The New Indian Express Chennai - October 19, 2024

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October 19, 2024

Arrest warrant issued against ex-RAW agent

Federal warrant on Oct 10; second unsealed indictment identifies him as Vikash Yadav

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Spat over Tamil anthem: Stalin seeks guv's ouster, Ravi decries 'racist' jibe

ON a day when Chief Minister M K Stalin protested Hindi imposition by New Delhi, a spat broke out between Governor R N Ravi and Stalin after singers missed the ‘Thekkanamum Adhir Sirantha Dravida Nal Thirunaadum’ line from the 'Tamizh Thaai Vaazhthu' rendered at Doordarshan (DD) Kendra Chennai's Hindi month valedictory function presided over by the governor. Doordarshan apologised for the 'inadvertent mistake'.

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Vedanta offers to invest ₹1L cr in Odisha and create 2L jobs

METAL and mining major Vedanta Limited on Friday announced a fresh investment of ₹1 lakh crore in Odisha to set up a 6 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) alumina refinery and a 3 mtpa 'green' aluminium plant, which will be powered by renewable energy.

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Child marriage violates minors' rights: SC

THE Supreme Court on Friday held that the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (PCMA) cannot be stunted by personal laws and marriages involving children violate the free will to have a partner of choice.

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No contempt action against Bharathi for remark against judge

THE Madras High Court has refused to initiate criminal contempt of court action against DMK organisation secretary and former MP RS Bharathi for his comments against Justice N Anand Venkatesh over the judge taking suo motu revision of trial court orders acquitting or discharging ministers in disproportionate assets cases.

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Notice to guide after scholar's plaint to Guv

AFTER a PhD scholar A Prakash from the Department of English and Foreign Language of Bharathiar University submitted a petition to Governor RN Ravi during the convocation alleging several guides demanded bribes and forced students to do chores in their homes, the university on Thursday sought an explanation from his guide, assistant professor M Kasirajan.

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Not in gm, but in kg: TN cops' drug data proves Guv wrong

Ravi had claimed police seized no synthetic drug in 3 yrs; records show 65 kg meth, 145 kg ephedrine, 92 kg hashish, 43 kg heroin, 1L tablets seized since 2021

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Rail users welcome 60-day booking period

THE railways decision to reduce the advance reservation period (ARP) from 120 days to 60 has received huge support from passengers.

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Dredging floats deployed at Otteri, Virugambakkam after public outcry

FOLLOWING concerns raised by residents over inadequate desilting at the Virugambakkam and Otteri canals, Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner J Kumaragurubaran announced on his X account that dredging floats have been deployed and desilting work will commence shortly.

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Vacate Loop Road today or face the music, GCC tells fish vendors at Marina

THE Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) announced on Friday that all fish vendors along Loop Road near Marina Beach must relocate to the newly constructed modern fish market from Saturday (October 19) or face action.

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Sunshine idea: In a first in TN, solar panels cover Kovai lake

NEARLY two years after announcing the project, the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC) has started installing solar panels in Ukkadam Periyakulam lake.

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NEET academy head hits boys with stick, girls with footwear

THE owner-cum-trainer of a NEET training academy was booked for beating students with a stick and throwing footwear at female students, on Friday. CCTV footage of the incident went viral on social media.

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Edappadi condemns govt for sudden transfer of DSP

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami has strongly criticised the DMK government and CM MK Stalin for allegedly interfering in the autonomous functioning of the State Human Rights Commission. In a statement on X platform, Palaniswami condemned the sudden transfer of a DSP who had been investigating sensitive cases under the commission's directive.

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Son wrongfully held, tortured by police, man tells SHRC

STATING that the Thalamuthu Nagar police brutally beat his son in custody, accusing him of having ties with a criminal gang, a 62-year-old man from Thoothukudi appeared before State Human Rights Commission member V Kannadasan in Tirunelveli on Friday.

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Guv, CM cross swords over missing line in Tamil anthem

CM decries skipping of line with word \"Dravida\" in Tamil Thaai Vaazthu, asks Ravi if he advocates Aryan ideology; guv calls comment racist

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‘By language rowdies understand, I meant Telugu’

BY saying that police would talk to rowdies in a \"language they would understand,\" Greater Chennai Police Commissioner A Arun meant to communicate that many rowdies spoke Telugu and hence would be spoken to in that language.

