
Naidu blames govt. for COVID deaths in hospitals
The Hindu
‘Officials should focus on providing beds, oxygen, Remdesivir’
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president N. Chandrababu Naidu has expressed shock and grief over the death of COVID patients due to lack of timely oxygen supply at Maharaja Hospital in Vizianagaram. In a statement on Monday, Mr. Naidu said the State government’s inefficiency came to the fore with its inability to provide oxygen to the patients battling for their lives in the government hospitals. The Ministers had remained silent spectators. The situation was deteriorating in all the 13 districts with scarcity of oxygen beds, he said. The government was not providing the correct information with regard to the facilities for COVID patients in hospitals. On the COVID dashboard, it was being shown that oxygen beds were vacant and plenty of them were available. But when patients were taken to the respective hospitals, they were not being admitted citing oxygen shortage, he said.
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.











