As the Covid cases surge, the Tamilnadu government today announced night curfew from tomorrow, while ordering total lockdown on Sundays to prevent spread of the virus.
Day: January 5, 2022
Tamilnadu Governor R N Ravi, in his customary address to the State Assembly today, urged the urged the GST Council and the Union Finance Ministry to continue the GST compensation at least till 30 June, 2024 contending that the State’s revenues were yet to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Even as Tamilnadu Governor RN Ravi today began reading his maiden address to the State Assembly, the main opposition AIADMK staged a walkout and boycotted his speech to target the ruling DMK.
The Indian Air Force today apprised Defence Minister Rajnath Singh about the findings of the tri-services investigation into the 8 December helicopter crash in which CDS General Bipin Rawat and 13 others died.
Three persons died and four others sustained injuries in a blast at a firecracker unit at Manjalodaipatti in Virudhunagar today.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed the five nuclear-weapon states’ joint statement on the prevention of nuclear war and avoidance of arms races, his spokesman said.
As the world grapples with the highly mutated Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, scientists have identified a new strain of the Covid causing virus in Southern France.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he hopes England can “ride out” the current wave of Covid-19 without further restrictions.