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VOL. XXXIV NO. 263
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SATURDAY 27.8.2016 (EVENING) H OTHER STATIONS SUNDAY 28.8.2016 (MORNING) H 8 PAGES Rs. 4.00 H Regd. No., TN/CC(S) DN/223/15-17, RNI No: 33810 / 82
Jaya orders
solatium to kin
of 14 persons
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 27:
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today
announced Rs one lakh each as
solatium to the
families of 14 persons who died in
various incidents
recently.
In a statement
here, she said
she was saddened to know that Rajendran of
Nagapattinam, Vishal of Dharmapuri, Yogeswaran of Tirupur,
Rahul and Premnath of Thiruvallur, Manikkam of Villupuram,
Janaki of Nagapattinam Palanivelmurugan, Jayaprakash and
Jothivel of Virudhunagar district,
Dhanush of Cuddalore district,
Sethumadhavan of Sivaganga
district, Senthilnathan of Tiruchy
and Chinnakalai of Madurai died
in different incidents.
Expressing condolence to their
family members, Jayalalithaa said
she has ordered to give Rs one lakh
each as financial aid from the Chief
Minister’s Public Relief Fund.
Troubled times
T
amil film actor Arun Vijay was involved in an early morning
mishap as the car which he was driving, rammed into a
police tempo at Nungambakkam in Chennai.
According to police sources, the actor was driving his
luxury car from Valluvar Kottam to Nungambakkam at 3
a.m, when he accidentally hit the police vehicle parked
right at the entrance of Nungambakkam police station.
The van belonged to the police department.
The policemen at the spot found the actor in an inebriated
condition and subsequently registered a case. He has been
charged under Sections 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act and
279 of the IPC. Meanwhile, an earthquake measuring 4.6 on
the Richter scale hit parts of Himachal Pradesh this morning,
following which panic-stricken people rushed out of their
homes in Shimla and Kullu districts.
While some old buildings developed cracks, there
was no report of loss of life or major damage.
The earthquake which occurred at 6:46 a.m, had its
epicentre at Kullu at a depth of 10 km, said Director
of local MeT office, Manmohan Singh adding that
aftershocks of 4.3 and 4.2 magnitudes were recorded
at 7:05 a.m and 9 a.m respectively.
In New Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister
Mehbooba Mufti today sought the creation of an
institutional mechanism of interlocutors to talk to all
stakeholders in Kashmir to carry forward former Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s policy of a dialogue
internally as well as with Pakistan.
CBI opposes bail
plea of Marans
Trouble deepens for Kalanithi, Dayanidhi in Aircel-Maxis case
NT Bureau / Agencies
New Delhi / Chennai, Aug 27:
The CBI today strongly opposed
anticipatory bail pleas of former Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his
elder brother Kalanithi Maran in the
Aircel-Maxis case.
On Friday, the Delhi High Court
appeared disinclined to interfere in
the case involving former Marans,
saying the matter was sub-judice in
a competent court.
A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini
and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal
expressed this view while reserving
its order on a PIL for directions to CBI
to move the trial court for ‘attachment
and forfeiture of shares and all the
assets of Aircel Ltd’, as held by Maxis
and its subsidiaries.
During the brief hearing, advocate
Amit Khemka, appearing for the petitioner society, said if the High Court
was not going to interfere then he
be given liberty to approach the trial
court which be directed to hear him.
The bench, however, said it will
not say so and asked him to take
appropriate remedies under the law.
‘The matter is sub-judice. It is being
heard by competent court. We will
not interfere in the matter when it is
sub-judice,’ the bench said.
To this the lawyer said he will not be
heard by trial court and further argued
that CBI was not implementing the
law by not going after some of the
accused in the case. The bench then
said it will consider the issues raised
in the plea and will pass orders.
‘Judgement reserved,’ it said.
The petitioner, Society for Consum-
ers and Investors Protection (SCIP),
has sought directions to CBI to make
several subsidiary companies of
Maxis Communications as accused
in the Aircel-Maxis case, which arose
out of the 2G spectrum allocation
scam.
Apart from that, the society has
sought directions to the Department
of Telecommunications, Sebi, Trai
and Foreign Investment Promotion
Board to set aside the approvals
granted to Reliance Communications
Ltd for a merger of its wireless business with that of Aircel. It has also
sought setting aside of the approvals
granted to Bharti Airtel for acquisition
of 4G spectrum of Aircel.
The society, in its plea, has urged
the court to direct the authorities to
not grant any further permission for
transfer of any spectrum or shares
held by Aircel or for change of its
management or shareholding pattern till all the accused in the case
submit themselves before the special
CBI court.
The petition also seeks directions
to Enforcement Directorate (ED) to
immediately institute a probe under
the Prevention of Money Laundering
Act (PMLA) in respect of the shares
and all other valuable assets of Aircel
and the property obtained as a result
of the Aircel-Maxis deal.
It has alleged that ‘the accused
persons are in the process of liquidating their holdings in Aircel Ltd and its
subsidiaries by merging the same
with Reliance Communications Ltd
and selling its assets to Bharti Airtel
and running away’.
More trouble
for SRM Group
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 27:
In a fresh trouble to the SRM Group,
another complaint has been slammed
against its founder Parivendhar, and
missing producer Madhan.
Mukundchand Bothra, a well-known
film financier, came to the Commissioner’s office in Vepery this morning,
to file a petition against T R Pachamuthu alias Parivendhar.
He said that he was ‘threatened’
over phone by him. He told mediapersons that he had given nearly Rs
seven crore for the production of a
yet to be released Tamil filmMotta
Siva Ketta Siva. He gave the money
to producer Madhan only because
Parivendhar asked him to finance, he
alleged. However, Madhan returned
the amount by writing a cheque of Rs
one crore, which bounced.
It may be noted that yesterday,
Parivendhar who was grilled by the
CCB (Central Crime branch) team was
arrested, produced before court and
sent to Puzhal prison. Parivendhar, the
founder and chancellor of SRM University, was embroiled in controversies after his close aide Madhan went missing
on the pretext of attaining ‘samadhi in
Kasi’. Nearly, 111 complaints of admission seats scam surfaced.
‘Drunk’ Arun Vijay rams
car into police vehicle
ON TRACK
Cops grill actor at Pondy Bazaar station
An exclusive track for bicycles has been marked on the busy Kamaraj Road in the city, a move hailed by
cycle riders and environmentalists.
Photo: R THIYAGARAJAN
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 27:
In a shocking incident, popular
actor Arun Vijay had a run-in with
the law, after ramming into a police
tempo early this morning at Nungambakkam.
According to police sources, the
actor was driving his luxury car from
Valluvarkottam to Nungambakkam
at 3 am, when he accidentally hit
the police vehicle parked right at the
entrance of Nungambakkam police
station.
The van belonged to the police
department. It is said that the actor
and his wife had attended the sangeeth function of actress Radhikaa
Sarathkumar’s daughter Rayane at
a five star hotel in the city and was
returning home.
The policemen at the spot found he
was in an inebriated condition and
subsequently registered a case. He
has been charged under sections 185
of the Motor Vehicles Act and 279 of
the IPC.
‘The incident took place at around
3.30 am, in the impact of which, the
Work for civic polls
gains momentum
Voters list to be released 1 Sept Polling date to be announced soon
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 27:
After the Assembly elections, the
next big activity in the State is the
local body elections, the revised voters list for which will be released on
1 September.
With the tenure of the currently
elected local body members ending
on 24 October, the State Election
Commission has begun work to
conduct the elections.
The elections will be conducted
for 12 municipal corporations, 125
municipalities, 529 town panchayats,
385 panchayat unions, and 12,524
village panchayats. Dates are expected to be announced soon.
Tamilnadu State Election Commissioner P Seetharaman said
work was gathering pace to conduct the local body elections. As
a first step, a draft voters list will
be released using the electoral
rolls of the recently-concluded
Assembly elections. The voters
will be segregated according to
their wards.
Once the revised list is released, changes can be made
in the list till 23 September after
which the additions will be published. People in the list will be
eligible to vote in the local body
elections.
Elaborate arrangements are also
being made for the elections including setting up of pandals and providing wheelchairs for the physically
challenged, pregnant women and
senior citizens.
According to the amendment
passed in the Assembly, the Mayor
will not be elected directly, but by the
elected councillors.
The civic body election is set to
be conducted using electronic voting machine in the city and ballot
boxes in the rural areas. The Election
Commissioner has sought the cooperation of the police and the local
government officials in the conduct
of the elections.
SUPER HIT
The police van hit by Arun Vijay’s car in Chennai in the wee hours of
today.
Photo: B ANAND
tyre of the van burst and his BWM
car was jammed. After registering a
case for rash and negligent driving,
an inquiry was conducted. He was
produced before a magistrate in Allikulam court. It is a bailable offence’,
said a police source.
Sources added that if the tempo had
not been stationed there, the situation
would have been more grave.
It may be noted that the city has
been seeing several cases of drunken driving in the recent past.
In July, a speeding Audi allegedly
driven by an inebriated woman fatally knocked down a 54-year-old man.
The woman, Aishwarya Wilton,
a 26-year-old software engineer,
who was behind the wheel, was
arrested.
Low pressure in Bay,
high chances of rain
Milder climate in store for Chennai
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 27:
The heavy rains last evening took
a lot of people in the city by surprise.
After enduring a dry and humid time
for the past week or so, rains are
slowly making an appearance over
Chennai and has brought relief to
the residents.
A trough of low pressure near the
Andhra Pradesh coast has already
resulted in rain spells in the city. According to the Met Department here,
there would be light to moderate
showers in Chennai in the next 48
hours. However, humid conditions
would persist in the city for the next
two to three days and can also expect
on and off showers and thundershowers in the next 24 hours.
Weather blogger Pradeep said, ‘We
can experience this cloudy weather
for another two-three days. Today will
be a cloudy day and coastal areas
may receive moderate rains.
The temperature is likely to be 32
degree Celsius while the minimum
would be 27 degree Celsius’.
‘The humidity keeps the temperature at 30 degrees. If it (humidity)
goes down, we can enjoy a cool
climate,’ said Ragavi, an IT Professional.
Sharwesh, a college student said,
‘After the hot days the rains come
as a relief now. Hope this weather
continues for some more days’.
The city had maximum temperature
of 38 degrees Celsius for many days,
but on Friday the temperature dipped
by several notches and was around
32 degrees.
Due to the trough near Andhra
Pradesh, more rains can be expected
for the next 24 to 48 hours interior
peninsular India including parts of
Telangana, Karnataka as well as
Tamilnadu.
SATURDAY
Bits
2 27 AUGUST 2016
On top gear
This reporter had gone to
meet a source for news at a
location far off from the main
road.
She was picked up from
the main road by this man
who promised her to drop
her back at a transit point
when they were done with
the work.
Once they were done,
the man kick-started his
scooter and took off before
the reporter could hop on.
Initially, she thought the man
would stop realising that she
was not in the scooter. But
he did not.
Passersby tried to stop the
motorist, but he rode off.
A visibly embarrassed
reporter then walked to
the main road to find a
transport. Meanwhile
she tried calling the
source, but in vain.
It was after 45 minutes,
he called her again and
laughed helplessly over
the phone, apologizing
at the same time.
Apparently, he has realised that she was missing in
the scooter only at the next
signal and assumed she fell
from the vehicle. He said he
even stopped the vehicle and
looked around.
Taking off in right
direction
Even if people fault development on the
‘ground’ in Chennai, there can be no arguments about the development on ‘air’.
Check out this scene to understand the
idea better. It was
a
balmy Friday
evening and
people were
waiting at
G u i n d y
railway
station for
the train. Time kept ticking away
but there was no train in sight
in the direction of Beach.
After about half-an-hour
came the announcement
that a train was ‘expected’
to arrive in another 10
minutes. In the meantime,
commuters standing at
the station counted five
planes leaving Chennai.
Any doubts which way
development is happening?
& Pieces
Marriages made
in social media
The whole idea of marriage seemed
to be dramatic to this scribe’s mate,
until the girl met the man of her
dreams. The girl’s mother had
started searching for prospective
grooms through matrimony app.
They zeroed on a guy and sent him
a request. The boy on the other
hand was skeptical on accepting the
request, because he did not favour
arranged marriage.
