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c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA www.facebook.com/deccannews, www.twitter.com/deccanchronicle, www.deccanchronicle.com CHENNAI I WEDNESDAY 5 I FEBRUARY 2020 Vol. 15 No. 310 Established 1938 | 32 PAGES | ` 3.00 SPORT | 14 TABLOID Shaw replaces injured The joy of being Rohit in Test squad a girl-dad WEATHER Thanjavur Big Max: 32OC No public exams for Min: 22OC Temple Rainfall: Nil ASTROGUIDE consecration today classes 5, 8 in TN: Min G. SRINIVASAN | DC Vikari: Thai 22 ● Tithi: Ekadashi THANJAVUR, FEB. 4 G. BABU JAYAKUMAR | DC Several discussions on young students and par- Star: Mrigashirsham CHENNAI, FEB. 4 and seminars were ents to take an examination All roads lead to Big tem- organised to highlight that would run for a week or Rahukalam: ple at Thanjavur with the The Tamil Nadu cabinet so might spell the end for 12 noon to 1.30 pm consecration of the temple, cancelled the public exami- the dark side of the the academic career for Yamagandam: built by King Raja Raja nation announced for Class new examination sys- many children, educational- 7.30 am to 9 am Chola (985 CE to 1014 CE) 5 and 8 students. The deci- tem and numerous ists and social activists felt. and a world heritage mon- sion taken on Tuesday lifts a petitions were shot For not all parents in the PRAYERS ument declared by Unesco, dark veil of apprehension lower rungs of the socio-eco- Fajar: 5.22 am to take place between 9 am that had hung over the col- off to the government nomic ladder, particularly Zohar: 12.28 pm and 10 am on Wednesday, lective conscience of the to do away with it illiterates and daily wage Asar: 3.42 pm February 5. people of the state on the earners in rural pockets, Consecration is being held future prospects of poor and year. The questions papers would be able to accompany Maghrib: 6.10 pm to the temple after 23 long rural children. would be set by a cen- the children to the faraway Isha: 7.23 pm years, after the last ‘kum- Ever since the govern- tralised body and the chil- centres, wait outside the SUNSET TODAY 6.12 PM babhishekam’ performed ment order on the conduct dren would have to face the classrooms and then bring in 1997 when Kalignar M. of public examinations was uniform test all through the them back owing to work SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.35 AM Karunanidhi was chief issued on September 13, 2019 state. commitments and financial MOONRISE TODAY 2.24 PM minister. educationalists, members of Also it was said that all reasons. MOONSET TOMORROW 3.37 AM Nearly one lakh people the teaching community, students may not be able to Educationalists and witnessed the seventh and parents and students have take the examinations in activists have been saying penultimate phase of been opposing the move in their own school premises that the major challenge Impose restrictions ‘yagasala pujas’ on their own way, expressing since the state board would they face in preventing Wednesday evening. So fears over the demerits of fix limited number of exam- dropout of students is to on owning more far, according to the police the new system. ination centres, which enthuse sceptical parents, and temple officials three Under the system, it was would mean that some chil- who would rather prefer than one house: HC lakh people have visited announced that all students dren in the age of 10 and 13 their wards start earning at Chennai: Observing that the 'yagasala' and wit- have to sit for a public exam- would have to travel of the earliest, to send children though single housing unit is nessed 'pujas' that began ination at the end of Classes places alien to them. to school with least liabili- enough for a family, consid- on February 1. ■ P2 five and eight from this Imposing such drudgery ties. ■ P4 ering the future of the chil- dren, a family can be allowed to have an additional housing THOOTHUKUDI FIRING INDIA THRASH PAK, ENTER FINAL NIRBHAYA CASE unit on payment of additional India romped into a third successive ICC U-19 World charges and the third unit Cup final with a thumping ten-wicket win over rivals Delhi HC should be completely prohib- Pakistan in Potchefstroom (South Africa). ited, the Madras high court verdict today has suggested imposing EMERGING STARS TERRIFIC OPENERS New Delhi: The Delhi restrictions on owning houses High Court will on and said the government Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal shared a stand Wednesday pro- should take necessary steps Jaiswal, Once a of 176 with Divyaansh nounce order on the to provide basic amenities pani puri seller Saxena (59 off 99 