A.P. suffered sans tertiary health care, CM tells PM
The Hindu
Jagan explains COVID control efforts in meet with Modi
Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy told Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a video-conference on COVID-19 control measures on Friday that Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) has been suffering due to the lack of tertiary health care facilities as it did not have tier-I cities like Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad, in spite of which it did reasonably well in controlling the pandemic. He said out of 17,71,580 vaccine doses earmarked to private hospitals for June, only 4,20,209 were administered, and requested that the remaining 13,51,371 doses be reallotted to the State government. Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said A.P. curtailed the pandemic to a large extent under the guidance of the Prime Minister and that the village/ward secretariats have played a key role in that exercise. Fever survey was conducted 12 times and the focused testing of people enabled the State to control the spread of the virus.
The municipal bus stand auditorium in Malappuram was packed. But nobody quite knew what to expect. After all, a new event was making its debut at the State School Arts Festival. The moment V.G. Harikrishnan started his rendition of Pyar bhare do sharmile nain..., everyone was convinced that Ghazal was here to stay. The student from GVHSS, Atholi (Kozhikode), was applauded loudly for his rendering of the timeless ghazal sung originally by Mehdi Hassan.

For the last few weeks, several wards in Madurai city have been getting piped drinking water through a new drinking water scheme. The sweetness of the generously supplied water has led to loss of business to several suppliers of canned drinking water in the city. But, not many know that the water supplied to the houses in Madurai is directly drawn from Lower Dam of Mullaperiyar Dam in Idukki district of Kerala.