He found the girl on Facebook and
sent her a request. The girl was
alarmed and responded to talk to
parents on whatsoever. But the boy
somehow convinced the girl and the
two started talking.
Time passed and they decided to
meet. When they did the boy went
on his knees and proposed to her
with a ring. The girl was shocked
and chocked in tears of happiness.
Although the rest was a fairy tale,
the duo got the taste of both what
an arranged and love marriage was.
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India now has nearly 83
crore voters as on 5 January. The total number of
voters is more than the
population of Europe. In the
next five years, the number
of voters is likely to touch
the 85 crore mark easily.
- Chief Election Commissioner, H S Brahma
A renowned historian delivered a lecture as
part of Madras Day celebrations last week.
The event happened at CP Art Centre in
Alwarpet.
The
audience was made
up of old people
who appeared to be
ardent fans of the
city and wanted to
indulge in nostalgia. Then, an old
man approached
this reporter and
told her cheekily, ‘This is a
Madras Week
lecture.’
The puzzled reporter
nodded, affirming that
she knew it was
one. The old
man laughed heartily at this and
sat next to her. He seemed
tickled at the idea of a ‘young
person’ attending a Madras
Week lecture!
A big protest was happening at the
outskirts of city. While the media
rushed to the spot to cover the event,
the protesters came running towards them, when
they saw the cameras. This created chaos and it
took some time for the commotion to settle down.
This journo who was at the spot, was a silent
spectator. He was surprised to see that people
had forgot the essence of the protest and were
taking selfies and posing for the camera.
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We will not allow any bandh in the state
on 2 September. We will keep everything
open. Vehicles will ply and shops will
open. If vehicles and shops are damaged
(by bandh supporters), we will take strong
action. We will also give compensation.
- West Bengal Chief Minister,
Mamata Banerjee
Congregation of
grey heads
POLIMER TV
JAYA TV
West Bengal is a bordering State
and infiltration from Bangladesh is
a problem. But here is a government which gives priority to vote
bank politics over national security.
They are allowing infiltration from
Bangladesh.
- BJP chief Amit Shah
While this correspondent was travelling
in a surburban train to her workplace, she
noticed an aged woman, holding a stick
and walking feebly in the compartment,
seeking alms. Her cries of ‘Amma, Amma’
made many hearts weak
and
many women commuters gave her water and money. After
she alighted at t h e
next stop,
an old man
dressed in
torn clothes
got in. He, too,
was asking for
alms, but, not many
bothered to drop a coin
in his palm. It took the
correspondent s o m e
time to digest t h e
gender parti- a l i t y
shown by the public
towards beggars.
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QUOTES OF THE DAY
It’s a woman thing
Contributions from Srinidhi Raghavan,
R Chitra, Mercy Angeline, Nivedhika
Krishnan, Sricharan R, Naomi N
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Mayajaal, Devi Cineplex, Kamala
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AGS, Abirami Theatres,
Uthayam Theater, Sri Ganga
Cinema, Raj Theatre, INOX
National Hall, Rakki Multiplex,
Maharani Theatre
KABALI
MEENDUM ORU
KADHAL KADHAI
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Theatre, Udhayam Theatre,
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Multiplex, Sangam Multiplex
Mayajaal
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CHENNAI
SATURDAY
27 AUGUST 2016
3
NO MORE DRY THROATS
AT EGMORE STATION
IRCTC is putting up water vending machines
Own container refill comes for as low as Re 1
S VISHNU SHARMAA
Chennai, Aug 27:
Passengers taking the local train
unit at Egmore Railway Station will
have an option of availing of chilled
drinking water soon, thanks to
IRCTC. It is taking steps to instal two
water vending machines (WVMs) at
platform No. 10, where local trains
on the Beach-Tambaram route halt.
While one unit can be accessed
after one gets down the foot-overbridge that leads to Gandhi-Irwin
Road, the other unit will be positioned close to the foot-overbridge
leading to the Poonamallee High
Road side of the station.
‘We put it close to the foot-overbridges on both sides of the local
station so that passengers can
access it soon after coming into the
station,’ said a station official.
Metal boxes with IRCTC logo
which will be have WVMs inside
were installed at the platform more
than a week ago, pointed out the
official. While work of installing the
vending machine is going on at the
unit located near the foot-overbridge
connecting Gandhi-Irwin Road side,
work on the other unit is yet to begin.
Personnel supervising the installation said they were currently taking
up electrical work. Once that is over,
the machine will be put inside the
metal box and made operational in
two days.
‘We will have another option while
Temporary ramp laid at Guindy Railway Station for convenience of
passengers.
Workers providing electrical fittings at a water
vending machine unit at Egmore Railway Station.
buying water,’ exulted Sudha Ramamurthy, a regular
commuter of the station.
Many other travellers at the station agreed. Normally,
we have an option to buy a 1,000 ml bottle at Rs
15, said Ramakrishnan, another regular traveller at
the station. Should these counters operate, we can
have water of various quantities and price options,
he added.
A simple refill with one’s own container of a 300 ml
Applications invited
for Mahaveer Awards
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 27:
Bhagwan Mahaveer Foundation
has called for nominations from
Tamilnadu for the 20th Mahaveer
Awards.
According to a press release, individuals who are Indian nationals
and institutions based in India and
providing selfless service to the
voiceless and the poor are eligible
for award.
Bhagwan Mahaveer Foundation,
since 1995, has been bestowing
the Mahaveer Awards on outstanding personalities and organisations
in recognition of their excellence
in propagation of ‘Non-violence &
Vegetarianism’, ‘Education’, ‘Medicine’ and ‘Community & Social
service’. The award in each category carries a cash prize of Rs 10
lakh, a commendatory citation and
a memento, which will be presented
to the recipient at a grand function.
The four awardees will be selected by a panel of eminent personalities representing different
domains and headed by former
Chief Justice of India, Justice M
N Venkatachaliah.
So far, the foundation has honoured 59 persons and institutions
in the four categories from 17
States across the country. Among
59, South Indian States have so
far bagged 20 awards including 13
from Tamilnadu.
The nomination form can be downloaded at www.bmfawards.org.
Filled in forms can be sent on
or before 30 September to Bhagwan Mahaveer Foundation, ‘Siyat
House’, 961, Fourth Floor, Poonamallee High Road, Purasawalkam,
Chennai - 84. Ph: 4293 3333.
Muthukumaraswamy is
new Advocate General
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 27:
Tamilnadu government on Friday appointed senior counsel R
Muthukumaraswamy as the State
Advocate General following the resignation of incumbent A L Somayji.
A government order regarding the
appointment of Muthkumaraswamy
was issued by the Public (Law Officers) Department.
The notification came hours after
Somayji resigned, bringing an end
to his stint as the Advocate General
since March 2013.
Muthukumaraswamy (69) obtained his law degree from the
Madras Law College and enrolled
as an Advocate on 1 August, 1973.
He joined the office of senior counsel R Krishnamoorthy, who was
the former Advocate General and
continued to be associated with
him till 2001.
Muthukumaraswamy has served
as Additional Advocate General of
the State during the previous AIADMK regime in 2001-06. He brings
with him rich experience in civil, writ,
service and service jurisprudence.
glass would cost only Re 1, a
500 ml bottle would cost Rs 3, 1
litre bottle, Rs 5, 2 litre bottle Rs
8, and 5 litre bottle would cost
Rs 20. Refill of the same quantities with a container provided by
IRCTC would cost Rs 2, Rs 5,
Rs 8, Rs 12 and Rs 25 at these
counters.
That’s not all. Ceiling fans have
been provided at platform No. 10.
Now local passengers can relax
under cool air at Egmore Station
beating the heat while waiting for
the local train.
Guindy Railway Station
Guindy Railway Station, too, is
not left behind when it comes to
improving amenities for passengers. Work towards constructing
a new ticket counter is on at GST
Road side of the station currently.
Personnel present at the workspot said the work began on 10
July and would take six months
to complete.
While the official at the station said the new ticket counter (under construction) would
be a larger than the existing
one and accommodate a
reservation counter for longdistance trains along with
that of suburban locomotives.
Men at work to construct a new ticket counter
at Guindy Railway Station.
Once the new counter comes
into existence, the old one
would be demolished.
A portion of the foot-overbridge
on GST Road side is closed currently to facilitate the construction work, while on the other
side a ramp is provided for the
sake of commuters to have easy
access to the foot-overbridge.
Once the work is completed,
the foot-bridge entrance would
be widened to cater to a huge
peak hour commuter rush at the
station, said the person supervising the work. He also hinted that
an elevated ticket counter may
A book written
in six weeks
Meera Raghavendra Rao’s work
‘Madhwas of Madras’ launched
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 27:
‘It is a pleasure to relate Odyssey
book store with writer Meera Raghavendra Rao’s new book - ‘Madhwas
of Madras’. ‘Odyssey’ means ‘travel’
and Meera’s book emphasises the
journey of the Madhwas,’ said former
IAS officer N Vittal.
Launching the book at Odyssey Adyar here on Friday, he congratulated
the author for the hard work she had
put in to write the book. ‘Meera was
subjective and clear to the point in
her writing. She has portrayed the
religious as well as the social aspects
of the Madhwas in the best possible
manner,’ he said.
Stressing the role of the Madhwas
in the development of society, Vittal,
said, ‘That’s not all, S S Badrinath,
founder emeritus of Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, is regarded as one of
the prominent persons in society. He
has contributed a lot to our society in
the field of medical science.’
Later, writer Narayanan Bhatt
giving an overview about the book,
said, ‘This book was written in just
six weeks and a lot of hard work has
gone into it. The writing is vivid and
clear.’
‘Meera had covered around 50
Madhwas in Madras although there
is a sea of information that needs to
be shared. Madhwas have immense
love for their gurus. I have not seen
Former IAS officer N Vittal speaking at the launch of the book ‘Madhwas
of Madras’ at Odyssey Adyar in Chennai on Friday. Writer Mohan Rao
and author of the book, Meera Raghavendra Rao, are present.
any other community who show
so much love for their gurus,’ he
pointed out.
Talking about the Madhwas is
incomplete without the inclusion
Madhwa Acharya, who was one of
the prominent persons in the community, he added.
‘This book portrays the life and history of the Madhwas and their contribution to society,’ he said.
Noted Ayurvedic doctor Jamin
Narashiman revealed the legacy of
Madhwas in the field of medicine. He
said, ‘My great-grandfather, Jamin
Venkata Ramanarayanan, was one
of the prominent Ayurvedic doctors
of the early 20th century. He had
the ability to judge a person’s health
just by feeling his legs. That was
the amount of insight the Madhwas
had in the field of medicine. I would
like to congratulate Meera for her
contribution.’
Meera thanked all the dignitaries, including publisher Chellappan,
layout specialist Yokha and various
others who helped publish her book.
Writer Mohan Rao was present on
the occasion.
come up on the Race Course
side of the station.
A couple of passengers at the
station welcomed the changes.
The new counters would, hopefully, have more space, said S
Girish, an employee of an IT
firm at Olympia Tech Park. The
present ticket office on GST
Road has three counters, while
the one on the Race Course
side has two counters with little
space to accommodate ticket
buyers whose numbers are huge
during the peak hours. Hope the
new counters will be successful
in solving this problem, he said.
MU distance edu
results 29 Aug
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 27:
The results of UG, PG and MLIS,
BLIS, diploma and certificate course
examinations of the Institute of
Distance Education, University of
Madras, held in May-June 2016 will
be published on 29 August. It will
be available on the websites - www.
ideunom.ac.in and www.unom.ac.in
from 8 pm on the same day.
The current batch candidates
of UG course, whose enrollment
number begins from A13, A14,
A15, C14 and C15 alone are eligible for revaluation. Similarly for PG
course, whose enrollment number
begins from A14, A15 and C15
and MLIS and BLIS candidates
with enrollment number A15 are
eligible for revaluation.
The fees for revaluation of each
paper is Rs 1,000. Candidates are
requested to register for revaluation
only through online in the university
website (www.ideunom.ac.in). The
online registration for revaluation of
answer scripts starts from 31 August
to 8 September.
Free cancer
screening
for women
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 27:
Vasantha Memorial Cancer Centre
is conducting free cancer screening camp for women above 25
years on 28 August at No 33, 35th
Street, Ashok Nagar, from 9 am to
1 pm. Breast surgeon Dr Anusha
Balakrishnan and gynaecologist Dr
Karpagambal Sairam will participate.
