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May 27, 2023

I-T raids 50 places linked to Senthil Balaji

MULTIPLE teams of income tax officials conducted searches at over 50 places linked to electricity minister V Senthil Balaji in Chennai, Karur, and Coimbatore districts on Friday.

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Manipur protesters now target ministers

WITH the authorities failing to control the ethnic violence between Meitei and Kuki community people in Manipur, the protesters are now training their guns on lawmakers.

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Japan must diversify its engagement with TN: CM

CHIEF MINISTER MK Stalin on Friday held discussions with investors in Osaka, the commercial city of Japan, and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the expansion of Daicel Safety Systems functioning in Thiruporur was signed between Guidance Tamil Nadu officials and Daicel officials on the occasion. The company is expected to invest ₹83 crore for the project in Chengalpattu district.

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IMD stays with its prediction of normal rains

MOST parts of India, barring the northwestern region, will receive normal rainfall this monsoon season, the weather office reiterated on Friday.

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Seven CMs to skip Niti Aayog meeting today

But Baghel and Soren expected to attend

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Congress, BJP spar over Sengol as power transfer symbol

PARLIAMENT ROW

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Kennedy premiere at 'world's best theatre' gives Kashyap a big high

BIG crowds and long queues marked the world premiere of Anurag Kashyap's Kennedy at the Grand Theatre Lumiere, popularly known as GTL. The film played in the official Midnight Madness section of the Cannes Film Festival.

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Reopening of govt schools postponed to June 7 due to heat

Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi on Friday said the government schools (all classes) will reopen only on June 7 due to the heat the state is experiencing at present.

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'Opening date of hosp in King Institute depends on Prez availability'

The rescheduled inauguration date for Kalaignar Memorial Multi Super Specialty Hospital in King Institute, Guindy, will be announced after getting confirmation from President Droupadi Murmu, said Health Minister Ma Subramanian on Friday.

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Unaware of AU decision to scrap courses: Minister

Ponmudy says V-C's action to wind up the courses without knowledge of govt is wrong

1 min

Gangapurwala is Madras HC new CJ

TWO days after the retirement of Justice T Raja as Acting Chief Justice of Madras HC, the union government on Friday notified the appointment of Bombay HC judge Justice Sanjay Vijaykumar Gangapurwala as Chief Justice of Madras HC. Justice Gangapurwala's name was recommended by SC collegium to the centre on April 19, 2023.

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Eight-year-old boy steps on snapped wire, electrocuted

AN eight-year-old boy was electrocuted after coming in contact with a snapped live wire at his house in Ambattur on Thursday night.

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Kerala man & friend kill restaurateur, dump body parts; nabbed at Chennai

A 22-year-old man and his 19year-old female friend were arrested from the MGR Chennai Central station on Thursday night for allegedly killing a restaurant owner in Kozhikode, stuffing the chopped body parts in bags and dumping them in a gorge on the Attappady Ghat road in Kerala.

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An unending battle for Dalits in Melpathi

TEMPLE ENTRY

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'No property bought in my name since 2006'

Senthil Balaji says he and his party ready to face any case; RS Bharathi says it's an act of revenge against minister

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BJP worker tells doctor at Thirupoondi govt hospital to remove hijab, arrested

DISTRICT health officials and the police are investigating a case of a 35-year-old BJP functionary allegedly asking a woman doctor at the government hospital in Thirupoondi to remove her hijab (headscarf) when she was checking his relative's health on Wednesday night.

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Seminar on need for background verification to stop document fraud

THE DataFlow Group, a provider of primary source verification (PSV) solutions, hosted a seminar on the significance of education equivalency in overseas employment and the need for comprehensive background verification to combat the rise in document fraud' last week.

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Minister: No laxity on quality if India wants to be pharmacy of world

UNION Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday said that if India wants to continue being the \"pharmacy of the world\" then there can be no laxity with the quality of pharmaceutical products.

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Gaganyaan: ISRO, Navy announce joint recovery training plan for crew

TAKING India's space mission a step further, the Navy and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released the Recovery Training Plan for the Gaganyaan mission at the Water Survival Training Facility at INS Garuda, in Kochi.

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India, Nepal to ink slew of pacts during Prachanda's visit next week

A 25-year agreement on power purchase, launching of an inter-country digital payment (like the UPI in India) and trilateral trade between India, Nepal and Bangladesh are some of the possible things that would be announced during the upcoming state visit of Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) to India next week (May 31-June 3).

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PM-led India a bright spot, says BJP

Says a period of development as the NDA government completes nine years in office

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Indus Water Treaty: Task Force takes stock of hydro power projects in J&K

THE second meeting of the Task Force on Indus Water Treaty took place in Srinagar on Friday. The meeting was chaired by Deputy National Security Advisor Vikram Misri.

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Rift in Maha alliance? Stepmotherly treatment by BJP, says Shinde MP

DIFFERENCES and Maharashtra between BJP CM Eknath Shiv Sena surfaced Shinde-led on Friday over power-sharing and seat-sharing for 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

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Allahabad HC to hear all cases on Krishna birth place

Gives Mathura court 2 wks to list all such cases involving the dispute

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Buzz in MP over BJP replacing party chief ahead of Assembly polls

POLITICAL circles in pollbound Madhya Pradesh are abuzz over something big likely to happen in the ruling BJP.

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Poor show in Hindi in U'khand as many fail to clear exam

THOUSANDS of board examinees in Uttarakhand suffered hugely this year for taking the Hindi subject lightly. A total of 9,699 students failed in the language subject in the High school-Intermediate examination. Of them, 3,263 are boys and 1,721 girls in high school and 2,923 boys and 1,792 girls at the intermediate level.

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Belarus claims Russia has begun moving nukes

BELARUSIAN der Lukashenko leader Alexansaid on Thursday that Russia had begun moving nuclear weapons to its territory, which borders the European Union, ratcheting up tensions with the West over the Ukraine conflict.

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ANOTHER SENIOR LEADER RESIGNS FROM IMRAN KHAN'S PARTY

SENIOR leader Firdous Ashiq Awan resigned from Imran Khan's party on Friday over the recent violent and \"terrorist activities\" and said the former prime minister and Pakistan cannot go together, becoming the latest senior leader to quit the opposition party.

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India appeals against WTO ruling on ICT product

INDIA has appealed against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling, which stated the country's import duties on certain information and technology (ICT) products are inconsistent with global trade norms.

1 min

Q4 GDP growth pegged at 4.9-5.7%

Economists attribute higher growth rate to pick-up in demand for services and capex cycle

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