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MONDAY 2.11.2015 (EVENING)
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NT Bureau
Chennai, Nov 2:
Fifteen flights that were scheduled
to depart from the Chennai airport
were delayed as the city witnessed
yet another rainy morning today.
As the Chennai Meteorological Centre registered a rainfall of
55.7 mm, fifteen flights including
the ones scheduled to leave for
Madurai, Goa, Kolkatta and Pune
were delayed.
A Coimbatore bound flight which
left today at 6.30 am returned to
Chennai airport as the weather
condition was not suitable for landing in Coimbatore. The flight again
left for the industrial city at 9.50 am.
Srilankan Airline carrying 67 passengers from Colombo and Qatar
Airline flight carrying 294 passengers from Dubai were diverted to
Bangalore as the conditions were
not favourable for landing here.
Both flights reached Chennai after
the weather was clear.
The delay in the flights caused
tense moments at the airport as
there was confusion among the
Two drown
in check dam
Salem, Nov 2 (PTI):
Two persons drowned in a check
dam near Yercaud in the district this
evening, police said.
A group of seven persons, all employed in silver anklet making units,
went to Yercaud for a week-end trip
and were returing here when they
halted at Kuthiraikuthipallam check
dam for a bath.
Two of them drowned in the dam,
police said adding their bodies had
been retrieved.
Couple robbed
Four masked men today robbed
a couple at knife point at their
estate bungalow near here and
decamped with gold jewellery
weighing 20 sovereigns and Rs
two lakh, police said.
The gang members came on two
two-wheelers early morning, tied
up Abdul Khader (70) and his wife,
threatened them with a knife and fled
with the booty.
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WET WEEK IN STORE
Dampener at airport:
15 flights delayed
q Copious showers in city q Coastal districts get 60% of
annual rainfall q Water stagnation less on Chennai roads
NT Bureau
Chennai, Nov 2:
Waterlogging, a common sight during
the monsoons in Chennai, has significantly reduced this year thanks to efforts
by civic officials. Complaints releated to
inundation were reported less from various parts of the city this time.
A civic representative said areas around
Adambakkam and a few places at Nanganallur are completely devoid of stagnation
problems.
‘We have constructed enough stormwater drains in the low-lying areas and
also laid new roads before the onset of
monsoon. So far, there has been no such
complaints from the residents,’ he said.
Meanwhile, met officials have forecast
that rainfall will continue in Chennai for
the coming week as well. Isolated heavy
rain may occur over coastal Tamilnadu
and Puducherry.
As of Sunday evening, the city received
69 mm of rainfall. Coastal districts of the
State got nearly 60 per cent of the annual
passengers as to when their flight
will depart. Also, the airport seemed
to be more than crowded due to the
delay in the flights.
Gate nos 13 and 14 were flooded
with rain water which the authorities
cleared immediately. Normal operations resumed at the airport once
the the weather cleared.
The rain not only stalled the flights
but also the road traffic came to an
halt outside the airport due slow
moving of the vehicles that tried to
avoid the mess that was created
due to rain water and Metro Rail
works.
FREE FLOW
Unlike the past, waterlogging is not seen much on Chennai roads
this time. A scene at Nanganallur First Main Road.
Photo: NIKIL VISWNATH
rainfall and interior districts, about ous schools and colleges in the city
40-50 per cent of the annual rain- today. As news regarding the holiday
broke out late, many college buses
fall during this season.
A holiday was declared for vari- had already picked up the students,
Kamal takes the bull by its horns
q Says ban on jallikattu should be lifted soon
NT Bureau
Chennai, Nov 2
At a time when there is a chorus for
lifting the ban on jallikattu, actor Kamal
Haasan today voiced his support for the
same. Inaugurating a photo exhibition
on the bull taming sport here today, the
actor, said, ‘many today think that this
sport is violent towards animals. But
that is not the case’.
‘In countries like Italy and Spain,
which are famous for bull fights, they
end up killing the animals after the
event. But in jallikattu even a scratch
with pin on the cattle would mean you
are disqualified’.
The actor, who is famous for the jallikattu scene in his controversial film
Virumandi, said, ‘influence of foreign
thoughts should not end up killing
the sport. Big heads should brood
over it and ensure that our culture
FIRST LOOK
Actor Kamal Haasan having a look at a photograph on display at an exhibition on Jallikattu in Chennai today.
Photo: A R JAYAKUMAR
Amaravathi’s TN
connection revealed
q Ancient town, which is new capital of AP, has Tamil traces
SRAVIA SIVARAM
Chennai, Nov 2:
The legendary city of Amaravathi was considered to
be the capital of Indra and
the Devas. Recently, the
historic city of Amaravathi
in the south, known for its
masterpiece sculptures,
was named as the capital
of Andhra Pradesh after its
bifurcation. News Today
travels through the Tamilnadu connection of this city.
Amaravathi sculptures
which were excavated by
the end of the 18th century
by Colin Mackenzie contained several art works
which helped them deduce
the dates and the period in
which they were created.
Most of these sculptures
depict the life of the Buddha and also Bodhisatvas
(previous birth of Buddha).
‘Each and every incident
that unfolded in the city of
Amaravathi was recorded
on Amaravathi marbles
Shah Rukh Khan
turns 50
More is more
ainy days have begun and will continue for some
more days, it seems.
With northeast monsoon active over Tamilnadu and
neighbouring states, rains lashed many parts of south
India even as the weather office has forecast more
rains for tomorrow.
Heavy rains occurred at several places over Tamilnadu between 8.30 p.m yesterday and 5.30 a.m today,
reports said.
In Chennai, the residents were greeted by cloudy
skies with the weathermen predicting heavy showers
in the next 48 hours.
Meanwhile, things don’t seem to be looking very
good for Chennai’s own cricket administrator - N
Srinivasan. Reports suggested that the BCCI during its AGM on 9 November could suggest that
the incumbent president Shashank Manohar could
replace Srinivasan as the ICC chairman. Things
have got difficult for the India Cements honcho
ever since the Supreme Court asked him to step
aside from the BCCI top post in the wake of the
fixing/betting scandal.
An Indian team is in Bali to take steps to bring back
gangster Chhota Rajan from Indonesia. Senior CBI
officials and a legal team is in Indonesia to step up
efforts to ensure that Rajan is brought back to India
at the earliest.
‘The earliest genealogy of
Pallava dynasty had connections
with Amaravathi’
— says R Nagaswamy,
retired Director of Tamilnadu
Archaeology Department
which is a fine grain marble
found only there,’ says R
Nagaswamy, noted archaeologist and retired
Director of Tamilnadu
Archaeology Department.
Romans being invited to
the royal palace of emperor
Ashoka, Buddhist monks
visiting Amaravathi schools
from countries like Burma,
Thailand and Cambodia,
residents of Amaravathi
bidding adieu to the relics of
Buddha while they were being
sent to eight different places
after his death are all inscribed
in the caskets of Amaravathi.
Now comes the most interesting part: the Tamilnadu
connection to Amaravathi.
There is an inscription in
one of the caskets made
in Amaravathi which depicts the Pallava rulers
of Kancheepuram pay-
ing tributes to the ruler of
Amaravathi.
‘This tells us that the earliest
genealogy of Pallava dynasty
had connections with Amaravathi’, says Nagaswamy.
‘Two pillars which were made
out of Amaravathi marbles
are found in the shore temple of Mamallapuram. They
brought it here several years
ago after being awestruck by
its beauty,’ he added.
Recently, news has been
making the rounds that
the Andhra Pradesh government has written to
Tamilnadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, seeking
the transfer of Amaravathi
sculptures now housed in
Egmore Museum, Chennai.
V Balambal, retired professor of History, University of Madras, opined that
preserving masterpieces
from different states would
actually help in promoting
cultural unity. ‘Tamilnadu’s
artefacts are housed in
Bengal, Assam and even
Andhra Pradesh museums. Are we asking them
back? By doing so, the
unity among the States
will be disrupted. It is a
form of respect we show
to their state by preserving their antiquities,’ says
Balambal.
and legacy is continued. One should
understand that it a tourist attraction
and integral part of our tradition and
heritage.’
The photo exhibition showcases
jallikattu in all its glory and bravery
clicked by J Suresh, a renowned
photographer.
Says Suresh,’it is an integral part of
life for the people of Tamilnadu since
the Sangam period. It required the
brave to take on the well-bred bull,
tame it and win the people’s heart.’
‘This is an ancient sport in the
modern era. It is an heritage which
existed from Tamil classical period.
Like many say, there is no cruelty
towards animals. This just a brave
sport.’ said Suresh. The exhibition is
open from 10.30 am and it will be on
till 8 November at Lalit Kala Akademi,
Greams Road, Chennai.
leading to a lot of confusion among
the students and faculty.
However, colleges situated in
Kancheepuram district were functioning, making it difficult for Chennai
students to travel.
‘When all colleges have declared a
holiday, ours will be working. We have
to navigate our way through stagnant
water and traffic and we find it very
difficult,’ says Vaishna, a student of
a college located in Kancheepuram
district, but very close to Chennai.
