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Peace, space
rime Minister Narendra Modi today said 'Ekta' (unity)
and 'Mamata' (love) are the basic mantras for addressing the Kashmir problem even as he slammed those
pushing children to create unrest, saying they will have to
give answers to those 'innocent' kids some day.
Speaking on the unrest in the valley in his monthly radio
programme 'Mann Ki Baat', Modi said, 'From the interactions I had with all parties on Kashmir, one thing emerged
from those, which can be put in simple words as 'Ekta'
and 'Mamata'. These two things were the basic mantra.'
He said all the political parties had spoken in one voice
on Kashmir, sending out a 'message to the world as well
as separatist forces' besides conveying 'our sentiments
to the people of Kashmir.'
He equated it to the passage of landmark GST Bill by
Parliament for which all the parties came together.
The Prime Minister's remarks came a day after Jammu
and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti met him
and presented a 'three-pronged action plan' that includes
dialogue with all stakeholders.
Meanwhile, the Indian Space Research Organisation
today successfully test-fired its Scramjet Rocket Engine,
which will use oxygen from the atmosphere thereby
reducing launch cost, from the spaceport of Sriharikota.
President Pranb Mukherjee congratulated ISRO for the
successful test.
MODI TALKS TOUGH
ON KASHMIR UNREST
Unity & love are basic mantras to address troubles: PM
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI):
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today
said Ekta (unity) and Mamata (love)
are the basic mantras for addressing the Kashmir problem even as he
slammed those pushing children to
create unrest, saying they will have
to give answers to those innocent
kids some day.
He emphasised that if any life is lost
in Kashmir, whether of any youth or
any securityman, that loss is ours,
of our own country.
Speaking on the unrest in the valley in his monthly radio programme
‘Mann Ki Baat’, Modi said, ‘From the
interactions I had with all parties on
Kashmir, one thing emerged from
those, which can be put in simple
words as Ekta and Mamata. These
two things were the basic mantra.’
He said all the political parties had
spoken in one voice on Kashmir,
sending out a ‘message to the world
as well as separatist forces’ besides
conveying ‘our sentiments to the
people of Kashmir’.
He equated it to the passage of
12 coaches of
express train
derail in Kerala
Kochi, Aug 28 (PTI):
Twelve coaches of Thiruvananthapuram-Mangalore express derailed in the wee hours today near
Karukutty station, around 45 kms
from here, Southern Railway said.
No casualties were reported in the
incident.
The incident took place around 2.30
am when the 16347 express train derailed between Aluva and Karukutty
stations in Ernakulam district after
leaving from Thiruvanathapuram
at 8.40 pm yesterday, a Southern
Railway spokesman said.
Following the incident, buses and
local trains were arranged to ferry
the stranded passengers to Kochi
and Thrissur. Traffic on both the
lines of the route is affected due to
the derailment and six to 10 hours
are expected to complete the repair
works of the damaged tracks on
Ernakulam-Thrissur route, he said.
CISF gears up
to thwart terror
strikes at airports
Hyderabad, Aug 28 (PTI):
The Central Industrial Task Force
has deployed quick reaction teams
(QRTs) at airports, trained its personnel and strengthened its capability to counter terror strikes.
We are gearing up to counter any
attack in the manner of Istanbul or
Brussels (terror attacks). Our people
are already trained. We have deployed QRTs behind bullet-resistant
(bullet-proof) ‘morchas’, so that if terror elements fire they will not be able
to get us, a senior CISF official said.
After the Istanbul and Brussels
incidents, the CISF has formulated
strategies to thwart such attacks at
Indian airports guarded by it.
With the recent attacks in Brussels
and Istanbul, attacks from the cityside have become more prominent.
So, we are devising ways and means
to counter such attacks, the official
said. We have started checking at
the ‘nakas’ now.
‘This country is very big, full of
diversities. To keep it united, it is
the responsibility of all of us, as
individual citizens, as a society and as
a government, to strengthen the unity’
landmark GST Bill by Parliament
for which all the parties came together.
‘It is the view of all of us, the view of
125 crore people from a pradhan of
a village to the Prime Minister, that
if any life is lost in Kashmir, whether
of any youth or any securityman,
that loss is ours, our own country,’
Modi said.
At the same time, he slammed
those people who push small children to try to create unrest in Kashmir’, saying ‘some day, they will have
to give answers to these innocent
children’.
The Prime Minister’s remarks came
a day after Jammu and Kashmir
Chief MInister Mehbooba Mufti met
him and presented a three-pronged
action plan’ that includes dialogue
with all stakeholders.
This country is very big, full of
diversities. To keep it united, it is
the responsibility of all of us, as
individual citizens, as a society and
as a government, to strengthen the
unity as much as we can, highlight
it as much as we can. Only then can
the nation achieve its bright future.
I have confidence in the power of
125 crore people of the country,’
Modi said.
During the 35-minute programme,
the Prime Minister also referred
to the recent Olympic Games and
hailed the girl power as he referred
to medal winners -- shuttler P V
Sindhu and wrestler Sakshi. He also
hailed gymnast Dipa Karmakar, who
missed a medal by a narrow margin.
He said Indian participants in other
events like hockey, shooting and
boxing also performed well. ‘But
my countrymen, we need to do a lot
more. But if we continue doing what
we have been doing, then perhaps
we will again be disappointed,’ he
said while mentioning about thousands of messages to him from
people who wanted him to speak on
the subject of sports in view of poor
performance in Rio Olympics as they
were badly disappointed.
In this context, he referred to his
recent announcement to form a Task
Force under which the government
will go deep into the subject, study
the best practices in the world and
prepare a roadmap for the next three
Olympic Games in 2020, 2024 and
2028. ‘We have to formulate a longterm programme,’ he said.
The Prime Minister asked state
governments also to form such committees to see what could be done to
improve performances in sports. He
said states can also send their suggestions to the Centre in this regard.
He said associations linked to sports
should also do brain-storming in an
unbiased manner.
Modi invited even individual citizens, with interest in sports, to write
to him or the government.
City to get
more showers
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 28:
The trough of low pressure
near the Andhra Pradesh
coast is stationary for the
last couple of days resulting
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.
The temperature is likely to
be 32 degree Celsius while
the minimum
would be
27 deg r e e
Celsius’.
Due to
the trough
n e a r
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.
Sunday saw mild drizzle
in various parts of the
city including Vadapalani, Velacheri, Mylapore,
Guindy and Parrys. And
the temperature had dipped
considerably.
Govt may advance
Parliament session
SUNDAY MORNING BLUES
Keen to get GST laws approved
A tanker belonging to a private oil company turned turtle after slamming into the median at Sardar Patel
Road, Adyar, in the wee hours of today, resulting in traffic snarls for a while. There were no casualties,
said police sources.
Photo: C SANTHOSH
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI):
Eager to meet the 1 April target to
roll out the landmark Goods and
Services Tax (GST), the government
may advance Winter Session of
Parliament by a fortnight to get supporting legislations passed, leaving
sufficient time for implementation of
the new indirect tax regime.
Winter Session of Parliament is normally convened in the third or fourth
week of November but this year the
government is looking at starting
the month-long session immediately
after the end of festive season.
An early Winter Session would help
get the Central GST (CGST) and
Integrated GST (IGST) legislations,
that will pave way for the Goods and
Services Tax (GST), to be approved
within November or latest by early
December, government officials said.
The two are supporting legislations
to the Constitutional Amendment Bill
approved in the Monsoon Session of
Parliament. Requiring ratification by
half of the 31 states for it to become a
law, the Constitution Amendment Bill
has already been ratified by 8 state
assemblies including Assam, Bihar,
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Himachal
Pradesh, Gujarat, Delhi and Madhya
Pradesh. Maharashtra and Haryana
are likely to follow suit soon and the
requisite numbers may be in place by
September, an official said.
‘With required number of states
ratifying the Bill, there is a thinking
that the Winter Session should be advanced to around 9 or 10 November,
after the festivities, including Chhath
Puja,’ he said.
One more jewel in ISRO’s crown
Flight test of scramjet engine technology successful
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 28:
The first experimental mission of
ISRO’s Scramjet Engine towards
the realisation of an Air Breathing
Propulsion System was successfully conducted today from Satish
Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota, about 100 km from here.
After a smooth countdown of 12
hours, the solid rocket booster carrying the Scramjet Engines, with a
lift mass off 3,277 kg, lifted off at
0600 hrs.
With this India became the fourth
country to demonstrate the flight
testing of Scramjet Engine.
‘The successful technology demonstration of air-breathing Scramjet
engines in flight by ISRO today was
a modest yet important milestone in
Prez congratulates
President Pranab Mukherjee
today congratulated the ISRO
scientists for successfully test
flighting the scramjet engine
technology.
‘Hearty congratulations ISRO
on successful test of futuristic
scramjet rocket engine, India
is proud of you’, the President
tweeted.
its endeavour to design and develop
advanced air breathing engines
including engines for ISRO’s future
space transportation system’, ISRO
sources said.
The important flight events, like the
burn out of booster rocket stage,
ignition of second stage solid rocket,
functioning of Scramjet engines for
five seconds followed by burn out of
the second stage took place exactly
as planned.
After a flight duration of about 300
seconds, the vehicle touched down
in the Bay of Bengal, approximately
320 km from Sriharikota.
The vehicle was successfully
tracked during its flight from the
ground stations at Sriharikota.
With this flight, critical technologies
such as ignition of air breathing engines at supersonic speed, holding
the flame at supersonic speed, air
intake mechanism and fuel injection
systems have been successfully
demonstrated.
The Scramjet engine designed by
ISRO uses Hydrogen as fuel and the
Oxygen from the atmospheric air as
the oxidiser.
‘Today’s test was the maiden
short duration experimental test
of ISRO’s Scramjet engine with a
hypersonic flight at 6 Mach’. ISRO
sources said.
ISRO’s Advanced Technology Vehicle (ATV), which is an advanced
sounding rocket, was the solid
rocket booster used for today’s test
of Scramjet engines at supersonic
conditions.
ATV carrying Scramjet engines
weighed 3277 kg at lift-off. ATV was
a two-stage spin stabilised launcher
with identical solid motors (based on
Rohini RH560 sounding rocket) as
the first as well as the second stage
(booster and sustainer).
The twin Scramjet engines were
mounted on the back of the second stage. Once the second stage
reached the desired conditions for
engine Start-up, necessary actions
were initiated to ignite the Scramjet
engines and they functioned for
about five seconds.
It may be recalled that, the Indian
Space agency had on 23 May,
successfully flight tested India’s first
winged body aerospace vehicle operating in hypersonic flight regime.
City
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28 AUGUST 2016
Centre
CHENNAI
Moulivakkam Panchayat
Senthil’s
chief gets national honour sudaatha kadhai
An up-close with RJ-turned actor
NAOMI N
he suave and charming Saravanan, played
by RJ Senthil Kumar,
enamoured viewers in the hit
tele-serial Madurai.
He continues to create waves
on his radio show ’Sutta Kadhai’, that is aired to make his
listeners smile, so they go to
sleep with simple thoughts on
his light-hearted banter and
thought-provoking tales.
