The New Indian Express Chennai - November 22, 2024

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November 22, 2024

ICC ISSUES ARREST WARRANT AGAINST BIBI

THE International Criminal Court on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas' military chief Mohammed Deif, accusing them of crimes against humanity in connection with their war.

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US court cloud over Adani

$250 million kickbacks to sign power pacts | Bribery charges against Adani Group head

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IIT-M unveils Salesforce B2C programme for professionals

IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation has partnered with Codenatives, a US-based IT company, to offer the Salesforce B2C commerce developer training programme for professionals.

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3 yrs after G.O, advisory panel in schools to curb sexual harassment non-functional

THOUGH the state's school education department issued a government order (G.O.) in June 2021 outlining safety guidelines to protect students from sexual harassment, the measures laid out in the order have largely remained on paper.

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DESILT WATERBODIES TO BYPASS FLOOD WORRIES

THE deluge in Chennai city caused by either seasonal rain or cyclones such as Michaung of December, 2023, has created a serious impact on the life of common people.

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Murder on school campus: Teachers stage stir, want spl law for protection

TEACHERS' associations, on Thursday, staged protests in front of chief education offices in various districts, condemning the murder of Ramani, a 26-year-old temporary teacher at Mallipattinam Government Higher Secondary School in Thanjavur on Wednesday.

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MTC mechanic rams bus into police station

A 38-year-old man employed as a mechanic with the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) allegedly drove an empty bus from the Adyar bus depot into the compound wall of the Adyar Police Station nearby after losing control of the vehicle.

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Health officials face trouble as no law to stop, penalise home births

Home birth is not natural birth; high-level meet is being planned to handle issue: DPH director

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300 acres to be acquired for satellite town road

IN a bid to develop a loop road in Thirumazhisai New Town, the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority has proposed that a total of 330 acres be acquired under the Land Pooling Area Development Scheme (LPADS).

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Chennai to issue chip embedded ID to vendors

THE Chennai Corporation will organise special camps at all zonal offices from November 22 to 30 to issue chip-embedded identity cards for all the 35,588 street vendors in the city.

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CM to inaugurate new Tidel IT park in Pattabiram today, third one in TN

IN a bid to usher in social and economic growth in northern Chennai, Chief Minister M K Stalin Will inaugurate the Tidel IT Park at Pattabiram on Friday This will be the third full fledged Tidel Park in the state after Taramani and Coimbatore.

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CJ takes part in farewell event of Krishnakumar

THE Madras High Court on Thursday gave an emotional farewell to its senior-most judge Justice D Krishnakumar who has been appointed Chief Justice of Manipur High Court.

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Need HR & CE, Waqf-like law to govern Christian institutions: HC

OBSERVING that several irregularities are taking place in the administration of Christian institutions across India, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court recently suggested the centre to pass legislation, similar to Waqf Act and HR and CE Act, to monitor and govern the Christian institutions.

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Work with home secy & DGP to stop attack on lawyers, bar council told

THE Madras High Court has instructed the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry (BCTNP) to work out measures, in consultation With the home secretary and the DGP, for preventing recurring attacks on lawyers.

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Stan Swamy memorial: HC says can't stop statues coming up on pvt land

Govt says he was linked with 'Naxais and Maoists', memorial will cause law & order issues

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Panel needed to coordinate animal birth control work

THE Madurai Bench of the Madras HC recently expressed a need for the state government to form a state-level animal birth control implementation and monitoring committee to coordinate activities across the state in a scientific and phased manner as stipulated in Rule 9(3) of Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023.

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Over 500 villagers in Melur protest against pvt flrmis tungsten mining licence

OVER 500 residents from 10 villages in Melur taluk gathered at Nayakkarpatti, raising slogans against the centre and demanding the cancellation of licence granted to a private company to mine tungsten on an area of 5,000 acres.

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VCK chief recalls statement, says he too wanted to be CM

RECALLING a statement he had made 20 years ago, VCK founder and Chidambaram Lok Sabha MP Thol Thirumavalavan said he too had Wished to become the chief minister.

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Tangedco has no commercial tie-up with Adani Group in last 3 yrs: Balaji

THE Adani Group has no commercial relationship with the Tangedco in the past three years, Minister for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise V Senthil Balaji said in Karur on Thursday.

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Rain continues in Ramnad, low-lying areas inundated

FOR the second consecutive day, rain lashed parts of Ramanathapuram, especially the coastal areas, on Thursday.

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After clip goes viral, man held for attacking minor sister-in-law

AFTER a clip of a man attacking a 17-year-old girl went viral on social media on Tuesday, the Ayanavaram police arrested the woman's brother-in-law on Wednesday.

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2 on bike slip, fall on road damaged by UGD work, run over by tipper lorry

ROAD damaged by the prolonged underground drainage (UGD) construction work by the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation, combined with rash driving by a tipper lorry, resulted in the death of two friends, who met after a long time, at Ramanathapuram junction on Thursday.

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₹2.6 crore cheating case: Four get 3-year jail term

FOUR men, including a former vice-president of Samsung India, were convicted for cheating a Tirupathi-based businessman of ₹2.6 crore. They were sentenced to three years of imprisonment and a fine of ₹4,000 on each of them.

