Pune, Mar 8 (UNI) Day temperatures were above normal (1.6°C to 3.0°C) at many places over Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal; at a few places over Telangana, south interior Karnataka; at isolated places over coastal Andhra Pradesh, Yanam, Kerala and Mahe. They were appreciably below normal (-3.1°C to -5.0°C) at many places over Gangetic West Bengal; at a few places over Himachal Pradesh; at isolated places over Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh; below normal (-1.6°C to -3.0°C) at most places over Bihar and Jharkhand; at many places over Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Punjab; at a few places over Odisha; at isolated parts over Gujarat region and near normal over rest parts of the country. Yesterday, the highest maximum temperature of 40.1°C was reported at Anantapur (Rayalaseema) over the country.
New Delhi, Feb 29 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to grant permission to Vedanta, to reopen its Sterlite copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu''s Tuticorin saying the company has committed ''repeated breaches'' and ''serious violations.'' A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Misra dismissed the special leave petition filed by Vedanta Limited against the Madras High Court order which dismissed a batch of pleas by the company against the closure of its copper plant in Tuticorin and the orders of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB).