Chennai, April 27(BPNS) Puducherry administration has ordered the closing down of all liquor shops, bars, toddy shops and arrack shops both retail and wholesale from Tuesday onwards till the midnight of April 30. This is following the Covid surge in Puducherry  headquarters, Karackal ,Yanam and Mahe. Deputy Excise Commissioner ,Union Territory of Puducherry , T […]

Chennai, April 27(BPNS) The counter at Government Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai which is selling Remdesivir drugs to prevent black marketing of the drug is helping patients who are dependent on Oxygen. Huge queue is witnessed at the Kilpauk Medical College hospital with the relatives of patients coming up to buy the drug. Tamil Nadu health […]

Chennai, April 27(BPNS) The Tamil Nadu hotel industry is facing a huge crisis after the sale of parcels from counters not meeting the expenditure incurred in many hotels. With Covid surging ahead the Tamil Nadu government has put a ban on dining inside the hotels and restaurants and instead to restrict the sale through parcel […]

Chennai, April 27(BPNS) The Public Works department , Tamil Nadu has in a press release said that it will provide Oxygen pipelines to an additional 12,370 beds Covid beds across the state. The PWD said that the additional facilities will be created at all Medical college hospitals, district headquarters hospitals and Taluk hospitals across the […]

Chennai, April 26(BPNS) A high level meeting of health officials and bureaucrats in Chennai has decided to judiciously use the Oxygen in the state as Covid cases are surging ahead in Tamil Nadu. The meeting came to the conclusion that the present production capacity of Oxygen in the state must be utilized to the maximum. […]

Chennai, April 26(BPNS) TASMAC , the state government run liquor outlets of Tamil Nadu crossed 252 crore sales on Saturday ahead of the Sunday lockdown in the state. A release from TASMAC  said that this was the second time in April that the corporation’s liquor sale had crossed the 250 crore mark a day when […]

Chennai, April 26(IANS) The Madras High Court on Monday lashed out against the Election Commission of India and said that it is the most irresponsible institution in the country and put on murder charges for not preventing political parties from misuse of Covid 19 protocol. The first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice […]

Chennai, April 26(BPNS) The Chennai district collector has warned of strict action against private licensed bars if they violate the closure order issued by the government. The Tamil Nadu government has on Saturday issued orders that all private bars should remain shut from Monday. This was as part of the efforts to control the rise […]

Chennai, April 26(BPNS) Madras high court on Monday suggested complete lockdown in  Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on May 1 and May 2. The first bench of the high court of Chief justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy said that the vehicles required for counting purposes and emergency services only be allowed on these two […]

Chennai, April 26(BPNS) Jawaharlal Institute of PostGraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) director, Dr Rakesh Aggarwal has in a statement denied the institute having conducted surgery on the wrong leg of a patient as alleged by some of the relatives of the patient. The director, in a statement said that an accident victim was admitted […]