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Fire at timber warehouse in Salem doused after 8 hours

SEVERAL people living on Sanyasi Gundu Main Road in Salem suffered breathing difficulty after a fire broke out in a timber godown in the area on Wednesday night.

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Jayakumar murder: TNCC chief backs CB-CID probe

TNCC president K Selvaperunthagai on Thursday told reporters that the CB-CID was conducting a \"scientific investigation\" into the murder of the party's Tirunelveli east district president, Jayakumar.

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Suv asks e X-judge to probe irregular appointments in Tamil varsity

AN inquiry has been ordered into the alleged irregular appointments in the Thanjavurbased Tamil University by Governor and Chancellor R N Ravi.

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DMK gave allies ₹40cr in ,19 poll: AIADMK leader

DMK's alliance partners received ₹40 crore during the Lok Sabha election in 2019, alleged AIADMK treasurer Dindigul Sreenivasan while addressing a party meeting in Nagapattinam on Thursday.

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Fin firms shame defaulters, deface walls

TWO private finance companies in Adhanakottai have allegedly defaced the walls of a house belonging to two loan defaulters, marking it as a pawned property and publicly displaying the outstanding amounts.

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‘Acquire land to end Munambam row’

Nisar, one-man panel that probed Waqf assets, says Waqf land can be given to residents

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WHY ENDING WITH A WHIMPER MAY BE BETTER

By allowing Ukraine to bomb Russia with US-made missiles. Biden may have strengthened Putin's hand. Ifthe war doesn't end with a bang, it wiii open windows for engagement

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WHEN THE CENTRE CAN,T HOLD, THINGS FALL APART

THE apathy towards whatever is happening in the Northeast seems to be the traditional policy of the Indian government, irrespective of who is in power.

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Digital arrests: 17K WhatsApp profiles from Southeast Asian countries blocked

Move after complaints on online platforms

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Centre told to form policy on bonded labour

THE Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to organise a meeting with all the states and Union Territories to formulate a proposal addressing the issue of inter-state trafficking of bonded labourers, including minors.

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JPC chief says Waqf Bill draft ready, Oppn seeks extension of deadline

THE Union government is set to introduce the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024 during the winter session of Parliament. Chairman of the Joint Committee of Parliament scrutinizing the Bill J agdambika Pal said on Thursday that the panel's draft report is ready for submission.

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15 bills in winter session of Parliament

THE Modi government is set to introduce 15 Bills - including five new legislations - during the Winter session of Parliament that begins on Monday.

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India. Ozink mid-air refuel pact

Boost to interoperability; IAF has similar agreements with Singapore, France South Korea

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SC to hear after 8 wks plea seeking ban on sites with jokes on Sikhs

THE Supreme Court will hear after eight weeks a PIL seeking a ban on websites spreading jokes portraying Sikh community members in a poor light.

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Cong, BJP spar over US jury indictment of Adani

The indictment of Gautam Adani by a US court triggered a war of words between the Congress and the BJP on Thursday, with Rahul Gandhi demanding the immediate arrest of the billionaire and accusing the government of protecting him.

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Cong may take call on joining Omar govt after winter session of House

WITH the conclusion of the Assembly polls in Maharashtra and Jharkhand, the Congress is likely to take a call on joining the Omar Abdullah-led National Conference government in J&K after the winter session of Parliament.

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Who's got Maha edge? High rural vote count key

THE rise in voting by almost 4% in the Maharashtra assembly elections against the 2019 figures has led the state's political adversaries to claim an edge over each other.

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AI To Help Connect Lost Pilgrims In Mahakumbh

TECH-TONIC SHIFT

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BJP, JMM pin hopes on split exit proiections

AMID differing projections by exit polls on Jharkhand assembly election results, both the BJP and JMM claimed to get a clear mandate on November 23, the counting day.

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Yogi declares film on Godhra train tax free

UTTAR Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday declared Hindi film 'The Sabarmati Report', based on Godhra incident in Gujarat in 2002, tax free in the state.

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BJP MLA Alpesh Thakor takes a jibe at Gujarat govt over crime and corruption

INFIGHTING in Gujarat BJP appears to be ongoing, as party MLA Alpesh Thakor from Gandhinagar South slammed his own government on Thursday over the worsening law and order situation.

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Ruckus at Army recruitment rally in U'khand, cops use baton

A recruitment rally for the Territorial Army turned chaotic in Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh as a massive crowd of unemployed youth surged at the venue, leading to pushing and shoving among the aspirants trying to gain entry.

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50 killed, 20 others injured in attack on Pak convoy

At least 50 people were killed and 20 others injured when several vehicles carrying passengers were targeted by militants in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, officials said.

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India demands $600 billion in grants as climate finance

EAR after year, COP after COP, we keep discussing what needs to be done without addressing how it is to be done,\" said Leela Nandan, deputy leader of the Indian delegation at COP29 and secretary of the Union environment ministry.

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Dozens killed in Gaza after Israeli strikes

DOZENS were killed or unaccounted for in Gaza on Thursday after Israeli strikes.

