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1. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday tags IT giant Infosys and its co-founder and chairman, Nandan Nilekani, after receiving a large number of complaints from users on the new e-filing website of the Income Tax Department which was launched on Monday. She said she hoped Infosys and Mr Nilekani would not "let down our taxpayers in the quality of services being provided". 2. Nepal's department of Ayurveda and Alternate Medicines bans the use of Baba Ramdev's cure of Covid 'Coronil'. 3. India reports less than one lakh new coronavirus infections after a gap of 63 days, while the daily positivity rate dropped to 4.62 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. A single day rise of 86,498 cases were registered, the lowest in 66 days, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 2,89,96,473. 4. A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the Centre is taking back vaccine-buying from states, the Finance Ministry says the programme will cost around ₹ 50,000 crore and the government has the money. "We don't need to go for the supplementary grants immediately as there are enough funds. We may have to go for this in the second round, near the winter session of Parliament. At present we have the money," Finance Ministry sources said. 5. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says on Monday that the decision on vaccinating all above the age of 18 for free should have been taken long back and the delay has cost many lives. Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of free vaccination for all adults, Ms Banerjee said that it took him four months to listen to the pleas of the states. 6. Delhi gets 40,000 Covaxin doses, and has restarted now the vaccination of the 18-44 age group. 7. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray meets with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday and raised the subject of Maratha quota, struck down by the Supreme Court recently. 8. The Uttar Pradesh government says it will carry out an inquiry after the owner of a prominent private hospital in Agra was allegedly caught on audio bragging about how the hospital shut off oxygen supply on April 27 for five minutes in a "mock drill" amid what the owner purportedly claimed was an acute shortage of oxygen at his hospital during a raging Covid surge in the western UP town , and elsewhere in the state. 9. Mehul Choksi's bail plea to be heard by the Dominica Court today.
