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q Intel agencies to check black marketing
q Shutters down on 500 TASMAC outlets across TN
‘Intelligence agencies
have zeroed in on
traders involved in
hoarding in some
states including
Delhi, Haryana and
Uttar Pradesh and
action is being taken
against them’
sources said. The Centre has also
decided to send its officers to select
countries to decide on government
to government contract to import
pulses by limiting the role of private
traders. It has also decided to raise
a buffer stock of eight lakh tonnes to
check price rise, they said.
State governments have also been
asked to check hoarders and those
involved in black marketing of the
commodity. States like Tamil Nadu
and Gujarat are proactive against the
hoarders. All other States need to do
more to check it, the sources said.
Intelligence agencies have zeroed
in on traders involved in hoarding in
some states including Delhi, Haryana
and Uttar Pradesh and action is being
taken against them, sources said.
NT Bureau
Chennai, June 19:
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa soon
after taking office for a second term,
issued orders to reduce the business
hours of TASMAC outlets and directed
closure of 500 retail outlets across
the State. Within the next few days,
she has fulfilled her promises as the
government issued orders to close 500
TASMAC outlets from today.
Leaders of various political parties,
social activists and general public
have welcomed this move by the
Chief Minister.
According to a government release,
the managing director of TASMAC,
R Kirlosh Kumar, has issued instructions for closure of 500 retail vending
liquor shops with effect from today,
after the working hours were curtailed
by two hours already, from 24 May
following the announcement by the
Chief Minister.
As per a government order issued,
the list of 500 shops which are to
be closed was prepared by taking
into account the recommendations
of the District Collectors, senior
regional mangers of TASMAC and
relevant details submitted by the
district managers of TASMAC, into
consideration.
Among the five regions and 33 districts of the TASMAC administration,
a maximum of 201 outlets are to be
closed in the Madurai region. Chennai region, which includes Chennai,
Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts will have 58 shops closed, out
of which seven are located in Chennai
city. ‘We are happy that our Chief Minister has acted quickly in implementing
the important promise made by her,
and one shop in our area is also to be
closed’, says a resident of Velacheri.
The order has also insisted that the
stocks in the outlets which are to be
shut, have to be transferred to the
godowns. The properties other than
stock, like furnitures, cash chest box,
billing machines, coolers, and all
records relating to the shops including
other fixed assets have to be handed
over to the concerned district managers, which are to be verified by the
Pallavaram Eri has become home for these cranes, which have migrated from distant lands.
Photo: C SANTHOSH
asset registers in district managers’
offices. The government has also
ordered the steps needed to be followed in redeploying employees of
the outlets that will be closed down,
Rameswaram, June 19 (PTI):
One f i s h e r m a n s u f fered an eye injury
when Sri Lankan naval personnel allegedly
pelted stones at his
boat off Katchathivu islet today, damaging it.
The fisherman was
part of a group of about
3,500 who had put out
to sea in 659 boats from
here yesterday morning,
Fishermen’s Association
President S Emiret told
reporters.
He said the Sri Lankan
naval personnel also damaged 50 fishing nets.
The injured fisherman has
been hospitalised.
Difficult to avoid disclosure
under new scheme: SIT chief
attention was drawn prominently
that if something is found (at a later
stage) they will be subsequently
prosecuted... to some extent it had a
deterrent effect. Now, this time it will
be difficult (for evaders), Shah said.
He said the issue of P-notes
(participatory notes) has also
been controlled to a large extent
and hence it will not be easy for
tax evaders to hide their assets
and funds from agencies like
the Income Tax department
and they will now have to
disclose it to them.
The SIT had last year suggested that market regulator
Sebi put in place regulations that will help identify
individuals holding P-Notes
or offshore derivative instruments (ODIs), and take other steps
required to curb black money and
tax evasion through the stock market route. P-Notes are used by a
large number of foreign investors
to park funds in the equity market
without disclosing their identity to
the Sebi.
Talking about the probe in the
‘Panama Papers’ issue, the SIT
THE OUTLETS
SHUT
Madurai region
201
Trichy region
133
Coimbatore region
60
Chennai region
58
Salem region
48
Total
500
A TASMAC outlet in Koyambedu that was closed today. (R) Officials remove stocks and furniture from the shop.
Photos: B ANAND
Lankan Navy
attacks TN
fishermen
SNOW WHITE
New Delhi, June 19 (PTI):
The chief of SIT on black money
feels it will be difficult for those
holding untaxed assets to avoid
disclosure under the ongoing onetime compliance window opened
by the government after the limited sucess of a similar scheme
launched last year for those with
tainted money overseas.
SIT Chairman Justice (retd) M B
Shah said the Income Tax department has tightened each and every
angle under the current scheme,
and hence evading disclosure
under this scheme will be hundred
per cent difficult.
The last such scheme was not
successful... rather it was successful to some extent in the sense that
ne fisherman suffered an eye injury when Sri
Lankan naval personnel allegedly pelted stones at
his boat off Katchathivu islet today, damaging it.
The fisherman was part of a group of about 3,500 who
had put out to sea in 659 boats from here yesterday
morning, Fishermen’s Association President S Emiret
told reporters. He said the Sri Lankan naval personnel
also damaged 50 nets.
Four persons on a motorbike were killed when their
two-wheeler rammed a fish laden lorry at Kombuthi
Vilakku near Ervadi in Ramanathapuram, district,
police said. The deceased included two teenaged
boys, aged 14 and 13. In Harare, handed a rude
shock in the opening game, the Indian youngsters
will have to raise their game in the second Twenty20
International to stay afloat in the three-match series
against Zimbabwe tomorrow.
It was the first time that the young team was tested
on the tour and it faltered on key moments to suffer an
unexpected loss.
Meanwhile, 500 retail liquor shops in the State were
shut today in line with Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s
directives.
According to a government release, MD, Tamil Nadu
State Marketing Corporation Kirlosh Kumar, issued instructions for closure of 500 retail vending liquor shops
with effect from today.
JAYA FULFILLS
HER PROMISE
Pulses import
under scanner
New Delhi, June 19 (PTI):
The import of pulses has come
under the scanner of central intelligence agencies to check any black
marketing and cartelisation to jack
up the prices of the commodity.
The officials of Intelligence Bureau
(IB) and Directorate of Revenue
Intelligence (DRI) have alerted the
field formation to the possibility of
such illegal activities by traders
and hoarders, official sources said
today. About 5.5 million tonnes of
pulses were imported last fiscal,
largely through private traders.
The move comes as the prices of
pulses have continued to soar and
reached Rs 200 per kg in retail.
Various central agencies and the
Income Tax department have been
conducting raids across the country
for some time to check hoarding.
So far, 14,000 raids have been
conducted and over 1.33 lakh tonnes
of pulses seized in past few months,
the sources said. The rise in prices of
pulses is due to demand-supply gap.
As per an estimate, the demand is
of 230-240 lakh tonnes whereas the
supply is about 170 lakh tonnes.
With each passing year, there is
an increase in demand of pulses by
one million tonnes, thus making imports necessary. The possibility of
black marketing and illegal trading
cannot be wished away as hoarders
try to exploit the situation to make
profit, they said.
The intelligence agencies have
been asked to coordinate among
themselves and share actionable
inputs to check any wrongdoing, the
Up & downs
Chairman said investigating agencies are facing difficulties in reaching to the bottom of the matter as
they are not getting specific account numbers and people named
in the list are also not disclosing
the details to the taxman.
On the issue of bank loan frauds,
Shah said it was the domain of the
RBI which can act and comment
upon them.
Vice Chairman
of the SIT Justice (retd) Arijit
Pasayat also said they were hopeful that the one-time compliance
window provided to domestic black
money holders will be successful.
On ‘Panama Papers’, Pasayat
said the follow up action of probe
agencies is “bound” to produce
good results.
considering their welfare after various
requests the employee unions. The
staff in 500 outlets will be redeployed
in their respective category like supervisors, salesmen and assistant
salesmen and are to be posted in the
same district according to the existing
vacancies. The surplus in manpower
are to be posted in the other regions
where vacancies exist.
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19 JUNE 2016
City
Centre
CHENNAI
Canals getting
clogged again
K
eeping in mind the problems faced during
the deluge in November-December last year,
residents of the neighbourhood want the canals
to be de-silted and cleaned before the rainy season
begins.
Memories of the floods seem to be fading from the
minds of the people which is evident from the
way garbage is being dumped into canals
connecting prominent lakes in the neighbourhood.
The canal which connects Selaiyur lake
with Chitlapakkam lake and the one which
links Rajakilpakkam lake with Sembakkam
and Nanmangalam lakes are littered once again.
Vijayakumar, a resident of Selaiyur, said local residents had returned to their routine and had started to
throw waste into the canals. ‘With the neighbourhood
Residents and activists want canals to be cleaned before the monsoon breaks.
T
Narrow roads,
broad problems
he road that connects Kovilambakkam and Nanmangalam
to Medavakkam Koot Road
junction sees heavy traffic during
peak hours. The stretch, which passes
through residential areas, is considered as a short-cut, but it only amplifies the problem. It takes a minimum
of half an hour to cross it and reach
Madipakkam.
This road connects Tambaram and
Medavakkam to Madipakkam and
Guindy on one side and to Velachery
and Thoraipakkam on the other.
Vehicles parked by shoppers to the
adjacent Madipakkam Main Road,
only suffocate the place. These two
and four wheelers are unattended,
adding to the woes.
‘I travel to Guindy via this route daily
and it takes a lot of time to cross this
junction. The Meenambakkam way
has heavy traffic and hence I preferred
this. But it has become pathetic now,’
says Guna, a regular commuter.
‘This is much closer for us to travel,
but traffic is the only problem,’ says
Nithya, a four-wheeler user. ‘While
DUCK IN
two-wheelers make their way through,
it is very difficult for four-wheelers like
us,’ she adds.
Regular commuters feel that the
road should be widened and shops
should be cleared, immediately.
With an increase in the number
of commuters in a route which was
once known only to few, the road
is unable to cope with the drastic
pressure.
‘There was a time when only local
residents used the route, but now
everyone knows about this and
have started using it. This has created problems for all,’ says Mala, a
resident of Nanmangalam.