The rainfall affected some more
parts of the city. A Councillor said
many areas in Valasaravakkam
suffered rainwater stagnation and it
would be a while before the water
recedes.
Students who hail from areas like
Parry’s Corner and Broadway board
their trains from Beach station and
this area is particularly flooded every
year, including this year, making life
tough for them.
DMDK functionary
killed near
Kanchipuram
NT Bureau
Chennai, Nov 2:
A DMDK party functionary was
stoned to death near Kanchipuram
last night.
According to sources, Sangababu
(25), secretary of DMDK’s youth wing
and a resident of Mahalinga Nagar in
Nazarathpet, was in jail for the last eight
months for allegedly murdering his wife.
Police said, he was released on
Saturday and had gone to a bar near
Rangasamy Kulam with his friends
last night, where he was attacked by
unidentified persons. It is said that the
gang crushed his head with a huge
rock, killing him on the spot.
The incident came to light this morning, when people in the area spotted
the body and informed the Vishnu
Kanchi police. Sangababu’s body
was sent to hospital while investigations regarding the motive of the
killing are on.
MONDAY
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20D shows the way
New bus route introduced in Mugappair
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The new bus route ‘20 D’ introduced by Metropolitan
Transport Corporation (MTC) has brought cheers in the
neighbourhood. The bus which runs from Ambattur Industrial
Estate to Thiruverkadu covers Mugappair West, Nolambur
bridge, Ayanambakkam and Vanagaram.
Kavitha, a regular commuter from Mugappair West, is
among the happy lot. ‘Earlier, commuters had to go to Ambattur Industrial Estate or Koyambedu to reach Thiruverkadu.
Now with the new bus route added, people’s stress and time
will greatly be reduced.’ says Kavitha.
‘Many used to hire a taxi or van to reach Thiruverkadu
temple. Now, it is very easy for them, since this bus route is
a shortcut for Thiruverkadu. It will definitely benefit all,’ says
Marimuthu a resident of Nolambur.
‘Moreover, the service helps devotees to go to other
temples in Ayanambakkam and Vanagaram. I think in future
this may be called as Temple Bus’, he adds.
‘There are two buses plying on this route already. But their
frequency was very low. With one more addition, I feel it will
Hanging danger
in Nanganallur
The new service helps devotees
reach temples at Thiruverkadu,
Ayanambakkam and Vanagaram
be huge relief for commuters,’ says Lakshmi Narayanan, a
senior citizen.
While welcoming the move, commuters also demand
increase in the frequency of all the buses and also steps to
remove vehicles parked at various bus stops.
‘We also want encroachments on the Ambattur Industrial
Estate Road along this route be removed. Moreover, many
bus stops are used as parking lots for two wheelers. This too
should be stopped. If these steps are taken, then it would
very helpful for the commuters,’ says Suguna Ramanathan,
a commuter.
- NT Bureau
GOOD & EVIL
Low lying cables at Civil Aviation Colony hamper movement
R
esidents of Civil Aviation Colony,
Nanganallur are forced to walk on
the roads, courtesy the hanging electricity cables at several places.
A connecting road to Nanganallur 100
feet Road and MGR Road, the area has
been facing the problem for a long time.
First Street near Kubera Ganapathy
temple and several main roads have
low-lying cables.
Kannadasan, a resident of the locality,
said, ‘We had reported the issue to the
authorities concerned, but no action has
been taken.’
Those living here are wary even to take
an umbrella as the cables lie so low. An
accident in which a resident suffered
shock few months ago, has created
panic among them.
person who suffered shock spent several lakh of rupees to get back normal,’
said a local vendor.
‘Though the residents are assured of
underground cables, no efforts have
been taken to start the work’, say many.
‘We know it is a time taking process.
What we urge the officials is to at least
the
height of the wires at the
earliest,’ said RajagoR
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palan, a resident.
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The locality is a hosNA
pital and school zone, besides being a major residential area.
Children are worried as they are not
allowed to play on the roads. Efforts
to contact EB officials in this regard
People want the officials to rectify it went in vain.
- NT Bureau
soon, before any mishap occur. ‘The
A street vendor carries various kinds of colourful devil masks that are used to ward off evil at
a stretch in Mugappair.
Photo: M Srinivasan
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for more durable gifts
q Rising health consciousness, one reason
for decline in demand
Learn Rudram
NT Bureau
Chennai, Nov 2:
Sri Sai Seva Chakra will conduct classes on Rudram and
Chamakam on Thursdays at
6.30 am in Om Murugasramam,
Srinivasa Pillai Street, in Sarvapriya
Mahaganapathi temple, Murthy
Street Extension, West Mambalam
on Wednesdays and Fridays
at 3.30 pm and at Guha Apartments, 28, Vivekanandapuram
First Street, West Mambalam on
Sundays at 8 am.
For details, contact 94443 02113 .
Veda classes
Sri Ahobila Math Oriental Higher
Secondary School, 116, KR Koil
Street will conduct free veda
classes everyday between 4.30
and 7 am, 3.30 and 6.30 pm in its
premises.
A press release said, boys aged
eight years and above who have
had upanayanam, are eligible to join
veda adyananam either in Krishna
Yajur or Rig veda.
The students who complete the
saptakanda adyanana course
successfully will be awarded Rs
10,000 and monthly stipends
will be offered to those who are
regular in attendance and score
more than 60 per cent in the veda
monthly tests.
For details, contact 2489 3224.
Art workshop
Forum Art Gallery will conduct
an art appreciation workshop for
children above five years. It will
be held on 7 November (Saturday)
between 11 am to 1.30 pm at 57,
Fifth Street, Padmanabha Nagar,
Adyar.
For details, call 42115596
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Jangiris, badhushas,
laddus and milk cake
no longer seem to
be their cup of tea.
Although these remain
primarily the core of
any festival, several
companies opt for
other stuff’
Neha Neethi
sciousness and change in consumption pattern may have resulted in the
shift in preferences of consumers.
People are more careful about their
health. Some even opt for sugar-free
mithai,’ says Dr Praveen Agarwal, attached to a leading hospital.
‘With a change in the overall lifestyle
of people, there has been a change
in the trends of gifting. People are
giving away cosmetics and other
things which are a little out-of-the-
box for festivals like
Deepavali,’ says Neha
Neethi, who works as a
legal analyst at an MNC
in Ekkaduthangal.
‘People are getting tired of
receiving and gifting sweets.
Moreover, consumer durable
products last longer than traditional
sweets,’ says Diana Raj, HR executive from a private company.
‘Many companies opt for dry
fruits, cookies, chocolates and
other assorted goods like crockery
and gadgets,’ she points out.
But sweet sellers and cooks
who are big names in the catering business continue to mesh
their big-time wedding orders and
make sweets and savouries for
the festival.
CM for long-lasting
solution to fishermen issue
NT Bureau
Chennai, Nov 2:
Taking exception to the latest arrest of six Indian fishermen by the
Sri Lankan Navy, Chief Minister J
Jayalalithaa has again insisted that
ceding of Katchatheevu islet to the
island republic was the root of the
problem and urged the Centre to take
concerted steps to ensure release of
all fishermen from Lankan custody.
‘I have repeatedly and emphatically
brought to your notice Tamilnadu’s
consistent stance about the unconstitutionality of the Indo-Sri Lankan
Agreements of 1974 and 1976 and
the ceding of the Katchatheevu islet,
which is root cause of the problem,’
she told Prime Minister Narendra
Modi in a letter, a copy of
which was
released to
the media
here.
The Indian
fishermen
were being
denied the
right to peaceful fishing in the
traditional waters of the Palk Bay to which
they have a historical claim, she said.
Jayalalithaa recalled that she had
earlier repeatedly taken up the issue
of release of Tamil Nadu fishermen
held by Lankan navy, following which
Colombo had agreed to free 86 of
them, while she had ordered the release of two Lankan fishermen jailed
in Tamilnadu. However, before the 86
fishermen could actually be released,
34 fishermen from Tamilnadu, along
with seven boats, were apprehended
by the Sri Lankan Navy in two separate incidents, she pointed out.
While fishermen of Tamil Nadu were
eagerly awaiting the arrival of their
colleagues, six more of them were
arrested early on Saturday, she said
with regard to the latest incident.
She also called for intervention at
the highest political level to bring
about a lasting solution to this long
pending problem involving the lives
and livelihood of hundreds of thousands of Tamilnadu fishermen.
‘Engineers can opt
for logistics sector’
NT Bureau
Chennai, Nov 2:
Speakers at a seminar on careers in
logistics and shipping industry underscored the potential in the same by
stating that with the former developing
big-time, the talent pool of this country
can consider it as a career option.
