appointed as the country’s new Prime Minister, receiving the certificate of appointment from President Moon Jae In here on Friday.

A Chinese spacecraft carrying the country’s first Mars rover has touched down on the red planet, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) confirmed on Saturday morning.

After the tremendous response ‘Introduction of Pushpa Raj’, the first glimpse of the forthcoming pan-India film Pushpa garnered, its makers bring good tidings.

Germany is putting the Britain back on a list of ‘risk areas’ because of the emergence there of cases of a coronavirus variant first detected in India. Britain currently has a lower rate of coronavirus infections than Germany.