Read more about Decision on Class 12 board exams to be taken at the earliest: Minister on Business Standard. A high-level meet could not arrive at a decision on the pending Class 12 board exams today, with Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank seeking detailed suggestions from state govt by May 25
Madhya Pradesh will gradually begin the process of unlocking from June 1, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh said on Saturday, citing that the cases of Covid-19 in the state is under control. During a virtual meeting with senior officials of the state to review the Covid-19 situation he said, We cannot keep the state locked forever, will have to lift restrictions in few days in a phased manner. He further said that the positivity rate was below 5 per cent and the recovery rate was above 90 per cent in the state. We are in a position to control the Covid-19 infection. Yesterday 82,000 samples were tested in the state out of which around 3000 new Covid-19 cases were reported and over 9,000 patients recovered from the disease. Now the positivity rate is below 5 per cent and the recovery rate is above 90 percent, said Chouhan.
Read more about Tamil Nadu CM orders 30-day leave for Rajiv case convict Perarivalan on Business Standard. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin ordered 30-day ordinary leave for A G Perarivalan, Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict who is lodged in the Puzhal Central Prison
Maharashtra Leader of Opposition
Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday demanded that journalists, photographers and camerapersons be included in the frontline workers category to get them inoculated against coronavirus. In a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, the BJP leader said at least 12 states in the country have recognised journalists and camerapersons as frontline workers and vaccinated them. Some 12 states in the country have recognised journalists and camerapersons as frontline workers and given them the vaccine. Unfortunately, the decision is still pending in Maharashtra, Fadnavis said. Several media persons have succumbed to COVID-19 in the first and second waves of the pandemic, he said.
On the eve of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar s scheduled visit to post-poll violence-affected Cooch Behar district, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday wrote to him claiming that it violates long-standing protocols followed by his predecessors in case of field visits. In her letter, Banerjee also alleged that Dhankhar has been directly communicating with state government officers and dictating them, though she had earlier requested him to refrain from doing so. I find from social media that you are unilaterally proceeding to Cooch Behar district on May 13 and, sadly, I find that to be violative of the long-standing norms as evolved over several decades.