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Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru see faster COVID-19 spread PTI

R-value of the three metros is over 1, say researchers of Chennai-based Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Domestic travel takes off with festival season

Govt gives nod for export of Sputnik Light vaccine made in India

Kerala’s engineering colleges manage to weather pandemic crisis

Active COVID-19 cases in country lowest in 208 days

National

The court, speaking through Justice Roy, explained that the role of the NGT was not simply adjudicatory in nature. File

National

National Green Tribunal needn’t wait for ‘Godot’ to save environment: Supreme Court

Krishnadas Rajagopal Exercise of power by it not circumscribed by receipt of applications, says Supreme Court Bench

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Power Minister R.K. Singh and Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi are believed to have discussed the availability of coal to power plants and the current power demands.

National

Amit Shah holds meet with Power, Coal Ministers amid reports of coal shortage

PTI The meeting came in the wake of several States warning of a possible power crisis due to the shortage of coal supply to power plants

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International

Virginia Giuffre claims she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew in London in 2001, when she was age 17 and a minor under U.S. law.

International

U.K. police won't take action against Prince Andrew over sexual abuse claim

AP Prince Andrew has been banished from public royal duties amid the scandal over his friendship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

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Austria's new Chancellor of the People's Party (OVP) Alexander Schallenberg addresses the media at the Federal Chancellery in Vienna, Austria October 11, 2021.

International

Austria's President swears in new Chancellor

AP Alexander Schallenberg served as the country's foreign minister since 2019

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DMK President MK Stalin addresses during an election campaign rally in support of his alliance candidates, ahead of Tamil Nadu assembly polls, in Tirunelveli, Saturday, March 20, 2021

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Data | How election fund was spent during 2021 State polls

Jasmin Nihalani The AIADMK spent the highest share in spreading the party’s propaganda (99.5%) and relied only on media and advertisements

Morning haze envelops the skyline on the outskirts of New Delhi. File

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Data | Which major Indian cities exceed WHO's revised pollution limits?

Sumant Sen Vignesh Radhakrishnan Jasmin Nihalani As many as 95.6 deaths per one lakh people were recorded in India due to PM2.5 exposure in 2019

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Sea turns green in Gulf of Mannar in Ramanathapuram district and results in the death of several species of fish on Monday.

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Sea turns green in Gulf of Mannar due to algal bloom

Special Correspondent CMFRI studying the phenomenon with other agencies

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Madurai

Fake advocate gets six-year jail term for cheating couple

Staff Reporter DINDIGULThe Dindigul Judicial Magistrate II has sentenced a man to six-year imprisonment for posing as an advocate and cheating an elderly couple to the tune of at least ₹43 lakh by forging a court order.Judicial Magistrate II K. Karthik said the man had committed an offence against the layman’s Supreme Court, the district judiciary. His act was nothing but digital terrorism.The case of the prosecution was that M. Karthik approached a couple, M. Umaiyan and Kalyani, posing as an advocate, and