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Musk, Ramaswamy share blueprint for regulatory reforms, savings

Elon Musk and Indian American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in an op-ed provided an insight into their blueprint for an unprecedented government reform that includes mass federal job cuts and massive expense reduction.

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Putin Says Hit Ukraine With Mid-Range Ballistic Missile

Says modern air defence systems can't counteract the new weapon

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Another empty promise called out

HE latest negotiating draft text on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) for climate finance has once again failed to specify a concrete funding target, leaving a placeholder \"USD [X] trillion\" in place of an actual figure.

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Man held for planning attack in US

A Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged with a plot to 'reboot' the US government by planting a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it with a remote-controlled device, according to the FBI.

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US regulators want Google to sell Chrome to end its monopoly

US regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade.

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Jio, Airtel, Vodafone Idea lose millions of subscribers; BSNL gains customers

RELIANCE JIO, country's largest telecom service provider, lost a whopping 12.65 million customers in the first three months following the tariff hike implemented by private telecom operators in June 2024.

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Rupee breaches 84.5 mark on foreign fund outflows

THE rupee, under pressure for nearly two months now, tumbled new lows, breaching the 84.50-mark on Thursday as foreign funds continued to dump domestic equities on the one hand and the dollar kept pace with its northward-ho.

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Sebi abolishes l% security deposit rule with exchanges before public issue launches

CAPITAL markets regulator Sebi on Thursday did away with the requirement of a mandatory security deposit with the exchanges before a public issue in a bid to facilitate ease of doing business for issuer companies.

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Bribery charges to hit fundraising plans of Adani Group

THE indictment of Adani Group, its promoters and executives by the US authorities in a bribery case could negatively impact the fund-raising process of the Adani group.

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CIL allows coal supplies beyond agreed quantity

In a bid to enhance coal availability for non-regulated sector (NRS) customers, Coal India Limited (CIL) has tweaked its policy to allow coal supplies beyond the annual contracted quantity (ACQ) during long-term linkage auctions.

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Startup founders rushing after valuations is huge problem: Lenskart's Bansal

EYEWEAR unicorn Lenskart's co-founder Peyush Bansal wants start-up founders to select the right business partner rather than maximising valuations.

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Kenya cancels airport, energy deals with Adani group

KENYA President William Ruto on Thursday said he has cancelled deals with Adani Group for multimillion-dollar airport expansion and energy after US bribery and fraud indictments against group chairman Gautam Adani.

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NTPC Green IPO booked 93% on Day 2

THE initial public offer of NTPC Green Energy Ltd, the renewable energy arm of NTPC, got subscribed 93 percent on the second day of bidding on Thursday.

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Growth can't come at the cost of price stability: RBI Governor

AMID calls from central ministers for rate cut ahead of the next policy announcement on December 6, Reserve Bank governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday said growth is a fundamental necessity for the Global South, but it can't come at the cost of price stability, indicating that it's too early for an easing cycle.

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Adani's indictment rattles stocks

ADANI GROUP shares nosedived over 23% on Thursday and the conglomerate's combined market capitalization of 10 listed stocks fell by up to ₹2.8 lakh crore during the trading hours after chairman Gautam Adani was indicted in the US over bribery and fraud charges.

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Davis Cup: Australia beat USA to reach last four

AUSTRALIA defeated record 28-time Davis Cup winners the United States in a decisive doubles rubber on Thursday to reach the semifinals with a hard-fought 2-1 victory.

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Sonika shines for TN in U15 one-dayers

LEFT-ARM spinner P Sonika's six for four helped Tamil Nadu women beat Nagaland by ten wickets in the Women Under 15 one-dayers (35 overs per side) league round match at Shivamogga, Karnataka.

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PACE-PRIT BUMRAH

Two fast-bowling captains seek happy start as BGT commences

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Lakshya enters quarterfinals, Sindhu crashes out

STAR Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen progressed to the quarterfinals with a straight-game win, but two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu's campaign ended in the second round of the China Masters Super 750 badminton tournament here on Thursday.

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Ding Liren, China's mortal champ with immortal spirit

DURING China's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, chess was seen as a 'decadence' of the West.

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Visa issue: Judokas 3rd time unlucky

IN an unusual turn of events, cadet judokas of the country have missed international events not once but thrice in the last three months.

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AI TAKES CENTRE STAGE AT BENGALURU TECH SUMMIT 2024

FROM uncovering how artificial intelligence and generative AI reshape different sectors to opportunities and challenges, experts at the Bengaluru Tech Summit BTS decoded the AI wave and the unprecedented job disruption that it will create in future. Defence, fintech, and ecommerce start-up founders explained AI opportunities at different sessions held as part of the BTS, the three-day summit that concluded on Thursday.

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Wearable device market down 20%: What went wrong?

India's wearable device market recorded its second consecutive quarterly decline, driven by a slowdown in new product launches and cautious inventory strategies.

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Human-Centric Al Is Quickly Emerging

IRRESPECTIVE of technological evolutions, top leaders feel that customers must be treated as humans.

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