Breaking Highlights, Top Alerts of May 23
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09:12 am: Madras High Court's Madurai bench to today deliver interim order on the ongoing construction of a new copper smelter by Sterlite industries in Thoothukudi . 11 people were killed yesterday in police firing during protests against the construction of the new copper smelter
09:10 am: Chhattisgarh: Section of the farmhouse of BJP MP Vikram Usendi damaged in an IED blast triggered by Naxals in Kanker's Tadoki police station limits. No casualties reported. More details awaited.
08:52 am: Thiruvananthapuram: Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church, Ignatius Aphrem II met Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan
08:50 am: Madhya Pradesh: As petrol price rises to Rs 82.82 per litre in Bhopal, locals say 'Haal behaal hai. We were expecting the prices to drop but that doesn't seem to happen anytime soon. Our salary is still the same but the prices are rising.'
08:45 am: One dead, two injured after heavy shelling from Pakistan in Kathua's Hiranagar sector, J&K
08:32 am: Sterlite Protest: Security tightened in Thoothukudi after eleven people were killed yesterday in police firing during protests against Sterlite industries. Sec 144 imposed.
07:45 am: Uttar Pradesh cabinet yesterday approved the introduction of NCERT textbooks in Madarasa Board. NCERT books in Urdu,Hindi and English languages will be introduced
07:30 am: One more civilian has been injured in ceasefire violation by Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir's Arnia Sector (ANI)
06:16 am: RLD leader Sunil Rohta & his supporters allegedly beat a worker at a petrol pump. The victim says 'They thrashed me as they believed that I'd not put petrol. I said there can be a glitch in the meter as I'd put it.' Owner of the pump has given CCTV footage to police & has demanded enquiry (Meerut)
05:43 am: Former union minister, BJP MP Bandaru Dattatreya’s 21-year-old son Bandaru Vaishnav dies of heart attack.
04:42 am: Students of Kasturba Gandhi school allege that Warden dresses up as a ghost & molests them at night. Accused warden, Poonam Bharti says, 'I've demanded an investigation in this matter & have also told the authorities to check the CCTV footage. The truth will automatically be out.' (Meerut)
04:40 am: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to observe the swearing-in ceremony of the Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition government on Wednesday as 'Anti-People's Mandate Day' in Karnataka
04:20 am: People in Dhanushkodi's Arichal Munai (Tamil Nadu) dig sand in order to procure water to meet their daily needs. Locals say, 'we have no other way to get water. This problem has been prevailing for the past 30 years. The government has not done anything as yet in this regard.'
04:17 am: Container truck rammed into a no entry gate on Sion to Dadar road. Police & fire officials present at spot. Deputy Commissioner of Police says, 'we've removed the container from the road. Driver & cleaner have been injured & are undergoing treatment in a nearby hospital.' (Mumbai)
03:30 am: A suspected active shooter is reportedly barricaded in an apartment, following an earlier shooting in Panama City in the US southeastern state of Florida.
02:35 am: We're increasing activities like plantation on the river bank, boating etc. This'll increase employment & will mobilise participation of the locals in cleaning Ganga: Nitin Gadkari at the inauguration of Ganga & its Biodiversity: Developing a roadmap for habitat & Species Conservation
02:17 am: Former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav arrives at Mumbai airport with son Tej Pratap Yadav, daughter Misa Bharti & daughter-in-law Aishwarya. He will be admitted to Asian Heart hospital today.
1:17 am: Visit here is virtually like a walk down memory lane. I think I've some connection with the state as it was on May 20 last year when I was here & I got to know that I'd been chosen as NDA's presidential candidate: President Ram Nath Kovind at a civic reception in Shimla yesterday
12:43 am: PM Modi has to explain to the people of Andhra Pradesh that why his government went back on its promise of according Special Category Status to Andhra Pradesh: CM Chandrababu Naidu in Vizag.
12:40 am: Even if petrol prices are at its highest, men will take women for drives & in today's time, women will take men for drives. This isn't the movie that you're going to stop watching as at this time you need to spend less on driving & more in theatre: Ekta Kapoor on fuel price hike