Chennai: With Tamilnadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan getting ready to present the State Budget and holding consultations about it, Consortium of Indian Associations has sent a memorandum to him highlighting various expectations of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). ‘Let TN budget provide a means of support to those units which are not coming under the eligibility of the ECGLS scheme – which are SMA 2 and NPA accounts as on 29.2.20 and make them get regularised with a onetime loan support with a 1-year moratorium and 2 years of repayment, without interest,’ said CIA convenor K E Raghunathan,…
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Chennai: Indian vaccine maker Biological E Ltd’s Covid-19 vaccine Corbevax got emergency use approval in the country for use in children aged 12 to 18. The Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company said its coronavirus vaccine Corbevax, also India’s third homegrown vaccine, has received emergency use approval in India for use in children aged 12 to 18 years. Till now India has been administering Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin to teens between 15 and 18 years old since January 3. The EUA, short for emergency use authorisation, for Corbevax’s restricted use in emergency among adults was cleared by the regulator Drugs Controller General of India…
New Delhi: With 13,405 fresh infections, India’s Coronavirus caseload rose to 4,28,51,929 today. According to Union Health Ministry data updated this morning, the country’s Covid-19 death toll climbed to 5,12,344 with 235 new fatalities. The active cases declined to 1,81,075 comprising 0.42 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate has further improved to 98.38 per cent, the Ministry said. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,21,58,510. The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 175.83 crore. India’s Covid-19 tally had…
Chennai: The ruling DMK is currently leading in 18 corporations, 98 municipalities, according to data from the Tamilnadu State Election Commission (TNSEC) website. The AIADMK is currently leading in 3 municipalities and 41 town panchayats, while the Congress is leading in three municipalities, 15 town panchayats. Meanwhile, Vijay Makkal Iyakkam candidate Parvez was declared the winner in ward 4 at the Pudukkotai municipality. The DMK is leading in 30 wards of the Chennai Corporation. Victory declared for nine wards in Salem municipal corporation. Of them, DMK wins eight wards and AIADMK wins one ward. Security arrangements were in place at…
At the height of the Cold War, US President Richard Nixon flew into communist China’s center of power for a visit that, over time, would transform US-China relations and China’s position in the world in ways that were unimaginable at the time. The relationship between China and the United States was always going to be a challenge, and after half a century of ups and downs, is more fraught than ever. The Cold War is long over, but on both sides there are fears a new one could be beginning. Despite repeated Chinese disavowals, America worries that the democratic-led world…
Chennai: The number of persons who tested positive for Covid-19 dipped further to 788 in Tamilnadu on Monday. The State reported only one death due to the virus. In the past 24 hours, 70,379 people were swabbed, pushing the sample tests total in the state to 6,39,61,280. As many as 2,692 people recovered from the disease, leaving the number of active cases at 14,033. Tamilnadu’s current test positivity rate (TPR) dropped to 1.1 percent on Monday from 1.2 percent the previous day. New infections fell below 200 for the first time in Chennai on Monday with the metro registering 191…
Chennai: The results of the recently held urban local body elections in Tamilnadu will be declared today, as counting of the votes started at 268 centres across the State at 8 am today. Postal votes were counted first. State Election Commissioner V Palanikumar had said that the commission has made elaborate arrangements at all the 268 counting centers, including installation of CCTV cameras, deployment of security personnel, electricity supply, network connectivity, and other requirements. All the counting centres are under a three-tier security blanket under the watch of police personnel and CCTV cameras. The single-phase polling to elect more than…
Chennai: Hours after Chief Minister M K Stalin asserted on Monday that law would take its own course over the humiliation of a DMK functionary here on the day of urban civic polls, police arrested AIADMK leader and former Minister D Jayakumar. A criminal case for offences under Sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting with deadly weapon), 294 (b) (obscene language), 153 (provocation to cause riot), 355 (assault), 323 (hurting), 324 (hurt by dangerous weapons), 506 (ii) (criminal intimidation) of IPC and three more sections of The Tamil Nadu Open Places (Prevention of Disfigurement) Act has been registered against Jayakumar and…
Chennai: Tamilnadu continued to report a fall in fresh cases on Wednesday when it added 3,971 new cases compared to 4519 on Tuesday. The 28 deaths took the toll tally to 37,837. By the end of the day, 16473 people were removed from the registry and the state had 77,607 active cases. Of the 38 districts, 29 reported fewer than 100 cases each. The cases declined in both Chennai and Coimbatore as 742 and 726 persons tested positive for the infection respectively. There were 334 cases in Chengalpattu, while there 245 cases in Tiruppur and 212 in Salem. After 1,15,898…