The New Indian Express Chennai - July 21, 2024

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July 21, 2024

New SOP to make TN buses disabled-friendly

IN an attempt to make public transport services disabledfriendly, the state transport corporations have issued a new standard operating procedure (SOP) for drivers and conductors of government buses to make travel comfortable for disabled passengers.

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City-wise result of NEET-UG declared by NTA

THE National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday released the the centre and city-wise results for NEET-UG, following a Supreme Court order to do so.

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Shoot-at-sight fiat out in Bangladesh

Entire country under curfew with army patrolling cities

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30 hospitalised after gas leak in Thoothukudi seafood unit

THIRTY female workers of a private seafood exporting unit at Pudurpandiapuram in Thoothukudi district and a fire and rescue services officer were admitted to hospitals after they fainted due to suspected ammonia gas leak at the plant on Friday night.

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CS inspects ₹5-crore emergency centre, monsoon preparedness

CHIEF Secretary Shiv Das Meena inspected the renovation work on State Emergency Operations Centre which is being equipped with better communication facilities and technological infrastructure at a cost of 5.12 crore at Ezhilagam on Saturday.

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City's first pet park likely at Teynampet

AMID calls for designated spaces for pets, the city corporation has set the ball rolling for a pet park at Demonte Colony street in Teynampet zone on a pilot basis.

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Police arrest 2022 Navalur murder accused in Jharkhand

A special team from Tambaram police commissionerate nabbed a 2022 murder accused from a Naxalite prone area in Jharkhand and produced him before a city court on Friday.

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Power shutdown in city tomorrow

POWER supply will be suspended in the following areas from 9 am to 2 pm on Monday (July 22) to facilitate maintenance work.

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EPS calls CM's Amma canteen check a drama, mayor retorts

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami condemned the DMK government for \"shutting down 19 Amma Unavagams\" in Chennai and called the chief minister's recent unannounced inspection at a canteen a \"drama\".

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TECH GLITCH: 23 FLIGHT SERVICES HIT IN CHENNAI

THE ordeal of air passengers at Chennai airport came to an end on Saturday after airline systems recovered around 11am from the global Crowdstrike outage faced by computers running on Microsoft Windows.

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'Shocked', HC seeks report over loot of stones worth ₹199 cr from temples' land

EXPRESSING shock over looting of natural resources worth ₹198.65 crore from the land belonging to two temples in Krishnagiri district, the Madras High Court has ordered the police to file a report on the illegal mining of stones and the action taken against such illegal activity.

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Will bring TN to standstill for Vanniyar quota'

PMK founder S Ramadoss announced that the party would organise a statewide protest and bring TN to a standstill in order to get a separate quota for the Vanniyars and better reservation for SC.

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5-member panel formed to suggest reforms in DMK

CHIEF Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Saturday constituted a five-member coordination committee to recommend changes and organisational reforms to be implemented within the party to face the 2026 Assembly election.

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Dy CM role will be dad's call, says Udhaya amid elevation rumours

Minister launches dedicated website for DMK youth wing units at revenue district level

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Madurai Bench a catalyst for positive social change: CJI

ONE would be highly mistaken if he believes the impact of the judgments coming out of the Madras High Court and its Madurai Bench are limited to Tamil Nadu, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said, while addressing a gathering during the 20th anniversary of the setting up of Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Saturday.

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Congress played key role in DMK-alliance's victory: MP

AFTER Tamizhaga Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam leader John Pandian claimed that political leaders were unsafe, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president Selvaperunthagai said it was his personal opinion.

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Inflow at 70k cusecs, flood alert in Hogenakkal

COLLECTOR K Santhi issued a flood alert along the banks of the Cauvery River at Hogenakkal after inflow reached 70,000 cusecs on Saturday.

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DVAC seizes 6.35 lakh from K'giri sub-registrar

UNACCOUNTED ₹6.35 lakh in cash was seized by the sleuths of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) from Denkanikottai sub-registrar late night on Friday at Kelamangalam in Krishnagiri district.

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Social media post: CB-CID questions BJP TN secretary

BJP state secretary S G Suryah appeared before the Villupuram CB-CID station on Saturday for an inquiry regarding his social media post related to the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy.

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AP rape case suspect jumps off police jeep in escape bid, dies

IN a fresh twist in the case pertaining to the alleged rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Muchumarri of Nandyal district, a 35-year-old man, who was nabbed by the police for questioning, died while being shifted to a police station on Saturday.

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High alert in AP as Godavari in spate, 4L cusecs being discharged into sea

Inflow may touch 10 lakh cusecs in 5 days; ban on movement of heavy vehicles on ghat roads

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2 workers killed in wall crash in Pollachi

TWO persons including a woman worker from West Bengal were killed in a wall collapse at a grove in Gengampalayam, near Pollachi, on Saturday afternoon.

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BUILD NEW CITIES TO CREATE JOBS, BOOST GROWTH

\"We will initiate building 100 new cities; enabled with the latest in technology and infrastructure-adhering to concepts like sustainability, walk to work etc, and focused on specialised domains. BJP election manifesto, 2014

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THE MAN OF ALL SEASONS AT FOREIGN OFFICE

THOSE who know Vikram Misri in the Ministry of External Affairs say the new top diplomat is progressive, forward-looking and well-versed with not only the internal exigencies of the current dispensation but also their diverse nuances expressed outside India's borders.

