The New Indian Express Chennai - August 17, 2024

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August 17, 2024

HC whiplash over mob violence

THE Calcutta High Court on Friday came down like a ton of bricks on the West Bengal administration for its abject failure in handling a midnight mob that ransacked the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata and terrorised its staff.

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Yunus dials Modi, claims minorities safe

BANGLADESH Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus on Friday telephoned Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the first direct communication between the two after the Nobel Laureate assumed charge on August 8.

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ISRO to share rocket tech with private sector

FOLLOWING the successful launch of the Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-08) by the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV-D3) on Friday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now ready to transfer the SSLV technology to the private sector for commercial production.

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J&K to get govt after 10 yrs, poll dates out

Schedule for Haryana also announced; BJP faces resurgent opposition in first major election after the Lok Sabha polls

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TNPCB allows Ennore chemical plant to reopen

TAMIL Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has granted permission to Coromandel International Limited (CIL) for resuming operations of its phosphoric and sulphuric acid plants located in Ennore.

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Vallalar centre not on ancient monument site: TN

THE state government has informed the Madras High Court that the site for constructing the proposed Vallalar International Centre on the Sathya Gnana Sabai premises in Vadalur is not an ancient monument site of archaeological significance.

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ISRO aims to hold Gaganyaan 1st test flight in December

ISRO Chairman S Somanath said the first test flight of the Gaganyaan project is expected to happen this December.

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Kolkata rape-murder: Doctors to suspend OP services at GHs today

Stunity MCuical College hospital in CCU VIчuy |гRAVINUMAN EXPRESSING solidarity with the Kolkata doctors protesting over the death of a second-year PG student at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, various government doctors across the state and the IMA have announced the suspension of outpatient and non-emergency services for 24 hours from 6 am on Saturday to 6 am on Sunday.

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Indo-Lanka passenger ferry service resumes after 10-month-long hiatus

THE passenger ferry service between Nagapattinam and Sri Lanka's Kankesanthurai resumed after a gap of 10 months with the flagging off the ferry 'Sivagangai' at Nagapattinam Port on Friday.

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IIT-M names top 5 winning teams of i2I

THE IIT-M on Friday announced the top five student eco-innovator teams of the inaugural edition of the ideas to Impact (i21) challenge.

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CUMTA to prepare roadmap for last-mile connectivity

THE Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (CUMTA) is planning to review bus services and routes to improve last-mile connectivity, according to CUMTA special officer I Jayakumar.

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Crude bomb attack: 4 held

THE Sholavaram police have arrested four men in connection with the crude bomb attack at two places on Thursday night, including the house of a DMK functionary.

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Udhayanidhi reviews measures to tackle monsoon in Chennai

MINISTER for Youth Welfare and Sports Development Udhayanidhi Stalin on Friday chaired an inter-departmental review meeting on the monsoon preparedness in Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC), in the presence of ministers and senior officials from various departments.

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Must win 200 seats in next Assembly poll, CM tells brass

DIST SECY MEET CM MK Stalin on Friday announced that the DMK-led alliance is targeting to bag 200 seats in the 2026 Assembly polls.

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Graft case: DVAC told to give files to ED to probe money laundering

The directive comes in a disproportionate assets case registered by the DVAC in 2019 against the former registrar of Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council

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'Guv's At-Home exposes DMK-BJP ties'

FORMER minister D Jayakumar of the AIADMK has accused the ruling DMK of maintaining a tacit relationship with the BJP after CM MK Stalin and eight ministers attended the At Home reception hosted by Governor RN Ravi.

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TNSTC DRIVER DIES AS POWER LINE FALLS ON BUS IN NILGIRIS

A TNSTC driver died on the spot after a high-tension power line snapped and fell on the bus near Sholurmattam at Kotagiri in Nilgiris on Friday morning.

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EPS plans state-wide tour to get AIADMK cadre ready for 2026 poll

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami will be undertaking a state-wide tour soon to prepare cadre for the 2026 Assembly election.

