DT Next - 2021-05-21

• Govt asks states to notify black fungus under Epidemic Diseases Act
• Beating pandemic blues: Class 9-12 govt students in TN to be given online assignment­s
• This police couple in Dindigul sets aside portion of salary to buy groceries for needy
• Stalin writes to President seeking release of all 7 Rajiv case convicts
• Submit supply plan of vax, drugs, O2 to TN, Pondy: HC to Centre
• Vijayan sworn in as Kerala CM for 2nd time
• Profits of vaccines have spawned 9 new billionair­es
• HC asks govt to cap private hosps’ COVID treatment charge
• ‘B.1.617 has sub-lineages; nothing called S’pore variant’
• Corporatio­n adds 304 oxygen beds at two centres in Chennai
• Local bodies asked to crack down on fleecing crematoria, burial grounds
• Stalin dedicates 500-bed COVID centre at Salem Steel Plant
• 1,300 petitions solved in 10 days under ‘CM in your constituen­cy’ in Tiruvarur
• Ooty enforces rotational opening of shops
• TN set to see record grain production this year too
• More defections to DMK likely
• Patient’s kin assault Arakkonam GH staff, medics stage protest
• Cyclone: Toll in barge sinking rises to 49
• We can’t rest till infection is fully wiped out: Modi
• Learn from bitter experience, says Delhi High Court; asks hospitals to set up O2 plants
• Telangana youth innovates portable home nebulizer amid COVID crisis
• 53 dead in Gujarat, Rs 4L for victims’ kin
• Tracing Chinese doc who pioneered masks
• Steering clear of a future shock
• Tax Big Tech to cover global vax costs
• Front and centre: Decoding the art of the sneaker
• EEPC: India must focus on Vietnam’s medical devices sector
• Israel unleashes strikes as expectatio­ns for truce rise
• Softbank-backed Oyo seeks $600-mn loan amid virus surge
• US allows Pfizer vax to be stored in fridge for a month
• These good Samaritans make sure stray animals don’t go hungry
• Liverpool in a position of strength

DT Next - 2021-05-20

DT Next - 2021-05-22