Day: April 24, 2020

A shocker was in store for Chennaiites when the Tamilnadu government made today’s coronavirus figures public this evening.

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Dr Harsh Vardhan today said that faulty antibody test kits will be returned irrespective of which country they were procured from, including China.

A group of electrical engineering students and faculty from AVIT , Vinayaka Mission’s Research Foundation along with duo entrepreneurs Premnath and Subramanian have developed a robot called V2 Buddy at the “Ganesan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre”.

With no signs of reduction in the number of coronavirus cases in the State, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami today announced that the lockdown will be strictly implemented in the metropolitan cities such as Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai.

 As the plan to implement QR code method to minimise the movement of people on roads failed, the Madurai police today returned to the existing system of manual monitoring.

Padma Raghunathan, Chief General Manager, NABARD, Tamilnadu Regional Office, Chennai has congratulated the NABARD supported Farmers Producer Organisations (FPOs) in the State for rising up to the occasion in meeting the vegetable demand during the Covid-19 lockdown in Tamilnadu.

DMK president M K Stalin and AMMK founder TTV Dhinakaran today slammed the government for the arrest of the founder of a portal called SimpliCity, based on a complaint by an official of the Coimbatore Corporation.

Other zones of Greater Chennai Corporation are nowhere when compared to Royapuram, when it comes to the number of coronavirus victims.

Former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today asked the government to facilitate the travel of migrant workers to their hometowns under strict conditions of health and safety.