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ritain, Germany and France agreed on Sunday they
should be ready to ratchet up sanctions on Russia over the downing of a Malaysian jet carrying 298
passengers when European Foreign Ministers meet in
Brussels on Tuesday.
Rebels in eastern Ukraine on Sunday took control of
the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines
plane even as US and European leaders demanded
that Russian President Vladimir Putin make sure rebels
give international investigators full access to the crash
site. The rebels also have allegedly recovered the
black boxes from the plane and will hand them over
to the International Civil Aviation Organisation, a rebel
leader said.
Meanwhile in Parliament, AIADMK today forced adjournment of the Rajya Sabha twice during Question
Hour over former Supreme Court judge Markandey
Katju’s reported allegation that political pressure during
the previous UPA regime had led to elevation of a judge
despite charges of corruption against him.
Ruckus created by AIADMK members seeking suspension of Question Hour to discuss the issue of ‘political
interference in judicial appointments’ led to the House
first being adjourned for 10 minutes and then till Noon.
When the House reassembled, similar scenes were
witnessed with AIADMK members insisting on suspension of Question Hour.
TN Judge row:
RS adjourned
SEEKING WISHES
q AIADMK MPs up in arms, seek probe
Tamilnadu Minister for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise Natham
Viswanathan calling on Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa before the
demands for grants for his departments today.
TN effectively handling
water crisis: Minister
NT Bureau
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Chennai, July 21:
Minister for Municipal Administration and Rural Development S P Velumani
today said the State government led by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has
been effectively handling water crisis in Tamilnadu.
Replying to calling attention motion by MLAs from various political parties,
he said the Chief Minister held a review meeting on handling water crisis
in February this year, following which Rs 651.43 crore worth
water distribution works are
being carried out in the State.
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were undertaken in 11
districts (comprising three
city Corporations and 40
Municipalities) which received less rainfall, Velumani said Rs 77.22 crore
worth water projects
were being implemented
in the remaining 20
districts of the State.
‘In all, renovation of
2,335 water resources,
creation of new sources,
changing of water taps and
distribution of water through
tankers are being undertaken.
Among them, 1,734 works are over and the remaining projects are taking
shape. These works are very helpful in handling the situation in districts
which received less rainfall,’ he said.
Pointing out that Tamilnadu Water Board is maintaining 541 consolidated
drinking water projects, Velumani said 3.13 crore people in seven Corporations, 52 Municipalities, 280 Town Panchayats and 32,733 rural settlements
are being benefited. ‘1442.6 million litre water is currently being distributed
per day through these 541 projects,’ he said.
As far as Chennai is concerned, he said the city is currently being given 587
million litre water. ‘As per the Chief Minister’s order, Veeranam lake was filled
with water for the second time in April and Chennai Metro Water Board is receiving 180 million litre water per day. So far, the amount of the water received
through Telugu Ganga project is 5664 million cubic feet. Steps have been taken
to get water from Krishna channel again by this month end,’ he said.
He said works were completed to get 30 million litre per day for Chennai
through lorries, renovation of borewells, water released from Neyveli mines
and Paravanaru on war footing. ‘Thanks to these steps, people of the city
will get 587 million litre water a day. Rs 50 crore has been allocated from
disaster management fund for this purpose and Rs 43 crore has been spent
already,’ he said. The Minister said the number of trips by tanker lorries to
slum areas has been increased from 2000 to 2900 .
He said Rs 1185.12 crore worth 83,334 projects were undertaken in rural
areas in 2013-14. Velumani said all necessary precautionary efforts to
prevent water crisis are being taken on war footing.
DMK, PT walk out
from Assembly
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
Members of the opposition DMK and Puthiya Thamizhagam walked out from
the Assembly today, after they were denied permission to raise some issues.
After the Question Hour was over and Minister for Municipal Administration
and Rural Development S P Velumani was giving reply to a calling attention
motion by legislators from various parties, Dr K Krishnasamy of the Puthiya
Thamizhagam wanted to speak. However, Speaker P Dhanapal refused
permission, stating that he had raised the issue only now and hence, he
would not be allowed to speak. Protesting this, he walked out of the House.
Later, for a similar reason, DMK legislators too staged walkout.
MINISTERS’ ANSWERS
Minister for Social Welfare and Nutritious Noon Meal Programme B Valarmathi said steps were taken to renovate 15,153 anganwadi centres across
the State. She said this while replying to Arni MLA R M Babu Murugavel
during Question Hour.
Industries Minister P Thangamani said a new SIPCOT industrial park is
coming up at Dharmapuri. He said a decision on setting up a SIPCOT park
in Rajapalayam constituency would be taken based on financial situation.
He said this while replying to Rajapalayam MLA K Gopalsamy.
Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments P Senthur
Pandian, while answering to a query by Ponneri MLA Pon Raja, said that
Brahmotsavam would be conducted at Kumbamunimangalam Arulmigu Sri
Agatheeswarar temple in Ponneri talum.
Revenue Minister R B Udhayakumar, replying to a question by Tiruvadanai MLA Suba Thangavelan, said 33,13,292 people were benefitted so far
thanks to AMMA scheme (Assured Maximum Service to Marginal People
in All Villages) of the Tamilnadu government.
New Delhi, July 21 (PTI):
AIADMK today forced adjournment
of the Rajya Sabha twice during
Question Hour over former Supreme
Court judge Markandey Katju’s reported allegation that political pressure during the previous UPA regime
had led to elevation of a judge despite
charges of corruption against him.
Ruckus created by AIADMK members seeking suspension of Question
Hour to discuss the issue of political
interference in judicial appointments
led to the House first being adjourned
for 10 minutes and then till noon.
No sooner had Ronald Sapa Tlau,
the newly-elected member from
Mizoram, taken oath, AIADMK members were up on their feet displaying
copies of a newspaper that carried
an article by Press Council of India
Chairman Katju on the appointment.
You will not show newspaper here,
Dr Maitreyan, Chairman Hamid An-
Israel vows to
continue offensive
in Gaza
Gaza/Jerusalem, July 21 (PTI):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu has vowed to continue
offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza
Strip despite the death of his 18 soldiers in the two-week long conflict that
has killed 501 Palestinians, mostly
civilians, and injured more than 3,100.
Netanyahu told reporters last night
that the death of the soldiers is ‘painful and difficult’, but Israel will continue its Operation Protective Edge
with full speed ahead.
The Palestinians death toll today
reached 501, with the recovery of more
bodies from a home flattened in an Israeli
air strike early today near the city of Khan
Younis. At least 20 bodies were found
at the site and two people were pulled
alive from the rubble, a health official said,
adding that over 3,100 Palestinians have
been injured so far.
Four Indian tailors working in Gaza
for the last two years were evacuated
yesterday unharmed with the help of
the Representative Office of India
(ROI) in Ramallah, West Bank.
‘Former PM, Cong should explain’
CPI today asked former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress to
explain the charges levelled by Press Council Chairman Markandey Katju
about corruption in the judiciary.
Reacting to Katju’s allegations, senior party leader D Raja also sought the
creation of a National Judicial Commission to establish judicial accountability,
uphold the indpendence of the judiciary and check corruption in it.
sari said referring to AIADMK leader
who wanted the Question Hour to be
suspended to discuss the issue.
V Maitreyan said this was an important issue. AIADMK members moved
into aisle raising solgans. He then
adjourned the House for 10 minutes.
When the House reassembled,
similar scenes were witnessed with
AIADMK members insisting on suspension of Question Hour.
If you have an issue to raise, raise it
through appropriate procedure. This
is not the way. You are disrupting
listed business, Ansari said warning
members that he would name them if
they continued to display newspaper.
Maitreyan wanted to know if former
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,
who was seated in the House, was
aware of the allegation against the
judge and if his ally DMK had put
pressure on his government to elevate him.
Minister of State for Parliamentary
Affairs Prakash Javadekar said the
Chair could give one minute to the
agitating members to make their
AAP MLAs meet LG
New Delhi, July 21 (PTI):
Twenty-seven Aam Aadmi Party MLAs led by Arvind Kejriwal today met Lt
Governor Najeeb Jung and told him that delay in dissolving the Delhi Assembly
was encouraging horse trading.
We met L-G and explained to him the current political situation and also possible horse trading which may take place. Such a government will do no good,
AAP MLA and former Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti told reporters here.
Bharti said the L-G told them that he would talk to both the Congress and
BJP and soon send a report on the matter to the President.
Soon after the meeting, Kejriwal tweeted, Met LG. Had good discussions. He
will now invite BJP for discussions. If BJP claims they can form govt, LG will
ask them to show nos.
We told him that delay in dissolving assembly was
encouraging horse trading, Kejriwal said.
AAP had yesterday claimed that BJP was running away from fresh elections
in the national capital and also questioned Congress’s silence over whether
or not it wants the Delhi Assembly to be dissolved.
The double-meaning statements and consistent U-turns by BJP on the current political situation in Delhi makes it clear that it is running away from fresh
elections and wants to resort to the ‘Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram’ culture, against
which Supreme Court had warned on April 17 of this year, an AAP spokesperson had said. On the other hand, Congress’s silence on whether it is willing
to officially communicate in writing to the Lt Governor and Supreme Court
that Delhi Assembly should be dissolved proves that it is indirectly supporting
BJP’s ‘Aya Ram, Gaya Ram’ brand of politics, he had said.
AAP said that during the hearing of its petition challenging the central government’s decision to keep the Delhi Assembly in suspended animation instead
of dissolving it, Supreme Court had observed on April 17 that, ‘Nothing should
be done which facilitates ‘Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram’ (or horse-trading brand of
politics) in the Assembly.’
point and then Question Hour can
be taken up.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister M
Venkaiah Naidu said the Question
Hour should be allowed to proceed
and the issue can be raised after that
if the Chair permits.
I am not going into the merits of the
case, he said.
Katju has alleged that a District
Judge in Tamilnadu was elevated to
an Additional Judge of the Madras
High Court despite charges of corruption against him.
Man murdered
at Ice House
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
In a shocking incident, a man
was killed by a gang of four in Ice
House early this morning.
Police said, Akbar Ali (33) from
Hussain Sahib street in Royapettah was on his way to the
mosque when an unidentified
gang murdered him.
Passersby rushed him to Royapettah Government hospital,
from where he was shifted to
Rajiv Gandhi hospital. He however died soon after.
His father Akbar filed a complaint with the police and said,
his son had a fallout with four
of his friends and suspect they
would have carried out the
killing.
Police also said, Akbar Ali was
a member of Muslim League
party and is married with two
children.
MH17: Bodies guarded by
‘drunk rebels’ in Ukraine
Kiev, July 21:
In what could further enrage the
victims’ kins, reports suggest that
the bodies of those killed in MH17
jet crash were being guarded by
the same ‘drunk rebels’, who earlier
dragged the corpses through the field,
and looted their belongings.
Meanwhile, the United Nations
Security Council is to put to vote
a resolution floated by Australia
demanding full ‘unfettered’ access
to MH17 crash site and a ceasefire
at the area.
Germany, Britain and France have
stepped up pressure on Russian
President Vladimir Putin by demanding him to ensure full access for international investigators to the crash site
of a Malaysia Airlines plane
in the pro-Russian rebels-controlled
part of eastern Ukraine.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
discussed the MH17 flight disaster
with British Prime Minister David
Cameron and French President
Francois Hollande in phone calls
yesterday and they agreed that the
The war of words between the US and Russia continues over the
shooting down of MH17, the wreckage of which is seen.
immediate priority is to secure access
to the crash site and to recover the
bodies of the victims.
They urged Putin to use his influence over pro-Russian rebels to ensure unrestricted access to the crash
site for an independent international
commission, a government spokesman said.
They also warned that the EU will
impose tougher sanctions against
Russia if it failed to take necessary
steps to pressure separatists.
