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August 24, 2024

PM's talk time nudge in Ukraine for peace

Says ready to play active role, pushes for talks to end war

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NCC camp assault case: Suspect ends life

A Sivaraman (30), the prime suspect in the sexual assault of a schoolgirl at a fake NCC camp at Bargur in Krishnagiri who had allegedly consumed poison before his arrest, died without responding to treatment at the Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College Hospital in Salem early on Friday.

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Sebi bans Anil Ambani from securities mkt for five years

THE Securities and Exchange Board of India has banned industrialist Anil Ambani and 24 others, including key Reliance Home Finance officials, from the securities market for five years on charges of creating a \"fraudulent scheme to siphon off money from the company by structuring it as loans to credit-unworthy borrowers\".

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After two rounds of counselling, over 1 lakh engg seats still vacant

Following the completion of the second round of the Tamil Nadu engineering Admissions (TNEA) counselling, as many as 110 colleges of the total 443 were able to fill seats only in the single digits.

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Retd judge made admin of Tangedco union to sort internal power struggle

THE Madras High Court has appointed a former judge of the court, Justice P Devadass, as administrator of a trade union attached to the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) in order to resolve the tussle between different groups within the union and hold fresh elections for the state and executive councils.

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Union min: Can express regret via HC, but no presser

UNION Minister Shobha Karandlaje on Friday told the Madras High Court that she is ready to express regret through the court, regarding her comments made against Tamils in connection with the Rameshwaram Cafe blast in Bengaluru, and cannot tender apology in a press conference as suggested by the TN Advocate General P S Raman as a condition for withdrawing the FIR against her.

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Quashing of ED case against ex-IPS officer: HC rehearing on August 28

PMLA cases cannot be allowed to be washed away, court says, seeks agency's clarification

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Woman, son killed in blast, police probing suicide angle

MINUTES after a loud explosion rattled the neighbourhood, a 55-year-old woman and her 26-year-old son were found burnt to death inside their house on the second floor of an apartment in T Nagar on Friday afternoon.

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980 CCTV cameras to be installed at 245 schools in Chennai

The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has decided to install 980 CCTV cameras across 245 school campuses in the city.

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Nationalisation of MK's books: Kanimozhi thanks her mother

DMK MP Kanimozhi on Friday thanked her mother Rajathi Ammal for permitting the nationalisation of the books written by her husband and former CM M Karunanidhi.

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K'taka seeks fresh ToR from green ministry for Mekedatu dam project

'Clearance of interstate issues not a prerequisite under protocol for ToR approval by centre'

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Two lakh placed in private firms through job fairs in 3 yrs, says TN

THE state government on Friday said it has provided private sector jobs to 2.03 lakh people through job fairs in the past three years.

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AIADMK, BJP suspect foul play in death of K'giri Pocso accused

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami and BJP state president K Annamalai on Friday raised suspicions over the deaths of A Sivaraman - prime suspect in the sexual assault of a girl at a fake NCC camp and his father Ashokumar.

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Theni man murders pregnant wife, daughter; dies by suicide

A 37-YEAR-OLD man ended his life after allegedly killing his pregnant wife and five-year-old daughter at Mullai Nagar in Aranmanaipudur.

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Train accident drill a 'knockout' show in Tiruchy

THE Tiruchy railway division, along with the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Fire Force, conducted a mock drill of a train accident and rescue operation at the railway goods yard here on Friday.

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AI INTEGRATION CAN REVOLUTIONISE POWER DISTRIBUTION

THE implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, spearheading transformation across industries in recent years, can be a potential game changer in revolutionising the power distribution system for reliable and efficient power supply.

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Home dist posting for women cops returning from maternity leave: CM

CHIEF Minister M K Stalin on Friday announced that women police personnel, returning from their one-year maternity leave, would be posted for three years in districts where their family or their spouse's family lives, by providing them an exemption from seniority as required.

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2 students clash at Namakkal school, one dies

A 16-YEAR-OLD boy died in a fight between two class 11 students inside a classroom at a government school in Namakkal on Friday.

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MGMGH docs remove ₹5 coin from girl's food pipe

A team of doctors at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) on Thursday removed a five-rupee coin from the upper esophagus of a seven-year-old girl from Thottiyam who had accidentally swallowed it earlier that day.

