Month: June 2020

In a new high, Tamilnadu today reported as many as 3,943 fresh cases of Covid-19. With this, the total number of coronavirus infections in the State has touched 90,617.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said strict rules should be in place to control the spread of Covid-19 pandemic in the country.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced that PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojna will be extended till November end and 80 crore people will get free ration for five more months.

Observing that there were possibilities of tampering with the evidences in the custodial deaths of a father-son duo allegedly due to police brutality at Sathankulam, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court today directed the Crime Branch-CID (CB-CID) to immediately take up the probe, even by registering murder cases, till the CBI takes over the case.

As the father-son duo custodial deaths allegedly due to police brutality in Sathankulam created a political furore and sent shock waves across the country, the Tamilnadu government today shunted out incumbent Superintendent of Police (SP) and posted a new SP for Tuticorin district.

Taking suo motu cognizance of a recent incident, the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has issued notice to Coimbatore Police Commissioner Sumit Sharan, seeking a detail report on police assaulting a minor boy at Rathinapuri in the city.

Following wide-spread outrage over the brutal killing on a father and son allegedly due to custodial torture in Sathankulam, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Trichy Range, V Balakrishnan, said that 80 police personnel have been temporarily relieved from services for misusing their power.

The World Health Organisation has decided to send a team to China next week to find out the source of coronavirus.

Tamilnadu government today instructed that private schools should not force parents to pay fees now.