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Assembly Elections 2021

Huge win: BJP supporters celebrating at the party's State head office in Guwahati on May 2, 2021.

Welfare measures not a decisive factor in Assam Manjesh Rana

Not many households benefited from schemes launched by the State government

CAA, NRC evoke mixed sentiments in Assam

Hindu consolidation pays off in Assam

How the Left Front bucked a decades-old trend in Kerala

Kerala votes LDF for tackling the coronavirus

COVID-19

Crowd-funding COVID-19 treatment may become difficult Vikas Dhoot

Move to allow cash payments over ₹2 lakh will be challenging for those without PAN or Aadhar.

India records over 4,000 deaths for second day in a row

Imports of oxygen concentrators, supplies from China surge

Despite SC order, oxygen supply to Delhi falls short

IMA calls for national lockdown to help health infra recover

National

A view of the Supreme Court of India. File

National

COVID-19 surge | Supreme Court orders immediate de-congestion of prisons

Krishnadas Rajagopal Orders released inmates to be transported home so they do not violate curfew/lockdown

National

Coronavirus | It’s MOVID pandemic, says Congress

Special Correspondent “What we are going through today is a man-made disaster, in fact I would go on to say, a Modi-made disaster”

International

An injured woman is transported to a hospital after a blast in Kabul, in Afghanistan on May 8, 2021.

International

Bomb kills at least 30 people near school in Afghan capital

AFP Students among the 52 injured who have been shifted to hospital: official

Colonial Pipeline did not say what was demanded or by whom, but ransomware attacks are typically carried out by criminal hackers who seize data and demand a large payment in order to release it.

International

U.S. pipeline company halts operations after cyberattack

AP The impact of the attack on fuel supplies and prices depends on how long the pipeline is down.

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States All

In single file: Essential workers queue up outside Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai to board local trains on Friday.

States

With 898 deaths, Maharashtra’s COVID-19 toll nudges 75,000

Special Correspondent State reports 54,022 new infections, taking active case tally to 6,54,788; 37,386 more patients discharged

An elderly couple arrives to receive COVID-19 vaccine at Nair Hospital in Mumbai on Thursday.

States

Centre slow in clearing essential items imported by Maharashtra, claims Tope

Shoumojit Banerjee Health Minister raises issues of vaccine shortage, halt in oxygen supplies from Karnataka

Cities All

Endless wait: People waiting in a queue to get themselves tested for COVID-19 at the Government Primary Health Centre in Kosapalayam on Saturday.

Puducherry

Puducherry records 19 more deaths, adds 1,703 new cases

Special Correspondent Health Department screens a record 9,132 people on a single day

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Chennai

Stalin speaks to Ramadoss, Vijayakant

Special Correspondent Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Saturday spoke to Pattali Makkal Katchi leader S. Ramadoss over phone.A press release said that Mr. Stalin spoke to Mr. Ramadoss who extended his greetings. It also said that Mr. Ramadoss welcomed the decision to impose complete lockdown and offered suggestions to the CM. Meanwhile, a team of DMDK functionaries, led by its deputy secretary L.K. Sudhish, called on Mr. Stalin in the Secretariat on Saturday. Soon after, DMDK founder Vijayakant spoke to the CM over