Pistol with four rounds seized in Madurai
The Hindu
Madurai City police have seized lethal weapons, including a pistol with four live rounds, in two separate incidents since Friday. In the first incident, a team of police from Avaniapuram raided a shed
Madurai City police have seized lethal weapons, including a pistol with four live rounds, in two separate incidents since Friday. In the first incident, a team of police from Avaniapuram raided a shed on Semboorani Road and found two youths - M. Manicka Vijay, 19, and M. Arusami, 18, - in possession of two swords and two knives. In the other incident, the police who were checking vehicles on Thathaneri Main Road on Saturday intercepted a two-wheeler and found a country-made pistol with four live rounds in possession of the rider, S. Mathan, 46.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.