But in real life, Senthil is far
from reel. You don’t meet
the on-screen vivacious guy, falling into
trouble, telling lies or
trying to impress his
lady love. He isn’t filling y o u
up with ‘stolen stories’ either.
‘I am shy and reserved. I get
misunderstood for my reel life
personality. When it comes to
professional acting or being
on air, it’s different. I work on
my radio show when I am left
alone,’ says Senthil Kumar.
T
The entrance of renovated Moulivakkam cemetery (Right) Moulivakkam Panchayat president S.Sadhasivam at the cemetery.
T
he president of the Moulivakkam
Panchayat, S Sadhasivam, has
been honoured with the MGNREGS
Excellence Award 2016 by the Minister of State and Rural Development,
Government of India, Sudarshan
Bhagat. The award is given to village Panchayat presidents for their
dedicated and excellent service in
MGNREGS Health and Sanitation.
‘The award was mainly given for
renovating the cemetery in Moulivakkam.’
According to Sadhasivam, ‘The
cemetery was filled with filth which
was dumped on it for
over a couple of decades.
People used it as a place
to defecate and urinate.’
‘When there was a meeting
held by the Collector of Kancheepuram, I approached him with the
problem. He decided to act upon it
and the project was taken up at a
cost of Rs 27 lakh,’ said Sadhasivam.
He added that compound
walls were constructed
and nearly 200 loads of
R
PORU
garbage was removed
from the land. ‘We have a seating
area now and saplings have been
planted. It is more like a park now,’
added Sadhasivam.
Photo: KV
Residents of the area are happy
that the cemetery has been cleared
of garbage. ‘Earlier, residents from
the neighbouring areas such as
Madha Nagar dumped waste in
the cemetery. It was in a deplorable state making it impossible for
anybody to bury their loved ones in
peace,’ said Kishore S, a resident of
Moulivakkam.
-NT Bureau
Being one of the first radio
jockeys to make it big on small
screen and later foray into films,
Senthil says aspiring RJs must
acquire skills to talk to listeners from the heart. ‘One must
be expressive and be able to
describe even the smallest of
things. Through words you are
painting a picture in the listeners
mind.’ For this, Senthil says he
observes a lot and weaves stories from everything around him.
His ra- dio programme, Sutta
Kadhai is aired on
Radio Mirchi from 9
to 11 pm where he
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c
Vela
shares stories both
real and fictitious with an
aim to inspire. ‘This programme
is for the listener to relax his/her
mind after a stressful day. I do
not want anyone to go to bed
with a sad and heavy heart,’
he says. But at the back of his
mind he must be stressed trying
to steal a story a day! He is a
resident of Velacheri.
ON THE FAST-TRACK
Porur flyover
project has
gathered pace
in the last few
months.
Photo: KV
TV TODAY
Senthil Kumar
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SUNDAY
28 AUGUST 2016
3
SIRUVANI RIVER ROW: JAYA
SEEKS PM’S INTERVENTION
Pranab to visit
OTA 10 Sept
Chennai, Aug 28 (PTI):
Pranab Mukherjee would be the
third Indian President to review the
ceremonial passing-out parade at
the Officer’s Training Academy
here, next month.
‘President Pranab Mukherjee
will participate in the passing out
parade of the OTA, where 272
gentlemen and lady cadets will
become officers in the Army,’ an
official release said.
‘On 10 September, Pranab
Mukherjee, the Supreme Commander of the armed forces, will
be the third President to visit the
OTA after late R Venkataraman
and former President Pratibha
Patil,’ it said.
The Officers Training School
established in January 1963 was
redesignated as Officers Training
Academy after its completion of 25
years in January 1988. Till date,
24,704 General cadets and 2,276
lady cadets have been commissioned from OTA, Chennai, it said.
‘Withdraw recommendations made by committee conducting
an environmental impact assessment study to build dam’
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 28:
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on
Saturday sought Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s urgent intervention
for withdrawing a central committee’s recommendation for an environmental impact assessment study
on a proposal of Kerala government
to build a dam across river Siruvani
at Attappady.
In a letter to Modi, she said the
expert appraisal committee for River
Valley and Hydroelectric projects of
the Ministry of Environment, Forest
and Climate Change, at its recent
meeting had recommended a study
on the proposal of Kerala ‘without
obtaining the necessary comments’
from the Tamilnadu government’.
‘I write seeking your urgent intervention to withdraw the recommendations made by the Committee for
grant of Standard Terms of Reference for conducting an Environmental Impact Assessment study on the
proposal of Kerala government to
build a dam across river Siruvani,’
she said. Stating that the river
Siruvani is a ‘sub-tributary’ of the
Cauvery, also an inter-state river,
she recalled that in June 2012 she
had written to the then Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh to advise Kerala
not to proceed with building the dam
of 4.5 TMC ft across Siruvani for the
Attappady Valley Irrigation Project as
it would be in violation of Cauvery
Water Disputes Tribunal’s Final
Order. Objecting to the nod for the
Rlys to start final work
between MMC & BBJ
Trains to be diverted from 6 Sept to 7 Oct to felicitate the project
Chennai Division, Divisional Railway Manager, Anupam Sharma
addressing mediapersons about the final phase of work between Moore
Market Complex and Basin Bridge Junction in Chennai on Saturday.
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 28:
The work for the provision of 5th
and 6th line between Moore Market
Complex (MMC) and Basin Bridge
Junction (BBJ) has been sanctioned
by the Railways at the cost of Rs
30.53 crore and the work is expected
to be completed this financial year,
said Chennai Division, Divisional
Railway Manager, Anupam Sharma.
Addressing mediapersons here on
Saturday, he said the scope for this
critical project includes remodeling
of BBC and MMC yard, construction
of two lines and two additional platforms at MMC. Indian Railways com-
menced the final phase of the 5th
and 6th line between MMC and BBJ,
which will provide separate corridor
for EMU trains towards Arakkonam
direction to ensure un-interrupted
movement of the sub-urban trains
thereby reducing commuting time for
the passengers besides enhancing
the sectional capacity.
‘We are planning to increase the
mobility for Mail/ Express and passenger trains terminating and originating at Chennai Central since
a number of crossovers will be
removed and higher speeds will be
attained,’ Anupam said. It is to be
noted that the MMC handles about
HC direction to
district admin
Remove seal on SVS college
of Homeopathy and Naturopathy
Chennai, Aug 28 (PTI):
The Madras High Court has directed
the Villupuram district administration
to remove within a week the lock and
seal on a College of Homeopathy
and Naturopathy, more than seven
months after three of its girl students
were found dead in a nearby well.
Justice M Sathyanarayanan granted
the relief to the management, on
the basis of a letter from Villupuram
district Collector favouring removal
of the lock and seal now that the law
and order situation had improved and
students accommodated in alternative colleges.
Three students were found dead
inside a well about a km from the
SVS college of Homeopathy and
Naturopathy on 25 January. The
students had purportedly left behind
a signed note levelling serious allegations of extortion and torture against
the management. College chairman
Vasuki Subramanian and her son
were arrested in connection with the
incident, and the institution sealed
following protests.
Advocate S Duraisamy, counsel
for the college, argued that further
closure of the college premises was
not necessary. On his part, the district
Collector submitted a report to the
court, saying ‘The college was sealed
in public interest and to contain the
tense situation that prevailed then.
The intention of the district administration to seal the college was bona fide
and was done in good faith.’
‘The demands of the agitators,
including alternative arrangements
for students who lost their education
in view of closure of college, have
been complied with and the case
is being dealt by CB-CID. Law and
order situation is under control, and,
therefore, the seals may be removed,’
the report said.
2 lakh passengers per day through
260 suburban EMU trains. This
station also deals EMU from Arakkonam Junction and Gummidipundi
Junction. But the movement of
trains between MMC and BBJ is
constrained as the tracks are shared
with the express trains coming from
the north.
This situation is not only increasing
the commuting time for passengers
but also is posing a severe constraint in introduction of new trains
and services.
‘To facilitate engineering works for
the 5th and 6th line, many express
trains originating from Southern
Railway and other zonal railways
running via Central station will be
diverted via Perambur, Vysarpadi
and Korukkupet stations with a stop
at Perambur between 6 September
and 7 October,’ Anupam said.
The work will include changes
in track layout, installation of new
signalling arrangements and erection/ alignment of overhead traction equipment. The work was in
progress without any disruption to
train services for the past six months.
The final phase of the work requires
five hour traffic block between 11pm
and 4 am and at MMC between 17
September and 19 September for a
total 52 hours. ‘The final phase of
execution will take place for 46 days
between 23 August and 7 October.
Passengers are requested to cooperate with the Railways for fast execution of the work,’ Anupam added.
Special bus services
to Velankanni
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 28:
The State Express Transport Corporation Tamilnadu Ltd. will launch
special bus services for devotees
travelling to the Velankanni shrine
for the annual festival.
The Corporation will operate buses
from Chennai, Bengaluru, Tirunelveli,
Tuticorin, Kanniyakumari, Nagercoil,
Thiruvananthapuram, Coimbatore to
Velankanni. The buses will run from
25 August to till the end of the festival
on 10 September, according to an
official release.
EIA study, she said it is ‘regrettable’
that grant has been given in an ‘unwarranted’ haste without the subject
being a part of regular agenda of the
Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC)
meeting held on 11 and 12 August
and no intimation to the Tamilnadu
government.
‘It has been recorded (in the EAC
meeting) that the Ministry of Environment and Forests has written to
'In a letter to Modi, the
Chief Minister said
the expert appraisal
committee for River
Valley and Hydroelectric
projects of the Ministry
of Environment, Forest
and Climate Change,
at its recent meeting
had recommended a
study on the proposal
of Kerala ‘without
obtaining the necessary
comments’ from the
Tamilnadu government'
government of Tamilnadu several
times, which is factually incorrect,’
she said.
Pointing out that Kerala and Karnataka governments have appealed in
Aavin special
campaign at
Ashok Nagar
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 28:
Ashok Nagar Aavin Milk Consumers Cooperative Society Limited is organising a special Aavin
monthly card (new/additional)
campaign for the benefit of Ashok
Nagar residents on 29 August,
from 10 am to 4 pm.
The campaign will be held at
Eighth Avenue, Manthope Colony,
Ashok Nagar (Opposite to MRS
Pharmacy).
For details, contact L Edwin at
98413 39010 and Anburose at
98840 88784.
Writer Sivasankari felicitating vocalist Sudha Ragunathan during the
26th anniversary of Hamsadhwani at Adyar in Chennai on Saturday,
Sudha was honoured for being chosen to sing at UN on 2 October. Later,
Sudha presented a special musical tribute to M S Subblakshmi, to mark
her birth centenary year. Dr Mathangi Ramakrishnan and Hamsadhwani
founder-secretary R Ramachandran are present.
Karur farmers oppose
setting up of CETPs
Threaten to leave the district if demands are not accepted
Karur, Aug 28 (PTI):
Farmers here have threatened to
give up their occupation and leave
the district if the district administration
allowed dyeing units to set up common effluent treatment plants (CETP)
in and around Karur, which had an
adverse impact on the environment.