Shopkeepers refute the charges
against them for the traffic and point
out that the narrow structure of the
road is the real culprit.
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Ducks having a splash at a water-logged plot in Ram Nagar, Velacheri.
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beginning to receive occasional showers, people
should realise that it is their duty to keep canals/
channels clean.
A w a r e - ness should be created by officials to
ensure that canals are kept free of
waste,’ he said. Umesh Subramaniam,
an environmentalist, said the authorities must step up checking and act
swiftly.
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‘These canals should be covered with
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barbed fences so that they don’t get littered
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and people who let the drainage into canals should
be educated about the ill-effects. Officials should
make arrangements to dispose of the drainage in
a proper manner,’ he said. Tambaram Municipality
officials were not available for comment.
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CHENNAI
SUNDAY
19 JUNE 2016
3
MBBS counselling
from tomorrow
To be held at Omandurar Govt
Multi Super Speciality Hospital
How MBBS seats stand
d
Number of applications received - 26,017
Valid applications - 25,814
Number of government medical colleges - 20
Seats offered - 2,650
Number of private colleges - 6
Seats surrendered to state quota - 470
Two ESI run medical colleges to offer 200 seats
ts
Seats under State quota - 130 seats
All India quota - 397 seats
Noted educationist
passes away
NT Bureau
Chennai, June 19:
An ardent AIADMK loyalist and well
known politician and educationist
Jeppiaar died here last night following
a massive heart attack.
The 85-year-old Jeppiaar,
who was one of the close
associates of former
Chief Minister MGR,
complained of chest
pain. He was rushed to
the Global Health City
at suburban Perumbakkam, where he died
on the way.
Police sources said that
Jeppiaar after complaining of
chest pain, was being taken to the
Global Hospital. Since he died on
the way, the body was taken back to
his residence.
Jeppiar was founder of Jeppiaar
Educational Trust and the Chancellor of Sathyabama University, which
would be launching a satellite on
22 June. Jesadimai Pangiraj also
known as JPR started his career as
a police man. A former member of
the Tamilnadu legislative Council
and AIADMK
functionary Jeppiaar was
known to be a close confidante of former Chief
Minister M G Ramachandran.
He was AIADMK secretary of the Chennai
District from 1972 to
1987
and had also served as
a special envoy to the Chief
Minister.
It was in 1988 Jeppiaar founded the
Sathyabama Engineering College.
In the next few years, Jeppiaar’s
established the St Joseph’s College
of Engineering. He started several
educational institutions in and around
the Chennai city.
NT B
Bureau
Chennai
Chennai, June 19:
Directorate of Medical Education will
conduct MBBS counselling for special
categories, including for persons with
special abilities, ex-servicemen and
sports quota tomorrow at Omandurar
Government Multi Super Speciality
Hospital on Anna Salai. The general
counselling will start from 21June and
will continue till 25 June.
A total of 2,853 MBBS seats will be
available at the government medical
colleges and through seats surrendered by self-financing colleges
for students this year.
Three students with a cut-off of
200 topped the merit list for admission which were announced on 17
June. The lower number of centums
this year in Physics in Class XII has
resulted in fewer candidates with a
cut-off of 200 marks. Last year, 17
candidates had a cut-off of 200.
Aadithya Mahesh M V, who studied
in Carmel Girls Higher Secondary
School, Vazhuthacadu in Thiruvananthapuram, but hailing from
Vilavancode in Kanyakumari district
was ranked first. Vignesh V of Ideal
Higher Secondary School, in Bhavani, hailing from Thiruvaiyaru in
Thanjavur district and E J Gnanavel
of Pallipattu in Thiruvallur district,
who studied in Sri Chaitanya Junior
College in Kanuru, Vijayawada, were
the other toppers.
The cut off for admission is calculated based on the percentage of
marks secured by a candidate in Biology (100), Chemistry and Physics
(100). In the event of a tie, candidates
with higher marks in Chemistry get
preference. If many students have
Survivors recall success stories at WIA reunion
NT Bureau
Chennai, 19 June:
Cancer survivors from Adyar Cancer Institute (WIA), gathered and
shared their success stories at the annual reunion event held at the Cancer
Institute’s premises here on Saturday.
Ananthapathmanaban, 51, who
was diagonised with cancer at the
age of 19, said, ‘Thirty three years
have passed since my treatment got
over here, and I am still healthy and
strong’. He said new patients who get
diagonised with cancer should not be
afraid, instead face it with the help of
the doctors in the institute.
‘This is an unique and one of the
most important functions held by WIA.
We like to convey a message to the
country in large that cancer is not only
preventable but also curable. There is
life after cancer, a life worth living’, said
WIA vice-chairman Dr E Hemanth Raj.
The institute chairman Dr V Shanta
was present at the annual event,
Bollywood actress Deepti Naval at a meeting organised by the Duchess
Club at Hotel Savera in Chennai.
‘Like a child I would dream of seeing me on the screen and how the
audience would react.
The emotion on the screen and the
impact that it made on the audience
was the start of my journey as an
actor. Most of the emotions on the
screen are from my mirror training,’
she added.
One Government Dental College - 85 seats
17 Self-financing Private dental
colleges - 1,610 seats
Seats under State quota in private colleges - 970
the same scores then the percentage in the fourth optional subject
is taken into account. When many
candidates are tied at one score even
after this method, weightage is given
to seniority in age, based on the date
of birth. If a tie continues even after
this exercise, the random number
would be used.
According to Selection Secretary
G Selvarajan candidates, who had
not received their call letters, could
download call letters for counselling
from the website www.tnhealth.org.
Even if the call letters are not available,
candidates with the required cut-off, if
eligible could attend counselling.
For more details students can
log into www.tnhealth.org or www.
tn.gov.in.
There is life after cancer
Deepti Naval on life &
her Bollywood journey
NT Bureau
Chennai, June 19:
Deepti Naval is probably the
other name for versatility in Bollywood. She has donned several hats
though she started as off an actress.
She was in Chennai recently to
participate in a meet organised by
the Duchess Club at Hotel Savera
where she spoke on a wide range
of issues.
In conversation with with playwright-cum-director Gowri Ramnarayan and journalist Sushila
Ravindranathan. Deepti, actress,
director, writer, painter and photographer, all rolled into one, spoke
about her Bollywood journey and
experiences in life.
‘I am not a typical heroine. I just
act from the heart, as I haven’t learnt
acting. It is what I do on the sets that
matters,’ she said.
Asked how her journey started,
she said, ‘Actually movies and
screen felt home to me rather than
other things. I returned from the US
and wanted to pursue a career in
acting. I came into the field with no
experience in acting.’
BDS scenario
‘There are no retakes but only a
continuous flow of acting and I have
to cover it and make it up when
something goes wrong on stage.’
chuckled Deepti when questioned
about her stageplays .
Managing director of Savera Hotel Nina Reddy was among those
present at the meet.
R Sangeetha, a fourteen-year-old cancer survivor interacting with Adyar
Cancer Institute chairman Dr V Shanta during the annual reunion in
Chennai on Saturday.
which is being celebrated for the past
29 years. This year the event was
JIPMER to
continue kidney
transplantation
Puducherry, June 19 (PTI):
The Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has renewed the licence granted to centrally sponsored
JIPMER in 2011 to perform kidney
transplantation.
A release from the Head of Department of Nephrology in JIPMER R P
Swaminathan today said an expert
team from the Ministry had inspected
the facilities, infrastructure and other
aspects in the institute for renewal of
licence to continue performance of
the kidney transplantation.
It said the license had now been
renewed and necessary communication in this regard was received by
JIPMER on 15 June after the expert
panel submitted the report to the
Ministry.
The renewed license is valid for the
next five years. JIPMER did the first
kidney transplantation in March 2012
with the organ available from a live
donor. In the next stage it harvested
kidneys from brain dead patients after
a certification by a panel of experts.
The first cadaver kidney transplantation was performed in 2013,
the release said, adding that 84
transplantations had so far been performed this included transplantation
of kidneys from cadaveric donors, the
release said.
celebrated under the theme ‘Cancer
is curable, Cancer is Preventable’.
The institute director Dr T G Sagar
said that cancer is known to mankind
right from 3000 BC. Of the 15 million
diagonised every year globally, 10
lakh cases are registered in India,
he said.
‘Tobacco is the main culprit and
prevention is always the better option
than cure. Tremendous progress has
occurred in the last five decades, as
two out of three patients were curable’, he said.
The chief guest at the function,
writer Siva Sankari asked the diagonised patients and survivors to have
acceptance and face the reality.
‘I really wish to contribute to the
awareness against cancer through
my writings, based on the stories of
these survivors by interacting with
them’, she said.
Later, Sankar gave away medals
and certificates to best outgoing
students from various departments
of the College of Oncology.
SKS launches
Salute Card
Orator Suki Sivam launching the Salute Card and Sri Krishna
Sweets managing director M Murali received the first card at a
function held at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore in Chennai.
NT Bureau
Chennai, June 19:
Sri Krishna Sweets (SKS) has launched Salute Card for customers, where they are entitled to get discounts while purchasing.
According to a press release, well known orator Suki Sivam released the card and SKS managing director M Murali received the
first card at a function held at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore.
The card is issued free of cost to all the customers after submitting their profile. There will be reward schemes and offers from
time to time for the card holders purchasing from all SKS outlets.
By presenting the card, customers earn discount on the current
purchase and an allotment of points that they can be used for
future purchases.
Rogue elephant
captured in Kovai
Coimbatore, June 19 (PTI):
A rogue elephant which had been
creating a menace for the last one
year in Madukkarai forest range here,
killing at least three persons, was
tranquilised and captured early today.
District Forest Officer in charge Periyasamy said the ‘Mission Madukkarai
Maharaj’ operation to translocate the
elephant by tranquilising it officially
began yesterday.
The elephant, which used to visit
Madukkarai area once a week, had
not been seen since June 8, the day
the Principal Chief Conservator of
Forests,ordered its translocation,
bowing to pressure from public, farmers and politicians alike. Periyasamy
said four kumkis (trained and tamed
elephants) had been brought in from
different camps in Tamil Nadu in the
last week to take part in the mission.
