The Center has on Thursday said that over two billion doses of vaccines will be made available in the country in five months between August and December, enough to vaccinate the entire population.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and National BJP President JP Nadda had expressed their condolences to the family of deceased Tikendra Singh.
Overall, the state has recorded 14,99,485 COVID-19 cases so far as of Thursday of which 1,83,772 are active, 12,98,945 have been discharged, and 16,768 had succumbed to the viral infection.
While some of the BJP leaders prescribed cow dung therapy and cow urine as the medicine for COVID-19, the former BJP Chief Minister had gone a step further by claiming that Coronavirus has the 'Right to Live'.
He was under treatment in Trivandrum a couple of months ago. Last month, he had tested positive for the COVID-19 viral infection and was getting treated at his home.
With anticipations going around Thalapathy 65, Vijay will be joining hands with Tollywood director Vamsi Paidipally for his next, which has probably become a surprise outing for Vijay.
Actor Radikaa Sarathkumar took to Twitter and wrote, "Very saddened to hear of the passing of Joker Thulasi, a very wonderful person, has been in theatre &movies for many decades."
By issuing the ban on the TASMAC outlets across the state during the tenure of the lockdown, the government has asserted that the Amma Canteens will be functioning.
The supporters of the opposition parties and the critics have claimed that the DMK government has intentionally increased the price of milk at Rs 6 and then later reduced it to Rs 3.
The first assembly session of the 16th assembly will be taking place when the state would under complete lockdown in the wake of the exponential rise of the COVID-19 cases.
On Saturday, she had met West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and submitted a memorandum on the violence faced by the BJP members and women in West Bengal.
Edappadi Palaniswami is not willing to give up the post of the Opposition leader and he is citing his victory in a huge margin in the polls to power up his claim to become the Opposition leader.
Chief Minister MK Stalin has also appointed Thamaraikannan IPS as the ADGP for Law and Order and Davidson Devasirvatham IPS as the Chief of State Intelligence.
The complete lockdown will be imposed from May 10 and the government has banned intra and inter-district transportations during the course of the lockdown.
More importantly, the government has announced a ban on inter and intra-district transportation and no public and private transports will ply between the districts during the lockdown.
Udhayachandran, who is currently the Principal Secretary/ Commissioner of Archaeology will be posted as the Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister with immediate effect.
Both the top leaders - Edappadi Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam had engaged in a fresh race on who will become the Opposition leader in the state assembly.
Through appointing Irai Anbu, Stalin has displayed that he is committed to building a robust administration in addressing the pandemic and other forms of crisis.
These orders have become crucial as they had concentrated on relaxing the burden of low and middle-class people as they endure financial distress brought by the pandemic.
When MK Stalin said, "I, Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin", during taking the oath, the entire hall was filled with applause while Durga Stalin and Udhayanidhi had gone emotional and broken down in tears.
Apart from going emotional, the ceremony has also gone close to a family reunion as MK Stalin's family had exchanged greetings with his estranged brother MK Alagiri's family.
He has assumed as the head of the government after securing a landslide victory by defeating the ADMK in the legislative election, which is the first election for Stalin as the DMK President.
Stalin will be assuming the office of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for the first time at the backdrop of overwhelming challenges of addressing the health and financial crises.
The list has come with minor changes of the predictions and a major overhaul for leading the state as Stalin has invited a handful of new faces to decorate his cabinet.
MK Stalin's first cabinet has 34 ministers including two women and a handful of new faces and the Chief Minister-elect has also reserved berth for some of the bigheads of the party in his cabinet.