‘We have no other option but to
move out of the district if the administration does not accept out demands,’
Karur District Farmers’ Association
President, M Ramalingam had mentioned in the memorandum submitted to the Karur District Collector on
Friday.
He further said the association had
been fighting for the strict implementation of zero-effluent discharge system by the dyeing units, since 2003.
But, it had not been adhered to by the
dyeing units, he added.
Even those which claim zeroeffluent discharge seemed to be
discharging effluents, the farmers
alleged. Three months back in
Karuppampalayam area, government
authorities tested the well water and
found that it contained 8000 units of
total dissolved salts (TDS), which
affected the soil and ground water,
they said.
‘If this continues our livelihood will
be paralysed,’ they rued.
Assn seeks
admission to
students
Puducherry, Aug 28 (PTI):
Puducherry Parents and Students
Welfare Association on Saturday
expressed dismay over the government’s silence on admission of students, who had taken up NEET 2016.
The seven privately-run medical
colleges and three dental colleges
were dragging the issue of admitting
students, Association leaders V Bala
and M Narayanasamy told reporters
here.
As many as 717 seats in medical
colleges and 225 seats in dental colleges should be filled on the basis
of merit scored by students in the
NEET exam, they said and added
that they will organise a bandh on 3
September.
All about new trends
in brachytherapy
Competition
for students
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 28:
Nehru Children’s Cultural Association will organise an oratorical competition for school students of class
9-12 on 17 September at Sivananda Yogalaya Hall, 66, Third Main
Road,Gandhi Nagar, from 10 am to 2
pm. According to a press release, the
topics are Swachh Bharat, Startup India Standup India, Digital India, Make
in India and India’s Foreign Policy.
Those who wish to participate can
contact association’s president, M R
Sugumaran at 81444 16484.
Supreme Court against final order of
the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal and Tamilnadu had also moved
the apex court on certain aspects of
the award, she said, ‘these petitions
are pending’.
‘In these circumstances, it is only
proper for the (respective) party
states to await the formation of Cauvery Management Board and further
judicial decisions before initiating
any new scheme in the Cauvery
basin or its sub-basins,’ she said.
The Tamilnadu government has
written several times to the Environment Ministry, the Centre and
to Kerala ‘strongly objecting’ to the
proposed project, she said.
Jayalalithaa requested Modi to
advise the Ministry of Environment,
Water Resources and its agencies
‘not to accord any clearance’ to
projects in Cauvery basin of Kerala
and Karnataka till the Cauvery Management Board and Cauvery Water
Regulation Committee ‘come into
force and judicial references are
finally settled.’
Participants at the 6th annual confernce of Indian Brachytheraphy Society
in Chennai yesterday.
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 28:
Oncologists and experts gathered in
the city yesterday to discuss the latest trends in brachytherapy at the 6th
annual confernce of Indian Brachytheraphy Society here yesterday.
The meet was organised by Dr V
Srinivasan oncologist from Dr Ka-
makshi Memorial Hospital in collaboration with AROI (TN&PY) chapter.
Brachytherapy is a highly conformal
radiotherapy procedure to treat localised malignant diseases (cancer)
and has undergone lot of changes
in clinical application with innovative
procedures and newer radioactive
isotopes. Doctors said with the
increased usage of brachytherapy,
organ preservation is taking a bigger
shape in treatment of cancer. The
technological developments have
placed brachytherapy in a stronger
position in terms of source design,
dosimetry, treatment planning and
safety.
One of its major objectives of the
Society is to promote academic activities in brachytherapy by arranging
scientific meetings, seminars, workshops and conferences.
The preconference workshop was
conducted at the Adyar Cancer Institute and inaugurated by Dr V Shanta,
chairperson of the Institute. The
highlight of the workshop was the live
demonstration of two brachytherapy
procedures.
The workshop was mainly for post
graduate students as well as the
younger radiation oncologists.
The conference provided an interactive platform for all the delegates
across the country to exchange their
ideas and knowledge in the field of
brachytherapy.
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28 AUGUST 2016
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WORLD
DOWN THE WEEKLY LANE
North Korea
comes under fire
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.
United Nations Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon will visit a resettlement site in Jaffna in Northern
Province of Sri Lanka and meet
PresidentMaithripala Sirisena
and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe during his trip to the
island nation later this month.
Ban will leave for Singapore later this week, on the
first leg of the trip that includes visits to to Myanmar
and Sri Lanka for official visits, to China for the G20
Summit and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
for the annual ASEAN-UN Summit.
On 31 August, he will travel to Colombo to meet Sirisena and Wickremesinghe as well as other members of
the Lankan government and Parliament. Ban will also
deliver a keynote speech at a public event.
NATION
Modi will solve Kashmir
issue: Mehbooba
Jammu and Kashmir
Chief Minister Mehbooba
Mufti met PM Narendra
Modi on Saturday, which
marked the 50th day of
curfew in the Valley. It
was Mehbooba’s second
meeting with Modi this
month to resolve the
Kashmir violence which
has claimed 71 lives.
After the meeting, Mehbooba spoke to reporters
and blamed Pakistan
for provoking youth in
the Valley. She said, ‘If
Pakistan has sympathy
for Kashmiri youth, they
shouldn’t provoke them
to attack security camps
or police stations. With
the situation in Kashmir taking a turn for the
worse in the last few
days, Pakistan, instead
of helping us, is trying
to worsen the situation.’
She also advised Islamabad to take a leaf out if
its former President Pervez Musharraf’s policy
who had opined that the
UN resolution on Kashmir had no space in the
present world.
CBI opposes bail
plea of Marans
The CBI 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.
HEALTH Today
Breast milk sugar protects
babies from infection
A
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
UN chief to visit Jaffna
during Lanka trip
CHENNAI
An exclusive track for bicycles has been marked on the busy Kamaraj Road
in the city, a move hailed by cycle riders and environmentalists.
Work for civic polls
gains momentum
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.
STATE
Jaya hits out at MK, Stalin
Turning the tables on DMK MLAs, who have
been alleging that they were suspended only to
prevent them from taking part in the discussions
on demands for grants for police department,
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday said the
opposition MLAs who have not been suspended,
including its president M Karunanidhi, could
have taken part in the debate on Monday if their
concerns were genuine.
Replying to the debate on demand for grants for
the Home department, a portfolio that she holds,
Jayalalithaa recalled how she had taken part in
the discussion all alone when her party’s MLAs
were suspended in 2006. ‘Does the DMK president have that kind of guts? Does the opposition
leader (MK Stalin) have the guts? Karunanidhi
should have taken part in the discussion,’ she
said. Those who came, including a couple of
former ministers, soon staged a walk-out, Jaya
noted, adding that they could have taken part if
their concerns were genuine.
type of sugar found in some
women’s breast milk may protect babies from a potentially life
threatening bacterium, a new study
has found.
These bacteria, called Group B
streptococcus, are a common cause
of meningitis in newborns and the
leading cause of infection in the first
three months of life globally.
The bug is carried naturally in the
vagina and bowels by up to one in
three women and can be transferred
to the baby during childbirth or in
breast milk.
The new research at Imperial College London on 183 women in The
Gambia found that naturally-occurring sugars in a woman’s breast milk
may have protective effects against
Group B streptococcus.
Each woman’s breast milk contains
a mixture of many different types of
sugar, called human milk oligosaccharides, researchers said.
These are not digested in the
baby’s tummy and act as food for
the ‘friendly bacteria’ in a baby’s
intestine.
The type of sugars a woman produces in her breast milk are partly
dictated by her genetic make-up.
A type of genetic system in particular, called the Lewis antigen system,
plays an important role in determining breast milk sugars.
The team tested all the mothers’
breast milk for the sugars that are
known to be controlled by these
Lewis genes.
They also tested women and their
babies for Group B streptococcus
at birth, six days later, and then
between 60 and 89 days after birth.
They found women who produced
breast milk sugars linked to the
Lewis gene were less likely to have
the bacteria in their gut, and their
babies were also less likely to get
the bacteria from their mothers at
birth.
In addition, among the babies
who had the bacteria in their guts
at birth, the infants whose mothers produced a specific sugar in
their breast milk, called lacto-n-
A type of genetic
system in particular, called the Lewis
antigen system, plays
an important role in
determining breast
milk sugars
difucohexaose I, were more likely
to have cleared the
bacteria from their body by 60-89
days after birth.
This suggests this breast milk
sugar, which is linked to the Lewis
gene, may have a protective effect.
The researchers then went on to
show in the laboratory that breast
milk containing this particular sugar
- lacto-n-difucohexaose I - was better at killing the Group B streptococcus bacteria compared to breast
milk without this specific sugar.
The research was published in the
journal Clinical and Translational
Immunology.
NASA plans to send
submarine to Saturn
CITY
Arun Vijay rams car
into police vehicle
In a shocking incident, popular actor Arun
Vijay had a run-in with the law, after ramming
into a police tempo 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.
BUSINESS
SRM group chief
Pachamuthu arrested
Founder chairman of SRM Group of educational institutions T R Pachamuthu was arrested in connection with an alleged scandal in
medical admissions involving crores of rupees,
police said.
Pachamuthu has been arrested by CCB
(Central Crime Branch) sleuths, a top police
official said.
Pachamuthu, whose Indiya Jananayaga Katchi
(IJK) is an ally of NDA at the Centre, has been
booked under IPC sections including 420
(cheating), the official said.
The Chancellor of the SRM University was
arrested in connection with more than 100
complaints from parents related to transactions
involving payment of money running into several
crores for getting admissions to medical courses
in SRM institutions.
Parents had alleged they were duped after being promised medical seats in colleges run by
the SRM Group, and a case was filed by police.
SPORTS
Indian fintech second in APAC
Sindhu gets rousing welcome
Investments in Indian financial technology
ventures reached $339 million till July end this
year, the second highest in Asia Pacific after
China, a report said on Thursday.
‘While China has attracted the most amount
of investments, India stands second in the
analysis with $339 million’, according to Accenture analysis of CB Insights data.
Financial technology companies include firms
that facilitate online payments and provide technology supporting such platforms like digital and mobile wallets and payment gateways.
midst scenes of jubilation and a sense of
pride, Olympics silver medalist PV Sindhu
was today accorded a rousing welcome on
her arrival to home town and felicitated by
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh governments for her stupendous performance at
Rio Games.
The 21-year-old, who landed with her coach
Pullela Gopichand, was received at Rajiv
Gandhi International Airport by her parents
PV Ramana and P Vijaya, some Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Ministers,
amidst cheers from crowds.
KFA brands fail to find buyers
In a big disappointment for the lenders for the second time, auction of the longgrounded Kingfisher Airlines’ (KFA) trademarks and logo turned out to be damp
squib once again despite having
a lower reserve price.
Banks also had put on the
block some of the moveable
assets of the company
worth Rs 13.70 lakh lying at
the Kingfisher House, for
which, too, no bidders came
forward.
