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AIADMK slams Karunanidhi for seeking special session of TN Assembly

September 24, 2016

Chennai, Sep 24: The ruling AIADMK today lashed out at DMK chief M Karunanidhi for seeking a special session of Tamil Nadu Assembly to discuss the Cauvery issue, saying he came up with such demands as he was "irked" over Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's "repeated victories" in the inter-state row and wanted to "conceal his betrayals" in the matter.karunanidh

By making such demands, Karunanidhi was trying to "conceal his betrayals" in the Cauvery issue, an article in the AIADMK mouthpiece, 'Namadhu MGR', alleged.

"While the repeated victories ensured by our mother (Jayalalithaa) in the Cauvery issue by approaching the Supreme Court have irritated Karnataka, they have irked Karunanidhi as well," it claimed.

The Jayalalithaa-led Tamil Nadu government had approached the Supreme Court in the Cauvery issue, seeking a direction to the Centre for notifying the 2007 tribunal award in the Central gazette.

It had also moved the apex court early this month, asking it to direct Karnataka to release water from the Cauvery river to Tamil Nadu.

On both the occasions, the court had ruled in Tamil Nadu's favour.

"That is why, he (Karunanidhi) makes meaningless demands like seeking a special Assembly session or all-party meetings to pretend as if he too is concerned about the Cauvery issue," the article alleged.

It went on to say that while the recently concluded Assembly session had gone on for over a month, the DMK chief had not attended the proceedings but had just turned up to "sign the register".

Karunanidhi is an MLA from Thiruvarur.

The article claimed that "intelligent manoeuvres" by Jayalalithaa was leading the state towards a "permanent victory" in the water-sharing row even as it added that the Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka was "stunned" following the apex court's directive, asking it to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu.

Karunanidhi was "unable" to stand the state benefiting in the Cauvery issue due to Jayalalithaa's decision to seek legal recourse, it alleged.

The DMK chief had urged the Tamil Nadu government to convene a special session of the Assembly like Karnataka.

In a special sitting of its legislature yesterday, Karnataka virtually refused to spare any more Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu as directed by the Supreme Court, adopting a resolution to use water only for drinking purpose.

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April 3,2020

New Delhi, April 3: With 478 cases reported in the last 24 hours, the highest spike so far, India's tally of positive coronavirus cases on Friday rose to 2,547 including 162 cured/discharged and 62 deaths, as per the latest data of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

As many as 647 positive coronavirus cases have been reported so far from across 14 States whose linkage can be traced to the Tablighi Jamaat cluster at Nizamuddin, the Centre said on Friday.

"A total of 647 cases of positive coronavirus cases have been reported from across 14 States whose linkage can be traced to the Tablighi Jamaat cluster at Nizamuddin," Lav Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.

"The cases can be traced in Andaman and Nicobar, Assam, Delhi, Himachal, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh," added Aggarwal.

The Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi has emerged as a hotspot for COVID-19 after several positive cases from across India were linked to the gathering including deaths in Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana.

An FIR was earlier registered against Tablighi Jamaat head Maulana Saad and others under the Epidemic Disease Act 1897, in the national capital.

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July 18,2020

Washington, Jul 18: The government of India has agreed to allow US air carriers to resume passenger services in the US-India market starting July 23, the US Transportation Department said on Friday.

The Indian government, citing the coronavirus, had banned all scheduled services, prompting the US Transportation Department in June to accuse India of engaging in "unfair and discriminatory practices" on charter air carriers serving India.

The Transportation Department said it was withdrawing an order it had issued requiring Indian air carriers to apply for authorization prior to conducting charter flights, and said it had approved an Air India application for passenger charter flights between the United States and India.

A group representing major US airlines and the Indian Embassy in Washington did not immediately comment on Friday.

India's Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Twitter it was moving to "further expand our international civil aviation operations" and arrangements from some flights "with US, UAE, France & Germany are being put in place while similar arrangements are also being worked out with several other countries."

"Under this arrangement," it added, "airlines from the concerned countries will be able to operate flights from & to India along with Indian carriers."

The US Transportation Department order was set to take effect next week. The Trump administration said in June it wanted "to restore a level playing field for US airlines" under the US-India Air Transport Agreement. The Indian government had banned all scheduled services and failed to approve US carriers for charter operations, it added.

The US government said in June that Air India had been operating "repatriation" charter flights between India and the United States in both directions since May 7.

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August 4,2020

New Delhi, Aug 4: India witnessed a single-day spike of 52,050 COVID-19 cases as the total cases in the country reached 18,55,746, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Tuesday.

803 COVID-19 related deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. The total cases include 5,86,298 active cases, 12,30,510 cured/discharged/migrated and 38,938 deaths, the Health Ministry added.

Maharashtra continues to be the worst-affected state as it has a total of 1,47,324 active cases and 15,842 deaths. A total of 4,50,196 coronavirus cases have been recorded in the state up to Monday, according to Union Ministry of Health.

Tamil Nadu reported 5,609 new COVID-19 cases and 109 deaths on Monday, taking total cases to 2,63,222 including 2,02,283 discharges and 4,241 deaths, the state Health Department said.

The total cases in Delhi have risen to 1,38,482 including 1,24,254 recovered/discharged/migrated cases and 4,021 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

Meanwhile, India recorded the highest single-day testing by conducting over 6.6 lakh tests to diagnose COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
"In its fight against COVID-19, India scales a new high of 6,61,715 tests in the last 24 hours," said the Health Ministry in a tweet.

A total of 2,08,64,206 samples for COVID-19 have been tested across the country so far, said the Health Ministry.

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