Nehru Stadium is Remdesivir sales point
The Hindu
Court says it is a war-like situation in which treatment has to be afforded to all in need of it
The State government on Thursday informed the Madras High Court of its decision to shift the Remdesivir sales counters from the Kilpauk Medical College to the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium at Periamet to manage the crowd better. The court was also told that more counters would be opened at the stadium so that the attenders of patients at private hospitals need not wait in queues for long. Advocate-General R. Shunmugasundaram made the submission before the first Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy at the hearing of a suo motu PIL petition taken up by the court to monitor the fight against COVID-19. After having a word with Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan, the Advocate-General said the counters would be shifted to the stadium as early as possible.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.
The Deputy Commissioner and the Election Officer for Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency M. P. Mullai Muhilan said here on Friday that over 600 staff will be involved in the counting of votes cast in the April 26 elections, at the counting centre at the National Institute of Technology – Karnataka, Surathkal, on June 4.