NEWS OF THE DAY 09.11...Pollution levels in the city peaked on Friday with three continuous air quality monitoring stations recording over 300 microgram/cubic metre PM2.5 levels. This

GROUP II INTERVIEW PROGRAMME

NEWS OF THE DAY

09.11.2019

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TAMIL NADU

1. New Chief Justice of Madras HC to take charge on

Monday

2. Groundwork for two new reactors at Kudankulam power

plant nears completion

3. Chennai in red zone as AQI tops 300

Pollution levels in the city peaked on Friday with three

continuous air quality monitoring stations recording over

300 microgram/cubic metre PM2.5 levels.

This means the city is in the red zone in the air quality

index (AQI).

The average of PM2.5 particles collected in a cubic metre

space at Manali was 342, at Alandur 301 and at Velachery

307.

4. Sluice gates of Gomukhi dam opened

Law Minister C. Ve. Shanmugam on Friday opened the

sluices of the Gomukhi dam at the foot of the Kalvarayan

Hills near Kallakurichi to release water for irrigation.

5. Heritage Park to come up in Tiruchi

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The corporation has started establishing a heritage park

on Butterworth Road near Rockfort in the city. The park,

to come up in an area of 1.27 acres, will project heritage

and history of the city.

The park will boast of a stone-carved arch entrance,

amphitheatre, landscaping and fountains, pedestrian

walkways, children‟s play area as is being set up under

the Smart City Mission at a cost of Rs. 4 crores.

6. The National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi (NIT-T) will

shortly open new computer centre, named „Third i.‟

7. High level committee to study relocating of effluent

treatment plant at Sathyamangalam

8. Bhavani Sagar Reservoir nears full capacity

On Friday morning, the storage was 32.598 thousand

million cubic feet, against the capacity of 32.800 tmc ft

The water level at the Bhavani Sagar Reservoir is inching

closer to the Full Reservoir Level (FRL) of 105 feet.

9. Tamil to get 9,000 new words. The State government has

issued a government order to include 9,000 new words to

Tamil vocabulary. Currently, the language has over 4.7

lakh unique words.

10. 45-mld tertiary treatment plant to be ready next

week. It will cater to industries in Sriperumbudur and

Oragadam

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11. The 45-million litres a day capacity tertiary treatment

reverse osmosis plant in Koyambedu will be ready for

commissioning in a week.

12. Metro to build Light Rail between Tambaram,

Velachery

13. Japanese film festival kicks off in Chennai

Event begins with screening of Shinsuke Sato‟s Kingdom

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NATIONAL

1. SC verdict on Ayodhya today. Hindu and Muslim

parties had challenged three-way partition by

Allahabad HC

2. Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar and Chief Economic

Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian conceded to a

parliamentary panel on finance, headed by BJP MP

and former Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha,

that the country is going through an “economic

slowdown”. Union Finance Minister Nirmala

Sitharaman has so far avoided the use of word

„slowdown‟.

3. Low conviction rate, lack of awareness hinder bonded

labour elimination

4. Govt. ends SPG protection for Sonia, Rahul & Priyanka

5. Moody‟s Investors Service has downgraded its outlook

on India to „negative‟ from „stable‟ on Friday.

6. The Union government decided to import onion as its

efforts to increase supply by banning exports and

setting stock limits for retailers and traders also failed

to tame prices.

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7. Dhrupad maestro and Padma Shri awardee Ramakant

Gundecha passed away in Bhopal on Friday evening.

8. Maternal death rate declining: report

India‟s Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) has seen a

decline from 130 per 1 lakh live births in 2014-2016 to

122 per 1 lakh live births in 2015-2017.

A decline of 8 points (6.2%) was observed during this

period, according to the latest Sample Registration

System (SRS) 2015-2017 bulletin for MMR released on

Thursday.

9. Officials in Odisha are keeping a close watch on the

movement of the severe cyclonic storm „Bulbul‟.

“The very severe cyclonic storm was moving at a

speed of 17 km per hour. It is expected that the storm

would make landfall near the Sundarbans by

November 9 night

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10. Onions to be imported from Dubai, Egypt. The

first shipments are likely to arrive by November 15

11. Ahead of the Supreme Court‟s verdict in the

Ayodhya case, the Delhi police have beefed up

security at the houses of the five judges who will

pronounce the judgment on Saturday.

INTERNATIONAL

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1. Mauritius elects incumbent PM for five-year term,.

Mauritius' ruling Militant Socialist Movement (MSM) has

won more than half of parliamentary seats, securing

incumbent Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth a

five-year term, interim election results showed on Friday.

Jugnauth, 57, became prime minister in 2017 when his

father stepped down from the post, and has already

introduced a minimum wage to try and improve wealth

distribution.

2. India to host 2023 FIH Men's World Cup, Spain,

Netherlands to co-host 2022 Hockey Women's World Cup

3. Iran earthquake kills five, leaves 300 injured

4. Number of accidental deaths went up in 2016

5. Ayodha dispute: Tamil Nadu under thick security blanket

6. Survey for cycling, jogging tracks at Siruseri starts

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7. Cyclone Bulbul leaves Chennai warm, rain may return

next week.

8. Tamil Nadu: Sex ratio down in Chennai, 8 districts

9. ICICI Bank has announced its decision to add 23 new

branches in Tamil Nadu this fiscal as part of its expansion

plan

10. Construction of the state-of-the-art new Pamban

bridge to bridge to replace the existing century-old iconic

British structure between Pamban and Rameswaram

11. Tamilnadu beat Kerala in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

12. Chennai city police launch Thozhi scheme to help

sexual assault victims

The Chennai city police have assigned 70 policewomen to

provide counselling to victims in sexual assault cases

(POCSO cases), under a scheme called Thozhi.

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