CHENNAI: Around 20 lakh students of Classes X and XII across the state are set to return to schools on Tuesday, after a gap of nearly 10 months. While adjusting to the new normal, including entering in specified time slots, getting temperature checks, sanitizing hands and wearing masks, occupying designated seats, and not gathering during breaks, is expected to be tough, many schools plan to hold counselling sessions on the first day. Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School in Saidapet has allotted a five-minute time slot for every 20 students. “The 572 students will enter from 8.45 am to 9.30 am, with separate gates for students of Classes X and XII. The same procedure will be followed when they leave,” said headmistress R Padmaja, adding that students have been told to bring spoons to avoid crowding at washbasins and to bring their own water. Vana Vani Matriculation Higher Secondary School on the IIT Madras campus expects less than 50% strength initially. “We are … [Read more...] about Tamil Nadu: After 10 months, 20L schoolkids return to sanitized classrooms
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Sri Lanka reopens for tourists after 10 months
Sri Lanka reported the first case of COVID-19 when a local tourist operator tested positive in March 2020. Though public health authorities, with the support of the military, controlled the first wave effectively, the second wave that broke out in early October persists, taking the number of cases from around 4,000 then to 55,189 as of Thursday. The fatalities have also risen more than ten times in the last four months, to 274. More recently, health authorities have reported the new, “U.K.-variant” of the virus. … [Read more...] about Sri Lanka reopens for tourists after 10 months
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Skating Coach Gets 18 Months for Abusing His Charges
Cho was indicted for repeated assaults against four athletes since 2011, including Shim, who famously fled the national training center after being beaten by Cho in January 2018, just as she was preparing for the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang three weeks later. … [Read more...] about Skating Coach Gets 18 Months for Abusing His Charges
Sensex breaches 50,000-mark for first time ever: Here’s looking at 10 greatest milestones since 1979
New Delhi: Sensex created history on Thursday, by rallying over 300 points to hit the 50,000-mark for the first time ever in early trade. Healthy buying was witnessed in auto and telecom stocks. A positive trend in the global markets also supported the indices on Thursday. … [Read more...] about Sensex breaches 50,000-mark for first time ever: Here’s looking at 10 greatest milestones since 1979