Month: April 2020

By Express News Service TIRUCHY: Harvest is aplenty. But farmers do not get to eat the fruits of their labour. Credits: lockdown due to coronavirus. Farmers witnessed a bumper yield of black gram this season compared to the previous year. Among all other pulses, black gram takes up a larger share of the area used […]

The Nagercoil-bound daily special parcel train being operated since April 9 to transport various commodities in view of the lockdown will run via the mainline section covering parts of the delta region. The change in route of this parcel train will come into effect from April 30. Southern Railway administration on Wednesday communicated the change […]

Trichy: While the state government grapples with increasing cases of Covid-19, counsellors at government and non-government organisations (NGOs) have been coming across complaints of domestic violence over financial and other issues during the lockdown. Earlier, Trichy range police had launched a programme to check on 14,930 victims of domestic violence in the past four years […]

Trichy: With the recovery of three more patients on Tuesday, Trichy city has become free from Covid-19 positive cases. Meanwhile, the public health department is not leaving any stone unturned and closely monitoring random sampling on pregnant women, people with severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) and influenza like illness (ILI) in containment zones across the […]

Trichy: These days, mobile phones have become a major link for people to connect, especially for those who are working from home. Closure of mobile phone shops and service centres during the lockdown has become a cause for concern for people who want to buy a new one or repair their gadgets, especially in the […]

Trichy: While central Tamil Nadu recorded no new Covid-19 positive cases for the fourth consecutive day, a 95-year-old woman bounced back from the viral disease and went home on Wednesday. A total of five patients including the woman, all from Dindigul, got discharged from Karur medical college hospital. The elderly woman had got the infection […]

NEW DELHI : The Delhi government has sought three hours of daily airtime on Doordarshan and All India Radio to broadcast classes for students during lockdown due to COVID-19 situation. The officials believe that even when the lockdown restrictions are eased, reopening of schools and resorting to full-time classroom learning may take time and broadcasting […]

TRICHY: Teachers of three government and government aided schools in Trichy and Thanjavur have come forward to help the families of their students who have been going through difficult times under the lockdown. Most students in these schools are children of daily wage labourers. At the government higher secondary school in Poovalur village, science teacher […]