Four people were killed in Gujarat as cyclone Tauktae pounded parts of the state and left behind a trail of destruction along the western coast, officials said on Tuesday. The landfall process of the eye of the extremely severe cyclonic storm Tauktae, which hit the Gujarat coast in Saurashtra region between Diu and Una, ended around midnight, the IMD said. It crossed the Gujarat coast as an "extremely severe cyclonic storm" and gradually weakened.

The first batch of the 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) drug developed by the DRDO for treatment of Covid-19 has been released by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh accompanied by Health Minister Harsh Vardhan. Dr Akshay Budhiraja speaks on how DRDO's anti-Covid drug works and how it will reduce Covid patients' dependence on oxygen and more.