NEWS DIGEST

NEWS DIGEST

3 of 4-member gang with bomb, machetes, held

Three of a four-member gang that was moving around with a country-made bomb and machetes were nabbed during a vehicle check in Kancheepuram. One gang member managed to escaped. Police suspect them to have been targeting someone. The arrested are Kishore, 20, of Thirukachur, Alagesan, 26, of Anna Nagar, and Sivakumar, 19, of Kolathur. Police frisked them and recovered two machetes and one country-made bomb. Police have launched a hunt for the absconding suspect and are questioning the three.

2 robbed of gold chains:

Two women were robbed of their gold chains by two bikeborne men in different incidents at Maraimalai Nagar and Guduvancherry on Wednesday. At Guduvancherry, Susila, 58, was walking down the road at NGO Colony when a bike-borne duo snatched her 3.5sovereign gold chain and sped away. In the other incident, Amulya, 24, was walking home after buying groceries when two people on a bike snatched her five-sovereign gold chain and escaped. Police have registered two separate cases.

Govt teachers told to come to schools from Aug 2: The school education department has asked all the three lakh teachers working in government schools to report to work from August 2. A circular from the department said all teachers and headmasters from government primary, middle, high and higher secondary schools need to come to schools for admissions, preparing time-table, cleaning school campuses, to give assignments based on Kalvi TV lessons and to assess students. However, differently-abled, cancer survivors and those with kidney and heart ailments and teachers taking Covid-19 treatmentwill be exempted from coming to schools by respective CEO provided they submit relevant documents.

Murder of elderly solved:

Police have solved the murder of Anthony Mary, 60, with the arrest of a Alex, 42 who allegedly murdered her to steal her six-sovereign gold jewellery at Kasimedu.