The EU foreign ministers will be
discussing Russia’s response to the
plane disaster at a meeting tomorrow and several member nations
are pushing for economic sanctions
against Moscow.
All 298 people on board flight MH17
from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur
were killed when the Boeing 777200ER aircraft was apparently hit by
a surface-to-air missile on Thursday
and crashed into a rebel-controlled
area near the Donetsk region of
eastern Ukraine close to the Russian
border.
Merkel discussed the situation
after the air disaster also with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot,
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Mark Rutte, Finland’s Prime Minister Alexander Stubb and Ukraine’s
President Petro Poroschenko, the
spokesman said.
They deplored the way the rebels
treated the crash victims and restricted investigation and recovery
efforts by international experts.
They agreed that full access for
international experts to the crash site
must be secured immediately.
Merkel also had a phone call with
Putin yesterday for the third time
since the plane crash.
She once again urged Putin to
use his influence over the rebels to
convene a meeting of the contact
group rebels as soon possible to
agree on a ceasefire in the conflicthit eastern Ukraine.
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trio of students from MIT
has developed a 3D-printer
that can produce ice creams in
any shape in just 15 minutes. By
hacking together a soft serve ice
cream maker, a freezer and a 3D
printer, Kyle Hounsell, Kristine
Bunker, and David Donghyun Kim
created a machine that extrudes
soft ice cream into any given shape
then quickly freezes it with a blast
of liquid nitrogen.
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printer because we
wanted to make something fun
with this up and coming technology
in a way that we could grab the
attention of kids, Bunker told
3ders.org.
We felt that it was just as
important to come up with a new
technology as it was to interest the
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Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor, voice
actor, and stand-up comedian. Rising to fame with his
role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork & Mindy,
Williams went on to establish a successful career in
both stand-up comedy and feature lm acting. His
lm career includes such acclaimed lms as Good
Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, Awakenings,
The Fisher King, and Good Will Hunting, as well as
nancial successes such as Popeye, Hook, Aladdin,
Mrs Doubtre, Jumanji, The Birdcage, Night at the
Museum, and Happy Feet . He also appeared in the
video to Don’t Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin.
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor
three times, Williams went on to receive the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance
in Good Will Hunting. He has also received two Emmy
Awards, four Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild
Awards and ve Grammy Awards.
Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois. His mother,
Laura McLaurin, was a former model from New
Orleans, Louisiana. His father, Robert Fitzgerald
Williams, was a senior executive at Ford Motor
Company in charge of the Midwest region. His
maternal great-great-grandfather was Mississippi
senator and governor Anselm J McLaurin. Williams’
ancestry includes English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish,
German, and French.
He grew up in Bloomeld Hills, Michigan, where he
was a student at the Detroit Country Day School, and
later moved to Woodacre, Marin County, California,
where he attended the public Redwood High School.
Williams has described himself as a quiet child whose
rst imitation was of his grandmother to his mother.
He did not overcome his shyness until he became
involved with his high-school drama department.
In 1973, Williams was one of only 20 students
accepted into the freshman class at the Juilliard
School, and one of only two students to be accepted
by John Houseman into the Advanced Program at the
school that year, the other being Christopher Reeve. In
his dialects class, Williams had no trouble mastering
all dialects quickly. Williams left Juilliard in 1976.
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as it came out of the extruder.
They built a system to spray liquid
nitrogen onto the ice cream as
it was extruded. To ensure that
the extruded ice cream ended
up with constant characteristics,
the cryogen line was bent in a
circle to go all the way around
the extruder and spray the liquid
nitrogen evenly around the printed
ice cream, they said.
DRAIN, PAIN
New clues to brain’s wiring discovered
In an effort to learn how the developing brain
is built, scientists have discovered proteins that
programme a common type of nerve cell to
connect with another type in the brain.
New research provides an intriguing glimpse
into the processes that establish connections
between nerve cells in the brain. These
connections, or synapses, allow nerve cells to
transmit and process information involved in
thinking and moving the body.
Researchers at Washington University School
of Medicine in St Louis have identi ed a
group of proteins that programme a common
type of brain nerve cell to connect with
another type of nerve cell in the brain.
The nding is an important step forward in
efforts to learn how the developing brain is
built, an area of research essential
to understanding the causes
of intellectual disability and
autism.
We now are looking at
how loss of this wiring
affects brain function in
mice, said senior author Azad
Bonni. Bonni and his colleagues are
studying synapses in the cerebellum,
a region of the brain that sits in the
back of the head.
The cerebellum plays a central role in controlling
the coordination of movement and is essential for
what researchers call procedural motor learning,
which makes it possible to move our muscles at
an unconscious level, such as when we ride a
bicycle or play the piano.
The cerebellum also regulates mental functions.
So, impairment of the wiring of nerve cells in
the cerebellum may contribute to movement
disorders as well as cognitive problems including
autism spectrum disorders, Bonni said. His new
results show that a complex of proteins known
as NuRD (nucleosome remodelling and
deacetylase) plays a fairly
high supervisory role in some
aspects of the cerebellum’s
construction.
When the researchers
blocked the NuRD complex,
cells in the cerebellum called
granule cells failed to form connections
with other nerve cells, the Purkinje
neurons. These circuits are important
for
the cerebellum’s control of movement
coordination and learning.
Bonni and his colleagues showed that NuRD
exerts inuence at the epigenetic level, which
means it controls factors other than DNA that
affect gene activity. The research was published
in the journal Neuron.
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Although manual scavenging
has been banned, a worker was
spotted cleaning a drain at GN
Chetty Road in T Nagar.
Bank manager
arrested on
charges of fraud
Chennai, July 21 (PTI):
A branch manager of public sector bank has been arrested for
allegedly swindling about Rs 1.40
crore fixed deposits from some
bank customers.
Acting on a complaint filed by
Indian Overseas Bank zonal manager G Kalyanam, a special team
of Central Crime Branch offi cials
arrested M Parasuramamurthy,
the bank’s Adambakkam branch
manager from his residence here,
a police release said.
He was later remanded to
judicial custody and has been
lodged at the Puzhal prison, the
release said.
Investigations revealed that Parasuramamurthy while working in
Rajapalayam branch had swindled
several crores of rupees deposited
as fixed deposits by A K D Venkataramanraja, who is the attorney of A
K D Kumar (both NRIs), it said.
Parasuramamurthy, who was later
elevated to the level of Senior Manager at Rajapalayam main branch,
had given fake renewal letters to
Venkataramanraja as the deposits
matured.
Later, he had withdrawn about Rs
80 lakh deposited by a customer
at the Rajapalayam main branch,
as Venkataramanaraja wanted to
withdraw cash from his fixed deposit
account, it said.
Meanwhile, Parasuramamurthy
was transferred to Adambakkam
branch as its manager in Chennai and when Venkataramanaraja
wanted the maturity amount, he
swindled another Rs 61 lakh deposited by another customer in the
branch, the release said.
MONDAY
21 JULY 2014
Region
CHENNAI
STRINGS
of music
Violinist
S Balasubramanian
q Violinist balances interest
for fine art and 3D designing
The most
valuable
lesson
learnt
from his
mentor is
the
importance
of being
punctual and
dedicated to
the field of
music
S VISHNU SHARMAA
Chennai, July 21:
For M Balasubramanian, a violinist from Choolaimedu, music is a
passion. ‘Perfection in music can
be achieved only through constant
practice’, he says, while speaking to
News Today after a kutcheri at the
Music Academy on Sunday.
The musician is a mechanical engineer from Crescent Engineering
College and is currently working with
3D designing.
‘I know how important it is to be in
touch with the instrument if one has
to retain perfection. So I practise for
about one hour in the morning and
evening’, he says.
Balasubramanian’s interest in music
began when he was studying second
grade. ‘It was from my mother Sudha
Mahadevan that I learnt vocal music
initially. I shifted to violin later in the
third grade, as I had a special liking
for it. I used to feel music from the
instrument is melodius and has a spe-
3
Contests for
school,college
students
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
Radha Kalyana Mahotsava Seva
Committee, Lakshmi Nagar, Nanganallur, will conduct seventh year
Gokulashtami competition for
children on 15 August 2014 from
2 pm at Nanganallur.
Pre KG and UKG students can
participate in fancy dress, first to
fourth standard in drawing and fifth
to college-level in vocal or classical
singing competition.
Last date for registeration is
10 August. For details contact
9841543054 / 9445102193 or
mail to vittalapandurangan05@
gmail.
cial charm. It was violinist Madurai
S Balasubramanian, disciple of
violin maestro M Chandrasekaran,
who had shaped me’, he adds.
In his opinion the most valuable
lesson he learnt from his mentor is the importance of being
punctual and dedicated to the
field of music.
‘I am fortunate that I had an opportunity to accompany my guru in
a couple of performances. My parents S D Mahadevan and Sudha
Mahadevan too encouraged me in
my endeavours’, says Balasubra-
manian whose favourite violinists
are Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan and
Chandrasekaran.
‘They have a special way of playing the instrument and they convey
the message very soothingly’, he
smiles.
Balasubramanian also wants
to learn vocal carnatic music. ‘If
a violinist masters singing, it will
be helpful in maintaining the right
sruthi during performance’, he explains adding that his future plan
is to continue contributing to the
field of music.
Spiritual talk
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
The Divine Life Society International located at AJ Block,
Anna Nagar conducts satsangh
on 27 J u l y ( S u n d a y ) a t 5 p m ) .
During the satsangh, Suryachandrananda will deliver a talk on the
topic Guru Mahima and Advaita
Sadhana. Further spiritual, universal & national prayers, benediction by divine scholars, Naama
Sankirthan, Sivananda Bhajan,
Aaraadhana will be held.
For details, call 26210523,
98412 84248.
ALL SET
Tarangam
competition
Tamilnadu Governor K Rosaiah at the ‘Iftaar’ party hosted by Prince
of Arcot Mohammed Abdul Ali at Amir Mahal in Chennai yesterday.
‘Huge scope for SMEs
in pharma sector’
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
Thirupoonthuruthy Sri Narayana
Tirtha Swamigal Trust will conduct
Tarangam competition on 9 August
between 2 PM and 5 30 PM at
Sringeri Pravachana Mandir, Raja
Annamalaipuram.
Participants in the age group 7 to 12
years will have to sing 3 Tarangams
and those in age group 13 years to 30
years ,5 Atarangams. Participants contact 10/2, Second Main Road, Raja Annamalaipuram, The telephone number
is 24936671 between 4 and 7 pm.
Anniversary
celebrations
S V Veeramani, president, All India IDMA, during the inauguration of
pharma fair at Chennai Trade Centre.
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
There is a lot of scope for small and medium manufacturing companies in
the pharmaceutical industry, said president of Indian Drug Manufacturers
Association (IDMA).
He was speaking at ‘Pharmac South 2014’, an exhibtion of products by
around 100 pharma companies from South India here.
Various events were held as a part of the two-day event and they included
panel discussions on export oppurtunities for upcoming markets, sessions on
brand building for enhancing market share. Special focus was on small and
medium manufacturing companies.
Veeramani said the Indian pharmaceutical industry is considered to be the
pharmacy for the rest of the world, as medicines are manufactured (here) and
supplied to over 200 countries at an economical price.
Indian domestic market value is currently said to be around Rs 70000 crore
and South India contributes around 30 per cent to it. The export value is currently around Rs 90,000 crore in which South India contributes to around 35 per
cent, he said. M Rajarathinam, chairman, IDMA TNPSB welcomed the gathering. J Jayaseelan, vice-chairman, IDMA TNPSB, proposed a vote of thanks.
S Abdul Khader, Director of Drugs Control, government of Tamilnadu and S
Manivannan, Deputy Drugs Controller (I), South Zone, Central Drugs Standard
Control Organization were among others present.
