c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA CHENNAI I THURSDAY 5 I NOVEMBER 2020 WEATHER CITY | 2 STATE | 3 SPORT | 8 Max: 31OC Min: 26OC HC retrieves temple CM launches mobile Maradona’s brain Rainfall: 2 mm lands in Chennai, Salem Amma canteens surgery goes well ASTROGUIDE Sarvari: Aippasi 20 deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 16 No. 221 Established 1938 | 8 PAGES| `3.00 Tithi: Panchami Star: Thiruvathirai MEET ON NOV. 9 Rahukalam: NGT notice to TN, 1.30 pm to 3 pm Yamagandam: 17 states, on ban US Prez poll turns cliffhanger TN SCHOOLS TO 6 am to 7.30 am PRAYERS on cracker sale I I I REOPEN AFTER Fajar: 4.50 am Biden ahead of Trump Three states key for win Counting to last longer Zohar: 11.58 am New Delhi, Nov. 4: The Washington, Nov. 4: The PARENTS SPEAK Asar: 3.13 pm National Green Tribunal fate of the United States ELECTORAL SEATS Maghrib: 5.43 pm Wednesday expanded the Presidency hung in the bal- l Democrats DC CORRESPONDENT ambit of hearing cases on ance on Wednesday as A WINNER NEEDS 270 SEATS drove toward CHENNAI, NOV. 4 Isha: 6.55 pm pollution by use of fire- President Donald Trump extending SUNSET TODAY 5.41 PM crackers beyond the NCR and Democratic challenger their control A decision on opening SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.04 AM and issued notices to 18 Joe Biden battled for three of the House schools for classes 9 to 12 for two more MOONRISE TODAY 9.25 PM states and Union familiar battleground states will be taken after seeking Territories where air qual- — Wisconsin, Michigan and years but the opinion of parents on MOONSET TOMORROW 10.41 AM ity is beyond norms. Pennsylvania — that could with a poten- November 9, the state Nadu A bench headed by NGT prove crucial in determin- tially shrunk- government said here on Chairperson Justice ing who wins the White en majority Wednesday. The move to CORONA Adarsh Kumar Goel noted House. 214 l Democrats hold consultations comes that it has already issued It was unclear when or and rival days after the Chief Donald J. Biden has already Biden needs 32 elec- notice to Delhi, Haryana how quickly a winner could l l Republicans Minister had said that Trump secured 50.19 per cent of toral college seats to C UNT and Uttar Pradesh and the be determined. The latest have 47 seats schools would start func- total number of votes polled. become the next US state governments of vote counts in Michigan l The 238 each in tioning from November 16 CASES DEATHS However, the seats, not President, while Trump Odisha and Rajasthan and Wisconsin gave Biden a Trump cam- Result awaited Joseph R. Senate, while for classes 9 to 12. 97 total votes polled, determine needs 56 more seats to have already issued a noti- small lead in those states, paign said it Biden the results for With concerns being victory in the US election claim victory (+46,916) (+626) fication prohibiting the but it was still too early to will request six seats are raised over reopening sale and use of firecrack- call the races. a recount in still schools in view of the pan- 83,59,863 1,24,276 ers. The green panel Trump campaign manag- Wisconsin SAMOSA CAUCUS WINS awaited demic, school principals sought response from er Bill Stepien said the All the four Indian-American Democratic lawmakers — will hold consultation meet- covid19india.org Andhra Pradesh, Assam, President would formally Dr Ami Bera, Pramila Jayapal, Ro Khanna ings on November 9 with Bihar, Chandigarh, request a Wisconsin and Raja Krishnamoorthi — have been re- parents and parent-teacher STATE GOVERNMENT BULLETINS Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, recount, citing “irregulari- elected to the US House of association office-bearers on Himachal Pradesh, ties in several Wisconsin Representatives re-starting classes 9 to 12, SOURCE: AP (+2,487 ) Jammu and Kashmir, counties.’’ The state allows As at 11 pm IST the statement said. Jharkhand, Karnataka, for an apparent losing can- l Democratic The meetings will start at 11,244 Madhya Pradesh, didate to request a recount presidential candidate 10 am in government, state- TN: 7,34,429 Maharashtra, Meghalaya, if the margin is less than Joe Biden took a narrow aided and private schools Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, one per cent. lead in the key battle- across Tamil Nadu by fol- WORLD CONFIRMED CASES Telangana and Hundreds of thousands of ground states of lowing Covid preventive Uttarakhand and West votes were still to be count- Wisconsin and Michigan measures. 