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Group I: France vs Iraq (2:30 AM*), Norway vs Senegal (5:30 AM*). *IST Tuesday | Live on United8 Sports & ZEE5 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 NEET-UG retest done, Physics stumps many No slip-ups this time; questions far more difficult, say experts Hours that followed the leak 1 The ammonia gas leak took place around 11 am on Sunday at the seafood export unit, spreading to the workers’ accommodation 2 Health Minister K G Arunraj said that experts had reported a high level of ammonia, around 300 ppm, in the air at the plant 3 About 130 unaffected workers, hailing from Odisha, Jharkhand, Assam and West Bengal, were sent to a wedding hall nearby @ New Delhi A collective sigh of relief was evident across the country on Sunday evening after the NEET-UG retest concluded without any slip-ups. For a majority of the 20 lakh-odd medical aspirants across India who sat for the re-examination on Sunday, nearly six weeks after the original test was scrapped following a paper leak that triggered widespread protests and put the government on the defensive, the question paper appeared much tougher than the earlier one. The National Testing Agency (NTA) said candidates appeared at 5,440 centres in India and 14 abroad, with the exam conducted in 13 languages. Around seven lakh officials — including police personnel, observers and examination staff — were deployed to oversee the exercise. “This was not the NTA acting alone. It was Team Bharat — a chain of people across the country who showed up so that, for each candidate, the only thing that mattered that morning was the paper in front of them,” D-G of NTA, Abhishek Singh, said. Security was visibly tightened at examination centres, with Aadhaar-based biometric authentication, CCTV surveillance, signal jammers and a A candidate being frisked ahead of NEET-UG retest in Nagpur on Sunday | PTI NTA is especially grateful to the experts from academic institutions across the country who gave their personal time to help prepare multiple sets of question papers — National Testing Agency PM Modi delays travel back home in view of retest Preventing standard security-related traffic restrictions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi delayed his departure from Delhi Airport by 45 minutes on Sunday to avoid traffic disruptions for NEET-UG re-examination candidates, officials said mandatory two-layer frisking deployed. Impersonation attempts and forged admit cards were detected at a few locations, NTA Director General Abhishek Singh confirmed. “There have been a few instances of the usage of fake admit cards and Aadhaar cards by a few. They could not succeed in their objective,” Singh said. Students though appeared flummoxed by the difficulty level of the Physics segment of the test. Deepak Kumar, who is making his fifth attempt, said, “Physics is what I would call tough.” Leading coaching centre Akash Educational Services Limited said this NEET was calculationheavy and rigorous, and cutoff is slated to be below 600. Police registered a case under sections 105 and 125(a) of the BNS. Unit owners, Mohan and Joseph, were detained by police for inquiry 2 dead, 62 ill after ammonia leak in TN R a j a l a k s h m i S a m pat h @ Chennai E x p r e s s ne w s s e r v i c e 4 Two women workers from Odisha died and 62 others were hospitalised after an ammonia gas leak from a seafood export unit at Kannigaipair near Periyapalayam (around 40km from Chennai) in Tiruvallur district on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as Jumani Juang (19) and Malati (20). The condition of seven workers is critical, sources said. Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay has ordered a probe by a high-level committee and a solatium of `2 lakh each to kin of the deceased. Police registered a case and are questioning the unit’s owners. Workers under treatment at a government hospital in Chennai on Sunday | Express The workers, most of them young women aged 19-20 and hailing from Odisha, Jharkhand, Assam and West Bengal, were off-duty and rest- ing in their hostel rooms about 50m from the unit’s ammonia plant when the leak occurred around 11 am. The National Disaster Response Force 3 new indigenous warships join Navy E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Kolkata Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday commissioned three indigenously designed and built naval vessels, INS Dunagiri, INS Sanshodhak and INS Agray, at the Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata, highlighting the country’s push for maritime strength and defence self-reliance under the Make in India initiative. “Nobody can ignore the importance of maritime power. No nation can become a great power INS Dunagiri | PIB without it,” Modi said, pointing to the growing strategic significance of sea routes, undersea data networks, critical minerals and emerging energy resources. Referring to INS Vikrant, India’s first domestically built aircraft carrier, he said, “When we presented INS Vikrant to the nation, we announced India’s self-sufficiency in maritime power to the world. Today INS Dunagiri, INS , Sanshodhak and INS Agray add speed to that journey.” Modi stressed India must move beyond being a buyer. “The day we become a manufacturer, we will also be the decider,” he said. INS Dunagiri is a stealth frigate, while INS Sanshodhak is a survey vessel and INS Agray is an anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft. (NDRF) team, roped in by the Tamil Nadu government to carry out rescue operations, said the gas had spread to the workers’ accommodation, causing them breathing difficulties and discomfort. According to Health Minister K G Arunraj, one of the deceased was brought to the hospital dead. Of the 62 hospitalised, 58 are women and four are men. An NDRF official told TNIE that the unit’s main ammonia storage was on the ground floor. The leak is suspected to have been from a nozzle on a pipeline carrying the gas to the first floor. “We suspect this caused the incident, but the exact cause will be known only after a detailed technical investigation,” he said.  P5 E x p r e s s Re a d Rare tornado hits TN, damages NH toll plaza Thoothukudi: A rare tornado-like event was reported at Vagaikulam on Sunday, causing extensive damage to a toll plaza on the Thoothukudi–Tirunelveli NH and parts of Thoothukudi airport | P2 Shwetha-led AMMA leadership steps down Kochi: Shwetha Menon, the first woman president of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists, and the entire executive committee on Sunday stepped down amid internal rifts | P5