Day: August 11, 2020

Tamilnadu today reported 5,834 new cases of Covid-19, taking the total number of coronavirus infections in the State to 3,08,649. The capital city of Chennai registered 986 new cases in the last 24 hours.

Ruling out the possibility of declaring 2020-21 as a ‘zero academic year’ due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the Education Ministry, during a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development, said classes and exams will be held.

An expert committee led by NITI Aayog member Dr VK Paul will meet tomorrow to consider the logistics and ethical aspects of procuring and administering the Covid-19 vaccine, the Union Health Ministry said today.

With Tamilnadu heading towards Assembly elections, which are slated to held next year, senior AIADMK leader and Minister for Milk and Dairy Development, KT Rajenthra Bhalaji, has said Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami would be projected as the party’s CM candidate.

Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami today said that the proactive and aggressive measures taken by the State government have resulted in declining trend of new positive cases in Chennai city.

Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allocate Rs 9,000 crore special grant to combat Covid-19 and its after effects on the State’s economy.

The city has been fighting the novel coronavirus fiercely. Currently, the active cases are at 10 per cent and recovery is at 88 per cent.

The Supreme Court today said that daughters will have right over parental property even if the coparcener had died prior to the date when Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 came into force.

President Donald Trump’s bans on two popular Chinese social media apps — TikTok and WeChat — are the latest moves in an escalating US-China rift, and point to a future where technology and innovation are increasingly walled behind political barriers.