For details, contact: 2471
7871/77/97910 48379.
Docs at SIMS perform
brain bypass surgery
Forty-two-year-old man was suffering from frequent paralysis
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 27:
A brain bypass surgery has saved a young executive and the doctors, who performed the operation
in a city hospital, were able to discover the stroke
in time.
Doctors at SRM Institute For Medical Science
(SIMS), Vadapalani, performed the surgery on
Manikandan (42) employed in Abu Dhabi. He was
suffering from frequent episodes of paralysis of
left hand and leg over the last four months. After a
series of tests, it was revealed there were multiple
blocks in blood vessels supplying to the right half of
the brain. This reduced blood flow resulting in loss
of crucial brain function causing frequent paralysis
and increased the risk of seizures.
He was admitted to SIMS Hospital, where senior
consultant neurosurgeon, Dr Roopesh Kumar,
found three blocks in a blood vessel on his right
brain.
‘We harvested a 10 cm long blood vessel from
his forehead, near the ear. This procedure needs
extreme patience and skill as the vessels are less
than a millimeter in diameter,’ Dr Roopesh said.
‘The surgery was a six hour procedure, where
a hole was drilled into the patient’s skull and the
blood vessel was stitched to the blocked artery. The
blood vessel blocked was by-passed and flow to
the right half brain improved well,’ said neurosurgeon Dr K R Suresh Bapu.
‘Just like heart attack, where heart vessels are
clogged, his brain blood vessels were blocked at
multiple places. His condition was diagnosed as
transient ischemic attack which is often called as
mini-stroke,’ he said.
‘This is an upcoming procedure and is an challenging one. This procedure was used many years
back and was stopped. Now its slowly coming
back,’ he added.
‘The doctors gave me the strength and they were
positive. I feel good now and will soon fly back to
Abu Dhabi,’ said Manikandan.
Air India’s General Manager - Operations Captain Arulmani with
senior employees, who were honoured on completion of 25 years
of continuous service at a function held at Air India Staff Housing
Colony in Meenambakkam, Chennai, yesterday. Air India’s General
Manager - Personnel B V Kumar is among those present.
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Rahul's about-turn
ongress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi may have avoided a
potentially long and irksome criminal defamation case by
his firm declaration in the Supreme Court that he did not accuse
the RSS for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Charging the
entire organisation for the misdeed of a solitary member can be
problematic under the criminal defamation law. The heir apparent of the controlling family of the Congress chose discretion
over bravado. He in all likelihood will be spared the trouble of
answering the defamation charge.
That should have settled the issue as far as Rahul was concerned. But confronted with the charge of a U-turn, within
hours Rahul said he had not withdrawn anything he had said
earlier about the RSS. This was clearly an attempt at facesaving after the retreat in the Supreme Court. Since it was
hard to prove the charge, he sought reprieve by shifting his
stand. However, outside in the political arena it was back to
the usual slugfest.
Quite clearly, for want of substantive issues Gandhi chooses to
regurgitate the old and hackneyed charge about the RSS. Yes, Nathuram Godse was once a member of the RSS. But finding the RSS
too soft on the 'anti-national policies' of the Congress at the time of
the Partition, he had formed his own separate group. He gathered a
small team of hot-headed activists who nursed a grievance against
the Mahatma for being too kind towards the newly-formed Pakistan.
The rest is tragic history.
The link of Godse, however tenuous, with the RSS harmed its
growth in the initial decades after Independence. Also, it put a
lid on the questionable policies pursued by Nehru both in the
years leading up to the bloody division of the country and after
the Partition. A tragedy of Himalayan proportions was inflicted
on the people by the wrong-headedness of the Congress leadership. Of course, Rahul can have no interest in understanding the
events leading up to the Partition and what had followed in its
train. But following his retraction, though he may like to term it
clarification, in the highest court in the land, the least he can do
is to stop blabbering on and on like a broken record about the
RSS killing the Mahatma. RSS, for the record, is a nationalist
organisation with lot of concern for the culture and heritage of
this land. A lot of needless bile is directed against this group by
Left liberals. And that is a tragedy.
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Twitter is working
on tool to filter
abusive tweets
T
witter is reportedly developing
a new tool to help curb its rampant harassment problem.
According to Bloomberg, Twitter
is working on a feature that will let
users block keywords to help fight
abuse. Anonymous sources quoted
in the report say the company has
been discussing the idea internally
for around a year, though it’s still
not yet clear if and when such a
tool will be rolled out.
According to the report, users
would be able to set personal filters
to avoid being shown tweets with
racial or gender-based slurs. Additionally, it could also be used to
simply avoid tweets about an event
or trend.
If the assumption is accurate, the
move is definitely a good thing for
Twitter. Sure, it does nothing to
curb harassment at the grassroots
level - the offensive tweets aren’t
removed or reported, simply ‘muted’
- but it’s a step in the right direction.
At least a user can feel like they
can safely use Twitter without being bombarded with abuse, even
if it might be going on without their
knowledge. As for simply blocking
a topic, it would definitely come in
handy in certain extreme cases. We
know more than one person who’s
just about had their fill of
Pokemon Go.
Unfortunately, if there’s
anything internet trolls are
known for, it’s dedication to
their ‘craft’. If someone really really wants to harass
you, they’ll just make up
new shorthands for slurs.
Sadly, this tool does nothing for that problem. Here’s
hoping Twitter has some
more ideas to fight abuse
in the future.
CHENNAI
E
ven before the TNPL (Tamil Nadu
Premier League) began, it set a
record: For sending the maximum
number of info alerts and press releases to media persons. And it was
at the rate of --- this is a conservative
estimate --- 200 per hour. By the time
the tournament peaks, most of the
sports journalists in these parts and
a non-sports journalist (me) would
have been wrung tired just attending
to these messages. And there is no
escaping them, if you block them on
WhatsApp, they show up on email.
But if you mark them to the spam bin,
I suspect, they will hire crafty homing
pigeons to deliver you updates.
Q: How often do they send you
alerts?
Ans: More often than your DTH
company does when your subscription is up for renewal.
And pray what info do they keep
sending?
“Tuti Patriots to practise at 8 a.m. tomorrow”, your WhatsApp Messenger will
announce, and before you can so much
as read them, it will be followed by, “Tuti
Patriots will leave the team hotel by 7.30
a.m.”, and then it would not stop:
“Tuti Patriots will step into the bus
at 7. 25 a.m.”.
“Tuti Patriots will alight from the bus
at 7.55 a.m.”
“Tuti Patriots will spend 7.56 to 7.58
a.m. doing nothing”.
“Tell us the truth. When you first
heard the name Tuti Patriots, you
sure laughed”.
not be seen in action for much of the
“During the practice session, Tuti
tournament.
Patriots bowlers will bowl”
Seriously, most of these players,
“During the same practice session,
who are marquee names for the variTuti Patriots batsmen will bat”.
ous franchisees in the TNPL, have
been chosen for the ongoing Du“Tuti Patriots anagrams to Tours
leep Trophy, which they have been
a Tit Pit”.
ordered to give priority to. So does
Okay, I am exaggerating. But only
this mean the Duleep Trophy, being
just because now they sent a release
a longer version of the game, is being
saying camera persons (photo jourgiven the right amount of prominence
nalists) should not come without a
by the BCCI? Well, it is debatable
camera. Anyway, for those still not
whether the mandarins in the BCCI
logged into what TNPL is and what
actually know under which format the
on earth are Tuti Patriots, well, here
Duleep Trophy tournament is being
is a quick lowdown:
played. Left to themTNPL is the Tamil
selves, they would
Nadu-centric T20 tourtrade Duleep Trophy
nament that gives the
for a T20 tournament
much-needed platform
between India and Sri
for exciting and enterK BALAKUMAR
Lanka in Outer Monprising former Australgolia. The BCCI wants the selected
ian cricketers to play the role of
TN players to focus on the Duleep
coach/mentor which they seem to
Trophy (and not the TNPL) because
perform by posing for selfies. Away
the TNPL is a T20 tournament that is
from individual teams, the TNPL
organised by the company owned by
brought in the former explosive openN Srinivasan, who is now a persona
er Mathew Hayden as some kind of
non grata in BCCI administration. If
mascot and drummed up support for
tomorrow --- and you can’t rule this
the cricket tournament by having him
out --- Srinivasan is back in favour,
watch --- why not? --- Kabali. That is
these same players would be asked
a tad unfair. To be fair, he also did his
to focus on TNPL even over national
bit for the TNPL by visiting Iruttukadai
duties. And they would. Cricketers, in
Halwa shop.
general, are Indian sports’ performWe will try this one more time:
ing fleas.
TNPL is the Tamil Nadu-centric T20
Be them as they may, TNPL,
tournament that boasts of top-notch
through
the 8-team cricket league,
talent like R Ashwin, Dinesh Karthik,
hopes to provide TN districts the
Murali Vijay, M Ashwin, Baba Aparapride of owning T20 franchisees with
jith, Vijay Shankar, many of whom will
absolutely laughable names. Granted
this naming business is tricky, and
world over, across sports, teams
end up having funny names. Still,
to christen a team from Dindigul as
Dragons is extremely silly, unless
otherwise it has reached the stage
where Dindigul locks are now actually Chinese-made. My home town
Madurai has rightfully gone for the
title ‘Super Giants’ based on the fact
that every other stupid cliche in the
business has already been taken.
No wait. Apparently, there was one
another stupid title and was promptly
taken by Chennai. It is, of course, ‘Super Gillies’. In general, if ever there is
a moratorium on the use of words like
‘Kings’, ‘Warriors’ and ‘Super’, a lot
of franchisee-based leagues would
come unstuck.
As we wind up it is also being speculated that based on the success of
the TNPL, T20 leagues can get even
more micro. In that there can be an
in-city tournaments with franchisees
being carved out of individual neighbourhoods. In which case, I would
want to own a franchise for my area
in Chennai, and I am calling dibs on
the name Virugambakkam Vikings
(coach: Mark and Steve Waugh’s
younger brother).
Whether we win the tournament or
not, we are sure to get the support of
sports journalists because we intend
sending no messages.
e-mail the writer at
[email protected]
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
Commuters and motorists go on their way as heavy monsoon rains inundate low-lying areas in Manila, Philippines. In the other photograph, a
building collapses in flood water at Chapra in Saran district of Bihar.
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q UN Security Council condemns Pyongyang’s latest missile tests
UNITED NATIONS:
The UN Security Council strongly
condemned four North Korean ballistic missile launches in July and
August on Friday night, calling them
‘grave violations’ of a ban on all ballistic missile activity. A press statement
approved by all 15 members deplored
the fact that the North’s ballistic missile activities are contributing to its development of nuclear weapon delivery
systems and increasing tensions.
The council expressed ‘serious
concern’ that North Korea carried
out the launches after six ballistic
missile firings between April and June
‘in flagrant disregard’ of its repeated
statements to halt such launches as
well as nuclear tests which violate
council resolutions.
It urged all UN member states ‘to
redouble their efforts’ to implement
sanctions against Pyongyang, including the toughest measures in two
decades imposed by the council in
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It is sad to note that central
Italy has been severely hit by a
powerful earthquake and that the
death toll has crossed 247. On
the one hand, the countries and
the people are on the go with
the advent of great technology.
Natural disasters like earthquakes
and floods have long been playing
havoc with human beings, often
causing damage to the entire
lifeline of the world.
The unfortunate fact is that
proper care is not given to the
Nature and environmental factors like natural habitats. And it
is time to wake up and act fast
on protecting the earth and our
environment.
All of us should understand
that Mother Nature has beautiful vistas and benefits in
abundance.
P SENTHIL SARAVANA DURAI,
Vazhavallan
March. Those sanctions
reflected growing anger
at Pyongyang’s nuclear test
in January and a subsequent
rocket launch. North Korea has
repeatedly flouted Security Council
resolutions demanding an end to its
nuclear and ballistic missile activities
and has continued to launch missiles,
escalating tensions on the Korean
peninsula and in the region.
The latest submarine launch of a
ballistic missile on Wednesday came
days after the US and South Korea
began military exercises, prompting
North Korean threats of retaliation for
the military drills, which it views as a
rehearsal for invasion by the US and
other adversaries.
