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6,866 personsvaccinated Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A total of 6,866 persons received the COVID-19 vaccines in the State on Monday. This took the number of persons vaccinated till date to 1,12,409. The vaccination drive has been covering healthcare providers and workers in the first phase. The Health department planned to start vaccination for frontline workers of other departments such as the police and revenue on February 1. However, an official said this would start in the first we...

TTD darshan tickets Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation has informed that devotees can purchase tickets for darshan of Lord Sri Venkateswara Swamy at Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams (TTD) temple in Tirumala along with the Chennai-Tirumala bus tickets. The tickets would be available at Madhavaram bus station with effect from February 1, 2021, and also online in the APSRTC website. For further details devotees could contact the enquiry office b...

E.R. Eswaran   Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi general secretary of E.R. Eswaran said that the announcement of more agriculture loan schemes would not help farmers. In a release, Mr. Eswaran said the budget announcements have been made for people in Assembly election-bound states. He said that many announcements of the previous budgets itself has not been fulfilled and mentioned that AIIMS hospital in Madurai has yet not been started. There is no announcement to support Micro, Small and Medi...

Vikraman was nominated as legislator by the Centre BJP’s Puducherry unit vice president T. Vikraman was on Monday sworn-in as nominated MLA in the 33-member House. Speaker V.P. Sivakolunthu administered the oath to the new legislator in his chamber. The BJP’s two other nominated MLAs V. Saminathan, Puducherry unit president and S. Selvaganapathy and former Minister A. Namassivayam, who recently crossed over from the Congress to the BJP, joined the brief ceremony. Mr. Vikraman was nominate...

Taxi driver dies after being hit by bus Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A 38-year-old taxi driver from Bengaluru who was crossing the road near Kaikamba Junction of Bilinele village in Kadaba taluk on Monday died after being hit by a KSRTC bus. The Kadaba Police gave the name of victim as Bhootesh P.J. The incident occurred at around noon. The police said that an injured Bhootesh was treated first at the government hospital in Kadaba and then shifted to the Government Wenlock Hospital here...

Agri varsity signs MoU on organic farming Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) and New Delhi-based Association of Indian Organic Industry (AIOI) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) here on Monday with an aim to create collaborative research in organic farming, training and marketing for organic products. According to the university officials, the agreement would also help the university offer a certificate cours...

TIRUCHI The central region on Monday reported a slight increase in COVID-19 cases with 68 patients testing positive for the viral infection. No death was reported in the region, according to the bulletin released by the Department of Health and Family Welfare. Thanjavur district reported an increase in the number of cases on Monday with 25 patients testing positive. The district had only reported 10 cases on Sunday. Meanwhile, Tiruchi reported 11 fresh cases while Tiruvarur, 10. Meanwhile, one...

Updated: Share Article AAA The Union Budget had little new to offer for Kerala, Hibi Eden, MP, said on Monday. The second phase extension of Kochi metro to Kakkanad had been announced during the UPA rule, following which the Centre had accorded in-principle sanction in 2019. The Centre had unduly delayed the official sanction, and has now accorded it just before the Assembly polls, with an eye on garnering votes. In fact, the time was now overdue for according sanction for the metro’s third...

Airport gets threat call Updated: Updated: Share Article TIRUCHI A threat call to the Tiruchi international airport by a woman that she would plant explosives kept the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel on their toes on Monday. Police sources said the woman called the duty terminal manager in the morning and threatened to place explosives at the airport. Consequent to the threat call, CISF personnel conducted thorough checks along with a sniffer dog in the airport premises. Th...

HC seeks response to plea by V4 Kochi leader Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The Kerala High Court on Monday sought the response of the police to a plea by Nipun Cheriyan, leader of V4 Kochi, for quashing the FIR registered against him in connection with a protest against what he called encroachment by the Kochi Metro Rail Ltd. on the Chilavanoor lake near Elamkulam metro station. When the petition came up for hearing, the prosecutor submitted that the petitioner and others had trespassed i...