Hundreds of them were arrested.
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When the family of the donor, of the same age as the patient, agreed for the liver transplant, the hospital rushed the latter to its Salem branch in the night in an ambulance with Tamil Nadu registration number, as it was safer and quieter.
Preliminary reports reaching here said about 1,000 DMK men led by former Minister I.Periyasamy were arrested when they blocked the Vaigai super fast express train at Dindigul railway station. It had also directed the supervisory committee to calculate the quantum of water to be given to Tamil Nadu as per the final award of the Cauvery Tribunal and issue directions to Karnataka accordingly. However, the State transport corporation-run buses, besides trains were being operated as usual.
Cinema shows and film shootings remained suspended during the bandh period. Kanimozhi was reported staging a road roko on arterial Anna Salai along with DMK supporters.
To add to the ongoing situation, BJP workers took out a procession and raised slogans, condemning the attack on Tamils in Karnataka and staged a picketing near the bus stand.
A stray incident of stone-pelting on a vehicle showroom which was open was reported here. No passenger was injured, police said. Both governments have been given four weeks to respond.
Most fireworks manufacturing units too had shut down in the industrial town of Sivakasi.
In Chennai, the DMDK party held a hunger strike while its founder A. Vijaykant citing health reasons did not participate in the protest as announced earlier.
Education institutions and Government offices were also open. The bandh evoked a mixed response in the state.
Tamil outfits in Union Territory of Puducherry have called for a similar bandh.
Tight security has been given to central government offices, railway stations and banks including Karnataka-Tamil Nadu checkpost border near Attibele.
Later, Stalin said all AIADMK MPs should meet Modi and take up the Cauvery issue with him.
Police patrolling was intensified and all vulnerable areas were taken care of, a senior police officer said.
Lashing out at the state government for offering to release 10,000 cusecs to Tamil Nadu, Yeddyurappa alleged that the government raised the issue of law and order while presenting its case before the court, instead of furnishing the facts relating to water level at reservoirs in both the states.
She said the water level in Mettur Dam is 84.76 feet.
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Curfew has been lifted in Bengaluru as normalcy returned on Wednesday, two days after violence shook the country’s tech hub in protest against the release of Cauvery river water by Karnataka to Tamil Nadu, police said.
