Day: January 22, 2021

With 14,545 new infections, India’s Coronavirus caseload rose to 1,06,25,428 today.

After losing the first Test against Australia and Virat (Kohli) going back, to win the Melbourne Test and taking it to the decider without four of your main players who were injured, it was all phenomenal. Indians played really good, tough, hard Test match cricket day-in and day-out and won all the big key moments through the series

Bangladesh and Nepal on Thursday received Covid-19 vaccines from India under grants assistance.

Tamilnadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit will decide in 3-4 days on the state government’s 2018 recommendation to grant remission to A G Perarivalan, who is serving life term in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Supreme Court was informed.

As Kamala Harris took oath as the new Vice-President of the United States, her maternal uncle G Balachandran expressed his happiness over the mention of Kamala’s mother in her election campaign speeches.

Protesting farmer unions rejected the government’s proposal to suspend three farm laws for 18 months, and said they want nothing but a complete repeal of all these contentious legislations.

Left arm fast bowler Thangarasu Natarajan, who was part of the triumphant Indian team that recorded a historic 2-1 win over Australia, was accorded a hero’s reception in Salem district, even as health department officials asked him to get quarantined since he returned from abroad.

Strongly condemning the attack on Tamilnadu fishermen resulting in the death of four of them by the Sri Lankan Navy personnel, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami announced a solatium of Rs 10 lakh each to their family members.

As the nation continues with the world’s largest immunisation exercise against Covid-19 targeting healthcare personnel and frontline workers in the first phase, Southern Railway also joined the mission and launched the Covid-19 vaccination campaign at Head Quarters Hospital, Perambur.

An explosion of a truckload of explosives, suspected to be meant for mining, killed at least eight people in Karnataka’s Shivamogga district, police said.