Tag: Archaeological Excavations

Nanguneri Incident ▪ The one-man committee headed by retired Madras High Court judge K. Chandru has submitted its recommendations to the Tamil Nadu Government. ▪ The committee recommended that the Tamil Nadu government should prohibit the students in schools from wearing coloured wrist-bands, rings, or forehead marks that may indicate their caste. ▪ It also recommended the removal of caste appellations in the names of schools. Note ▪ The committee was constituted in the wake of an incident in Nanguneri in Tirunelveli district in August 2023. Archaeological Excavations ▪ Chief Minister M.K. Stalin virtually launched archaeological excavations in eight locations across Tamil Nadu. ▪ The Chief Minister also released the findings of the Perumbalai excavations and a report on Tamil Nadu Inscriptions Volume XXVIII. ▪ The sites are at ✓ Keeladi and its cluster (Kondagai), Sivaganga ✓ Vembakottai, Virudhunagar ✓ Kilnamandi, Tiruvannamalai ✓ Porpanaikottai, Pudukottai ✓ Tirumalapuram, Tenkasi ✓ Sennanur, Krishnagiri ✓ Kongalnagaram ,Tiruppur ✓ Marungur, Cuddalore