Chennai, May 1(BPNS) Acute shortage of doctors, nurses and paramedics are leading to hospitals allowing by-standers and attenders to sit  by the bed side of patients admitted to Covid wards including Intensive Care Units(ICU’s). Even at Government hospitals, which are converted into Covid wards, relatives of patients are allowed to sit by the bed side […]

Chennai, May 1(BPNS) The Tamil Nadu government has constituted a seven member panel to monitor the Vedanta Oxygen plant at Tuticorin as per the orders of the Supreme Court of India to supervise the entire production of Oxygen at the Vedanta’s Sterlite plant premises. The seven member team constituted by the Government comprises of the […]

Chennai, May 1(BPNS) Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner ,G Prakash has said that vaccination has led to control of Covid among front line workers. The commissioner in a release on Saturday said that this is a strong case as to why people should take Covid vaccination.  Of the 60,000 to 70,000 frontline workers in the city […]

Chennai, May 1(BPNS) The Election Commission of India has made elaborate arrangements for counting at the Union Territory of Puducherry. The counting will commence at 8 am and will be conducted in three phases. The election commission will update the round-wise trends of each constituency every few minutes and the results will be announced in […]

Chennai, May 1(BPNS) The Election Commission of India has made elaborate arrangements for counting at the Union Territory of Puducherry. The counting will commence at 8 am and will be conducted in three phases. The election commission will update the round-wise trends of each constituency every few minutes and the results will be announced in […]

Thiruvananthapuram, April 29(BPNS) Dr MS Sunil is a retired Professor of Zoology from Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, Kerala and what makes her unique is her untiring compassion to provide shelter to the deprived and underprivileged. The Zoology professor entered into this passion while working as the National Service Scheme(NSS) programme officer at her College and was […]

Chennai, April 30(BPNS) Chennai with 40 Covid -19 deaths on Thursday has reported the highest number of deaths since March 2020 ,when Covid disease was first reported in the country. Tamil Nadu on Thursday reported 17897fresh Covid cases with 107 deaths. There were 112556 active cases on Thursday in the state  and 15452 people were […]

Chennai, April30(BPNS) Ambulance drivers of Tamil Nadu are a determined lot catering to transporting Covid patients from homes to hospitals, from private hospitals to government hospitals and also listening to the woes of the families of the people affected. In effect these good Samaritans are doing a yeoman service to the society risking their health […]

Chennai, April 30(BPNS) The Madras High court on Friday refused to restrain the media from publishing oral observations made by the court against the Election Commission of India (ECI) for surge in Covid -19 cases. The first bench of the Madras High court represented by Chief justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy  refused to […]