Vijaya Baskar

AIADMK MLA C. Vijaya Baskar held a consultative meeting with loyalists amid speculation of him joining the ruling TVK. The former minister stated that the meeting was to hear opinions, with a decision on his next course of action expected soon. Options discussed included remaining with AIADMK, stepping away from politics, or resigning to join TVK.

Income tax investigation wing claims it has found new evidences of unaccounted money allegedly accumulated by state health minister C Vijaya Baskar through illegal mining of stone quarries by his family members in his native Pudukottai district.

Two days after a sub-registrar in Thiruvengaivasal in Pudukottai district froze two properties of state health minister C Vijaya Baskar and his family members, the minister and his brother Udayakumar appeared before the investigation wing of the income tax department in Chennai on Thursday.

State health minister C Vijaya Baskar rescued a road accident victim in Pudukottai district by rushing her in his vehicle to the hospital on Monday

Health minister C Vijaya Baskar rescued an accident victim and rushed him to the hospital in his escort vehicle while he was returning from a function near Viralimalai in Pudukottai district on Thursday.

Government doctors across the state, who struck work barring emergencies on Tuesday, backed down after health minister C Vijaya Baskar assured them that their demands, including salary hike, would be met within six weeks.

The DMK has asked the DVAC to probe complaints against health minister C Vijaya Baskar based on the letter sent by the income tax investigation wing.

Tamil Nadu will eliminate malaria in four years, at least eight years ahead of the national target, health minister C Vijaya Baskar said on Tuesday.

More than 700 passengers who arrived at different airports in the state from China and neighbouring countries, where novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection has been reported, have been quarantined in their homes, said Health Minister C Vijaya Baskar on Sunday.

Tamil Nadu health minister C Vijaya Baskar said on Sunday that the state will soon promulgate an ordinance to exempt the state from National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for MBBS and BDS admissions to government medical colleges for one year.

Tamil Nadu must have a full-time health minister who will give attention to the ministry and solve issues like spread of dengue, said DMK working president M K Stalin on Tuesday.

Almost all the roads in Pudukkottai district that were blocked by trees fallen during cyclone Gaja have been cleared, Tamil Nadu health minister C Vijaya Baskar said on Wednesday. He said removal of fallen trees from the roads has ensured that relief material is supplied to the cyclone-affected areas.

Nearly nine years after the Chennai Corporation took its births and deaths registry online, health minister C Vijaya Baskar on Tuesday announced on the floor of the assembly that all other districts in the state will follow suit.

Tamil Nadu health minister C Vijaya Baskar’s personal assistant and driver died on the spot when a sport utility vehicle they were travelling in rammed a roadside tree near Illuppur in Pudukkottai district of Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Sunday.

On January 31, Vijaya Baskar moved two bills in the state legislative assembly seeking to exclude Tamil Nadu from NEET for admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental courses.

Tamil Nadu government has moved the Supreme Court challenging Section 10-D of Indian Medical Council Act, said state health minister C Vijaya Baskar.

Acted As 'Benami' Contractor

Tamil Nadu health minister C Vijaya Baskar ordered action against the principal in-charge of the nursing college at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Tuesday.