KOZHIKODE l friday l may 31, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l city EDITION T20 World cup: New York to beef up security for India-Pakistan game With the arch-rivals set to play their first match on June 9, the NY state has said that security will be beefed up for the high-profile encounter Increased measures for Nassau County As Nassau County gets ready, ‘elevated’ security arrangements have been made to ensure safety of fans. This comes after reports of threats linked to the ISIS in April and more specific threats on the event now. “In preparation for @cricketworldcup, my team has been working with federal & local law enforcement to keep attendees safe,” Hochul wrote on X 34,000 expect largest security for match ■ Nassau County police acknowledged the threat and reportedly said this is “largest security we’ve ever had to do in this county’s history and the safest place will be inside the stadium” ■ While the governor wrote that “there is no credible threat at this time”, security measures have been elevated to ensure safety of all capacity of stadium where eight matches will be held from june 3-12 CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI monsoon arrives in Kerala; north continues to bake Red hot day Punjab Delhi Ludhiana 45.6 Patiala 46.2 Safdarjung Palam Ridge Ayanagar Haryana Rohtak Narnaul 47.5 47.5 odisha 45.6 46.4 46.7 47.0 Jharsuguda 47.0 Sambalpur 46.2 bihar Gaya 45.2 Dehri 46.0 Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan Ganganagar Bikaner Jaipur Churu Jaisalmer 48.3 46.8 45.3 47.0 46.1 Madhya Pradesh Sidhi Datia Khajuraho Gwalior Satna Damoh Shivpuri Vidarbha Brahmpuri 46.9 Wardha 45.0 48.2 45.8 47.0 45.1 45.7 45.0 46.0 Lucknow Bareilly Bahraich Varanasi Hardoi Orai Hamirpur Jhansi Moradabad Sultanpur Churk 45.1 45.1 45.4 47.8 45.5 46.4 45.2 47.4 45.0 45.0 45.6 unbearable heat in the north, west Heat wave to severe heatwave conditions prevailed over many parts of Rajasthan, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Jharkhand, East MP; parts of UP and Odisha. Many parts of Punjab, West MP, Chhattisgarh, parts of Bihar, Gujarat and Vidarbha and isolated pockets of Himachal Pradesh, too, witnessed heat wave A woman carries a pipe to fetch water from a tanker amid the ongoing heat wave, at Chanakyapuri in New Delhi on Thursday | PTI Final chance to protect Constitution, former PM tells Punjab voters J i ten d r a C h o u b ey @ New Delhi While most of India continued to bake in the ongoing extreme heat wave, the Southwest monsoon arrived at in Kerala two days ahead of schedule on Thursday the , India Meteorological Department announced. The monsoon set in over Kerala and Mahe and advanced into most parts of the Northeast. The normal day for the monsoon’s arrival in Kerala is June 1. The earliest arrival of the monsoon in Kerala were on May 18 (1990), May 22 (1999) and May 23 (1974). The IMD forecast this monsoon season (June-September) is likely to be above normal — 106% of the Long Period Average (LPA). It will be above normal over Central India and South Peninsular India, normal over Northwest India and below normal over Northeast India. Experts say the monsoon’s progression is likely to be on the slower side due to unfavourable Madden-Julian Oscillation – an oceanic-atmospheric phenomenon defined as eastward moving clouds, rainfall, winds and pressure at regular intervals. However, it will accelerate over eastern and northern parts after June 15. “Slow progression of monsoon towards north India may lead to further extended heat wave period,” said Dr Madhavan Nair Rajeevan, former Secretary, Ministry of Earth Science. Above normal rainfall is good news for agriculture and food security. Around half of the workforce in the country is still dependent on farming for their livelihood. Last year’s deficit (6% of LPA) and uneven monsoon had impacted food production and the overall agrarian economy . Campaign ends PM offers prayer at Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanniyakumari on Thursday | PTI PM’s 45-hr ‘dhyanam’ at rock memorial begins E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Kanniyakumari Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his 45-hour-long ‘dhyanam’ (meditation) scheduled to go on till June 1 at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanniyakumari district around 7 pm on Thursday . The PM’s helicopter from Thiruvananthapuram landed at the helipad at the Tamil Nadu state guest house at 5.10 pm. After staying for a brief while at the guest house, the PM visited the Bhagavathi Amman temple located 200m from the guest house and offered worship. Later, he reached the rock memorial by a ferry service. Immediately after entering the memorial, the PM showered flowers on the portraits of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and mother Sri Sarada Devi. He also paid floral tributes to the life-size statue of Swami Vivekananda kept on a pedestal at the mandapam before commencing his meditation. Following the culmination of the hectic Lok Sabha election campaign in which he addressed a multitude of rallies and after vociferous protests by the opposition, the PM will be meditating in an ambience of quietude. E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ T’Puram From this academic year, around 4 lakh students in class VII in