Five nabbed for assaulting constable
The Hindu
The Avinashi police arrested five men, including a father-son duo, on charges of assaulting a police constable, who attempted to arrest them for illegal liquor sale amid the COVID-19 lockdown. The pol
The Avinashi police arrested five men, including a father-son duo, on charges of assaulting a police constable, who attempted to arrest them for illegal liquor sale amid the COVID-19 lockdown. The police said that Thiruvengadam (32), who was attached to the District Armed Reserve police, was sent by the Prohibition Enforcement Wing (PEW) officers to bust the illegal sale of liquor reported near Thekkalur.Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.