c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA CHENNAI I SUNDAY 31 I JANUARY 2021 WEATHER Max: 30OC CITY | 2 WORLD | 5 SPORT | 8 Min: 21OC Magistrate issues NBW Biden warns inaction over Kohli steady at 4th, Rainfall: Nil against director Shankar $1.9 tn aid will cost dearly Pujara rises to sixth ASTROGUIDE Sarvari: Thai 18 deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 16 No. 306 Established 1938 | 8 PAGES| `4.00 Tithi: Thrithiyai Star: Puram ■ Rahukalam: Centre has open mind; agri minister is a phone call away: PM 4.30 pm to 6 pm BJP will fight TN assembly Yamagandam: 12 noon to 1.30 pm PRAYERS Proposal to suspend farm laws polls with AIADMK: Nadda Fajar: 5.22 am Madurai, Jan. 30: Bha- Zohar: 12.27 pm ratiya Janata Party (BJP) Asar: 3.41 pm J.P. Nadda on Saturday said Maghrib: 6.09 pm stands, Modi tells floor leaders his party’s alliance with the 7.23 pm AIADMK would continue Isha: for the assembly elections, SUNSET TODAY 6.10 PM DC CORRESPONDENT due in Tamil Nadu in a few SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.36 AM NEW DELHI, JAN. 30 months. Both parties would Minister Narendra Modi MOONRISE TODAY 8.41 PM Home ministry face the polls together, he assumed the top office, a MOONSET TOMORROW 9.20 AM Prime Minister Narendra said, addressing a public “safe destiny” was assured Modi on Saturday told meeting, his first in the run for the nation and Tamil leaders of various political suspends Internet up to the Assembly elec- Nadu as well, he said. Be it CORONA parties that the govern- tions expected in April or projects like the defence ment has been continuous- at protest sites early May. corridor or allocation of ly trying to resolve the Mr Nadda said Prime funds for Tamil Nadu, the C UNT issues raised by protesting DC CORRESPONDENT Minister Narendra Modi situation changed only after farmers through talks. NEW DELHI, JAN. 30 facilitated projects like the the BJP came to power at CASES DEATHS Addressing floor leaders defence corridor for Tamil the Centre, he said. at the customary all-party The Union home ministry Nadu while the state was Mr Nadda recalled that meeting convened by the on Saturday suspended “ignored” during the Mr Modi had quoted a cou- (+10,183) (+78) government for the Internet services at Congress-led United plet from Tirukkural to sol- 1,07,44,210 smooth conduct of the Singhu, Ghazipur and Progressive Alliance diers at Ladakh and also 1,54,262 Budget session, Mr Modi Tikri borders for the next regime. Praising Tamil as cited the Prime Minister’s said the that Centre’s pro- two days. In its orders the world’s oldest language, ‘Yaadum Oorey’ reference covid19india.org posal to suspend the three issued on Saturday after- Mr Nadda, who is here on a of Tamil poet Kaniyan new agriculture laws still noon, the ministry stated one day’s visit, said when Poongundranar in his STATE GOVERNMENT BULLETINS stands. that Internet services will the right person assumed speech at the United Virtually addressing the remain suspended at the the right place, it led to right Nations General Assembly (+505) party leaders, Mr places from 11 p.m. on decisions. After Prime in 2019. — ANI ■ P3 12,350 Narendra Modi told them Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs parikrama at the Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi, January 29 to 11 p.m. on TN: 8,37,832 that agriculture minister on the occasion of Martyrs’ Day, at Rajghat, in New Delhi on Saturday. — PTI January 31. Narendra Singh Tomar Sources claimed the was just a phone call away home ministry took the WORLD CONFIRMED CASES for protesting farmers and decision following specif- EPS asks party cadre the agriculture minister Support swells; union leaders ic intelligence inputs that 10,28,62,765 himself had conveyed the large-scale mobilisation same to farmer leaders ear- of farmers was taking to fulfil Jaya dream DEATHS lier this month. place in states like Sharing the details of the go on fast on Martyrs’ Day Punjab, Haryana, UP, DC CORRESPONDENT meeting chaired by Mr Rajasthan, Uttarakhand MADURAI, JAN. 30 22,21,933 Modi and attended by BHASKAR HARI Meanwhile, the Special forces, were deployed in and MP. COUNTRIES, defence minister Rajnath SHARMA | DC Investigation Team (SIT) of massive strength. Multiple Inputs also revealed the Chief Minister and AIA- AREAS WITH Singh, parliamentary aff- NEW DELHI, JAN. 30 the crime branch of Delhi layers of barricades, includ- farmers could once again DMK joint coordinator CASES 219 airs minister Prahlad Joshi Police has issued a second ing concrete blocks, were reach the borders. Edappadi K. Palaniswami worldometers.info said, “The Prime Minister Farmers protesting at the notice to nine farmer lead- being put at the protest Haryana has also sus- called upon his party cadre assured that the Centre is three sites at