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Cauvery issue: Tamil Nadu bandh today; youth sets self on fire

September 16, 2016

Chennai, Sep 16: Political parties and trade organisations in Tamil Nadu will go ahead with the general strike on Friday to condemn the attacks on Tamilians in Karnataka over the Cauvery water release issue.

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The call for strike has got support from various quarters amid the Supreme Court rapping the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka governments for permitting agitations to challenge a judicial order passed by it.

Though the ruling AIADMK government is not supporting the strike, almost all opposition parties, including the DMK, Congress, Vijayakanth-led DMDK, Tamil Maanila Congress and the PMK have extended support.

Autos and omni bus services are expected to stay off the roads. Some private schools and education institutions have declared holiday on Friday.

However, the Tamil Nadu government made it clear that all the schools will function normally.

The state administration also said that the government bus services will be operated by giving full security.

Petroleum Dealers Association also said that more than 4,500 petrol and diesel outlets will be shut. However, company-owned petrol bunks are expected to operate.

What is shut

In addition, the Federation of Tamil Nadu Traders Association, which is also taking part in the bandh, announced that nearly 20 lakh shops will be closed.

However, medical shop owners said they would close shutters only in the afternoon.

Tamil Nadu Wholesale Traders secretary Soundararajan said the main vegetable markets across the state will also be closed to show support to the agitation.

The state government has taken steps to sell vegetables in all its cooperative markets at affordable prices to the people.

DMDK’s Vijayakanth will launch a hunger strike with party cadres in Chennai while the DMK and the Congress have organised ‘democratic rallies’ across the state to condemn the attacks on Tamils in the neighbouring state.

Both the CPI and the CPM, which also declared to back the agitation, will join the silent rallies organised by delta farmers in Thanjavur, Thiruvarur, Trichy, Nagapattinam and some parts of Salem.

Meanwhile, about one lakh police personnel will be deployed across all the districts from Thursday night in view of the bandh call.

Extra security to state establishments

Though Tamil Nadu remained largely peaceful on Thursday except for sporadic protests, tension prevailed in the state over the Cauvery issue and normal life was thrown out of gear in border areas, DHNS?reports from Chennai.

Most of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) buses to Karnataka from Chennai and other districts were cancelled, putting passengers in great trouble. The Karnataka state buses were not operated.

Trucks, vans and other private vehicles bearing Tamil Nadu license plates were also stranded in the border area. Hosur was the worst hit since people on both states could not reach their destinations, while a similar situation prevailed in Sathyamangalam in Erode district.

Meanwhile, sporadic protests and rallies were held across the state against the recent attack on Tamilians in Karnataka. A youth who attempted self immolation at a rally in Chennai by Naam Tamizhar Katchi was admitted to hospital and his condition remaineds critical.

Nearly 20 cadres of a pro-Tamil group were arrested in Coimbatore when they tried to stage a protest demonstration near a Karnataka Bank branch. Though the state remained largely peaceful, extra security was provided to Karnataka-owned offices and banks.

Additional police security was also provided near the Udupi chain of restaurants situated in various towns.

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March 3,2020

Chennai, Mar 3: The Madras High Court has ruled that if a working woman gives birth to a child in the second delivery after twins in the first, she is not entitled to maternity benefits as it should be treated as third child.

"As per existing rules, a woman can avail such benefits only for her first two deliveries. Even otherwise it is debatable as to whether the delivery is not a second delivery but a third one, in as much as ordinarily when twins are born they are delivered one after another, and their age and their inter-se elderly status is also determined by virtue of the gap of time between their arrivals, which amounts to two deliveries and not one simultaneous act," the court said.

The first bench, comprising Chief Justice A P Sahi and Justice Subramonium Prasad stated this while allowing the appeal from Ministry of Home Affairs.

It set aside the order June 18 2019 order of a single Judge, who extended 180 days of maternity leave and other benefits to a woman member of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) under the rules governing the Tamil Nadu government servants.

The issue pertains to an appeal moved by the ministry, which contended that the leave claim is by a member of CISF to whom the maternity rules of Tamil Nadu would not apply.

She would be covered by the maternity benefits as provided under the Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, the ministry said.

When the appeal came up for hearing, the bench said it found that a second delivery, which, in the present case, resulted in a third child, cannot be interpreted so as to add to the mathematical precision that is defined in the rules.

The admissibility of benefits would be limited if the claimant has not more than two children, the bench said "This fact therefore changes the entire nature of the relief which is sought for by the woman petitioner, which aspect has been completely overlooked by the single judge", the bench said.

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Agencies
August 8,2020

New Delhi, Aug 8: Former Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy on Saturday said that it is unfair and unfortunate to blame the pilots or the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for the Kerala place crash which took place on Friday evening.

"It is very unfortunate and unfair when experts come under television channel and they try to put blame on the Airports Authority of India or the pilots. Airport authority in an institution which has had survived various tests of time for the last 65 to 70 years, or pre-independence, so it is unfair to blame them," he said.

While speaking to news agency, Rajiv Pratap Rudy said that the 737 Boeing aircraft is reliable and the pilots were experienced, and it was wrong to blame them.

He further said that there are many possibilities on what could have happened, and said, "It is an accident and we need to find the facts."
Rajiv Pratap Rudy also expressed his deepest condolences to the family members of those who lost their lives in the plane crash. "This accident is terrible and heart-rending. 

I offer my deepest condolences to the family members of the captain and first officer, and the families of passengers who died and were injured," he said.

At least 18 people died when a plane carrying 190 passengers came from Dubai met with an accident at Karipur airport in Kozhikode on Friday evening, as per the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

"Eighteen people, including two pilots, have lost their lives. It is unfortunate. 127 people are at hospitals, others have been released," said Puri on the Air India Express flight that crash-landed on Friday evening.

Air India Express Dubai-Kozhikode IX-1344 flight, carrying 190 people on board from Dubai under the Vande Bharat Mission, skidded off the runway at Karipur Airport in Kozhikode at 7.41 pm on Friday in which several people sustained injuries.

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May 9,2020

Thrissur, May 9: Five people were arrested for allegedly conducting congregational prayers at a mosque here in violationofthe COVID-19 lockdown norms.

A case was registered against five people for conducting evening prayers on Friday, police said.

We received information that prayers were being conducted in the mosque, they said adding they were held at Eriyad Masjidul Bilal mosque here.

On Friday, four people, including the president of a local temple trust, were arrested for allegedly conducting a religious recitation in a temple here in violation of lockdown restrictions.

Though lockdown conditions have been eased in accordance with the Centre's guidelines, public gatherings, including functions, weddings, political events and religious gatherings were not allowed.

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