In their second attempt,
the 17-lender consortium led
by State Bank of India had
put the airline’s trademarks
including Kingfisher logo and the
once-famous tag-line ‘Fly the Good
Times’ on the block, to recover a part of their over Rs 9,000-crore loans from
beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya and his grounded carrier.
Pakistan is No 1 Test nation
Pakistan skipper Misbah-ul-Haq says ‘there is
no greater feeling’ after team reaches summit
of Test cricket on official rankings for first time
Pakistan have supplanted arch rivals India to
become the world’s number one Test side for the
first time since the International Cricket Council
(ICC) introduced the rankings system in 2003.
A waterlogged outfield in Trinidad forced a draw
in the fourth and final Test between the West Indies and India, a match the
tourists had to win to hold onto top spot.
N
ASA is planning to send a
submarine to Saturn’s moon
Titan in a bid to explore the depths
of its largest ocean and search for
signs of life.
Researchers proposed that the
submarine would carry instruments
to measure the chemical composition of the ocean, the currents and
tides and the structure of the ocean
floor.
The mast at the top would allow
the submarine to communicate with
Earth when it resurfaces.
Since it would not be able to communicate when underwater, its
search for life is planned to be fully
autonomous.
There are really two big reasons
why we want to go to Titan, Jason
Hartwig, a NASA cryogenics engineer, said at the NASA Innovative
Advanced Concepts Symposium in
the US.
First, is to determine if hydrocarbon based life is possible on Titan,
Hartwig was quoted as saying by
‘Inverse.com’.
Also, as the only moon in
our solar system with
clouds and an atmosphere, Titan
is very similar
to Earth - apart
from the extreme
cold and oceans of liquid m e t h ane.
The hidden in the methane sea
may hold clues to how life evolved,
and possibly even extraterrestrial
microbes. The mission is still in its
conceptual stages.
Meanwhile, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has flown closer to Jupiter than
any other space probe and sent
back data and images of the giant
of the solar system.
Juno made its closest approach
over Jupiter on Saturday at a
NASA’s Juno
spacecraft has
flown closer to
Jupiter than
any other space
probe and sent
back data and
images of the
giant of the
solar system
distance of 4,200 km above the
planet’s swirling clouds, a NASA
news release said.
Early indications are that everything worked as planned, said
Rick Nybakken, Juno project
manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
The flyby brought the spacecraft
closer to the planet than at any other
time during its prime mission.
It will take days for the data collected during the flyby to be received
and even more time for scientists
to comprehend it, said Scott Bolton,
head of NASA’s Juno team.
Bolton said Juno was sending
intriguing early data returns.
A handful of images are expected
to be released the next couple of
weeks.
Enterprise
CHENNAI
SUNDAY
28 AUGUST 2016
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CIL strike: Govt open
to talks, says Goyal
Unions present a set of demands including measures for containing price rise thru’ PDS
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI):
Ahead of the CIL workers’ proposed
nation-wide stir on 2 September,
Power Minister Piyush Goyal said
healthy conversations are the way
forward and the government is always open to discussions.
The trade unions are slated to go on
a nation-wide stir on 2 September to
press for their various demands. ‘We
believe as a government that healthy
conversations and discussions are
the way forward,’ Goyal said in a
interview to PTI.
Asserting that it is in the interest of
everybody to talk, the Minister said
‘we are always open to discussing
issues’. The Minister added that
strikes will not offer any benefit to the
employees, workmen or the nation.
The strike comes at a time when
Luxury car makers
rush to bring in
petrol variants
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI):
As demand for diesel variants of
luxury cars and SUVs dips in the wake
of pollution concerns, companies like
Mercedes-Benz and Audi are rushing
to bring in their petrol offerings to India.
While Mercedes-Benz will make available petrol variants for all its models
sold in India by next month so as to
align with the demand shift, Audi is
likely to complete such an exercise
by the first quarter of next year. Tata
Motors-owned JLR has also started
working on a similar strategy. ‘We are
working on future investment plans but
they needed to be reworked and the
most immediate action was adopting
the petrol strategy,’ Audi India Head
Joe King told PTI. He said reworking
of the strategy was due to the shift
in customer demand towards petrol
from diesel vehicles in the wake of
Supreme Court ban on diesel cars
and SUVs with engine of 2,000 cc and
above in Delhi-NCR and NGT order
on similar lines.
the country is eyeing an ambitious
target of 1.5 billion tonnes of coal
production by 2020. Of this, CIL,
which accounts for over 80 per cent
of the domestic output, is looking at
one billion tonnes. Recently, Coal
India (CIL) told the bourses: ‘We have
received a communication for notice... for strike on 2 September.’ It
added that efforts are being made for
conciliation. PwC’s Kameswara Rao
said that ‘given the lean demand and
high coal stocks at plants and mines,
the strike will have limited direct impact’. He further said the dynamics
are changing with low global coal
prices and the rising share of renewable energy, and coal companies and
its stakeholders should be prepared
for competitive and commercial
pressure. One of the trade unions
Piyush Goyal
had earlier said the 12-point charter
of demands jointly formulated by all
central trade unions was already
submitted to the government. The
demands include urgent measures
for containing price rise through
universalisation of public distribution
system, banning speculative trade
in the commodity market and doing
away with disinvestment in central
or state public sector undertakings,
among others.
With the state-owned behemoth
having around 42 million tonnes
(mt) of coal at its pithead and power
plants in possession of comfortable
fossil fuel stock, the proposed oneday strike on September 2 is likely
to have a limited direct impact, a CIL
official had earlier said.In September
last year, a majority of about 4 lakh
coal workers across the country had
gone on strike, which hit production in
a big way. Nearly 5 lakh bank union
workers and officers are set to join
the strike called by unions on 2 September to protest against what they
call ‘anti-people policies of the Modi
government and labour reforms’.
Finance Ministery’s plea
to public sector banks
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI):
Keen to close wage negotiations
in public sector banks by 1 November, 2017, the Finance Ministry has
asked the lenders to present status
report on salary hike talks with their
employee unions. The chief executives of PSBs have been asked to intimate the Ministry about ‘the present
status/action taken by them so as to
conclude the negotiations/next wage
settlement by the effective date i.e 1
November , 2017 positively’.
In January, the PSBs were asked
to initiate the process of negotiations
with the employees and conclude it
prior to the effective date of 1 November, 2017. The communication
to PSBs regarding wages comes
in the backdrop of banks union
threatening to join the strike called
by trade unions on 2 September to
protest against what they call antipeople policies of the government.
The wage revision of public sector
bank employees has been due since
November 2012. In the last wage
negotiation between PSU banks
employee unions and bank management, Indian Banks’ Association
(IBA) had settled at 15 per cent hike.
There are 27 public sector banks in
the country with a combined employee strength of about eight lakh. There
are about 50,000 branches of these
banks across the country. Recently,
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan had
said all public sector banks tend to
over-pay at the bottom but underpay their top executives, even as he
rued, albeit jokingly, himself being
‘under-paid’.
CBDT keen to bring
down tax litigations
To write to 2.59 lakh taxpayers to avail
one-time dispute resolution scheme
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI):
Keen to bring down the number of tax
litigations, the I-T Department will soon
write to over 2.59 lakh taxpayers asking them to avail the one-time dispute
resolution scheme to settle their cases.
And to cut down on communication
time, the Central Board of Direct Taxes
(CBDT) will use email to communicate
with the appellants. ‘We have estimated
that each Commissioner of I-T (Appeal)
would have about 300-400 litigations
pending before them. We will send
these assessees emails informing about
the benefits of the dispute resolution
scheme,’ an official told PTI.
The Direct Tax Dispute Resolution
Scheme, introduced from 1 June, seeks
to address the issue of pending litigation
before Commissioner of I-T (Appeal).
The scheme is open till 31December.
As per I-T department data, there were
73,402 appeals with tax effect above
Rs 10 lakh and 1,85,858 appeals with
tax effect below Rs 10 lakh which are
pending before CIT (Appeal) as on 29
February. Thus, 2,59,260 appellants are
eligible for the benefit of this scheme.
‘The publicity drive will not be as massive as the IDS. Since we know who our
target assessees are, we will send them
pamphlets and also emails. Also we will
paste some pamphlets outside the CIT
(Appeals) office,’ the official added.
Armed with a Rs 100-crore budget for
advertisement of Income Disclosure
Scheme (IDS) and Disputes Resolution Scheme, the tax department will
now launch a publicity drive for entities
which are locked in a litigation. Besides,
the CBDT will soon come out with over
two dozen FAQs based on the queries
it has received from various stakeholders, including chartered accountants and
industry chambers. As per the scheme,
a taxpayer who has an appeal pending
before the CIT (Appeals) can settle his/
her case by paying the disputed tax and
interest up to the date of assessment.
No penalty in respect of cases with disputed tax up to Rs 10 lakh will be levied.
For cases exceeding Rs 10 lakh, 25
per cent of penalty would be levied and
any pending appeal against a penalty
order can also be settled by paying 25
per cent of the minimum of the imposable penalty. ‘Litigation is a scourge for
a tax-friendly regime and creates an
environment of distrust in addition to
increasing the compliance cost of the
taxpayers and administrative cost for
the government,’ Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley had said in his Budget speech.
Jitendra J Jadhav, directer, CSIR -NAL, M M Murugappan, chairman,
CUMI & vice-chairman, Murugappa Group and D K Das, associate
director and scientist, ISRO Ahmedabad at the inauguration of CUMI’s
R&D facility in Hosur.
CUMI inaugurates
R&D facility in Hosur
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 28:
Carborundum Universal (CUMI), one of the leading players in the
world in the area of material sciences and part of the Murugappa Group,
inaugurated a state-of-the-art Research and Development centre in its
Industrial Ceramics Division facility in Hosur.
A press note said the facility was inaugurated by MM Murugappan,
chairman of CUMI and vice-chairman of Murugappa Group, along with K
Srinivasan, managing director of CUMI, and Rajesh Khanna, president,
Industrial Ceramics division of CUMI.
Jitendra J Jadhav, director, CSIR & NAL, Bangalore and D K Das,
associate director & Outstanding Scientist, SAC - ISRO were the guests
of honour.
The release said the facility boasts of advanced equipment for material
characterisation, microstructural analysis, finished component analysis
and other critical areas, supplementing the existing R&D activity of the
unit.
CUMI Chairman and Murugappa Group vice-chairman Murugappan
said, ‘We are very happy to be a part of the advancing technology and
research in the area of material sciences. We look forward to more activity in the areas of mining, cement, steel, colliery, paper, agro, dredging
for wear ceramic vertical and space, defence, etc.
Bharti launches
‘India with Airtel’ suite
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI):
Bharti Airtel has announced its ‘India with
Airtel’ suite of services that brings all of its
telecom and connectivity solutions under one
roof, to meet the needs of global companies
looking to set up business in India.
‘India with Airtel’ is being positioned as
one-stop-shop for availing all telecom and
connectivity solutions including mobile and
fixed telephony, global and domestic data
capacity and connectivity solutions, VSAT,
Virtual Private Network, data centre and
cloud solutions, Value Added Services and
payment and billing integration, machineto-machine, and
managed services.
