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pushpanarayan

pushpanarayan

@pushpanarayan

A journalist covering health issues for the Times of India

Chennai شامل ہوئے Haziran 2009
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pushpanarayan
pushpanarayan@pushpanarayan·
Follow me on @Toi_pushpa_n for official tweets - breaking news, analysis, and features on healthcare, environment, women and children. This handle, however, will continue to exist
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TheLiverDoc™
TheLiverDoc™@theliverdoc·
Gentle reminder that Chiropractors are NOT DOCTORS. They have no knowledge about anatomy or physiology. They cannot diagnose or treat any disease competently. This hanging upside down chiropractic is something I had never come across and it's really dangerous. Don't visit these fools. Chiropractic is a recent quackery invented by a guy called Palmer where he was drunk and high and met the ghost of a physician who taught him principles of chiropractic in his dreams (true story). instagram.com/reel/DNH1u5HT3…
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Muthukrishnan Dhandapani@dmuthuk·
A follower, young lady under going dialysis for many years recently wrote to me that people have no idea how widespread kidney failure is becoming and how even survival is impossible but for low cost dialysis provided by charitable foundations. And I see this article today. Please read on.
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Omjasvin M D
Omjasvin M D@omjasvinMD·
Greater Chennai Corporation suspends an assistant executive engineer, posted in deputation to Bus Routes Roads department, following a TOI story on the @chennaicorp floating dummy tenders worth Rs 2 crores, for projects that were already completed. The order by GCC commissioner J Kumaragurubaran said, “while enquiry into the grave charges against the AEE is contemplated, it is necessary in public interest to place the official under suspension from service.”
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Tender scam: Greater Chennai Corporation floats dummy tenders worth Rs 2 crore for projects that were already completed months ago. These workers were carried out without tenders and GCC has floated tenders in retrospection, just to pay off bills. Violating the Tamil Nadu Tender Transparency Act provisions, Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has floated nine tenders worth ₹2.2 crore for civic work that had been completed at least four months ago — without any prior bidding. The work, ranging from road restoration and footpath kerbs to railings and median painting, was executed on Lang’s Garden Road, Rajaji Salai, Raja Muthiah Salai, Elephant Gate Bridge, and Pantheon Road, among others. A TOI check confirmed that all work was completed and sources within GCC, in Royapuram zone, admitted it. These tenders, floated last week, were issued to regularize payments to pre-fixed contractors. Some contractors, who participated in the recent bids, said they were made to withdraw. After the e-tendering system was introduced, all departments have to upload the tender bids on the TN Tender’s website, and any contractor can participate to bid at competitive prices. These tenders are accessible to the public too. However, in this case, GCC’s bus routes roads department chose to send the invitation to participate in the tender through email to selected contractors only. TOI accessed the private mails sent to contractors by the bus route roads department asking them to participate in the tender. “The tenders were orchestrated for work that was already done. We got wind of them through friends and applied, but officials kept pressuring us to back out,” said a bidder. Other bidders said it is a dummy tender setup, as the main contractor, who had already completed the work, entered the fray with two known dummy bidders, ensuring he quotes the lowest and wins. By law, GCC can issue closed tenders for emergency civic jobs such as patchwork or wall repairs below ₹50,000. But each of these nine projects ranged from ₹15 lakh to ₹30 lakh. Commissioner J Kumaragurubaran and mayor R Priya said they would look into the matter. Even small-value projects are now supposed to go through the govt e-marketplace (GEM) portal for fair competition. Contractors say that while this case involved ₹2 crore, across GCC’s 15 zones, 150-200 such closed tenders are floated every month. #TenderScam #ChennaiCorporation #TransparencyViolation #GCCUnderScanner #TenderFraud #UrbanCorruption #ChennaiCivicWorks #TamilNaduTenders #PublicMoneyMisuse #EProcurementBypassed #DummyBids #ContractorCartel #RTIAccess #GCCWatch #CivicAccountability

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Ram M Sundaram
Ram M Sundaram@ramsundaramTOI·
BREAKING: Train cancellations from July 23 are postponed to August 2. Suburban trains will run as usual tomorrow during working hours. Partial cancellations in the Tambaram section will occur from 10:30 pm to 4:30 am. @DrmChennai @MtcChennai @TOIChennai
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Rajat Chauhan
Rajat Chauhan@drrajatchauhan·
I was quoted for this article by @pushpanarayan way back in 2007 after the 'premature exit' of the Indian men's cricket team from the World Cup. When I made that statement, that wasn't limited to physical or psychological fitness or the whole cricket system, but about the whole ecosystem at the grassroots level of getting physical active at every level, and even research that goes into the science and medicine of sports, exercise and physical activity, in this case cricket. Because it's not about losing or winning one match, but the long term cultural change it makes in the society. Or that's what I think. Do you think I was right then? Do you think it's true even today? If the gap has narrowed, what is it now in your opinion? @SukhwantBasra @Bagheera_70 @pradeepmagazine @100thofasec @Padmadeo @poetbelly @gauravchoudhury @ManipalHealth @timesofindia
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Vaishnavi Jayakumar
Vaishnavi Jayakumar@vjayakumar·
Why was the first round of tenders cancelled? Why does it take international attention for the callous Government to deign to respond? The 2023 stockout is a timeline of govt apathy, inaction & inefficiency marked by an absolute disregard for tuberculosis patient's testimonies.
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Manash Pratim Gohain
Manash Pratim Gohain@manashTOI·
Where do aspiring engineers and doctors fail--or succeed? Why does India have more than 40 school boards? Teachers’ trials and triumphs with remote learning. Tips for the first Covid-affected Boards. Presenting @timesofindia ‘a 1st Education+ newsletter timesofindia.indiatimes.com/newslettertoi/…
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Rema Nagarajan
Rema Nagarajan@RemaNagarajan·
How finance minister computed 137% increase for health and wellbeing. She has counted drinking water, sanitation and nutrition allocations to compute allocation to health and wellbeing. Nutrition seems to have suffered 27% cut. Wonder why when malnutrition is so rampant.
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Pushpa Narayan
Pushpa Narayan@Toi_pushpa_n·
Vaccinations against Covid19 cross the 1 lakh mark after 15days of drive. After vaccinating 8,417 people till 7pm on Saturday, the number of recipients in the state is 105543. So far 2,543 people have received #Covaxin and 103000 have received #Covidshield @TNDPHPM @DoHFWTN
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Pushpa Narayan
Pushpa Narayan@Toi_pushpa_n·
Private hospitals inviting "registrations" for Covid-19 vaccination or trying to monetise the government sponsored programme will have their licenses cancelled besides facing action under the Clinical Establishment Act. To know more, read full article from link in bio.
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