From The Newsroom: A Raja barred from campaigning for 2 days

In your evening news brief, Election Commission of India bars DMK leader A Raja from campaigning for 48 hours; GST collections in March touch a record high and Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar appeal to eligible people to get vaccine against Coronavirus.

Hi, this is Ahmed Shariff and you are listening to, From The Newsroom— your daily evening news catch up show from Deccan Herald.

Here is the top news of April 1, 2021:

The Election Commission of India has barred DMK leader A Raja from campaigning for 48 hours with immediate effect.

The move comes after the election body found his reply regarding his remarks over Tamil Nadu CM and his mother unsatisfactory.

The EC has reprimanded the DMK leader for violation of the model code of conduct and delisted his name from the list of star campaigner.

GST collections in March touched a record high of over Rs 1.23 lakh crore, a 27 per cent growth over the year-ago period, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday.

"GST revenues crossed above Rs 1 lakh crore mark at a stretch for the last six months and a steep increasing trend over this period are clear indicators of rapid economic recovery post-pandemic," the ministry said.

Closer monitoring against fake-billing, deep data analytics using data from multiple sources including GST, income tax and customs IT systems and effective tax administration have also contributed to the steady increase in tax revenue over the last few months, it added.

As the state geared up to vaccinate everyone above 45 years of age from Thursday, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar appealed to the eligible people to make use of this protective cover against coronavirus.

The Health Department said in a statement that Covid-19 vaccination will continue at all the primary health centres, community health centres, Taluk hospitals, district hospitals, medical colleges and private hospitals as already being done.

It added that Karnataka has in stock 13.5 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine and 1.5 lakh doses of Covaxin vaccine and it has been supplied to all the cold chain points across the districts as per their requirement.

Source: DHNS/ PTI