DHARMAPURI l wednesday l september 03, 2025 l `9.00 l PAGES 16 l city EDITION India’s 1st indigenously-developed semiconductor chip unveiled 32-bit processor can handle extreme heat Vikram-32, officially known as VIKRAM3201, is India’s first fully indigenous 32-bit processor chip designed to operate in the harsh environmental conditions of launch vehicles. Built on a 32-bit architecture, it can efficiently handle large volumes of data. Beyond aerospace, it holds significant potential in the defence, automotive, and energy sectors | P13 Vikram-32-bit chip built by Isro was presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inauguration of the Semicon India 2025 conference on Tuesday ■ 10 Advanced version of vikram 16-bit ■ The chip, designed by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and fabricated at the 180nm CMOS semiconductor fab of Semi-Conductor Laboratory, is an advanced version of 16-bit VIKRAM1601 chip “First ‘Made in India’ Chips! A moment of pride for any nation. Today, Bharat has achieved it,” Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw wrote on X semiconductor projects worth over $18 billion are underway: Modi 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 Modi: Bihar won’t forgive RJD, Cong for abusing mom NDA gets opportunity to play the women card, announces five-hour Bihar bandh on Thursday RAJ E SH K UMAR THA K UR a n d R a m a s h a nk a r @ New Delhi/Patna in deep water People walk through a flooded street after the Yamuna river crossed the danger mark in New Delhi on Tuesday | PTI K Kavitha suspended from BRS M a n d a R a v i n d e r Re d d y @ Hyderabad Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday cleared the suspension of his daughter and MLC K Kavitha from the party for “anti-party activities”. BRS general secretaries Soma Bharat Kumar and T Ravinder Rao issued a statement confirming KCR’s decision. “Recent activities of Kavitha are causing damage to the party The leadership of the party . has taken serious note of those activities. With this, party president K Chandrasekhar Rao has decided to suspend Kavitha from the party with immediate effect,” the statement said. BRS sources said Kavitha Kalvakuntla has called a Kavitha press conference on Wednesday where she is likely to announce her resignation from both the Legislative Council and the primary membership of the party . Kavitha has been at odds with the BRS leadership for several months. Following the state government’s decision to order a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme, Kavitha accused former minister T Harish Rao and former MP J Santosh Kumar of indulging in massive corruption which she claimed damaged KCR’s image. Meanwhile, the state presidents of both the Congress and BJP made it clear that there are no open doors for Kavitha. Sanitary staff stir: ex-judge to probe attack on lawyers R SIVA K UMAR @ Chennai The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered the setting up of a one-man commission under Justice V Parthiban, retired judge of the court, to inquire into allegations of assault on 13 lawyers and law students by police during the midnight arrest of sanitary workers on August 13, 2025. A division bench of Justices MS Ramesh and V Lakshminarayanan passed the order while hearing the habeas corpus petitions filed Retired Justice by lawyers and law students who alleged that V Parthiban they were illegally detained by police and subjected to custodial torture. “This certainly requires an independent inquiry the bench ,” said, adding that an allegation of assault made against a police officer cannot be investigated by the very same police, who have registered the FIR, as there is a possibility of partiality or bias. “ the same time, the real fact that had taken place in the wee At hours of 14.08.2025 also needs to be unfolded for us to arrive at a conclusion on the allegation of unlawful and illegal detention made by the petitioner. For this, we request retired Justice V Parthiban, to act as a fact-finding, one-man commission on the issue,” the bench said.  P7 Quota stir ends as Maha govt blinks What next Kunbi 1 caste certificates to be issued to Marathas to get them OBC benefits SUDHIR SURYAWA N SHI @ Mumbai MARATHA quota activist Manoj Jarange ended his fast on Tuesday evening, the fifth day of his hunger strike, saying the Maharashtra government has accepted most of his demands, including implementation of the Hyderabad gazette as documentary proof to issue Kunbi caste certificates to Marathas to make them eligible for reservation benefits currently available to OBCs. The government accepted six out of the eight demands put forth by Jarange and constituted a cabinet sub-committee headed by BJP leader Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil. The panel sought two months to accept Maratha and Kunbi as the same caste and sage-soyere 2 Maratha community members stop a train during their protest, in Mumbai, on Monday. Inset: Manoj Jarange | pti (close relatives) as demanded by the protestors. “If any Maratha who does not have a land and revenue record to establish himself as Kunbi, and one of the persons in his clan and blood relation has the Kunbi certificate, then CM’s German trip brings `7,020 cr investments, over 15,000 jobs to TN E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Chennai Tamil Nadu has secured investment commitments worth `7,020 crore during Chief Minister M K Stalin’s visit to Germany as part of his week-long trip to Europe, bolstering the state’s push to position itself as India’s manufacturing and R&D hub. At the Tamil Nadu Investment Conclave in Germany, 23 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) were