The New Indian Express Chennai - September 27, 2024

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September 27, 2024

Sena, TMC spat at Waqf bill JPC's meeting

A meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) scrutinising the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, in Mumbai on Thursday witnessed tumultuous scenes after a verbal spat between TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee and Shiv Sena (Shinde)'s Naresh Maske.

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37 kids among 46 drowned after holy dip across Bihar

Jivitputrika is celebrated by moms for well-being of children

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SC JUNKS GUJ GOVT'S PLEA TO EXPUNGE CRITICAL REMARKS IN BILKIS VERDICT

THE Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a review plea filed by the Gujarat government seeking to expunge certain adverse remarks against it while quashing the premature release of the 11 men convicted of gangraping Bilkis Bano and murdering seven of her family members in the 2002 riots.

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TN women to power German service centre

WITH her long locks tucked in inside the helmet and sporting a gown and industry-grade safety shoes, 22-year-old G Sowmya from Cuddalore is busy at the place she now calls her second home her work place, arguably the first all-women construction equipment service centre opened by Schwing Stetter India in Poonamallee on Thursday.

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Victim's U-turn frees murder-bid accused 16 yrs on

The man was set ablaze in July 2008 after his son's football hit a two-wheeler

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Kallakurichi riot: Schoolgirl's uncle arrested

THE Special Investigation Team has arrested the maternal uncle of the Class 12 girl who allegedly died by suicide on her school premises, triggering a riot in Kallakurichi.

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Anna varsity to set up drone pilot training centre in Ladakh

After opening a branch of its Remote Pilot Training Organisation (RPTO) in Bengaluru, the Anna University is all set to spread its tentacles to Ladakh.

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Palani prasadam remark: BJP functionary gets bail

THE Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to the vice-chairman of the BJP's Tamil Nadu State Industrial Wing, PS Selvakumar, in a case booked against him for his remarks on panchamirtham of Palani temple in Dindigul district.

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₹100cr worth of chemical used for making meth seized, two held

THE Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Wednesday busted a major pseudoephedrine trafficking racket and seized 112 kg of the precursor chemical, which is used to make the globally popular drug methamphetamine, from a container at Chennai Port.

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Five nabbed after raids at overseas job agencies

FOLLOWING a request from the Protector of Emigrants (PoE) in Chennai, a joint raid was conducted by the Job Racket Investigation Wing of the Central Crime Branch and PoE officers on Wednesday, targeting unauthorised overseas employment agencies in the city.

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Monsoon trailer: Just few hrs of rain and parts of city inundated

PARTS of the city were water logged on Thursday after an intense spell of rain the previous night.

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Three occupy Islamic trust's building, held

THREE men have been arrested by Otteri police on charges of illegally occupying a building belonging to an Islamic trust at Otteri.

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DIG arrested for facilitating land fraud with forged docus

A CB-CID team from Chennai arrested Ravindranath, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Registration Department, Salem region, on Wednesday night for allegedly facilitating the illegal transfer of a property using forged documents.

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Police whisk away rowdy from court to 'save his life'

IN violation of Supreme Court guidelines which state that people should not be arrested from court premises, Salem City police arrested a history-sheeter on Salem court campus on Thursday.

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TN signs MoU with British Council for partnerships in creative industries

IN a bid to lay a roadmap for future research partnerships between Tamil Nadu and the United Kingdom (UK) in creative industries and laying the groundwork for long-term policy frameworks, the British Council, the UK's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural ex change, and Guidance Tamil Nadu, the investment promo tion agency of the state government, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen the creative economy and cultural industries of the state.

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School teacher verbally abuses girls, told by kangaroo court to go on leave

A male teacher, who has been accused of verbally abusing girl students at a government high school located in a village near Alangulam, has been asked to go on medical leave by a kangaroo court that deliberated the issue.

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Senthil Balaji may get back minister berth, portfolios in cabinet reshuffle

Announcement is expected after CM Stalin returns from New Delhi

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Centre doubles wheat given to TN, more PDS cardholders to benefit

COME November, a higher number of poor and lower-middle-class population possessing Priority Household (PHH) ration cards will be able to receive wheat for free from ration shops.