South Korean officials said
the submarine-launched missile flew about 310 miles, the
longest distance achieved
by the North for such a
weapon. That means all of
South Korea, and possibly
parts of Japan, are within
its striking distance. The
Security Council statement
condemned the 23 August launch
as well as the North’s ballistic missile
launches on 2 August and 18 July and
the firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile on 9 July.
China, a neighbor and ally of North
Korea, had either blocked attempts by
the United States and other council
members to condemn the three previous attacks when they happened, or
Claims it can
nuke US mainland
North Korea already has a variety
of land-based missiles that can hit
South Korea and Japan, including US military bases in those
countries. Its development of reliable submarine-launched missiles
would add a weapon that is harder
to detect before launch.
The country’s leader, Kim Jong
Un, says the US mainland is now
within striking range of his nuclear
weapons.
insisted on unacceptable language.
In Pyongyang, North Korean Foreign
Ministry official Jon Min Dok told that
the US-led discussions at the UN were
a ‘terrible provocation’ and that the
country is developing nuclear weapons
because of “outrageous nuclear intimidation” by the United States.
‘Clarity’ achieved with Russia
on Syria truce steps: Kerry
GENEVA:
US Secretary of State John Kerry
says he and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ‘have achieved
clarity’ on a path to restore a truce
in Syria but details remain to be
worked out.
After meeting off-and-on with
Lavrov for nearly 10 hours in
Geneva yesterday, Kerry said
the ‘vast majority’ of technical
discussions on steps to reinstate a ceasefire and improve
humanitarian access have been
completed. Kerry says experts
will remain in Geneva with an eye
toward finalising the unresolved
steps in the coming days.
Lavrov echoed that, saying
‘we still need to finalise a few
issues’ and pointed to the need
to separate fighters from the
al-Nusra Front, which has ties
to al-Qaida, from US-backed
NEWS MAKER
of the day
fighters who hold parts of northwest Syria.
Lavrov insisted that a resumption
of UN-mediated talks between the
Syrian government and the USbacked opposition that were suspended in April should help reduce
hostilities that have flared in recent
months. He also hailed an improved
atmosphere between Moscow and
Washington.
‘We have continued our efforts
to reduce the areas where we lack
understanding and trust, which is
an achievement,’ Lavrov said. ‘The
mutual trust is growing with every
meeting.’
Yesterday’s meeting came a
month after the two men met in
Moscow and agreed on a number
of unspecified actions to get the
all-but-ignored truce back in force.
However, as in Moscow, neither
Kerry nor Lavrov would describe
them in detail.
‘We are close,’ Kerry said. ‘But we
are not going to rush to an agreement until it satisfies fully the needs
of the Syrian people.’
In a nod to previous failed attempts
to resurrect the cessation of hostilities, Kerry stressed the importance
of keeping the details secret.
Enterprise
CHENNAI
How to promote
card payments?
New Delhi, Aug 27 (PTI):
With an aim to discourage cash
transactions, the Finance Ministry
has set up a high-level committee to
suggest steps to promote card payments through incentives like tax
rebates and cash back schemes.
The 11-member committee, headed
by former Finance Secretary Ratan
P Watal, will recommend various
measures to ‘incentivise transactions through cards and digital
means, e.g., through tax rebates/incentives, introduction of cash back/
lottery’, the ministry said. The panel,
which will review the payments system in the country and recommend
measures for encouraging digital
payments, has been set up follow-
ing a decision taken by the Cabinet
in February. It will also study feasibility of creating a payments history
of all card/digital payments and ensure that merchants/consumers can
leverage the data to access ‘instant,
low cost micro-credit’ through digital
means and create necessary linkage between the payment history
and credit information. The panel
will also study and recommend
need for changes, if any, in the
regulatory mechanism under various laws, relevant for the purpose
of promotion of payments by digital
modes. ‘To study and recommend
ways for leveraging Unique Identification Number or any other proof
of identity for authentication of card/
digital transactions and setting up
of a centralised KYC Registry’ is
another key task given to it. The
committee will study introduction of
single window system of payment
gateway to accept all types of cards/
digital payments of government
receipts and enable settlements
via NPCI or other agencies within
specified timelines.
Flipkart rejigs
top order
New Delhi, Aug 27 (PTI):
Flipkart has rejigged its
top deck yet again, carving a bigger role for head
of ‘category design management’ Kalyan Krishnamurthy among other changes, to create a ‘top-team
with clear accountabilities’.
The rejig at Flipkart, the
third major one this year,
comes at a time when the
Bengaluru-based firm is
locked in a battle with global rival Amazon for market
leadership.
In an internal note, Flipkart said the goal of the reorganisation is to ‘increase
focus on Flipkart Group,
consolidate to simplify organisation and creation
of top-team with clear accountabilities’.
‘Manufacturing growth to be higher on better export outlook’
New Delhi, Aug 27 (PTI):
India’s manufacturing sector may
witness higher growth during the
July-September quarter buoyed by
improvement in export prospects
and domestic demand, even as the
hiring outlook remains subdued,
according to a survey.
The latest quarterly survey by
FICCI on manufacturing outlook
for the second quarter also finds
that the interest rate paid by the
manufacturers still remains high
and sticky.
Uncertain economic environment,
unfavourable market conditions,
competition from imports, delayed
clearances, inadequate infrastructure (especially availability
of power) and cost escalation are
some of the major constraints affecting the expansion plans of the
industry, the poll noted.
The survey had earlier indicated
a slowdown for the first quarter of
2016-17, which seems to be waning. The proportion of respondents
expecting higher growth during
estimated to be $ 2.5 trillion
globally and it was about
3.4 per cent of global GDP.
In India it is estimated to
be $ 67 billion (Rs four
lakh crore). In addition to
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These losses can be prevented to a great extend
by proper surface preparation and coating. The best
coated surface would improve the aesthetic appeal
of the products and protect
them from corrosion and
deterioration, he said.
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not encumbered in any manner, Party
is having possession of the above sale
deed or having any objection against
this public notice may contact the
below mentioned within 15 days from
this date of notice.
B.BALAJI, M.Sc., M.L.M., B.L.,
Advocate - Notary Public
Government of India
Plot No.2, D.No.15/1, Ganesh Nagar,
First Street, First Floor,
Puzhthivakkam, Chennai - 600 091.
Mob: 9444110221 / 9600103679
SYMBOLIC POSSESSION NOTICE
(For Immovable Property)
(Under Sec 13(4) read with Appendix IV and rule 8 (1) of the Security Interest
Enforcement Rules, 2002)
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the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security
Interest Act, 2002 (54 of 2002) and in exercise of powers conferred under section
13(12) read with rule 9 of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002 issued
a 13(2) notice dated 14-06-2016 calling upon the borrower Mr. SURESH BALA.A
and the Co-Borrower Mrs. S.SIVAGAMI,P both are residing at No.92/59, ORAGADAM
MAIN ROAD, VENKATAPURAM, AMBATTUR, CHENNAI-600 053 to repay the amount
mentioned in the notice of Rs.33,79,642.24/- (Rupees Thirty Three Lakhs Seventy
Nine Thousand Six Hundred Forty Two and paise Twenty Four only) and being the
amount due and payable under the loan account No: HHOMCHE00039681 along with
interest and other charges, cost etc within 60 days from the date of said notice.
The borrower having failed to repay the amount, notice is hereby given to the
borrower, Co-borrower and the public in general that the undersigned has taken
possession of the property described herein below in exercise of the powers conferred
on him under sec 13 (4) of the said Act read with rule 9 of the said Rules on this the
22nd August, 2016.
The borrower in particular and the public in general is hereby cautioned not to deal
with the property and any dealings with the property will be subject to the charge of
DCB Bank for an amount of Rs.34,80,227.63 (Thirty Four Lakhs Eighty Thousand
Two Hundred Twenty Seven and paise Sixty Three only) as on 17-08-2016 along
with accrued interest and other charges ,cost etc.
DESCRIPTION OF THE IMMOVABLE PROPERTIES
SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY
All that piece and parcel of property being Land measuring an extent of 2156 square
Feet together with building, comprised in Old Survey Nos. 412/1 & 412/2, New Survey
No.412/2 A, present survey No.412/12, Minjure Village and bearing plot No.7, No.135,
New No.11 Door No.15, Guru Street, Ramana Nagar Minjur, Ponneri Taluk Thiruvallur
District and the land bounded on the:
NORTH BY : Plot No.6 & 16 Feet Road,
SOUTH BY : Plot No.6 & 16 Feet Road,
EAST BY : Plot No 8 and
WEST BY : Survey No.412 /1 A,
Within the Registration District of Chennai North and Sub Registration District of Ponneri.
Date: 27.08.2016
For DCB Bank Ltd.
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SI CAPITAL & FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD.,
GEM SPINNERS INDIA LIMITED
CIN : L67190TN1994PLC029151
Tel: 044 28415438 / 28415439
website: www:sicapital.co.in Email: [email protected]
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Shareholders are requested to refer to the NOTICE sent by registered
post, dispatched on 26th August 2016 regarding the proceedings
of the 22nd Annual General Meeting to be held at 10.00 A.M. on
Tuesday, 20th September, 2016 at Green Meadows – Conference Hall
No: 4/364-A, Anna Salai, Palavakkam, Chennai 600 041.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 108 of the Companies Act, 2013,
read with Rule 20 of the Companies (Management and Administration
Rules, 2014, and Clause 44 of the SEBI (Listing Obligation and
Disclosure Requirements) Regulations 2015, the Company is
providing remote e-voting facilities to the shareholders whose name
appear in the Register of Members as on the cut-off date of 14th
September, 2016 to cast their votes for passing the resolutions as set
forth in the Notice.
The e-voting platform is www.evoting.nsdl.com. The period
commences on Saturday, 17th September, 2016 @ 9.00 am and shall
end on Monday, 19th September, 2016 @ 5.00 pm. The e-voting shall
not be available thereafter. The mode of casting e-votes are explained
in the notice. Shareholders are requested to log into www.evoting.nsdl.
com for FAQ and other details. They may also write to the company’s
email: [email protected]
Kindly note that once e-vote has been cast, you cannot vote on poll
at the AGM. However, you can attend the meeting and participate in
the discussions. Results of the e-voting will be announced by the
scrutinizer and will be posted in the company’s website www.sicapital.
co.in and informed to the Stock Exchange.
Notice is further given, pursuant to section 91 of the Companies Act,
2013 that the Register of Members and Share Transfer books of the
Company will remain closed from 15-09-2016 to 20-09-2016 (Both
days inclusive) for the purpose of 22nd Annual General Meeting.
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Surface and coating
expo underway in city
Dignitaries releasing a souvenir at the ‘Surface and
Coatings Expo 2016 ‘ organised by the CII in Chennai
Friday.
NT Bureau
National Corrosion Mission
will bring corrosion conChennai, Aug 27:
trol to the mainstream of
The Surface and Coatprogrammes and projects
ing Expo 2016, organised
in the industrial and other
by the Confederation of
important sectors of proIndian Industry (CII), is curduction and processing.
rently ongoing at the Trade
This will also help reduce
Centre in Nandambakkam
the loss of three percent
here.
of GDP to corrosion, esA press release said, it
timated to be worth over
will go on till 28 August.
Rs four lakh crore’, BalOver 150 exhibitors from
dev Raj, chairman, CII
India and abroad are parCorrosion Management
ticipating in the three day
Committee and director,
exhibition.
National Institute for AdAlong with the expo, CII is
vance Studies.
organising an exhibition of
Ramesh Datla, chairman,
pumps, valve, controllers,
CII Southern Region, said
compressors, drives and
the cost of corrosion is
motors. ‘The proposed
SATURDAY
27 AUGUST 2016
1. The 26th Annual General Meeting of the members of the Company will
be held on Monday, the 19th September 2016 at 10.30 A.M, at No.14,
Mangalam Village, Madhuranthagam Taluk, Kancheepuram District,
Tamil Nadu to transact business as detailed in the Notice convening the
Annual General Meeting.
2. The Register of Members of the Company and Share Transfer Books will
remain closed from 09.09.2016 to 19-09-2016 (both days inclusive) for
the purpose of the Annual General Meeting, in terms of Section 91 of the
Companies Act, 2013 read with Rule 10 of the Companies (Management
& Administration) Rules 2014.