The officials initially faced a problem
as the tusker was seen with two other
elephants. However it got separated
from them and was seen moving
around near the military campus
around 2 am this morning.
AIADMK Rajya Sabha member Dr V Maitreyan releasing a book on Sri
Bhagavad Ramanuja’s Sri Bhashyam (Part-I) in Chennai today. Scholar
V S Karunakarachariar Swami received the first copy.
Veteran playback singer P Suseela at the 37th UE Jewellery Expo held
in Chennai recently.
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19 JUNE 2016
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WORLD
Obama bats for gun law
US President Barack
Obama has warned that
horrific mass shooting
incidents like the recent one in Orlando will
continue to occur unless tougher gun control
laws are adopted.
‘We can’t anticipate or catch every single deranged
person that may wish to do harm to his neighbours,
or his friends, or his coworkers, or strangers. But we
can do something about the amount of damage that
they do,’ Obama told reporters.
‘Unfortunately, our politics have conspired to make
it as easy as possible for a terrorist or just a disturbed
individual like those in Aurora and Newtown to buy
extraordinarily powerful weapons - and they can do so
legally,’ Obama said.
Obama along with Vice President Joe Biden met
victims and families of the weekend’s mass shooting
in which a self-radicalised Afghan-origin youth pledging
allegiance to the ISIS killed 49 people in a gay club in
Orlando, Florida. Another 53 were injured during the
shooting that took place in the wee hours of Sunday.
‘This debate needs to change. It’s outgrown the old
political stalemates. The notion that the answer to this
tragedy would be to make sure that more people in a
nightclub are similarly armed to the killer defies common sense. Those who defend the easy accessibility
of assault weapons should meet these families and
explain why that makes sense,’ Obama said. ‘And
if we don’t act, we will keep seeing more massacres
like this - because we’ll be choosing to allow them to
happen. We will have said, we don’t care enough to
do something about it,’ Obama added.
Republican presidential presumptive nominee Donald Trump has said that the casualties could have been
far less if people were allowed to carry guns.
Obama has been seeking tougher gun control laws
that make its difficult for people to purchase such
weapons of mass casualties.
NATION
‘Dead’ jawan returns
home after 7 years
This story of a ‘dead’ Indian Army jawan can become a perfect storyline for a Bollywood film. It is an
unbelievable story of Armyman Dharamveer Singh,
who met with an accident along with two colleagues
in 2009. Though the two Army jawans returned back
to their base camp after the accident, Dharamveer
just disappeared.
As per the norm, the Army declared him dead after
three years. The family was immediately given the
pension and issued a death certificate.
However, to everyone’s surprise, Dharamveer, an
Army jawan who was posted with 66 Armoured Regiment, returned home last week.
As per details available, after Dharamveer met with
an accident, he lost his memory and wandered on the
streets of Haridwar.
PM opens renovated
stadium in Lanka
India strongly believes that its economic growth must bring benefits to
its neighbours, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said as a stadium in Jaffna
renovated by India was jointly inaugurated by him along with Sri Lankan
President Maithripala Sirisena.
While thanking India for its assistance, Sirisena said Lanka was
committed to strengthening bilateral relations even
though there may be wrong understandings and
interpretations at times.
Modi, along with Sirisena, inaugurated the Duraiappah Stadium, named in honour of a former Mayor
of Jaffna late Alfred Thambirajah Duraiappah. The
stadium, in disuse since 1997, has been renovated
by the Indian government at a cost of over Rs.7 crore.
Describing it as a ‘landmark day’, Modi assured Sri
Lanka that India will ‘walk side by side’ with the country as it charts its own path to progress and prosperity
for all its citizens.
DOWN THE WEEKLY LANE
FAITH, FESTIVITY & FERVOUR
CHENNAI
HEALTH Today
Low vitamin D levels linked
to kidney disease in kids
Devotees gathered in large numbers at the famous Aazhi Therottam of Sri Thyagaraja
Swamy temple in Thiruvarur . The chariot festival was conducted after a gap of six
years using a new temple car.
Rajini family
quells rumours
on his health
STATE
There were rumours that were doing
rounds this morning
that actor Rajinikanth,
who is holidaying in
America had developed ill-health and
met with an end.
However much to
the relief of his millions of fans, the actor’s family members,
who are with him in
America immediately
denied the rumours
and said the actor is hale and hearty.
And that he will be back in Chennai in a
couple of weeks.
Fans took to social media condemning
those who spread false news. Within
a couple of hours, a few websites that
carried the news in Sri Lanka tendered
apology.
It may be recalled that Rajinikanth, who
awaits the release of his next Kabali, was
off on a brief holiday to US with his family
a couple of weeks ago.
Having completed a schedule of Shankar’s
magnum opus 2.0, Rajinikanth took a much
needed break to rejuvenate and resume
shooting from July.
Just days after Bollywood filmmaker
Anurag Kashyap fought a legal battle against Censor Board for
his film Udta Punjab,
a couple of directors in Tamil
cinema are following in his footsteps. The
K’town filmmakers have alleged partisan
attitude of the board and said such a
policy will affect the industry as a whole.
And creativity will take a backseat, they
said.
The makers of the movies Saindhadu
and Metro said they were subjected to
agony and anguish before getting their
films certified.
Anandh Krishnan, who helmed Metro
India and the UK on Wednesday
clinched two new key agreements on
solar energy and nano technology as
part of their wider science and technology cooperation.
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Minister for
Science and Technology and Earth
Sciences, met his UK counterpart,
Jo Johnson, here for the fifth IndoUK Science and Innovation Council meeting to establish the India-UK
Networked Centre on Solar Energy.
‘The UK is among the most important countries where we have a very
dynamic engagement. In India, we are taking up renewable energy in a big
way, and in the solar area we will have an even more active engagement
with the UK now’, he said at the Indian High Commission today.
Describing his UK visit as ‘very successful and upbeat’, he elaborated on
the new solar pact as being focused on research projects around micro-grid
systems for connectivity of remote areas.
India will be investing Rs 50
crore over a period of five years in the network, with matching contribution
from Research Council UK under the ‘Newton Bhabha’ program.
The council also announced access to Indian researchers to the Neutron
Scattering facility of the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council
at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxford.
‘Vitamin D levels
are influenced more
strongly by seasonal factors, the
type of disease and
nutritional supplementation than by
common variants
in vitamin D regulating genes,’ said
Doyon.
the
type of disease and nutritional supplementation
than
by common variants in vitamin D
regulating genes,’ said Doyon.
‘Supplementation practices
should be reconsidered and intervention studies are needed to
define guidelines how to monitor
and treat vitamin D deficiency
in children with chronic kidney
disease,’ he said.
The findings were published in
the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
World’s first
1,000-processor microchip
AIADMK holds
exec meet
Filmmakers up in
arms against
Censor Board
India liaises with London
Tamilnadu government will establish Lokayukta
through appropriate enactment, once the proposed amendments to the Lokpal Act are enacted
by the Parliament, Governor K Rosaiah told the
State Assembly.
Delivering his maiden address to the newly
constituted 15th Legislative Assembly, he said,
‘the government is committed to improving transparency in administration, and will establish the
institution of Lokayukta.’
He also said that while working with the Centre
for the overall development of the State, the State
government will continue to insist on fair and adequate sharing of financial resources between the
Centre and the States.
said, ‘It is a story about chain-snatchers set
in a city like Chennai.
CITY
BUSINESS
TN to establish
Lokayukta: Governor
Two-thirds of children with chronic kidney disease were found to be
vitamin D deficient in a new study
that suggests a link between the
two conditions.
Vitamin D deficiency often elicits
no symptoms, but it may increase
the risk of osteoporosis, cancer,
cardiovascular disease, and autoimmune disorders.
Vitamin D deficiency is common
in children with chronic kidney
disease (CKD).
Researchers led by Anke Doyon
and Franz Schaefer from the University of Heidelberg in Germany
looked at how various factors
relate to vitamin D levels in 500
children with CKD who were residing in 12 European countries.
They found that
t w o thirds of the patients
were classified as
vitamin D
deficient.
Patients who took vitamin D
supplements had vitamin D levels
that were 2 times higher than
those who did not take supplements, and they had a lower
prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, researchers said.
They also found that vitamin
D levels were lower for certain
kidney abnormalities, such as
glomerulopathies.
Vitamin D levels were lower in
winter months than at other times
of the year.
‘Vitamin D levels are influenced
more strongly by seasonal factors,
Accusing the Centre of
adopting a lethargic approach on the Cauvery issue, the ruling AIADMK in
Tamilnadu urged the Union
Government to take immediate steps for setting up of
the Cauvery Management
Board and the Cauvery
Water Regulation Committee for implementation of the Final Order of
the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal.
A resolution to this effect was adopted at
the AIADMK’s executive meeting held here.
Party supremo and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa participated in the meeting which was
chaired by AIADMK presidium chairman E
Madhusoodanan and attended by all MPs and
executive members.
The resolution said thanks to the efforts
taken by Jayalalithaa, the final verdict of the
Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal was notified
in the Government Gazette in 2013.
SPORTS
Athletes sad as IAAF
upholds ban on Russia
The IAAF upheld its ban on Russia’s track
and field team for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Friday in a landmark decision that
punishes the world power for systematic
doping.
The Russian Sports Ministry said it was
notified of the decision by track and field’s
world governing body, which ruled that the country had not done enough
to earn reinstatement.
The suspension was imposed in November following a report by a World
Anti-Doping Agency commission that alleged state-sponsored cheating,
corruption and cover-ups in Russian track and field.
The Russian Ministry said it was ‘extremely disappointed’ by the decision to ban the entire team from the Rio Games. It appealed to the IOC to
‘consider the impact that our athletes’ exclusion will have on the dreams
and the people of Russia.’
The International Olympic Committee has scheduled a summit of sports
leaders next Tuesday to address ‘the difficult decision between collective
responsibility and individual justice.’
That meeting could potentially open the door for individual athletes who
have never been accused of doping and are deemed to be clean to compete at the games.
