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CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief secretary Rajeev Ranjan on Tuesday directed local bodies, health and revenue departments and police to check if people are people wearing masks and if the institutions are adhering to the standard operating procedures. He asked them to impose fine on the violators under the Public Health Act.
An official release said the chief secretary held a review meeting with the district administrators and the heads of the department via video conferencing against the backdrop of a rise in Covid-19 cases in the recent days.
“Permission should be granted for election rallies, cultural, religious and other events where the public gather in huge numbers, with a condition that wearing masks is mandatory. The departments concerned should have to ensure that,” Ranjan said. The district collectors should focus on Covid-19 preventive activities, an important part of election work, and take all measures to reduce transmissi
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CHENNAI: As Covid-19 cases surge, residents of Chennai’s T Nagar have written to Tamil Nadu health secretary J Radhakrishnan urging him to enforce mask compliance.
T Nagar Residents Welfare Association secretary B Kannan said, “With reports about a surge in Covid-19 cases, the residents of T Nagar, particularly those residing in the streets off the Usman Road, are a worried lot. Residential apartments are sandwiched between commercial buildings. When Covid-19 was at its peak, most streets in T Nagar were containment areas causing untold miseries to the residents,” he said.
TUTICORIN: Unaccounted cash to the tune of Rs 67.96 lakh was seized from the owner of a brick kiln in the city late on Thursday evening.
The seizure was by a flying squad on election duty at Dhamodhara Nagar in the city when they checked the car in which it was carried. Preliminary inquiry revealed that the occupant of the vehicle owned a brick kiln at Madathur in Tuticorin district.
Since he could not produce documents supporting the cash he was carrying. The money was handed over to the assistant returning officer of Thoothukudi assembly segment Justin Chelladurai and later taken to the treasury for safe keeping. Income tax officials were also alerted and they were conducting inquiries with the man carrying it. This takes the total unaccounted case seizure in the district to Rs 83.86 lakh.
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CHENNAI: Time and technology have simplified almost everything including theft. Want a ‘used’ motorcycle at an affordable rate? Contact an agent, who will put expert thieves on the job and ensure the bike of your choice is at your doorstep. And you can pay through digital wallets.
Muthu, a 40-year-old with 20 years of experience in picking locks of parked bikes, says field workers like himself make `6,000-`10,000 for each job, while the agents make nearly
`1 lakh. While it might take anything from a few hours to three days and a week to choose the target, it barely takes 20 seconds to pick the lock and ride off, says Muthu, who has been jailed several times and is out on conditional bail since January. In a Triplicane neighbourhood recently, he adds, he settled on the target in a couple of minutes, completed the job and called his client.
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CHENNAI: The income tax department on Sunday said it detected undisclosed income of more than Rs 1,000 crore during searches on the premises of two Chennai-based groups on March 4. It seized unaccounted money to the tune Rs 1.2 crore.
The searches were carried out on 27 premises of a leading bullion trader and a leading jewellery retailer. The searches were conducted in Chennai, Mumbai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichy, Trissur, Nellore, Jaipur and Indore.
The evidences found on the premises of the bullion trader revealed that there were unaccounted cash sales, bogus cash credits from its branches, cash credits in dummy accounts in the guise of advance for purchases, unexplained cash deposits during the demonetization period, bogus outstanding sundry creditors and huge unexplained stock variations.