Centenarian arrives to warm welcome
The Hindu
The woman from Thallada, bedridden with paralysis, beats COVID
Centenarian Dhara Subbamma of Thallada returned home in the mandal headquarters town on Sunday night to a warm welcome after recovering from COVID-19 at a private hospital in Hyderabad, spreading positivity in these gloomy times. Subbamma, 100 years old, had contracted the coronavirus infection while remaining bedridden with partial paralysis under the supervision of a woman caretaker hired by her family members at their home last month. She tested positive for COVID-19 on June 26 and was shifted to a super-specialty hospital in Hyderabad, where she had undergone treatment for about a fortnight.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.