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Tibetan govt-in-exile plans to draw map of Tibet with original names of places

BUOYED by the US Senate and the Congress recently passing \"The Resolve Tibet Act,' which is now awaiting the Presidential assent, Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the Tibetan government-in-exile, is now planning to draw a new map of Tibet with the \"original geographical and historical contours and names,\" said Sikyong Penpa Tsering in a telephonic conversation with this newspaper from Toronto.

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Amid UP rumblings, Yogi likely to meet Modi

CM may discuss with party leaders Lok Sabha poll debacle ahead of or after NITI Aayog meet in Delhi on July 27

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Kanwariyas ransack eatery in UP over onion in curry, Indore for toeing Yogi line

A DAY after the Uttar Pradesh government mandated display of nameplates on the eateries falling on the Kanwar yatra route, a group of Kanwariyas, heading to Haridwar with water collected from the Ganga, ransacked an eatery on finding onion slices in the food in Muzaffarnagar.

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Gogoi: Oppn won't let NDA govt bulldoze Budget session

INDIA bloc will not allow the NDA government to bulldoze the Budget session of Parliament to be held from July 22 to August 12, said Gaurav Gogoi, Congress' Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha.

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Lucknow's outer areas to come under UPSCR

FOUR months after approving the draft for the amalgamation of half-a-dozen districts adjacent to state capital Lucknow as Uttar Pradesh State Capital Region (UPSCR), a notification to that effect was issued by UP Governor Anandiben Patel late on Friday evening.

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'White paper on demography soon'

Home Minister Amit Shah says BJP move is aimed at protecting tribal land rights in J'khand

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Elephant carcass found buried at Assam refinery, case under Wildlife Act

A case under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 was registered after the Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) in Assam buried the carcass of a wild elephant without informing the forest department.

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Gujarat BJP chief and mantri – Patil's dual role to continue

THE BJP's CR Patil will continue in dual posts - as a Union Minister of Jal Shakti and the Gujarat party president.

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BSF officer & jawan die of heatstroke during 'Harami Nallah' patrol

A Border Security Force (BSF) officer and a jawan died of heatstroke while on patrol at the 'Harami Nallah' creek area along the Indo-Pak border in Gujarat, said a BSF statement on Saturday.

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Split over coal block, C'garh locals await justice

AUGUST 2 is scheduled for public hearing for Environment Clearance (EC) for mining in the Kete Extension open cast coal block in north Chhattisgarh's Hasdeo Arand region in Ambikapur district.

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Didi's 'Ma, Mati, Manush' touch to TMC July 21 rally

AS the Trinamool Congress is gearing up for its Martyrs' Day rally on Sunday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the day, to be observed as Ma Mati Manush Divas, would commemorate party's electoral victories in West Bengal.

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Defiant Biden vows to stay in race despite rising pressure from Dems

US President Joe Biden pledged to stay in the White House race Friday, defying a growing Democratic party revolt that raised speculation he could bow out as soon as this weekend.

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Ukraine leader Zelenskyy hints he's ready for talks with Putin to end war

Analysts point to stalemate on battlefield and prospect of Trump victory for shift in attitude

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Iran can make fissile material for nuclear bomb in 1-2 weeks: US

IRAN is capable of producing fissile material for use in a nuclear weapon within \"one or two weeks,\" US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday.

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12 dead, 30 missing after bridge collapses in China

A bridge collapse caused by torrential rains in northern China killed 12 people and left more than 30 missing, state media said Saturday.

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Israel strikes Huthis in Yemen

ISRAEL said its warplanes hit \"military targets of the Huthi terrorist regime\" on Saturday, a day after a drone attack claimed by Yemeni rebels killed a civilian in Tel Aviv.

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HDFC BANK LOGS 35% INCREASE IN NET PROFIT

RETURNING to its once famed over 30% net income for as many as 34 quarters on the trot which ended with the pandemic era, the second-largest lender logged in a robust 35.33% jump in net profit at 16,174.75 crore for the June quarter even though the numbers are not comparable since the merger with its parent took effect only from July last year.

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Kotak Bank profit up 81% to ₹6,250 cr

A stake sale in its general insurance subsidiary has boosted standalone net income of the fourth largest private sector lender, Kotak Mahindra Bank, by 81% to 6,250 crore, of which as much as 3,012 crore came in as the one-time income from deal with Zurich Insurance group that picked up 70% in the company during June quarter.

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Jindal Group probe against sr. executive

A Jindal Group company has sent a senior executive, who is ns facing allegations of molestation by a female flight passenger, on administrative leave and a third-party probe has been started to probe the matter.

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Flight operations back to normal after technical glitch

THE Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Saturday that flight operations in the country are back to normal a day after a global outage at Microsoft had a severe impact on the functioning of airlines and airports.

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FLIP-FLOP DIPLOMACY IS A FAILING SCRIPT

IF Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Russia was to signal India's equidistant position between Russia and the US, it did not work.

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AAI cites limited slots for exclusion of coach

HOURS after Baek Woong Ki expressed his shock after denial of accreditation to be with the squad in the Paris Olympics, the Archery Association of India (AAI) has cited limited availability as a reason for not including India's South Korean Archery coach in the contingent.

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India men to leave for Sri Lanka on Monday

ABHISHEK Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate might join the support staff of newly-appointed head coach Gautam Gambhir during India's white ball tour to Sri Lanka, starting from July 27.

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Shooter Prithviraj primed for Olympic debut

PRITHVIRAJ Tondaiman is at the peak of his powers.

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