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Son wrongfully held, tortured by police, man tells SHRC

STATING that the Thalamuthu Nagar police brutally beat his son in custody, accusing him of having ties with a criminal gang, a 62-year-old man from Thoothukudi appeared before State Human Rights Commission member V Kannadasan in Tirunelveli on Friday.

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‘Celebrating Hindi in states where it’s not spoken belittles other languages’

CHIEF Minister MK Stalin on Friday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stating that according special place to Hindi and celebrating the language in non-Hindi speaking states is seen as attempts to belittle other languages in a multilingual country like India.

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ENCOUNTER KILLINGS – A EUPHEMISM FOR POLICE MURDER

ON October 7, the TN police found themselves in of the State the 'dock' Human Rights Commission to explain a statement made by A Elangovan, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Tiruvottiyur, to the wife of a history-sheeter Praveen @ Kuttagai that if he did not behave properly, his hands and legs would be broken, and if he engaged in murder, he might be killed in an encounter.

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Mining mafia allegations: Former minister clears air

KANNIYAKUMARI: officials and listed out his political engagements against illegal mining in a post on X. However, he deleted the lengthy post shortly after.

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‘Morning-after pills must be available OTC’

Group of activists from across country launches drive and flags challenges in accessing reproductive healthcare

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HC asks ex-judge to probe missing temple jewels, idols

IRKED over the continued disobedience of its directions in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition alleging non-availability of several idols and ornaments belonging to the Adikesava Perumal temple at Thiruvattar in Kanniyakumari district for public display, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday appointed a retired high court judge to look into the matter and file a report to the court within three months.

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Cop gives disabled woman roof over head

A police head constable appointed to maintain public welfare under the Dedicated Beat System (DBS) in Tiruppur city has built a shelter at his own expense for a destitute disabled woman living on the roadside for more than three years and has only an umbrella for protection.

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Cyber cops, DoT join hands to block calls used for crimes

TAMIL NADU police's cyber crime wing on Friday announced that it will be working with the Department of Telecom (DoT) to block spoofed/spam calls which are used to commit crimes in the state.

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SC closes case, says two women staying in Isha of their free will

THE Supreme Court on Friday closed the proceedings in a habeas corpus petition filed by a man who had alleged that his two daughters were held captive inside the premises of spiritual guru Jaggi Vasudev's Isha Foundation in Coimbatore.

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ED raids MUDA offices, seizes vital land docus

IN a significant development, sleuths of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the MUDA office and its Mysuru taluk office here on Friday morning.

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Kerala guv terms ADM's death tragic; to seek report from govt

TERMING the death of Kannur Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Jeevan Babu as 'tragic' and 'unfortunate,' Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has said he will seek a report from the state government on the matter, if required.

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KL can use ₹783 cr in SDRF for Wayanad relief: Centre

The Union government on Friday informed the Kerala High Court that ₹782.99 crore is available in the State Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF) which can be used for Wayanad landslide rehabilitation work.

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FAIR ACTION IS THE NEED OF THE HOUR

THE tragic suicide of Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Naveen Babu in Kannur district, allegedly following a public rebuke by district panchayat president PP Divya, has kicked up a huge storm in Kerala.

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COMPANIES BANK ON FED RATE CUT, FESTIVE Q3 SPEND

THE Q2 earnings season has just begun, but analysts expect a rather muted quarter as key sectors like banking, IT and FMCG may turn in moderate revenue growth.

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REMEMBERING ONE OF INDIA'S GREATEST CORPORATE LEADERS

Humility, simplicity, responsibility to the nation and to the less fortunate, and capacity to listen and act are the lessons that Ratan Tata left behind for generations to follow

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IT'S RAINING DIVINE SIGNALS FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE

JUST how much bizarre climate change news can one handle in a week? This has been a strange week on that count. As this was being written, Bengaluru, Chennai, and huge parts of Tamil Nadu were reeling under record-breaking rains, making some apartment folk park their cars on flyovers and ride boats, Venice-like.

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Parliamentary oversight of intel agencies an idea whose time has come: MP

AFTER a former RAW official was charged in the US over the plot to murder Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, Congress leader and former Union minister Manish Tewari said that India would not have been in the embarrassing position if Intelligence agencies were brought under Parliamentary oversight.

