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The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday ordered suspension of internet services in Tuticorin and adjoining districts of Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari for five days to prevent spread of rumours through social media and help bring public tranquility. The government said that provocative messages circulated over social media led to 20,000 people taking to the streets on Tuesday which ultimately led to police shooting, allegedly to disperse the uncontrollable crowd. However, many have speculated that the police firing could have been pre-meditated after videos surfaced out of TN, depicting police personnel shooting at the protesters on a fatal day, allegedly with an intent to kill and not to disperse the crowd.
In response to the violence, the TN government transferred Tuticorin District Collector and Superintendent of Police. even as fresh violence rocked the port city for the second consecutive day. It also instituted a one-person committee to probe into the matter.
The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court stayed the contentious expansion of the Vedanta's copper smelter plant in Tuticorin amid the continuing agitation against the plant.
After his swearing in, HDK said the JD(S) will fight the 2019 Lok Sabha election with the Congress and expressed confidence that the coalition government formed by the two parties will last the full five years in Karnataka.
Shrugging off the ‘political pariah’ tag, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal also made an appearance in HDK’s oath ceremony. But the minister raised eyebrows with his aloof behaviour. The AAP leader avoided the centre-stage, and even stayed out of ‘money-shot’ photos starring other VIP guests like Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati.
Two people suspected to be infected with the brain-damaging Nipah virus are under treatment in Karnataka, a health official said on Wednesday, after an outbreak of the rare virus in neighbouring Kerala killed 10.
Former South African captain and one of modern day cricket's best batsman AB de Villiers retired from all forms of international cricket with immediate effect. The middle order batsman announced his retirement on Twitter.
The Mandsaur administration has brought its 19-point condition list for Rahul Gandhi's public meeting down to six after receiving flak from the Congress party. Earlier, ahead of Rahul's arrival in the Madhya Pradesh city to commemorate the anniversary of Mandsaur firing on farmers, the administration had come up with the long list of conditions to be met ahead and during the public meeting.
The Election Commission of India has said that an alternative to 'One Nation, One Poll' is combining all elections within a period, say a year, to one specific time. The Law Commission, as part of its 20-point question, had asked the poll body if an "alternative to conducting elections due in a year at a specified and fixed time in the year is more viable than totally overhauling the existing system". The present laws permit the body to conduct elections at a chosen time, six months before the end of a legislative assembly or Parliament.
The Dalit face of the Congress in Karnataka and its state unit chief G Parameshwara has finally made it to the deputy chief minister's post, for which he has been a contender for too long. The longest-serving state party president since October 2010, Parameshwara has remained a hardcore loyalist of the party ever since his political debut through the Congress.Agree or disagree?
Some good sense has prevailed in the Congress, a party known to dump losing chief ministers. It has chosen Siddaramaiah as the leader of the Congress legislative party. After resigning in the wake of the election verdict, he could have exited quietly. But he will now stay on. Read to find out how Siddaramaiah continues to be of importance to the Congress party despite losing the Karnataka elections.On reel
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