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Four get death for murder of 3 Dalits in 2014

FOUR persons were sentenced to death, while seven others were awarded multiple life imprisonments in connection with the murders of three SC persons in Udappankulam village near Thiruvengadam in 2014.

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Corpn staff made to work at houses of IAS officers: Ramadoss seeks action

PMK founder S Ramadoss on Thursday urged TN government to act against IAS officers for making Chennai Corporation employees work at their homes to carry out personal chores.

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K'taka withdraws general consent for CBI probe

THE Karnataka Cabinet on Thursday withdrew the general consent allowing the CBI to probe cases in the state citing bias in favour of the Centre to target leaders from certain parties.

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WHO'S AFRAID OF MARXISTS NEXT DOOR?

The worry about the new Lankan govt's leftist tilt may be overblown. It's likely to be guided by those offering a friendly hand out of its economic morass

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WHY CASA DEPOSITS AREN'T AS CHEAP AS ASSUMED TO BE

RADITIONALLY, current and savings bank deposits or CASA is considered to be low-cost deposits in Indian banks.

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Domestic Violence Act caters to women of all religions: SC

THE Supreme Court has said that the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, is a civil code that is applicable to every woman in India irrespective of her religious affiliation or social background.

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TMC to pick Kirti Azad, Dola Sen as nominees to head Parliament panels

THE Trinamool Congress (TMC) will nominate Lok Sabha MP Kirti Azad and Rajya Sabha MP Dola Sen as chairpersons of parliamentary standing committees as the government is set to announce the panels soon.

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India asks citizens to leave Lebanon as tension mounts

AMID escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon, the Indian embassy in Lebanon has issued an advisory for Indian nationals to leave the country immediately.

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Come '26, 'sound walls' on bullet train route

THE high-speed rail corridor, being developed between Mumbai and Ahmedabad for running India's first bullet train at a speed of 260-300 kmph, is getting ready to mitigate noise impact on residential colonies located along the tracks, officials said.

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Centre asks states to take strict measures to control spread of mpox infection

THE Centre on Tuesday issued fresh advisory to states and Union Territories and asked them to isolate suspected cases of mpox, previously known as monkeypox, and implement strict infection prevention and control measures.

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Mountaineers scale new Arunachal peak, name it after 6th Dalai Lama

AT a time when the Chinese has been renaming places along the Line of Actual Control, India on Wednesday named a mountain peak in the name of Dalai Lama, the religious head of 60 lakh Tibetan Buddhists.

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'Unlawful': Pressure on Yunus to free journalist jailed in Bangladesh

WHILE the chairperson of the Interim government in Bangladesh Mohammad Yunus interacted with various world leaders in New York, 30 human rights activists from across the globe urged him to release human rights activist/journalist Shahriar Kabir who has been unlawfully held in Bangladesh.

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Lawmakers slam second instance of BAPS temple desecration in California

A second Hindu temple has been vandalised in the US within a span of 10 day.

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Shah says only Modi can restore statehood to J&K

HOME Minister Amit Shah and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed poll rallies in Jammu on Thursday where Shah said J&K will definitely get statehood, but only \"Modi can restore it\" and promised to make J&K-terror free if voted to power.

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No lathis, arms in Ram Navami rallies in Bengal

THE West Bengal Police will not allow weapons to be carried during the Ram Navami rally scheduled next Thursday.

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Gujarat Cong chief slams CM's silence in rape-murder case

THE Gujarat Congress held a protest on Thursday against chief minister Bhupendra Patel's silence over the murder of a six-year-old girl in Dahod by her school principal after she resisted his rape attempt.

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Rahul: Storm coming, Cong will form govt in Haryana

RECOUNTING his conversations with a Haryana youth who migrated to the US via \"donkey route\" and sharing his experiences, the leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi rapped BJP over unemployment in the state, saying the Haryana government has destroyed the employment system in the state.

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After talks deadlock, team to visit Joshimath in Oct

A high-level disaster management team will visit Joshimath in October to assess the situation after the land submergence and create a tentative Detailed Project Report (DPR) to expedite rehabilitation efforts.

