38 people dead, 100 others missing in Congo after crowded ferry capsizes
The New Indian Express|December 23, 2024
A ferry overloaded with people returning home for Christmas capsized on the Busira River in northeastern Congo, leaving 38 people confirmed dead and over 100 others missing, officials and eyewitnesses said on Saturday.
38 people dead, 100 others missing in Congo after crowded ferry capsizes

Twenty people have been rescued so far.

The sinking of the ferry late on Friday came less than four days after another boat capsized in the country's northeast, killing 25 people.

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Factories pay less for leaves, Kundha tea planters protest

CONDEMNING tea factories for paying ₹3 less per kg than the committee-fixed price of ₹24.59 for green tea leaves, small plantation owners in Kundha launched a strike on Monday. The planters also did not send leaves that have already been plucked to eight tea factories.

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December 24, 2024
17 Delhi women achievers felicitated with Devi Awards
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17 Delhi women achievers felicitated with Devi Awards

IT was an all-women show without any pink bows.

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December 24, 2024
HC flays KL for dumping waste in TN
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HC flays KL for dumping waste in TN

Govt secy directed to furnish report on agencies involved in collecting, disposing waste

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December 24, 2024
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Loco pilot's swift action averts major accident

A potential train crash was averted near Tindivanam in Villupuram district on Monday after a crack was spotted on the railway tracks by the loco pilot of a passenger train.

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December 24, 2024
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3 arrested for gun trade in Kovai

COIMBATORE District Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), in coordination with Peelamedu police, arrested three individuals for illegal firearm trade on Sunday.

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December 24, 2024
MLA joins stir against 'school closure', kneels before HM
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MLA joins stir against 'school closure', kneels before HM

PARENTS along with PMK MLA R Arul from Salem West constituency on Monday staged a protest at Old Suramangalam in Salem urging the administration of an aided higher secondary school against closing it allegedly as the school land had been sold.

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December 24, 2024
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NHRC takes up electrocution of EB workers case suo motu

THE National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of the electrocution of two Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) workers while repairing power lines on Olaiyur Ring Road in KK Nagar, Tiruchy, on December 18.

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December 24, 2024
Prima facie evidence of laundering exists against Sadiq, says spl CBI court
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Prima facie evidence of laundering exists against Sadiq, says spl CBI court

A special CBI court in Chennai rejected the bail petitions moved by alleged drug kingpin Jaffer Sadiq and his brother Mohammed Saleem, stating that there were sufficient documents available to show that they were prima facie guilty of charges levelled against them.

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December 24, 2024
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3 students feared drowned in Cauvery

THREE school students were washed away in the Cauvery river at Ayyalamman Padithurai at Kudamurutti in Tiruchy on Monday.

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December 24, 2024
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Asset details of govt employees can't be shielded from public: HC

SETTING aside an order of the State Information Commission denying information on the assets and liabilities of a government officer, the Madras High Court has held that such details cannot be shielded from public scrutiny.

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December 24, 2024