NEWS OF THE DAY 23.11 · Corporation Ltd. (Tasmac) have found 3,867 cases of maximum retail price (MRP) violations at the shops across the State between April and October this year

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NEWS OF THE DAY

23.11.2019

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TAMIL NADU

1. Officials from the Tamil Nadu State Marketing

Corporation Ltd. (Tasmac) have found 3,867 cases of

maximum retail price (MRP) violations at the shops across

the State between April and October this year.

The maximum violation was from the Madurai zone with 1,042

cases. In the Chennai region, there were 811 cases of MRP

violation.

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2. The Madras High Court on Friday stayed the operation of

a Government Order (GO) issued by the Revenue

Department on August 30 for purchasing select temple

lands that were no longer required by the individual

religious institutions concerned and hand them over to

poor landless encroachers who were in occupation of

those properties for long.

3. After giving the much-needed facelift to a middle school

in Pulainthope, the city police plan to adopt 20 more

schools in the northern part of the city.

“Every AC has been asked to identify a school in their

range in need of facilities. We are associating with

residents‟ welfare associations, Rotary clubs and college

alumnus to provide facilities to them.”

Setting the example, the Pulianthope police station has

first adopted a middle school, run by the Chennai

Corporation, in Pattalam. A total of 206 students from

Pulianthope, Pattalam and other adjoining areas are

studying here.

4. Five young Carnatic music artistes will compete in the

grand finale of the M.S. Subbulakshmi Awards 2019 —

Voice of the Year, to be held at the Music Academy on

Saturday evening.

5. Egmore station revamp in progress

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The station, the second-most important terminal after

Chennai Central, is being renovated by the Southern

Railway under the „One Station, One Division‟ project, at a

cost of nearly Rs. 20 crore. All works are proposed to be

completed by March 2020.

6. The State government has finally won a batch of cases

pending in the Madras High Court for nearly two

decades, paving the way for the recovery of Rs. 640 crore

as compensation from private cement companies, which

had taken government lands on lease for mining

limestone, but refused to pay annual compensation for the

damage caused to the lands.

7. K7 Computing, a cyber security solutions firm, gave

awards to industries for their contributions to the cyber

security sector. Awards were given to Department of CSE,

Tezpur University, Assam and Larsen & Tourbo Infotech

Ltd. among others.

8. Runaway cases involving adolescents from various

locations boarding trains to Coimbatore seem to be on the

rise, according to a statistics released by the Coimbatore

Railway Childline.

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NATIONAL

1. GDP slump will hit $5-trillion economy target, warns

NITI Aayog

2. With Star Air commencing its operations between

Kalaburagi and Bengaluru, the newly-built Kalaburagi

Greenfield Airport was thrown open to public use on

Friday.

3. Uddhav Thackeray to be Maharashtra Chief Minister

4. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told the Lok

Sabha on Friday that China‟s capital took 15 years to

improve its air quality but India will do the same in

Delhi in much lesser time.

5. 365 terrorist incidents so far in J&K this year

6. The government does not plan to privatise the

Railways, but will outsource the commercial and on-

board services of a few trains to improve service

delivery, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal informed

Parliament.

7. A Bench of Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde and B.R.

Gavai of the Supreme Court on Friday asked the

Union government and the Unique Identification

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Authority of India (UIDAI) to respond to a petition

alleging that recent amendments to the Aadhaar law

opened the back door to private players to access

citizens‟ personal data. The petition was filed jointly

by former Army officer S.G. Vombatkere and activist

Bezwada Wilson.

8. The Centre will introduce the Special Protection Group

(Amendment) Bill, 2019 in Parliament next week,

Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs

Arjun Ram Meghwal told the Lok Sabha on Friday.

9. Mr. Meghwal also announced that the Centre would

introduce a Bill to merge the two Union Territories of

Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu.

