Day: April 25, 2020

Private diaries operating in Tamilnadu today requested the state government to allow them to sell milk for two hours during the four-day complete lockdown which would come into effect from tomorrow.

Tamilnadu today reported 66 new coronavirus cases, with Chennai alone counting for 43. This was revealed by State Health Minister Dr C Vijayabaskar at a media conference.

Continuing efforts to ramp-up healthcare workforce in the fight against COVID-19, Tamilnadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami today said over 1,000 nurses have been recruitedand announcedretaining the services of government doctors, set to retire this month.

The board of MRF Limited has committed to spend a sum of Rs 25 crore to support various initiatives to address the exigencies arising out of the Covid pandemic.

A complaint has been filed with police against Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut for allegedly referring to members of a particular community as terrorist in a video released in support of her sister Rangoli Chandel, an official said on Friday.

A pre-dawn encounter broke out between security forces and militants in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir today, police said.

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has slammed the government over freezing of dearness allowance, asserting that it was not necessary at this stage to impose hardships on government servants and armed forces personnel.

When Tamilnadu reported 72 new coronavirus cases on Friday evening, Chennai topped the list with a whopping 52 cases. And today, within Chennai, while Royapuram, which occupies the first place, reported 15 cases, Kodambakkam reported 16 new cases.

The Tamilnadu School Education department has reportedly decided to extend the tenure of 900 post graduate teachers by three years.