TN reports 112 Covid-19 deaths, 5,175 fresh cases

Tamilnadu today reported 112 deaths due to Covid-19 and 5,175 fresh coronavirus infections. The total number of persons tested positive for the pandemic so far in the State has touched 2,73,460.

Roopa becomes first woman Home Secretary of K’taka

D Roopa Moudgil, an IPS officer who shot to fame after she made allegations that special facilities were provided to former Tamilnadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s aide V K Sasikala in Parapana Agrahara jail in Bengaluru, has been posted as Home Secretary to the government of Karnataka, the first woman officer to hold this post.

S P Balasubrahmanyam tests positive for Covid-19

Playback singer S P Balasubrahmanyam has tested coronavirus positive today. In a video released by him, the singer said that he got himself tested after he developed mild chest congestion, fever and cold.

Stalin suspends Selvam from party posts, primary membership

A day after he met two key BJP leaders including its national president J P Nadda at New Delhi, prominent MLA of the opposition DMK Ku Ka Selvam was suspended from the party and relieved from the post of headquarters secretary, today.