Captain V J Pushpakumar, dean
and founder-director of Good Ocean
Maritime, Institute for Logistics-JLT,
Dubai said every year about seven
lakh engineers are produced in India,
and about two lakh MBAs come out
of educational institutions and many
of them remain unemployed. They
can consider career options in the
logistics sector which is currently
estimated to be around $200 billion
Prince of Arcot’s
plea to PM
NT Bureau
Chennai, Nov 2:
Joining the debate on growing
intolerance and disharmony, the
Prince of Arcot, Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali, founder of
Harmony India, an association for communal
amity, secularism and
national unity, appealed
to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to see to it that
secular India, progresses
and develops in many
essential aspects and to put a
permanent stop on growing intolerance and disunity among the
people.
In a press release, he said
steps by Modi to ensure that
secular India, progresses and
develops in many essential
aspects and to put a permanent stop on growing intolerance and disunity among the
people so that the nation can
flourish and attain new heights
of success and prosperity in
MARIAYN JENNIFER
Chennai, Nov 2:
The Deepavali mood has set in
and many shops in the city have
started selling crackers and sweets
as the festival draws near. But
sweetmeat shops see a fall in clientele as people are more health
conscious now and corporates go
in for other kinds of gifts.
The trend of presenting sweet
boxes and greeting friends and dear
ones appears to be fading. Many
sweet stall-owners in the city say
that orders from corporate companies have reduced considerably,
compared to last year.
‘From financial constraints to gifting other novelties, there can be
many reasons for the decline in
orders by companies,’ says Palaniswamy, who runs a popular sweet
shop in Mylapore.
However, shop-owners say orders
by individuals and small businessmen were encouraging. ‘Regular
customers continue to pour in, but
overall sales have dropped with very
less corporate orders,’ he adds.
‘Jangiris, badhushas, laddus and
milk cake no longer seem to be their
cup of tea. Although these remain
primarily the core of any festival,
several companies opt for
other stuff,’ says Palaniswamy.
Anticipating good
business this year,
many shop-owners
had hired a few additional staff. But things
took a different turn as
there were not many
orders.
‘Rising health con-
MONDAY
2 NOVEMBER 2015
its endeavours and command
high respects in the eyes of
the world.
He urged the fellow citizens
ito safeguard peace, harmony,
tolerance and secularism
and to defend democratic values, the constitution and the Rule
o f L a w t o k e ep the nation
healthy at all times.
‘India is a secular state,
not a theocracy. It has no
preferred religion under
the Constitution, which lays
down the equal liberty of conscience and equal rights for all
citizens. This is part of basic
structure of our Constitution and
is non-negotiable,’ he said.
The Nawab emphasised that
Indian law specifically prohibits
the practice of communalism,
the promotion of disharmony,
enmity and ill-will between different religious communities and
the exploitation of religion for
electoral purposes.
in India and is set to grow to become
a $300 billionn industry by 2020, offering bright employment prospects.
Jayashree Krishnan, head, department
of management, St Joseph’s College
of Engineering said logistics is said to
be the backbone of the economy, when
it comes to customer experience, and
the role played by the segment is vital.
Firms like Dominos and Apple have won
admiration due to their good logistics setup which helped them take their products
to the buyers in time, she said.
Krishnaraj, senior manager (Legal
and HR), Kailash Shipping Services
said greater awareness on career
options in logistics segment can help
many more to come forward to seek
employment in it.
Around 500 staff of Indian Bank
took part in a clean-up drive at the
Marina beach on Sunday under the
‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ initiative.
The bank’s Managing Director and
CEO (Additional Charge) Mahesh
Kumar Jain was among those who
participated and said the Bank would
adopt Nochikuppam Colony for
providing support in maintaining
cleanliness as part of CSR activities.
Students shine in
oratorical contest
q Meenakshi Sundararajan College girls bag top prizes
NT Bureau
Chennai, Nov 2:
Lions Club of Central Madras,
District 324-A1 celebrated United
Nations Day and conducted its 45th
year Inter-Collegiate oratorical competition here recently.
A press note said Vijith Niranjana of
Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, spoke on eliminating
corruption and role of youth in building strong India and bagged the first
place. Karthika S of Meenakashi
Sundararajan Engineering College
spoke on ‘How India should plan for
future policy to be energy sufficient’
and won the second place.
Consul General of Japan Seiji Baba
was the chief guest and addressed the
gathering on the origin of United Nations
(on 24 October 1945) and its growth.
Pointing out that its objectives include maintaining international peace
and security, promoting human
rights, fostering social and economic
development, protecting the environ-
ment, and providing humanitarian aid
in cases of famine, natural disaster,
and armed conflict.
He also recalled, his father-in-law,
was a Lion Member. He presented
trophies, silver medals a book, and
certificated to the first three placed
students and participation certificates
and books to all six participants.
Exnora Greater Chennai president,
R Govindaraj and Sarada Vidyalaya
(Usman Road) headmistress R
Meena were the judges.
LINES OF CONTROL
Music contests
NT Bureau
Chennai, Nov 2:
Rotary Club of Nanganallur and Inner Wheel Club of Nanganallur will be
conducting a Carnatic music competition in memory of legendary singer M
S Subbulakshmi on the occasion of
her birth centenary.
The competition which will take
place in November will be held for
three groups of ages between 8-12,
13-20 and 20 above. Professional
singers and graded artists of TV and
AIR are not eligible .
Auditions will held on 14 and 15
November at Jai Gopal Garodia govt
girls school, Nanganallur. Finals will
take place on 29 November at Ranjani hall, Nanganallur.
Last date for registrations is 13
November and to download registrations online log on to www.suryaguesthouse.com
For
details
contact
9444962199/9940123922.
Blend
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2 NOVEMBER 2015
WHAT NEWS TODAY PRINTS IS NEWS THAT COUNTS
Fishing for the Net
‘It’s incredible what people can build, and what love can motivate
us to build,’ Facebook chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg
exclaimed after seeing Taj Mahal ahead of his ‘townhall’ interaction
with IIT-Delhi students. He would also have us believe that the digital
marvel he has built is more out of love than desire for profit. To the
arguably most curious set of students in India, he said he was here
with the goal of connecting the 1.25 billion people of the country.
For that, he reasserted, Internet connectivity was a must, and he
was prepared to offer it for free through some of Facebook’s own
infrastructure as well as tie-ups with telecom companies. Facebook
needs the Internet, and telecom service providers need a compelling
application like Facebook to attract new data consumers. It can be
a perfect marriage, love or not.
For anything given out for free, someone has to pay a price. All
debate about maintaining Net neutrality and giving free access is
anchored around who will pay that price and in what form. It could
be higher costs for the paying Net users or restricted/slower access
to certain websites and services. Neither can be acceptable, and that
is what is making Netizens anxious. Fortunately for the sceptics,
the early experiments with free services have thus far not been very
successful, with very few takers and even less appreciation from
users. The targeted first-time users have been quick to shift to paid
services for reasons of quality. That is free market at work.
Under the circumstances, for now the government only needs to
set certain rules regarding what side-effects free services may not
have, i.e., the paying user should not end up suffering. This will
help avoid imposing any restrictions after services are rolled out.
As for universal access to data, there is an assumption that cost is
the hindrance. The mobile telephony experience suggests otherwise.
When someone benefits from a service, he is prepared to pay for it.
With a bit of monitoring, market forces may well take care of Net
neutrality.
Will Smith @imWilISmith
Trust is the hardest thing to
find and the easiest to lose.
‘Focus on the journey, not the destination.
Joy is found not in finishing an activity
but in doing it.’:)
Anupam Kher @AnupamPkher
Battery-free pacemakers
powered by heart
WASHINGTON:
Scientists are developing nextgeneration battery-free implantable
pacemakers that may be powered by
an unlikely source - the heart itself.
The advancement is based upon
a piezoelectric system that converts
vibrational energy - created inside
the chest by each heartbeat - into
electricity to power the pacemaker.
‘Essentially, we’re creating technology that will
allow pacemakers to be
powered by the very heart
that they are regulating,’
said M Amin Karami, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at
the University at Buffalo School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences,
who is leading the research.
The technology may eliminate the
medical risks, costs and inconvenience of having a battery replacement
every five to 12 years for millions of
people worldwide, researchers said.
About the size of a pocket watch,
pacemakers are implanted under the
skin through an incision in the chest.
Wires, also called leads, connect
the device to the heart and deliver
electrical signals that regulate the
heart’s activity.
The new wireless option does not
require leads because it rests inside
the heart. This removes a potential
point of failure, but the device still
relies on a battery that must be replaced as often as the batteries that
conventional pacemakers use.
The idea of heart-powered pacemakers came
to Karami after doing PhD
work on piezoelectric applications for unmanned
aerial vehicles and bridges. He
wanted to apply that knowledge to
the human body.
The heart was an obvious choice
because of its relative strength and
constant motion. ‘To see the heart
in motion - even an animation - is to
be awestruck. It moves significantly.
In turn, that movement creates energy that we’re just now figuring out
how to harvest,’ said Karami.
Karami initially designed a flat piezoelectric structure for a conventional
pacemaker.
VOICE MAIL
Setting it right
Sir,
Scotland Yard has apologised for the unacceptable actions of some of its
officers during a Sikh protest outside the Indian High Commission last week.