3. The Company is pleased to provide all its Members, the facility to exercise
their votes through electronic voting (e-voting) in association with the
Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL). Members are informed that:a. All the Ordinary and Special Business as set out in the Notice of the AGM
can be transacted through e-voting.
Directors’ Report and Auditor’s Report for the year ended 31st March
2016 was dispatched to all the Members on 26.08.2016.
c. Any person, who acquires shares of the Company and become member
of the Company after dispatch of the notice and holding shares as of the
cut-off date i.e 12th September 2016 may obtain the login ID and
password by sending a request at [email protected] or RTA.
d. Voting through electronic mode shall commence on 15th September
2016 at 09.00 A.M. and will end on 18th September 2016 at 6.00 P.M.
e. Voting through electronic mode shall not be allowed beyond 6.00 P.M.
on 18th September 2016.
f. The Company has opted to provide at the AGM venue, the physical
voting facility by circulation of Ballot forms for all the members who are
present at the AGM and have not cast their votes by availing the remote
e-voting facility.
g. A Copy of the Notice is available on the website of the Company at www.
gemspin.com and also on the website of CDSL at www.evotingindia.com.
h. For any grievances / queries connected with voting by electronic means,
shareholders may email at [email protected]. If a member casts
votes by both modes, then voting done through e-voting shall prevail
and Ballot shall be treated as invalid.
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FICCI on manufacturing outlook
for the second quarter also
finds that the interest rate
paid by the manufacturers
still remains high and
sticky’
July-September
quarter has risen to 55 per cent as
against 53 per cent for April-June
quarter 2016-17, although, it remains much below the percentage
of 60 per cent for January-March
quarter of the previous fiscal.
Manufacturing sector in India
continued with its uptrend and hit
a four-month high in July, backed
by stronger upturn in new business
orders. The Nikkei Markit India
Manufacturing Purchasing Man-
agers’ Index (PMI) - a composite
indicator of manufacturing performance - rose to 51.8 in July from
51.7 in June. The slight improvement in the outlook for manufacturing production in second quarter of
2016-17 is attributable to various
factors including somewhat better outlook for exports compared
to previous quarters, and better
outlook on domestic demand front
too, the survey pointed out.
Export outlook for manufacturing
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1.Sale Deed No .1150/90
2. G.P.O No. 32/96
3. Sale Deed No.1618/96
She Missed in Mangadu
if anybody found these Documents,
kindly inform the undersigned
I, THIRUMALAI RATHINA
PILLAI
KRISHNAN,
S/o
Krishnan date of birth
24.02.1994, Indian, residing
at No.18, 14th Street, Vinobaji
Nagar,
Hasthinapuram,
Chitlapakkam, Chennai 600 064, Tamilnadu, shall
henceforth be known as
THIRUMALAI KRISHNAN.
THIRUMALAI RATHINA
PILLAI KRISHNAN.
K. Gunasundari, W/O A. R Kumar,
3/ 175, Parthasarathy Nagar,
Ashtalakshmi Avenue, Manapakkam,
Chennai, When Travelling from
Manapakkam to Mangadu by Bus
No.53 in Mangadu, She Missed her
Documents
Revathy,Black And Red law Associates.
#6,Nandhi Street,West C.I.T.Nagar,
Nandhanam,Chennai-600 035
044-24323310
SYMBOLIC POSSESSION NOTICE
in September quarter improved
slightly as against the expectations
for the first quarter. The proportion
of respondents expecting higher
exports in the second quarter rose
by five percentage points to 41
per cent as against 36 per cent in
2016-17.
However, hiring outlook remains
subdued in manufacturing in coming months as three quarters of
the participants in second quarter
of 2016-17 are unlikely to hire
additional workforce in next three
months. The proportion remains
almost similar to that recorded for
June quarter (76 per cent).
The survey mapped expectations of manufacturers for thirteen
major sectors namely auto, capital goods, cement and ceramics,
chemicals, electronics and electricals, food products, leather and
footwear, machine tools, metal
and metal products, metal forging,
paper products, textiles and technical textiles and textiles machinery.
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LILADEVI
ASHOK
KUMAR, W/o. Ashok Kumar,
Date of Birth: 20-01-1968,
Residing at No.77, 2nd Floor,
Sydenhams Road, Arihant
Shivshakthi Apts, Periamet,
Chennai - 600003, shall hence
forth be known as LEELADEVI
ASHOK KUMAR.
I, UMRAN MOHAMED
GHOUSE, S/o. Mohamed
Ghouse, Date of Birth:
20-05-1991, residing at
No. 7, Banavaram Road,
Kaveripakkam,
Vellore
632508, shall hence forth
be known as KAJAUMMAR
MOHAMED GHOUSE.
LILADEVI ASHOK KUMAR.
UMRAN MOHAMED
GHOUSE.
SYMBOLIC POSSESSION NOTICE
(For Immovable Property)
(For Immovable Property)
(Under Sec 13(4) read with Appendix IV and rule 8 (1) of the Security Interest Enforcement
Rules, 2002)
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Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest
Act, 2002 (54 of 2002) and in exercise of powers conferred under section 13(12) read
with rule 9 of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002 issued a 13(2) notice dated
13-06-2016 calling upon the Borrower 1. Mr. T.CHERAN SENGUTUVAN and the
Co-Borrowers 2. Mr.N.DULASIDOSS, 3. Ms.T.VANAJA and 4. Mr.T.HARIPRASATH all
are residing at NO.5/488, VALMIGI STREET, OTTERI EXTENSION, VANDALUR, PIN-600
048 to repay the amount mentioned in the notice of Rs.7,81,841.59 (Rupees Seven Lakhs
Eighty One Thousand Eight Hundred Forty One and paise Fifty Nine Only) and being
the amount due and payable under the loan account No: HHOMTAM00052025 along with
interest and other charges, cost etc within 60 days from the date of said notice.
The borrower having failed to repay the amount, notice is hereby given to the borrower,
Co-borrowers and the public in general that the undersigned has taken possession of the
property described herein below in exercise of the powers conferred on him under sec 13 (4) of
the said Act read with rule 9 of the said Rules on this the 20th August, 2016.
The borrower in particular and the public in general is hereby cautioned not to deal
with the property and any dealings with the property will be subject to the charge of the
DCB Bank for an amount of Rs.7,87,362.49 (Seven Lakhs Eighty Seven Thousand Three
Hundred Sixty Two and Paise Forty Nine Only) as on 17-08-2016 along with accrued
interest and other charges, cost etc.
DESCRIPTION OF THE IMMOVABLE PROPERTIES
SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY
Land measuring an extent of 825.7 sq.meter or land out of 1474.7 sq.ft sq.ft of
land together with House situated at Old Door No.7/269 , New Door no.5/488 (as per
document ) and 5/448 (as per revenue records) 10th Street, Otteri Extension, Vandallur
Village,Kattangulathur Ooratchi Ondriyam, Chengulpet Taluk, Kanchipuram District,
Comprised in Gramanatham old survey No.261 A/1A1 partand new survey No.261A/6 and
bounded on the:
NORTH BY : House belongs to Govindan,
SOUTH BY : House belongs to Susila,
EAST BY : Common passage and Remaining portion of Land,
WEST BY : Singara Thottam,
Admeasuring
North to South on the Eastern side 19.9 Feet,
North to South on the Western side 19.9 Feet,
East to West on the Northern side 31 Feet and
East to West on the Southern side 31 feet,
In all measuring about 825.7 sq.meter of land out of 1474.7 sq.ft sq.ft of land and
falls within the Sub-Registration District of Chennai South and Registration District of
Guduvancherry.
Date: 27.08.2016
For DCB Bank Ltd.
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(Under Sec 13(4) read with Appendix IV and rule 8 (1) of the Security Interest
Enforcement Rules, 2002)
QUANTUM DIGITAL VISION (INDIA) LIMITED
CIN: L3599TN1980PLC008235
Regd. Add: 143 Athipattu Village, Ponneri Taluk,
Chengal, Tamil Nadu - 601203
NOTICE FOR E-VOTING & BOOK CLOSURE
Notice hereby given that the 36th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of
the members of the Company will be held 23rd September, 2016 at
11: 00 A.M. at 143 Athipattu Village, Ponneri Taluk ,Chengal ,Tamil
Nadu ,601203 to transact the Ordinary and Special Businesses as set
out in the Notice of the AGM.
Notice is also given under Section 91 of the Companies Act, 2013 read
with Rule 10 of the Companies (Management and Administration)
Rules 2014 that the Register of Members and Share Transfer Books of
the Company shall remain closed from 17th September, 2016 to 23rd
September, 2016 (both days inclusive) for the purpose of the AGM.
The Company has completed the despatch of the Notice of AGM and
the Annual Report for the year 2015-16. The communication relating
to remote e-voting, inter-alia, containing user ID and password has
been dispatched to the members.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 108 of the Companies Act, 2013
read with Rule 20 of the Companies (Management and Administration)
Rules 2014, as amended by the Companies (Management and
Administration) Amendment Rules, 2015 and Regulation 44 of the
Listing Regulations, remote e-voting facility has been made available
to the members to exercise their right to vote . The Company has
engaged the services of CDSL to provide remote e-voting facility. The
details of the remote e-voting are as under:
Date and time of commencement of remote E-voting:
20th September, 2016 at 09.00 A.M.
Date and time of end of remote E-voting: 22nd September, 2016 at
5.00 p.m.
Remote e-voting shall not be allowed beyond this 22nd September,
2016 (5.00 p.m.)
Cut-off date: 16th September 2016
A member may participate in the General Meeting even after
exercising his right to vote through remote e-voting but shall not
be allowed to vote again in the meeting; and
A person whose name is recorded in the register of members or in
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on the cut-off date only shall be entitled to avail the facility of remote
e-voting as well as voting in the General Meeting
Notice of the Annual General Meeting has been displayed on the
web site of the Company www.qil.in and on website of e-voting
platform provided by Central Depository Services (India) i.e.
www.evotingindia.com.
In case you have any queries or issues regarding e-voting, write an
email to [email protected] or contact Mr. Rajkishan Singh on
telephone: 022 26846530
For Quantum Digital Vision (India) Limited
Sd/Date: 26/08/2016
Himalay Dassani
Place: chennai
Managing Director
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DCB Bank Ltd. under
the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security
Interest Act, 2002 (54 of 2002) and in exercise of powers conferred under section
13(12) read with rule 9 of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002 issued a
13(2) notice dated 13-06-2016 calling upon the borrower Mr. PECTHI MUTHU and the
Co-Borrower Mrs. SELVI.P both are residing at No.630 A, PERIYAR NAGAR SOUTH,
3RD STREET, PETHIKUPPAM, GUMMUDIPOONDI-601201 to repay the amount
mentioned in the notice of Rs.10,30,296/- (Rupees Ten Lakhs Thirty Thousand
Two Hundred Ninety Six only) and being the amount due and payable under the loan
account No: HHOMMIN00035902 along with interest and other charges, cost etc
within 60 days from the date of said notice.
The borrower having failed to repay the amount, notice is hereby given to the borrower,
Co-borrower and the public in general that the undersigned has taken possession of
the property described herein below in exercise of the powers conferred on him under
sec 13 (4) of the said Act read with rule 9 of the said Rules on this 22nd August, 2016.
The borrower in particular and the public in general is hereby cautioned not to deal
with the property and any dealings with the property will be subject to the charge of
the DCB Bank for an amount of Rs.10,24,864/- (Rupees Ten Lakhs Twenty Four
Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty Four only) as on 17-08-2016 along with accrued
interest and other charges, cost etc.
DESCRIPTION OF THE IMMOVABLE PROPERTIES
SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY
All that piece and parcel of land measuring 1265 sq.ft with building thereon plot No.20,
periyar Nagar comprised in punjai S.No.233-5B, as per patta new S.No.233-5B19,
Plot No.20, New No.630 A, Periyar Nagar south,3rd Street, Pethikuppam village,
Gummidipoondi Taluk, Tiruvallur District and bounded on the:
North By : Plot No.21,
South By : Plot No.19,
East By : 20 Feet Wide Road,
West By : Plot No.13,
Situated within the Sub_Registration District of Gummidipoondi and Registration
District of Chennai-North.
Date: 27.08.2016
For DCB Bank Ltd.
