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COIMBATORE: Isha Yoga Centre has made Covid-19 RT-PCR test mandatory for the public who want to attend their Mahashivratri festival on Thursday. All attendees will have to undergo medical screening.
Several lakhs of people used to attend Mahashivratri at Isha Yoga Centre. This year, organizers are expecting to see only 10,000 attendees due to Covid-19.
Isha Yoga Centre says participants this year are expected to largely join the event online. “Medical screening, social distancing, wearing masks, and carrying sanitizers have also been made mandatory in addition to compliance with all government directives for in-person gatherings,” said a press statement.
Udhagamandalam: Tourist vehicles are still taking Ooty-Kalhatty-Masinagudi ghat road for downhill journey, for which the stretch with 36 hairpin bends was closed two and half years ago because of frequent fatal accidents. Based on a report of then Nilgiris superintendent of police (SP), the district administration issued an order to close the road for tourists in 2018. The order was notified in the Nilgiris district gazette too.
However, the road was opened for tourists on February 8 by the previous SP V Sasi Mohan. But the road was again closed for downhill journey after seven accidents occurred on the road in a span of three weeks, killing one.
Udhagamandalam: A decomposed carcass of a leopard was found in a private tea garden at Pudiyangi village in Kotagiri range of forests in the Nilgiris on Friday.
According to a forest officer, the villagers spotted the carcass while they were trying to find out the cause of stench in the area. “They immediately alerted us.”
Sasikumar, forest range officer, said the animal might have died a week ago. “It was a female leopard aged around eight years. The carcass was in a considerably decomposed state and as such we couldn’t identify the cause of death.”
He said all the parts of the animal, including teeth and nails, were intact. “Samples of the animal’s vital organs have been collected for lab tests. We could get to know about the cause of death only after the test results are out.”
Coimbatore: A day after a video of six people travelling on a motorcycle on Chinnavedampatti Road in the city went viral on social media, traffic police nabbed and fined them Rs 5,000 each on Friday.
On Thursday, city deputy commissioner of police (traffic) R Mutharasu had formed two special teams led by assistant commissioner of police (traffic) Saravanan to trace the vehicle and the six people for violating traffic norms. The teams detained K Gokulan, 31 and S Sakthvel, 29, both natives of Dharmapuri; N Vijayakumar of Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh; M Selva, 38, of Thiruvannamalai; D Tamilselvan, 36, of Edayarpalayam in Coimbatore; and S Manikandan, 26, of Pudukkottai, on Friday in connection with the incident.