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Rotary Club, Freshworks donate equipment to VHS Updated: Updated: Share Article VHS functionaries receiving the critical care equipment from Rotary Club and Freshworks.   The Rotary Club of Madras East joined hands with Freshworks and donated critical care equipment to the Voluntary Health Services (VHS). The equipment, estimated at ₹5 lakh, will help their COVID-19 care facilities and this project, which was initiated by the Rotary Club of Madras East and is funded by Freshworks. Murugav...

G. Narendra Kumar   G. Narendra Kumar has assumed charge as the Director General of National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRD&PR) for a period of five years. Earlier, he was Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Delhi. Mr. Narendra Kumar holds a Ph.D. from Osmania University and Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Maxwell School of Public Affairs, USA. He was instrumental in setting up four universities in Delhi as well as in increasing access to qualit...

Plea dismissed Updated: Updated: Share Article Madurai The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Friday dismissed as withdrawn a petition that sought a ban on COVID-19 vaccine claiming that it had side effects. A Division Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and S.Ananthi observed that the petition was absolutely irrelevant. The petition was filed by G. Thirumurugan of Ramanathapuram. After the counsel representing the petitioner apologised to the court, he was permitted to withdraw the petition. S...

Railway okays Vaduthala bridge alignment Updated: Updated: Share Article The Railway has accepted the revised alignment of the Vaduthala overbridge, Hibi Eden, MP, said. The project had failed to take off despite funds being earmarked in the 2016-17 budget. Mr. Eden and T.J. Vinod, MLA, made efforts to overcome issues facing the project for which ₹47.50 crore was expected from the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB). “The Railway suggested a few revisions in the detailed p...

Updated: Share Article AAA Sundaram-Clayton Ltd.’s (SCL) standalone third quarter net profit rose multifold to ₹38.24 crore from ₹41 lakh on improved sales volume. Total income rose 22% to ₹376 crore. The net profit also included an exceptional item of ₹5.31 crore (₹4.31 crore), a one-time cost associated with voluntary separations, the company said in a regulatory filing. For the nine months period, SCL reported standalone net loss of ₹7 crore against net profit of ₹6.65 crore...

HC expunges remarks Updated: Updated: Share Article Madurai The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Friday expunged certain remarks made on Higher Education Secretary Apoorva by a single judge bench. The judge had made the remark while quashing a recruitment notification issued by Bharathidasan University, Tiruchi, that treated the entire university as one unit for applying reservation policy. A Division Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and S. Ananthi expunged the remarks and observed that t...

Cars to be serviced anywhere in airport parking area GMR Hyderabad International Airport has introduced one more initiative towards safe travel, a ‘waterless eco-washing’ facility to sanitize cars. This service includes — exterior cleaning, vacuum cleaning, tyre clean and polish, air freshener, dashboard dressing, deep clean services. This helps in the complete sanitization of the vehicles and ensures a safe travel. One of the kiosks is located at the entrance of the Car Parking zone –...

Stalls for GI products Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Karnataka boasts of a total of 42 products that have been included in the Geographical Indication (GI) of goods list. This is out of 370 goods have been given GI tag in the country. Separate stalls for GI goods would be set up at the Bengaluru and other airports in the State for their promotion, said Major and Medium Industries Minister Jagadish Shettar on Friday in the Assembly. He was replying to Abhaya Prasad of the Congress. Subsc...

Paddy stocked in the open near a DPC at Ammapettai in Thanjavur district.   A protest was held by the Communist Party of India (CPI) on Friday demanding immediate opening of direct purchase centres (DPCs) at Ammapettai and surrounding areas. According to R. Senthilkumar, Ammapettai, CPI Union Secretary, the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation has not opened a permanent DPC at Ammapettai and even temporary DPCs that were usually set up at Puliyakudi, Pallavaroyanpettai, Puthur and Kokkeri ar...

Contract conservancy workers allege irregularities in disbursement of wages Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Members of the contract conservancy workers’ union affiliated to the CITU staged a protest here on Friday alleging irregularities in disbursement of wages to those working for the Coimbatore Corporation. Though ₹ 614 a day was fixed as wages for the workers in 2017 and a government order was issued, the 3,000-odd workers working in Corporation were getting only ₹ 318. The dist...