Scientists have designed the
world’s first microchip containing
1,000 independent programmable
processors, that can upto compute
1.78 trillion instructions per second.
The energy-efficient ‘KiloCore’
chip contains 621 million transistors, researchers said.‘To the best
of our knowledge, it is the world’s
first 1,000-processor chip and it is
the highest clockrate processor ever
designed in a university,’ said Bevan
Baas, professor at the University
of California, Davis, who led the
team that designed the chip architecture.
While other multiple-processor
chips have been created, none
exceed about 300 processors, researchers said. Most were created for research purposes and few
are sold commercially.
Each processor core can run
its own small programme independently of the others, which
is a fundamentally more flexible
approach than the Single-Instruction-Multiple-Data approaches
utilised by processors such as
graphics processing unit (GPU).
The idea is to break an application up into many small pieces,
each of which can run in parallel
on different processors, enabling
high throughput with lower energy
use, Baas said.
Since each processor is independently clocked, it can shut itself
down to further save energy when
not needed, said Brent Bohnenstiehl, graduate student at UC
Davis, who developed the principal
architecture.
Cores operate at an average
maximum clock frequency of 1.78
GigaHertz, and
they transfer data
directly to each other rather than using a
pooled memory area
that can become a
bottleneck for data.
The chip is the most energyefficient ‘many-core’ processor
ever reported, Baas said.
For example, the 1,000 processors can execute 115 billion
instructions per second while dissipating only 0.7 Watts, low enough
to be powered by a single AA battery.The KiloCore chip executes
instructions more than 100 times
more efficiently than a modern laptop processor.
Applications
already developed for the chip
include wireless coding/decoding,
video processing, encryption, and
others involving large amounts of
parallel data such as scientific data
applications and data centre record
processing.
The team has completed a compiler and automatic programme
mapping tools for use in programming the chip.
The idea is to break an application
up into many small pieces, each of
which can run in parallel on different processors, enabling high
throughput with lower energy use
Enterprise
CHENNAI
SUNDAY
19 JUNE 2016
5
Rajan’s ‘no’ to 2nd term ‘saddens’ India Inc
q Academia’s gain is RBI’s loss, feel industry leaders
New Delhi, June 19 (PTI):
Top industry leaders said RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan’s decision not
to take a second term will be ‘nation’s
loss’ as he brought economic stability
and enhanced India’s credibility on
the world stage.
India Inc led by Anand Mahindra,
Deepak Parekh, NR Narayana
Murthy, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw,
Mohandas Pai hoped that Rajan’s
successor will continue with the
‘good work’ he did, although industry chambers CII and FICCI
declined to comment. Reacting
to the development, Mahindra
& Mahindra Chairman Anand
Mahindra said he was ‘saddened’
to hear about Rajan’s decision to
opt for academia at the end of his
current term.
‘In my travels around the world
and encounters with leading overases businessmen it became clear
that during his tenure he greatly
enhanced the credibility and bankability of India. I trust that a successor will be found who will continue
and enhance the great work done
by Governor Rajan,’ Mahindra said.
HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh
said: ‘It’s a pity to lose him. I’m wondering what has precipitated
this action by the Governor.
I am sure the government,
at the right time, would have
con-
New Delhi:
Terming RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan’s decision not to seek a second term
as ‘sad’ for the country, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said India is losing one of
the most skillful economic thinkers in the world. ‘We are losing one of the most
skillful financial economic thinkers in the world. It is sad for the country and it is
sad for the government of the country too. RBI is not a completely autonomous
institution,’ Sen told a private TV channel. In an apparent reference to BJP MP
Subramanian Swamy, who attacked Rajan on numerous occasions, Sen said, ‘It
is true that some members of the ruling party, I understand, I have not seen that
but somebody told me, have been sniping at Raghuram Rajan. That certainly is
unfortunate.’ Rajan earlier on Saturday said he will be returning
to academia after completion of his term as RBI Governor
on 4 September.
‘... on due reflection, and after consultation with the
government, I want to share with you that I will be
returning to academia when my term as Governor
ends on 4 September, 2016,’ Rajan said in a message to RBI staf
‘I trust that
a successor will
be found who will
continue and
enhance the great
work done by
Governor Rajan’
sidered
giving him another two years
term as most governors
have got.’
Murthy, who had pitched for at
least two more terms for Rajan,
expressed sadness over the
development and said Rajan
deserved more dignity than what
Award for ANOVA
NT Bureau
Chennai, June 19:
Chennai-based ANOVA Corporate Services headed by Chandrashekar Kupperi, won the first
place under ‘SME Services’ category during the prestigious 13th
National Award for Excellence in
Cost Management, 2015.
A press note said the award was
presented in Delhi by Najib Shah,
Chairman of Central Board of
Excise and Customs. The award
has been given to ANOVA for its
value-added services to senior
management, company boards,
and owners of small and medium
sized companies (SMEs).
The Institute of Cost Accountants of India, a statutory body
under an Act of Parliament,
presents awards for excellence
in cost management to promote
and recognsze Cost Manage-
AMARTYA-SPEAK ON
RBI GUV’S DECISION
ment practices in the Corporate
Sector.
Buy pre-owned bikes online
Droom, an online automobile
transactional marketplace, is
organising ‘Scooter Looter Sale’
from 18 to 21 June. The sale
which can be accessed through
Droom’s web and mobile platforms ‘promises to have the
largest collection of verified and
inspected scooters on sale.’
A press note said over 2800
pre-owned scooters from leading two-wheeler manufacturers
such as Honda, Suzuki, Hero
and TVS will be available for
sale. It is open to users from
over 30 cities across India including major markets such as
Chennai, Delhi/NCR, Mumbai,
Ahmedabad and Jaipur.
Visit www.droom.in/scooterlooter for details on deals.
he was treated with. Similarly,
Biocon Chairperson & Managing
Director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
tweeted: ‘RBI Gov Raghuram Rajan
not seeking second term - Academic
gain, RBI loss. He leaves a legacy
of economic stability.’
Adi Godrej, who had earlier supported Rajan’s second term, declined to comment. Mohandas Pai
said in a tweet that it is a ‘very sad
day for us great talent driven away
by alcontents,cronies...deeply concerned.’ RPG Enterprises chairman
Harsh Goenka tweeted: ‘Globally
acknowledged. Inflation warrior.
Economic guru. Independent mind.
Bank surgeon. #RaghuramRajan
leaving is a loss to the nation.’
Eminent banker Meera Sanyal
tweeted: ‘Academia’s gain is India’s
loss : Gov Rajan to return to Chicago
on Sept 16. Swamy gets his way at
the cost of India.’ Former Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu tweeted:
‘Raghu has been one of the finest
central bank governors anywhere.
Meanwhile, industry body Assocham said the development is not a
good sign for the economy.
‘Rajan leaving is not a good sign for
Indian economy,’ it said in a statement. Rajan leaving RBI at a time of
tumultuous global economy poses
several risks to India, which along
with the banks grappling with mounting non-performing assets, is quite
unfortunate, the statement quoted
Assocham Secretary General D S
Rawat as saying.
Noting that while institutions are
paramount, individuals provide leadership which makes all the difference,
Rawat said Rajan provided a new
dimension to entire approach of the
central bank with a global perspective, yet keeping intact the unique
advantages of the Indian economy
and ecosystem.
Essar Oil looks to double up
Plans to increase number of petrol pumps to 4,300 in 18 months
New Delhi, June 19 (PTI):
Essar Oil, India’s second largest private oil refiner, plans to nearly double
its petrol pumps to 4,300 in next 18
months, a senior company executive
said. ‘We have 2,225 petrol pumps
now which we will increase to 4,300
in next 18 months,’ Essar Oil’s CEO
Retail Madhur Taneja said.
The retail network expansion
planned is on franchise model and
will entail an investment of about Rs
2,500 crore by the pump owners.
‘We were the first private company
to enter fuel retailing business when
we in 2003 opened our first petrol
station,’ he said.
The network was expanded to 1,400
outlets before the expansion was
frozen in 2008-09 in view of private
retailers being unable to compete
with heavily subsidised public sector
oil firms. After diesel price was de-
regulated or freed from government
control in October 2014, the expansion was restarted and network has
reached 2,225 now, he said.
‘We saw sales volume increase from
700,000 kilolitres in 2014-15 to 1.67
million kl in 2015-16 and we hope to
continue to grow at over 100 per cent
this year as well against an industry
growth of 7-7.5 per cent,’ he said.
Essar Oil has a pan-India network
now except for Jammu and Kashmir
and the North East, he said.
Its first petrol pump came up in
Maharashtra about 13 years ago in
2003. Essar Oil was the first private
company to enter petro product
retailing in India at a time when the
government was experimenting with
the idea of deregulated oil pricing by
freeing up the price of ATF.
After a brief spell of deregulated
product pricing, the diesel market
was again regulated in 2004. The
move posed challenges for private
oil companies like Essar.
Through the course of this regulation regime, Essar Oil, in a bid to keep
its retail ambitions alive, provided
financial support to its franchisees
through various schemes, thus helping them in tiding over the difficult
times, he said.
This earned the company the dealers’ trust. In October 2014 when
diesel prices were completely deregulated and private retailers were given
a level playing field with their PSU
counterparts, the company already
had a network of about 1,400 retail
outlets.
PM likely to chair
Booking forex made easy
meet on FDI roadmap
New Delhi, June 19 (PTI):
The Prime Minister’s Office has
convened a meeting on 21 June to
deliberate upon a roadmap for further
easing FDI norms to attract more
foreign investment.
‘Prime Minister Narendra Modi is
likely to chair the meeting in which
officials from Ministries, includ-
ing Commerce and Industry, Finance
and Home Affairs, would participate,’
sources said.
The meeting assumes significance
as the government is considering
relaxing FDI norms in more sectors,
including existing pharmaceutical
companies.
The Department
of Economic Affairs has proposed that FDI
up to 49 per
cent should be
allowed in existing
pharmaceutical companies through the automatic
route and anything beyond through
approval of the Foreign Investment
Promotion Board (FIPB).
FDI in the sector is a contentious
issue as concerns have been raised
over mergers and acquisitions of
Indian pharma companies by foreign
giants.