Twenty arrests had been made after hundreds of Sikh protesters clashed
with the Metropolitan Police during a demonstration against the alleged
police brutality on community members in Punjab. One police officer was
taken to hospital with a head injury.
However, there were some reports of the peaceful demonstration turning violent after Met Police officers became heavy-handed with some of the protesters.
An incident occurred where a Met Police officer is seen to take a Nishan Sahib,
a sacred flag, from a protester, snap the stick and throw it to the floor. This is
deeply disrespectful to the Sikh community and is not acceptable.
It also emerged that police had removed kirpans, a ceremonial knife carried by Sikhs, from two protesters following their arrests against the orders
of a senior officer.
A social media group called #SikhLivesMatter draw attention to the acts of
Indian government’s atrocities which often go unnoticed in the mainstream
media.
MANOJ, By email
ADDRESS YOUR LETTERS TO :
The Editor, News Today, 85, Mount Road, Guindy, Chennai - 600 032.
or e-mail to : [email protected] / [email protected]
I
Jab we MET!
ndia is now looking for a dark
cloud in every silver lining as the
fear of a failed monsoon looms large
on the horizon. So much so every
conversation or interaction today has
to somehow involve a reference to the
seemingly failing monsoon.
Example:
Patient: Doctor, I have a constant
ache in the stomach and I feel constipated.
Doctor: Don’t worry, even the rains
are struggling to come out these days.
Anyway, to be safe, we will have an
MRI of your kidney and all those working in the meteorological department.
If need be, we will do a chemotherapy
on the weather bulletin.
Patient calls for an ambulance to get
him out of the hospital so that he can
survive the emergency.
The point is everyone, except perhaps those living in Velachery, is
overcome by tension and tumult that
the rainfall may be deficient this year.
Those living in Velachery, of course,
fear rains because the area basically
submerges if a tap is so much left
unclosed for a few minutes.
Anyway, the importance of weather
forecasting and drought management
techniques in these crucial times
cannot be overstated. That is why we
have chosen to understate them here
by attempting this silly Q and A.
What is the difference between
weather and climate?
This is an often-faced confusion.
But whenever anyone is in doubt
over ‘weather’ or ‘climate’, the trick is
to catch hold of an Indian and point
Indo-Nepal border
point opened
after 40 days
KATHMANDU:
Nepalese police today forcibly removed the agitating protesters from
their sit-in spot on crucial Miteri Bridge
at Indo-Nepal border, opening the Birgunj-Raxaul border point after 40 days.
The protesters initially hurled stones
towards police when the latter started
removing them early this morning.
They were eventually chased away
by police. Some 170 freight trucks
entered into India from Nepal after the
border was opened, The Kathmandu
Post reported. However, no trucks
have entered into Nepal from the
Indian side so far, it added.
Madhesis - who claim to represent
the interests of the Indian-origin
inhabitants of Nepal’s Terai region
(plains) - have been protesting close
to the main Nepal-India trading point
near Raxaul, through which about
70 per cent of bilateral trade is done.
Their agitation has led to a halt
in supply of essential goods, causing acute shortage of fuel in Nepal.
Raxaul customs superintendent Arun
Kumar Rajat said that the trucks
stranded on Indian side will be sent
to Nepal since the border was cleared
since this morning.
A DAY FOR ALL
CHENNAI
a pistol to his head and get him to elevator, no-serial-showing 100-inch
use the word ‘climate’ in a normal TV-mounted wall.
sentence. And whichever way he/she
The point is consumers, by which I
does, it’s wrong.
mean we, are morons. So, it doesn’t
Anyway, the biggest difference be- take much to pass off dark, dim-lit, wavy,
tween weather and climate is climate under-developed images as high-fidelity
is a round-the-year phenomenon while snaps from satellites, which themselves
weather is five-days a week. That’s may or may not be orbiting the earth.
why the Weather Bureau is closed on At any rate, if whatever the Met Dept
weekends.
predicts goes wrong --- trust us, it will
What’s the science behind the --- there is the El Nino.
weather satellites and how are those
So, explain El Nino
satellite images processed?
El Nino, if you are to go by the
The greatest thing about technology, dictionary, ‘is a warm ocean current
even as it breaches new and untouched that flows along the equator from the
frontiers of excellence,
date line and south off
is that the science bethe coast of Ecuador at
hind it continues to be
Christmas time’. This
simple: People can be
immediately makes
K BALAKUMAR
hoodwinked easily in the
matters clear, particuname of technology.
larly the part that when it comes to
Take TVs for example. You bought understanding the real meaning of
the black and white set, and before technical terms the dictionary is of
you could come home and turn it on, no use.
the colour models were flooding the
Experts are prone to pointing fingers
market. And when you could salvage at El Nino at all times of extremism
money to buy them, the wide-screen as practised by the weather. In other
variety began dominating the scene. words, it’s the IS of climate. If the
When you went in for the wide-screen, monsoon plays truant in Pondy, you
the thin-sized, flat-figured ones became can come to the conclusion that the
dominant. And when you were debating monsoon and El Nino have picked up
between Plasma and LCD, and finally yet another fight somewhere over a
took the plunge (if you bought one, the desert or an ocean several thousand
other was the better option), the LED kilometres away.
types were all over like a rash. But
Okay, what’s global warming?
luckily, even before you could react,
When the climate experts feel bored
the 3D varieties arrived and now we with El Nino, they start picking on
have 4K HD curved one. So when you global warming. Nobody knows what
go for it -- eventually you will -- they will it is, but is believed to be the cause
have something like 620K SHD, home- for extremely unnatural phenomenon,
theatre-fixed, fridge-featured, built-in- including Suhel Seth’s hairstyle.
How do experts read a weather
bulletin?
As far as India is concerned, meteorologists follow what is technically
known in the department as the TwoPoint Formula, which is:
Point 1: If you can identify the contours of the Indian map in the satellite
picture, the country enjoys some
weather that you need not be unduly
worried about.
Point 2: If some part of India is not
visible it means: either the monsoon
is active over there or the satellite has
not sent any picture and you’re merely
looking at a blank board.
But remember, weather listings this is the beauty of precise science
- are subject to plenty of last minute
changes. For a more accurate reading of the weather in your place, you
are generally requested to follow the
fundamental scientific procedure of
stretching your hand out the window.
This simple chart will help you get a
better idea on how to gauge the weather
outside when you put your arm out:
Hand gets wet: It’s raining.
Hand gets cut: You’re travelling in a
train, moron.
What if the monsoon picks up
and your exaggerated fears are unfounded?
The great thing about humour columns is they don’t have to contain
any truth. The only other thing that
enjoys such a privilege is, of course,
weather bulletins.
e-mail the writer at
[email protected]
(Courtesy: Talk Media)
Men in action
Leaders of S Korea, Japan come to the table
SEOUL:
South Korean President Park Geunhye and Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe held their first formal
bilateral talks on Monday since both
leaders took office, seeking to move
beyond a bitter wartime history that
has haunted ties between two of
Washington’s key Asian allies.
The meeting is a diplomatic plus for
Abe, who had sought two-way talks
with Park amid a push by the United
States for Japan and South Korea to
improve relations in the face of an
increasingly assertive China.
The Asian neighbours have struggled to find common ground over
Japan’s 1910-1945 colonisation of
Korea, particularly the issue of ‘comfort women’, as the mostly Koreans
forced into prostitution at Japanese
wartime military brothels are euphemistically known in Japan.
‘I hope today’s summit will heal the
bitter history in a broad sense and be
a sincere one and an important opportunity to develop the two countries’
relationship,’ Park told Abe at the start
C
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a business summit
attended by South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Chinese Premier
Li Keqiang in Seoul.
of the talks, the first formal meeting
between the two since Abe took office
in late 2012 and Park in early 2013,
according to a transcript released by
her office.
Abe told Park he wanted to work
with her ‘to build a new future of forward-looking Japan-Korea relations’
and an exchange of honest opinions
by the leaders was needed.
Park said in an interview with
Japan’s Asahi Shimbun daily last
week that resolving the ‘comfort
women’ issue was central to better
ties with Japan. South Korea says
Japanese leaders have repeatedly
failed to properly atone for wartime
atrocities.
Japan, which says the issue of
compensation for ‘comfort women’
was legally settled by their 1965
diplomatic treaty and that it stands
by a 1993 government apology,
worries that even if it takes fresh
steps, South Korea will decline to
bring the issue to a close.
L ICK
PIC
Children cheering after recieving prize for their tableau at the 60th Kannada Rajyotsava Celebrations in Chikmagalur. In the other photograph,
a woman wears a ‘Catrina’ costume to commemorate Day of the Dead, a holiday that honors the deceased, in Mexico City.
Mathematician behind
Google doodle
Google search engine decided to
honour the Englishman’s 200th birthday with an algebraic reimaging of its
Google doodle.
George Boole was a mathematician, logician and philosopher whose
legacy of Boolean logic is credited ics, logic and probability provided
with laying the foundations for the the essential groundwork for modern
information age.
mathematics, microelectronic engiAccording to GeorgeBoole.com, a neering and computer science.’
