Chennai News Live Updates: City reports 6,241 Covid-19 cases; MK Stalin, Governor RN Ravi celebrate 73rd Republic Day – The Indian Express

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Celebrations underway at Marina beach in Chennai during the occasion of India’s 73rd Republic Day. (Twitter/@MKStalin)

Chennai, Tamil Nadu Live News: On occasion of the 73rd Republic Day celebrations, Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi on Wednesday unfurled the Tricolour flag near the Gandhi Square on Kamarajar Salai in Chennai in the presence of Chief Minister M K Stalin, state cabinet ministers, and other senior officials.

Tamil Nadu on Tuesday continued to record a marginal decline in new Covid-19 cases with 30,055 infections, pushing the caseload to 31,94,260, while 48 more fatalities took the death toll to 37,312, the health department said. With 25,221 people getting discharged in the last 24 hours, recoveries climbed to 29,45,678 leaving 2,11,270 active infections, a medical bulletin said

Meanwhile, the Madras High Court on Tuesday gave its nod to hold elections to urban local bodies in Tamil Nadu and said it will monitor the conduct of the polls in the state. Also, wondering as to what is the difficulty in making Hindi the third language in educational institutions, the first bench of the Madras High Court said on Tuesday that if one doesn’t learn Hindi, it would be very difficult to secure a job in North India.

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Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chennai/chennai-news-live-updates-mk-stalin-corporation-covid19-omicron-republic-day-traffic-7742001/