The Department of Industrial Policy
Mother Dairy eyes
revenue jump
New Delhi, June 19 (PTI):
In order to tap the fast growing ecommerce business in the country,
Mother Dairy has tied up with about
10 e-tailers to sell dairy products, fruits
and vegetables, aiming to boost its
revenue and farmers income.
Mother Dairy, which supplies about
30 lakh litres of milk in the national
capital region, had posted a turnover
of Rs 7,186 crore during last fiscal, out
of which about 75 per cent was from
dairy segment.
‘We are tying up with e-commerce companies like Big Basket
to increase our reach to the customers. We also want to improve
farmers’ income through increased
procurement of milk and fresh
fruits and vegetables,’ Mother
Dairy Managing Director S Nagarajan told PTI.
The company has tied up with
nine e-tailers - Big Basket, Grofers,
AskMe Grocery, Sangam Direct, SRS
Grocery, Just Buy Live, Innerchef,
Grocermax and Orange E-Tokri - for
sale of dairy products, ice-cream and
frozen/fresh fruits and vegetables in
different cities.
‘Mother Dairy is witnessing a
growth of 10 per cent in sales
month-on-month through e-commerce space,’ he said.
Asked whether the company would
launch its own e-commerce platform,
Nagarajan said: ‘We do not want to
enter into that space directly.’
On expected turnover this fiscal,
Nagarajan said it should be close to
Rs 8,000 crore.
As part of the expansion plan, Mother
Dairy is setting up a processing plant in
Ranchi at a cost of Rs 75 crore.
and Promotion (DIPP) has also proposed complete ban of FDI in tobacco
sector. The proposal was supported
by the Finance and Health Ministry
but Niti Aayog has raised certain
issues.
According to sources, the other
sectors which may see some kind of
policy tweaking include single brand
retail and food processing.
Last year, the government relaxed FDI norms in about dozen
sectors at one go including defence, retail and construction
development.
Steps have also been taken
to improve business climate of
the country by promoting ease
of doing business.
FDI in the country has touched
an all time high of $40 billion in
2015-16. Foreign investment
is considered crucial for India,
which needs around $1 trillion
for overhauling its infrastructure
sector such as ports, airports
and highways to boost growth.
NAME CHANGE
I, HASANKDUS, S/o.
ABUTHALIF, Born on
05/05/1968..residing at
O No.13 N No.25, North Mada
Church Street, Royapuram,
Chennai 600 013, shall
henceforth be known as
ASHANKHUDDHOOSE.
HASANKDUS
NAME CHANGE
I, DEEPA KARTHIKAYAN
DHANASEKAR, S/o.
DHANASEKAR, Born on
13/05/1987, residing at No.
9A, Susila Nagar, 1st Street,
S-3, Sri Sastha Homes,
Vengaivasal, Chennai- 600073.
Shall henceforth be known
as DEEPAKARTHIKEYAN
DHANASEKAR
DEEPA KARTHIKAYAN
DHANASEKAR
NT Bureau
Chennai, June 19:
Fxkart.com, India’s largest online aggregator of RBI licensed
foreign exchange dealers, has
been launched in Chennai. In the
current scenario, customers for
their forex requirement have to
call up multiple dealers for their
requirement and goes through a
very hassling process to actually
know the right rate to transact
on. Fxkart.com provides all this
information to the consumer on
a simple dashboard.
‘The application is a one stop
solution for all foreign exchange
needs of the customer and also
provides advisory for the convenience of the consumer through
a chat option. Consumers have
to enter their requirement along
with the city & locality in which
they want forex and instantly the
screen would display all the RBI
licensed money changer’s rates
in and around their locality,’
Krishna Prasad, Business Development Head (West & South)
of Fxkart.com said at a press
meet here.
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can either request for a store
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Also, international tourists have
an option to book it even before
they travel into India and can get
the deal once they land.
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NAME CHANGE
NAME CHANGE
I, DHIRARAM K, S/o.
Thiru Kaluram, born on 2nd
March 1989 (Native district:
Jalore-Rajasthan) residing
at No. 18, Amman Koil
Street, Chennai-600 003,
shall henceforth be known as
DHIRARAM.K.PRAJAPAT.
DHIRARAM.K.
Chennai, 22nd April 2016.
I, MAINAVATHI NATESAN,
W/o. MURUGESAN
RAMASAMY, born on
08/03/1973, residing at B72,
Police Quarters, Ellaiamman
Colony, Muthiah Mudali St
Teynampet, Chennai 600 086,
shall henceforth be known as
MEENA MURUGESAN.
MAINAVATHI NATESAN
Sports
6 SUNDAY
19 JUNE 2016
CHENNAI
Messi stars in
Argentina’s win
Chile pumps in seven goals past
hapless Mexico
Portugal’s star player Cristiano Ronaldo misses a penalty against
Austria in the European Championships on Saturday.
Lionel Messi celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal against
Venezuela.
Austria keeps misfiring
Ronaldo, Portugal at bay
Hungary on top of Group ‘F’ after draw with Iceland
Paris, June 19 (AFP):
Cristiano Ronaldo missed a secondhalf penalty as Portugal stumbled to
a second straight draw at Euro 2016
on Saturday after a frustrating 0-0
stalemate against Group F rivals
Austria in Paris.
Ronaldo set a new Portuguese
record with his 128th international
cap, surpassing the mark previously
shared with Luis Figo, but the occasion will be better remembered for the
Real Madrid superstar hitting the post
with a 79th-minute spot-kick.
Hungary, who salvaged a point in
a 1-1 draw with Iceland, are the surprise group leaders with a game to
play, while Austria must win their final
match to avoid exiting prematurely.
‘This is not the result we wanted.
It’s not fair, it’s not deserved but
that’s football,’ said Portugal coach
Fernando Santos.
‘It’s no use crying over spilt milk, it’s
not the time to have regrets.
‘We have another point and we
have a ‘final’ to play on the 22nd
(against Hungary), we have to focus
on winning the next match.’
Santos sought to reinvigorate his
team after a disappointing 1-1 draw
with Iceland, drafting in Ricardo
Quaresma to form an attacking trident with Ronaldo and Nani.
William Carvalho was handed a
start in central midfield, while Austria coach Marcel Koller made three
changes, two enforced, with Sebastian Prodl, Stefan Ilsanker and Marcel
Sabitzer all coming into the side
beaten 2-0 by Hungary on Tuesday.
Austria showed early signs of promise, much like in their opener against
Hungary, carving out a chance when
a leaping Martin Harnik nodded
Sabitzer’s whipped cross just wide.
But Portugal settled quickly, with
Nani denied his second goal of the
tournament by the outstretched leg
of Austria goalkeeper Robert Almer
after breaking in behind centre-back
Prodl.
Almer tipped a long-range strike
from Vieirinha behind, while Ronaldo
spurned a glorious opportunity to
write his name into the history books
Russian athletes can’t
go to Rio: Minister
Moscow, June 19 (AFP):
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko
admitted on Saturday that the country’s athletes’ Olympic hopes are over
following a decision made by the IAAF
and supported by the IOC.
On Friday, athletics world governing
body the IAAF decided to maintain
the provisional ban, first imposed in
November, against Russian track
and field athletes competing at
August’s Rio Olympics.
On Saturday, the International Olympic
Committee
(IOC) said
it welcomed
t h e
IAAF’s
‘strong
stance
against
doping’.
W
Orld
Results
Portugal drew Austria 0-0
Belgium beat Republic ofIreland 3-0
Iceland drew Hungary 1-1
ToTomorrow’s matches
Russia vs Wales, 12.30 a.m (Tuesday)
England vs Slovakia, 12.30 a.m
(Tuesday)
(All times IST)
on 22 minutes as he steered wide
from Raphael Guerreiro’s cut-back
inside the area.
Portugal remained the dominant
side and nearly reaped their reward
just before the half-hour, only for
Nani’s header from Andre Gomes’
left-wing cross to crash back off the
post with Joao Moutinho drilling the
rebound over.Ronaldo then helped
on a Quaresma header straight at
Almer, but Vieirinha needed to make
an important clearance to keep David
Alaba’s driven free-kick from finding
Harnik at the far post.
Portugal goalkeeper Rui Patricio
Misbah keeps
fans guessing
on future
SPORT
CR7 under fire
Paris, June 19 (AFP):
There was relief for Austria and joy
for those who like to see superstars
cut down to size after Cristiano Ronaldo missed a penalty and a chance
to go into the European Championship record books on Saturday.
Portugal won a spot kick in the
79th minute of their Group F match
against Austria. Goalkeeper Robert
parried away a stinging drive from Ilsanker within seconds of the restart,
although Portugal soon reasserted
their authority with Ronaldo leading the charge.
His thunderous left-footed strike
from the edge of the area was
turned behind by Almer, and the
ensuing corner produced a similar
result with the Austria keeper beating
away Ronaldo’s downward header.
Koller hauled off Alaba on 65 minutes, replacing the Bayern Munich
star with Schalke midfielder Alessandro Schopf, but it failed to stem
the flow of Portuguese attacks.
And with 11 minutes to go it appeared
Portugal would get the goal their display
merited when they were awarded a
penalty after Martin Hinteregger wrestled Ronaldo to the ground. But the
three-time World Player of the Year
was left shaking his head in disbelief
as he smacked the ball against the
base of the post to ensure his wait for
a goal at a record fourth European
Championship finals goes on.
Almer dived the wrong way but
Ronaldo crashed his shot against
the post. The 31-year-old holder
of multiple scoring records looked
to the heavens in disbelief. He just
needs one goal in the tournament to
become the first player to score at
four European Championship finals.
Minutes later Ronaldo got the ball in
the net but was offside.
Hodgson mulls striker
options for Slovakia
Saint-Etienne, June 19 (AFP):
England take on Slovakia tomorrow in the key battle for first
place in Group B at Euro 2016 with Roy Hodgson mulling over
which of his strikers to deploy.Jamie Vardy and Daniel Sturridge
proved their form by coming off the bench to dig England out of
trouble in their 2-1 win over Wales in Lens. England manager Hodgson has an
embarrassment of riches up front, but Harry Kane, who started in the 1-1 draw
against Russia and win over Wales, has struggled to make an impact in France.