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Penn Nalam hosp celebrates 15 yrs of service in prevention of cancer

PENN Nalam Hospital flagged off an advanced mobile screening bus equipped with facilities for digital scanning and testing for women on the occasion of its 15th anniversary in the service of cancer prevention and treatment, on Friday.

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Bank manager steals 26 kg jewels in Kerala, pledges it in T'ppur; held

A special team of Kerala police on Friday recovered 4.6 kg of gold jewels from two branches of a private bank in Tiruppur that were part of 26.8 kg of jewels stolen by the branch manager of nationalised bank in in Kozhikode.

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SIT files 2k-page charge sheet against Prajwal

THE Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Friday filed a 2,144-page charge sheet against Holenarasipura MLA HD Revanna and former Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna in connection with the sexual assault and harassment case registered at the Holenarasipura Town police station in Hassan.

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AMMA breaks its silence on Hema panel report, rejects ‘casting couch' allegation

IT took five days for the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA) to respond to the findings in the Justice Hema committee report, which was released on Monday.

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'Savukku' Shankar case: SC seeks TN's reply on second detention order

A three-judge bench of Supreme Court comprising CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra on Friday issued notice to Tamil Nadu government and sought its responses after hearing a Habeus Corpus petition challenging the recent second detention of YouTuber 'Savukku' Shankar under the preventive detention law.

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Cong holds CEC meet to discuss candidates for J&K polls; 9 names in first list

A day after the Congress and the National Conference (NC) sealed a pre-poll alliance for the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Central Election Committee (CEC) of Congress convened a meeting on Friday to decide the candidates for the first phase of the polls.

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Shun colonial-era black gown, instead go desi: Govt

THE Union Health Ministry has asked all Central government hospitals and medical teaching institutes, including AIIMS, to do away with the colonial-era black gown and cap during convocations and replace them with state-specific Indian traditional dresses.

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India, US sign reciprocal defence pact

INDIA and the United States signed two significant defence agreements during Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's four-day visit to the US.

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Cong greedy for power, playing with country's security, says Shah

UNION Home Minister and BJP's principal strategist Amit Shah on Friday accused the Congress of repeatedly \"risking the country's unity and security\" in its greed for power by forging an alliance with the National Conference for the J&K assembly polls.

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Nadda launches national medical register portal for allopathic doctors

UNION Health Minister JP Nadda launched a national medical register (NMR) portal on Friday, which will serve as a comprehensive and dynamic database for registered allopathic doctors in India.

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Old pension scheme to figure prominently in Modi meet with govt staff

FOR the first time in a decade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet representatives of the central government employees on Saturday to discuss a slew of significant issues ahead of a possible announcement of a new pension scheme.

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MEA raises Sikh holy book seizure with Qatari govt

Swaroops taken away from groups who ran gurdwaras sans approval

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4 Nepal residents buried alive in U’khand landslip

HEAVY rains in Uttarakhand hills triggered a landslide in Phata, Rudraprayag late Thursday, killing four Nepali citizens.

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Schools, colleges told to hold special events on Krishna Janmashtami

JUST a month after directing schools across Madhya Pradesh to organise special two-day events to mark the Guru Purnima festival, the Mohan Yadavled BJP government has come out with similar directions for schools and colleges on Krishna Janmashthami (August 26).

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Doc suspended on harassment plaint

JAIPUR’S prestigious Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Medical College has suspended a senior resident doctor days after a female medico lodged a serious complaint.

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Maha bandh called off after HC order

AFTER the Bombay High Court restrained the MVA from the Maharashtra bandh on August 24 against the sexual assault of two KG girls in a school at Thane's Badlapur, the Opposition, on Friday, decided to stage a symbolic protest with black tapes on their mouth and black armbands under the statue of Dr BR Ambedkar.

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Army mini-UAV develops snags, crosses LoC

A tactical surveillance drone (mini-UAV) of the Indian Army inadvertently crossed into Pakistan from the Line of Control (LOC) in Rajouri sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday.

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NGT pulls up Mann govt, fines ₹1K cr for failing to manage waste in Punjab

THE National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a fine of ₹1,026 crore on the Punjab government as environmental compensation for failing to manage waste and untreated sewage.

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Protest erupts over gang-rape of minor

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in Dhing area of Assam's Nagaon district, triggering an outrage among people who staged protests in different parts of the state.

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Barbed wires, teargas, water cannon on BJP's Ranchi march

SEVERAL police personnel as well as BJP workers were injured in clashes after the police resorted to teargas and water cannons to stop saffron party workers marching towards CM House at Morhabadi ground in Ranchi on Friday.