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Small biz at higher risk of climate change: Study

A new study of the World Bank has revealed that India's smaller business firms and poor households experience higher levels of climate change-induced extreme heat and flood than better-off ones. It leads to a continuous trap of poverty and puts challenges to economic growth in developing nations.

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PM's 2nd visit to Russia this yr, to attend BRICS Summit

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia from October 22-23 at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin to attend the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday.

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‘Ottawa should have given Nijjar security’

AMID a high-voltage diplomatic row between India and Canada, officials in Intelligence agencies and security establishments here have raised a question mark on the authorities of the North American country for not providing adequate security to Khalistani separatist Hardeep Nijjar, who had several rounds of meetings with Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) before he was killed.

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MHA asks states to implement bail provisions for undertrial prisoners

IN a move to reduce overcrowding in jails and give relief to undertrial prisoners, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has asked states and Union Territories to implement Section 479 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, which allows bail to inmates who have served considerable periods of detention, officials said on Friday.

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No stay on trial against Ram Rahim in sacrilege case

THE Supreme Court on Friday paved the way for trial of the 2015 sacrilege cases involving Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.

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India's pleas for Nijjar death cert overlooked

OTTAWA has been putting pressure on New Delhi on the killing of former chief of banned terror outfit Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) Hardeep Singh Nijjar, but it has refused to share his death certificate with Indian agencies probing his alleged role in criminal cases against him in India.

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Migrant worker from Bihar shot dead by terrorists in Shopian

IN the first targeted killing after the government assumed power in Jammu and Kashmir, a migrant worker from Bihar was shot dead by militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Friday.

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Omar resolution on statehood, PDP asks why silent on Art 370

KEEPING its word, the Omar Abdullah-led government passed a resolution on restoring statehood to Jammu and Kashmir in its first cabinet meeting, sources said, but there has been no official word yet.

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Saini makes dialysis free in Haryana

IN his first cabinet meeting as the chief minister of Haryana, Nayab Singh Saini on Friday announced that free dialysis services will be provided to chronic kidney patients in all government hospitals across the state.

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Bishnoi issues fresh threat to Salman, demands ₹5 cr

The Mumbai traffic police received a threat message demanding ₹5 crore from Bollywood actor Salman Khan.

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Jr docs' ultimatum to Didi: 'Fulfil our demands in 4 days or face cease-work'

THE junior doctors protesting in West Bengal have given an ultimatum to the state government: Unless it fulfils their demands by Monday or Tuesday, both senior and junior doctors of private and government hospitals will go on cease-work.

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BJP to contest 68 seats as NDA seals deal for J'khand

THE BJP-led NDA has reached consensus over seat-sharing in Jharkhand. The All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) will contest 10 seats, JD(U) 2 and the Chirag Paswan-led LJP one, leaving the BJP to contest the remaining 68 seats, according to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is also the BJP's co-election in-charge for Jharkhand.

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Raut, Patole fight in Maha MVA slugfest over 26 seats

DIFFERENCES among opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance partners, particularly between Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT), surfaced on Friday over \"disputed\" seats in the Maharashtra assembly elections.

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Teen held for planning ISIS style stabbing in Singapore

THE city-state has detained a 17-year-old self-radicalised supporter of ISIS under the Internal Security Act (ISA) mere weeks before his alleged planned attack on non-Muslims in a public housing estate.

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Seoul says North to send troops to war in Ukraine for Russia

NORTH Korea has decided to send \"large-scale troops\" to support Russia in its war against Ukraine, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Friday, citing Seoul's spy agency.

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Headless Hamas defiant, won't free hostages till the war is over

Israeli forces pound Gaza further with air strikes on Friday, rescuers recover three bodies

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US sanctions two Indians for transporting Iranian oil

THE US sanctioned 18 companies and individuals, including two Indians, for their alleged ties to a Houthi network transporting Iranian oil, revenue from which enables Houthi attacks on Israel and disrupting shipping in the Red Sea.

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Kotak Bank to acquire StanChart loan book

MARKING its second major acquisition of a foreign entity after snapping up ING Vysya in November 2014 for ₹15,000 crore, Kotak Mahindra Bank has agreed to acquire the personal portfolio of Standard Chartered Bank India.