state syllabus schools will get to learn Artificial Intelligence (AI) with its introduction in the revised Information & Communication Technology (ICT) textbook. With this initiative, the state has ensured uni- form exposure to AI for all students, unlike offering it as an optional subject. “From next year, curriculum of classes VIII to X will also include indepth exploration of AI,” Kerala Infrastructure for Technology and Education (KITE) CEO K Anvar Sadath, who is also the sequently remanded in judicial custody . According to DRI sourcA cabin crew member of es, investigation suggested Air India Express was ap- that Surabhi may have prehended by officials of been involved in multiple Directorate of Revenue In- instances of gold smugtelligence (DRI) at the Kan- gling in the past. Efforts nur airport for smuggling are under way to identify gold on Tuesday . her accomplices and unActing on specifearth the gold ic intelligence resmuggling network garding the smugassociated with the gling of gold operation. DRI infacilitated by cabin tends to petition the crew on Air India court for custody of Express flight IX t h e c ab i n c rew 714 inbound from member to faciliMuscat, DRI offi- Surabhi Khatun tate further quescials intercepted tioning as part of the crew member upon her their comprehensive probe arrival at the airport. into the matter. During a search, SurabAccording a DRI source, hi Khatun, a native of Surabhi has revealed Kolkata, was found in pos- names of certain persons session of 960g of gold in who hired her for the smugcompound form concealed gling activities. She was inside her body. After in- given commission for each terrogation, the 26-year-old successful gold smuggling was presented before a ju- at t e m p t s, t h e s o u rc e ● More on P4 dicial magistrate and sub- said. E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @Kochi EXPRESS READ 22 killed as bus falls into gorge in Jammu Jammu: At least 22 people were killed and 57 injured after a bus carrying pilgrims skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge in Jammu district on Thursday, officials said. The accident took place at Tungi-Morh in Chowki Chora belt of district. The bus rolled around 150 feet down into the gorge. P7 Available on Scan the QR code for further details *Basis lab test in controlled environment on protein damaged hair after five washes Kochi: A 10-year-old girl from Ernakulam suffered a bullet injury to the head in a shootout at a restaurant in Dalston, London, on Wednesday. Lissel Maria, the daughter of Ajeesh and Vinaya, was wounded while having dinner with her family. Her condition is serious, it is learnt. P4 The BJP thinks that the value of patriotism, bravery and service is only four years. This shows their fake nationalism Manmohan Singh’s swipe at the Agniveer scheme In an emotional appeal to Punjab’s voters ahead of the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections, former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Thursday said it’s their final chance to ensure that “democracy and Constitution are protected from the repeated assaults of a despotic regime trying to unleash dictatorship in India”. In a three-page letter shared on X by the Congress, Singh came down heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “indulging in the most vicious form of hate speeches, which are purely divisive in nature”. “People of India are seeing through all of this. This narrative of dehumanization has now reached its peak. With folded hands, I appeal to each one of you to give love, peace, fraternity, and harmony a chance in India,” he said. Mounting a sharp attack on the PM, he said that Modi is the first PM to lower the dignity of public discourse and the gravity of his office, adding no PM in the past had targeted a specific section of society or the opposition in this manner. In his first response to Modi’s allegations of Singh’s politics of Muslim appeasement, the former PM said he never singled out one community from the other. “No PM in the past has uttered such hateful, unparliamentary, and coarse terms, meant to target either a specific section of the society or the opposition. He has also attributed some false statements to me. I have never in my life singled out one community from the other. That is the sole copyright of the BJP said the senior Congress leader. ,” State schools to adopt AI lessons from this year AI Express cabin crew member held with 960g gold at Kannur airport Ekm girl seriously hurt in London shootout PM Narendra Modi ended his LS poll campaign with a rally in Hoshiarpur. The count of his rallies and roadshows reached 206, going past the close to 145 such events in the 2019 polls P r eet h a N a i r @ New Delhi chairman of the ICT textook committee, said. KITE, the technological arm of the general education department, has started AI training for 80,000 secondary school teachers. Education Minister V Sivankutty had issued directives to provide training to all primary school teachers as well on the new ICT textbooks from June. The new ICT textbooks will be introduced for Classes II, IV VI, VIII, IX and X , in the next academic year. One of the activities in ‘Computer Vision’ chapter for Class VII will involve students creating their own AI programme that can recognise human facial ex● More on P4 pressions.