Naba Kisore Das, Odisha health minister who was critically injured after being shot at by a police officer, has died in hospital. The minister was shot by an assistant sub-inspector, who has been arrested. The reason of the attack is not clear.
India on Thursday saw the biggest single-day jump of 495 Omicron cases, taking the total number of infections of the new variant of coronavirus to 2,630. Of the total cases, Maharashtra has the maximum at 797. The country reported 90,928 fresh coronavirus infections, the highest in over 200 days, that pushed its caseload to 3,51,09,286. Stay tuned for updates
, June 1 (IANS) Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan, on Tuesday inaugurated a Covid Care Centre at the Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) plant in Angul, Odisha, in the presence of state Health Minister .