Karachi, June 19 (PTI):
Pakistan’s long serving Test captain
Misbah-ul-Haq has put off decision
on his cricketing future even as the
national squad departed yesterday for
a challenging series in England.
‘Right now I am just focusing on the
four Tests in England because if we
want to show everyone our top three
ranking in Test cricket is not based
around our wins in the UAE we need to
put up a good show against England,’
Misbah said in an interview before the
team’s departure.Speculations were
rife that Misbah would make some
sort of announcement about his future
on Friday. Misbah, 42, was compelled
by the PCB last year not too retire
from Test cricket and lead the team
to England and a reliable source said
the Test captain had in fact discussed
his future plans with the PCB officials.
‘He has informed the PCB he will
decide on whether he will continue
to play Test cricket after the series in
England,’ the source said.
Dhoni gives a piece
of mind to youngsters
‘You don’t have to make mistakes to learn’
Foxborough, June 19 (AFP):
Lionel Messi scored a recordequalling 54th international goal
as Argentina outclassed Venezuela
4-1 to book their place in the semifinals of the Copa America Centenario here Saturday.
The Barcelona superstar scored
his fourth goal of the tournament in
the 60th minute at the Gillette Stadium to equal Gabriel Batistuta’s
long-time Argentina international
goalscoring record.
Messi also created a goal for
Gonzalo Higuain, who scored
twice, and second half substitute
Erik Lamela as Argentina set up a
semi-final against the United States
in Houston on Tuesday.
Messi is determined to lead Argentina to their first trophy in 23
years after a series of agonizing
near-misses which include defeats
in the fi nals of last year’s Copa
America and the 2014 World Cup
final.
Few would bet against him achieving his goal after an inspirational
display that left Venezuela chasing
shadows in the early part of Saturday’s quarter-final.
Messi’s genius created the opening goal after eight minutes, with
the playmaker lofting a sublime
curling pass to pick out Higuain’s
run into the area.Napoli forward
Higuain still had plenty to do but
skillfully directed a first time strike
past Venezuela goalkeeper Dani
Hernandez for a wonderful goal.Argentina remained firmly in control but
were jolted in the 27th minute when
Nicolas Gaitan picked up a needless
yellow card for a kick on Alexander
Gonzalez that will see him suspended
for the semi-final.Argentina’s dominance clearly had Venezuela rattled,
and the Vinotinto’s defensive unease
led to the next goal. A slack backpass from Arquimedes Figuera went
straight to Higuain in space, and the
striker coolly rounded Hernandez to
stroke home his second of the night to
make it 2-0 after 29 minutes.
Vargas scores four
In Santa Clara, Eduardo Vargas
scored four goals as holders Chile
sent Mexico spinning to a historic 7-0
defeat to reach the semi-finals.Hoffenheim forward Vargas completed
a hat-trick in 13 devastating minutes
either side of half-time to send Chile
into a semi-final against Colombia in
Chicago on Wednesday.
The drubbing was Mexico’s worst
ever defeat in the finals of a major
tournament. Their previous biggest
loss was a 6-0 rout by West Germany
at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.
The rout was also only one goal
away from equalling Mexico’s heaviest ever defeat in any international,
an 8-0 thrashing by England in London in 1961.
Arjun, Tejasram
steal the show
NT Bureau
Coimbatore, June 19:
Arjun Narendran (Red Rooster Performance) and C S Tejasram
(WSRF) impresed on the opening day of the second round of the
MRF-MMSC FMSCI Indian National Racing Championship at the Kari
Motor Speedway here yesterday.
Arjun made the best use of his home track to finish on top in the
race for the high-end Indian Touring Cars. He snapped out of a slow
start, to take an early lead. Deepak Paul Chinnappa (Race Concepts)
and veteran racer Radha Selvarajan (Rad Racing) were right behind
him. The duo applied the pressure lap after lap, only to crash their
chances midway.
Chennai’s Tejasram survived some anxious moments as well before
pulling off a come-from-behind win in the Rookie Cup (FF1300) race.
Results (provisional): Indian Touring Cars-Race 1 (12 laps):
1. Arjun Narendran (Red Rooster Performance) (14:20.639s); 2. Sivaramakrishnan (Red Rooster Racing) 14:33.050; 3. B Vijayakumar
(Prime Racing) 14:38.360.
Super Stock-Race 1 (12 laps): 1. Deepak Ravikumar (Pvt)
(16:03.958); 2. Raghul Rangasamy (Performance Racing) 16:05.710;
3. Dean Mascarenhas (Race Concepts) 18:903.
Qualifying-Volkswagen Vento Cup: 1. Ishaan Dodhiwala (Hyderabad) 1:10.087; Keith De Souza (Goa) 1:11.018; 3. Karminder Pal Singh
(New Delhi) 1:11.288.
Peter Paul posts win
NT Bureau
Chennai, June 19:
Peter Paul of SRSA defeated Prem of Snook In 62-25, 59-47, 59-2
in the ongoing MHP Rao memorial Open snooker tournament here
yesterday.
Results: Prabhu (MGC) bt Sreedi Sainath (Mr. Q) 60-36, 60-49,
53-14; Srideepadarshan (TNBSA) bt Karthik (Karapakkam) 64-15,
41-61, 44-43, 61-42, 67-23; S A Saleem (MCC) bt Mushtaq (Q-Tricks)
80-11, 54-28, 80-35; S Surendran (EDBSA) bt Saravanan (Snooker
Shot) 65-46, 58-34, 56-25; Balaji Jeu (GNC) bt Pranit Ramachandani
(MCC) 66-40, 68-31,17-78, 69-31; Dilip Kumar (SRSA) bt Anand (Cue
Zone) 67-25, 71-36, 78-8.
Hariharan (TNBSA) bt S Magesh (USA) 18-64, 60-21, 41-64, 4610, 61-25; Kavyabharath bt Kamal (Cue Zone) 52-17, 58-35, 89-46;
Pushparaj (ASCA) bt Surendran (EDBSA) 35-57, 63-25, 60-34, 52-27;
R Loganathan (SIAA) bt Manoj Dasarathan 73(71)-37, 55-27, 70-46;
Vijesh Kiran (Snook City) bt Hassan (SIAA) 57-19, 65-13, 30-66,
70-35; Saranraj (CDBSA) bt Ashwin (TC) 57-29,59-63,49-42,51-42.
Dilip Kumar
M S Dhoni
Harare, June 19 (PTI):
India captain Mahendra
S i n g h
Dhoni hopes
the youngsters in
the squad learn from
their mistakes after a shock
loss to Zimbabwe in the opening T20
International here.
The young Indian batsmen thew their
wickets away at crucial junctures as the
visitors ended up losing the game by two
runs here yesterday.
Dhoni hopes the fresh faces don’t make
the same mistakes in the second game
here tomorrow.
‘I feel, though we lost the game - it is
disappointing - it is still a learning curve for
the youngsters, provided they are learning
out of it,’ said Dhoni. ‘You have to take it in
a serious manner because whenever you
will represent the country, whenever they
get a chance to be part of the proper Indian
team for a consistent period of time, they
will feel the pressure. That will be the time
when a game like this or a tour like this will
really help them ease out that pressure,’
he further said.
The captain himself failed to get his team
over the line as India could not get eight
runs off the final over with pacer Neville
Madziva holding his nerve. He said he
should have completed the job but expected a more sensible approach from
his batsmen.
‘I felt the last ball was brilliant but that is
what my job is, so maybe I am the person
to finish the job. But at the same time, we
kept losing wickets and what happens at
that stage is that you are losing wickets and
you are giving one dot ball and at the same
time, the set batsman is not getting strike.
‘I felt the batsmen will have to take the
responsibility. The reason being, few of
them, they were set, they were batting well.
When you are chasing targets, you need
to take it to the end and then look to play
the shots. That was something that was
lacking in this game,’ Dhoni pointed out.
The second string squad for the tour was
picked in the absence of seniors and Dhoni
said the rookie players must make most of
the opportunity. The skipper said he batted at six to give others more time in the
middle. ‘It is not for me. If I had to bat up,
I could easily bat at four for this team. But
what is important is for these youngsters
to bat at that number because this is an
opportunity for them. The only reason I
am here is to
understand them and at the same time
guide them as to what has
to be done.’ He also said international
cricket is different to IPL and there is little
room for error.
‘Let’s talk about IPL, it doesn’t really matter. You can play your big shots. There is
no pressure of result. You say ‘okay, in 14
games if you play five or six innings, you
will take the team through.
Dilip set to play Indian Open
Dilip Kumar will become the first Tamilnadu player to play in a world
professional ranking snooker tournament when he takes part in the
Indian Open in Hyderabad to be held from 4 July.
A press note said he plays his first match against Pakistan’s Haza
Akbar, a former Asian snooker champion.
Currently ranked number five in India, Dilip has been selected to
represent India in the World Team Snooker Championships, to be
held in Egypt in August.
Dilip, who represents Southern Railways, is now participating in the
Padmashri MHP Rao Memorial Open Snooker Tournament in Chennai.
Selena in last four
S Selena Deepthi made the last four of the youth girls category beating S Kokila in the DRA third State-ranking table tennis on Saturday.
Results: Youth girls (quarterfinals): Selena Deepthi (MVM) bt V S
Kokila (RTTA) 9-11, 11-5, 4-11, 11-7, 11-6; Abinaya Ramesh (GVGTirupur) bt S Shanmathi (MVM) 11-9, 11-3, 4-11, 12-10; V Kowshika
(SSA-ERD) bt S Yashini (MVM) 11-7, 11-8, 11-9; C R Harshavardini
(MVM) bt P Pavithra (AKG) 14-16, 11-6, 11-7, 11-5.
Mixed bag
CHENNAI
UP election: ‘BJP top
brass to decide on CM’
Ahmedabad, June 19 (PTI):
The BJP Parliamentary Board will
take a final decision on whether to
project someone as Chief Ministerial
candidate for the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh scheduled to
be held early next year,
senior party leader and
Home Minister Rajnath
Singh said today.
