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Gas price hike
I run a bike-repair shop in Pudupet. Due to the pandemic, I had to keep my shop shut, and now our sales have gone down. It is the same for all the shops here Kumaran Lokesh, a bike mechanic
Gas price has shot up to almost `900. It needs to reduce. We have a family of five and it would be hard to shell out `900 for gas cylinders in short periods Valli, Chintadripet resident
Traffic jams near the Chintadripet U-turn are a problem. A proposal to construct a bridge here is still pending Jayanth, Pantheon Road resident );
Searches were on at multiple locations
The Income Tax (I-T) Department seized unaccounted cash of over ₹8 crore following searches at residences of DMK and Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) functionaries in Dharapuram, and at the Tiruppur-based Anitha HealthCare and Anitha Texcot India Private Limited.
The garment factory is owned by A. Chandrasekaran, who was appointed the treasurer of Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) in 2019.
Searches were on at multiple locations. So far, unaccounted cash to the tune of ₹8 crore had been found, sources in the Department said.
“This is unaccounted for, but it is difficult to claim that this is election money unless suitable evidence is found,” said another source in the Department.
Updated Mar 17, 2021 | 13:24 IST
It is worth noting that the meeting comes on a day when India recorded its highest daily COVID-19 cases in the current year. Representational image. | Photo Credit: PTI
Key Highlights
The 28,903 infections recorded today has now taken India s total COVID-19 tally to 1,14,38,734 according to figures from the Union Health Ministry
India s seven-day daily average now stands at an alarming 23,500 cases So far, India has administered over 3.50 crore vaccine doses but remains firmly within only the second phase of its immunisation programme
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to hold a meeting with all the chief ministers of India s states and union territories to address the worrying trend in active COVID-19 cases that has prompted real concerns of a second wave in the country. The situation is particularly worrying in Maharashtra which continues to be weighed down from a resurgence of the virus. In view of
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CHENNAI: It’s normal for new political parties to spring up ahead of elections. But what’s interesting is that people entering politics are picking names of parties that are not new.
For instance, Ra Arjunamurthy, who was earlier chief coordinator of actor Rajinikanth’s to-be-launched party, recently floated a new party - India Makkal Munnetra Katchi. You probably hadn’t heard the name before, but the party was registered in 2019, with its headquarters in Erode.
“It was registered by someone else, and I made myself a part of it, in accordance with the Election Commission’s (EC) norms,” Arjunamurthy said. More than 100 registered parties that haven’t contested elections, have apparently offered their names to newcomers.