University College Cork website dediBorn 200 years ago on 2 November,
cated to him, ‘his legacy surrounds his algebraic approach to logic, in which
us everywhere, in the
all values are reduced to
computers, information NEWS MAKER either ‘true’ or ‘false’, is still
of the day used today.
storage and retrieval,
electronic circuits and
He also devised a type of
controls that support life, learning and linguistic algebra, now known as Boolean
communications in the 21st century
algebra, the three most basic operations
‘His pivotal advances in mathemat- of which are ‘and’, ‘or’ and ‘not’.
George Boole
In layman’s terms his theory of logic
is premised on predicting what happens for each of these binary states.
A largely self-taught child prodigy,
Boole never attended university
and was forced to leave school at
16 years old after his father’s shoe
business collapsed.
Turkey returns to
single-party rule
after election
ANKARA:
Turks woke to a country once again
under the sole control of President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and
Development Party, which swept
back into power in a surprise election win seen as a crucial test for the
troubled nation.
The AKP party founded by the
divisive strongman, who has dominated Turkish politics for more than
a decade, won 49.4 per cent of
the vote to secure 316 seats in the
550-member parliament with nearly
all votes counted, easily enough to
form a government on its own.
The result is huge personal victory
for 61-year-old Erdogan, who may
now be able to secure enough support for his controversial ambitions to
expand his role into a powerful USstyle executive presidency.
Enterprise
CHENNAI
Hero skips its ‘dhadkan’
q Motor world mourns Munjal’s death
NT Bureau / Agencies
Chennai / New Delhi Nov 2:
Tributes have been pouring from
industry honchos on Hero MotoCorp patriarch and doyen of Indian
two-wheeler industry, Brijmohan
Lall Munjal, who passed away
Sunday evening after a brief illness.
He was 92.
Munjal passed away at a private
hospital in South Delhi, according
to family sources. He is survived by
three sons and one daughter.
Munjal had retired from active role
and become chairman emeritus of the
over $4-billion group earlier this year
and remained on the board of the
company as non-executive member.
The Hero Group, which officially
came into existence in 1956, had
started its activities in the early
1940s as a bicycle-maker run by
the four brothers.
Munjal was born in 1923 at Kamalia in present-day Pakistan. After
India’s independence, the Munjal
brothers started a small business of
manufacturing bicycle components
in Ludhiana and went on to build
one of the largest business groups
Committee to review
drug pricing policy
formed
New Delhi, Nov 2 (PTI):
The government has formed an interministerial committee to review the Drug
Price Control Order (DPCO) 2013, following the Supreme Court verdict this
year that termed the drug pricing policy
as irrational and unreasonable.
According to sources, the committee
will look into the drug pricing mechanism
as there have been complaints that the
companies are making significant profits
which go up to few thousand per cent.
In July this year, while hearing the
petition of NGO All India Drug Action
Network, the Supreme Court had
observed that the centre was fixing
maximum price of a medicine above
the retail price of the leading company.
went on to become the world’s
single-largest motorcycle maker. The
partnership ended in 2011.
Munjal was among the earliest
Indian industrialists to effectively
implement (Just-in-Time) JIT as
well as backward integration and
is acknowledged as the trend-setter
in the area.
Since early days, he ran the organisation with a sharp focus on
current asset management, which
helped evolve vendor efficiency
and zero-inventory management
practices at Hero.
Beside Hero Group, Munjal held
leadership positions in many national associations such as CII,
SIAM, AICMA and PHD and had
served as a member of the Regional
Board of Reserve Bank of India.
He was conferred with the ‘Padma
Bhushan’ in 2005 in recognition of
his contribution in the field of trade
and industry.
NT Bureau / PTI
Chennai, Nov 2:
The month of October saw a fairly
profitable season for the auto industry, with major players reporting
healthy profits. Mahindra & Mahindra
noted a 20 per cent surge in total
sales at 51,383 vehicles in October,
mainly of account of good demand
for its recently launched TUV300.
It had sold 42,780 vehicles in the
same month last year, the company
said in a statement. In the domestic
market, sales were up by 21 per cent
to 48,815 units last month as against
40,278 units in October 2014.
Exports were up three per cent at
2,568 vehicles as against 2,502 units
in the same period a year ago.
Commercial vehicle sales increased
31 per cent to 18,756 units last month
against 14,345 units in the year-ago
period, M&M said.
‘We are happy with our performance during October 2015, which has
witnessed a positive growth of 20 per
cent backed by excellent response
garnered from the recently launched
TUV300 as well as other brands such
as XUV500, Scorpio, Bolero and
pickups’, M&M chief executive (Automotive Division) Pravin Shah said.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor too reported
that it sold 13,601 units in October
2015 against 12,556 units in the
same month last year.
Chennai, Nov 2:
Even as we celebrate India’s reported increase in brand value, News Today takes a look at the associated factors.
LONG JUMP
DECODING CALCULUS
The country moved up one
position to become the world’s
seventh most valued ‘nation
brand’, with an increase of 32
per cent in its brand value to
$2.1 billion
Brand Finance measures the strength and value of the nation brands of
100 leading countries using a method based on the royalty relief mechanism employed to value the world’s largest companies.
The valuation is based on five year forecasts of sales of all brands in
each nation and follows a complex process. The Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) is used as a proxy for total revenues.
THE BIG THREE
DOWN, BUT NOT OUT
US ANGLE
Only three Asian nations China, India and South Korea
- figure among the top 20 most
valuable nation brands
Even as China has maintained its
second position, it has lost one per
cent of its value over a year to $6.3
trillion in 2015.
US, which is on top, remains
a powerful brand with an inviting business climate. ‘Its
value comes in large part from
the country’s sheer economic
scale. The US’ world-leading
higher education system and
the soft power arising from its
dominance of the music and
entertainment industries are
significant contributors too’,
the report said.
TRICKLE DOWN EFFECT
WEF to host
‘National
Strategy Day’
New Delhi, Nov 2 (PTI):
Geneva-based World Economic
Forum (WEF) will host its annual
India summit this week in the national capital, which is expected to
be attended by top policy-makers
including Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley and several corporate
leaders, among others.
The nearly 300 participants for
the event, titled ‘National Strategy
Day on India’, would also include
Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, Urban Development
Minister Venkaiah Naidu, Minister
of State for Finance Jayant Sinha,
Power Minister Piyush Goyal and
Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal.
Chief Ministers of Maharashtra,
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Devendra Fadnavis, N Chandrababu Naidu and K Chandrashekar
Rao, respectively -- would also be
present along with a host of business leaders including ICICI Bank
chief Chanda Kochhar,
New Delhi, Nov 2 (PTI):
Moody’s Investors Service today upgraded its outlook for India’s banking
system to ‘stable’ from ‘negative’ on
expectation that a gradual improvement in the operating environment for
lenders will lead to lesser growth in
bad loans in future.
Moody’s had assigned a negative
outlook to the Indian banking system
in November 2011 as it was of the
view that the asset quality of the lenders was deteriorating.
‘The stable outlook on India’s
banking system over the next 1218 months reflects our expectation
that the banks’ gradually improving
operating environment will result in
a slower pace of additions to loans
problem, leading to more stable
impaired loan ratios’, Moody’s VP &
senior credit officer Srikanth Vadlamani said.
In the report titled ‘Banking System
Outlook India: Gradual Improvement
in Operating Environment Drives
Stable Outlook’, Moody’s said the
stable outlook is based on Moody’s
assessment of five drivers -- improv-
The recent crisis faced by automaker
Volkswagen has not only affected Germany’s brand value but also cost it its
position as the world’s strongest nation
brand. In addition to a four per cent erosion in brand value to $4.2 trillion, it has
been replaced in the order by Singapore.
MTS to merge
with Reliance
NT Bureau / Agencies
Chennai, Nov 2:
Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL)
is set to merge with Anil Ambani-led
Reliance Communications.
According to reports, Sistema
shall hold 10 per cent of RCom’s
fully diluted equity capital.
It may be noted that RCom has
been in talks with Sistema Shyam
since June to merge the latter’s
Indian operations with itself. SSTL
provides data services in India
under the MTS brand to 10 million
subscribers across 450 towns.
Yesterday, Rcom informed the
Bombay Stock Exchange, that a
meeting of the Board of Directors
of the company will be held to consider a scheme of arrangement for
demerger of the telecom business
undertaking of Sistema Shyam
Teleservices Ltd. into the company.
With the deal finalised today,
the validity of the RCom spectrum
would be extended by 12 years.
‘The proposed merger will be highly
value-accretive for RCom, as it will,
in eight important circles, extend the
validity of the 850-MHz spectrum by
a significantly long period of 12 years,
all the way up to 2033’, Anil Ambani
said at the company’s annual general
meeting on 30 September. As part
of the stock swap deal negotiated,
Sistema would get a stake of 8-10 per
cent in the merged entity, while RCom
would hold controlling stake.
The combined entity will have about
120 million subscribers, making it the
fourth largest telecom operator in
India, after Airtel, Vodafone and Idea.
