DHARMAPURI l saturday l june 08, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l CITY EDITION May heat wave was 1.5° Celsius warmer than previous extremes Findings of a new rapid attribution study underscore that heat waves in India are reaching unbearable temperature thresholds human-driven climate change blamed Urbanisation making heat waves worse Researchers at ClimaMeter said the intense heat wave India endured in May was a result of the naturally occurring El Nino phenomenon and the rapidly increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to fossil fuel burning. They called it “a largely unique event” that can be ascribed to human-driven climate change ■ ■ “Warming resulting from climate change has led to an increased frequency, intensity, and duration of heat-related events, including heat waves in most land regions,” the researchers noted They said rapid urbanisation as seen in India can enhance heat waves as concretes trap heat during the day and release them at night 56 deaths due to heat reported in india since the start of March 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 Swearing-in of the new council of ministers to be held tomorrow at 7.15 pm Modi appointed PM-designate by President Murmu RA J ESH K U M AR THA K UR @ New Delhi President Droupadi Murmu on Friday appointed Narendra Modi prime minister-designate after the latter staked his claim to lead the NDA government for the third consecutive time. The ceremony to administer the oath of office and secrecy to him and his ministerial colleagues will begin at 7.15 pm on Sunday at Rashtrapati Bhavan. After Modi met Murmu, she satisfied herself about the NDA coalition commanding majority in the 18th Lok Sabha before issuing the appointment letter. The letter said the BJP was the single largest party and the NDA the largest pre-poll coalition. Emerging from Rashtrapati Bhavan, Modi told the media, “As NDA partners have entrusted me with their leadership once again, I will take oath as the PM on June 9. NDA-III will put in even more efforts for developments of India and the realisation of people’s aspirations.” Earlier in the day, an NDA delegation called on Murmu. While the BJP handed her a letter on Modi’s election as the leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party, NDA leaders submitted their letters of support. The delegation included J P Nadda, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Ashwini Vaishnaw and C N Manjunath (all BJP), TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, JD(U)’s Nitish Kumar, Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde, JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy, LJP(Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan. The day began with the NDA Parliamentary Party electing Modi as its leader. Nitish was seen trying to touch Modi’s feet but the latter stopped him. In his address, Modi spoke about the vital role of consensus in running the government. Having a “bahumat (majority)” is necessary to form government but “sarvmat (consensus or unanimity)” is much needed for running the country, he said. B e n n K o c h u v e e d a n @ Mumbai Resolute inflation policing despite stronger growth indicators persuaded the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank on Friday to stand pat on the rates front as well as the policy stance for the eighth time in a row. Ever since the February 2023 review, the Reserve Bank’s panel has left the repo rate — the benchmark rate below which a lender cannot extend loans and the rate at which banks borrow from the central bank — unchanged at 6.50%. The policy boosted both the equity and money markets with indices closing at record highs while the rupee gained 14 paise against the greenback. However, fearing delayed rates cut, the bond yield remained above 7% to close at 7.016%. Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays respects to the Constitution of India at the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting at Samvidhan Sadan in New Delhi on Friday | PTI Nitish suggests names of Cabinet ministers Nitish Kumar and others NDA leaders went to BJP chief J P Nadda’s house to discuss the probable candidates for the Union cabinet. Nitish is learnt to have submitted the names of his three party MPs who could be inducted as Cabinet ministers and ministers of state from the JD(U) quota MLAs in Delhi, TN Bjp leaders call on Odisha put Annamalai on mat for loss CM likely today debatE after debacle B i j o y P r a d h a n @ Bhubaneswar T M u r u g a n a n d h a m @ Chennai After the BJP drew a blank in the Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu and at least 10 of its candidates came second, the internal rumblings in the party seem to have boiled over. Several leaders have started openly questioning the election strategy adopted by BJP state president K Annamalai and blamed him for promoting a coterie. On Thursday, after warning BJP’s social media activists of stringent action if they write anything wrong about party leaders, Tamilisai Soundararajan, former president of the state unit, lamented how a lack of strategy has put paid to the party’s chance of winning seats. “Had we devised a strategy, we would have won this election. We (the candidates for LS polls) may not have ended up as runner-ups. We devised strategy (in the past). But Annamalai did not want