# Covid situation

• India’s covid-19 cases tally crossed the 1.5 crore mark on sunday.

• The country registered 2,75,196 new covid cases on sunday.

• Maharashtra reported maximum cases of 68,631 followed by UP (30566) and Delhi (25462).

• Maharashtra also recorded the maximum casualties of 503, on sunday. Chattisgarh followed with 170 new deaths, while Delhi registered 161 new casualties.

• Ramesh pokhriyal Nishank announced that April JEE (main) has been postponed.

# Railways

• Two years ago 61 persons participating in the Dussehra celebrations near Amritsar were killed in an accident.

• Railways have decided to map local festivals celebrated along the railway tracks across the country and issue an advisory to loco pilots on speed restrictions and other safety aspects.

# Meghalaya

• Meghalaya has yielded India’s first bamboo dwelling bat with sticky discs.

• It has took the species count of the flying mammals in the country to 130.

• The disc footed bat (Evdiscopus denticulus) was recorded in the northeastern state’s lailad area near the Nongkhyllem wildlife sanctuary, about 1000 KM west of its nearest known habitat in myanmar.

# Covid management

• Central government has sanctioned 162 oxygen plants across different states.

• Railways will run ” oxygen express” trains over the next few days to transport liquid medical oxygen and oxygen cylinders across the country.

• The centre has banned the supply of oxygen for industrial purposes from April 22.

• However, supply for industries that make ampoulses and vials, pharmaceuticals, refineries and steel plants etc. has been exempted.

# Tehreek-e-labaaik

• Atleast seven pakistan police officers and seven rangers were taken hostage on sunday by supporters of radical islamist party.

• Rioting has rocked the country since monday, when the leader of the now banned Tehreek-e-labaaik pakistan (TLP) was detained in lahore after calling for the expulsion of the French ambassador.