7 killed in
various mishaps
Chennai/Kancheepuram, July 21 (PTI):
Seven persons have been killed in two different accidents near Achirikuupam
and in Kanchipuram, said police.
In the first accident in Chennai, four persons, including the driver of a tourist
Sports Utility Vehicle, were killed on the spot when he lost control of his vehicle
and collided with an oncoming lorry near Achirikuppam, 90 km from the city.
The driver had picked up three persons from Chennai Airport and was taking
them to Cuddalore when the mishap occurred last night, police said.
The second accident saw a woman, her male companion and her minor son
die after the motorcyle they were riding on collided with another two wheeler
at Guduvancheri. While the woman died on the spot, the man and the boy
succumbed to injuries in hospital today, police said.
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
The Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
Golden Jubilee Foundation will hold
its annual celebrations on 25 July
at Ragasudha Hall Luz at 6 15 pm.
Veena Vidwan Pichumani Iyer will be
felicitated.
There will be a vocal concert by
Vijaya Shiva at 6 30 pm. He will
be accompanied by RK Shriram
Kumar (violin) and Manoj Shiva
(mridangam).
Works are on to come up with a new bus shelter at Telephone Exchange Road, Ambattur.
Schools gets RO Water
Plant thanks to RCC Trust
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
LM Dadha Senior Secondary
School, Choolaimedu, has got a
RO-based water purification plant,
thanks to the efforts of Rajasthan
Cosmo Club Platinum Trust under
its clean drinking water project
‘Paani’.
A press note said the water purification plant was sponsored by
Manohar Raj Kamala Kankaria
Charitable Trust, Chennai. Over
1,650 students of this school
would be benefitted as a result.
This was the third such RO plant
being installed by RCC Platinum
in Chennai.
Manohar Raj Kamala Kankaria
Charitable Trust has been supporting projects that provide clean
drinking water to the society. Since
2010, this Trust has supported
multiple RO water projects with
capacities totalling close to 10,000
litres a day at schools, hospitals,
dharamshalas and cowsheds.
Speaking on the occasion,
Manohar Raj Kankaria appreciated RCC Platinum Trust for
Manohar Raj Kankaria of Manohar Raj Kamala Kankaria Charitable
Trust inaugurating the RO Water plant at LM Dadha Senior Secondary
School, Choolaimedu.
‘giving the school a new sunrise’,
and Mohanchand Dadha, chairman of the School, thanked the
Trust for their support.
The managing trustee of the Trust
Sailesh Jhamber announced that
RCC Platinum had planned to install
8 to 10 such plants at various city
schools.
Leading up to the event RCC Platinum along with the school had organised essay writing, drawing and
slogan writing contests, to promote
water conservation.
Lectures on
Bhagwad Gita
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
The Kasturiba Nagar Residents Association is providing free classes and
programmes to its members and those residing in
and around Adyar round
the year in co ordination
with spiritual and cultural
organisations like Chinmaya Mission, Samskrita
Bharathi, yoga and bhajan
groups, etc.
Presently, the association is
hosting a week long Chinmaya
Mission’s Gita Gnana Yagna
for the tenth consecutive
year. A series of lectures
on Chapter 15 of Srimath
Bhagawath Gita will take
place from 21 to 26 July
between 6.15 to 8.15 pm at
Kasturiba Nagar community
hall, Third Cross Street,
Kasturiba Nagar, Adyar.
Various activities of the
Chinmaya Mission like Bala
Vihar for children, Yuva Kendra for youth, Devi Group
for women, Vedanta study
groups for adults and Vanaprasta for senior citizens
are also conducted here. For
details, contact Jayashree
Kannan at 9841816134.
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21 JULY 2014
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WHAT NEWS TODAY PRINTS IS NEWS THAT COUNTS
T
A lot at stake
he football World Cup grabbed the attention of zillions of fans
across the globe for a month and culminated with Germany
winning the coveted trophy. The fact that India has never played
in what is probably among the world’s premier sporting events
continues to rankle. However, nothing much seems to have
happened with regard to the country’s footballing fortunes, which
has dipped alarmingly over the years.
The soccer extravaganza in Brazil and the brouhaha it created would
be forgotten once the multi-nation, multi-event Commonwealth
Games begins in Glasgow, Scotland, in a couple of days. The CWG
held in 2010 saw the Indian athletes perform well but the event is
sadly is remembered better for the scams that has set off a series of
probes.
Meanwhile, the country has sent athletes to take part in various
disciplines and as always there is a lot of optimism ahead of the
Games. The CWG has in recent years lost a bit of sheen and there
have been questions over the relevance of the very mega event.
For athletes, who put in a lot of effort and time into preparation for
the CWG and similar events like Olympics, Asiad and probably the
world championships, there is a lot at stake apart from the medals.
Being part of such a huge event is an honour in itself and there is a
lot to be gained in the event of a medal-winning performance.
The event will bring together hundreds of participants across several
disciplines and in the absence of powerhouses like USA, Russia and
China, the other nations get to ght for medals and overall honours.
The improved showing in Delhi (CWG) should give the Indians a
lot of condence for this year’s edition but only an improved medal
haul would indicate any sort of progress.
India nished second at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games,
making it India’s best CWG performance till date. India is sending
a contingent of 224 athletes comprising Olympic medalists, Asian
Games winners and debutants this time. There are hopes of the
badminton stars and paddlers doing well apart from the boxers.
Saina Nehwal’s decision to pull out came as a setback but turns
the focus on the talent, young P V Sindhu to show her talent. The
sprightly Hyderabad lass, who boasts of a world championship
medal, will be expected to do wonders at Glasgow and lead the
country’s medal rush.
Athletics is one of the glamour events in CWG as in the Olympics
and Asian Games and the presence of top sprinters and long-distance
runners will ensure that a lot of attention is garnered by them. The
Indian athletic team was rocked by news that sprinter Dutee Chand
had been banned because she naturally exhibited high testosterone
levels.
Yet, the athletics federation was upbeat and expected the Indians to
return with some medals. It may be noted that in 2010 as the hosts,
the athletes had done very well in track and eld events. Four years
have passed and it remains to be seen if the preparation by various
federations bears results.
The sports associations/federations do come up with blue prints for
international events and send players abroad to gain exposure but
how much it pays off will be watched with interest.
Now, coming to hockey, the Indian men will looking for redemption
after a dismal show in the recent World Cup in the Netherlands.
The team will be expected to face stiff challenge from the world
champs Australia, Pakistan, England and New Zealand. A decent
performance will go a long way in saving the face of Indian hockey,
which is probably at its lowest ebb in several years.
Australian veteran Jamie Dwyer, a ve-time world hockey player of
the year, feels India are now a much-improved side from 2010 Delhi
Games, where the Kookaburras thrashed them 8-0 in the summit
clash and expects the team to do well at this year’s tournament.
Even while the attention would be on the large contingent that
includes medal hopefuls in badminton and table tennis, the Indian
hockey team would be under the microscope as another shoddy
performance would dent the image of the sport big-time.
Voice
1729 reasons to read this
B
efore
the
release
of
Ramanujan, the eponymous
commercial Tamil lm on the
renowned ‘mathematical genius’
--- we use the term in its true
sense here, as it is also a fact
that most of us tend to slap this
description on any one who can do
additions involving any two threegure numbers without the aid of a
calculator --- there was scepticism
whether the movie, when doing
justice to his science, will miss
out on the essence of the man,
or while focusing on his domestic
side will lose sight of his undoubted
scientic brilliance. But the director
seems to have smartly gone for
the golden mean, by disappointing
both the sides in equal measure.
The lm has neither Ramanujan
nor science, but a couple of good
songs, which the lm could have
practically done without.
But without belittling what is indeed
an earnest idea to highlight on celluloid a true whiz of this country, it
should be said science and Tamil
lms don’t mix well. To be precise,
all known and established laws of
science stop working within the matrix of a Tamil movie script. Sample
this from that classic Narasimha:
The hero, a nonchalant and consummate James Bond-type agent, is on
a killing spree. This is though as part
of a one-man mission so secret that
‰ Let’s not politicise this tragedy, he says
MOSCOW:
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin,
the leader at the centre of the
international crisis over the downed
Malaysian Airlines’ plane has broken
his silence, saying no country should
use the tragedy for its own ends.
‘We must do everything to provide
security for the international experts
on the site of the tragedy ...,’ Putin
said to Russian network Russia
Today, in his rst public comments
about the incident.
‘In the meantime, nobody should
and has no right to use this tragedy
to achieve their ‘narrowly selsh’
political goals,’ he said.
Putin
called
for
a
‘fully
representative group of experts
to be working at the site’ under
the guidance of the International
Civil Aviation Authority, which has
governs the standards of crash-site
investigations.
The leader has promised to cooperate with outraged world leaders
seeking access to the site of downed
ight MH17, after Washington
squarely pointed the nger of blame
at Moscow for the crash.
standard, math surreptitiously attains
puberty, and in a t of hormonal rush
gets on an affair with algebra (algebra isn’t math; it is essentially hide
and seek with the English letters x,
y, z). As time goes by, not just algebra, math is taken captive by even
more wicked suitors in the form of
trigonometry, calculus. In the face
of such irrational indelity, even the
most committed lover would give up.
Let us face it, math at higher levels is only for sincere and scienticminded persons who have dedicated
themselves to the academic life of
travelling to strange conferences at
touristy locations on institutional expense. Otherwise, for the common
person, high-end math is as helpful
as a pair of roller-skates for a sharptoothed shark.
Here in journalism, we don’t generally need math. But occasionally
we may have to use them, like in this
instance: Once a newspaper published a story saying that one-half of
the MPs in Parliament were crooks.
The government took great exception to that and demanded an apology. The newspaper responded the
next day with a retraction that read:
‘One-half of the MPs are not crooks’.
Ramanujan would have approved
of it. But, to be sure, Narasimha
would have nuked Parliament.
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The under-re Russian leader
appeared to seek to temper
international
fury
after
US
Secretary of State John Kerry
said the missile system used to
shoot down the Malaysia Airlines
jet was ‘transferred from Russia
in the hands of separatists.’ The
UN Security Council is due to
consider a resolution demanding
that pro-Russian separatists provide
‘unrestricted access’ to the site in
rural eastern Ukraine, as concerns
rise over evidence tampering, the
fate of victims’ remains and black
boxes.
In separate phonecalls, Putin
promised Dutch Prime Minister Mark
Rutte ‘full co-operation’ in retrieving
the bodies and black boxes, while
Australian Prime Minister Tony
Abbott said the Russian leader had
said ‘all the right things’.
Both countries suffered heavy
losses when Malaysia Airlines ight
MH17 was blown out of the sky on
Thursday by what is believed to
have been a surface-to-air missile,
killing 298 and dramatically raising
the stakes in Ukraine’s bloody threemonth conict.
The separatists’ violent bid for
independence is the latest chapter in
a prolonged crisis sparked by Kiev’s
desire for closer ties with the EU a sentiment many in the Russianspeaking east do not share.
Evidence is mounting that the
rebels downed the jet, pushing
East-West ties already strained by
The UN Security
Council is due to
consider a resolution
demanding that
pro-Russian
separatists provide
‘unrestricted access’
to the site in rural
eastern Ukraine, as
concerns rise over
evidence tampering,
the fate of victims’
remains and black
boxes
the bitter tug-of-war over Ukraine’s
future to crisis point.
Kiev has released fresh recordings
of what it says are intercepted
conversations
between
rebels
organising to hide the ight’s black
boxes from international monitors.
And the US embassy conrmed
as authentic recordings released by
Kiev of an intercepted call between
an insurgent commander and a
Russian intelligence ofcer as they
realised they had shot down a
passenger jet.