4,81,75,509 Bengal. — PTI ed in Pennsylvania. “Parents of students from Neither candidate cleared classes 9 to 12 can put forth DEATHS the 270 Electoral College expressed confidence that dates trading wins in battle- tions. an extraordinary move their opinions in the meet- votes needed to win the they respectively had the grounds. Trump picked up The high-stakes election from the White House, ings and those who could Punjab CM holds White House, and the mar- likelier path to victory in Florida, the largest of the was held against the back- issued premature claims of not, may send letters voic- 12,25,341 gins were tight in several the outstanding states. The swing states, while Biden drop of a pandemic that has victory and said he would ing their views,’ school edu- other battleground states. margins were exceedingly flipped Arizona, a state that killed more than 2,32,000 take the election to the cation department, princi- COUNTRIES, protest in capital AREAS WITH Top advisers for both Biden tight in states across the has reliably voted Americans and wiped away Supreme Court to stop the pal secretary, Dheeraj CASES 216 and Trump on Wednesday country, with the candi- Republican in recent elec- millions of jobs Trump, in counting. — Agencies Kumar said worldometers.info against farm laws New Delhi, Nov 4: 3 more Rafale jets arrive Punjab Chief Minister AIRLINES CAN FLY CONVICTED POLITICIANS Amarinder Singh on in India after flying Wednesday launched a CDS moots raising retirement 60% FLIGHTS TILL non-stop from France dharna here to protest SC asks for Centre’s against the Centre’s new New Delhi: A second batch of farm legislation and FEBRUARY 24 three Rafale fighter jets arrived at accused the BJP-led gov- age of officers in all 3 services Jamnagar airbase in Gujarat on ernment of meting out New Delhi, Nov. 4: stand on lifetime ban Wednesday evening after flying ‘step-motherly’ treatment PAWAN BALI | DC 31-35 years in service will Indian airlines can oper- non-stop from France, in a further towards the state. NEW DELHI, NOV. 4 get 75 per cent of the entitled ate maximum 60 per cent boost to the strike capability of the He said the farmer’s agi- pension in case of PMR. of their pre-Covid PARMOD KUMAR | DC and a BJP leader, seeking Indian Air Force when India and tation in Punjab against The department of military Only those with above 35 domestic passenger NEW DELHI, NOV. 4 deletion of the six-year China are locked in a bitter border the new farm laws could affairs (DMA) led by Chief years of service will get a flights till February 24 ban under Section 8(3) of row in eastern Ladakh. lead to “serious conse- of Defence Staff, Gen. Bipin full pension. There will be next year due to the pre- The Supreme Court on the Representation of quences” for national Rawat has initiated a pro- no change in the pension vailing coronavirus situ- Wednesday asked the People Act and it being Parliament votes to security and alleged that posal to raise the retirement entitlements of “battle casu- ation, the Civil Aviation Centre to spell out its substituted with a life- China and Pakistan were age of senior officers in the alties”. Ministry has said. stand on a plea seeking time ban. back England’s seeking to disturb peace in Army, Navy and Air Force. The letter said there are The ministry had lifetime ban on convicted Section 8(3) of the RPA, the country''s border state. However, what has created increases in the retirement several specialists and informed the airlines politicians, including sit- 1951, reads: “A person lockdown No. 2 Stressing that his inten- a storm is another DMA age in the Navy and Air super-specialists who are about the 60 per cent ting lawmakers, from convicted of any offence tion was not to disturb proposal to cut the “entitled Force for equivalent ranks. trained for high-skilled jobs limit through an official contesting elections as and sentenced to impris- London: England will enter a sec- peace, Capt. Singh said he pension” of the officers in The retirement age of JCOs and they leave the service to order on September 2 but against the six-year ban onment for not less than ond stay-at-home lockdown from was trying to “save” his case of “premature release” in the logistics, technical work in other sectors. It it had not told them the from the date of release two years… shall be dis- Thursday until at least December 2 state’s farmers as the (PMR) from the service. and medical branches will said that the loss of such period for which the cap after undergoing sentence qualified from the date of as members of Parliament Centre was “playing with” As per a letter issued by be 57 years. The letter said a high-skilled manpower would remain in place.