Trump Says Google’s Pichai Rejected Atlantic Ocean Rename President Trump says he called Google CEO Sundar Pichai about renaming Atlantic Ocean as Trump Ocean, but Pichai shot down his idea Oceans are different: Pichai’s pushback TIRUCHY l friday l october 23, 2026 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l LATE CITY EDITION President Trump said this at at a South Carolina rally on October 21. Trump floated the concept, saying he spoke to Pichai about the proposal. “And I said, Sundar, I’m thinking of the Atlantic Ocean. Can you handle it?” Trump recalled asking. Pichai replied: “No, no, no. This time I’m not doing it. Oceans are different, sir. You know, they cover a lot of countries” 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 ■ Aug 2026 was when the u.s. renamed lake ontario as lake america ■ India condemns Pilot project to make India’s 3 crore continued hits undergraduates ready for job market on Saudi infra S LALITHA @ New Delhi J aya n t h J a c o b @ New Delhi SC boy suicide: Teacher held, 3 more booked E x p r e ss N e w s S e r v i c e @ Coimbatore After a 16-year-old Scheduled Caste student ended his life on Wednesday allegedly over caste discrimination at school, the Peelamedu police on Thursday booked four people — a school headmaster, a class teacher and two students — for abetment of suicide. The class teacher has been arrested. Akilan, a Class 11 student, was the son of Ashokumar and Kausalya Devi of AT Colony in Peelamedu. His father works as a laundry worker at a lodge in Munnar, while his mother is a sanitary worker in Coimbatore. The teacher, identified as P Vijayakumar (40), had allegedly asked Akilan whether he ate beef, causing him mental distress, said a police complaint filed by the boy’s mother.  P5 India on Thursday strongly condemned continued attacks by Houthi rebels on civilian and critical infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, including a strike on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam that killed an Indian national. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated New Delhi’s call for dialogue and diplomacy during a phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they exchanged views on recent developments in West Asia and the urgent need to restore peace and stability in the region. The External Affairs Ministry (MEA) said the attacks on civilian and energy infrastructure were “completely unacceptable and must cease immediately”, while expressing solidarity with Saudi Arabia and calling for the early restoration of peace and normalcy in West Asia. “We strongly condemn the continued attacks on civilian and energy infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, including the attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam and Saudi Aramco’s Shaybah oilfield in the Eastern Province on October 21,” the MEA said in a statement. The attack late Wednesday killed two persons, including an Indian national. Separately Modi spoke to Netanyahu and dis, cussed bilateral ties and the escalating situation in West Asia. The two leaders reviewed progress in bilateral ties and reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening the Special Strategic Partnership. “Prime Minister Modi reiterated India’s call for dialogue and diplomacy as the way forward,” the Prime Minister’s Office said. The government parallelly stepped up efforts to facilitate the return of Umrah pilgrims stranded in Saudi Arabia following flight disruptions. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said Indian missions in Riyadh and Jeddah were working with airlines and tour operators to arrange their return. Benjamin Netanyahu Invite to Modi Netanyahu invited Modi to light a torch alongside Indian pilot Smit Machchhar on Israel’s Independence Day, praising the pilot for his role in foiling an attempt to hijack a Tel Aviv-bound Flydubai flight Anti-terror fight “Modi thanked me for the invitation and said that, on the ground and in the air, India and Israel are fighting together against terrorism,” Netanyahu added in posts in Hindi and Hebrew UNION education ministry’s Review Committee on National Education Policy is on a mission to equip college students with the requisite job skills that will make them stand out in the job market. This will be done by arranging tie-ups with companies and other large employers to provide students industry experience and a taste of real-work pressures, the panel’s chairman Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar said on Thursday . Speaking to this newspaper, the former UGC chairman said the NEP review panel’s primary focus is on the nearly 3 crore undergraduates of BA, BSc and BCom courses. “A pilot project is underway press clusive NEP review panel Jagadesh Kumar was roped in as chairman of the NEP review panel in January. Its members include the higher education secretary and vice-chancellors of multiple universities. Its objective is to keep track of the progress made by the state govts in implementing NEP in 30 universities. The All India Survey on National Education 2023-2024 states that there are 4.5 crore students in higher education and 76.8% of them are undergraduates. Our focus is on BA, BCom and BSc students, who constitute the majority The programme will be . extended across all states. The response from workplaces as well as colleges and universities has been encouraging,” said Kumar, who is also the chairperson of the Board of Governors at IIM Calcutta. The Apprentice Embedded Degree Programme (AEDP) permits undergraduate students to spend up to 18 months to gain live industry experience. “It helps them apply their knowledge to real problems. Students who only want to pursue their degree academically are at liberty to do so,” Kumar said. Under AEDP, students will likely be provided apprenticeships at their place of residence so that “they do not have to migrate for the purpose of work and it boosts the local economy too,” he added. Some companies pay the students while others only offer hands-on training. “If it is a government apprenticeship scheme, students get financially compensated,” Kumar said. The panel also plans to take the assistance of local district magistrates who have a thorough understanding of a specific area and can offer invaluable guidance. race to fix flaws E x p r ess Re a d CERT-In flags 60K vulnerable PHP sites Rare Simhavishnu-era hero stone documented C S h i v a k u m a r @ Chennai India’s cybersecurity agency has identified 60,000 websites running vulnerable PHP installations and alerted their operators, as government bodies race to fix security flaws that could expose systems to cyberattacks, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) Secretary S Krishnan said. Responding to queries from TNIE on two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language widely used to press clusive run websites, Krishnan said the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT- In) had advised organisations to upg rade to the latest patched version, the only effective remedy . “NIC, UIDAI and other government agencies are undertaking patching actions on a priority basis,” he said, referring to the National Informatics Centre and the Unique Identification Authority of India. The TN government has asked departments to consider taking applications running vulnerable PHP versions offline if patches cannot be applied immediately  . 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