"In the last three days, the number of dead bodies has increased. On June 18-20, we received 75 dead bodies. 20 of them were brought dead. And out of those 20, 10 of them were unclaimed. The capacity of the postmortem house is 10-12 bodies," CMO Sharma told ANI.
The second day of the Tamil Nadu Assembly Session began in Chennai on Friday with a ruckus as AIADMK legislators sporting black clothes raised slogans inside the House over the hooch tragedy in Kallakurichi.
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel attended Seema Suraksha Prahari Sammelan and performed yoga at Nadabet, the Indo-Pak border zero point in the state's Banaskantha district, on the occasion of International Yoga Day on June 21.
"Under the leadership of PM Modi, the practice of Yoga which was earlier limited to our country has reached every corner of the world. Everybody is becoming a part of it. I want to appeal to everyone to include yoga in their regular lives to remain healthy," Nadda said.
The Speaker Appavu ordered the watch and ward staff, which performs security duties inside the Assembly, to evict AIADMK MLAs from the Assembly hall. Since June 19 afternoon, at least 47 persons lost their lives in the Kallakurichi district of the State after they consumed illicit liquor
Union Health Minister JP Nadda visited various offices of Nirman Bhawan on Thursday. He visited the record room, registry room, health observatory and various divisions. He interacted with officials and staff and advised them to work with an outlook and approach that is citizen-friendly and
Tamil Nadu BJP President Annamalai wrote a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah requesting a CBI enquiry into the deaths caused by illicit liquor in Kallakurichi.
The heatwave in large parts of the country has claimed 114 lives and more than 40,000 suspected heatstroke cases have been reported between March 1 and June 19 this year, said sources from the Union Health Ministry.
Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Thursday visited offices of his ministry in Nirman Bhawan in the national capital and interacted with the staff and officials
AIADMK advocates have requested the Madras High Court to take up an urgent petition on the Kallakurichi illicit liquor tragedy issue for hearing. The Madras High Court division bench of Justices D Krishnakumar and K Kumaresh Babu have agreed to hear it on June 21.