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(CIN: L33111TN1984PLC010675)
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NOTICE is hereby given that the 31st Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of the
Shareholders of the Company will be held at 11.00 a.m. on Tuesday, the 27th
September, 2016, at the Madras Race Club, Race Course Road, Opp. Guindy
Railway Station, Guindy, Chennai – 600032. The company has completed
dispatch of Notice along with Attendance Slip, Proxy form & Annual Report
containing the Audited Accounts of the Company for the year ended 31st
March, 2016, together with the Reports of the Auditors and the Directors
thereon to the Members on their registered addresses or email - ids on or
before 26th August, 2016 and the same is available on the website of the
Company at www.adventcomputer.in and also available on the website of
National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) at https://www.evoting.nsdl.
com
NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to Section 91 of the Companies Act, 2013
that the Register of Members and the Share Transfer books of the Company
will remain closed from Friday, the 16th September, 2016 to Tuesday, the 27th
September, 2016 (both days inclusive) for the purpose of holding the Annual
General Meeting.
In compliance with Section 108 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with Rule 20
of the Companies (Management and Administration) Rules, 2014, as amended
from time to time, Regulation 44 of SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure
Requirement) Regulations, 2015 & Secretarial Standards on General Meeting
issued by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India:
1. The Company is providing remote e-voting facility to its members to cast their
vote by electronic means on the Resolutions set out in the Notice of the 31st AGM.
2. Day, Date and Time of commencement of remote e-voting: Saturday, the
24th September, 2016 (9.00 a.m.)
3. Day, Date and Time of end of remote e-voting: Monday, the 26th
September, 2016 (5.00 p.m.)
4. The voting by electronic means shall not be allowed beyond 5.00 p.m. on
26th September, 2016. The E-voting module shall be disabled by NSDL
for voting thereafter.
5. Members holding shares either in physical form or dematerialized form,
as on the cut-off date i.e. 20th September, 2016 will be eligible to cast
their vote electronically OR voting through ballot paper / polling paper
available at venue of the AGM.
6. Once the vote on a resolution is cast by the shareholder through remote
e-voting, it cannot be changed subsequently. The shareholders who have
cast their vote through remote e-voting may attend the AGM but shall not
be entitled to cast their votes again.
7. In order to enable its Members, who do not have the access to remote
e-voting facility to send their assent or dissent in writing in respect of the
resolutions as set out in this Notice, the Company is enclosing a Ballot Form
with the Notice.
For any query or grievances in relation to e-voting, members may contact the
Company Registrar and Share Transfer Agent at the below address / telephone
nos.: Bigshare Services Private Limited, Unit: Advent Computer Services Limited,
E-2 & 3, Ansa Industrial Estate, SakiVihar Road, Saki Naka, Andheri (East),
Mumbai- 400072. Tel No. 022-28476052/53,022-40430200; Email: investor@
bigshareonline.com.
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6 SATURDAY
27 AUGUST 2016
USA a special market
for cricket: Dhoni
Fort Lauderdale, Aug 27 (PTI):
USA is a ‘specia’ market for
cricket and there is no reason why
the game can’t be successful here,
asserted captain Mahendra Singh
Dhoni on the eve of India’s first international match on American soil.
‘As far as the facility is concerned,
it is as good as you would get
anywhere in the world. Yes, the
stadium is not that big, though
when it comes to the playing area
it is a perfect ground,’ said Dhoni
yesterday ahead of first of two
T20 Internationals between India
and the West Indies at the Central
Broward Regional Park Stadium
here today.
Dhoni, who returns to action after
a break, feels cricket in America is a
win-win for the game and the huge
Indian diaspora living here.
‘Also, what we have to see is
that it is a new venture for cricket.
Looking at everything, it is a perfect staging ground. Few of other
international teams have already
played here, also not to forget that
some of the T20 leagues have
happened. The infrastructure looks
good. Overall it is a big
occasion. Stepping into the USA
for the first time as the Indian
cricket team.
‘As fas as effort is concerned, I
always felt the USA was big market,
a lot of sub-continent people stay
here, not only Indians. I feel it is a
good start. The timings (broadcast)
are also good. It feels good to be
ISL-3 to be
held from
1 Oct - 18 Dec
Mumbai, Aug 27 (PTI):
Season-3 of the Indian Super League
football would be held from 1 October
to 18 December, with the opening
game scheduled in Guwahati and the
venues of the two-legged semi finals
to be decided later.
League’s promoters, Football Sports
Development Ltd, yesterday announced the
ISL fixtures
featuring 61
games spread
across 79
days played in
a home-away
league format, to be followed by the
semi-finals
and the final.
All
the
matches will kick off at 7 pm.
For the third year running John Abraham-owned club North East United
FC would take on Sachin Tendulkar
owned Kerala Blasters FC in the season opener, to be held at the Indira
Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati.
The first leg of the semi finals are
scheduled on 10 and 11 December
followed by the second leg on 13 and
14 December leading up to the final
on December 18.
FOCUS ON FIELDING PAID
OFF, SAYS INDRAJITH
here. Earlier, people living in US
used to travel to the the West Indies
to support us but now they have the
opportunity to catch the action here
itself,’ said Dhoni, who is expecting
a bigger crowd support for his team
than the West Indies.
India registered a comfortable win
the preceding Test series in the
West Indies but they are a much
better unit in the limited overs
format. Dhoni too said beating the
reigning World T20 champions will
be tough.
‘I would say in limited overs format, the West Indies are extraordinary. They have the right balance,
they are entertaining as well. It will
be very interesting (the two match
series). It is an early morning start
here but it won’t make much of a
difference,’ said the skipper.
Dhoni further said that playing
only two formats has helped him
focus on his fitness.
‘During this (break) time, fitness is
quite easy to maintain. The reason
is you have ample time to prepare.
What becomes a slight issue is the
cricketing aspect. There was a lot
of rain back home in India so most
of the schedule was indoor with a
bit of bowling machine to go with it.
There was not much outdoor activity. Anyway feels good to be back.
Also, this year we won’t be playing
a lot of limited overs cricket so this
gives us an opportunity to make the
most of two days we have,’ said the
wicket-keeper batsman.
‘Aparajith’s ton has increased expectations on me’
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 27:
If it was Baba Aparajith on Thursday,
it was the turn of his twin Indrajith to
shine as Ruby Kanchi Warriors pulled
off a thrilling win via the Super Over
against Lyca Kovai Kings in a TNPL
match at the M A Chidambaram stadium here last night.
Speaking to reporters at the postmatch media conference, skipper
Indrajith said that the team hadn’t
planned in advance for the super over
nad expressed happiness at starting
with a win.
He also said focus on fitness and
fielding was a key factor in securing
the win. ‘Actually, in our team we have
youngsters and seniors. When this
Kanchi side was formed, we focused
on our fitness and fielding,’ he added.
Talking of the Super Over and if they
had planned anything in advance, the
Kanchi captain said, ‘We did not plan
those things. We did not expect the
match to go to a Super Over.
Asked if he thought he should have
finished the match and avoided a
super over, Indrajith said: ‘I think I did
a decent job. I did not want to hit the
ball in the air. At least I wanted to get a
super over and tie. I wanted to hit the
ball to mid-wicket so that I could try
and take two runs but it didn’t happen.
Pink test: Jury still
out on sighting ball
Greater Noida, Aug 27 (PTI):
Yuvraj Singh felt ‘it moved a bit
more than SG Test’ while Robin
Uthappa’s observations varied
from ‘colour change’ to ‘lack of
reverse swing’ as the first set of
inputs on BCCI’s much talked
about ‘Pink ball’ Day/Night experiment came to the fore.
While there is no denying that
Day/Night cricket always brings in
more people as one saw at least
800-1000 spectators during peak
evening hours on all three days
of the inaugural Duleep Trophy
match, the BCCI will still need
to figure out a few things before
they seriously think of pursuing
the idea of a Test match.
For starters, there has been
varied opinions on whether an
individual batsman has been able
to sight the pink Kookaburra ball
well or not but everyone agreed
that not much effort was required
to ‘maintain the ball’ unlike the
conventional red Kookaburra, SG
Test or Dukes.
While Yuvraj did not have a great
time with the willow but his input
will be the most valuable one for
the BCCI.
‘I thought the pink ball moved
a bit more than the SG ball. It
was pretty exciting, the pink ball
CHENNAI
doesn’t go old. It was coming
o n t o
the bat nicely,’
the
India Red
skipper
and a
two-time
World Cup
winner said after the match.
Veteran glovesman
Parthiv Patel sees future
in Pink ball Test but he conceded that this ball skids a
bit more.
‘I had no problem in
sighting it. During the day,
I could see the ball better.
Not used to getting the
pink ball coming to you.
It’s a matter of getting
used to it but visibility was
not a problem.’
‘As far as future is concerned, too early to say.
Definitely there is a future. But dew could be
a factor. The ball skid
and moved more. Also
I don’t think you can
have Tests in sub-continent using this much
of grass,’ said Parthiv.
NIlesh Subramaniam
I didn’t want to take a chance and hit
the ball in the air.
The right-hander, who seemed to
be cramping towards the end of the
game said. he was okay. ‘It’s better
but it’s not fully gone (cured).’
To a query about his brother getting a hundred the other day and if
he had any similar targets, he said,
‘We don’t have such targets but after
his hundred I spoke to him and told
him because of him there is a lot of
expectation on me.’
‘It is not so easy to hit a hundred
in a T20 game. Yesterday, he (B
Aparajith) played a blistering knock
but not every day you can score
those hundreds.’
‘We failed at crunch times’
Meanwhile, Kovai
Kings wicketkeeper Rohith Ravikumar said the
team failed at
crunch moments and
let the game slip
away.
‘We were upbeat
ahead of the super
over. (Murali) Vijay
was confident he
could hit the ball
out of the park but
it didn’t happen for
us today, so tough luck.
Credit to both teams, we
played an amazing game,’
he said.
On his thoughts on the TNPL,
Rohit said, ‘It is bringing a lot of
unknown talent to the fray. If you
have watched the KPL a lot of people have come out from there. This
is happening on a bigger scale and
we expect a lot of talent to come
out. It is a great opportunity for all
of us so hoping to take it.’
Murali Vijay
Faf wants SA to play
more Tests like India
A regular in T20 leagues
across the world, du Plessis
however, said Test crickets
remains his top priority
Johannesburg, Aug 27:
Twenty20 skipper Faf du
Plessis backed the longer
format of the game and
said South Africa should
emulate India, who will
be playing as many
du Plessis
as 13 Tests this season at home.
World No. 6 in ICC
rankings, South Africa will be playing 11
Tests this season, but
du Plessis wants the officials to try and get as much
Test cricket as possible at
home.
‘We don’t play a lot of
Tests at home. If you look
at India, this season they
have got 15 Tests coming
up in their country you want to
try and make use of your own
conditions and play as many
Tests as possible,’ du Plessis
was quoted as saying by Espncricinfo.
‘We play a little bit and then
there’s a big break. With the
space the team is in now, we
would like to play as much Test
cricket as possible and try and
build something. We have a
mission as a team and we are
trying to get there.’ A regular in
T20 leagues across the world,
du Plessis however, said Test
crickets remains his top priority.
‘Test cricket is the best
thing to play. That is the challenge you want. You want
to sit after a day’s play as a
bowler ... your toenails are
bleeding and you are extremely
tired and you want to, for the
guys that drink beer, have a sip
at the end and say we gave it
everything.
‘You can’t copy the feeling
of winning a Test match in
any other format, especially in
T20s,’ he said.
Djokovic, Serena face
early challenges
1ST ROUND
MATCHES
TO WATCH
Women:
Serena Williams
New York, Aug 27:
Top seeds Novak Djokovic and
Serena Williams face challenging
early tests at the US Open following Friday’s draws for the year’s last
grand slam starting on Monday.
Djokovic, who has been bothered
by a wrist injury, faces towering
Jerzy Janowicz of Poland in his
opening match at Flushing Meadows, and is likely to meet 48thranked Jiri Vesely of the Czech
Republic in the second round.
Vesely beat the Serbian world
number one earlier this season on
clay in Monte Carlo.
Serena, recovering from a shoulder injury, drew Russian lefthander
Ekaterina Makarova as her first op-
ponent. The 34-year-old American,
seeking to break her tie with Steffi
Graf for the most grand slam singles
titles in the Open era on 22, has a
4-1 career record against Makarova,
but lost to the Russian in the fourth
round at the 2012 Australian Open.
