Tamil Nadu
Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo to join TN Eco Advisory Committee
Duflo is a French–American economist who is a professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which was established in 2003. She is the wife of Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee.
India remembers Shaheed Ram Prasad Bismil on his birth anniversary
Pandit Bismil immortalised Bismil Azimabadi's poem Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna by adopting it as a war cry during the freedom movement. As part of the Mahotsav celebrations, the Ministry of Culture will hold a special ceremony at Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh where Bismil was born on June 11, 1897 to Murlidhar and Moolmati.
1 lioness dead, 9 test positive for Covid in TN's Vandalur Zoo
The Vandalur Zoo in a statement said the lioness Neela died around 6.15 p.m. on Thursday. According to the zoo, Neela had been asymptotic and showed some nasal discharge only on Wednesday and had been treated immediately. Five lions in the Animal House-1 of the Safari Park Area on May 26, reportedly showed loss of appetite and occasional coughing.
No place for Sasikala, her family in AIADMK: Palaniswami
Speaking to reporters at the party headquarters here, Palaniswami said, "Sasikala is out of the AIADMK and she and her relatives don't have any place in the party. She has openly declared before the elections that she has moved away from politics. The voice clippings were her talk with the AMMK cadre but some elements are deliberately creating confusion and spreading wrong information."
Supply vaccine for June by first week, Stalin urges Centre
In a letter to Union Health Minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan he also said that the state has not received vaccines proportionate to its size and population, and caseload, and requested that this could be compensated by a special allocation of 50 lakh doses of vaccine under the centre channel and other state channels.
Sasikala hints she will be back in Tamil Nadu politics
She in a telephonic call to a party worker on Saturday hinted that she may come back to politics and that she will take over the AIADMK. AIADMK is reeling under the electoral defeat and infighting between the two senior leaders -- former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami and former Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam has peaked.
TN Assembly will pass resolution against 3 farm laws: Stalin
The three farm laws brought in by the government are -- Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
Tamil Nadu allows Chinese Covid vaccine makers to bid unlike Mumbai
"We are allowing every product (vaccine) as long as it is approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and licensed by the Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI)," a senior official told IANS.On the other hand, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in its one crore vaccine dose tender has disqualified companies located in countries sharing borders with India from participating in the bid.
Cyclone Tauktae: Efforts on to alert Tamil Nadu fishers
The Tamil Nadu fisheries department state Commissioner J. Jayakanthan told IANS: "Most of the fishermen are from the western coast of Kanyakumari since the annual fishing ban is in effect on the eastern coast." Fishing officials said that while only 84 vessels have gone into the sea from the Thengapattanam coast, 150 fishing boats of Kanyakumari have ventured into the sea from the Kerala coast.
Sterlite sends first load of Oxygen to Tirunelveli hospital
Thoothukudi Contractors association president, S. Thiagarajan while speaking to IANS said, "It is a really happy moment and around 200 contract workers are engaged in the work along with the staff of the plant and our efforts are fructified as we could provide oxygen to the needy and to government Medical college, Tirunelveli from this plant."
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