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Earlier last week, VK Sasikala, expelled AIADMK leader and close aide of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, has decided to stay away from politics to ensure that Jayalalithaa’s golden rule is established in Tamil Nadu.
BJP is making big inroads ahead of the Assembly elections next month with former Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi and Actor Mithun Chakraborthy joining the party in recent times.
The spectrum auction that took place recently has fetched the government more revenues than any previous sale. The spectrum sale that ended on March 2 with operators buying airwaves worth ₹77,814.80 crore in the 800MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz, 2100MHz and 2300MHz bands.
Reliance Jio bought most spectrum, worth ₹57,122.65 crore. Jio bought 488.35MHz in the 800MHz, 1800MHz and 2300MHz bands, while Bharti Airtel picked 355.45MHz of spectrum amounting to ₹18,698.75 crore.
In other news, New cases of coronavirus infection in India were recorded above 18,000 for the second consecutive day taking the country’s tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,12,10,799.
The COVID-19 active caseload increased to 1,84,523 which now comprises 1.65 per cent of the total infections.
A total of 18,711 new infections were registered in a day, while the death toll increased to 1,57,756 with 100 daily new fatalities.
Maharashtra continues to report the highest daily new cases at 10,187. It is followed by Kerala with 2,791 while Punjab reported 1,159 new cases.
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