Day: May 18, 2021

Chief Minister M K Stalin today attended a video conference Prime Minister Narendra Modi had with Chief Ministers to review the Covid situation in the country.

Veteran writer Ki Rajanarayanan, hailed as the grand old man of modern Tamil literature and winner of Sahitya Akademi award, died in Puducherry on Monday night. He was 98 and is survived by two sons.

As many as 74 mentally challenged children who were getting treatment at a facility at Kilpauk in the city have reportedly tested positive for Covid-19.

With Greater Chennai City police implementing sector wise and police station jurisdiction wise restrictions, vehicles were subjected to intense checking and legal action were initiated against those who were travelling e-registration.

Minister of Electricity and Prohibition and Excise V Senthil Balaji said that monthly reading of electricity consumption will be implemented at the earliest in Tamilnadu.

Nepal received a second shipment of China-donated oxygen cylinders as the Himalayan country is continuing to face an acute shortage of medical oxygen supply for a growing number of Covid-19 patients.

Syrian presidential campaigns have officially started as posters of President Bashar al-Assad and the two other candidates filled the squares and streets in the capital Damascus.

The European Union and the United States have decided to temporarily suspend measures at the heart of a steel tariff dispute that is seen as one of the major trade issues dividing the two sides.

People in England, Scotland and Wales can now sit indoors in pubs and restaurants and can hug each other again, in the biggest single lifting of coronavirus restrictions since the start of the UK’s successful vaccination campaign.