Serena Williams is in a strong
quarter that also includes fifth seed
Simona Halep of Romania and 16thseeded Australian Sam Stosur, who
beat the American in the 2011 US
Open final.
Djokovic is seeded to face either
Frenchman Richard Gasquet or
big-serving American John Isner in
the fourth round, with France’s JoWilfried Tsonga or 2014 champion
Marin Cilic possible quarter-final
Serena vs Ekaterina Makarova
Svetlana Kuznetsova (9) vs
Francesca Schiavone
Petra Kvitova (14) vs Jelena
Ostapenko
Men:
A Murray (2) vs L Rosol
S Wawrinka (3) vs F Verdasco
Jack Sock vs Taylor Fritz
Feliciano Lopez (16) vs Borna
Coric
opponents. Men’s second seed
Murray, who ran off 22 wins in a
row including his second Wimbledon
title and successful defense of his
Olympics crown, appeared to get a
more favorable draw.
The Scotsman opens against
Czech Lukas Rosol, has Grigor
Dimitrov of Bulgaria or Feliciano
Lopez of Spain as potential fourthround foes with Japan’s sixth-seeded
Kei Nishikori possibly waiting for
him in the quarters. Third seed Stan
Wawrinka, who is in Murray’s half
of the draw, begins against Spanish
veteran Fernando Verdasco, and may
have to deal with a young Australian,
Bernard Tomic or Nick Kyrgios, in the
fourth round.
The dangerous Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina, the 2009 champion
who showed in claiming Olympic
silver that he is regaining form after
a long recovery from an injured wrist,
could be there to oppose the Swiss
double slam winner in the quarterfinals.
Fourth-seeded Rafa Nadal, winner
of 14 slams, and fifth seed Milos
Raonic of Canada could clash in the
quarters for a possible semi-finals
showdown with Djokovic.
Rounding out the women’s draw,
second seed Angelique Kerber, who
nearly unseated Williams as world
number one but lost in the Cincinnati
final, appears to have a comfortable
early path.
Kerber, who opens against Polona
Hercog of Slovenia, is seeded for a
quarters clash against seventh seed
Novak Djokovic
PROJECTED QUARTERFINALS
MEN:
N Djokovic (1) vs M Cilic (7)
A Murray (2) vs K Nishikori (6)
S Wawrinka (3) vs D Thiem (8)
R Nadal (4) vs M Raonic (5)
Roberta Vinci of Italy, who shocked
Williams in last year’s Open semifinals.The German’s potential semifinal opponent comes from a more
impressive quarter that includes
third-seeded French Open champion Garbine Muguruza, Olympic
champion Monica Puig, Briton Jo-
WOMEN:
Serena (1) vs S Halep (5)
A Kerber (2) vs R Vinci (7)
G Muguruza (3) vs M Keys (8)
A Radwanksa (4) vs V Williams (6)
hanna Konta and big-hitting American Madison Keys, the eighth seed.
In the other quarter in Serena’s
side of the draw, the leading seeds
are Agnieszka Radwanska of
Poland (4) and Venus Williams
(6), who will aim for a semi-finals
encounter with her sister.
Mixed Bag
CHENNAI
SATURDAY
27 AUGUST 2016
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Kashmir unrest:
Mehbooba meets PM
DEITIES & DEVOTION
q She hits out at Pakistan for openly fuelling tension in Valley
The ‘Padhi Amarthum Peruvizha’ of the five ellai deities of
Kanchipuram Nimadharakaara Street, was celebrated in which
devotees took part in large numbers.
PM to address
CMs of BJP-ruled
States
New Delhi, Aug 27 (PTI):
A meeting of BJP Chief Ministers
and deputy Chief Ministers in which
the party top brass, including Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, will address
them on the agenda of good governance and pro-poor measures got
underway here today.
BJP chief Amit Shah inaugurated
the meeting, which will be addressed
by Modi later in the evening. Party
sources have said better coordination
between the organisation and government, besides a stronger emphasis
on ‘pro-poor’ and developmental
works is at the centre of the exercise.
The Chief Ministers are expected
to speak about their government’s
programmes aimed at executing
the agenda. The meeting comes in
the wake of a day-long workshop of
the party’s core committee leaders
of states on Tuesday in which Modi
pitched for reaching out to all sections
of society, especially the poor, while
Shah underlined the need for expanding the organisation and greater coordination. Modi had said that when the
party is in power, then the aim should
be to win over the masses with the
government’s work.
Srinagar, Aug 27:
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister
Mehbooba Mufti today met Prime
Minister Narendra Modi at 7 Race
Course residence (RCR) and discussed security situation in the State
as the Valley remained on the boil
with one more civilian killed in firing
by security forces.
Mehbooba told reporter after her
meeting with Prime Minister Narendra
Modi here that youth in the Kashmir
were attacking security forces and
police stations after being provoked
by Pakistan and separatist leaders.
‘I want to tell Pakistan, if it has any
sympathy for Kashmiris, it shouldn`t
provoke them to attack police stations
-- and save youth from being killed,’
the Chief Minister said.
Government sources in Delhi and
Srinagar told media that the Chief
Minister was summoned to Delhi
after Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s
two-day visit to the valley.
They said the Home Minister had
asked the Chief Minister to act tough
against and round up those perpetrating a deadly civilian unrest triggered
by the 8 July killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani.
The source said state and central
intelligence agencies have prepared
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Muft with Prime Minsiter
Narendra Modi in New Delhi today.
a list of around 170 ringleaders, found ‘not acted and the alleged troubleinciting the unrest and provoking peo- makers are roaming about free’, the
ple to take to the streets and throw source said, adding that the Chief
stones at security forces.
Minister was being pressurized to
Most of these ringleaders are from crack down on them.
south Kashmir, the bastion of MehAs Mehbooba jetted off to Delhi,
booba’s Peoples Democratic Party.
one more civilian died after security
Jammu and Kashmir Police have forces opened fire in south Kashmir`s
Scorpene leak: ‘Whistleblower’
to hand over disk to ‘govt’
q ‘CD with documents has been in Australia for more than two years’
New Delhi, Aug 27:
ene
The leaked data on Indian Scorpene
tlesubmarines was given by a ‘whistlewsblower’ to The Australian, the newspaper said in a report, adding that
hat
the ‘whistleblower’ would hand
over the disk to the ‘government’
on Monday.
The article does not clarify if the
e
reference is to the Australian governrnment. A report by Cameron Stewart,
art,
who broke the report on the leak, told
the story of how the 22,400 docucuments from French DCNS reached
hed
the newspaper continents away.
It also said that the ‘whistleblower’s’
er’s’
hope is that this would ‘spur the Turnurnbull government and DCNS to step
tep
up security to ensure Australia`s $50
billion submarine project does not
suffer the same fate.’
‘He says he is a whistleblower and
maintains that revealing to the world,
via The Australian, that this classified
data exists in a dangerously uncon-
trolled form is worthwhile because
Australia s init will serve Australia`s
terests even if it causes
an international furore,’
said
the re-
port.
According to the
report, the CD
ith the
th documents
d
t has
h
with
been in Australia for more than two
years.
The report ruled out the ‘corporate
war angle’ that was given by DCNS
and said for competitors to strike, Nor-
way would have been a better place
than Australia as DCNS is pitching
Na
its submarine for their Navy.
Stewart
wrote in the report: ‘But iti seems that
the story behind this leak m
may be more
espio
incompetence than espionage
-- more
Ja
Austin Powers than James
Bond.’
He wrote quoting s
sources that
the data was removed from DCNS
in Paris in 2011 by a
form
former
French
Na
Navy
officer
who quit
th service
the
in the early
1970s and
w
worked
for
F
French
defence comi
f more than
panies
for
30 years before becoming a subcontractor to DCNS.
Stewart wrote that the subcontractor had copied some ‘sensitive data’
from DCNS in France, and took it to
HARDIK WRITES TO MODI
q Demands release of Patels convicted in 2002 riots cases
Ahmedabad, Aug 27 (PTI):
Quota agitation spearhead Hardik
Patel has demanded the release of
Patel youths convicted in various
riots cases of 2002, but alleged
that Prime Minister Narendra Modi
would not facilitate it as he now
wants to project himself as a ‘secular’ leader to the world.
Patel in a letter to Modi, has listed
102 Patel community members,
who have been awarded life imprisonment in different riot cases
of 2002.
‘Everybody knows that Narendra
Modi first became Chief Minister of
Gujarat taking the benefit of 2002
riots and then become Prime Minister of the country,’ Hardik Patel
said in a letter addressed to Modi
Narayanasamy to
present budget
29 August
Puducherry, Aug 27 (PTI):
Puducherry Chief Minister V
Narayanasamy will present the
2016-17 budget on 29 August in
the Assembly.
The previous AINRC government
headed by Rangasamy had adopted
a Vote on Account Bill in March allocating funds for the first six months
of the current fiscal.
Narayanasamy had held discussions with representatives of industries associations, farmers, government officials among others here as
a pre budget exercise.
Hardik Patel
accusing him of being responsible
for the carnage. ‘Many Patidar youths
have been sentenced (by courts) in
riots cases. I have given a list below,’
he said in the letter.
Patel is at present residing in
Udaipur, as he has been asked to
stay outside Gujarat by the State
High Court as part of one of his bail
conditions. ‘All these Patel youths are
rotting in jails of Gujarat. Modiji is now
Prime Minister. He can recommend
to the President for release of Patel
youths involved in riots and get them
released,’ Hardik said in the letter.
‘But, I know Modiji will not do that
as he wants to show the country and
the world that he is a secular person.
Modiji has misused Gujaratis and
particularly Patidars,’ Hardik alleged.
He then goes on to give a list of various riots cases and number of youths
convicted by courts in this connection.
A year back, Hardik had started his
agitation with a demand for inclusion
of his community in the OBC category
for reservation.
Violence had erupted after he held
a mega rally here on 25 August last
year in which government and private property worth crores of rupees
were damaged and 11 persons, including one policemen, were killed.
Later, he was arrested on sedition charges and spent about nine
months in jail. He was released
thereafter following which he formed
a new team for his agitation. His
old associates like Ketan Patel and
Chirag Patel,
who were co-accused in sedition
case with him have alleged that the
young leader has amassed wealth
in the name of Patel quota agitation. They have also accused him
of ruining the agitation due to his
ambition of becoming a leader at a
young age.
Central grants of Rs 3.51 cr
given to Pondy NGOs
Puducherry, Aug 27 (PTI):
Puducherry Welfare Minister M
Kandasamy today called upon
non governmental organisations
in the Union Territory to pay
sustained care and attention for
the welfare of young children.
Handing over Rs 3.51 crore as
grant to 27 NGOs of Puducherry
and Karaikal regions under a
scheme of the Union Women
and Child Development Ministry
here Kandasamy said the grant
was presented to the organisations taking care of abandoned
children, street children and also
adopted by the organisations.
Around 1670 dhildren attached
to the organisations would be
benefitted by the grant. He said
Puducherry Child Protection
Society operating the Central
scheme and attached to the
Department of Social Welfare
should ensure that there was
timely availability of the grants.
He asked the officials of the organisations to be meticulous in
the welfare of the children. He
later told newsmen that there
was an attempt on the part of the
government to introduce cradle
baby scheme in Puducherry.
‘a Southeast Asian country’.
The two men worked there, ‘carrying
out unclassified naval defence work’.
According to the report, the ‘speculation’ is that the data on the Scorpene was removed to serve as a
reference guide for the former naval
officer’s new job. However, the two
men are said to have ‘fallen out with
their employer’, a private company
run by a Western businessman, following which they were sacked and
not allowed inside the building.
The company refused to give them
the data, and sent the data later to
its head office in Singapore where it
was uploaded on an internet server.
However, while the article in its opening lines implies the CD with the data
was delivered to the ‘whistleblower’
some time in April 2013, giving the
timeline from Singapore it says the data
was uploaded on an internet server
on 18 April, 2013, where it could have
stayed for a few days or a year.
Pulwama district. This took the death
toll in the ongoing unrest to 70.
Over 7,000 civilians and more than
4,000 security personnel have been
injured during the unrest - the deadliest the valley has suffered in six
years. Police said Shakeel Ahmad
Ganai, 22, was killed after he sustained bullet injuries in a clash with
the security forces in Haal village.
