NAGAPATTINAM l tuesday l may 07, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l city EDITION Hamas accepts Egyptian-Qatari ceasefire proposal to halt war Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Monday informed Qatar and Egypt that his group accepts their proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza Israeli delegation skipped peace talks Ball in Israel’s court, more pressure on Bibi Details of the proposal were not immediately released. But Egyptian and Hamas officials have said the ceasefire would take place in stages and Hamas would release hostages in exchange for Israel troop pullout from Gaza. There was no immediate reaction from Israel, which did not send a delegation to Cairo for talks, and is opposed to withdrawing its troops from Gaza ■ ■ Hamas’ acceptance of the deal is nonetheless expected to put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, especially if its proposes release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza Also, it would make it more difficult for the Israeli government to justify a ground operation in southern Gaza’s Rafah | p9 1,00,000 Palestinians in Rafah were ordered by Israel to leave the town 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 94.56% TN students pass Class 12, T’ppur tops list Year-wise pass percentage S u b a s h i n i V i j aya k u m a r @ Chennai Students of Everwin HSS celebrate after Class 12 results in Chennai | P Jawahar Delhi L-G calls for NIA probe against Kejriwal Stakes high for Kharge, BSY, NCP in Phase 3 A s h i s h s r i v a s ta v a @ New Delhi Lieutenant Governor of Delhi V K Saxena on Monday recommended a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, citing an allegation that his Aam Aadmi Party received funding from the banned pro-Khalistan group, Sikhs for Justice. The L-G’s recommendation comes amid the SC indication that it may consider giving bail to Kejriwal in view of the Lok Sabha polls. In a letter written to the Union home ministry, the L-G said his recommendation is based on a plaint he received about AAP receiving $16 million from Khalistani groups for facilitating the release of Devendra Bhullar, who was convicted for his role in the 1993 blast in Delhi. The complaint was filed by Ashoo Mongia, national general secretary of World Hindu Federation, referring to a video in which Khalistani leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun mentioned that AAP took money from pro-Khalistani groups. As the DMK government led by Chief Minister M K Stalin completes three years in office today, TNIE takes a hard look at the hits and misses | P4 Tamil Nadu students have secured 94.56% pass percentage in the Class 12 exam results declared on Monday, marginally higher than last year’s 94.03%. Of the 7,60,606 students who wrote the exam in 7,532 schools across the state, 7,19,196 have cleared it. Tiruppur district recorded the highest pass percentage of 97.45, followed by 97.42% recorded by both Erode and Sivaganga. While Tiruvannamalai registered the lowest pass percentage of 90.47, 94.48% students in Chennai have cleared the exam. The pass percentage has been BJP sees it as one of consolidation; 30-40 seats to witness triangular contests today dav, son of Ram Gopal Yadav, from Firozabad and Aditya @ New Delhi/ Bengaluru Yadav, son of Shivpal Yadav, from Budaun. The electoral fate of half-aIn Karnataka, the last of the dozen Union ministers and 14 seats will go to polls in what two former chief ministers is being seen as a high-stakes will be sealed on battle for Congress Wednesday in the president Mallikarthird phase of the jun Kharge. For, general elections is most of the seats are 93 constituencies in in North Karnataka, 11 states and Union which is regarded as seats for which his home turf. The territories. The BJP polling will be elections are equally sees the third phase as one of consolida- held in 11 states/UTs important for tion as compared to former chief ministhe first two phases. ter B S Yediyurappa, Prominent among whose son Vijayencandidates the heavyweight dra is the state BJP including around 120 candidates in this women, in the fray president. Promiphase are Union nent among those in home minister Amit the fray in KarnataShah in Gandhinaka are former CMs gar, Union health Basavaraj Bommai minister Mansukh people eligible to vote (Haveri) and JagadMandaviya (Porish Shettar (BelEntire Gujarat bandar), civil avia- and Goa, 11 seats in gaum), Union mintion minister Jyoti- Maharashtra, 10 in isters Pralhad Joshi raditya M Scindia UP, 14 in Karnataka, (Dharwad) and (Guna), former Mad- 7 in Chhattisgarh, 5 in Bhagwant Khuba hya Pradesh chief Bihar, 4 each in Assam (Bidar), Yediyurapminister Digvijaya and West Bengal to go pa’s son RaghavenSingh (Rajg arh), to polls dra (Shivamogga) NCP (Sharadchanand Kharge’s son-indra Pawar)’s Supriya Sule law Radhakrishna Doddama(Baramati) and Adhir Ranjan ni (Gulbarga SC). Around 30Choudhary (Berhampur). 