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