‘As of now, there is
no discussion at all in
the Parliament Board
(on the issue of Chief
Ministerial candidate in
UP). When the time will
come, the Parliamentary
Board will discuss and decide on it,’
he told PTI.
Rajnath said the party will take a
decision depending on the situation.
When pointed out that BJP got
power in Assam where it had declared a Chief Ministerial candidate
PM wishes Rahul
on his birthday
and lost in Bihar polls where nobody
was projected for the top job, Rajnath said despite not declaring a
Chief Minister candidate, the party
won Maharashtra, Haryana and
Jharkhand.
There has been speculation that the party may
project Rajnath, a former
Chief Minister, as BJP’s
face in Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
Rajnath himself, however, ruled out returning to the State politics
saying there are many
capable leaders who can
be Chief Ministerial candidate.
Asked about his personal opinion
whether the BJP should project
someone as Chief Minister candidate, Rajnath said he will place
his view before the Parliamentary
Board.
SUNDAY
19 JUNE 2016
States not releasing
funds to High Courts
Law Ministry writes to CMs to allot money to purchase hardwares for e-courts project
‘periodical progress in this regard.’
Sadananda, however, did not name
the states which have not released
thae funds.
The issue of failure on part of the
States to provide funds to the High
Courts was flagged during the Joint
Conference of Chief Ministers of
states and Chief Justices of High
Courts held here on 24 April.
The eCourts Integrated Mission
Mode Project is one of the national
eGovernance projects being implemented in High Courts and district/
subordinate courts across India.
The objective of the eCourts project
is to provide designated services to
litigants, lawyers and the judiciary
through information communication
technology enablement of district and
subordinate courts in the country.
According to a note prepared by the
Department of Justice in the Law Ministry, as on 1 March, 2016, more than
95 per cent of the mandated activities
have been completed.
As part of the project, laptops have
been provided to 14,309 judicial
officers. A unified national core application software - Case Information
System (CIS) software - has been
developed and made available for
deployment in all computerised
courts. Entry of data regarding past
cases has been initiated and data in
respect of over 5.5 crore cases are
available online.
I am not a gatecrasher, says Mallya
Rlys to issue fresh
tender for train sets
New Delhi, June 19 (PTI):
The Centre has taken a grim view of
‘some’ States not releasing funds to
their respective High Courts to buy
new hardware for the prestigious ecourts project, with Law Minister D V
Sadananda Gowda asking them to to
do so ‘immediately’.
In a letter to all Chief Ministers,
Sadananda has said Rs 202.23 crore
has been allocated to States to make
it available to High Courts to procure
hardware for the e-courts project.
‘It seems some of the state governments have not made the funds available to high courts...the funds may be
released immediately and adequate
technical manpower may also be
provided for smooth functioning of
the project,’ Sadananda said in his
letter sent this month.
India has 24 High Courts. He has
also urged the Chief Ministers to
take early action and intimate to him
Clarifies that he was invited to attend London event
New Delhi, June 19 (PTI):
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today
wished Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi long and healthy life on
his 46th birthday. ‘Birthday wishes
to the Congress VP, Shri Rahul
Gandhi. May he be blessed with a
long and healthy life,’ Modi said in a
tweet this morning.
In his response, Rahul tweeted
‘Thank you @narendramodi ji for
your kind wishes!’ Modi also greeted
Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi
Singh on his 68th birthday. ‘Greetings
to the CM of Manipur, Shri Okram
Ibobi Singh on his birthday. I pray for
his good health and long life,’ said the
Prime Minister in another tweet.
London, June 19 (PTI):
Vijay Mallya, declared a proclaimed
offender in a money laundering case,
today said he was not a gate crasher,
suggesting that he was invited to the
book launch event here which was
also attended by the Indian High
Commissioner.
Indian High Commissioner Navtej
Sarna’s presence at the event on
Thursday where Mallya was spotted sparked a row following which
External Affairs Ministry yesterday
issued a clarification that Mallya was
not on the list of invitees of the event
organiser.
Never gatecrashed in my life... I am
not a gatecrasher and would never
be one,’ Mallya tweeted today, re-
Centre lends hand to
SC, OBC students
To bear full cost of coaching
for competitive exams
New Delhi, June 19 (PTI):
The entire expenditure incurred by
dalit and backward class students on
coaching for competitive examinations will now be borne by the Union
government, according to the revised
Scheme of Free Coaching for SC and
OBC Students which has done away
with the cap of Rs 20,000.
The Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment has revised the Central sector scheme under which it
will also empanel reputed coaching
institutes to provide good quality
coaching to Scheduled Caste (SC)
and Other Backward Classes (OBC)
candidates.
‘The Central sector scheme of Free
Coaching for SC and OBC students
has been revised in order to provide
good quality coaching to SC and
OBC candidates to enable them appear in competitive examinations and
succeed in obtaining appropriate job
in public or private sector’.
‘Earlier, the maximum ceiling of
7
coaching fee paid to institution per
candidate was Rs 20,000. Now we
will fund the entire expenditure on
coaching,’ said a senior official from
the Ministry.
Under the earlier procedure, Ministry would invite applications from
institutions which offer coaching for
competitive exams. The proposals
were then considered by a committee, which would screen and shortlist
them. ‘Under the revised provisions,
Centre would ask States and UTs to
furnish proposals of at least 5 and
not more than 10 coaching institutes
with proven track record of success.
The proposals for empanelment of
coaching institutions will be considered by a Selection Committee and
recommended for selection based
on their past record of performance’.
‘Reputed institutions having branches in more than one district in a state
will be given preference over stand
alone institutions,’ the official said.
sponding to the claims that he was
not among the invitees.
The MEA had said the High Commissioner left the stage and venue
immediately after making
his comments when he
spotted Mallya in the audience. The event was
organised by the London
School of Economics.
The disgraced business
tycoon, who had walked
in soon after the event
started, tweeted, ‘I
went for my friend
- the author. Sat
quietly with my
daughter and
listened.
Headline
Hillary Clinton’s
daughter blessed
with second baby
Melbourne, June 19:
Chelsea Clinton, who is already a
proud mother to daughter Charlotte,
turned mommy to a new baby boy.
The daughter of US Democratic
presidential candidate
Hillary
Clinton and former
President Bill Clinton, announced
the arrival of newborn son Aidan
Clinton Mezvinsky late Saturday
morning on Twitter,
reports News.com.au re- ports.
In a statement, elated Bill and Hillary said, ‘We are overjoyed to be
grandparents again with the arrival
of our grandson. We are all over the
moon as Chelsea and Marc welcome
Charlotte’s little brother to the world
and grateful for our many blessings.
Chelsea and Aidan are both doing
well and enjoying this very special
time together.’
Chelsea and her husband Marc
Mezvinsky, who tied the knot in
August 2010, revealed in December
that she was due to give birth to a
second child via Twitter, writing ‘Next
summer, Charlotte is going to be a
big sister!’
news and unfounded speculation
followed.’
No evidence, No charge sheet. Before claiming all this should I not
be given a chance to pursue my
legal remedies? Most unfair,
he said.
Social media was in a frenzy
after it emerged that Sarna,
who was one of the special
guests at the event to mark
the launch of socialite
Suhel Seth’s new book,
attended the function
with Mallya in the
audience.
After the uproar
over the issue,
the MEA had said
there were two clear segments to the
16 June event in question - the book
launch by UK Minister Jo Johnson
and discussion at LSE and later a
reception at the High Commission
for select guests.
The list of invitations for the LSE
event was determined by LSE. They
have written to the High Commissioner that Mallya was not on their
list. They have also said that the
event was advertised widely through
social media and attendees were not
required to register in advance.
Maallya was certainly not an invitee
to the reception at the High Commission for which the invitations were
issued by the High Commission, and
was not present,’ the MEA statement
said.
24 dead, 26 missing
in Indonesian floods
Jakarta, June 19:
Flash flooding and landslides in
Indonesia have killed 24 and left
more than two dozen missing,
an official said today, with mud
avalanches burying people inside
their homes.
Torrential rain since Saturday has
triggered serious flooding across
Central Java, with thousands of
homes inundated, said disaster
agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo
Nugroho.
‘Initial data... Shows the impact of
the floods and landslides in Central
Java has caused 24 deaths, with
26 others still missing,’ Sutopo said
in a statement.
Footage aired by local broadcasters showed villagers sitting on their
roofs to escape the rising water,
their cars and homes submerged
in brown water.
Areas prone to landslides in the
densely-populated province were
the worst hit, with drivers swept
off roads and dozens of homes
destroyed by fast-moving walls of
mud, rock and water.
In one district, five people were
buried in their homes as a landslide swept through the village. In
another, nine people were killed
as they tried to clear rubble from
a road.
‘Suddenly a huge landslide struck
the cars and people on the street.
Nine bodies were retrieved,’ Sutopo said in a statement.
Search and rescue crews are
combing villages for the 26 still
missing, Sutopo added. Temporary shelters have been erected
to help those evacuated from the
disaster zone.
Landslides are not uncommon in
Indonesia, a vast tropical archipelago prone to natural disasters
and torrential downpours.
Last month, fifteen students holidaying at a popular tourist spot
in western Indonesia were killed
when a landslide swept through
their camp ground.
New Delhi, June 19 (PTI):
After failing to get any response
from the shortlisted bidders, Indian
Railway is actively mulling going for
a fresh tender with increased stake
and incorporating new conditions
to revive the ambitious train set
project.
In a setback to the Railways’ plans,
none of the five shortlisted bidders
for the Rs 2,500 crore project submitted financial bids last month.
‘We are re-examining the issue
and a decision will be taken shortly
to issue a fresh tender incorporating some changes balancing bidders’ requirement with railways’
interest,’ said a senior official
involved in the project.
Railways had floated a global
tender for procurement -cummaintenance and manufacture of
15 train sets with 315 coaches in
June last year.
Five bidders had qualified for the
initial round in November, including
consortia of CAF and Bombardier;
Hitachi with Ansaldo and Kawasaki; Toshiba with state-run Bharat
Heavy Electricals; Alstom with government -owned Bharat Earth Movers; and Siemens. Their deadline
for bids had been extended twice
in December and February.
