
Two deaths, 25 new cases in Salem
The Hindu
Erode reports 22 new cases and Namakkal 18
Salem district on Friday reported two deaths and 25 new cases of COVID-19.
According to the Health Department officials, 25 cases were indigenous and 10 cases were reported in the Corporation limits.
Erode district reported 22 new cases. According to the bulletin, there were 426 active cases in the district.

Wearing black dresses and holding placards, Congress legislators on March 29 took out a rally from MLA quarters to the Assam Assembly, protesting the disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha. The Budget session of the Assembly resumed on Wednesday morning after a week-long recess. The Congress MLAs marched from the official residence of the Leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia to the gates of the Assembly building.

The Madras High Court has commuted, from 10 years of rigorous imprisonment, to seven years, the punishment imposed on an 88-year-old shopkeeper for having a raped a 15-year-old girl child who subsequently died by suicide, in 2013. The leniency was shown considering the age and frail physical condition of the convict.