Delhi's bor- ers, including Rakesh sites. pended internet services to work together to fulfil the approaching the farmers ders held a day-long fast, Tikait. The farmer leaders on in 17 of its 22 districts. dream of former chief min- India pre-eminent partner of issue with an open mind.” between 9 am and 5 pm, as The Delhi police carried Saturday morning, wear- A home ministry direc- ister and AIADMK general “The Prime Minister they observed "Sadbhavna out raids in Punjab's ing garlands, observed tive on Saturday stated secretary J. Jayalalithaa of US in Indo-Pacific region: said the Centre's stand is Divas" to mark the death Jalandhar on Friday to "Sadbhavana Diwas" (har- that it was "invoking the the party ruling the state same as it was on January anniversary of Mahatma arrest Jugraj Singh and mony day) and observed Temporary Suspension of even 100 years after her in Madurai district on Blinken tells Jaishankar 22, the last meeting Gandhi. Meanwhile hun- Navpreet Singh who hoist- fast after the immense out- Telecom Services (Public time. Saturday. Kolkata/New Delhi: Former West between the protesting dreds of farmers stayed ed the Nishan Sahib flag at rage over violence by pro- Emergency or Public Mr Palaniswami was Recalling the welfare pro- Washington, Jan 30 (PTI) farmers and the Centre put at the Ghazipur border Red Fort on January 26. As testers during their Safety Rules 2017) of the speaking after the inaugu- grammes launched by Secretary of State Tony Blinken and proposal given by on Saturday morning, as many as 38 cases have Republic Day tractor rally. Indian Telegraph Act, ration of a temple dedicated Jayalalithaa and MGR has underscored India's role as a agriculture minister on more supporters poured in been registered till now in The farmer leaders sat on 1885 to suspend Internet to Jayalalithaa and party which included the noon pre-eminent US partner in the the farm laws still stands. at the protest site on the connection with the the dais during the fast, as in the three places.” Prior founder and former chief meal scheme for the poor Indo-Pacific during his maiden Modiji reiterated what Delhi-Meerut Expressway farmer's rally and 84 per- crowds of supporters to this these provisions minister M.G. children in school, the telephonic conversation with Tomarji had said - that he in Ghaziabad following sons have been arrested, swelled, especially in have been issued only Ramachandran along with Chief Minister said the two external affairs minister S (Narendra Singh Tomar) which Delhi Police shut according to the police. Ghazipur where the twice while before and Deputy Chief Minister O. great leaders are revered by .Jaishankar and discussed ways to is phone call away for down NH-24 highway and Security personnel, Bharatiya Kisan Union during the anti-CAA Panneerselvam at T. people as gods and the tem- better seize the new opportunities talks,” Mr Joshi said, all roads leading to including from anti-riot (BKU) is leading the protests on December 19 Kunnathur in Thir- ple sybolised those senti- and combat shared challenges in quoting Mr Modi. ■ P4 Ghazipur border. police and paramilitary protest. ■ P4 and 20, 2019 umangalam constituency ments. ■ P3 the region and beyond. It was Blinken's first telephonic conversation with Jaishankar after NIA, NSG TO INVESTIGATE he assumed the charge as Centre to ban pvt America's top diplomat early this week. Lens on two in cryptocurrencies, Rajib Banerjee, other former TMC leaders join BJP in Delhi launch new one Kolkata/New Delhi: Former West Embassy blast DC CORRESPONDENT Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee, NEW DELHI, JAN. 30 ● who recently quit the Trinamool HASKAR HARI The sources said Congress, joined the BJP in the SHARMA | DC that the conspiracy The Union government is national capital on Saturday NEW DELHI, JAN. 30 of this blast was planning to introduce in along with a few other leaders of hatched abroad and the budget session of par- the state’s ruling party after The CCTV footage of the liament a bill banning meeting senior BJP leader and Israel embassy blast site the conspirators private crypto currencies Union home minister Amit Shah. obtained by the special wanted to take help and authorise the Banerjee and MLAs Prabir Ghosal cell team of the Delhi of the locals to Reserve Bank of India and Baishali Dalmiya, who was police has revealed that a execute this plan (RBI) to issue an official recently expelled from the TMC, cab had dropped two per- digital currency and former Howrah Mayor Rathin sons who walked towards blast was hatched abroad A Lok Sabha bulletin Chakraborty, flew to the national the spot near the embassy and the conspirators has said the Crypto- capital on a special plane, and where the minor IED wanted to take help of the currency and Regulation met central BJP leaders.