10. A few other Bills feature on the list of business to

be transacted next week in the winter session of

Parliament. They include the International Financial

Services Centres Authority Bill, 2019; the Recycling of

Ships Bill, 2019; the National Capital Territory of Delhi

(Recognition of Property Rights of Residents in

Unauthorised Colonies) Bill, 2019 and the Industrial

Relations Code Bill, 2019.

11. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh

Tomar told the Rajya Sabha that the events had

declined 19% this year, including a 16.8% reduction in

Punjab. However, Punjab‟s Pollution Control Board

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(PCB) data show an increase of 2.3% in the number of

incidents.

INTERNATIONAL

1. Japanese officials are going to make another attempt to

make India revise its decision not to join the Regional

Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), while

Indo-Japanese maritime and military initiatives, the

Indo-pacific policy, and joint projects in Sri Lanka, the

Maldives and other countries will be discussed at a

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series of meetings leading up to Japan Prime Minister

Shinzo Abe‟s visit next month.

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1. China's Xi says Beijing wants trade deal, can 'fight back

2. Government's power push raises utilisation by 10% in 4

years

• India's per capita power consumption has risen

almost 10% in the four years since 2015

• Central Electricity Authority data showed per capita

power consumption at 1,181 kWh (kilowatt-hour) in

2018-19, up 9.9% from 1,075 kWh in 2015-16 when

the government launched the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya

Gram Jyoti Yojana

3. 74 per cent of India's teenagers physically inactive: WHO

• Eight out of every 10 teenagers in the world are not

as physically active as the World Health Organisation

In India 73.9% of its teenagers classified as

"physically inactive in a WHO report published in The

Lancet Child & Adolescent Health medical Journal

4. PIL says Aadhaar breaches privacy, Supreme Court seeks

government response

• The SC sought responses from the government and

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the UIDAI to a PIL which alleged that Aadhaar allowed

private players to access its database, compromising

citizens privacy

5. Pegasus attacked 121 in India, breached 20: WhatsApp to

government

• The use of Pegasus snoopware was successful on

20 of the 121 WhatsApp users in India

The intrusion was intended to mine stored information

and data and communications on mobiles.

6. India vs Bangladesh, Day/Night Test:

India exploit Bangladesh's pink chink to

lord in Kolkata

• Armed with the heavily-lacquered ball, India's three

pronged pace attack bundled out the tourists for

106 in front of a 60,000-strong crowd which included

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina

Pujara and Kohli then smashed fifties as India

finished day one on 174/3, to be course for their 12th

consecutive home series victory

7. Tamil Nadu government to renovate 10 bus depots at Rs

50 crore

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The Tamil Nadu transport department will soon renovate

10

government bus stands and depots at an

estimated cost of Rs 50 crore.

8. Lankan Tamils want Premadasa to lead

opposition

The Tamil minority will prefer losing presidential

candidate Sajith Prema dasa to be the main opposition

leader in place of former PM Wickremesinghe, the

main Tamil party TNA said on Friday.

9. Government set to infuse Rs 1,000

crore equity in IIFCL

The government is set to pump in Rs 800-1,000 crore

equity into India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd

(IIFCL) to bolster its lending capability at a time

when it has emerged as a lone ranger of

sorts to fund highway and other core sector

10. Verification process of NEET UG 2020

to get stricter.

With over 6,000 undergraduate

medical admissions in Tamil Nadu under

the scanner, the National Testing Agency

is making the application and verification

process for National Eligibility cum Entrance

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Test- Under Graduate (NEET UG 2020)

even more stringent.

12. 70 events to celebrate 70th anniversary

of Indo-China ties

At a time when India's relationship with China is under

some strain, the government on Friday listed a number of

projects and as many as 70 activities which India and

China will participate in to commemorate the 70th

anniversary of establishment of diplomatic

ties between them.

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NEWS OF THE DAY 23.11 · Corporation Ltd. (Tasmac) have found 3,867 cases of maximum retail price (MRP) violations at the shops across the State between April and October this year