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Children among 16 killed in overnight Israeli strike

THE Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital received the bodies, including the remains of a woman and three children, after strikes overnight and into Thursday.

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SL's main Tamil party split on prez candidate

THE Tamil National Alliance (TNA), Sri Lanka's main Tamil party, has suffered a blow with its chair S Sritharan's decision to endorse P Ariyanethran who is contesting the island nation's presidential election as the Tamil minority's common candidate.

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US announces new sanctions on Russian defence sector

THE US unveiled sweeping sanctions on Friday against almost 400 individuals and companies tied to Russia's war effort in Ukraine, a day before Ukraine's independence day.

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Harris first Black and Asian American woman to accept US prez nomination

Pledges a 'new way forward' if she beats Republican Donald Trump in November election

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15 dead as monsoon floods inundate cities, villages in Bangladesh

MONSOON rainfall-triggered floods in deltaic Bangladesh and upstream Indian regions killed at least 15 people and affected more than four million others in this country, posing a huge administrative challenge to the newly installed interim government amid a political transition.

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US reorienting strategy to focus on China's nuclear expansion: Report

US President Joe Biden approved a classified nuclear strategic plan that reorients America’s deterrent strategy to focus on China’s rapid expansion in its nuclear arsenal, The New York Times reported.

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Telecom players meet Jyotiraditya Scindia to discuss regulations on OTT platforms

TELECOM minister Jyotiraditya Scindia recently met with top telecom service providers to discuss the regulation of Over-the-Top (OTT) communication services.

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GQG Partners raises 1% stake in Ambuja Cements

ADANI Group's trusted investor GQG Partners has increased its stake in Ambuja Cements by 1% by purchasing shares worth ₹1,679 crore on Friday.

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ED raids REL chairperson premises, freezes ESOPs

RELIGARE Enterprises Ltd (REL) has confirmed that Directorate of Enforcement (ED) officials conducted searches at the premises of Key Managerial Personnel, including Executive Chairperson Rashmi Saluja on Wednesday.

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'Don't see serious challenge on deposit front'

SBI chief says bank can support loan growth despite lower deposit growth, attributes it to investments in govt sec

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Tax department made ₹1.57L cr refunds so far

THE Income Tax Department has processed refunds worth ₹1.57 lakh crore so far, according to a top government official.

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Bangladesh owes $800 million to Adani Power Ltd

AMID student-led protest in Bangladesh, Adani Power Limited, the power generating unit of Adani Group, has accumulated unpaid dues of up to $800 million from the country.

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Finance ministry to issue circular on GST Amnesty Scheme in Oct or Nov

THE Ministry of Finance will soon issue a circular regarding the much-anticipated goods and services tax (GST) Amnesty Scheme, which was recently proposed in the Budget 2024, as per sources.

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Swiggy eyeing to launch IPO at $15 bn valuation

FOODTECH firm Swiggy, which was last valued at $10.7 billion, is reportedly targeting a valuation of $15 billion valuation for its initial public offering (IPO).

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Neeraj shows ‘fighting spirit'

Olympic silver medallist had to produce a late surge to finish in top two at Lausanne

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INDIA'S GOLDEN HUE AT U17 WORLD WRESTLING

WRESTLER Neha Sangwan might be just 17 but her international records for the past two years look impeccable.

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In series against NZ, hosts India will face a modern Test issue

THE Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) remains insulated from the threat of Indian players featuring in cashrich short-form leagues (10 overs, 100 balls as well as 20 overs) coming up all across the globe.

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Tough for me if I recall Oly setback: Nishant

BOXING, in general, is a harsh sport.

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CARVING SPACES FOR IDENTITY

AS we celebrate Madras month, the question of how far has the it come in accommodating its queer population remains.

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Ready, set, go on a reading relay

I recently heard this question: \"If you were to be stranded on an island, what is the book that you would like to be stranded with?\" It kept me thinking for a while and I ended up with my answer after careful consideration - selfhelp books.

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Cases buried by caste

THE last time that a highprofile rape-murder case managed to move the needle was probably the one that happened in New Delhi at the end of 2012.

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Lurking dangers behind the canvas

Ra APE is in the news again.

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A well-made rehash of familiar sci-fi themes

A major plot point in Alien: Romulus is how a hyperintelligent, purpose-driven android chooses the survivability of the human race over what it means to be human.

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