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In July, Tiruppur knitwear exports up by ₹400 crore

KNITWEAR exports from Tiruppur increased by 400 crore in the quarter ending July, said A Sakthivel, in-charge of Apparel Export Promotion Council (Southern Region), on Friday.

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Murder accused tries to escape from police, shot in his right leg

THE Needamangalam police on Friday night shot an accused in a murder case while he was allegedly trying to flee after attacking a personnel with a machete.

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Tirunelveli cops advise private bus crew not to play caste-related songs

THE Tirunelveli city police convened a meeting with private bus conductors and drivers here on Friday, instructing them against playing caste-related film songs and locallycomposed caste songs in the buses, and report the issues among student passengers to the police.

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Bus crew sacked for abusing visually impaired couple

A visually impaired couple, Ramadhas and Visalakshmi, from Thippasandra near Pallikonda, allegedly faced mistreatment and abuse while alighting a TNSTC bus on Thursday.

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National film awards: South industry retains its hot streak

Malayalam film Aattam is Best Feature Film; Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan I wins 4 national awards; Rahman gets 7th nat'l award, most won by any music director

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Nod to Metro projects in 3 cities, 2 airports

Cabinet approves metro rail projects for Bengaluru, Pune and Thane; also clears one airport each in Patna, Bagdogra

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3-phase assembly elections in J&K to begin on Sept 18

THE Election Commission on Friday announced assembly polls for Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and Haryana.

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Army honour for Paris Olympic medal winners

CHIEF of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Upendra Dwivedi on Friday felicitated Indian Army sportspersons for their accomplishments at the Paris Olympics.

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After SC directive, clamour for policy on GM crops grows

COMPLYING with the Supreme Court's July directive, civil society groups and environmental activists have written to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), seeking widespread consultative processes for evolving a national policy on Genetically Modified (GM) crops.

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Natural for young man to be upset about sister being ill-treated, says SC

IT is natural for a young man to be emotionally upset to see his sister ill-treated by her in-laws, observed the Supreme Court while modifying the jail sentence of a man, accused under IPC Section 304.

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Traffic police in Assam goof it, fine auto driver for 'not wearing helmet'

AN Assam auto rickshaw driver was left flabergasted when he learnt that he was fined ₹1,000 by the traffic police for not wearing a helmet.

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Uddhav's Maha pitch: 'Declare MVA CM face ahead of polls, will support'

ASSERTING his position in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday expressed his willingness to support any candidate proposed by the Congress and NCP(SP) as the alliance's chief ministerial candidate, but it should be decided ahead of the upcoming assembly polls in the state.

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Gujarat trails in quality education, lags behind many states: NITI Aayog

GUJARAT may be a model state in many respects, but when it comes to high-quality education, it lags behind states like Haryana, Sikkim, Manipur, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh, which are frontrunners in this area.

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Facing backlash, Kolkata top cop says not shielding anyone, probe transparent

ON a day when the Kolkata High Court came down heavily on the state government, particularly the police, the CBI questioned Dr Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in the rape and murder of a medico.

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IMA's 'nat'l movement' gains ground as docs of large corporate hosps join

EVEN as hundreds of angry resident doctors on Friday laid siege to Nirman Bhavan, the health ministry headquarters, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) said it is firm on a 24hour shut down of OPD and elective surgeries on Saturday to protest the barbaric rape and murder of a trainee woman doctor in Kolkata.

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Politics peaks as Didi targets Oppn

AMID the seething anger in the medical fraternity and a sporadic judicial and administrative action, West Bengal found itself caught in the usual political slug-fest.

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'File FIR in 6 hours for violence against healthcare workers'

THE Central government on Friday directed all the hospitals, whether run by state or Centre, to file an FIR within six hours if any healthcare professional reports violence.