Becoming a father
changes your brain
WASHINGTON:
Fatherhood can result in
increased grey matter volume
in several regions of the brain,
a new study has found. A team
led by researcher Pilyoung Kim
at the Universities of Denver
and Yale scanned the brains
of 16 new fathers twice. The
rst scan took place between 2
and 4 weeks after their babies
were born and the second
scan was taken 12 to 16 weeks
later. This is the rst time that
researchers have documented
structural changes in the
brains of human fathers, the
study said. Comparing the
later scan with the rst scan,
Kim’s team found increased
grey matter volume in several
regions of the fathers’ brains,
according to ‘wired.com’. This
included
areas
previously
identied as showing growth
in new mothers, including the
striatum (involved in reward
processing,
among
other
functions),
hypothalamus
(hormonal control), amygdala
and anterior cingulate cortex
(ACC; involved in emotional
processing), and the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC; involved in
memory and decision making).
The PFC is one of the areas
that has been associated with
heightened
activity
when
fathers view their own infants.
French PM defends
ban on pro-Gaza rally
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he himself seems unaware of it. But chance of becoming the Chief Minisas audience even if we were told that ter of this State when it goes to polls
Narasimha’s mission was to trace in two years time).
the elusive God particle, we would
After Narasimha, most Tamil viewnot have batted an eyelid. Because ers wouldn’t mind even if Ramanujan
in this lm that would have been ac- were shown solving sums from R D
tually believable.
Sharma. But the problem with RaIn the lm, the defence ministry manujan is that it is underwhelming,
honchos, who of course head the even while granting that wizardry in
CBI, and of course handle local law math doesn’t really lend itself to reand order issues, and also wear rain- creation on screen. Also, in a comcoats inside what seems like a well- mercial lm format, they would have
concealed bunker, catch Narasimha. needed to show something like RaThey want to ferret out
manujan
stopthe truth from him. To
ping a villainous
get him to speak, they
character from his
use all the techniques
malcontent ways
picked from the Guanthrough the adroit
K BALAKUMAR
tanamo Bay detention
and timely use of,
camp manual. Turns
I don’t know, Pauout that in their urgency, they laid li’s exclusion principle.
their hands on the Guantanamo Bay
In a lm that is a bio-pic of sorts,
ofcial joke manual. Anyway, when you pick the hero either for his actthey eventually try to give Narasim- ing ability or for his verisimilitude in
ha shock treatment, by pointing an looks to the character he plays. In
industrial estate-grade live wire on Ramanujan, it’s neither. They seem
him, the inevitable happens ---- they to have chosen the hero for the scirealise that there is load-shedding in entic reason that he happens to be
Gemini Ganesan’s grandson.
the area. No seriously, the transformStill, the team of Ramanujan can be
er explodes unable to withstand Narcut
some slack for attempting a subasimha’s shock and Tamil Nadu slips
into a power crisis that it is still to re- ject that very few are giving a shot
cover from. Cue: Rousing music (by at in school itself. From a common
playing fortissimo all the instruments man’s point of view, the problem with
known to mankind). (Needless to math in schools is that it seems insay, the man who played the role teresting and agreeable as long it is
of Narasimha, Vijayakanth stands a just about numbers. But around 8th
Putin breaks silence
on MH17 crash
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CHENNAI
Early HIV drugs
‘may not stop virus’
LONDON:
A baby was thought to have
been cured with treatment hours
after birth, but the virus emerged
years later. Monkey research,
published in the journal Nature,
suggests
untouchable
‘viral
reservoirs’ form even before HIV
can be detected in the blood.
Experts described it as a
‘sobering’ and ‘striking’ nding.
Reservoirs of HIV in the gut and
brain tissue are the massive
obstacle in the way of a cure.
Remarkable
progress
in
developing antiretroviral drugs
means HIV can be kept in
check in the bloodstream and
patients have a near-normal life
expectancy. But if the drugs stop,
the virus will emerge from its
reservoirs.
International
research
is
focused on ushing the virus out
of its reservoirs, but there had
been hope that early treatment
could prevent them forming in the
rst place.
PARIS:
France’s Prime Minister defended
a controversial decision to ban a
pro-Palestinian demonstration in
Paris that went ahead anyway and
descended into violence.
The rally in a northern district of the
French capital was initially peaceful,
but scores of men later clashed
with riot police, throwing stones
and bottles at security forces who
responded with tear gas, sending
locals and tourists scurrying.
‘What happened again yesterday
in Paris -- unacceptable unrest
-- justies all the more the brave
choice by the interior ministry to ban
a demonstration,’ Prime Minister
Manuel Valls said.
Just hours after his comments,
a rally in the Paris suburb town
of Sarcelles that had also initially
been banned ended in chaos as
several cars were burnt, others had
their windows smashed and young
protesters lit recrackers and smoke
bombs.
Early this evening, tensions
were still high in the town, with riot
police blocking access to the local
synagogue, where a group of young
vigilantes stood armed with clubs
and iron bars -- one of them ying an
Israeli ag. The decision to ban the
rallies in Paris and Sarcelles were
taken out of fear of unrest and amid
concern that the Jewish community
would be targeted after protesters
last weekend tried to storm two
synagogues in the French capital.
But the move was met with
controversy,
particularly
after
protests that were allowed to take
place over the weekend in other
cities went ahead peacefully.
Organisers have deantly called for
another rally in the
French capital, starting at 1300
GMT in the central Republic Square.
The Israeli offensive has stoked
passions in France, which has the
largest Muslim population in western
Europe as well as a 500,000-strong
Jewish community.
It
has
highlighted
divisions
within French society -- a Jewish
community increasingly concerned
over anti-Semitism, French people
of north African descent who include
a growing radical Islamic fringe, and
far-left activists whose
opposition to Israeli
policies
sometimes
verges on
anti-Semitism.
Speaking
as
he
commemorated
the
anniversary of the Vel’
d’Hiv Roundup -- a
mass arrest of Jews
in Paris on 16 and
17 July, 1942 -- Valls
warned of ‘a new form
of
anti-Semitism.’
He said it was spreading ‘on the
Internet, on networks, in working
class areas, among young people
who are often aimless, who have
no awareness of history, who hide
their ‘hatred of the Jews’ behind the
facade of anti-Zionism and behind
hatred of the Israeli state.’ President
Francois Hollande also hit out at
anti-Semitism and racism, saying it
would not be tolerated.
Enterprise
CHENNAI
MONDAY
21 JULY 2014
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Swiss trail: India invited for discussions
q Government receives ‘positive responses’ from authorities
New Delhi/Berne, July 21 (PTI):
As India steps up pressure on Switzerland for details of alleged black
money stashed there, Swiss authorities
have invited Indian officials to Berne
to discuss further cooperation in these
matters. Besides, Switzerland has
already transmitted ‘few positive responses’ to India, a spokesperson in
Swiss Finance Ministry said, without
divulging any further details on this.
Sources, however, said these ‘responses’ may not be related to the
Indian names figuring in the so-called
‘stolen lists’ of those having alleged
Swiss bank accounts.
Switzerland has been refusing to
share details on names obtained
by Indian authorities through other
countries, namely France and Germany, saying they figured in lists
stolen by certain ex-employees of the
concerned banks and no details can
be shared on the basis of illegallyobtained information.
‘As written to the Indian government,
the Swiss government would like to
welcome a delegation of administration officials from India to discuss the
further cooperation in tax matters in
Berne, after the talks in February
2014 in India’, a Federal Department
of Finance spokesperson said.
A high-level delegation from Switzerland had held discussions on tax
matters with the Indian government
officials in New Delhi in February
this year.
Asked about the ‘few positive responses’ received by India from
Switzerland and whether these
were cases related to ‘spontaneous exchange of information’, the
spokesperson said, ‘We can’t give
you any details about the few positive responses that Switzerland has
transmitted to India’.
Typically, there are two types of
information exchange frameworks
followed by Swiss authorities -‘spontaneous’ exchange where
details are given voluntarily to a
foreign country if any irregularity
is found with regard to a foreign
client; and exchange of information in reply to a request.
The spokesperson also refused
to share specific details about the
number of requests received from
India for exchange of information
BRICS shake up global
economic architecture
BRICS countries will be
able to draw from the $50 billion
in the New Development Bank and
$100 billion in the Contingent
Reserve Arrangement
Washington, July 21 (AFP):
By creating their own multilateral financial institutions, the BRICS
emerging-market powers are shaking up global economic governance but
remain far from dismantling the post-war system dominated by the West.
For the past 70 years, the International Monetary Fund and the World
Bank have been the pillars of the world’s economic system, coming to
the rescue of countries in trouble and supporting development projects,
respectively. But the Bretton Woods institutions are regularly criticised
for their inability to reflect the growing and important contributions of the
major emerging economies to the global economy.
China, the world’s second-largest economy, continues to have just
slightly more voting power in the IMF than Italy, about five times smaller.
And, since their creation in 1944, the IMF and the World Bank have only
been led by Americans and Europeans.
‘Broader global governance reforms have become stalled, despite the
many commitments made by advanced economies to emerging markets to
give them a more prominent role in international financial institutions and
other international forums’, said Eswar Prasad, a trade policy professor
at Cornell University and a former IMF expert.
In this context, the launch on Tuesday of a development bank and an
emergency reserve fund by the BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and
South Africa - appears to be a concrete attempt to address those inequities.
‘If the existing institutions were doing their jobs perfectly, there would
be no need to go to the trouble of creating a new bank, a new fund’, said
Paulo Nogueira Batista, who represents Brazil and 10 other countries at
the IMF, said.
The mere creation of the two BRICS institutions sends a strong signal
to Western powers, where some doubt the ability of the five powerhouses
to surmount their individual needs and ambitions.
The launches ‘are significant actions that represent a game changer as
they turn statements and rhetoric about cooperation among these countries
into reality’, Prasad said.
Still, many areas of uncertainty cloud the new BRICS structures, giving
the IMF and the World Bank a long lead on their fledgling rivals.
For now, only the BRICS countries will be able to draw from the $50
billion in the New Development Bank and $100 billion in the Contingent
Reserve Arrangement. However, proof of the new institutions’ effectiveness will come when other countries knock at their door for money.
‘Will the BRICS take the financial risk to lend to other countries? And
what conditions will they impose?’ said an IMF official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity.
Accustomed to bailing out a country, and being reimbursed, in exchange
for austerity conditions, the IMF has the kind of expertise that ‘doesn’t
happen overnight’, the official said.
Some also have concerns that the BRICS institutions dominated by
China- will be less careful about safeguarding the environment or fighting
corruption when they make their financing deals.
Aware of their current limitations, the BRICS made a point to say they
were working closely with the IMF. Some of their financing would be available only to countries already receiving Fund assistance.
Shady
numbers
Third place to Rupee!
The authorities in Switzerland have come across a significant quantum of
fake Indian rupee notes in their country - the third highest for any foreign
currency after Euro and the US dollar.
According to the latest counterfeit currency statistics released by Switzerland’s Federal Office of Police (Fedpol), the number of fake Indian rupee
notes found in Switzerland during 2013 stood at 403 -- the third highest
for any foreign currency. This included 380 fake Rs 500 notes and another
23 counterfeit Rs 1,000 notes.
However, the numbers have declined considerably since 2012 when
Fedpol found as many as 2,624 fake rupee notes the second highest
among foreign currencies.
and the number of replies given by
Switzerland.
‘The annual statistics of administrative assistance are not
country-wise but give only total
figures of all countries. It is
published by the Swiss Federal
Tax Administration’, the Finance
Ministry spokesperson said.
According to the latest data, Swiss
Federal Tax Administration received
a total of 1,386 requests during
2013, down from 1,499 in the previous year 2012.
Last month, Indian government
made a fresh request to Switzerland
seeking details of Indians having unaccounted money in Swiss banks, to
which a reply came on 4 July.
