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Marandi, Champai, Soren bahu in NDA nominee list

THE BJP on Saturday released the first list of 66 candidates, including 12 women candidates, for the Assembly elections scheduled for November 13 and 20 in Jharkhand.

No CM face, Maha Yuti decides to fight polls under PM's name

THE ruling Maha Yuti in Maharashtra will not project incumbent CM Eknath Shinde or anyone else as chief minister for the assembly polls due next month.

Mamata dials medics to break RG Kar deadlock

A day after junior doctors threatened to go for complete cease-work in all government and private hospitals in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday appealed to the protesting medics over the phone to withdraw their fast unto-death.

Cataract patients open eyes to be Gujarat BJP members, party retorts

A new controversy has surfaced in Gujarat over the BJP membership drive. A viral video shows patients at Rajkot's Ranchoddas Bapu Charitable Trust eye hospital being woken up in the middle of the night and enrolled as BJP members after cataract surgeries.

On Punjab paddy crisis, Mann says ready to deal with farmers' agitation

AMID farmers' protests over tardy procurement of paddy in the kharif marketing season, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday warned all stakeholders -- farmers, commission agents (arthias) and rice millers -- saying his government is ready with plan B and will not allow \"blackmailing\".

THE K-FACTOR AND INDIA-CANADA DIPLOMATIC CHILL

No one really knows what struck Hardeep Singh Nijjar and Gurpatwant Singh Pannun—both born in Punjab—to become \"wanted\" in India. Nijjar is no more; he was shot dead in June last year at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Punjabi-dominated Surrey of British Columbia province in Canada. Pannun runs Sikhs for Justice (SJF) outfit and is based in the US and possesses American and Canadian citizenship.

Canada says other Indian diplomats 'clearly on notice'

THE diplomatic row between India and Canada continues as the Canadian foreign minister Melaine Joly said that the remaining Indian diplomats in Canada are \"clearly on notice\", a statement that came after Ottawa expelled six Indian envoys earlier this week.

Role of Supreme Court as people's court must be preserved, says CJI

CHIEF Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Saturday said the Supreme Court's role as a people's court must be preserved for the future, but this does not mean it has to fulfill the Opposition's role in Parliament.

IIM-Lucknow's 'Mind lab' to study students' stress

THIS happiness centre at IIM-Lucknow has not only rolled out courses on wellness and mindfulness but will soon set up a Mind Lab to measure and understand the stress and anxiety levels among students and help them lead a better academic life and a more balanced lifestyle.

In major bureaucratic reshuffle, MORTH, coal, MoEF get new secretaries

THE government on Saturday commenced a major reshuffle of senior bureaucrats.

Transparency matters: MHA amends guidelines on enemy properties

THE Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has amended the guidelines of Enemy Property Disposal Order- 2018 to bring in more transparency and clarity.

Punitive law against hoax bomb threats likely soon

Initial proposals include five-year imprisonment, inclusion in no-fly list

OMAR MUST JUGGLE DNA TO RESTORE PARADISE

OU can take the Kashmir out of Abdullah but you cannot take the Abdullah out of Kashmir. Last week, J&K's new Chief Minister Omar Abdullah posted on X: \"I am back\" - a Kashmiri Schwarzenegger acting as The Terminator who incinerated his political enemies. With 3.2 million followers, the 54-year-old, British-born, third-generation Abdullah's post was a deadly DNA denouement. During his swearing-in ceremony, he followed the family tradition of donning a sherwani and pajama which signaled locality, heredity and continuity. His political pedigree mandates he favors both more power for the UT (read himself) and dialogue with Pakistan and that Jammu and Kashmir is different from other states. Omar, too, is different now. He is J&K's first CM to swear by the Indian Constitution after Article 370 was flung into the trashcan of turbulent history.

TACKLING THE SOURCE OF PROBLEMS

OME elections, and newspaper front pages and social media timelines are full of new hospitals being launched or their foundation stones being laid, mostly in poll-bound states. Thousands of crores are being spent on these planned hospitals. On the face of it, it seems like a noble thing to do, much needed in society.

