Top Tamil Nadu news developments today
The Hindu
Key news developments from Tamil Nadu on October 14, 2022
Here are the important developments from Tamil Nadu to watch out for today:
1. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister to chair Cabinet meeting at Secretariat this evening.
2. Savukku Shankar Suo Motu contempt case: Madurai Bench of Madras High Court to hear the Centre and the State on regulating social media platforms
3. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin will remotely inaugurate the railway bridge and flyover in Dharmapuri
4. Tamil Nutritious Meal and Anganwadi Pensioners Association members will stage picketing at various places in Tiruchi and Pudukottai district demanding hike in their pension along with other demands
5. The father of a Chennai college girl who was pushed before an oncoming train and killed by a stalker at St. Thomas Mount railway station has died of shock.
6. Tourists have been stopped from bathing at Kumbakarai Falls in Theni district as heavy water flow continued for third day.
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.