Following amendments to the Double Taxation Avoidance Convention
(DTAC) with Switzerland in October
2011, India has made several requests seeking information about its
nationals holding bank accounts in
Swiss Banks.
On 8 July, Jaitley had said there has
been a positive response to some
Latest data from the
Swiss National Bank
showed that total
money of Indians
in Swiss banks
increased to Rs
14,100 crore at the
end of 2013, from
Rs 8,547 crore a
year ago.
requests, where information has been
provided subject to the confidentiality
clause in the said DTAC.
‘In other cases, the Swiss government has not been providing the
information requested citing restriction imposed by their domestic
laws’, he said.
To crackdown on the menace of
black money, the government has
also constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the chairmanship of former Supreme Court judge
Justice M B Shah.
NIIT Univ signs MoU with
University of Missouri
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
NIIT University (NU) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of
Missouri - Kansas City’s School of Computing and
Engineering (SCE), to offer a five year program that
will allow students to secure B.Tech degree from
NU and Master’s of Science in Computer Science
(MSCS) from SCE.
According to a press release, the MoU was signed by
president, NIIT University, Rajendra Pandey, and vice
provost, UMKC, and dean, School of Computing and
Engineering, Kevin Z Truman.
This is the first of its kind landmark agreement between
two educational institutions to collaborate in B.Tech and
MS degree programs and research activities through
Lifetime licence
to domestic
ships soon
New Delhi, July 21 (PTI):
The government has said that lifetime
licences will be issued to domestic
ships or any vessel charted by an Indian or a local company instead of such
licences being renewed every year.
‘The Ministry of Shipping has decided that lifetime licences will be
issued to Indian ships and any other
ship charted by an Indian citizen or
an Indian company instead of such
licences being renewed every year’,
according to an official statement.
The government provides for all the five
Registrars of Ships at Mumbai, Chennai,
Kolkata, Goa and Cochin to issue such
licences under the provisions of the
Merchant Shipping Act, 1958.
Such licences will be issued with
a lifetime fee now instead of annual
fee, but the licence will be co-terminus
with the certificate of Registry of the
Ship, the statement said.
A ship is issued registration by the
Principal Officers, who are designated Registrars of Ships by the DG
(Shipping), of the Mercantile Marine
Departments (MMD). They would
now get powers to issue lifetime
licences also, the statement added.
The decision will be of immense
help to Indian vessels engaged in
coastal trading as the process is
decentralised and liberalised. Ship
operators need not undertake the
exercise of taking the licence every
year, it further added.
the exchange of degree seeking students and faculty
members in the area of computer science and computer
engineering.
‘NIIT University offers a new model in higher education
based on the principals of innovation and learning, to
help open exciting career avenues in today’s knowledge
economy. To this end, the MoU with UMKC’s School of
Computing and Engineering will offer unique dual technical certification opportunity to students from two reputed
institutions’, said Rajendra Pandey.
‘With a vision to prepare students in India for today’s
competitive job market we have joined hands with NIIT
University to offer the latest technology and business
trends, as well as a comprehensive education in computer
science through this cutting-edge program’, stated Kevin
Z Truman.
Development tops agenda
during WB chief’s visit
New Delhi, July 21 (PTI):
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will meet Prime Minister
Narendra Modi this week to understand his development priorities.
Kim, who arrives in New Delhi today on a three-day visit to the country,
will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley during his stay here.
‘The historic mandate from the
people of India represents a tremendous opportunity to unlock
India’s growth potential and take
advantage of its immense demographic dividend’, said Kim in a
statement by the World Bank.
‘I look forward to meeting Prime
Minister Modi and Finance Minister
Jaitley to understand their developJim Yong Kim
ment priorities, and determine how
the financial and knowledge resources of the World Bank Group can be
best allocated to support them’, he added.
Kim will visit Bank-supported project sites in Tamilnadu to see the challenges of India’s rural-urban transformation, and how, empowered with
the right skills, rural women in the state are taking advantage of emerging
urban employment opportunities. World Bank Group’s private sector arm,
the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has successfully mobilised its
$1 billion offshore rupee bond program, aimed at strengthening India’s
capital markets and attracting foreign investments, the statement said.
India is home to the largest operations of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD),
the International Development Association (IDA), and the International
Finance Corporation (IFC).
World Bank Group assistance to India between July 2013 and June 2014
amounted to $6.4 billion. This included $2 billion from IBRD, $3.1 billion
from IDA, and $100 million from the Clean Technology Fund that the World
Bank Group administers. During that period, the World Bank Group’s private
sector arm, IFC, committed $1.2 billion in India.
Modi set to revamp financial inclusion
Mumbai, July 21 (PTI):
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to give a big boost
to the ongoing financial inclusion drive by unveiling a
comprehensive programme, to be announced at the Red
Fort in his address to the nation on the Independence Day.
The proposed comprehensive financial inclusion programme envisaging insurance and
pension cover, apart from a default cover
for lenders is likely to envisage opening
15 crore more bank accounts, 12 crore
of which will be in rural areas over next
four years, according to a note sent to
the Indian Banks Association (IBA) by
financial services Secretary G S Sandhu.
According to the note, Modi’s new comprehensive
financial inclusion programme has three major shifts from
the one pursued by the previous government.
First, the earlier efforts at financial inclusion had villages
as the unit for coverage while the present plan focuses
on coverage of households. Secondly, only rural areas
have been the focus so far while both rural and urban
areas have been included now, says the ministry note.
Thirdly, the present plan is proposed to be implemented
The Association of Foreign Banks in
Switzerland, an over four-decade old
grouping, said that a clear and transparent policy can help in dispelling
‘apprehensions’ and the ‘conjectures’
should not be allowed to dominate the
public opinion.
The banks in Switzerland apparently
also follow a code of conduct framed
by another grouping, SBA (Swiss
Bankers Association), with regard to
due diligence process and measures
required to check money laundering
and other illegal activities.
as a ‘mission mode’ project. It envisages a comprehensive coverage of all excluded households by a six-pillar
approach in two phases, according to the note.
The first phase of the programme, which begins
from 15 August this year and ends 14 August, 2015
will provide basic banking accounts with overdraft
facility of Rs 5,000 and RuPay debit card with
inbuilt accident insurance cover of Rs one
lakh and creation of credit guarantee fund for
coverage of defaultsin overdraft accounts,
according to the ministry.
The second phase, which will begin on 13
August, 2015 and conclude by 14 August, 2018,
will cover micro-insurance and unorganised sector
pension schemes like Swavlamban.
When contacted, IBA said already state-owned banks,
insurers and regulators are working overtime to ensure
a smooth kick-start.
‘We are currently busy chalking out the modalities of implementation of the project, which will be implemented in
the entire country after it is declared by the Prime Minister
on 15 August’, IBA Chairman K R Kamath, who is also
the Chairman of Punjab National Bank said.
‘Through this programme, we are looking at providing two savings bank account facility- one each for the
husband and the wife to all those households which not
served by the banking system so far. These basic banking accounts will come with some in-built overdraft facility
and RuPay debit cards with an inbuilt accident cover of
Rs one lakh’, Kamath explained.
Inclusive pension is also one of the pillars of the proposed comprehensive financial inclusion programme.
‘Pension under ‘the mission mode’ will lay emphasis
on this facility for the lower income segment and the
unorganised workers’, Pension Fund Regulatory and
Development Authority (PFRDA) acting Chairman R V
Verma said.
‘We will seek to achieve and expand the scope of the National Pension Scheme (NPS) to serve the disadvantaged
sections of the population through active involvement and
participation of all categories of intermediary institutions
like banks, NBFCs, MFIs, NGOs, corporates and annuity
service providers’, Verma added.
Though micro-insurance will come in the second
phase of the programme, insurers have already started
working on it.
Good show by
Dubai’s real
estate
Dubai, July 21 (PTI):
The real estate market in Dubai has
maintained its positive performance in
the second quarter (Q2) of 2014, says
real estate investment and advisory
firm JLL in its Q2 Dubai Real Estate
Overview report.
‘Although the residential sector saw
prices and rents increasing across
most areas, there are signs that the
rate of growth is slowing down as Q2
experienced a marked slowdown in
the volume of residential sales, particularly in respect of existing villas’,
said Craig Plumb, head of Research
at JLL MENA.
According to Plumb, while the retail
and hotel sectors continue to experience growth, recovery in the office
sector remains patchy with the large
level of supply and high vacancy
rates placing pressure on overall
rental values.
‘The major news about the proposed
Mall of the World reflects confidence
for both the retail and hotel sectors’,
said Plumb.
Although the residential sector saw
prices and rents increasing across
most areas, the rate of growth has
started to slow from that seen earlier
in the year.
Average sale prices grew six per
cent in Q2, down from 10 per cent in
the previous quarter.
With signs of reduced sales activity
(particularly in the secondary villa
market), it is likely that asking prices
in this sector will decline further in
coming months, the report said.
Sales volumes have declined in all
sectors recently, with data from the
Dubai Land Department showing villa
sales in May 2014 declining almost 50
per cent against same month in 2013.
In the office segment, while
continued economic growth has
improved sentiment and generated
demand for commercial space, the
high level of both current vacancy
and future supply continue to constrain the market.
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Usain Bolt
No Bolt-Gatlin
showdown
this year
Raleigh, July 21:
Usain Bolt will return to Rio de
Janeiro next month to run a special
100 metres on the beach, he said
on his website on Sunday, but the
Jamaican world record holder is
now unlikely to race against Justin
Gatlin this year.
The six times Olympic gold medallist added the 17 August ‘Mano
a Mano’ 100m on Copacabana
Beach to three previously announced races in what he said was
his finalised schedule for 2014.
Bolt streaked to victory in a 150m
race at the famous beach in March
2013 on a track specially built for
the event.
He has delayed opening his
season this year because of a foot
injury and will start with a 4x100
metres relay with his Jamaican
team mates at the Commonwealth
Games in Glasgow 1-2 August.
The eight-times world champion
will also run 100m races in Warsaw, Poland on 23 August and
at the Zurich Diamond League
meeting on 28 August.
The schedule, unless amended,
means Bolt and US world silver
medallist Gatlin, who is undefeated this year, are unlikely to
meet before 2015.
Gatlin, who returned from a
four-year doping ban in 2010, will
not receive an invitation to race
against Bolt in Zurich because
of the Swiss meeting’s ‘policy to
not invite athletes that have been
banned for two years or more’,
meeting director Patrick Magyar
told Reuters via email.
While the 100 metres race in
Zurich is not part of the Diamond
League series of events, the 200
metres race at the same meeting
will be.
Gatlin could therefore still race
in the longer event, because it is
governed by Diamond League
rules.
‘If Gatlin is, by the time of
Zurich, in the top three of the
Diamond Race (for the 200), we
will invite him for the 200m, which
is our Diamond Race event,’
Magyar said.
Gatlin, who has won 11 consecutive 100 metres and two
races at 200m this year, is
currently tied for fourth in the
Diamond League standings
for the 200m despite running
the year’s fastest time at last
week’s Monaco meeting.
Fellow American Tyson Gay,
who recently completed a oneyear doping ban, already is con-
Sports
Winning Test more important
than century, says Vijay
q Indian opener praises Jadeja’s rearguard action
London, July 21 (PTI):
Indian opener Murali Vijay has said that
he will not feel dejected on missing out on a
century at Lord’s if his team goes onto win
the second Test against England later today.
Chasing 319 for victory, the hosts slumped
to 105 for 4 at stumps on day four. This was
after Vijay’s patient knock of 95 runs had guided his team to 342 in their second innings.
‘It is disappointing to miss the hundred but
I will take it any day if we can win the Test
match tomorrow,’ said a smiling Vijay after
the day’s play yesterday.
