Day: May 21, 2021

Marriott Bonvoy is partnering with Art Basel Hong Kong 2021 to offer unique art experiences.

Kautilya School of Public Policy at GITAM, Deemed to be University, Hyderabad, has announced the appointment of Menaka Guruswamy, senior advocate, Supreme Court of India, and Moshik Temkin, a professor of history and public policy and a Fellow of The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, to its advisory board.

CapitaLand, through its philanthropic arm CapitaLand Hope Foundation (CHF), has said it is committing about Rs 157 million to provide India with immediate medical and healthcare support as the country fights against the second wave of Covid-19.

Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Mansukh Mandaviya has said that shortage of Amphotericin-B to be resolved soon. Amphotericin-B is used for the treatment of Mucormycosis.

The second consignment of tanker containing 6.34 MT of 96.3 per cent purity medical oxygen has been dispatched to the Thoothukudi Government Hospital to meet the immediate needs of the treatment of Covid patients from Vedanta’s Sterlite Copper Smelter plant.

AIADMK joint coordinator and Leader of the Opposition in the Tamilnadu Assembly Edappadi K Palaniswami has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take steps to secure nine fishermen from the State, who went missing in the Arabian Sea during the Taukte cyclonic storm.

Tamilnadu has so far received a total of 584.45 MT of Liquid Medical oxygen (LMO) delivered through 11 oxygen express trains operated by the Southern Railway.

As the exodus continued post the debacle in the 6 April Assembly elections, the Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founded by actor-politician Kamal Haasan is fast disintegrating, so to speak.

Chief Minister M K Stalin reached Madurai on Thursday night by a special aircraft from Coimbatore. He reviewed Covid-19-related works in the temple city today.

Nearly one million extra deaths relating to the Covid-19 pandemic occurred in 29 high income countries in 2020, finds a study published by The BMJ.