Erode COVID-19 war room becomes functional
The Hindu
The round-the-clock facility will provide details about availability of beds, oxygen support in hospitals, home isolation and other COVID-19 related information
The district-level Unified Commanding Centre (UCC) that will serve as a COVID-19 war room providing information on availability of beds and oxygen support for both government and private hospitals round-the-clock to the needy, became functional on Monday. Minister for Housing and Urban Development S. Muthusamy inaugurated the facility in the presence of Collector C. Kathiravan, Superintendent of Police P. Thangadurai and other officials.A group of 13 men from Dakshin Datta Para village in Nadia district, West Bengal, busy transplanting paddy has been catching the eye of many in Mayildathurai district in recent days. A video clip of the Bengali migrant agricultural workers Singing Hindi and Bengali songs while planting paddy at Nallathukudi village here has gone viral.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.
The former BJP MLA of Udupi K. Raghupathi Bhat claimed on Saturday that he contesting the Legislative Council elections from South West Graduates’ Constituency as rebel candidate made the saffron party field its party leader C. T. Ravi in the biennial elections to the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly.