The Madras High Court on Wednesday set aside the order of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment (HR&CE) Department for taking over the administration of Ayodhya Mandapam and for appointing a ‘Fit Person’ to look into the administration of the Sri Ram Samaj.
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The IIT-Madras Covid cluster continues to see a surge in positive cases, with 33 more returning positive, taking the tally to 145 on Wednesday.
Posing tough questions at the Tamilnadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) department for taking over of the administration of the Ayodhya Mandapam in Chennai, the Madras High Court has decided to quash the orders of the department, and a single judge who dismissed a petition against the order for taking over the prayer hall.
Despite the Covid breakout and the pandemic-induced lockdown, the sale of liquor through the state government-owned Tamilnadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) has crossed the Rs 36,000 mark in 2021-22.
With the IIT-Madras emerging a new Covid-19 cluster with a breakout of fresh cases, Health Minister Ma Subramanian said the infection is expected to have spread through the college mess and now the food is being served to the students to their respective rooms in the hostels.
Even as Tamilnadu Governor R N Ravi was holding a conference with Vice-Chancellors of State-run universities in Ooty Raj Bhavan, the Tamilnadu Assembly passed a Bill empowering the Chief Minister to appoint VCs for various varsities, instead of the existing system of being appointed by the Governor, in his capacity as the Chancellor.
IIT-Madras has become a Covid cluster as the Covid count in the campus went up to 60, even as the Tamilnadu government came on high alert.
At a time when the Opposition is attacking the DMK government over the frequent power cuts across the State, Chief Minister M K Stalin wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, demanding his intervention to ensure the supply of 72,000 MTs coal per day at Paradip and Visakhapatnam ports as per the FSA (Fuel Supply Agreement).
With many parts of Tamilnadu facing power cuts, a political blame game is being played by the ruling and opposition parties.