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after 3 Maoists killed 5-day-long ops in C'garh

IN a major success, the security forces after five days of toiling operation neutralised three high-ranking Maoist leaders in Paradi forests of Abujhmad, in Narayanpur district, about 400 km south of Raipur.

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Glacier burst concern over safety of hydro projects

THE hydroelectric projects will not be affected in the event of a glacier lake burst in future.

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RG Kar docs threaten to intensify protest if their demands not met

DAYS after partially resuming duties at government hospitals in West Bengal following a 42day cease-work over the RG Kar rape-murder, junior doctors on Thursday threatened to intensify their protest from Friday if their demands are not fulfilled.

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Few takers as 5.5K govt schools have zero student enrollment for Class I

THE government's primary education system seems to be having few takers in Madhya Pradesh.

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Israeli strike kills drone commander of Hezbollah

At least 11 killed, 22 others injured in school shelter attack in Gaza

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Trump raps Ukraine refusal for truce

FORMER President Donald Trump described Ukraine in bleak and mournful terms on Wednesday, referring to its people as 'dead' and the country itself as 'demolished\", and further raising questions about how much the former president would be willing if elected again to concede in a negotiation over the country's future.

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Putin's N-coercion to pressure Ukraine

THE Kremlin said Thursday that an updated nuclear doctrine that will allow Moscow to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states should be seen as a warning to the West.

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Sebi eases reporting norms for trading, clearing members

MARKET watchdog Sebi has done away with as many as 90% of the reporting requirements for market makers like trading members, clearing members, and depository participants.

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SpiceJet starts clearing salaries of employees

AVIATION DAYS after raising ₹3,000 crore through a Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP), budget carrier SpiceJet has started crediting the pending salaries of its employees for the months of June, July and August.

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Govt to borrow ₹6.61L cr in H2, maintains target

The Centre has retained its borrowing target for the current financial year as it announced its ₹6.61 lakh crore borrowing plan for the second half of the financial year.

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Swiggy to raise ₹3,750 cr through public offer

FOOD tech firm Swiggy said on Thursday it aims to raise ₹3,750 core ($449 million) in its initial public offering (IPO). existing shareholders such as Accel India and Tencent europe will sell about ₹185.3 million shares, Swiggy said in its draft prospectus.

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Byju's insolvency case: SC halts creditors' meeting

THE Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict and directed the Insolvency Resolution Professional (IRP) of edtech firm Byju's to maintain status quo and not hold any meeting of the Committee of Creditors.

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Nifty rises 20%, Sensex gains 19% in CY24

Rally is primarily driven by unprecedented surge in liquidity from domestic investors - both institutional and retail

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Hurun's under-35 list: Isha Ambani, Parekh youngest women entrepreneurs

Reliance Retail Ventures’ executive director Isha Ambani, 32, and Toddle co-founder Parita Parekh, 32, are the youngest women entrepreneurs in the 2024 hurun India Under-35 list.

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OMCs can reduce petrol, diesel prices by ₹2-3: ICRA

OIL marketing companies (OMCs) could reduce petrol and diesel prices by ₹2-3 per litre if the international crude prices remain stable, according to a report by ICRA.

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Inside story of how all-rounder revealed plans on India arrival

FORMER Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan on Thursday announced that the Mirpur Test against visiting South Africa will be his last in the format if he is assured of his safety in the country and also a safe exit after the match.

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Kanpur game may be Shakib's last Test match

ONE look at his cricketing profile and it can be known clearly how valuable he has been as a cricketer.

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Focus on Sindhu's positioning & movement on court: Sridhar

SINCE the beginning of the month, Anup Sridhar has helped put the basics in place for PV Sindhu's comeback to the circuit after a below-par Paris Games.

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Fanai stars in Mohammeden win against Chennaiyin FC

RIDING on Lalremsanga Fanai's goal in the 39th minute Mohammedan Sporting Club defeated hosts Chennaiyin FC 1-0 and secured their first win in the Indian Super League at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Thursday.

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Cloud over Green Park & combination

With two strips prepared, conditions could determine whether Kuldeep will play at his home ground or not

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