‘The game is very well placed and
(Ravindra) Jadeja is spinning the ball
well. The fast bowlers can help too
because it is doing a lot for spinners
because of footmarks on the pitch. It
will be a fifth day pitch and it will have
wear and tear,’ he added.
While Jadeja will have a prominent
role to play as a bowler on the final
day of the Test, he had a major say
as a batsman in how things shaped
up on the fourth day here.
Jadeja struck his maiden Test fif-
ty, scoring 66 runs overall and
his 99-run partnership for the
8th wicket with Bhuvneshwar
Kumar came in a whirlwind
manner to knock the wind out
of England.
‘Jadeja really played well and
that helped us gain momentum.
Obviously Bhuvneshwar is hitting
the ball really well in this series and
that has put us in a good position,’
said Vijay.
Asked if the James Anderson incident in the first Test at Nottingham
had inspired him, the batsman replied,
‘When Jadeja came into bat, I could
feel the energy that he will do something
special.
His intent was very special.
I was playing the anchor
role but I got out and he
capitalised on
his
in-
Rosberg happy with
‘perfect week’
Hockenheim, July 21:
Nico Rosberg gave Germany another win to celebrate after their World
Cup success with a home grand prix triumph for Mercedes on Sunday
that stretched his overall lead in the Formula One championship to 14
points. Later, he said it was ‘a perfect week’ and was very happy with it.
Untroubled from pole position to chequered flag, the newly-married
German’s commanding victory added another highlight to a week that
had begun with the signing of a multi-year contract extension.
Lewis Hamilton, his team mate and only real title rival, finished third
after starting in 20th place and then making 15 overtaking manoeuvres
as he charged back through the field in one of the more determined
drives of his career.
Finland’s Valtteri Bottas took second place for Williams, his third
podium finish in a row and a hefty 20.7 seconds behind Rosberg, after
Brazilian team mate Felipe Massa crashed at the start in a collision that
brought out the safety car.
Rosberg was the first to win for a works Mercedes team in Germany
since Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio in 1954 and first German home
winner for a German team since the championship started in 1950.
Tomic triumphs
Bogota, July 21 (AFP):
Australia’s Bernard Tomic claimed
his second career title and secured
a return to the world top 100 Sunday
when he beat defending champion Ivo
Karlovic 7-6 (7/5), 3-6, 7-6 (7/4) in the
Colombia Open final.
The 21-year-old Tomic, whose rollercoaster career took another twist
when he split with global management
company IMG last week, defied the
39 aces of Karlovic to take victory in
two hours and 13 minutes. It was his
second tour-level title, adding to a 2013
triumph at the Sydney International.
Victory also crowned a strong week in
Bogota as he won consecutive match-
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double hip surgery in late January.
The world number 124 becomes the
third player outside the top 100 to win
a title this year, joining last
week’s
Swedish Open champion
Pablo Cuevas and
Munich winner Martin
Klizan. Tomic
is also the first
Australian champion in South America
since Ken Rosewall
triumphed in Buenos Aires in 1968.
For Karlovic, it was a second defeat in a
final against an Australian opponent in the
space of a week after the 6ft 11in Croatian
giant had been defeated by Lleyton Hewitt in
the Newport decider last Sunday.
In what turned out to be a good
weekend for Australian tennis,
Sam Groth and Chris Guccione
won the doubles title in Bogota.
Tomic’s career had taken a downward turn since making the fourth
round of the 2012 Australian Open,
a decline which saw his ATP ranking
slip from 27.
He withdrew in the first round of this
year’s Australian Open against Rafael Nadal and underwent double hip
surgery shortly afterwards and then
suffered a record 26-minute defeat on
his comeback event at Miami.
tent. He is a fighter and he was showing it
with his celebration on reaching the fifty as
well.’ But the ground work for this impactful
innings was laid only by Vijay’s patient and
calm knock. He faced 247 balls and struck
11 fours, building a 79-run partnership with
skipper MS Dhoni and
helped India get into a
position of advantage.
‘They were bowling
in an off-stump channel and the wicket
was doing a bit, I just
thought I will tire them
out. If I get a good ball
there isn’t much I
can do about it. So
I just focussed
hard and batted.
‘The first
hour of play
here is very
crucial, esMurali Vijay
pecially in
this match
‘I have waited for my
chance and worked hard. I
believed that I will get my
turn and when I have got
it, I have just grabbed it’
it has been tough because the ball is moving
around. I thought there are more attacking batsmen after me so I will just bat till the second new
ball comes,’ said Vijay.
‘I have waited for my chance and worked hard.
I believed that I will get my turn and when I have
got it, I have just grabbed it. In international
cricket, you have to play your natural game
because the game is unpredictable,’ he added,
reflecting on his recent success.
The final question then remains is if India
can go on to win their fi rst overseas Test
since 2011.
‘We are all pumped up to do something
special, we are here to prove a point and win
a game,’ was Vijay’s reply.
Farbrace defends
struggling Cook
London, July 21 (PTI):
England assistant coach Paul Farbrace has said that his side will be
turning up on day five with the intention to win this second Test versus
India at Lord’s while defending offform skipper Alastair Cook..
At stumps on day four, the hosts
were struggling at 105 for 4 in a
chase of 319 runs for victory.
‘You’ve got to turn up expecting
your batsmen to score the runs,’ said
Farbrace.
‘We’ve got somebody at the crease
who batted all day at Headingley two
Test matches ago, and got a hundred, against all the odds.’
‘There were a lot of people that
day not expecting us to still be at the
crease at seven o’clock, and fighting
for our lives. Unfortunately, the penultimate ball finished the game. But it
was a magnificent fight. But it’s up to
us to show the fight tomorrow that we
showed at Headingley,’ he added.
Murali Vijay scored 95 runs and
then Ravindra Jadeja scored his
maiden Test fifty and added 99 runs
with Bhuvneshwar Kumar in a whirlwind partnership that nearly knocked
out England. He returned to take the
wicket of Sam Robson as well and
will play an important role on day five.
‘There is no question today that
Jadeja’s innings has given them a big
England captain Alastair Cook endured another failure as the team
sought to take a lead in the Test series against India.
advantage. But we’ve got two people
at the crease who enjoy a scrap. They
bat well together. Today Moeen was
talking about playing Jadeja off the
rough and if they can give us a good
partnership in the morning, we’ve got
people who can come in and strike
the ball cleanly,’ said Farbrace.
‘You’ve got to expect to win a game -
Mayer breaks
title duck
Hamburg, July 21:
Argentina’s world number 46 Leonardo Mayer captured his first ATP title on
Sunday when he fought back to defeat top seeded Spaniard David Ferrer,
6-7 (3/7), 6-1, 7-6 (7/4) in the Hamburg final.
Mayer becomes the lowest-ranked winner of an ATP World Tour 500 tournament since number 54 Radek Stepanek clinched the Washington title in 2011.
The 27-year-old Mayer is enjoying one of the best spells of his career. Last
month, the right-hander advanced to the fourth round at Wimbledon and made
his first ATP World Tour final in Vina del Mar earlier this year.
‘I can’t believe it, said Mayer. ‘I was able to do it against Ferrer, who is one
of the best players on this surface. I’m really happy and it still hasn’t sunk in
that I won.
‘At the start of the match, I was a little tense. But I relaxed and started to
play better. He also made some mistakes that got me back into the match. I
tried to enjoy it and that’s why I won, I think.’
Titles for Kannan,
Thamarai Selvi
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
Kannan of AC College of Engineering and P Thamarai Selvi of Velammal MHSS won
the open and women’s under-25 titles in the 17th edition of the Hercules Turbodrive InterSchool-College chess tournament held at St Joseph’s Matriculation School, Poonamallee.
A press note said that the tournament attracted a total of 739 participants from almost
all the districts of Tamilnadu .
Tiruvallur District Collector K Veeraraghava Rao was the chief guest for the valedictory.
Velammal New Gen Park, Suraipet won the 17th Hercules Turbo Drive Trophy by virtue
of winning more number of cycles and prizes
The winners: Boys -- Under-8: Nikhil Magizhnan (7 ½/8); D Gukesh (7 ½ ); Jayakrishnahariharan (7). Under-10: H Balasubramaniam (7 1/2); Nitin Shankar Madhu (7); R Rathneesh (7). Under-12: S Arjun Kalyan (7); R Prajesh (7); Dileep Kumar (6 ½ ). Under-14: M
Hemanth Raam (7); K Gokul Raj (7); K Keerthi Vasan (6-1/2). Under-25: Sa Kannan (8/8).
Girls -- Under-8: K Shreya (6/7); FG Avanthika (6); M.Srinidhi (6). Under- 10: B S Samyuktha (6); Shivani Madhu (6); S P Kirtana (5 ½ ). Under-12: C Lakshmi (6); Under-14:
A.Harshini (7); Under-25: P Thamarai Selvi (5/5); G.Aarthi (4 ½ ); K.Saroja (4 ½ ).
that’s the key. We’re desperate to win
this Test match, and we do have an
opportunity tomorrow. It is definitely
going to be tough because we are
slightly up against it,’ he added.
The form of their top-order batsmen
becomes even more of a concern
now with Alastair Cook falling for 22
and Ian Bell out cheaply for 1.
The winners of various categories in the Hercules Turbodrive Inter-School-College chess
tournament with the guests at the valedictory.
Rory McIlroy
Keep it simple is
McIlroy’s mantra
Hoylake, July 21:
For Rory McIlroy the secret of his
stunning victory at the Open on
Sunday came down to two rather unremarkable words: Process and spot.
That was the mantra he repeated
in his brain throughout four majestic
rounds of golf at the Royal Liverpool
course.
‘Very simple,’ he disclosed when
asked what were the trigger words
he had referred to earlier in the week.
It’s going to be a big letdown for
everyone. It was ‘process’ and ‘spot.’
‘That was it. With my long shots I
just wanted to stick to my process
and stick to making good decisions,
making good swings. And then ‘spot
was for my putting.
‘I was just picking a spot on the
green and trying to roll it over my
spot, roll it over my spot every time.
I wasn’t thinking about holing it. If that
went in, then great.
‘If it didn’t, then I’d try it the next
hole. So ‘process’ and ‘spot’, that’s all
I kept telling myself all week.’
MONDAY
21 JULY 2014
Mixed bag
CHENNAI
7
Affected buyers thank Jaya
q Association formed to find recourse for investors
Devotees thronged the Vadapalani Murugan Temple in Chennai today
on the occasion of Aadi kirthigai today.
Eminent space scientist Mayilsamy Annadurai, film personalities S P
Muthuraman, Nanjil P C Anabalagan, Kalaipuli G Sekaran among others
at the audio launch of Nadhigal Nanaivathillai in Chennai.
Putin blames others for
exploiting Ukraine crash
Moscow, July 21 (AP):
Russian President Vladimir Putin has lambasted those who use the downing
of a passenger jet in eastern Ukraine for ‘mercenary objectives,’ the Kremlin
said today.
In a statement posted on the Kremlin website, Putin again lashed out at
Ukraine for ongoing violence with pro-Russian rebels in the eastern part of
the country.
He says the tragedy is being used for others’ ‘mercenary objectives,’ although
he does not say specifically who.
Putin also says he supports a crash investigation by a ‘full team of experts’ under the auspices of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, a UN agency.
Since a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was downed Thursday over Ukraine,
killing everyone on board, the US and others have blamed Moscow, which
they say supplies and trains the rebels.
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
The Moulivakkam Trust Heights
Flats Affected Buyers Association
formed by the investors of ‘Twin
Towers’ built by Prime Sristi which
collapsed on 28 June thanked Chief
Minister J Jayalalithaa for the exemplary and efficient management of the
rescue and evacuation of the workers
at the site of mishap.
The association has been formed to
find a legal recourse for the investors
of the 72 of the 86 flats that were sold
in the building.
