The girl had not attended school from January 3, following which an inquiry was done by the school in person visiting her home.
The detention of one person under the Act, however, was not revoked as he has many cases pending against him.
'Both the DMK and ADMK are equally to blame.' 'When the question is violence against Dalits, they don't take measures to protect Dalits.'
The atmosphere at the funeral was highly emotional with friends, relatives and locals bidding tearful farewell.
Jayalalithaa was the third chief minister in Tamil Nadu to die in office, after her mentor M G Ramachandran (1987) and before that his mentor C N Annadurai (1969). The state government should have evolved protocols for the medical care of the incumbent, and institutional memory should have guided the government and officials in the matter, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Two mysterious objects seem to have fallen from the sky -- one in a paddy field and one in an engineering college, killing one person.
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