PETALING JAYA: The names of some 68,000 senior citizens and those with special needs (OKU) have been submitted for vaccination against Covid-19, says the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry.
“The ministry, through the Welfare Department, has submitted a name list of a target group totaling 68,003 names to the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry (Mosti) comprising 48,564 senior citizens and 19,439 OKU registered for vaccination, ” the ministry said in a statement on Monday (May 17).
The ministry added that the 48,564 senior citizens are members of the Senior Citizen Activity Centre and residents of institutions under its supervision.
The OKU name list comprises trainees under the Community Rehabilitation Programme, it added.
JOHOR BARU: A newborn baby boy was found abandoned in front of a house at Taman Johor near Skudai here.
Johor Baru North OCPD Asst Comm Rupeah Abd Wahid said police received a call from the homeowner at around 7.30am on Thursday (Feb 11) about her find.
“The homeowner heard her doorbell ring, and when she went outside, there was nobody there except for the baby.
“The baby is believed to be around three days old based on his umbilical cord, and was left on the pavement lying on cloth and paper, ” ACP Rupeah said in a statement on Thursday.
She added that police brought the baby to Sultanah Aminah Hospital for a check-up and referred the matter to the Welfare Dept for further action.
Heartiest congrats to Dr Prakasa Rao Asavadi, who has been conferred with Padma Shri for the year 2021 in the field of Literature & Education (Sl. No. 22 in the Press Note of Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs). It’s a befitting honour to a really deserving person. He has been my venerable literary friend for five years, though I had known about him much earlier. As his sincere & humble fan, I have been helping hin by nominating him in his as well as my name every year for the honour ever since 2017, and also helping him with self-nomination, and finally, it has fructified now. This is not to claim any credit for myself, for my role is only drafting, formatting, uploading, etc. Seeing that despite his literary and other distinctions, he was not being selected, some good souls must have duly put in a word about him to the selection committee. An SC (Madiga) gentleman, he hails from Penukonda, Anantapuram district of the backward Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh. Thank