As a relief for people with disabilities, the Central government has now made it mandatory for disability certificates to be issued online. The Ministry of Social justice and empowerment has issued a gazette notification for this on Monday.
DMK president MK Stalin's Cabinet, including him, would be 34-member strong and he has retained senior leaders like Duraimurugan and 15 shall be ministers for the first time. Chief Minister-designate Stalin's list of persons to be appointed as ministers along with their portfolios has been approved by Governor Banwarilal Purohit, a Raj Bhavan release said.
Those arriving in West Bengal by train must carry a negative RT-PCR report for a test conducted within 72 hours of train departure, the Railways have said. West Bengal is the newest among several states which have made it mandatory for passengers to carry negative RT-PCR tests for arrival into the state.
Amid rising coronavirus cases in the national capital, former Vice-Chancellor of the Delhi University Dinesh Singh has hinted towards a good development. The leasing Mathematics Scholar has predicted that Covid infections being reported in Delhi will show a perceptible easing up between May 10-15. Singh has triangulated three sources of data and predicted that Delhi will see a perceptible easing up in the said dates. 
An earthquake of magnitude 2.8 on the Richter scale hit Assam's Morigaon on Friday morning, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).
West Bengal's COVID-19 fatalities rose to 11,964 on Thursday after 117 deaths, the highest so far in a single day, were reported, the health department said in a bulletin.
Riding on the pandemic's second wave, a record 49,058 new Covid cases, including 23,706 in Bengaluru were registered in a day across Karnataka while 328 patients succumbed to the virus, said the state health bulletin on Thursday.Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