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Incursion meant to force Russia to negotiate: Kyiv

Ukraine claims it seized 1,100 sq km of Russian territory in its biggest counter-attack

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UK, French ministers in Israel to push for truce

INTERNATIONAL diplomacy to prevent the war in Gaza from spreading into a wider regional conflict intensified on Friday, with the British and French foreign ministers making a joint trip to Israel while internationally mediated cease-fire talks in Qatar entered their second day.

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Indian student develops revolutionary carbon-extracting biomaterial in UK

AN Indian student at University College London (UCL) is working on a new construction biomaterial that uses living microorganisms to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which has the potential to dramatically reduce carbon footprint if mass-produced and widely adopted by the building industry.

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Yunus inducts four more advisers to interim govt

THE interim government in Bangladesh led by Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus was expanded on Friday with four more advisers joining his team.

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Kamala Harris favourite to win if elections held today: Washington Post

DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris would be the favourite to win the White House if polls were held today, The Washington Post has said.

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Fed rate cut hope triggers rally in equity market

ON the back of strong global cues, the Indian equity market rallied sharply on Friday with the benchmarks - BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty50 - surging nearly 2% each.

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JSW Cement files paper to raise ₹4,000 crore through public issue

BILLIONAIRE Sajjan Jindalled JSW Cement has filed draft papers to launch a ₹4,000 crore Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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Anti-dumping probe against Vietnam steel imports

THE Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has initiated an anti-dumping probe into imports of hot rolled flat products of alloy or non-alloy steel from Vietnam, following an application filed by the Indian Steel Association (ISA) on behalf of domestic steel producers, JSW Steel and ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India.

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Forex kitty falls by $4.8 billion to $670 billion

THE foreign exchange reserves fell by $4.8 billion to $670.119 billion in the week to August 9, as the RBI likely have sold dollars to defend the rupee which was under tremendous pressure, testing the 84-mark to the dollar twice during the week.

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Buyback tax rules inequitable: Industry

Experts argue the new tax rate is disproportionately higher compared to LTCGT of 12.5% and STCGT of 20%

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Manoj Govil appointed as expenditure secy

IN a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the government has changed several secretaries in the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Commerce.

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RIL layoffs raise concern over hiring in retail

THE recent layoffs within Reliance's retail division (about 38,029 job cuts) have raised many questions, especially the future of hiring with regards to retail opportunities.

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Acquisitions are key ingredient in growth path: Happiest Minds

ACQUISITIONS are a key ingredient in Happiest Minds' growth path, as it in Q1 alone acquired Pure Software Technologies for ₹779 crore and also US-based Azure native digital product engineering company Aureus Tech Systems.

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Aparajith marks new milestone

EVEN as the focus shifts to the Buchi Babu tournament after three rounds of Raja of Palayampatti Shield - Jolly Rovers' B Aparajith has etched his name in the record books.

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Buchi Babu: Kishan hits century for Jharkhand on red-ball comeback

WHEN Ishan Kishan walked out to bat against Madhya Pradesh at the India Cements Cricket Ground, Tirunelveli on Friday for Jharkhand, it was the first time he played a professional red-ball match since the Test against West Indies in Port of Spain last July.

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DELHI HC RESTORES MANDATE OF IOA AD-HOC PANEL

Court leaves it to IOA to reconstitute multi-member committee to takeover day-to-day affairs of Wrestling Federation of India; WFI set to challenge order

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Para Games: Athletes accorded big send-off

THE Indian paralympic contingent was on Friday accorded a grand send-off ahead of the Paris Games scheduled to be held from August 28 to September 8.

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Can family history influence your menstrual health?

YOUR family history can play a significant role in your menstrual health and to the likelihood of developing hormonal disorders.

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Histamine in your food is far from good

BIRYANI. Chicken. Mutton. Cake. Chocolate. Deepfried goodies — these are a few of popular favourite feasts.

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MAKING THE CUT

WEIGHT management in contact sports requires a strategic and monitored approach.

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Even if not as sparkly, this film still gives you plenty to chew on

Pa Ranjith really knows how to create a world.

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