In a letter sent to News Today,
the association said that it deeply
mourned for the lives lost and expressed its heartfelt condolences to
their near and dear ones.
‘We all have been shattered beyond
words with the unprecedented collapse of ‘Tower Faith’ built by Prime
Sristi Private Limited at Moulivakkam,
Porur leading to the death of 61 inno-
Rs 85 lakh worth
gold seized at
city airport
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
Police today took into custody
a woman at the city airport who
was found carrying Rs 85 lakh
worth gold.
According to sources, Selvarani who had arrived at the
airport from Kuala Lumpur was
moving around in a suspicious
manner. Customs officials who
took her for inquiry and found
2.5 kilograms of gold hidden in
her clothes.
The gold has been seized and
Selvarani handed over to the
police.
‘Mobile networks in
naxal-hit areas soon’
New Delhi, July 21 (PTI):
Mobile networks, under the Universal Service Obligation
Fund scheme, in naxal-affected areas are likely to be set
up in 15 months, the government said today.
Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi
Shankar Prasad informed the Lok
Sabha that the government was
concerned about the coverage
and quality of telecommunication
services in left-wing extremism affected areas.
A proposal to install mobile towers at 1,836 locations in States
affected by left-wing extremism
with funding support from Universal
Service Obligation Fund (USOF)
has already been approved.
‘Mobile networks under the USOF
scheme are likely to be set up in
15 months,’ Prasad said during
Question Hour.
Bharat Sancahr Nigam Ltd (BSNL)
has installed mobile towers at 363
locations for which financial support to meet operational expenses
would be provided through USOF.
According to the Minister, the project cost discovered
by BSNL for setting up mobile towers in the naxal-affected States is ‘Rs 3,567.58 crore’ through transparent
and open tender process.
‘In its meeting held on 13 June, 2014, the Telecom
Commission recommended that the proposal may be
placed before the Union Cabinet for approval,’ he said.
Besides, BSNL is implementing Phase VII of its mobile
network expansion by installing Base Transreceiver
Another batch of
devotees leaves
for Amarnath
Jammu, July 21 (PTI):
Amid tight security, the 25th
batch of pilgrims today left for
the Amarnath cave shrine in
south Kashmir Himalayas from
here. As many as 1,491 pilgrims,
including 939 men, 381 women
and 21 children, left from the
Bhagwati Nagar base camp in
Jammu in a cavalcade of 46 vehicles at 4.20 am, police said.
The convoy has already
crossed Patnitop on JammuSrinagar National Highway and
would reach their destinations
at Baltal and Pahalgam base
camps by this evening, they
said.
With today’s batch, a total of
45,402 pilgrims have so far left
from the Jammu base camp for
the Amarnath shrine.
Stations (BTSs) for 2G services and Node B for 3G
services.
‘Phase VII expansion of BSNL in the States affected
by left-wing extremism is likely to be completed by April
2015,’ Prasad said.
He also noted that there was
no proposal by BSNL to take
over network assets/infrastructure of other existing service
providers.
Noting that security of telecom
towers in naxal-affected areas
is very important, Prasad said
the government is working with
various security agencies in this
regard.
Having telecom towers in
naxal-affected areas would not
only help in beefing up security
but also ensure connectivity,
he said.
On the issue of ensuring power
supply for the towers, he acknowledged that there are concerns and said ‘there is scope
for improvement.’
The idea of using solar power for telecom towers is
being looked into, especially for the North-East region,
Prasad said.
To a separate query, the Minister said improving the
functioning of BSNL is a priority for the government.
Under the Prime Minister’s direction, the government is
working on ways to improve condition of BSNL and there
would be improvement, he added.
SRM varsity students
steal the show
NT Bureau
Chennai, July 21:
‘Camber Racing Team’ from SRM University won the Maruti Suzuki SUPRA SAE India Students Formula 2014 held at the Madras Motor Race
Track at Irrungatukottai near here yesterday.
A press note said that a total of 87 teams comprising over 2000 engineering students from across the country had gathered to display and explain
their prototype creations of cars to the judges and other experts.
The second and third place went to the Octane racing team of College
of Engineering, Pune and the Ojaswat racing team of Chandubhai’s Patel
Institute of Technology, Gujarat respectively.
The competition attracted 183 entries from all over India and based on
very critical parameters 87 teams were chosen. There were two all girls
team competing.
The 87 prototype race cars would be subjected to various kinds of tests
- noise, brakes and endurance etc.
According to SUPRA SAE India convener S Thirumalini, the event gives
the students experience in designing as per specifications, sourcing of
components, fabricating, costing and even marketing. ‘The maximum allowable spend on building the car is Rs 10 lakh. Till date, the lowest cost
at which a race car was built is Rs one lakh,’ she added.
The crash site at Moulivakkam.
cent workers,’ the letter said.
One of the members that the association had been formed primarily to
provide a forum for all it’s members
who had invested in Trust Heights
Twin Towers to share their collective
grievances and to work together in
achieving the association’s just goals
through proper legal means.
The member also said that the goal
of the association was to help all it’s
members who are financially affected
and mentally disturbed. ‘The collapse
of the building incident has not only
shattered our dream for a decent living but has also put us in a financial
burden as all of us have invested our
hard earned life savings and have
borrowed money through bank loans
with life long EMIs so as to shape our
dreams of living in a decent environment,’ the member said.
Many of the investors have invested around Rs70-90 lakhs and
still continue to pay their monthly
EMIs for the loan they have borrowed
from banks.\ After a week long rescue
operation at the site, 61 bodies were
pulled out and 27 were left injured
after the 11 storey building came
tumbling down on 28 June.
Jaitley optimistic on
revenue collection
New Delhi, July 21 (PTI):
After missing target in the last financial year, the government today exuded confidence that tax collection during
the current fiscal would exceed budget estimate of Rs
13.64 lakh crore.
‘Revenue collection targets fixed for 2014-15 will not
only be achieved but also surpassed,’ Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley said.
He was addressing the 30th annual conference of Principal Chief Commissioners, Principal Directors General
(DGs), Chief Commissioners & DGs of Income Tax Department here. Jaitley emphasised that the credibility of
Income Tax department is its greatest asset.
‘Credibility of income tax department is its greatest asset,
that’s why highest standards of ethics are expected from
Manipuri youth beaten
to death in Delhi
Manipuri, July 21:
A Naga man from Manipur was beaten to death,
allegedly by a group of five or six men, in the heart of
Delhi late last night. The police said Shaloni, a man
in his late twenties who was employed at a Business
Processing Outsourcing company or BPO, got into
an ltercation with the group of men, who had driven
up in a white Maruti Alto near a daily needs store in
Kotla Mubarakpur.
Shaloni, the police said, was walking with two of
his friends - one from Manipur and another from
Bihar. When the attack took place, both the friends
ran away, the police said, adding they received a
call about the quarrel at about 2:30 am.
When the police reached the spot, they found
Shaloni had been beaten up. They took the injured
man to the trauma centre at the All India Institute of
Medical Sciences or AIIMS, where he was declared
dead.
Shaloni lived in Delhi’s Munirka. A case of murder
has been registered. The police have seized a CCTV
camera from the area and said they have identified
a few suspects.
‘It seems like a preplanned and unprovoked attack. Home Ministry will probe into the death,’ says
Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju.
The death in similar circumstances of Nido Tania,
a student from Arunachal Pradesh, early this year
had led to street protests and a national debate on
discrimination against Indians from the North East.
Nido, 20, was beaten with iron rods and sticks by
a group of men after he had an altercation with a
shopkeeper and others in Lajpat Nagar market, not
far from Kotla Mubarakpur, in January.
SYMBOLIC POSSESSION NOTICE
(For Immovable Property)
(Under Sec 13(4) of the read with Appendix IV and rule 8 (1) of the Security Interest
Enforcement Rules, 2002)
Whereas, the undersigned being the authorized officer of the DCB Bank Limited under the
Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security
Interest Act, 2002 (54 of 2002) and in exercise of powers conferred under section
13(12) read with rule 9 of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002 issued a 13(2)
notice dated 02-04-2014 calling upon the borrower M/s. Bharat Polymers, 1A, Ground
Floor, Embassy Apartments, 291, Bellasis Road, Mumbai Central, Mumbai - 400008,
and the Guarantors 1. Mr. M. Seyed Mubarak Ali, 2. Mrs. A. Hussain Mehbooba,
3. M/s. Bharat Trading Company, Flat No. 4 in Building No. 4, Gulmohar Housing
Society, Yari Road, Versova Andheri West, Mumbai - 400058 to repay the amount
mentioned in the notice being ` 2,77,88,008.35/- (Rupees Two Crore Seventy Seven
Lakhs Eighty Eight Thousand Eight and Paise Thirty Five only) and being the amount
under the loan Nos. 00641600000064 and 00649100000019 to you aware that DCB Bank
Limited had vide its letter No. CAD/SAN/MR/HAS-11/07-08/201 dated 12th March 2008
sanctioned Cash Credit and Inland Import Letter of Credit facilities and disbursed to you
on the terms and conditions mentioned in the sanction letter which were duly accepted
by you. The said facility is renewed/enhanced/reduced to ` 268.34 lakhs vide letter No.
CAD-MUM/SAN/MR/SME/BYC/2013-14 dated 28th January 2014 which is duly accepted
by you and along with interest and other charges, cost etc within 60 days from the date
of the said notice.
The borrower having failed to repay the amount, notice is hereby given to the borrower,
guarantors and the public in general that the undersigned has taken possession of the
property described herein below in exercise of the powers conferred on him under sec
13 (4) of the said Act read with rule 9 of the said Rules on this 18th day of July of the
year 2014.
The borrower in particular and the public in general is hereby cautioned not to deal
with the property and any dealings with the property will be subject to the charge of the
DCB Bank Limited, for an amount of ` 2,77,88,008.35/- along with accrued interest and
other charges, cost etc.,
DESCRIPTION OF THE IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
All the piece and parcel of land and building bearing No. 26, New Street (PUDU STREET)
Nungambakkam, Chennai - 34,Comprised in R.S. No. 406/3 and part of R.S. No. 406/10
Block No.26 measuring Total Extent Area 2010 sq.ft., bounded on the
North by : Survey no.406/9,
South by : R.S.No.406/4,
East by : Survey No.406/10,
West by : R.S.No.406/5.
Within the sub. Registration District of Pammal and Registration District of South
Chennai.
Date: 18-07-2014
Authorised Officer,
Place: Chennai
DCB Bank Limited (Formerly Development Credit Bank Limited)
officers of the department,’ PIB said in a tweet. The government estimates to garner Rs 13.64 lakh crore from both
direct and indirect tax collection during the current fiscal.
During 2013-14, tax collection fell short of target by a
whopping Rs 77,000 crore. The government collected
Rs 11.58 lakh crore against the budget estimate of Rs
12.35 lakh crore.
There are doubts about the meeting of indirect tax collection target for the current fiscal as there is slowdown
in the economy. On income tax front, however, there is
possibility of surpassing target.
Last week, Revenue Secretary Shaktikanta Das had said
that the government would be able to achieve the direct
tax collection target but the real challenge is with regards
to indirect taxes.
SYMBOliC POSSESSION NOTICE
(for Immovable Property)
(Under Sec 13(4) of the read with Appendix IV and rule 8 (1) of the Security Interest
Enforcement Rules, 2002)
Citifinancial Consumer finance India Limited (the “CCFIL”) had at your request, granted to
you, loan against property fora sum of ` 9,65,000/- (Rupees nine lakh sixty five thousand
only) Vide loan agreement No (16308043) entered between you and CCFIL, Under the
agreement entered into between CCFIL and you, CCFIL had assigned the loan to
DCB Bank Ltd (the “BANK”) (the “Assignment Date”), the same was intimated to you vide
letter dated 07-09-2011. Accordingly, all rights and obligations in relation to the said Loan
have been since assigned to the Bank with effect from the Assignment Date and your new
Reference Number and Loan Account Number is as referred.
