Shops in Nilgiris to be closed as mark of respect

Shops in the Nilgiris district will remain closed from 6 am to 6 pm on Friday as a mark of respect to the deceased in the helicopter crash.

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat have been killed along with 11 others when the Army chopper they were flying in crashed near Coonoor. (Photo | PTI) 

COONOOR: Shops in the Nilgiris district will remain closed from 6 am to 6 pm on Friday as a mark of respect to the deceased in the helicopter crash. MA Raheem, Secretary of Federation of Merchants’ Associations, said, “We will close shops in honour of the services done by them for the nation.”