The company believes that having all the
solutions at one place will eliminate the
challenge that global businesses may face
-- of dealing with multiple vendors and related integration issues -- when they set up
operations in the country.
‘Airtel will offer global companies, particularly those in the digital space, extensive
market reach through joint go to market
programmes,’ a company release said, adding that telecom and connectivity solutions
play a critical role in the current business
environment. ‘Given the impetus from the
government’s Make in India and Digital India
initiatives, India is fast becoming a definite
strategic market for multinationals across the
globe,’ Ajay Chitkara, Director & CEO – Global
Voice & Data Business, Bharti Airtel, said.
RBI unions write to MPs against PDMA
‘Separation of public debt management from RBI is hardly relevant in our context’
Mumbai, Aug 28 (PTI):
Ahead of Urjit Patel taking
over as the new Governor,
Reserve Bank employee
unions have appealed to
Parliament members and
state finance ministers
to prevent the proposed
Public Debt Management
Agency (PDMA), saying
that moving the function will
cost the government dearly.
‘Holding of government
securities by the central
bank in a developing economy is always advantageous. The argument for
separation of public debt
management from the RBI
is hardly relevant in our
context,’ says the letter
written last week.
The letter, written by the
All-India Reserve Bank
Employees Association,
All-India Reserve Bank
Workers Federation, AllIndia Reserve Bank Officers Association and the
Reserve Bank of India
Officers Association, has
been addressed to MPs
across party lines as well
as to the States’
Finance Ministers.
Finance Minister Arun
Jaitely in the 2016 Budget proposed to divest the
public debt management
functions from the RBI by
setting up a separate body
under the Finance Ministry
as an autonomous agency
‘to bring both the country’s
external borrowings and
domestic debt under one
roof’.
But following opposition
from the RBI, he dropped
the proposal from the 2016
Finance Bill. The Minister,
however, said the government, in consultation with
RBI, will prepare a road
map to pursue a separate
debt management agency
later, in line with the global
practices.
The PDMA will act as an
investment banker to the
government and will raise
capital through bonds. At
present, the RBI is handling
the government’s borrowing programme and setting up of PDMA requires
amendments to the RBI
Act. Currently, RBI fully
handles issuance (frontoffice) and infrastructure
(back-office) of G-secs. The
middle office,
which is currently with the
finance ministry, handles
formulation of a long-term
debt management strategy,
annual debt issuance and
periodic calendars of borrowing, forecasting cash
and borrowing requirements. It also lays down a
comprehensive risk management framework.
The letter says when
foreign investors want to
invest large-scale in the
country, they have to purchase huge amount of rupee bonds to buy domestic assets. Consequently,
the rupee appreciates and
makes exports costly, and
to offset this the RBI has to
intervene and suck
out excess foreign currencies from the market. This
maintains the exchange
value of the rupee but increases its supply in the
domestic market, triggering
inflation, argues the letter.
‘The RBI sells government
securities which it holds
in its reserves and abates
excess rupee supply from
the market. This exercise
warrants RBI having huge
stock of government securities,’ it says.
Under such arrangement,
the RBI at a time can manage public debt, maintain
the exchange rate, the
unions write. ‘In today’s
world of financial insecurity
the much chased financial
stability can only come from
a well
co-ordinated monetary
policy exercise, exchange
rate control and public debt
management which precisely the RBI is doing most
efficiently and for which it is
recognised the world over,’
argues the letter.
NAME CHANGE
I, MARIA GNANA JYOTHI
PAULRAJ,
W/o, JOSEPH
JAYAKUMAR VINCENT, born
on 26/02/1988, residing
at Plot No.697B, Bhavani
Street, Poompozhil Nagar,
S.M. Nagar, Avadi, Chennai
-600 062, shall henceforth be
known as MARIA JOSEPH.
MARIA GNANA
JYOTHI PAULRAJ
NAME CHANGE
I,
PRAVEEN
KUMAR
MADANLAL,
born
on
26.03.1985,
residing
at
Old No.52, New No.113,
Amman Koil Street, Seven
Wells,
Chennai-600001,
shall henceforth be known
as PRAVEEN KUMAR JAIN
MADANLAL
PRAVEEN KUMAR MADANLAL
NAME CHANGE
I, FAROOQUE AHMED,
S/o, BANGI MOHAMMED
JAMEELUR RAHMAN, born
on 11/03/1975 residing at
No. 19/245B/1114, 5th Street,
Basheerabad,
Muslimpur,
Vaniyambadi-635751, Vellore
District,
shall henceforth
be known as MOHAMMED
FAROOQUE BANGI.
FAROOQUE AHMED
NAME CHANGE
I, ATHIKA BANU, W/o.
MOHAMMED
SIDDIQ,
born
on
25/02/1989,
residing at No:648/39,
Patel Mohammed Kasim
Street,
Khaderpet,
Vaniyambedi-635751,
Vellore
District,
shall
henceforth be known as
ATHEEQUA BANU
ATHIKA BANU
IN THE HIGH COURT OF
JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
IN THE HIGH COURT OF
JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
(Testamentary and Intestate Jurisdiction)
(Testamentary and Intestate Jurisdiction)
O.P.No.148 of 2016
O.P.No.298 of 2016
In the matter of Indian
Succession Act XXXIX of 1925
and
In the matter of last Will &
Testament of T.K. Venkatesan
(Deceased)
R. Ramanujam
Flat No.A3, I Floor,
No.60/38, Baroda Street,
West Mambalam,
Chennai - 600 033.
...Petitioner
Vs
1. V. Alamelu,
Flat ‘C” Thazhamboo Apartments,
19, Narasimhan Street, West Mambalam,
Chennai - 600 033.
2. Pattammal Santhanam,
16/15, I Cross Road, Gopal Reddy
Colony,
Chennai-600 082.
3. Vedha Ramanujam,
Flat A3, I Floor,No.60/38, Baroda Street,
West Mambalam, Chennai-600 033.
4. Dr.V.Kannan,
Flat No.12 B Wing, Mohini Gulmohar CHS
115, Prakash Kotnis Marg, Mahim,
Mumbai-400 016.
5. Kousalya Sridharan,
Flat No.C, Thazhamboo Apartments,
19, Narasimhan Street, West Mambalam,
Chennai-600 033.
6. V. Sridhar,
Flat No.7, Aparna Flats,
4/13, Balakrishna Mudali Street,
West Mambalam, Chennai-600 033.
....Respondents
All persons claiming to have any interest in the
estate of the above named T.K. Venkatesan who
was resided at No.19, Narasimhan Street, West
Mambalam, Chennai - 600 033 and died on
04.11.2003 are hereby cited to come and see the
proceedings before the Learned Master sitting
in the original side of High Court of Judicature
of letter of Probate.
Dated at Chennai on this the 19th day of
August, 2016.
Sd/- (I. Muhammed Saleem)
M/s. P.B. Ramanujan,
Asst. Registrar,
P.B. Balaji
Original Side,
No. 19, Law Chambers,
High Court,
High Court, Chennai - 104. Chennai -104.
In the matter of Indian Succession Act
XXXIX of 1925
and
In the matter of the Estate of Hema Murali
Intestate - (Deceased)
P.K. Ravi
No. 103B, Kukreja Palace,
Vallabh Baug Lane,
Ghatkopar (E)
Mumbai - 400 075.
...Petitioner
Vs
1. Shantha Soundarajan
Flat No. 9, Narangi Flats, Giri Street,
West Mambalam, Chennai - 600
033.
2. P.K. Srinivasan,
Flat No.12, Kothari Complex,
149/63, Rangarajapuram Main Road,
Kodambakkam, Chennai - 600 024.
3. P.K Varadarajan,
No.3, Murugan Street,
Venkatesaperumal Nagar,
Valasaravakkam, Chennai - 600 087.
4. S. Saraswathi, Old No.12, Janakiram
Pillai Street, West Mambalam,
Chennai-600 033.
5. Jaya Pattabiraman,
15, Venkateswara Nagar II Street,
Adyar, Chennai-600 020.
....Respondents
All persons claiming to have any interest
in the estate of the above named Hema
Murali who was resided at Flat No.1A,
Kala Flats, No 12, Baktavachalam Street,
West Mambalam, Chennai - 600 033.
and died on 22.10.1995 are hereby cited
to come and see the proceedings before
the Learned Master sitting in the original
side of High Court of Judicature at Madras
of letter of administration.
Dated at Chennai on this the 19th day of
August, 2016.
Sd/- (I. Muhammed Saleem)
M/s. P.B. Ramanujan, Asst Registrar,
P.B. Balaji
Original Side,
No. 19, Law Chambers,
High Court,
High Court, Chennai - 104. Chennai -104.
Sports
6 SUNDAY
28 AUGUST 2016
AFRIDI OUT OF T20
AGAINST ENGLAND
Karachi, Aug 28 (PTI):
Former Pakistan captain Shahid
Afridi has been virtually ruled out of
the lone T20 International against
England, to be played next month in
Manchester.
Sources in the Pakistan Cricket
Board (PCB) said that the national
selectors were not considering allrounder Afridi for the match on 7
September as he was carrying a knee
injury.
‘He has undergone a MRI scan
and has been advised to undergo
a rehabilitation program at the national cricket academy for the next few
weeks,’ the source said.
The source also said that Afridi, who
stepped down as the national T20
captain after the World T20 Cup in
April, would first be required to play
a couple of matches in the final leg of
the national T20 championship next
month before being considered for
national selection.
‘Afridi is keen to play T20 Internationals for Pakistan as he has now
focussed on just this one format after
his retirement from ODIs last year. But
he has to prove his fitness and form
to the selectors first,’ the source said.
Afridi had to step down as captain in
April after Pakistan performed poorly
in the Asia Cup and World T20 in
Bangladesh and India.
He also confirmed that batsmen
Umar Akmal and Ahmed Shehzad
would also not be considered for the
T20 in England.
‘Even though the two have apologised to the Chairman of the board
but the selectors are yet not ready
to accept them back in the national
team,’ the source added.
He said that both the youngsters
would be considered for the forthcoming three-match T20 series against
the West Indies in the UAE from 23
September.
‘Afridi, Shehzad and Umar will come
under consideration for the West Indies series but the selectors still want
more assurance that Shehzad and
Umar will be on their best behaviour
when they return to the team,’ the
source stated.
The selectors are however planning
to pick uncapped allrounder Ammad
Butt for the T20 match in England.
TENDULKAR TALKS UP
SUPPORT OF PHYSIOS
Bengaluru, Aug 28 (PTI):
Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar
said he would not have been able
to serve Indian cricket and chase
his dreams but for the support and
care of medical professionals and
physiotherapists.‘My relationship with
healthcare runs very long thanks to
the multiple injuries throughout my
career. In fact, I would not have been
able to serve Indian cricket and chase
my dreams but for the support and
care of many medical professionals
and physiotherapists,’ Tendulkar
said after inaugurating Aster CMI
Hospital here yesterday.Tendulkar
said, ‘I also have a medical professional at home which has been my
best partnership. Medical issues are
not restricted to sportspersons and I
can tell you from experience that it is
the quality of care which heals.’ ‘That
is where Dr Moopen and his team
have made a special and consistent
effort trying to live their philosophy
of we will treat you well. Physical fitness and well-being is key, and we
must each pledge towards a swasth
bharat,’ he said.