MTS India operates in nine circles
- Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala,
Kolkata, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (West) and West Bengal.
RCom has operations across 22
circles.
‘With the festive season on, we
have seen a growth of nine per cent
in our sales from January to October
2015 when compared to the same
period last year’, TKM director and
senior VP (Sales and Marketing) N
Raja said in a statement here.
The company sold 12,403 units in
the domestic market and exported
1,198 units in October 2015, he said.
TKM also registered a cumulative
growth of nine per cent by selling
1,19,095 units in the domestic market
from January to October 2015 as
compared to 1,08,863 units sold from
January to October 2014, Raja said.
Continuing its strong sales momentum, niche bike maker Royal Enfield
Manufacturing
sector growth
slips
NT Bureau
India’s ‘Incredible India’ slogan, has worked wonders for
tourism promotion, and has also
enhanced the nation’s overall
image in global eyes.
STATUS:
STABLE
q Moody’s ups Indian banking sector’s outlook
ing operating environment, stable
asset risk and capital, stable funding
and liquidity.
Also stable profitability and efficiency and the government support
has supported a stable outlook for the
sector, it said adding the recovery in
the asset quality wouldbe U-shaped
rather than V-shaped, because corporate balance sheets remain highly
leveraged.
On the operating environment,
Moody’s expects that India will record
the GDP growth of around 7.5 per
cent in 2015 and 2016.
‘Growth has been supported by low
inflation and the gradual implementation of structural reforms. An accom-
modative monetary policy should
support the growth environment’, the
report said.
As for asset risk and capital, Moody’s
said that asset quality will stabilise. In
particular, while the banks’ stock of
non-performing loans may continue
to rise, the pace of new impaired loan
formation in the current financial year
ending March 2016 will be lower than
the levels seen in the past four years.
Moody’s, however, said the capital
levels of public sector (PSU) banks
are low and the government’s announcement of injecting Rs 70,000
crore into PSU banks over the next
four years is ‘clear positive’.
‘But this amount is still short of
the banks’ overall capital requirements. Ability to access equity
capital markets remains key if the
PSU banks have to address their
capital shortfall’, it said, adding high
capital levels are a credit strength of
the private-sector banks.
As for funding and liquidity, these
factors are credit strengths for Indian
banks because retail deposits are
their primary source of funding.
‘Auto’ber reins in profits
INDIA ON TOP
JAI HO
5
q Backs government reforms for recovery
Munjal led the
Hero Group to a
number of firsts
Brijmohan Lall Munjal
in the country.
Munjal led the Hero Group to a
number of firsts. Hero MotoCorp
is the world’s largest two-wheeler
company now for the 14th year in a
row. Another group firm, Hero Cycles,
has been the largest manufacturer of
bicycles since 1986.
Munjal led the Hero group to form
a joint venture with Japan’s Honda in
1984, the joint venture — Hero Honda,
MONDAY
2 NOVEMBER 2015
New Delhi, Nov 2 (PTI):
India’s manufacturing sector
growth slipped further and touched a
22-month low in October largely due
to a slower increase in new orders,
but firms hired additional workers,
a Nikkei survey said today.
The Nikkei India Manufacturing PMI
-- a composite monthly indicator of
manufacturing performance -- stood
at 50.7 in October, down from 51.2
in September, reflecting a weaker
improvement in business conditions
across the sector. A figure above
50 represents expansion while one
below that means contraction.
‘PMI data for October show a further
loss of growth momentum across the
Indian manufacturing economy, with
a slower rise in new business inflows
resulting in a weaker expansion of
output’, Pollyanna De Lima, economist
at Markit and author of the report, said.
Despite the slowdown in new order
growth, manufacturers recruited
additional workers in October. Employment rose for the first time since
January, although only marginally.
‘Undeterred by tough economic conditions overall, firms took extra staff in
October. This, combined with a further
drop in inventories of finished goods,
suggests that production growth may
rebound in coming months’, Lima added.
Big bale theory
Coimbatore, Nov 2 (PTI):
With domestic trade estimating
cotton production at around 400
lakh bales, India is expected to
emerge as the largest cotton producer in the world in 2015-16.
Cotton output in all major producing countries in the year, barring
India, has been anticipated to be
lower than the previous season.
As a result, China has had to
vacate its place as the largest
producer of cotton to India, according to sources in Southern
India Mills’ Association (SIMA),
the apex body of spinners in the
Southern Region.
Quoting reports of United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA),
the sources said global cotton production during 2015-16 has been
estimated at 23.68 million tonnes,
8.6 per cent lower than previous
season production of 25.90 million
tonnes.
Cotton production in China and
the US has been estimated to be
lower by 13.3 and 17.7 per cent,
respectively, than that in the previous production.
posted 73 per cent surge in total sales
at 44,138 units in October 2015 compared to the same month last year.
‘We have been continuing our
strong sales momentum and performance in 2015. The company
has posted sales of 44,138 units in
combined domestic wholesale and
exports in October 2015, recording
a growth of 73 per cent over same
period last year’, the company said
in a statement here.
Meanwhile, Tata Motors reported
one per cent growth in total sales
at 43,486 vehicles for October 2015
compared to 42,862 units in the same
month of last year.
Domestic sales of its commercial
and passenger vehicles, however,
were flat at 38,917 units in the month.
Its exports rose by 13 per cent to
4,569 units in October this year from
4,059vehicles in October 2014, the
company said in a statement.
In the passenger vehicle segment,
Tata Motors recorded 11 per cent
year-on-year growth at 12,798 units
in the month under review, compared
to 11,511 units, it said.
In commercial vehicles, medium
and heavy vehicles sales rose by 20
per cent to 12,504 units. The Light
and Small Commercial Vehicle sales
however continued to reflect industry
and declined 19 per cent to 13,615
units, the statement said.
Medical tourism
industry on a high
New Delhi, Nov 2 (PTI):
As healthcare turns costlier in developed countries, India’s medical
tourism market is expected to more
than double in size from $3 billion at
present to around $8 billion by 2020,
a report says.
According to a CII-Grant
Thornton white paper,
cost is a major driver
for nearly 80 per cent
of medical tourists
across the globe. The
cost-consciousness
factor and availability of
accredited facilities have led
to emergence of several global
medical tourism corridors- Singapore,
Thailand, India, Malaysia, Taiwan,
Mexico and Costa Rica.
‘Amongst these corridors of health,
India has the second largest number
of accredited facilities (after Thailand). The Indian Medical Tourism
market is expected to grow from its
current size of $3 billion to $7-8 billion by 2020’, Grant Thornton India’s
national managing partner Vishesh C
Chandiok said.
Bangladesh and Afghanistan dominate the Indian Medical Value Travel
(MVT) with 34 per cent share.
Africa, GCC and CIS regions
(whose current share is just 30 per
cent) present the maximum possible
opportunity for the Indian healthcare
sector. Medical tourists from these
sectors currently favour the South
East Asian medical corridors.
Chennai, Mumbai, AP and NCR are
the most favoured medical tourism destinations for the floating
medical population who
avail treatments in India. ‘While the number
of MVTs itself is poised
to grow at over 20 per
cent CAGR, Kerala needs
to focus on its visibility as
a healthcare destination amongst
other States’, said the report. Kerala
attracts only five per cent of such
medical tourists currently and has
the potential to increase its share
to a 10-12 per cent with a focused
marketing strategy.
As per the study, the key factor to
drive medical value tourism in Kerala
will be availability of national as well
as globally accredited facilities across
the entire state, an area where Kerala
lags behind in comparison to Tamilnadu, Maharashtra, NCR and Andhra
Pradesh.
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6 MONDAY
2 NOVEMBER 2015
Sports
CHENNAI
We’re on cloud nine: Sania & Hingis
Singapore, Nov 2:
Swiss veteran Martina Hingis and
India’s Sania Mirza crowned a stunning year for their partnership on
Sunday by winning their ninth title at
the WTA Finals in Singapore.
‘To play in tournaments like this is
what we’ve fought all our lives for
and it’s incredible to play in front of a
packed stadium,’ said Sania.
‘We feel very fortunate. We’ve done
some amazing things together and
it’s the perfect way to end the year for
us... We’re on cloud nine,’ she added.
The duo, crowned the best doubles team of the year on Saturday,
thrashed the Spanish pair of Garbine
Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro
to clinch the WTA Finals women’s
doubles trophy.
The top seeds, who joined forces
only in March, beat Spain’s eighth
seeds Garbine Muguruza and Carla
Suarez Navarro 6-0, 6-3 in 66 minutes, much of which looked more like
an exhibition match than a season
finale. The lopsided summit clash
Their Collection
KCR hails Sania
The nine tournaments won by Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis in the
year 2015:
Indian Wells Masters, Miami Open: Family Circle Cup; Wimbledon; US
Open; Guangzhou International Open; Wuhan Open; China Open and
WTA Finals
Hyderabad:
Telangana Chief Minister K
Chandrasekhar Rao congratulated tennis star Sania Mirza for
winning the WTA Finals doubles
title along with her
Swiss partner Martina Hingis.
