Avadi residents flag delay in construction of underground sewer lines

Avadi residents flag delay in construction of underground sewer lines

Workers digging the road for constructing sewer lines | Photo Credit: Representative image Residents of Avadi Corporation have urged the local body to speed up work to construct the underground sewer lines in areas including Charles Nagar, Babu Nagar and Gandhi Nagar.  Roy Rozario, a resident, said that the pace of construction was very slow. … Read more

Wayanad disaster survivors protest against delay in govt. aid

Wayanad disaster survivors protest against delay in govt. aid

Survivors of the July 30, 2024, landslides in Mundakkai-Chooralmala in Wayanad district held a protest on Monday (May 19), saying they have not received the monthly rent and relief money promised by the government. Many of the worst-affected people said their lives are now in a crisis due to the delay in payments, despite the … Read more

‘Irrigation projects in Karnataka stalled owing to delay in release of funds by Centre’

‘Irrigation projects in Karnataka stalled owing to delay in release of funds by Centre’

While there is no dearth of funds for Railway and national highway projects in the State, Karnataka’s irrigation projects have been in limbo for many years as the Centre has not released the announced funds, Additional Chief Secretary Gaurav Gupta has said. He was apprising the State government’s Special Representative in New Delhi T.B. Jayachandra … Read more

Apology over delay to Nottingham maternity report publication

Apology over delay to Nottingham maternity report publication

Greig Watson BBC News, Nottingham PA Media Maternity services at the trust are at the centre of the largest inquiry of its kind in the NHS The healthcare watchdog has apologised over delays to the publication of its report into maternity services in Nottingham, which is subject of the largest inquiry of its kind in … Read more

Health: Mum told by 999 to give seriously ill son painkillers over ambulance delay

Health: Mum told by 999 to give seriously ill son painkillers over ambulance delay

Roisin Wilshaw Brian Rooney with his mother Isobel Benson – he collapsed at the doors of the Royal Victoria Hospital after being rushed there by his parents The mother of a Belfast man, who collapsed outside a hospital, said she was shocked when a 999 call handler told her he should take painkillers as they … Read more

Wayanad landslides: Centre’s delay in declaring ‘severe disaster’ impacted relief funding, says Kerala Revenue Minister

Wayanad landslides: Centre’s delay in declaring ‘severe disaster’ impacted relief funding, says Kerala Revenue Minister

The Minister says the Kerala government will expedite the land acquisition for the rehabilitation of Wayanad landslide victims. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT The inordinate delay by the Centre in declaring the landslides in Wayanad as a disaster of extreme severity, 154 days after the natural disaster wiped out two villages in the district, might … Read more

New shingles vaccine may help delay dementia, study suggests

New shingles vaccine may help delay dementia, study suggests

Being vaccinated against shingles may also help delay getting a dementia diagnosis – a study in the journal Nature Medicine suggests. The work builds on previous suggestions that a shingles jab may have this unintended benefit. Researchers compared some 100,000 people who had a new shingles jab to a similar group who had an older … Read more

Air India’s Delhi-San Francisco faces inordinate delay; rescheduled for Friday

Air India’s Delhi-San Francisco faces inordinate delay; rescheduled for Friday

An Air India plane. File | Photo Credit: VIJAY SONEJI Passengers of a San Francisco-bound Air India flight had a tough time at the Delhi airport on May 30 evening as the departure was delayed for more than six hours due to a technical issue with the aircraft. The flight AI 183, which was to … Read more

General election will not delay infected blood compensation

General election will not delay infected blood compensation

Parliament will aim to pass an important bill ahead of the general election to ensure victims of the infected blood scandal are compensated as soon as possible, the government says. Commons leader Penny Mordaunt said there was a “clear desire” to get it done. MPs will consider House of Lords amendments to the Victims and … Read more