DMK president M K Stalin's Cabinet, including him, would be 34-member strong and he has retained senior leaders like Duraimurugan and over a dozen 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.

As India faces one of its worst public health crises, a top Indian-American CEO has said it is time for other countries to step up their efforts and help the country deal with the COVID-19 situation.

Deloitte CEO Punit Renjen said the company is encouraging its 3,00,000 professionals across the globe to support three charities -- GiveIndia, United Way India and the PM cares Fund.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) on Thursday clarified that lockdown would not be imposed in the state as it would bring life to a standstill and lead to the total collapse of the financial system.

Rao took this decision after examining states where lockdowns were in place and positive cases did not come down, along with past experiences.

An air ambulance, on the way from Nagpur to Hyderabad, made an emergency landing at the Mumbai airport on Thursday after reporting a technical snag. The Beechcraft VT-JIL aircraft declared a full emergency after losing a wheel during take-off from Nagpur and made a belly-landing at 9:09 pm.

The air ambulance carrying two crew members, a patient, a relative and a doctor was diverted to Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.

New Delhi: Russia's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik Light will be produced in India, much in the line of its predecessors Sputnik V whose production also happens in the country.

It will be produced in exactly the same countries where Sputnik V will be produced. So it's India, Korea, and China, said Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian direct investment Fund (RDIF) in a virtual presser.

In an attempt to put a stop to the increasing COVID-19 cases in Madhya Pradesh, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said that a strict 'Janata Curfew' will be imposed across the state till May 15.

Chouhan said that everything will have to be shut till May 15.

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the county, all persons arriving in the national capital from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana will have to undergo mandatory government institutional quarantine.

This comes after reports of a more virulent variant of the virus found in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, which reportedly has a shorter incubation period and a higher transmission rate.

Jaipur: In view of the rapid increase in coronavirus cases in Rajasthan, the state government has declared a complete lockdown in the state. The lockdown will begin on May 10 from 5:00 am and will remain in place till May 24 at 5:00 am.

Under the restrictions, all activities have been completely banned in the state, including wedding ceremonies. Essential services will continue to operate.

The second wave of COVID-19 has hit India like a tsunami, Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar Shaw has said, attributing the unprecedented spike in coronavirus cases to the recent state elections and religious festivals in the country.

India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to expunge critical remarks of the Madras High Court holding the poll panel responsible for surge in COVID cases in country, and also trashed the plea that media be restrained from reporting observations of judicial proceedings, saying it will be a retrograde act.

A bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud, however, acknowledged that the high court's remarks were harsh, but did not expunge them saying they do not form part of the judicial order.

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