HAFEEZ TOLD TO
UNDERGO TEST ON
BOWLING ACTION
Karachi, Aug 28 (PTI):
Pakistan’s experienced cricketer
Mohammad Hafeez has been told
to undergo a bowling assessment
test conducted by the ICC before the
series against the West Indies in the
UAE from next month.Hafeez, who
has been struggling for batting form
on the tour of England, has failed
to take the ICC assessment test although his 12-month ban on bowling
in international cricket ended in early
July.‘A senior PCB official has conveyed to Hafeez that he has to take
the bowling test as his utility to the
team is necessary as an allrounder
in all three formats of the game,’ a
source said.
‘Hafeez has been told not to delay
the bowling assessment anymore as
the long-term interests of Pakistan
cricket have to be taken into consideration first and he should take the
test before the T20 series against the
West Indies before 23 September,’
the source stated. The PCB had hired
a bowling coach, Carl Crowe, in the
United Kingdom to help Hafeez correct/modify his bowling action before
taking the assessment test in England
but the senior player has so far been
averse to taking the plunge, insisting
he is not yet ready for it.
CHENNAI
INJURY WORRIES FOR
DJOKOVIC, SERENA
Serena
acknowledged
she'd prefer to
have played more
coming into the
Open - she's had
just three singles
matches since
Wimbledon - and
needs to
practice more
Top-seeds to open campaign US Open against tricky rivals
All eyes on del Potro, Kerber
New York, Aug 28:
Serena Williams is 'starting to feel
a little better.' Novak Djokovic is
'getting there.'
The US Open's top seeds in both
singles brackets are coming off
injuries, and neither has played
since an early loss at the Olympics. Friday was the first
time either had discussed
the health problems that
stymied them in Rio de
Janeiro and forced them
to withdraw from the hardcourt warmup at Cincinnati.
For Serena, it's a sore right
shoulder that she revealed started
bothering her almost immediately
after her Wimbledon victory. She
said she practiced for just two days
before the Olympics and has spent
little time on court since as she undergoes physical therapy.
For Djokovic, it's a sore left wrist
that he revealed he hurt in Rio a few
days before his first-round Olympic
loss to Juan Martin del Potro, a
player who knows plenty about how
that injury hinders a righty's twohanded backhand.
'I'm just hoping that Monday
when the tournament starts
I'll be able to get as close
to the maximum of executing my backhand shot as
possible,' said Djokovic,
who sounded a bit more
optimistic than Williams on
Friday.
Serena acknowledged she'd prefer
to have played more coming into the
Open - she's had just three singles
matches since Wimbledon - and
needs to practice more.
'I'm just now starting to feel a little better,' she said. 'Hopefully just
Paes-Begemann
duo falters in finale
PAES
Winston-Salem (USA), Aug 28 (PTI):
Indian tennis ace Leander Paes
and his German partner Andre Begemann squandered as many as
five match points in the second set
to eventually lose the summit clash
against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and
Henri Kontinen in a three-setter at
the ATP Winston-Salem Open here.
Spaniard Garcia-Lopez and Kon-
tinen of Finland overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to deny
one of the ATP World Tour’s all-time
greats and take the Winston-Salem
Open doubles title 4-6, 7-6(6), 10-8.
After winning the first set 6-4, Paes
and Begemann were 6-1 ahead
in the second-set tie-break, giving themselves five match points,
including three on their serve, and
they looked like easily pocketing
the title.
But Garcia-Lopez and Kontinen
reeled off seven points on the trot
to take the second set and even
the match.
In the Match Tie-break, the firsttime pairing of Garcia-Lopez and
Kontinen held onto their nerves
to claim their first ATP World Tour
team doubles title last night.
The 43-year-old Paes was trying to
win his 56th overall ATP World Tour
title and make it 20 years in a row
with at least one tour-level doubles
crown. He was playing his first final
of the season on ATP Tour.
SERENA
DJOKOVIC
every day I will keep going higher.'
It wasn't a physical problem that
burdened Djokovic during his thirdround Wimbledon loss to 41stranked Sam Querrey, he acknowledged. Asked that day if he was
100 per cent healthy, the 12-time
major champ replied: 'Not really.
But it's not the place and time to
talk about it.'
On Friday, Djokovic conceded 'it
was some other things that I was
going through privately.' He wouldn't
elaborate other than to say that now
'everything is fine.' Speaking of left
wrist injuries, Rafael Nadal said his
keeps getting better but still isn't
100 per cent. Because the 14-time
Grand Slam champ is a lefty, his issue is the forehand. Both Djokovic
Nadal keen to build
on Olympics form
New York, Aug 28:
Rafa Nadal was exhausted yet
exhilarated following his emotional
return to action at this month’s Rio
Olympics after an injury-absence
and is looking forward to gearing
back up for the US Open starting
on Monday.
‘If you’re not excited about the US
Open, you’re not a tennis player,’
Nadal told reporters.
Injuries are affecting several top
players heading into the last grand
slam of the year in a season made
even more hectic with the Olympics
squeezed into the schedule.
Men’s top seed Novak Djokovic,
like Nadal, is also dealing with a
wrist injury and women’s number
one Serena Williams is coping with
a sore right shoulder.
Lefthander Nadal, sidelined after
being unable to play his third-round
match at the French Open because
NADAL
of an injured left wrist, decided to
test himself in Rio.
‘I was two months and a half outside of the competition, and not only
outside of the competition, outside
the practice courts. I couldn’t practice,’ the Spanish fourth seed said at
Flushing Meadows on Friday.
Nadal, 30, said he was determined
to give it a try in Rio and ended up
feeling good enough to compete
in singles, doubles and mixed
doubles.
RESCUES REAL
New Haven, Aug 28 (PTI):
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza received a confidence booster ahead
of the US Open Grand Slam tournament beginning tomorrow with a
doubles title victory at the Connecticut Open with Monica Niculescu of
Romania here.
Sania and Niculescu capped off their newly rekindled doubles partnership with their first title together with a straight set victory over the
duo of Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine and Chuang Chia-Jung of
Taiwan in the final.
The Indo-Romanian pair won 7-5, 6-4 in the summit clash that lasted
one hour and 30 minutes.
After pocketing a tough first set 7-5, Sania and Niculescu won a
tightly contested second set 6-4 en route to lifting the trophy.
The last time Sania and Niculescu partnered up was way back in
2010, where they joined forces to reach the quarterfinals at the Western and Southern Open. They played that one tournament together
before calling time on the partnership.
Sania recently parted ways with Swiss Martina Hingis after a hugely
successful partnership.
Madrid, Aug 28 (AFP):
Real Madrid shrugged off the
absence of the injured Cristiano
Ronaldo to extend their perfect start
to the season with a 2-1 win over
Celta Vigo thanks to Toni Kroos’s
late winner. The European champions now lead their opponents in
May’s Champions League final by
four points after just two games as
Atletico Madrid were held 0-0 at
newly promoted Leganes.
Alvaro Morata looked to have
Real on their way to another three
points when he eventually broke
Celta’s resistence by smashing
home on the hour mark. Fabian
Orellana curled home a spectacular
equaliser 24 minutes from time, but
Kroos’s sublime low strike in off the
inside of the post secured all three
points for the hosts 10 minutes
from time.‘We played so-so today,’ said Madrid boss Zinedine
Zidane. ‘I am left with the fact
the players believed until the end
and we achieved what we wanted.’
Ronaldo was still sidelined by the
knee ligament injury that forced him
off during Portugal’s Euro 2016 final
victory over France.
‘The motivation, the passion, sharing moments with the team helped
a lot,’ said Nadal, who reached the
Rio singles semi-finals and won
gold in doubles with his friend Marc
Lopez.
‘Winning a gold medal is always
something unique, and I think I
enjoyed it as much as I can during
the whole event,’ he said.
‘I finished the tournament completely exhausted ... no more energy
inside of my body.’
Nadal carried on straight from
Rio to Cincinnati where he won
his opening match before losing to
teenager Borna Coric of Croatia.
‘I am better, I am a little bit better,’
said Nadal. ‘It’s true that the wrist
bothers me a little bit less every
day. I need to understand again to
hit my normal forehand. During the
wrist injury, always you try to find
movements to avoid the pain.
SINDHU, SAKSHI,
DIPA RECEIVE
BMW CARS
KROOS WINNER
Another title for Sania
and Serena face a former Grand
Slam semifinalist in the first round.
Serena opens her bid for a recordbreaking 23rd major title against
Ekaterina Makarova, who's coming
off an Olympic doubles gold medal.
The Russian made two straight
major semis - at the 2014 US Open,
losing to Serena 6-1, 6-3, and the
2015 Australian Open. With her
ranking slipping to 36th, she just
missed a seed at Flushing Meadows. Doing an interview shortly after
the draw was set, Djokovic joked he
wasn't 'mentally ready' to see his
bracket quite yet and wanted to wait
until 'I'm alone.
SINDHU
Hyderabad, Aug 28 (PTI):
Rio Olympics silver medallist shuttler P V Sindhu and
bronze winner grappler Sakshi Malik along with gymnast
Dipa Karmakar and badminton coach Pullela Gopichand
were today presented BMW
cars by cricket legend Sachin
Tendulkar here.
Hyderabad District Badminton Association president
Chamundeshwarnath gifted
the luxury cars to the four sportspersons for their outstanding
achievement in the recentlyconcluded Olympic Games in
Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.Tendulkar, who was the Goodwill
Ambassador of the Indian
team at Rio Olympics, handed
over the keys at a function at
Gopichand Badminton Academy here.Under the guidance
of chief coach Gopichand,
Sindhu clinched the silver
medal in women’s singles
making her the first Indian
woman sportsperson to win a
silver in the Olympics.
SAKSHI
Dhoni admits he missed out but looks at positives
West Indies players celebrate after Dwayne Bravo
helped pull off a narrow win against India.
Fort Lauderdale (US), Aug 28 (PTI):
Indian captain Mahendra Singh
Dhoni admitted that the execution of his
last ball dismissal which led to
his side’s one-run loss against
the West Indies was wrong but
sought to dwell on the positives from the nerve-wrecking
Twenty20 International match
here Saturday.
‘It was an amazing game. We
couldn’t have expected more from
the batting unit. The last ball, the
thinking was right but the execution was wrong. Everything is
judged by execution,’ Dhoni said
after the match.
Chasing 246 for a win, India
Indian skipper praises Rahul’s outstanding knock
ended their run chase at 244
for 4 with Dhoni’s last ball dismissal, leaving Lokesh Rahul at
110 not out -- his maiden T20I
hundred.
India needed two runs from
the final ball to win the match
but Dhoni failed to get those
runs as he was caught by Marlon Samuels, slicing a slower
delivery off Dwayne Bravo to
the heartbreak of the large
number of Indian supporters
at the stands.India thus failed
to notch up the highest ever
successful run chase in T20 In-
ternationals as they fell short by
just one run in a nerve-wrecking
last ball finish to lose the first of
the two T20 match against the
West Indies.‘We did most things
right. Whenever there was a
partnership, we kept the asking rate at just 12. I felt Rahul
was outstanding throughout.
