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Vehicle owners whose number plate's last digit is 0 and 1, should get High Security Registration Plate (HSRP) installed immediately since the closing date for the same is scheduled to be completed on Monday (November 15). If not done, vehicle owners may have to pay a hefty fine. Relief will be available only to those who have a receipt or other evidence of online booking of HSRP.

Furthermore, despite Transport Commissioner Dheeraj Sahu issuing orders for the same, vehicle owners have not shown interest in installing HSRP yet.

Earlier, the date of installation of HSRP in two wheeler, four wheeler, and commercial vehicles was July 15. Due to COVID-19, the deadline for getting the number plates installed was extended to September 30 by the Transport Department. In addition, the date for the vehicles of private vehicle owners has been fixed according to the numbers.

Here are the dates decided according to the last digit of the number plate.

Heavy rains continued to lash Chennai and its nearby areas on Thursday morning, affecting vehicular movement and causing waterlogging in the city. The popular Marina beach, which runs from near the Fort St George area in the north to the Foreshore Estate in the south, flooded over after the heavy downpour which was a result of a cyclonic circulation in the Bay of Bengal. Several other areas like Nungambakkam, Sterling road, KMC Hospital road also remained waterlogged due to the incessant rain.

Visuals posted by a news agency on Thursday showed Marina Beach, which is usually one of the most crowded beaches in the country, flooding due to the heavy rains.

Here are the latest updates regarding the heavy rain in Chennai:

The risk of landslides cannot deter the army from giving up on the construction of border roads, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Thursday, defending its application to construct all-weather roads with 10 metre width as part of its Char Dham project in Uttarakhand. Some of these roads, the Centre has said, are strategically important ones leading to the Indo-China border.

The Court was hearing two applications by separate departments of the Union government, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways (MoRTH) for modifying an earlier top court order of September 2020 that did not allow roads with a width higher than 5.5 metre as part of the Char Dham project. That order relied on a 2018 circular of MoRTH providing for roads in hilly regions to be 5.5m wide. However, another MoRTH circular in December 2020 allowed 7m width for feeder roads on the India-China border.

Hitting out at actor Kangana Ranaut for describing India’s Independence in 1947 as “bheek” or alms, Congress leaders on Friday demanded that the government should take back the Padma Shri given to her recently.\

Kangana, while addressing an event on Thursday, had said that India's Independence in 1947 was not freedom but “bheek” (alms). “And we got real freedom in 2014,” she added.

Reacting to Kangana’s remarks, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said her statement has shown what happens when people who are not deserving of Padma awards are given these honours. “I demand that Kangana Ranaut should make a public apology to all Indians because of her statement, our freedom movement and our freedom fighters' sacrifice were insulted,” Vallabh said.