40 constituencies in the third In Uttar Pradesh, represent- phase will witness triangular atives of the Mulayam Singh contests, giving sitting Lok Yadav clan are contesting in Sabha members a really tough this phase — Dimple Yadav time. Most of the sitting MPs from Mainpuri, Akshaya Ya- are from the ruling BJP. RAJESH KUMAR THAKUR and Devaraj B Hirehalli Phase 3 factoids 93 Pass percentage 94.56% Tamil nadu 12th board result Girls 96.44% 2023 94.03% 2024 94.56% boys 92.37% More reports on P4 India’s medical support for Paris Olympics: Sleep therapist, physios, recovery room, coolers room. The advantages include cryotherapy chambers and ice THE Indian Olympic Associa- baths to help athletes recover tion (IOA) have faster in their quest made elaborate for Olympic glory . clusive plans to take a bat“This year,” Dintery of suppor t shaw Pardiwala, the staff including a Chief Medical Officsleep therapist and a small er (CMO) of the delegation, army of physiotherapists to said, “the IOA took the decihelp the Indian contingent at sion to have a proper medical the Paris Games. Unlike in the team like some of the bigger previous Games, they will also squads (Germany US and Ja, get a full-fledged recovery pan). What used to happen is S w a r o o p s w a m i n at h a n @ Mumbai press Intake Out of house at 14, trans woman clears class 12 exam | P4 1,300 Nanguneri violence victim scores 78% | P4 11 crore Lawyer claims YouTuber beaten in Coimbatore jail | P2 Effectively managing water supply: Southern rly | P4 30 under lens over Jayakumar death | P2 BIJAY C H AKI @ Kendrapara Illustration: Mandar Pardikar From left: Jay Panda (BJP), Anshuman Mohanty (BJD), Siddharth Swarup Das (Cong) Siddharth Swarup Das of the Congress, a new face with no experience of fighting election at this level. As one traverses through Kendrapara, the election fervour seems to be conspicuous by its absence. There is no perceptible tilt, but scratch the surface and there is a simmer for change, particularly in the rural parts. “No doubt, the BJD and its leaders have done good work in the constituency But we should also ex. amine what other political parties 2022 93.76% consistently increasing every year. It was 92.34% in 2020, 100% in 2021 as all-pass was announced due to Covid-19, 93.76% in 2022, and 94.03% in 2023. But the It’s Modi factor vs Biju legacy in Kendrapara WHEN BJP’s national vice-president Baijayant Jay Panda was named the party candidate for the Kendrapara Lok Sabha seat, the question on everyone’s mind was if he could make it this time. Panda had won twice from the seat in 2009 and 2014 as a BJD candidate. But electoral success seems to have deserted him after he joined the saffron party Once . a close confidant of Odisha Chief Minister N ave e n P a t naik, Panda switched over to the BJP in 2019 after a bitter fallout with the BJD chief. He contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election as a BJP candidate but was trounced by Odia film star Anubhav Mohanty fielded by the BJD. This time, Panda is locked in a triangular contest with Anshuman Mohanty of the BJD, the son of Nalini Kanta Mohanty, a former minister and close aide of Biju Patnaik, and 2020 92.34% 2021 100% number of students, writing the exam, declined this year. While more than eight lakh students wrote the exam from 2021 to 2023, the count went down to 7.6 lakh this year. Education department sources said this was due to more number of students opting for polytechnic and ITI courses after Class 10. There were 11,594 absentees this year which had reduced from 47,736 last year. This was mainly due to measures like not allowing students without enough attendance to register for exam and tracking the students to ensure that they don’t skip the exam due to fear, officials said. P5 are offering. Baijayant Panda is a known leader nationally said Biraja ,” Das, a paan shop owner at Chhapali square under Mahakalapada Assembly segment. The sentiment was echoed by another voter. “The time has come for a change. The same party has been ruling for too long. Development is too slow,” said Sadasiv Patra of Pospura. Basic issues such as roads, water, hospitals, schools, and unemployment are on top of voters’ mind. Dinshaw Pardiwala our physiotherapists used to be there, we did have a physician who would help with services but we didn’t have a full (medical) team. Whenever somebody had an injury they , would do an MRI and contact me here. But it’s difficult to do it online.” The well-equipped recovery room will be a firstof-its-kind for Indian athletes. “When you are doing high-level sports, you require a full support system,” Pardiwala, who has mended the bones of almost every medal-winning Indian Olympian in the 21st century said. ,
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