India’s 1st home-grown semiconductor chip 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. Officially known as VIKRAM3201, Vikram-32 is India’s first fully indigenous 32-bit processor chip designed to operate in the harsh environmental conditions of launch vehicles | P14 chennai l wednesday l september 03, 2025 l `9.00 l PAGES 20 l late city EDITION 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 Family feud K Kavitha suspended from BRS M a n d a R a v i n d er R e 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 this. “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 Kalvakuntla the party with Kavitha immediate effect,” the statement read. Sources said Kavitha will announce her resignation from the Legislative Council and primary membership of the party on Wednesday . 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, she accused former minister T Harish Rao and former MP J Santosh Kumar of indulging in massive corruption which she claimed damaged KCR’s image. Modi: Bihar won’t forgive RJD, Cong for abusing mom NDA gets opportunity to play the women card, announces 5-hour Bihar bandh on Thu R A J E S H K U M A R T H A K U R a n d R amasha n kar @ New Delhi/Patna 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. 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 alleged that the RJD was seeking revenge, as its government was ousted by women voted against it. Shortly after Modi’s 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 that railways and emergency services will be out of its ambit. JD(U) state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha said such abuse from a public platform 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. 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 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 CM’s German trip brings `7K cr investments, 15,300 jobs to TN E x p ress News S er 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 TN Investment Conclave in Ger many, 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 marquee deals an- nounced earlier — `2,000 crore from Knorr-Bremse, `1,000 crore from Nordex Group, and `201 crore from ebm-papst — the total MoUs signed in Germany stand at 26 with potential to generate 15,300 jobs. Several of the commitments came from existing investors. 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 364 DMK poll promises fulfilled, says FM | P4 Quota stir ends, govt blinks HC names panel to probe police attack on lawyers CHENNAI: The Madras HC ordered setting up a one-man commission under retired Justice V Parthiban, to probe allegations of assault on lawyers by cops during the arrest of sanitary workers | P5 S U D H I R S U R YA W A N S H I @ 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 gazetteer as documentary proof to issue Kunbi caste certificates to Maratha community members, making 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 will take two months to submit a report that will create a legal framework to operation- e x pr e s s r e a d Sengottaiyan to ‘speak openly’ to press on Fri Maratha community members celebrate after the Maharashtra govt accepted most of their demands, in Mumbai on Tuesday | PTI 1 Protest leader Manoj Jarange Kunbi caste certificates to be issued to Marathas to get them OBC benefits alise the Maratha quota. The government also issued an order to withdraw all cases filed against protesters de- 2 Govt forms panel, seeks two months to issue the relevant caste certificates 3 Jarange threatens to resume protest if demands not implemented manding Maratha reservation and extending financial aid and jobs to the relatives of the deceased protesters. Erode/Chennai: Amid rumours of rift between AIADMK general secretary Palaniswami and senior leader Sengottaiyan, the latter told reporters in Erode that he will “speak openly” on Friday | P4 Delhi HC dismisses bail pleas of Umar, Sharjeel New Delhi: Delhi HC on Tuesday dismissed the bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and seven others in the 2020 Delhi riots case, which left 53 dead.