Chennai, Tamil Nadu News highlights: Two deekshithars (priests) attached to the Chidambaram Nataraja Temple in Tamil Nadu were arrested Saturday and later sent to remand in connection with the alleged wedding of their minor children, the police said. The Cuddalore all-women police station (AWPS) has registered a case under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act. According to officers, the bride’s father Hemasabesa Deekshitar and the groom’s father Venkatesa Deekshitar were arrested based on a complaint from the social welfare department. Following the arrests, a group of priests and their families staged a protest in Chidambaram and were detained by the police.
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Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday trained guns on the DMK government in Tamil Nadu, alleging that it was involved in corruption and ignored the development of the poor. The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said the DMK was ‘so scared’ of the Centre that it was not even allowing to affix the photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the central government schemes being implemented in the state.
Chief Minister MK Stalin, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said that the number of people speaking languages other than Hindi is more than Hindi speaking people in the Indian subcontinent. He said, “I’m sure you’d appreciate that every language has its own speciality with its uniqueness and linguistic culture.” He added that the recent attempts to impose Hindi are impractical & divisive in character and puts non-Hindi-speaking people in a disadvantageous position in many respects.
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The Tamil Nadu health department has issued instructions to the general public on measures that needs to be taken to prevent water-borne disease ahead of the north-east monsoon season.
Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine T S Selvavinayagam appealed to the members of public to drink boiled water and encouraged frequent hand washing with soap to prevent infections.
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