Thread: Tamil Nadu govt issues new guidelines to tackle the spread of Covid.
- Night curfew announced from 10pm to 4 am across the state from April 20.
Public/ private transport not allowed to ply and inter-state/ district transport also suspended during this time period.
- Only essential services allowed to operate during night curfew. Media, petrol pumps, continuous process industries exempted. Transport for emergency medical need, airport, railway station alone will be allowed.
- Total lockdown on Sundays. Only essential services allowed.
- Parcel facility allowed from hotels from 6am- 10am, 12pm- 3pm and 6pm-9pm on Sundays.
-Tamil Nadu class 12 state board examinations postponed. Practical exams to go on as scheduled.
- 100 people allowed for weddings and 50 for funerals.
- Tourism suspended in hill stations such as Nilgiris, Kodaikkanal, Yercaud.
- Beaches, parks, zoos etc to be closed for public.
- Only 50% employees allowed to work in IT firm offices. Others should be given WFH.
- College, university exams & classes can be conducted online.
Tea shops, hotels, vegetable and grocery shops, jewellery stores, big format stores etc can function only with 50% capacity. They are allowed to be open only till 9 pm.
Thread: Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister OPS, who also handles the finance portfolio, starts presenting the interim state budget for 2021-22 at Kalaivanar Arangam, Chennai.
-TN govt has incurred a total expenditure of Rs13,352.85 crores for handling Covid19 pandemic.
-Out of the 413 recommendations given by economic expert committee, govt has implemented 273 of them.
- TN is expected to register a positive growth of 2.02% at 2011-12 constant prices in 2020-2021. This is against an all India negative growth of 7.7 percent.
A complaint has been lodged against Dr. Subbiah Shanmugam, ABVP national president and a senior surgical oncologist at KMC hospital in Chennai, for allegedly harassing a woman living in his same apartment complex over a parking slot dispute. (1/6)
According to the complaint lodged by a relative of the 62-year-old single woman, Dr Subbiah has been harassing the woman and allegedly threw garbage and used masks, urinated (captured on CCTV) at her door step.
When we spoke to Dr Subbiah, he refuted the allegations. He said that the video is doctored and it is not him who is seen in the CCTV footage.
Thread: The report submitted by the Judicial Magistrate to MHC regarding the Tuticorin custodial case is damning.
- CCTV footage at Sathankulam PS got erased as the settings automatically deletes the footage after 24 hours. This despite the system having 1TB storage space.
- A woman constable at the PS has turned witness. Other cops tried to hinder the process of recording her statement.
- She said that Jayaraj & Bennix were beaten up all night with lathis.
- She also said there were blood stains on lathis & on the table.
Woman constable agreed to sign the statement after JM assured her proper security.
When the JM asked the cops to produce lathis, they pretended as if they did not hear what he said. They tried to subvert. One cop escaped the station and ran away by jumping the wall.