Closing ceremony (Photo: Videograb)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu News Live: The Closing ceremony of the 44th FIDE Chess olympiad started today at the Nehru Indoor Stadium
An ambulance was briefly stopped, so were other vehicles in Tamil Nadu’s Kumbakonam, about 293 km from Chennai, on Monday, to allow a convoy of a State Minister, reported news agency PTI. The Minister’s vehicle had almost crossed the one-km long, ancient Anaikarai bridge on which vehicles were permitted to ply in one direction at a time, a senior police official in Kumbakonam said.
In other news, ahead of the Chess Olympiad closing ceremony on Tuesday (August 9) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai, posters for the event have been put up across the city with photographs of President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin. This comes after the Madras High Court on July 27 directed the state government to include photographs of the President and Prime Minister in its promotional material, including in print and electronic media.
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In other updates from the state, one of the two men, who were injured after a giant signboard collapsed and fell on them on arterial Mount road in Chennai, died in Royapettah Government Hospital in the city on Monday. As per reports, the deceased has been identified as Shanmuga Sundaram, who was on a two-wheeler, when the accident occurred. The collapse took place near Kathipara flyover here this afternoon when an MTC bus hit a pole carrying the signboard.
In a leg-up to the Indo-US strategic partnership, the US navy ship Charles Drew on Sunday arrived at the Larsen and Toubro shipyard at Kattupalli here for undergoing repairs and allied services, reported PTI. According to an official release, the US Navy had awarded a contract to the L&T Shipyard for undertaking maintenance of the ship. The event signifies the capabilities of the country’s shipyards in the global ship repairing market.
Teenager Kishore Kumar stole the spotlight, winning the Men’s International Open here in the Covelong Classic Surf Championships Sunday. In the final held near here against Sri Lankan surfer S Praneeth, the 14-year old Kishore manoeuvered the waves well to win the race by a slender margin of 0.17 points. Ajeesh Ali secured the third place in this category.
Madras HC levies Rs 50,000 fine on litigant over sand quarry lease
The Madras High Court has imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on a litigant for filing a PIL allegedly to blackmail genuine leaseholders for quarrying sand in Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam district.
The amount shall be remitted to the Tamil Nadu State Legal Services Authority within 15 days, the first bench of Chief Justice M N Bhandari and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy said while dismissing a PIL petition from R Silambarasan on August 4.
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Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chennai/chennai-tamil-nadu-news-live-politics-covid-rain-in-state-8077190/