that. Us emerging as runners-up won’t help because only by winning we can serve people,” she said. She also backed the view of a former AIADMK minister S P Velumani who had said that if the alliance between the AIADMK and BJP remained intact, around 30 seats could have been won in the election. Vinoj P Selvam, state general secretary and BJP candidate for Chennai Central constituency who came second in the seat, also said that had the AIADMK and BJP contested together, the alliance would have won many seats. Velumani’s remark not AIADMK’s view: Ex-min Chennai: A day after senior leader S P Velumnai said if the alliance between AIADMK and BJP had remained intact it would have won 35 seats, former minister D Jayakumar said Velumani’s remark was not the view of the party | P4 As June 10 inches closer and preparations for the first BJP government’s swearing-in get intense in Odisha, action shifted to Delhi on Friday Sources said a number of MLAs have been . summoned to the national capital where the Central leadership is likely to take the call on the new leader of the BJP legislature party . Separate meetings of the MLAs and all the MPs of Odisha have reportedly been fixed with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J P Nadda on Saturday over the selection of chief minister of the BJP government which will take oath on June 10 as announced by Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi. All the newly-elected MPs from the state had left for Delhi on Thursday for the meeting of the NDA members held at the Central Hall of the old Parliament on the day. The BJP parliamentary board was scheduled to meet in the evening after the PM designate Modi and leaders of NDA partners met President Droupadi Murmu. Apart from working out details of the council of ministers, sources said the BJP parliamentary board is likely to take a call on the new chief minister of Odisha. The BJP state unit chief Manmohan Samal and Sambalpur MLA Jayanarayana Mishra, both members of the BJP parliamentary board, are already in the national capital. “Meeting of the legislators in Bhubaneswar will be a mere formality as it would be attended by two Central observers who will announce the name decided and approved by the Parliamentary board of the party the sources said. ,” CWC nod for Cauvery rejuvenation project S GURUVAN M I K ANATHAN @ Chennai After a long delay and detailed review, the Union government’s Central Water Commission (CWC) has given its approval for the `11,250 crore Nadanthai Vaazhi Cauvery project which aims to rejuvenate hundreds of waterbodies linked to River Cauvery and its tributaries across the state to prevent them from pollution and effluents. The programme will be executed in two phases. Both centre and state will share the funding for the project, officials said. The project aims to conserve, rejuvenate and enhance water resources in the Cauvery basin on the lines of Namami Gange Prog ramme. The Cauvery project proposes to address pollution concerns by identifying sewage and effluent inflow into waterbodies through setting up of sewage treatment plants (STPs) and ecological conservation of the river. Ten common effluent treatment plants for textile units will be built at a cost of `119.56 RBI keeps rates unchanged for eighth consecutive time crore under the project in Erode and Namakkal regions and 65 sewage treatment plants will be built in areas from Mettur to Tiruchy under the project. Continued on P5 The project aims to conserve and rejuvenate the Cauvery basin Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das at a press meet in Mumbai | PTI The decision to hold the rates was not unanimous, as two of the six members on the panel — Dr Ashima Goyal and Prof Jayanth R Varma — voted for a rate cut by 25 basis points and change in the policy stance. Expecting the economy to fare better on the back of the unexpected jump in the growth numbers to 8.2% in the just concluded fiscal 2024, Reserve Bank governor Shaktikanta Das revised upwards the central bank’s growth forecast by 20 basis points to 7.2% for the current fiscal. In the past two reviews, the GDP projection was maintained at 7%. Underlining the MPC’s resolve to fight inflation, which it fears may spike from the third quarter partly due to the low base effect and partly due to the still adamant food prices, the panel also decided to maintain the policy stance of withdrawal of accommodation to ensure that inflation progressively aligns to the target, while supporting growth. On the rationale for raising the growth numbers, Das said high frequency indicators of domestic activity are showing resilience in FY25. And the Southwest monsoon is expected to be above normal. CBI files final chargesheet against Lalu M u k e s h R a n j a n @ New Delhi The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed its conclusive chargesheet in the alleged land-for-jobs scam involving Lalu Prasad Yadav. The third and final chargesheet submitted by the probe agency before a special court in Delhi names 78 accused, including Lalu, his wife Rabri Devi, son Tej Pratap Yadav and daughter Hema Yadav. It covers all railway zones where the recruitment was made allegedly in return for lands taken by members of Prasad’s family, a CBI official said. Officials said the court will hear the matter on July 6.
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