Banks told to help flood-hit people in every possible way
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In the wake of severe floods in Tamil Nadu, the Department of Financial Services on Thursday issued guidelines for banks and other financial institutions, asking them to take all necessary steps to extend every possible help to the affected people.
"Due to floods, bank branches and ATMs might be affected, therefore, the banks are requested to ensure that ATMs are functional and in places where they are not, while alternative mechanisms like mobile ATM, ATM vans and mobile ATMs mounted on boats may be used," said the guidelines.
FIFA crisis deepens as more officials arrested in corruption scandal
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FIFA continued to plunge into further crisis as several football officials have been arrested in a fresh raid conducted by the Swiss authorities as part of an investigation into the corruption scandal that has engulfed the world soccer governing body on Thursday.
Many of the arrests took place at the same luxury hotel in Zurich raided by authorities in May, Sport24 reported.
According to reports, newly arrested officials are mostly from South and Central America who are allegedly involved in money laundering, racketeering and fraud.
-ANI
Over 1000 stranded passengers rescued from Chennai airport
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Evacuation operations are on at the Chennai airport, with over a thousand stranded passengers rescued on Thursday.
"The remaining 150 passengers will be rescued on 4 December. Some of the evacuated passengers have been sent by road to Bangalore while some others have been flown out from the nearby Rajali Naval Air base at Arakkonam," Minister of State for Civil Aviation and Tourism and Culture Mahesh Sharma said in a press conference in New Delhi.
-ANI
Chennai floods: 18 critical patients die in MIOT hospital
A major power crisis has hit the rain-struck state of Tamil Nadu where 18 people lost their lives after being admitted to the Madras Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (MIOT) in a critical condition.
"The MIOT Hospital was treating around 575 patients when the floods began. 75 of them were on the ventilator at the time, and 18 patients have now died due to unclear reasons. We managed to shift 57 of those critical patients to different hospitals," said Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan.
-ANI
PMO hands over first batch of Netaji files for declassification
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The first batch of 33 secret files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose were on Friday handed over by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to the National Archives, setting the stage for their declassification in January.
The files were handed over by Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Nripendra Misra to Director General of National Archives of India for "further processing, preservation and digitization, in preparation for the final release to the nation of all 58 files in the PMO", an official release said.
These files were handed over after being cleared by the PMO, it said.
Burj Khalifa isn't the world's tallest building anymore
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The world's tallest building, Jeddah Tower, will shoot 3,280 feet into the sky, beating Dubai's Burj Khalifa which stands at 2,722 feet. It's being developed by Saudia Arabia's Jeddah Economic Company which is the tower's owner as well. A Saudi government release has been circulated which says the Jeddah Economic Company signed a $2.2 billion deal with Saudi Arabia's Alinma Investment (8.4 billion Saudi riyals) for the project. The ambitious plan for the project includes 59 elevators (54 single-deck and five double-deck elevators) and 12 escalators. It is supposed to have space for a hotel, office space, apartments, luxury condos and even an observatory.
Microsoft extends the olive branch to Apple, at least for Christmas
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Tech rivals Apple and Microsoft are being nice to each other, likely to usher in festive cheer, but rather surprising nonetheless. The latest campaign by Microsoft saw a store full of its employees in New York barge into a nearby Apple store. Not to vandalise of course. But to sing Christmas carols (including Jill Jackson Miller's "Let There Be Peace On Earth"!) and hold candles, before going on to hug the Apple employees. And yes, the employees who sang had to give auditions. Before they start snapping back at each other next year, fans can celebrate this unlikely union for now.
Turkey-EU deal is bad news for refugees
A deal signed last Sunday between EU and Turkey has resulted in scores of refugees being rounded up and forcibly sent back to their home countries. Almost immediately after the deal was signed, news reports came in of Turkey rounding up about 1,300 asylum seekers from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. The deal includes $3.2 billion in aid over two years, softening of visa requirements for Turks traveling to the EU and fresh attempts at Turkey's long-frozen EU membership. What does the EU get in return? Turkey's help in ensuring stricter border security.
Turkey involved in illegal oil trade, says Russia
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Russia has stepped up the offensive against Turkey already. At Moscow's National Defense Control Center, authorities showed foreign journalists a presentation with satellite images dating to August. It supposedly showed trucks, numbering in the thousands, transporting oil from ISIS controlled regions in Syria and Iraq into Turkey. Deputy Defense Minister of Russia, Anatoly Antonov, alleged that Turkey's top leadership - President Erdogan and his family, is involved directly in this "illegal oil business". No concrete evidence was given to this effect however.
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