‘None of the five bidders submitted their financial quotations by 3
May, the last day of the submission
of the bids. The companies have
asked for increasing the quantum
of work under the tender,’ a senior
Railway Ministry official said. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu had
in his budget speech proposed to
increase the current procurement
by 30 per cent.
Four killed as bike
rams lorry
Ramanathapuram, June 19 (PTI):
Four persons on a motorbike
were killed when their two wheeler
rammed a fish laden lorry at Kombuthi Vilakku near Ervadi in the
district, police said.
The deceased included two teenaged boys, aged 14 and 13.
Police said the four were returning
to their native town from Ervadi last
night when the mishap occurred.
The lorry was on its way to Tuticorin.
‘Hurt’ India eyes fightback
Harare, June 19 (PTI):
Handed a rude shock in the opening game, the Indian youngsters
will have to raise their game in the
second Twenty20 International to
stay afloat in the three-match series
against minnows Zimbabwe, here
tomorrow.
It was the first time that the young
team was tested on the tour and it
faltered on key moments to suffer
an unexpected loss.
Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni
failed to get his team over the line
in the last over but equally culpable
were the batsmen who got out at
key moments after getting starts.
Manish Pandey made a fluent 48
but like debutant Mandeep Singh,
he would have loved to carry on and
take the side through.
With Dhoni at the other end and
India needing eight off the final over,
Axar Patel got out to a loose shot to
make life tougher the visitors.
The second string squad was
picked to test the team’s bench
strength and the youngsters had
the ideal platform to perform in the
back of a resounding series win in
the preceding three ODIs. However,
they wilted under pressure when
challenged for the first time in the
series.
While the batsmen did not show
composure required at the highest
level, the bowlers, who were given
opportunity for the first time on the
tour, disappointed. Credit should
go to Zimbabwe for their performance after
a humiliating loss in ODIs but they
were allowed by the erring Indian
bowlers to post 170.
All-rounder Rishi Dhawan, representing India for the first time since
the Australia tour and making his
T20 International debut, put up an
ordinary effort leaking 42 runs in
four overs.
Pressure was also on pacer Jaydev
Unadkat, who was in India colours
for the fi rst time in almost three
years. Making his debut in the
Zimbabwe's fightback ensured a memorable win in the first T20
and India will be eyeing revenge in tomorrow's second game.
Kulkarni come back to bowl with the
format, Unadkat was not consistent with his line and length and
new ball, pushing Dhawan out of the
paid the price for it. It remains to
eleven too.
be seen whether he gets another
Leggie Yuzvendra Chahal, who impressed in ODIs, also had an off day
game after ending with figures of 0
and he would be aiming to bounce
for 43 or Barinder Sran and Dhawal
back strongly. Ahead of the mustwin game, Dhoni warned his men
to not repeat the same mistakes in
the remaining games.
Though spinner Jayant Yadav was
the only one to not get an opportunity in the 16-man squad, Dhoni
is expected to get back to his full
strength bowling attack.
India did not see the loss coming
after a cakewalk in the ODIs, giving
Zimbabwe a much needed morale
boost to press for another win.
Their captain Graeme
Cremer insisted that
more was expected from
his team, that pulled
itself out of a hole with
an all-round effort.
It looked they were staring another
batting collapse midway into the
innings before Elton Chigumbura
came up with a whirlwind 56 off 24
balls to set up a competitive total.
Zimbabwe batting was an abject
failure in ODIs but in the shortest
format, they showed they had the
resources to put up a fight. The top
order got some form going and so
did the likes of Malcolm Waller in
the middle order.
The bowlers also chipped in with
timely blows with the stand-out
effort coming form 24-year-old
pacer Neville Madziva, who stopped
Dhoni and co from getting eight runs
in the final over.
His last over was praised by Dhoni
himself, albeit raising more
questions on the famous
finishing skills of the Indian
captain.
Taurai Muzarabani and
Chamu Chibhabha also
bowled tidy spells to keep
the Indians under check. The win
was surely a surprise, generating
some excitement in the otherwise
drab contest. Another fighting contest will be welcome but beating a
wounded India could prove to be a
too big a task for the home team.
8 SUNDAY
19 JUNE 2016
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Double delight for
music-lovers
aintunes have scored a medley cover
of two songs, one, a yesteryear hit Palingunaal Oru Maaligai from Vallavan
Oruvan composed by Vedha and another
one, July Maadham from Puthiya Mugam
originally composed by A R Rahman.
Says a press release from the company, ‘We
have taken the core of the original songs and
re-arranged the music to suit to the tastes
of the present generation. The idea behind
the cover was to fuse a really old evergreen
song along with a relatively new hit number,
which would be a pleasing combination and
yet maintain the original flavour.’
‘The cover has been arranged by R. Kumar
Narayanan who is also the founder of Saintunes. Ananth Vaidhyanathan, a Carnatic
musician, voice trainer, has also added value
to the final output through his inputs and
suggestions.’
The vocals have been crooned by Lakshmi Pradeep. Line Production is by K
G Sreenivasan. The song has been programmed by Anish Mohan and R Kumar
Narayanan. Keys played by Anish Mohan.
Violins by Jithin Roshan and sax by Basanth
Muralikrishnan. A music video has also been
made for this song featuring the same artistes
in the studio.
-NT Bureau
Kamal visits
LA theatre
Actor Kamal Haasan, who is
shooting in America for his film
Sabaash Naidu took time off
his busy schedule and visited
Los Angeles Theatre along with
his daughter Sruthi Haasan. He
clicked pictures at the theatre
and tweeted them.
The actor who is playing the
lead in Sabaash Naidu is also
directing the movie after the
original filmmaker T K Rajeev,
took ill.
The film also stars Shruti Haasan, Ramya Krishnan and Manu
Narayan in important roles.
Comedian Brahmanandam is
joining hands for the first time
with Kamal Haasan. Nearly 80
per cent of the film will be shot
in the USA. It is produced by
Kamal Haasan’s Raaj Kamal
International in association with
Lyca Internationals. Music is by
Ilayaraja.
-NT Bureau
Simbu, Yuvan to
team up
A
fter
a huge
delay, came
Simbu-starrer Idhu Namma Aalu.
Meanwhile the actor’s next Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada, directed by Gautham
Menon is nearing completion. The movie has
Manjima Mohan as heroine and scoring music is
Double Oscar and Grammy winner A R Rahman.
Simbu has agreed to work in a film to be directed
by Trisha Illana Nayanthara-fame Adhik Ravichandran and is titled Anbanavan Asaradhavan
Adangathavan. It will be produced by S Michael
Rayappan.
The big news is that music composer Yuvan
Shankar Raja will be handling the musical
score. Yuvan and Simbu worked in films like
Manmadhan and Vallavan.
Yuvan tweeted: ‘Officially Signed #AAA really
happy to be back with @iam_str Ready start
music!!!!!!’
Simbu is playing triple roles in Anbanavan Asaradhavan Adangathavan
opposite three heroines.
-NT Bureau
Niki Garlani
on fast lane
Actress Niki Garlani is taking giant strides in Kollywood. After a good
outing in her last two ventures Kho 2 and Velainu Vandhutta Vellaikaaran,
she is doing nearly half-a-dozen movies in Kollywood.
Says the actress, ‘Shoot for Motta Siva Ketta Siva opposite Lawrence
Raghavendra is almost complete. It was great fun to be part of such a
commercial entertainer’.
She adds that she has signed on the dotted lines to act as heroine for
Vikram Prabhu. It is directed by newbie Ashok, a former associate of
director Lakshman of Romeo Juliet-fame.
The film has an equal mix of thrill, action and entertainment, she adds.
Vikram Prabhu will also be producing the film.
Meanwhile Vikram Prabhu’s Wagah, which has Ranya Rao, Tulasi,
Karunas and Ajay Ratnam, will be released on 12 August.
-NT Bureau
Karunaas turns
music composer
Actor-politician Karunaas, who was recently elected as MLA
from Thiruvadanai,
will be scoring music for a movie titled
Pagiri.
The film deals abouts
‘WhatsApp’ which has
become an integral
part of all smartphone
users. Isakki Karvannan is the director
of the film which as
Prabhu Ranaveeran
and Shravyya in lead
roles.
The highlight of the
movie is that seven
filmmakers act in
the movie. They include Ravi Mariah,
A Venkatesh, Saravana Subbaiah, Marimuthu, T P Gajendran, K Rajan and
Balasekaran, Thiruma Velan and
Supergood Subramani.
‘The film would be very contemporary in its treatment and gives
an insight into how
today’s youths
should lead their love and professional lives’, says the filmmaker.
The film was shot was at Tambaram,
Mudichur and Sriperumbudur. Produced by Lakshmi Creations, the film
is likely to hit the screens next month.
-NT Bureau
(Muthina Kathirikai)
Sundar C show
all the way
M
uthina Kathirikai is the Tamil remake of Biju Menon’s hit Malayalam movie Vellimoonga, and stars director Sundar C and
Poonam Bajwa.
Produced by Avni Cinemax, it is directed by Venkat Raghavan. a
former associate of Sundar. Sathish plays the comedian. The movie
boasts of huge star cast that includes Kiran, Singam Puli and Yogi
Babu. Music is by Siddharth Vipin and cinematography is by Bhanu
Murugan and N B Srikanth is the editor.
Sundar plays an aspiring politician, who along with his men has
fun in life. Though he is middle-aged, he is still a bachelor. He
has the desire to make it big in politics but his accomplices want
him to love a girl and get married first. There comes Poonam
Bajwa. She is much younger to him and happens to be the
daughter of his childhood sweetheart (Kiran).
Sundar keeps things moving and the role does seem to be
apt for him. Poonam Bajwa is cute and bubbly. Comedy actor Sathish, who plays Sundar’s friend and confidant, has a
substantial role.
Music by Siddharth Vipin is adequate while cinematography
by Bhanu Murugan is functional.
The director has made some changes in the story to suit Tamil audience.
With a good technicial team and some hilarious scenes, Muthina Kathirikai
makes for a breezy watch.
-M BHARAT KUMAR
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