‘Winning nine titles in a year
is a remarkable feat,’ an official
statement quoted Rao as saying.
The Chief Minister expressed
hope that Sania will win more
tournaments in future and bring
laurels to the country and Telangana State.
sealed the utter domination of the
Indo-Swiss pair on court this year.
Before this, Sania and Martina
had won eight titles (Indian Wells,
Miami, Charleston, Wimbledon,
US Open, Guangzhou, Wuhan and
Beijing) and finished runner-up just
once (Rome - falling to WTA Rising
Stars Timea Babos and Kristina
Mladenovic).
Sania and Martina are now unbeaten in 22 matches, stretching
back six tournaments. In fact,
since their last defeat -- to Chan
Hao-Ching and Chan Yung-Jan in
Cincinnati -- they have dropped just
two sets.
‘I feel like it was a perfect day,’
Rosberg trumps Hamilton
to win Mexican GP
Mexico City, Nov 2:
Nico Rosberg put his Texas blues
behind him on Sunday to win the
first Mexican Grand Prix in 23 years
and show triple world champion Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton
how it feels to finish second.
The German’s fourth victory of the
year, and 12th of his career, ended
Hamilton’s three-race winning streak
a week after the Briton secured his
third title. On a sunny afternoon, with
the 135,000-strong crowd creating a
party atmosphere, the Briton was left feeling sore after questioning a team instruction to pit for fresh tyres after Rosberg had already done so.
The German, whose late mistake in Austin handed Hamilton the victory that
clinched the title, led cleanly away from pole position and finished 1.9 seconds
ahead after also setting the fastest lap. It was Mercedes’ 10th one-two in 17 races.
‘This is really the best podium of the year, what a place to win,’ said Rosberg,
addressing a cheering mass of more than 100,000 from a podium overlooking
the stadium complex.
Hingis said. ‘Sania just played out
of her mind - she was everywhere
today, getting everything back and
playing incredible tennis.’
Mirza said ‘everything, on court,
off court’ is working for the pair, who
end the year as the world number
one women’s doubles team.
‘These are the moments we’ve
worked all our lives for and we feel
very fortunate together. We’ve done
some amazing things this year so
it’s a perfect way to, you know, end
the year for us,’ she added.
This triumph is especially huge for
Martina as the trophy was her 50th
WTA doubles title, a milestone only
15 players have reached (Martina
Navratilova, Rosie Casals, Pam
Shriver, Billie Jean King, Natasha
Zvereva, Lisa Raymond, Jana
Novotna, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario,
Gigi Fernandez, Helena Sukova,
Larisa Neiland, Cara Black, Rennae Stubbs, Wendy Turnbull and
Liezel Huber.
Djokovic keen to
resume domination
World No.1 chases 10th title of season
Confident Federer eyes another Masters trophy
Novak Djokovic
Team MRF wins
China Rally
NT Bureau
Chennai, Nov 2:
Team MRF’s Pontius Tideman
and Emil Axelsson roared to a commanding win at the China Rally in
Longyou on Sunday. In the most
adverse of track conditions the
team had the best times on all 13
stages as they dominated the field
comprehensively to win with ease.
A press note said Tidemand/Axelsson drove to victory in their red
Skoda Fabia R5 on approximately
230 kilometres of muddy gravel
tracks and slippery concrete streets.
‘This rally demanded everything
from us once again and showed
what a fantastic set to tyres we
had, that mastered the toughest of
terrains,’ said Tidemand delighted
with the perfect end to the season.
‘Two such important wins in Spain
and China within a week - Emil and
I didn’t dare dream of that. Winning
the title in the APRC is our highlight
and a big thanks to the whole team.’
Team MRF’s Pontus Tidemand
and his navigator Emil Axelsson
are to be crowned champions in the
drivers’ and co-drivers’ standings of
the APRC. MRF Skoda will also be
honoured as winners of the manufacturers’ standings of the APRC for
the fourth time in a row.
Paris, Nov 2:
Novak Djokovic carries a 10-match
winning streak into the Paris Masters,
that begins on Monday for the final
event of the ATP season, with the
83 (Pradeep 22) bt AVM Rajeshwari
78 (Daniel 38); AVM Rajeshwari 60
(Daniel 26) bt Santhome 58 (Mukhil
Raj 15); Velammal 78 (Suraj 29) bt
MCTM 75 (Hariram 48); AVM 89
(Daniel 43) bt MCTM 87 (Hariram 57).
Girls: St Joseph’s, Perambur 69
(Ishwarya 35) bt Saradha Vidhyalaya, Salem 65 (Gaythri 18); Sarada
vidhyalaya, Salem 53 (Pavithra 18)
bt Santhome, Chennai 31 (Deepika
10); St Joseph’s Chennai 58 (Monisha 22 ) bt Alvernia 34 (Gayathri 10);
St Joseph’s 62 (Monisha kumari 18)
bt Santhome 35 (Keerthana 20);
Chess: In the chess competition,
Jeyakumar and Balanagi of Velammal MHSS won the boys and girls
champion respectively in the Higher
Secondary School section. In the
under 7th category Prahalathavardhan of Modern Senior Secondary
School and Yasika (NSN Matric)
secured first place in the boys and
girls section respectively.
The St Joseph’s team which won the basketball event for boys in the
Jeppiaar Trophy inter-school tournaments.
world number one riding a wave of
form which has lifted him to a record
year.
The Serb has not lost at the Bercy
Arena since going down to American
Sam Querrey in the second round
three years ago when he was also
dealing with a family health crisis.
Since then, Djokovic has claimed
the last two titles, beating Canadian
Milos Raonic in the final a year ago
and Spaniard David Ferrer in 2013.
With another undefeated autumn
run in China now in the record
books, there seems to be no limits
to the confidence of the top man in
the sport this season.
‘I haven’t lost a match, the last couple years during the indoor season,’
said Djokovic in the Paris run-up.
‘I’ve played only Paris and London
(year-end finals) for the last couple
years. But still the perfect record
that I have in these two tournaments allows me to believe that I
can do well.
‘I’m not thinking about being unbeaten till the rest of the year. But,
yes, that’s an option. It’s a possibility. But I’ll still try to keep the kind
Lanka pips WI
in rain-hit ODI
St Joseph’s school,
Velammal annex titles
NT Bureau
Chennai, Nov 2:
Velammal boys and St Joseph’s
girls won the Jeppiaar Trophy in the
inaugural inter-school State-level
basketball tournament, conducted
by Jeppiaar Institute of Technology,
Sriperumpudur.
In the boys finals, Velammal overcame stiff challenge from AVM
Rajeshwari boys and won by five
points difference. In the same manner, St Joseph’s, Perambur defeated
Sarada Vidyalaya, Salem for the
girls title.
Raj Satyan of TNBA gave away the
prizes in the presence of N Marie
Wilson, managing director, Jeppiaar
Institute of Technology.
Daniel of AVM School won the
MVP Award in the boys section while
Gayathri won the prize in the girls
category. They were awarded cups
and Rs five thousand each.
League results: Boys: Velammal
Martina Hingis & Sania Mirza
Federer
‘savours’ special
win over Nadal
Basel, Nov 2:
Roger Federer mastered Rafael
Nadal in their first meeting in almost
two years to win the Swiss Indoors
final 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 on Sunday.
The top-seeded Federer ended
a five-match losing streak against
Nadal, including the last time they
played for a title in May 2013.
‘It was a very special day,’ said Federer, who won his hometown event
for the seventh time. ‘Probably it was
my best victory here in Basel.’
With the match finely poised in the
deciding set, Federer hit a series of
ground strokes for winners and broke
Nadal’s serve for a 5-3 lead.
Federer created his second match
point by meeting Nadal’s hard forehand with a backhand volley winner at
the net, and clinched it when Nadal’s
service return flew long.
‘I lost but I was close to winning,
very close,’ said Nadal, who still has
a 23-11 career hold over Federer,
including 14-7 in tournament finals.
The Swiss Indoors, where Federer
was once a ball boy, is now the fifth
tour event he was won at least seven
times. He has eight titles at the Wimbledon warm-up tournament in Halle,
Germany.
Colombo, Nov 2 (AFP):
Tillakaratne Dilshan smashed 59 off
32 balls as Sri Lanka edged past the
West Indies by one wicket in the raincurtailed first one-day international in
Colombo yesterday.
Set a Duckworth-Lewis target of
163 in 26 overs, the hosts survived
anxious moments before winning
with seven balls to spare at the Premadasa stadium to grab the lead in
the three-match series.
Dilshan hit six boundaries and three
sixes before Sri Lanka floundered
while chasing the revised target after
the West Indies, sent in to bat, had
scored 159 for 8 in their 26 overs.
The hosts, cruising at 104 for 2,
lost seven wickets for 48 runs before
tailender Ajantha Mendis hit the
winning six off Johnson Charles in
the company of last man Suranga
Lakmal.
The start of the day-night match was
delayed by an hour and 20 minutes due
to persistent rain. Further bad weather
during the West Indies innings reduced
the game to 26 overs-a-side.
