File photograph used for representational purposes only The Tamil Nadu Transport Department will not be operating buses when Cyclone Mandous makes landfall around Mamallapuram on Friday night. Trasnport Minister, S.S. Sivasankar, in a press release, has said that all bus operations would be stopped during the cyclone’s crossing the coast — two hours before and … Read more
A representational photo of a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus. | Photo Credit: ANIL KUMAR SASTRY Some pro-Marathi activists vandalised a KSRTC bus in Dhound village in Maharashtra in protest against Karnataka laying claim over Jat taluk and some other areas in Maharashtra. The protestors wrote anti-Karnataka graffiti on the Athani-bound bus, and … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announce ex-gratia for kin of deceased Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announce ex-gratia for kin of deceased At least 11 persons, including a child died and more than 25 were injured after a Mumbai-bound private sleeper bus collided with a speeding truck … Read more
Rescue operations have been launched with the help of locals but the efforts of the rescuers are being hampered by darkness Rescue operations have been launched with the help of locals but the efforts of the rescuers are being hampered by darkness Heavy casualties were feared as a bus carrying around 45-50 members of a … Read more
By Laurence Cawley and Kate ScotterBBC East image captionStudents at Colchester Institute are being “strongly encouraged” to get vaccinated against coronavirus As the first proper week of classes get under way at a college in Essex, an NHS vaccination bus has rolled on to campus. What is the uptake among its students and how are … Read more
Residents in the borough of Brent in London are being offered an alternative to visiting a vaccine centre – a vaccine bus. The aim is to reach areas where jab uptake is relatively low, offering a potentially more convenient route to getting the vaccine. It might also allow health teams to help alleviate vaccine hesitancy … Read more
A conversation on a bus led to the setting up of the Recovery trial, leading to treatments for Covid. Source link
Take a look inside a NHS mobile service that aims to boost uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine. Source link
A collision between a Lucknow-bound bus from Pilibhit depot in Uttar Pradesh and a pickup has resulted in the death of at least seven passengers while over 20 have been rushed to the district hospital with injuries. Injured being admitted to district hospital after the accident on NH730 (Picture Courtesy: Twitter @ANINewsUP) At least seven … Read more
Alex Marshall, columnist, Governing magazine; book author, New York City. David Levine, science writer, New York City. William Hanage, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston. Linsey Marr, PhD, professor of civil and environmental engineering, Virginia Tech; expert on aerosol transmission of viruses, Blacksburg, VA. Mass Transit: “New York … Read more