Whereas, the undersigned being the authorised officer of the DCB Bank Ltd. under the
Securitization and Reconstruction of financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest
Act, 2002 (54 of 2002) and in exercise of powers conferred under section 13(12) read
with rule 9 of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002 issued a 13(2) notice dated
05-05-2014 calling upon the borrower Mr. S. MURUGESAN, Old No. 3/5, New No.
8/5, VKS GARDEN, VADAVALLI, COIMBATDRE - 641041 and the Co-Borrower Mrs.
RAJESWARI M, OId No. 3/5, New No. 8/5, VKS GARDEN, VADAVALLI, COIMBATORE 641041 to repay the amount mentioned in the notice being ` 9,65,290/- (rupees nine lakh
sixty five thousand two hundred and ninety only) and being the amount under the loan
account number HCFECMB00024900 along with interest and other charges, cost etc within
60 days from the date of the said notice.
The borrower having failed to repay the amount, notice is hereby given to the borrower,
guarantors and the public in general that the undersigned has taken possession of the
property described herein below in exercise of the powers conferred on him under sec 13
(4) of the said Act read with rule 9 of the said Rules on this 09-July-2014.
The borrower in particular and the public in general is hereby cautioned not to deal with the
property and any dealings with the property will be subject to the charge of the DCB Bank
Ltd., for an amount of ` 9,65,290/- along with accrued interest and other charges cost etc.
DESCRIPTION OF THE IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
All the piece and parcel of land situated in Coimbatore Registration District, Vadavalli Sub
Registration District, Coimbatore Taluk, Vadavalli village, S.F.No.126 punja acres 2.63 in
this acres 2.13, in this acres 2.01 of lands parceled into house sites and in this western
portion of site no.5 bounded as follows:
North by : 23 ft. wide East West layout Road,
South by : Property of Marudhakutt, Gounder,
East by : Site NO.4,
West by : Eastern portion of site no.5.
Within the above,
East West on the North 19ft,
East West on the South 35ft,
North South on the West 60ft,
North South on the East 62ft.
Admeasuring 1647 Sq.ft. of house site together with pathway rights, As per sub division,
the property is in S.F.No.126/3B.
Date: 09-07-2014
Authorised Officer,
Place: Coimbatore
DCB Bank Ltd., (Formerly Development Credit Bank Ltd)
SYMBOliC POSSESSION NOTICE
(For Immovable Property)
(Under Sec 13(4) of the read with Appendix IV and rule 8 (1) of the Security Interest
Enforcement Rules, 2002)
Citifinancial Consumer Finance India Limited (the “CCFIL”) had at your request, granted to
you, two loans against property for a sum of ` 15,00,000/- (rupees fifteen lakh only) Vide
loan agreement No (15996648 & 15996832) entered between you and CCFIL,
Under the agreement entered into between CCFIL and you, CCFIL had assigned the loans to
DCB Bank ltd (the “BANK”) (the “Assignment Date”), the same was intimated to you vide
letter dated 07-09-2011 . Accordingly, all rights and obligations in relation to the said Loan
have been since assigned to the Bank with effect from the Assignment Date and your new
Reference Number and Loan Account Number is as referred.
Whereas, the undersigned being the authorised officer of the DCB Bank Ltd. under the
Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest
Act, 2002 (54 of 2002) and in exercise of powers conferred under section 13(12) read
with rule 9 of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002 issued a 13(2) notice dated
05-05-2014 calling upon the borrower Mr. VENKATESWARA P R, No. 19, Parthasarathy
Nagar 3rd street, Vijayalakshmi Flats, Nanmangalam,Chennai - 600117 and the
Co-Borrower Mrs. DEEPA Y, NO.19, Parthasarathy Nagar 3rd Street,Vijayalakshmi
Flats, Nanmangalam, Chennai - 600117 to repay the amount mentioned in the notice
being `14,93,933/- (rupees fourteen lakh ninety three thousand nine hundred and thirty
three only) and being the amount under the loan account numbers HCFLCHE00025869 &
HCFECHEOOO25280 along with interest and other charges, cost etc within 60 days from
the date of the said notice.
The borrower having failed to repay the amount, notice is hereby given to the borrower,
guarantors and the public in general that the undersigned has taken possession of the
property described herein below in exercise of the powers conferred on him under sec 13
(4) of the said Act read with rule 9 of the said Rules on this 09-July-2014.
The borrower in particular and the public in general is hereby cautioned not to deal with the
property and any dealings with the property will be subject to the charge of the DCB Bank
Ltd.,for an amount of ` 14,93,933/- along with accrued interest and other charges, cost etc.
DESCRIPTION OF THE IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
SCHEDULE A PROPERTY
All that piece and parcel of vacant house site, bearing plot measuring an extent of 8712
sq.ft.,in Parthasarathy Pillai Third Street, Nanmangalam Village, Chennai-117, An
SubDivision Approved by ST.Thomas Mount Panchayat Union, Chitlapakkam, Chennai64, PPA.No.5340/05, Planning Permit No.1200/05, Dated:16-09-05, Sutrdivided as Plot
Nos.1,2,3 and 4,Situated at Old NO.151, 121, 98, New No.19, Nanmangalam Village,
comprised in survey no.124/4, in Tambaram Taluk, Kancheepuram District within the
Registration District of Chennai-South and Sub-Registration District of Pallavaram,being
bounded on the:North by : Parthasarathy Third Street,( 20 Feet Road),
South by : Vacant Land,
East by : Land belongs to Chettiyar & others,
West by : Land belongs to Mr .Kumarasamy and Ranganatha Naicker.
In all admeasuring an extent of 8712 Sq.Ft.
SCHEDULE ‘B’ PROPERTY
An undivided share 544.5 Sq.Ft. Out of 8712 Sq.ft., of land and including common passage
of right, title and interest in the schedule “A” mentioned above said property, together with
all its common rights.
THIS PROPERTY LIES WITHIN THE LIMITS OF SlTHOMAS MOUNT PANCHAYAT UNION.
Date: 09-07-2014
Authorised Officer,
Place: Chennai
DCB Bank ltd., (Formerly Development Credit Bank Ltd)
, CHENNAI
8 MONDAY
21 JULY 2014
Licensed to post without prepayment under WPP. No. TN / PMG / (CCR) / 470 / 12-14
IRON MAN
Trisha
T
Trisha joins
Ajith’s shoot
risha has joined the shoot of Gautham Menon’s Ajith film. Trisha
tweeted: ‘Satisfying kick start to THALA 55 with the super energetic
and efficient team. Thanks for the faith Gautam.’
The movie has officially Ajith, Arun Vijay, Anushka and now Trisha in
the lead along with Vivek and others in the supporting cast. Trisha is
one of the two heroines of the movie.
It’s reliably learnt that she will be playing the female lead opposite Ajith
in the flashback portions where Ajith will be shown in younger and leaner
look. Trisha had earlier acted with Ajith in Ji, Kireedom and Mankatha.
—NT Bureau
The construction work of the metro rail station near the airport is on in full swing.
Mithunda in Tamil
Photo: M SRINIVASAN
One more
from the
family
D
irector Sathya Prabhas Pinisetty’s Tamil venture Yagavarayinum
Naa Kaakka will feature Bollywood’s top actor Mithun Chakraborthy in a prominent role.
Says the director, ‘Yagavarayinum Naa Kaakka is inspired
by true events, and shot in over 100 locations in the country
to keep the narrative authentic’.
‘We shot the film in Bombay, Goa, Pondicherry, Hyderabad and Chennai, but the total number of locations
explored in these cities are more than 100. It wasn’t
any of the exotic locations, but something more realistic like Pudupettai, two fishing harbours and the
VT station in Mumbai,’ Sathya said.
Starring Sathya’s brother Aadi Pinisetty in the lead,
Yagavarayinum Naa Kaakka went on the floors in
February 2013, but it was wrapped up only recently.
He says the delay was due to the script requirements.
‘The nature of the script was such that I had to
change about 140 locations. The story revolves
around four characters in four different parts of the
country and I wanted to keep it authentic. Therefore, I
didn’t want to compromise creatively,’ he said.
‘The delay was also because a lot of time was spent on getting
permission to shoot in some locations. If you want to shoot in a train
in VT station, getting permission is a hassle. We went through the
process and finally got the permission,’ he added.
Yagavarayinum Naa Kaakka also features Nikki Galrani, Pasupathy,
Harish Uthaman and Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli.
Nagesh
A
Mithun Chakraborthy
fter Nagesh and his son Anand
Babu, now comes one more from
their family. Gajesh, grandson of
Nagesh, is all set to make his debut
in Tamil cinema. He will play the lead
role in a movie titled Kalkandu. The
movie will be directed by Nandakumar. Says the director, ‘ I was looking
for a young and a fresh face to play
the lead role. He should have a flair
for humour too. It was then I came
across Gajesh. He is amazing. He
suits it well’’.
On his part, Gajesh, said, ‘ I enjoy
being part of the hilarious subject’.
Dimple Chopade is the heroine.
—NT Bureau
Gajesh
Bhagyashree all
praise for Salman
A
ctress Bhagyashree, who gave
romance a new meaning with
superstar Salman Khan in their 1989
film Maine Pyaar Kiya, is all praise for
her co-star.
Bhagyashree even said that the
48-year-old actor looks more handsome now.
He is looking incredibly good right
now. He is really looking so handsome. My kids have seen the fi lm
and they are proud of their mother’s
achievements. They (kids) are fan of
him, Bhagyashree, 45, told reporters
here.
Maine Pyar Kiya, directed by Sooraj
Barjatya had become a blockbuster
of the decade. Though Salman and
Bhagyashree never worked again
but they kept in touch with each
other.
We were in touch with each other
on and off. Socially we used to meet
once in a while but not on a regular
basis, she said.
Salman, who is known to give
break to newcomers in films, is likely
to launch Bhagyashree’s son Abhimanyu in Bollywood.
However, the actress refused to
comment on it saying, ‘I would not
like to say on this.’
—PTI
Salman Khan
Parvathy Omanakuttan
‘South film industry
is organised than
Bollywood’
P
urampokku, which has Arya, Vijay Sethupathi and Shaam in the lead and had
its long shooting schedules at Kulu Manali, has now shifted base to Chennai.
Directed by award winner Jananathan, a huge set, resembling a prison has
been erected at the Binny Mills with art director Selvakumar helming the affair.
The portions involving Arya and Shaam are being canned now with Vijay
Sethupathy and Karthika Nair joining the team next week.
Though the director has kept everything about the film under wraps, a close
source reveals that while Arya plays a financial analyst, Sethupathi is a railway
kalasi and Shaam is a police officer.
Reportedly, Arya lands in jail and portions involving him as a convict are shot
on the mammoth set.
About 600 junior artistes take part in the shoot every day in the film, which is
being produced by UTV Motion Pictures.
—NT Bureau
P
izza actress Parvathy Omanakuttan feels the Southern film
industry is more organised and punctual than Bollywood.
The 27-year-old former Miss India won the coveted pageant in 2008
and since then she acted in Tamil and Malayali films.
Her first Bollywood film was United Six in 2011.
‘Though the crew on Pizza is from South so I did not feel much
difference that way but both the industries are different in respect
to the process of filmmaking.
In South, they are very punctual and they are very sure when to
start the film and when to end. In Bollywood it’s more laid back and
easy. If I do back-to-back films in Bollywood and then I go to south,
I will have to follow a time table.
But if a person comes here after working in south, it will be easy
for him as he will be more organised’, she said.
Pizza, which released on 18 July, was a Hindi remake of the 2012
Tamil film of the same name.
—PTI
Arya
Arya upbeat about
Purampokku
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