The others too were superb
because it’s not always easy to
chase down 250. A win would
have been perfect, but there
were so many things we did
right today,’ Dhoni, who scored
43 off 25 balls, added.
RAHUL
Mixed Bag
CHENNAI
Stars attend wedding
of Radhika’s daughter
SUNDAY
28 AUGUST 2016
Javadekar to
meet IIM heads
Wide range of issues from quality of education
to building best infra will be discussed
Actor Chiranjeevi at the wedding of Rayane and Abhimanyu Mithun in
Chennai today.
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 28:
The wedding of Radhika Sarathkumar’s daughter Rayane with cricketer Abhimanyu Mithun took place
near Chennai today. And it was attended by who’s who of south Indian
cinema including popular Telugu
actor Chiranjeevi. Among others
who attended it include filmmakers
Mani Ratnam, Bharathiraja, producers AVM Saravanan, Sathyajothi
Thiyagarajan, veteran actor Prabhu,
Vikram among others. The traditional
wedding was followed by a reception
later in the day.
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI):
Issues related to quality of management education, exploring avenues
for financing and improving global
perception of Indian institutions are
likely to come up for discussion when
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar
meets directors of IIMs next month.
The meeting comes at a time when
the HRD Ministry is working on
formulating a New Education Policy
(NEP), officials said.
‘The HRD Minister will be meeting
Directors of various IIMs soon and
it is expected that a range of issues
from quality of education to building
best infrastructure will be discussed,’
a senior official told PTI.
Officials said Javadekar will also
meet heads of other higher educational institutions which are financed
by the Union government in the coming days. ‘It has been planned that in
the coming days the Minister would
Panel slams changes
in pension calculation
‘It has substantially decreased the amount
for those who retired after 1 Sept 2014’
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI):
A Parliamentary panel has rapped
the government for abruptly amending the formula for calculating pension, which resulted in ‘substantial’
decrease in the amount of benefits
received by employees who retire
after 1 September, 2014, saying it
amounts to ‘breach of contract’.
The Committee on Subordinate
Legislation has said in its 12th report
that the amendment is ‘adversarial
and arbitrary in nature’ as the persons who retire up to one day before
1 September, 2014 will get higher
pension on account of calculation
based on 12 month average salary,
while those who retire after that will
get substantially lower pension calculated on 60 months’ average salary.
At the time of joining the pension
scheme both categories of em-
ployees were entitled to receiving
pension based on the same formula,
the report tabled in the monsoon
session said. The Committee has
now ‘strongly’ recommended restoration of the earlier formula in case
of ‘at least all such employees who
became members of Employees
Pension Scheme prior to the 22
August, 2014 notification effective
from 1 September, 2014’. ‘The criteria of 60 months for calculation of
pension, could be made applicable
to only those employees who had
joined Employees Pension Scheme
after the notification after suitable
modifications as the committee find
little justification for such a drastic
change in the criteria,’ the panel said.
The report said the government had
contended that the amendment was
made on the basis of recommenda-
tion in the actuarial valuation reports
of the Employees Pension Scheme
with a view to curtailing deficit in the
Employees’ Pension Scheme Fund.
‘Having considered the background
and the aims and objects of the
Employees Provident Fund and
Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952,
the Committee are of the considered
view that the extant amendment
made by the government towards
calculation of the pension is totally
against the principles of natural justice and contrary to the spirit of the
original Pension Scheme’.
‘It is definitely prejudicial to the
interests of those employees who
are attaining the age of superannuation after 1 September, 2014.
The amendment is adversarial and
arbitrary in nature,’ the committee
observed.
Javadekar will
also meet heads
of other higher
educational
institutions which
are financed by the
Union government
in the coming days
Prakash Javadekar
be interacting with various Vice
Chancellors of Central Universities,
NITs, Indian Institutes of Science
Education and Research (IISERs)
etc,’ the official added.
Javadekar had recently presided
over the IIT council meeting where
directors of these premier education-
Rail Cards
to replace
season tickets
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI):
Suburban train passengers may
soon get a Rail Card in place of
monthly season tickets which they
can also use for some retail therapy.
The public sector transporter is in
talks with 31 banks to firm up the cobranding proposal, a senior Railway
Ministry official said.
An estimated 1.1 crore passengers
use local trains daily across the
country.
According to the plan, there will be
three types of Rail Cards - gold, silver
and platinum. While the silver card
will be for monthly pass holders, gold
cards will be issued to passengers
opting for six-month duration pass.
Platinum card is meant for year-long
pass holders.
The Rail Card will be launched in
Mumbai as a pilot project before the
facility is extended to other places.
al institutions were present. ‘There
are a range of issues from quality,
affordability, global standings to
making education affordable and
accessible. It is expected that these
sessions will be brainstorming sessions and new ideas will emanate,’
officials said.
7
CREDAI’s
initiative for
workers
NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 28:
The convocation for the first batch
of training programme of skilling for
construction workers was held here
recently. A press note said the Confederation of Real Estate Developer’s
Associations of India (CREDAI)
conducted the programme at Isha
Homes (India) Private Limited and Olympia Tech Park Private Limited sites
through its training partner Rustomjee
Academy for Global Skill (RAGC).
A total of 54 persons were trained at
two sites and 72 per cent of the workers who appeared for the assessment
passed. This is a part of a pan-India
initiative undertaken by CREDAI to
skill the construction workers. The
association is organising the training
keeping in mind the shortage of skilled
manpower in the industry on the one
hand and high levels of unemployment
in the country on the other. With a mix
of ‘on-site and classroom training’, the
programme is designed to develop
technical and soft skills that enhance
productivity and quality. The trainings
have helped the construction workers
to gain a fair degree of self-confidence,
said the release. Suresh Krishn, president, CREDAI Chennai said, ‘CREDAI
aims to build a foundation of skills that
enhances quality output in the construction sector.’
IGI airport: FM
seeks CBI probe
Gold seized worth over Rs 25 cr goes missing
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI):
Gold worth at least Rs 25 crore
seized from smugglers has mysteriously disappeared from customs
vaults at Indira Gandhi International
Airport here, prompting the authorities to order a CBI probe.
A huge haul of over 80 kg gold, both
in form of bullion and jewellery, has
gone missing in the last over four
years from the customs warehouse.
In all the cases, it was replaced with
non-precious yellow-coloured metal,
official sources said.
The seized gold was valued at Rs
25 crore as per current market rates,
they said.
The cases of disappearance of gold
had earlier been reported to Delhi
Police. As the pilferage continued,
the Finance Ministry decided to
recommend a CBI probe following
approval of Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley, official sources said.
The CBI has been asked to register
a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) into the
matter and find out as to how the gold
was replaced with the non-precious
metal inside the heavily guarded
vault, they said. The cases of missing
gold related to period between 2012
and June this year.
The vigilance wing of the Finance
Ministry is also looking into the suspected role of customs officials, they
said. Earlier, replying to an RTI query
filed by PTI, the Delhi customs had
said over 23 kg of gold worth more
than Rs six crore had gone missing
from its warehouse. In June last year,
the customs officials had lodged an
FIR in connection with disappearance of 11 kg of gold worth Rs 2.92
crore from its vault.
JNU rape case: Varsity
suspends accused scholar
Action comes after students and teachers stage protests
Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar with Indian Olympic stars PV Sindhu, Sakshi Malik, Dipa
Karmakar and coach P Gopichand in Hyderabad today after handing over BMW cars for their outstanding
achievement. The idea to reward the athletes with the luxury cars for their success at the Rio Olympics
was conceptualised by Hyderabad District Badminton Association president V Chamundeshwarnath.
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI):
JNU has suspended a PhD scholar,
who has been accused of rape by a
fellow student, and declared the campus out of bounds for him pending
an enquiry, a decision which comes
following protests from students and
teachers.
A 28-year-old research student has
alleged that a fellow student, Anmol
Ratan, raped her after offering her a
spiked drink in his hostel room in the
university on 20 August.
Ratan, an activist of the left-affiliated
All India Students’ Association (AISA),
has also been expelled from the student outfit and police have booked
him. While he evaded arrest at first,
Ratan subsequently surrendered on
24 August and was sent to 14 days
in judicial custody. ‘Considering the
seriousness of the case and in confirmity with zero tolerance against sex-
‘Djokovic will be the one to beat’
Novak Djokovic
C SHYAM SUNDAR
Chennai, Aug 28:
It is time for the US Open, the last
Major of the year and unlike last year
there is no focus on any player going
for the elusive ‘calendar Slam’ when
Serena Williams was on the cusp on
achieving the rare feat.
That she crashed to Roberta Vinci
in the semifinals and let slip the
chance is another story. She is back
at Flushing Meadows again, this time
with the chance of going past Steffi
Graf’s haul of 22 Grand Slam titles.
She has not been in the best of form,
having lost early in the Rio Olympics.
Though Serena did admit that
she was not ‘as well prepared’ as
she would have liked, the world
number one would be the player to
beat in New York. Australian Open
champion Angelique Kerber missed
out on dethroning Serena as the
top-ranked player at Cincinnati but
would be the one to watch out for. On
the men’s side, the top-seed Novak
Djokovic hasn’t had the best of time
and preparation heading into the US
Open and the shock loss at Rio to
Juan Martin del Potro hasn’t helped
his cause either. He too is facing fitness issues but come the Majors he
is a force to reckon with. It would be
risky to write him off.
His biggest challenge could come
from world No.2 Andy Murray, who
has been on a roll recently, winning
a second Wimbledon and defending
his Olympic title.
He is the in-form player and can
termed the pre-tourney favourite.
The absence of Roger Federer would
leave his fans disappointed, while
Rafael Nadal is finding his way back
slowly and could do some damage at
the tournament.
Big Argentine Juan Martin del Potro,
who shocked Djokovic at Rio, would
be the dark-horse and if he finds his
range could be the man the favourites
would dread facing. In the opinion
of noted mental conditioning coach
Badri Narayanan, ‘it comes down to
who is less tired - (Andy) Murray or
(Novak) Djokovic. And Kei Nishikori
and Stan Wawrinka are dark horses.
He said Nishikori is due for a Major
breakthrough and tipped him to do
well.
About Indian player Saketh Myneni
qualifying for the main draw, Badri
said, ‘It is a fantastic achievement to
qualify. He has been playing well in
the Challengers and has shown consistency both in singles snd doubles.
Hope he makes a good run.’
Meanwhile, former Indian star
Nirupama Sanjeev said, ‘I like Juan
Martin del Potro’s chances in the
men’s section.’ However, the USbased Nirupama said she would still
to pick Serena for the women’s crown.
A 28-year-old research student has alleged that
a fellow student, Anmol Ratan, raped her after
offering her a spiked drink in his hostel room
in the university on 20 August
ual assault on women, Anmol Ratan
is suspended from the university with
immediate effect during pendency of
the case,’ the suspension order read.