balls) Centre’s plea chal- like housing to all its citizens. who defied as they cruised to their lenging stay on execu- odds before 173-run target with 88 tion of four convicts in Rajinikanth to making it to balls to spare. the Nirbhaya gang Rahul says PM can rape and murder case. testify before the Indian ■ P7 sell Taj Mahal like PSU team, struck an It is a dream come New Delhi: The Congress on panel outstanding true for me and Tuesday fielded its top guns, Tirunelveli: The one- 105 off 113 I’m very happy to Manmohan Singh, Rahul man commission balls. have done it for my Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi headed by Justice country. Vadra, for campaigning in Aruna Jegadeesan on Delhi, with the former party — YASHASVI the Thoothukudi JAISWAL president saying that Prime police firing that Minister Narendra Modi could claimed 13 lives two “sell the Taj Mahal”, the way years ago on April he was selling the PSUs. 2018, summoned Rajinikanth to appear Coronavirus death for an enquiry during the 19th enquiry ses- toll shoots up to 425 sion to be held on February 25. Beijing/Wuhan: China’s coro- ■ P4 navirus outbreak showed no signs of abating as the death toll rose sharply to 425 with more than 20,000 confirmed cases, amid a shocking report of Chinese officials Centre clarifies on NPR in LS silencing a doctor in Wuhan who first reported the pres- DC CORRESPONDENT ● The NPR exercise Uproar in LS ence of the deadly virus in NEW DELHI, FEB. 4 will be carried out December last year. across the country over Hegde’s The Centre has clarified along with the house that no documents would COUNTER POINT be collected while updat- listing phase of the remarks on Gandhi ing the National Census 2021 from DC CORRESPONDENT Population Register April 1 to September NEW DELHI, FEB. 4 (NPR), and also that dis- 30, 2020 closing the Aadhaar num- The Lok Sabha erupted on ber will also be voluntary. exercise. Protests have Tuesday over controversial The government further erujpted in different parts remarks on Mahatma Gan- said it was discussing of the country over the dhi made by BJP MP An- issues that were of con- issue and the possibility anth Kumar Hegde with Co- cern with various states of linking the NPR with ngress members disrupting on finalisation of the NPR, the NRC and the proceedings in the entire that will collect details Citizenship (Amendment) first half resulting in a walk- like demographic and Act. out by the Opposition in the other data of every family The minister also told end. As soon as the House and individual. Parliament that the man- convened in the morning, Minister of state for ual for updating NPR 2020 Congress MPs Hibi Eden, home Nityananad Rai, in for enumerators and Gaurav Gogoi, K Suresh and a written reply in the Lok supervisors has been pre- Abdul Khaleque gave Sabha, also said that “till pared and that people will adjournment motions in the now the government has have to provide informa- House and demanded an not taken any decision to tion for the NPR to the immediate discussion. prepare the National best of their knowledge Amid the ruckus, Speaker Register of Indian and belief. He also said in Om Birla adjourned the Market report Citizens at the national the written reply that no House till noon. When the 24 ct (1 gm): `4,060.00 level”. documents would be col- House reassembled, Cong- GOLD 22 ct (1 gm): `3,856.00 The clarification comes lected during the upda- ress members trooped into after a political controver- tion of the NPR and that the well shouting slogans Bar (1 Kg): `48,500.00 SILVER sy over the preparation of no verification will be and with placards of “BJP Sensex 40,789.38 pts the NPR and the data as done to trace individuals Party Godse Party” and INDICES Nifty 11,979.65 pts well as other information whose citizenship is “Mahatma Gandhi Amar EXCHANGE US$: `71.27 Euro: 78.72 being collected in the doubtful. Rahein”. Machete, gun seen as students clash DC CORRESPONDENT the two groups. CHENNAI, FEB.4 According to local sources, the violence happened aro- A shocking video of students und 5.30 pm at the university of SRM University in canteen area. It is said that Kattangulatthur involved in an argument broke out a clash at the campus can- between two groups of stu- teen with lethal weapons has dents pursuing MBA in the gone viral on social media university. Sources said the platforms, leaving students argument turned violent wh- present at the spot shell- en a student pulled out a shocked. The attack has more than six-feet-long mac- reportedly resulted in two hete and attacked a student students of the university from the rival group.