Tamil Nadu Chennai News Live Updates: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday appealed to the Centre to arrange special flights, like the Vande Bharath Mission, to evacuate students from Tamil Nadu stranded in Ukraine, following the Russian offensive against the Eastern European country. Urging the Centre to take up the matter with the authorities there, Stalin said, “I request the Government of India to arrange for Special Mission flights like Vande Bharath Mission to evacuate them from various parts of Ukraine.”
Meanwhile, AIADMK leader and former minister D Jayakumar, who has been re-arrested on the charge of disobeying a provision in Chennai City Police Act, was granted bail by local court on Thursday. Also, the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu has secured over 40 per cent vote share in the just concluded urban civic polls, which it swept across the state while pushing its arch-rival AIADMK to a distant second with a vote share of less than 27 per cent in the three segments.
In other news, Tamil Nadu reported 575 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the caseload to 34,47,581 while four more fatalities took the death toll to 37,997, the Health department said on Thursday. Chennai accounted for the majority of new coronavirus infections with 144 new cases being reported in the last 24 hours
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Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chennai/tamil-nadu-chennai-news-live-updates-urban-local-body-polls-dmk-stalin-covid19-traffic-7788336/