signed with firms for `3,819 crore investment in projects that are expected to generate 9,070 jobs. Combined with three mar- In his first response to the recent abuse of his late mother from an Opposition platform in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said people will never forgive the RJD and the Congress for the slur. Expletives were hurled at the prime minister’s mother during the Voter Adhikar Yatra spearheaded by Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav in Darbhanga. Speaking to women of the poll-bound state via video conference from Delhi during the launch of a new cooperative, ‘Bihar Rajya Jeevika Saakh Sahkari Sangh’, Modi described the abuse as an insult to all mothers, sisters and daughters of the country especially Bihar. , He accused the RJD-Congress alliance in the state of dragging his late mother into politics though she had nothing to do with it. “I may forgive RJD-Congress, but people of Bihar will never pardon them. Hurling abuses at my mother is nothing for those who insult ‘Mother India’; such people must be punished,” he said. Modi went on allege that the RJD was seeking revenge, as its previous government was ousted because women voted against it. Shortly after Modi response, the ruing NDA gave a five-hour bandh call in Bihar on Thursday to protest against abusive remarks. Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal said the bandh on September 4 will be from 7 am to 12 noon, adding railways and emergency services will be out of its ambit. JD(U) state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha said such abuse from a public platfor m was against democratic norms. “One may differ on political ideologies, but it does mean that family should be dragged into it,” he said. He expressed surprise over the silence of senior Congress-RJD leaders on the matter. quee deals announced earlier — `2,000 crore from KnorrBremse, `1,000 crore from Nordex Group, and `201 crore from ebm-papst — the total MoUs signed so far in Germany stand at 26 with potential to generate 15,300 jobs. Several of the commitments came from existing investors who are planning to expand their presence in the state. BASF, Herrenknecht and Witzenmann India all signed up for new capacity addition, highlighting what state officials described as confidence in TN’s “industrial ecosystem” and stable policy environment. P7 FM: 364 DMK poll promises fulfilled Chennai: Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu on Tuesday said that of the 505 poll promises of the DMK, 364 have been fulfilled, 40 are under consideration, and 37 are awaiting approval from the centre. Referring to the FM’s briefing, CM Stalin, in a post on X, said, “We have done more than what we promised. CM’s breakfast scheme and Naan Mudhalvan, Pudhumai Penn and Tamil Pudhalvan schemes are not part of our electoral promises.” P4 the self-affidavit by that clan person will help to get a Maratha caste person to get a Kunbi certificate. The records and self-affidavit claim will be verified by the local village committee,” read a government order. Govt seeks two months to issue certificates 3 Jarange threatens to resume stir if not demands are not met within two months express read Sengottaiyan to meet press on Fri Erode/Chennai: Amid rumours of differences of opinion between AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palanaswami and senior leader Sengottaiyan, the latter told reporters in Erode that he will “speak openly” at a press meet in Gobichettipalayam on September 5 | P4 Cops suspended for temple eviction Tiruchy: Two cops were suspended after a video of them forcibly evicting an elderly destitute man in Sri Ranganathaswamy temple in Srirangam, as part of security drive ahead of President Droupadi Murmu’s visit to the temple on September 3, went viral | P2 Actress Ranya Rao fined `103 crore BENGALURU: A fine of `103 crore has been imposed on Kannada actress Ranya Rao by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence. The actress and three others, held for gold smuggling, have to pay a total fine of `270 crore | P7 BJP playing emotional card: Cong Bihar Congress president Rajesh Kumar said the BJP was trying to divert people’s attention by playing the emotional card before the assembly polls. “They did a similar thing in Karnataka. Now they are trying an encore in Bihar,” he said at a press conference People who hurl abuses at mothers have the mindset that women are weak. Abusing my mother was an insult to the daughters and sisters of Bihar 2020 DELHI RIOTS No HC bail to Umar, Sharjeel, 7 others I F RAH MU F TI @ New Delhi THE Delhi High Court Tuesday dismissed the bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and seven others in the 2020 Delhi riots case, which left 53 dead and over 700 injured. A bench of justices Naveen Chawla and Shalinder Kaur rejected the challenges to earlier trial court orders denying bail to the accused — Khalid, Imam, Athar Khan, Khalid Saifi, Mohd Saleem Khan, Shi- Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam fa ur Rehman, Meeran Haider, Gulfisha Fatima, and Shadab Ahmed. All of them were booked under the Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). Arrested in 2020, the accused have been jail for over five years now. The bail plea of another accused, Tasleem Ahmed, was rejected by a different bench of justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar. During an earlier hearing, the bench expressed concern over the prolonged incarceration of the accused. Khalid’s partner Banojyotsna Lahiri said this was the sixth time bail being denied, adding his legal team would now move the Supreme Court as a last resort.