Trump scraps some tariffs to curb price rise US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he was scrapping US tariffs on coffee, tropical fruits and a broad swath of other commodities, a dramatic move that comes amid mounting pressure on his administration to better combat high consumer prices | P10 DHARMAPURI l sunday l november 16, 2025 l `12.00 l PAGES 24 l 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 CM expected to dissolve House, stake fresh claim on Monday daughter quits lalu family, politics R a m a s h a n k a r @ Patna A day after the Rashtriya Janata Dal-Congress-led Mahagathbandhan’s crushing defeat in the Bihar Assembly elections, a feud erupted within RJD leader Lalu Prasad’s family, with his daughter Rohini Acharya announcing that she was quitting politics and severing all ties with the family . “I am quitting politics and also disowning my family. This is what Sanjay Yadav and Rameez h a d a s ke d me to do. I am taking all the blame,” Acharya wrote on X. Sanjay YaRohini Acharya dav is an RJD MP and a close confidant of Lalu’s younger son, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, while Rameez is Tejashwi’s friend from Uttar Pradesh. Neither Sanjay nor Rameez reacted, deepening the mystery and fuelling speculation of pressure within the party and the family . Responding to Rohini’s announcement, her brother Tej Pratap, who himself was expelled from the party a few months back, said: ‘Jai Chand’ (traitor) will be taught a lesson at an appropriate time.” Mind games by Nitish before 10th term shot RA J ESH K U MAR T HAK U R @ New Delhi A day after the NDA registered a stunning landslide victory in the Bihar elections, there was no doubt in anybody’s mind that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will get a record 10th term at the government’s helm. But Nitish being Nitish, he could suggest to the BJP that it should lead the government since it emerged as the singlelargest party For its part, the . BJP could graciously insist that the mandate was for Nitish in the hot seat and should stay that way . In 2024, when he returned to the NDA after walking out of the Mahagathbandhan, Nitish enacted the same drama of asking the BJP to stake its claim for chief ministership, but the BJP respectfully turned it down. “There is no chance of the BJP leading the government; it will send a wrong message within the NDA. The current arrangement is working fine,” said a senior BJP leader. The swearing-in ceremony is tentatively expected between November 18 and 21, depending on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s availability . LJP(RV) chief Chirag Paswan greets CM Nitish Kumar in Patna | PTI Given the solid performance of Chirag Paswan’s LJP(RV) at the hustings — 19 out of 25 seats it contested, it could be rewarded with a deputy chief minister’s position. As for the BJP it could name , a Yadav leader from the party like Ram Kripal Yadav for the second deputy CM’s slot. A state cabinet meeting on dissolving the outgoing assembly is expected on Monday, after which Nitish will submit his resignation to the Governor. Later, a meeting of the NDA legislative party will elect Nitish as its leader. Nitish will then return to Raj Bhavan and stake his claim to form the new government. Korean firm ditches TN for AP; won’t join incentive war, says min C S h i v a k u m a r @ Chennai Opposition attacks DMK for ‘driving out’ investors Industries Minister TRB Rajaa, reacting to the decision of South Korean footwear major Hwaseung Enterprises to move its proposed investment in non-leather footwear manufacturing from Tamil Nadu to Andhra Pradesh, said on Saturday that the state will resist the temptation to join the incentive battle among Indian states. TN will never be part of the “race to the bottom” by offering unrealistic incentive packages to lure investors, Rajaa said. He said the state will instead pursue a calibrated and regionspecific strategy Chennai: Opposition parties attacked the DMK over its alleged failure to attract investments and “driving out” investors to other states. While AIADMK leader EPS said the company’s move was a “humiliating reflection of DMK’s failed strategy,” former TN BJP chief Annamalai accused DMK of transforming TN into land of missed opportunities | P5 for attracting investment. He was responding to reports about the decision of the company — which had earlier signed an agreement with the Tamil Nadu government to set up a non-leather footwear manufacturing facility in Tirunelveli district at a cost of `1,720 crore — to move the investment to Andhra Pradesh. The investment was expected to generate 20,000 jobs. Sources told TNIE that Andhra had offered free land to the company along with higher subsidies for power and other resources. “The firm asked Tamil Nadu to match the package, but the request was declined,” sources added. Rajaa, in his statement, said Tamil Nadu would not treat investment promotion as a “daily competitive game”.  P5 More arrests in terror module case express news service @ Kolkata/Chandigarh/Srinagar A cop consoles relatives of a tailor who died in Nowgam | Zahoor punjabi MORE arrests continue in the Delhi car blast case with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) detaining Zanishar Alam, a 2024 MBBS graduate of Al Falah University, from his village in Suryapur market of Dalkhola in West Bengal’s North Dinajpur district on Saturday . The man had returned home on November 12 to attend a wedding before his arrest. NIA officials traced him from Ludhiana, where his father lives. Acting on a tip-off, NIA offi- cials contacted Touhid in Ludhiana and collected details of his son. They came to know about Zanishar’s location from his father and then rushed to Dalkhola, sources added. Al Falah University and its land records are also under scrutiny by revenue officials. Meanwhile, a surgeon from Pathankot linked to Al Falah University and two doctors and fertilizer store owners from Haryana was also detained. Sources said that 45-year-old Dr Rayees Ahmad Bhat, presently associated with White Medical College in Pathankot, was detained by NIA and is being questioned after investigators found that he was allegedly in touch with Dr Umar Un Nabi, the Delhi blast kingpin. Sources said Bhat was taken into custody to ascertain whether he was part of the “white-collar” terror module managed by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind. WITH THIS ISSUE Devil’s Doctor PLUS 12 P AGES