A doctor at the sub-district hospital
at Pulwama said Ganai had been
hit by a bullet that pierced through
his heart. Some three dozen people were injured in other clashes
across the valley after the Friday
prayers.
The security restrictions were tightened on Friday amid apprehensions
that separatist leaders may stoke further trouble. They had asked people
to gather in Eidgah prayer grounds
for a pro-freedom protest rally in the
heart of the volatile old Srinagar city.
But the government thwarted the
protest march to the sprawling prayer
ground.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who heads
the hardline Hurriyat Conference, was
held outside his upscale Hyderpora
residence as he defied restrictions
and attempted to march to Eidgah.
houses.
Earthquake of 4.6
intensity hits
Himachal Pradesh
Shimla, Aug 27 (PTI):
An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the
Richter scale hit parts of Himachal
Pradesh this morning, following which
panic-stricken people rushed out
of their homes in Shimla and Kullu
districts.
While some old buildings developed
cracks, there was no report of loss of
life or major damage.
The earthquake which occurred
at 6.46 am, had its epicentre at
Kullu at a depth of 10 km, said
Director of local MeT office, Manmohan Singh said, adding that
aftershocks of 4.3 and 4.2 magnitudes were recorded at 7:05 am
and 9 am respectively.
People in Rampur area of Shimla
district and Kullu ran out of their
houses in panic. They claimed there
were ten to fifteen tremors in quick
successions. No loss of life or property has been reported.
Educational institutes and schools
were closed as precaution, said
Rampur Sub Divisional Magistrate
Nishant Thakur. He added tents
have been provided in open places
for people unwilling to return to their
houses and a huge tree at a school
campus, which was posing risk, has
been felled.
Kejri launches
fresh attack
on LG, Centre
q ‘PM trying to reverse AAP govt
decisions through Najeeb Jung’
New Delhi, Aug 27 (PTI):
Launching a fresh attack on the LG
and the Centre, Arvind Kejriwal today
charged that Prime Minister Narendra
Modi wants to reverse numerous
decisions of the AAP government
through Najeeb Jung and remove
DCW chief Swati Maliwal who, he
claimed, will be ‘arrested’ soon.
Kejriwal’s outburst on microblogging
site Twitter came a day after Jung
said that he was in the process of
overturning and rectifying ‘illegal decisions’ taken by the AAP government
following the August 4 Delhi High
Court verdict.
Kejriwal claimed
the Lt Governor and the Centre
wanted to ‘reverse’ numerous decisions of public importance, including
the decision to increase minimum
wages and holding discoms
accountable for unscheduled outages, among other measures.
He said Najeeb Jung was ‘subverting’ democracy to protect his ‘chair’.
On the CAG row, the Delhi Chief
Minister said the auditor ‘vehemently
refuses’ to audit advertisement expenses of Centre and other States.
‘Why? CAG under pressure from
BJP?,’ he questioned.
‘Sources- LG n PMO hell bent on
removing Swati Maliwal 4 doing gud
job. She’ll be arrested coming week n
then removed,’ he claimed in a tweet.
‘LG hell bent on removing the team
which made mohalla clinics and
saved money on flyovers. Increase
min wages in Delhi. Is it illegal?
Sources: Big companies met Modiji
n opposed it. Now LG sitting on that
file. Hold power cos accountablemake them pay compensation
for unscheduled power cuts. Is it illegal? LG sitting on it. AAP govt asked
for land for 10 hospitals from DDA.
Modi’s LG refused. Was our demand
illegal?,’ the Chief Minister said in a
series of tweets.
Referring to Jung’s statement that
he has tried to keep his intervention
in the government restricted to the
bare minimum, Kejriwal said, ‘If this is
‘least interference’, then what is ‘high
interference’? Shameful subversion
of democracy to protect chair.’
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‘A country is defined by its culture’
Managing Director of News Today, Maalai Sudar praises good work of Mylapore Arts Academy
Highlights importance of spiritualism
A
country is not defined by geography. It is defined by its
culture, history and tradition. It is our
duty to safeguard it, said Managing
Director of News Today, Maalai
Sudar and Talk Media, T R Jawahar.
He was speaking during the 51st
anniversary celebrations of Mylapore Arts Academy in Chennai
last evening.
‘It is difficult to run a profit venture, so one can only imagine the
amount of motivation needed to run
a non-profit venture. But it is Sabhas like this that are the backbone
of our country,’ he said about the
academy.
Jawahar said, ‘We should not
just appreciate the academy, but,
instead, thank them for the service
they are doing for society.
About the importance of spiritualism, he said ‘whatever people might
say and wherever they may go,
they will all finally have to come to
spiritualism.’
‘I have also stood outside the temple without entering it. Devotion to
God is the ultimate, but there are people who are devoted to other aspects
like work and nation. We can see
devotion in everything which forms
the fundamentals of the Bhagavad
Gita,’ he added.
He said the beauty of Hinduism was
that there was no dogma of how one
should be. ‘Everyone can choose his
Danseuse Priya Murle being felicitated by Mylapore Arts Academy
president Justice S Jagadeesan during its 51st anniversary
celebrations at the PS Higher Secondary School in Mylapore, Chennai
on Friday. Managing Director of News Today, Malai Sudar and Talk
Media T R Jawahar, Actor Kathadi Ramamurthy, Academy secretary
N Ethirajan and treasurer V Srinivasan are also present.
T R Jawahar addressing the gathering.
or her own path, pace, process and
also measure his/her progress. You
can come to God at the age of seven
or seventy. Become an atheist from
theist or vice-versa,’ he said.
Reacting to association president
Justice S Jagadeesan’s remark that
people were not willing to take up
responsibility in the Sabha, Jawahar
said this was not the problem only of
Kavalai Vendam’s
poster is out
Actor Dhanush unveiled the
poster of Kavalai Vendam yesterday through Twitter.
Produced by Elred Kumar of R
S Infotainment and directed by
Deekay of Yaamirukka Bayamey, the movie stars Jiiva and
Kajal Agarwal in the lead role.
Bobby Simha and Sunaina are
also in the cast. Music is by
Leon James. Plans are on to
release the movie on 7 October.
-NT Bureau
the academy but of the entire nation.
‘What is worrying is that people are
hesitant to take up responsibility in
an academy like this which promotes
culture. We may call it a material
world, but it is a fact that we need our
culture and God at one point of the
time or the other,’ he said.
Linking the culture and religion of
our land, Jawahar said the country
Aishwarya Dhanush
is UN Ambassador
Elder daughter to actor Rajinikanth
and a filmmaker Aishwarya R Dhanush has been chosen to be the United Nations Women’s
Goodwill Ambassador for South India.
She directed films
like 3 and Vai Raja
Vai.
A Classical dancer, Aishwarya was
presented Kalaimamani Award for dance from
the
Tamilnadu government. She married
actor Dhanush a few years ago and
the couple have two children.
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neither has a beginning nor an end.
‘The treasure which our forefathers
have given us is vast. Every country moved to its core culture after
independence. We moved towards
secularism, which I am not faulting.
We did not get back to our culture and
we deviated. Any culture is related
to religion which cannot be denied
and it does not mean that we are
Kidari gets ‘UA’
S
asikumar starrer Kidari has
been censored and given an
‘UA’ certificate.
Directed by Prashanth Murugesan, the movie stars Nikhila
Vimal as heroine.
Suja Varunee, O A K Sundar, novelist Vela Ramamurthy and veteran
actor Napoleon are also in the cast.
Musical score is by Rajathandhiram
actor Darbuka Siva.
Heaping laurels on Prashanth,
Sasikumar, said, ‘He has a firm
grip on the medium. He completed
Chepauk Super Gillies vs Karaikudi Kaalai at NPR College ground,
Dindigul, 2.30 p.m
the whole talkie portions
is less than 65 days.
He was complimented
well by cinematographer
Kathir. The emotional
scenes have come good’.
On his heroine Nikhila
Vimal, he said, ‘It is my
second movie with her
after Vettrivel. She plays
a bubbly girl and her
commitment to excel deserves appreciation’.
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SUPER (OVER) STUFF
Teams:
Tomorrow’s match
against other religions. Any religion
in the ancient times grew with the
support of the ruler which, in turn,
gave us beautiful art,’ he added. In
this context, he pointed out it was
unfortunate that any official support
to arts and culture of the land was
being protested against.
The Managing Director of News
Today and Maalai Sudar further said
art and religion have to co-exist. ‘That
is how people see it. Hinduism is the
only religion where it can survive
without Gods. We have so much
scope for celebrations. Cultural connect is being lost and that should be
rectified now,’ he noted.
As a suggestion to the academy, he
said non-profit organisations should
not spend on felicitating guests but
rather ask them to bring things like
books.
Jawahar also praised the spontaneity of dramatist ‘Kathadi’ Ramamurthy
(who was one of the guests of the
evening) and said he was a big fan
of his.
Kathadi Ramamurthy, who was at
his witty best, immediately responded
and said he would invite him (Jawahar) as the guest for his next play.
Ramamurthy said it was difficult to
run a Sabha when compared to a
drama troupe and promised to extend
full support to the academy.
The programme came to an end with
the prize distribution for the lucky dip
held earlier.
The celebrations began with a dancedrama Panchaturam presented by
Priya Murle and troupe.
The academy president Justice S
Jagadeesan, secretary N Ethirajan
and treasurer V Srinivasan were
present.
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CHEPAUK SUPER GILLIES: R Sathish, V Yo Mahesh, Thalaivan
Sargunam, W Antony Dhas, K H Gopinath, R Sai Kishore, U Sasidev,
J Joel Joseph, D Tamil Kumaran, R Alexandar, S Vasanth Saravanan,
B Rahul, Ashwath Mukunthan, S Karthik, Rajeel Abdul Rahman,
Nirmal Kumar, S Vasudevan, Aditya Barooah, V Shibi Jawahar.
KARAIKUDI KAALAI: S Badrinath (c), S Aniruda, Sunil Sam, M
Suresh Babu, S Lokeshwar, C Ganapathi, Shoaib Md Khan, Vishal
Vaidhya, Sonu Yadav, R Rajkumar, S Mohan Prasath, M Vijay Kumar, M Abhinav, A Jerome, R Srinivasan, L Kiran Akash, S Sujay,
S Swaminathan, M Shajahan.
Super Gillies, Kaalai
eye maiden win
R Sathish
Dindigul:
In a clash between two teams looking to
earn a first win, Chepauk Super Gillies will
take on Karaikudi Kaalai in a TNPL game
at NPR College, Dindigul, on Sunday.
Having been outclassed in the lungopener by 45 runs, the Chennai team
will need to regroup quickly against the S
Badrinath-led rivals, who were laid low by VB
Thiruvallur Veerans thanks to B Aparajith’s ton.
All-rounder R Sathish couldn’t inspire Super
Gillies on a poor day for the team and will
have to lead from the front with both
bat and ball and also inspire the
likes of Yo Mahesh and Thalaivan Sargunam to come to
the party.
It is a pretty inexperienced squad and the
importance of Sathish,
Yo Mahesh and S
Vasanth Saravanan
putting their hand
up can’t be overemphasised.
Sathish is
known for his
big-hitting
ways and
thrifty bowling
and has bailed
out Tamilnadu on several occasions. He needs to bring his skills
to the fore if the Super Gillies have
to put up a fight and the batsmen
need to step up.
The Karaikudi outfit on the other
hand, didn’t do too badly and were
blasted away by Aparajith’s superlative
knock. They put up a 160-plus score with
contributions from M Vijay Kumar and R
Srinivasan. Skipper S Badrinath will be
expected to score substantially along with
the aggressive S Aniruda to provide solidity in the batting while
the bowlers would need to
put their performance in the
Thiruvallur Veerans game
behind them and look to
improve.
A win would be crucial
in helping kickstarting a strong run and
both teams would
go all out. Karaikudi Kaalai looks
the stronger team
on paper but in a
T20 game, make
predictions could
prove to be a tad
tricky.
S Badrinath
Close matches keep the fans on the edge of their seats and the
Ruby Kanchi Warriors-Lyca Kovai Kings game in TNPL at the
M A Chidambaram stadium in Chennai on Friday was one of them.
The Kings fell short in the Super Over despite the best efforts of
Indian Test opener Murali Vijay. The Warriors stole a win thanks to
the efforts of medium-pacer R Jesuraj.
Photos: A R Jayakumar
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