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IT industry hiring again; focus on specific skills

All major IT companies have announced their campus hiring plans, and it will be driven by specialised skills

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Hindustan Zinc in talks with govt on split: CEO

VEDANTA Group firm Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL) on Friday said it is in discussions with the Indian government about the possibility of splitting the company into two units.

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IoB shows improvement in asset quality in Q2

CHENNAI-based Indian Overseas Bank (IoB) has shown massive improvement in asset quality, with its gross NPAs falling by 50% or by 202 bps to 2.72% from 4.74% a year ago, while the net NPAs improved by 21 bps to 0.47% from 0.68%.

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Rate cut at this stage will be premature, risky: RBI Guv

THE Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das, whose monetary policy committee has left the interest rates unchanged for the tenth time earlier this month, on Friday said a rate cut at this stage will be “premature, and very, very risky.

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JSW Steel to acquire thyssenkrupp for ₹4,051 cr

JSW Steel through its joint venture company JFE Electrical Steel (J2ES) will acquire thyssenkrupp Electrical Steel India for ₹4,051 crore. The company, in a statement, said Jsquare Electrical Steel Nashik. Jsquare is a wholly owned subsidiary of J2ES, a 50:50 joint venture between JSW Steel and JFE Steel Corporation (JFE), has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire 100% of equity interest in thyssenkrupp Electrical Steel India (tkES India).

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Special code for Vistara flights

AIR India has decided to keep the legacy of Vistara alive even as the joint venture (with Singapore International Airline) carrier will be operating its last flight on November 11.

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Airfares lower up to 38% this festive season due to capacity expansion

UNLIKE past peak festive seasons when airfares go through the roof, so far this year it is on the lower side as rapid capacity expansion by airlines and lower jet fuel prices appears to be keeping the mismatch in demand and supply in check.

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Resurrection on Day three

Rohit, Kohli and Sarfaraz hit fifties to keep the hosts in the game against New Zealand

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Sai Sudharsan's double ton puts TN in command

TAMIL Nadu opener B Sai Sudharsan's magnificent maiden first-class double century (202 batting) put his team in command against Delhi on the first day of the Ranji Trophy played at the Arun Jaitley stadium on Friday.

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Tamil Nadu U19 women crowned T20 champions

TAMIL NADU women beat Uttar Pradesh to win their first-ever U19 T20 title in Lahli on Friday. Opting to field first in a low-scoring thriller, TN bowled out UP for 67 in 19.2 overs with Janlin Chandra taking four wickets for 11 runs. TN got across the line in the penultimate over with four wickets in hand.

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Rachin special in Garden City once again

INDIA had a small window of opportunity in the morning session. To their credit, they had a chance to squeeze through that window after a really good hour's work where they had broken the spine of the visitors' batting unit.

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All pointing upwards: Pradhan on growth of women's game

IT has been two years since former India cricketer Snehal Pradhan took over as Manager Women's Cricket at the International Cricket Council.

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MASTERCLASS BEYOND METHOD ACTING

A blank screen in a cinema theatre transforms every day, portraying tales of heart-wrenching star-crossed lovers, a goosebump-inducing haunted house, or comedy that leaves one aching all over. Many have written endlessly about the power and magic of cinema, and rightfully so. A movie-going experience is incomparable. In Tamil Nadu, theatres are never empty, single screens thrum with whistles, howls and kuthu moves, and the first-day-first-show tickets are coveted. And neighbourhoods in Vadapalani and Kodambakkam are landmarks, still carry dreams of aspiring actors.

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Comedy and the craft behind it

“I am in my thirties now,” Abhijit Ganguly says, pausing to let the laughter ripple through the room. “And everything changes. Even the way you smell. I used to smell like Axe or Old Spice, but now? Badminton — forehand, backhand.” Lines from his performances encapsulate his humour — sharp, self-deprecating, and relatable.

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Bland mix of several underwhelming ideas

Beyond the world of genres and subgenres, lies stories which are powerful enough to become popular tropes of their own. A group of kids going on adventures, and solving mysteries, is one such trope. We have seen iterations of this in popular media like The Famous Five, The Goonies, and Stranger Things. While trying to follow a popular story structure is nothing to be frowned upon, Prime Video's Snakes and Ladders goes above and beyond to remove even the inherent joys of the stories it aims to emulate.

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