BJP fields Navya against Priyanka

The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded Navya Haridas, Mahila Morcha state general secretary against Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi in the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency by election. The party national leadership on Saturday also announced the decision to field its state general secretary C Krishna Kumar as candidate in Palakkad assembly constituency and K Balakrishnan in Chelakkara reservation constituency by elections.

Residents strike back at litterers, tie rope with slippers and broom

IN a bid to stop miscreants from dumping waste in the open, residents of Gandhipuram tied a rope with old slippers and brooms across the littering space. They also placed a signboard stating that those who dump waste in the open would be handed over to the police.

Group I aspirants on protest; cops detain union minister, candidates

T'gana protesters say GO 29 unconstitutional, violates reservation rights of SC, ST and BC students

Corporation says Tambaram rain-ready, residents doubtful

OFFICIALS of the Tambaram City Municipal Corporation (TCMC) have claimed that most flood mitigation projects are complete and the city is prepared for heavy rains. However, many residents remain sceptical.

Corpn worker falls into open drain, dies

A 54-year-old contract sanitation worker of Vellore Corporation died on Friday after accidentally falling into an open sewage drain near Makkan Signal on Bengaluru Road. The deceased, M Murugan, a resident of Perumal Nagar in Keelmonavoor had been working in the corporation for last 15 years.

Don't overstep, centre can take action: Raja warns govt in Tamil anthem spat

\"THE Tamil Nadu government is overstepping its boundaries. If the state government violates the law, the central government has the authority to take action against the state government,\" said BJP leader and the party's state coordination committee chief, H Raja, while speaking to reporters in Vellore. He made these remarks regarding the Tamil Thai Vaazhthu controversy that erupted on Friday between Governor R N Ravi and CM M K Stalin after singers missed the line \"Thekkanamum Adhir Sirantha Dravida Nal Thirunaadum\" from the 'Tamizh Thaai Vaazhthu' performed at Doordarshan (DD) Kendra Chennai's Hindi month valedictory function. Doordarshan had apologised for the \"inadvertent mistake.\"

18K dengue cases, but no need for panic, says DPH

DIRECTORATE of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (DPH) said that there 18,000 dengue cases in Tamil Nadu.

₹247 cr allocated to give incentive to 1.2L cane ryots

THE state government has allocated ₹247 crore to provide incentive to 1.2 lakh sugarcane farmers across the state for 2023-24 agricultural year.

K'taka DGP says delivery of drugs via courier service a serious challenge

THE conference of DGPs of southern states on Saturday focused on inter-state smuggling of illicit liquor and narcotics, drug trade and terror financing, radicalisation and cybercrime, left-wing extremism, interstate crimes and illegal transport of weapons, red sanders and contraband items, a release said.

CM seeks cooperation of other state cops to tackle narcotics, cybercrime

Accused in 1,390 cybercrime cases booked by TN police in 2023 were from other states: CM

Burglary bid: 20-year-old beaten to death in Ranipet

M Madhesh, a 20-year-old history sheeter, was beaten to death by the locals for allegedly trying to burgle a house in Thakkolam, near Arakkonam, in the early hours of Saturday.

HC: NHAI responsible for laying roads, can't be held liable for accidents

THE Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court recently set aside an order passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal of Madurai, holding the NHAI liable in a road accident case for failing to tow away a lorry parked on the wrong side due to a punctured tyre at night on the Madurai-Tiruchy Main Road in 2012.

100 sportspersons across TN to be given govt jobs soon, says Udhaya

AT least 100 Tamil Nadu sportspersons will be given government jobs soon, Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin said on Saturday.

'Dikshitars think they are above God'

CRITICISING the Podhu Dikshitars of Chidambaram Natarajar Temple of acting with a cavalier attitude, the Madras High Court said such conduct does not augur well for the future of the place of worship.

Ganja haul: 200kg seized, four arrested

THE Enforcement Bureau CID of Tamil Nadu police seized 200 kg of ganja, valued at ₹20 lakh, from four inter-state smugglers near the Elavur check post in Thiruvallur district on Thursday, an official release stated on Saturday.

Loop Road row on a loop, fishers stay put

ON Saturday, most of the fish vendors on Marina Loop Road refused to shift to the newly constructed modern fish market as they were hesitant and concerned over a potential drop in sales, and only a few set up shop in the market.