‘The entire JNU campus shall
remain out of bounds for Ratan during his suspension. Anyone found
giving shelter to Ratan in any hostel
residence in the campus shall invite
disciplinary action against him or
her,’ it added. The action came after
the students and teachers staged
protests demanding action against
Ratan to ensure safety of women on
the campus and send out a strong
message of intolerance towards
such incidents. University administration, has also asked the Gender
Sensitization Committee Against
Sexual Harassment (GSCASH), to
investigate the matter. GSCASH is
the university’s panel to deal with
complaints of such nature. The rape
case has become a centre of political
agenda setting at JNU campus where
student union polls are scheduled to
be held in the next fortnight. Student
wings of various political parties are
trying to encash the issue ahead of
the keenly contested polls.
Supergiants in need
of quick turnaround
NT Bureau
Dindigul, Aug 28:
After a defeat at the hands of the
‘home’ team - Dindigul Dragons, K
B Arun Karthik’s Madurai Supergiants will be hoping for a quick
turnaround in fortunes when they
take on VB Thiruvallur
Veerans at the NPR College ground on Monday.
A rain-affected game
saw the Supergiants falter
in a run chase and go
down by 14 runs. The onus is on
Arun Karthik & Co to bounce back
from yesterday’s defeat with the
captain required to lead from the
front. All-rounder G Vignesh with
a lot of experience behind him and
S Thiyagarajan have to improve on
their performances to bolster the
Madurai team’s challenge. Thiruvallur Veerans on the other hand,
started with a bang and a win as
skipper Baba Aparajith slammed
a century. He will look to continue
the good run and provide solidity
to the batting. Captains are usually
loathe to change winning
combinations and it is expected that the Veerans
would stick to the same
XI while the Madurai side
may mull tinkering with
the squad. At a presser ahead of
the tournament, players had said
that it would be difficult if any team
loses two games straight at the
beginning and Supergiants would
be eager not to lose consecutive
matches and put themselves under
pressure.
, CHENNAI
8 SUNDAY
28 AUGUST 2016
newstodaynet.com
(Meendum Oru Kadhal Kadhai)
‘Low-budget,
but rich return’
Madhuraj is a happy man in Kollywood today. He had purchased
the dubbing rights of Ramgopal
Verma’s Telugu flick Ice Cream
and released it as Chocobar in
Tamil.
The movie was made at a cost of
less than Rs three lakh and was
shot in just five days.
Says Madhuran, ‘We released
the film last Friday and the same
day we managed to make some
profits.
The investment was less but
returns high’.
He says that it was his attempt
he wanted show to aspiring filmmakers that a standard film can
be made at a low cost.
He says, ‘Initially, RGV refused
to part with Tamil dubbing rights
as he felt that Tamil audiences
would not understand his movies.
I was stubborn and got the rights’.
The movie stars Navdeep and
Tejaswi Madivada in the lead
roles.
-NT Bureau
Romance reigns
supreme
M
eendum Oru Kadhal Kadhai,
remake of Malayalam hit
Thattathin Marayathu is about a
Hindu boy falling in love with a Muslim girl and is set at the TamilnaduKerala border.
Directed by Mithran Jawahar,
the movie stars newcomer Walter
Philips and Isha Talwar in lead
roles. Manoj K Jayan, Nasser and
Thalaivasal Vijay are also in the
cast. Music is by G V Prakash and
the flick is produced by
Block Ticket Films.
The story apparently
inspired heavily by Mani
Ratnam’s Bombay explores the caste conflict and the
need to empower women. Mithran
Jawahar has stuck to the original
but for some minor changes towards the climax. The romance
and family emotions are handled
well by him.
Vinod (Walter Philips), a happy
go-lucky youngster falls in love with
Aisha (Isha Talwar). And he lands
in jail for a reason. He confesses to
the sub- inspector (Manoj K Jayan)
of his love. The latter promises to
help him. Since caste conflict is an
issue in the area, his friends fear of
Vinod’s love for Aisha.
A flashback reveals how he was
attracted towards Aisha and how
romance blossomed between the
two. The rest is all but how Vinod
succeeds in holding the hands of
Aisha.
Walter Philips and Isha Talwar suit
the role well, while Nasser does
his part well. Thalaivasal
Vijay and Singamuthu
have a meaty role to play.
And the scene-stealer
is Manoj K Jayan with a
good show.
Vishnu Sharma’s camera adds
colour to the story. He captures the
natural landscapes well.
All said, Meendum Oru Kadhal
Kadhai lacks the pace one would
associate with such themes. Songs
tend to break the flow. Had Mithran
Jawahar concentrated on this,
the film would have been more
engrossing.
—M BHARAT KUMAR
Tomorrow’s match
Madurai Super Giants vs VB Thiruvallur Veerans at Dindigul, 6.30 p.m
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Loud & laborious
eteran comedian Goundamani
is back after a while to play
messiah of the masses. With his
witty dialogues and punchlines,
he takes the centrestage to speak
against superstitions and social
evils.
Directed by debutant Ganapathy
Balamurugan, Enakku Veru Engum
Kilaigal Kidayadhu is more a satire.
The dialogues hold the key. But as
the movie progresses, it gets more
cliched and Goundamani tries
desperately to hold things together.
Krishna (Goundamani) is a selfcontented, happy man. He ekes
out an livelhood by renting out
caravans for heroes and heroines
in film shootings.
And he is also liked by youngsters
for he is a staunch supporter of
love marriages. He goes to any extreme to get lover-couples united.
One fine day, Prabanandhan
(Soundararaja), an activist in Madurai knocks at Krishna’s door. He
is in love with Divya (Riythvika), who
also hails from Madurai. Her father
is an influential leader of a castebased political outfit in the town.
Prabhandhan wants Krishna to give
them refuge ad get them united.
The rest is all but how Krishna
takes on the goons and ensure
happiness in the lives of Prabhandhan and Divya.
A major portion of the first half
revolves around Soundararaja,
who manages it well. Riythvika,
who played a key role in Kabali,
has nothing much to do
here. Goundamani’s
screen presence is
the highlight. His
one-liners and
quick wits are
laudable.
Ganapathy
Balamurugan
has relied
too much on
Goundamani’s persona.
But the movie
gets preachy
towards the
end. Sadly
the emotional
elements go
for a toss.
—MBK
(Enakku Veru Engum Kilaigal Kidayadhu)
‘Society needs a change’
‘Films should not provide entertainment but educate masses’, says
filmmaker Michael Arun. He has
completed the shoot for his next
Nishabdham, that speaks on the
need for people to change their narrow outlook towards the society. It
also deals with the sensitive issue
of child abuse. Abhinaya, who is
best known for her role in Nadodigal
essays the mother of a seven-yearold girl in the movie. Child artiste
Sathanya, who made an impressive
debut with the horror movie Baby,
has been roped in to play the central
character. Actor Kishore plays a cop.
The director adds, ‘The story is set
in Bengaluru and revolves around a
Tamil family settled there. The film’s
message is about the importance of
humanity, and it will create a huge
impact among family audiences.’
‘Abhinaya’s character is very challenging and she has done it effortlessly. I have brought on board some
world class musicians including Tina
Guo of Game of Thrones-fame and
Serbian instrumentalist Vladiswar
Nadishana for the background score.’
-NT Bureau
Ready, steady, go for Raghu
He was an IT professional in Japan and the love for cinema brought
him to K’town. Amidst opposition from his family, young Raghu gave
up his lucrative job and took the huge risk of trying his luck in acting.
Call it his destiny, today he has managed to hog the limelight playing
a meaty role in Vijay Sethupathy-starrer Dharmadurai.
Speaking to News Today, Raghu says, ‘I should call myself lucky,.
After seeing my performance in a few films in small roles, it was director
Seenu Ramasamy who gave me the biggest opportunity to be part of
Dharmadurai. I played Vijay Sethupathi’s brother’.
‘It was great fun acting in the movie and Seenu Ramasamy patiently
taught me a lot that helped me give my best efforts,’ he said and added,
‘To share the screen with Vijay Sethupathi was a learning experience.
Though he is a star today, he was down-to-earth on the sets and
encouraged me to excel on screen. he gave me space to improvise. I
actually learnt a lot watching him in close quarters’.
‘Today I am identified by all. They call my name whenever they see me
in malls and theatres. Today my family is happy that I achieved what
I dreamt of,’ he added.
Ask him about his desire, Raghu says, ‘I am great fan of Gautham
Menon. I watched his Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaya several times. Hope I
end up being part of his movie soon’.
-NT Bureau
Loss of key wickets
hurt us: Karthik
Dindigul Dragons’ Jagadeesan says staying aggressive helped
Dindigul:
Madurai Super Giants captain K B
Arun Karthik was disappointed that
the team could not pull off a win in
the opening game against Dindigul
Dragons in the ongoing TNPL.
He said that loss of wickets in
clusters led to the team’s downfall.
Speaking to mediapersons after the
14-run defeat in Dindigul on Saturday, Karthik said skipper the loss of
key wickets was the reason for the
reverse.
Asked if he thought the team could
hunt down the 146-run target, he
said, ‘Yes. It sure was gettable. We
started off well and lost key wickets
later for which we paid the price.’
The Supergiants were in with an
outside chance to win after S Thiyagarajan took the game till the final
over and the skipper agreed and
said, ‘Yes. We had a good chance
thanks to the fact that it is a small
ground. Any total can be chased
on this ground. The batsman has to
be set and take risks as and when
required. Baba Aparajith’s century
against Karaikudi Kaalai is a good
example.’
The Madurai skipper, who recently
played in the Duleep Trophy game for
India Reds, also spoke about the importance of a sheet anchor and said,
‘a sheet anchor will definitely help
in such high-pressure games. Once
you get your eye in, any total is gettable. Bowlers are under pressure
in this ground and once you set
yourself then you have a fair chance
of winning.’
Meanwhile, Dindigul’s N Jagadeesan, who scored a quickfire halfcentury said, ‘when I played the first
couple of deliveries, I was just thinking of analysing the wicket. I knew
that the ball was coming well on to
the bat, so I thought if I am going to
go for a shot, let’s go for it and that
helped me in the end.’
Further, he said the wicket was a
proper paata (flat) wicket and it remained the same during the second
innings as well. ‘After rain, we lost a
bit of momentum due to the big break
in between. We were also trying to
hurry up in the end of innings and lost
many wickets.’
On his part, Dindigul captain Subramania Siva said, ‘To be honest,
Madurai had a fantastic batting combination and is a good unit. We had
a few strategies for their batting and
fortunately it clicked. We expected S
Thiyagarajan to open and thought that
M Raja would slog in the death overs.
A lot of things clicked for us and we
were particular about who will bowl
to whom.’
To a question as to whether he was
disappointed with leggie M Ashwin,
Siva said, ‘We wanted to use M Ashwin in the power-play. But then it was
not easy for him to grip the ball thanks
to niggle in his wrist. He came all the
way from Delhi to play in this match
and is leaving again on Sunday.
Overall it has been a fantastic effort
from him.’ He also thanked the crowd
support and said ‘the crowd’s energy
will definitely help us in the long run.’
K B Arun Karthik
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