Sri Lanka swept the preceding Test
series 2-0. The second one-dayer
will be played at the same venue on
Wednesday.
of a philosophy and approach where
the next match matters.’
All 16 seeds in the field receive
first-round byes, with number two
Scot Andy Murray playing for the
first time since losing badly in the
Shanghai semi-finals last month
against Djokovic.
Murray is concentrating on Britain’s historic Davis Cup final against
Belgium, later in the month, as he
worries about how to make the
switch from indoor hardcourt to clay.
The British number one says he
intends to play the World Tour Finals
in London despite the fact he must
switch surfaces within a week.
There were reports the 28-year-old
would skip the eight-man season
finale at London’s O2 Arena from
15-22 November in order to adjust
to the indoor clay surface set to be
used in Ghent when Britain chase
a first Davis Cup since 1936 from
27-29 November.
Habas hails team
effort after ending
losing streak
Mumbai, Nov 2:
Atletico de Kolkata broke their
three-match losing streak in the
2015 Hero Indian Super League
(ISL) on Sunday evening when they
beat hosts Mumbai City FC 4-1 at
the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. Canadian striker Iain Hume
was the architect of the win as he
scored a hat-trick but head coach
Antonio Lopez Habas credited the
entire team.
‘We don’t have any magical players. We have to be confident with
all our players. The whole team was
fantastic. Right from the keeper to
the forward,’ Habas told reporters
after the game.
A star-studded affair
Teammates, Bollywood celebs attend Bhajji’s reception
New Delhi, Nov 2 (PTI):
A host of celebrities from Bollywood,
Team India cricketers, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and several politicians graced the high-profile wedding
reception of off-spinner Harbhajan
Singh at a posh city hotel here yesterday.
Among the first to arrive at the
venue were former India captain
and Harbhajan’s one-time teammate
Anil Kumble and his wife and former
Punjab Director General of Police
KPS Gill, who also served as President of the banned Indian Hockey
Federation.
Also present at the reception were Indian cricketers M S Dhoni, Murali Vijay,
Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane
and his wife, Ravichandran Ashwin
and his father, Team India Director Ravi
Shastri and Indian Premier League
Commissioner and Congress MP Rajeev Shukla and his wife.
Besides out-of-favour Yuvraj Singh
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the wedding reception of cricketer Harbhajan Singh and Geeta Basra in New Delhi.
and India Test captain Virat Kohli,
Bollywood celebrities like Amitabh
Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra were on the guest list.
In fact, Yuvraj has taken a break
from his Ranji Trophy duties with
his State side, Punjab to attend Harbhajan’s reception at the capital.
Just-retired Virender Sehwag also
graced the occasion.
Mixed Bag
CHENNAI
CM announces
solatium
NT Bureau
Chennai, Nov 2:
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today
announced
a solatium
of Rs three
lakh each
to the families of seven
persons who
died in different incidents recently.
In a statement here, Jayalalithaa said the amount was granted
to the kin of Ranganathan,
Krishnan and Aarumugam who
died due to electrocution. While
Easwaran, Rafael, Tharasivan
and Aarumugam were killed in
wild elephants attack
Expressing her deep condolences to the bereaved family
members, Jayalalithaa said the
money has been allotted under
the Chief Minister’s Public Relief
Fund and Forest department.
Manohar in; Srini out
BCCI chief to take TN strongman’s place at ICC
Purnea/New Delhi, Nov 2:
Prime Minister Narandra Modi on
Monday criticized the Congress for
it’s campaign against rising intolerance in the country, reminding it that
its own hands were far from clean.
‘Do you remember what happened
in Delhi on 2 November, 1984?
Sikhs were killed. There were serious
charges against Congress leaders,’
Modi said at a rally in Purnea in Bihar,
referring to the 1984 riots against
Sikhs, in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination.
‘It’s ironic that the Congress is now
talking about tolerance’ he said.
PM Modi is not communal, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed says Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president
Rahul Gandhi are expected to meet
President Pranab Mukherjee this week
to bring his attention towards growing
intolerance in the country.
The two top leaders along with senior leaders and MPs are expected to
tell the President about their growing
concern over the issue (of intolerance) and urge him to advice the government to act firmly, sources said.
New Delhi, Nov 2:
When the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) meets in Mumbai
on 9 November, it is likely to set some
major changes in motion.
According to a report, N Srinivasan
will be replaced by board president
Shashank Manohar as ICC chairman,
while the likes of Sunil Gavaskar,
Ravi Shastri and L Sivaramakrishnan
are set to lose their commentary
roles, as board officials meet at the
AGM next week.
‘After Jagmohan Dalmiya’s death
and the change at the top, equations within the BCCI have changed.
The secretary Anurag Thakur and
president Manohar now enjoy the
numbers. Of late, the secretary and
president haven’t been happy with the
way Srinivasan has been representing BCCI at the ICC.’
There has been talk that there was
a difference of opinion between the
ICC chairman and the BCCI’s top officials about the venues of the World
T20 Championship in India next year.
Srinivasan became the first ICC chairman after the 2014 revamp of the
world body, with a two-year term,
but it’s the prerogative of the cricket
board to decide its representative. If
Manohar’s name is accepted by all
members, which seems a formality,
the new board president will serve
as the ICC chairman till June 2016.
In case Srinivasan is withdrawn from
the ICC, the Chennai administrator
will cease to be a significant player in
Indian cricket affairs for the first time
in a decade.
Srinivasan became the first ICC
Indian team reaches Bali to bring back gangster
Indonesian authorities for 55-year-old
Rajan’s return to face trial in various
criminal cases registered against him.
Rajan was nabbed at Bali airport on
What really
happened at Dadri?
Violence not for beef-eating,
but stealing calf
Slain Akhlak had links with IS?
Lucknow, Nov 2:
The killing of 50-year-old man, Mohammad Akhlaq, who was beaten to
death and his 22-year-old son severely injured in Dadri recently, has created a lot of controversy.
There seem to be new revelations with reports in the local media saying
that Akhlaq was killed in the melee when he was accused of stealing calf
belonging to one Rahul Yadav.
Moreover, the media reported that it was an incident that was given a
communal colour as a Muslim had died.
That is not all, the reports said that Akhlaq had often travelled to Pakistan
but none had noticed. Also, it is alleged that he had links with the dreaded
IS, which is now striking fear in the middle-east. Also, Akhlaq had recently
purchased a car.
It may be noted that there was reports in the media that Akhlaq was
allegedly attacked by residents of Bisara village, after rumours spread in
the area about the family storing and consuming beef.
his arrival from Australia on 25 October.
On Sunday, First Secretary (Consular) Sanjeev Kumar Agrawal at
the Indian embassy in Jakarta met
Rajan for nearly half-an-hour at the
detention centre, sources said. This
is for the first time an Indian official
met him in prison.
Agrawal flew to Bali from Jakarta
and drove straight to the police centre
for his meeting with Rajan.
The consular access to Rajan
comes two days after the Indonesian
police submitted a report to the Indian
Embassy about Rajan’s detention.
Don’t return
awards, talk to
PM: Rajnath
Varanasi, Nov 2:
Amidst the row over claims of rising intolerance in the country, Home
Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday
asked artistes and intellectuals to
come and meet Narendra Modi to
suggest ways to resolve the crisis
even as he wondered why the NDA
government and the Prime Minister
were being targeted over the issue.
On a day when writers and artistes
vehemently denied that Congress
and Leftists were behind the protest
that has seen several of them return
their State-conferred honours, Rajnath Singh also said that ‘returning
awards is not the right thing.’
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the event, Rajnath Singh
also said that the NDA government
will not function not on the basis of
caste or religion but humanity and
justice.
Dibakar returned
award he didn’t own
Production house says award was for film
New Delhi, Nov 2:
‘What right does Dibakar Bannerji
have to return the National award?
Khosla Ka Ghosla is not just his film.
All of us, Vinay Pathak, Ranveer
Shorey and I slogged our asses off
in the sultry June heat of Delhi to
shoot the film. And only I know what
all I went through to somehow get the
film completed and released because
Dibakar fell out with the producer. And
now Dibakar wants to be hero for the
freedom of expression in this country
by returning his National award?
Dibakar didn’t see his freedom being
thwarted when he wasn’t allowed to
complete his first film?’ sneers an
angry Anupam who thinks it’s a fad
to return awards, and it will soon die
down.
Anupam is not alone. For, Savita
Raj Hiremath, the producer of
Dibakar’s directorial debut Khosla
Ka Ghosla, has criticised the filmmaker’s decision to return the National Award for the film, saying he
was desperate for media attention.
Dibakar and nine other filmmakers
returned their National Awards on
28 October to express solidarity with
7
Don’t lecture us
on tolerance:
Modi to Cong
Chhota Rajan’s
homecoming
Bali, Nov 2:
Underworld don Chhota Rajan’s deportation process got underway today
after an Indian team arrived here to
work out the formalities.
A report said that Rajan may be
deported as early as on Wednesday.
The Indian team, which arrived in Indonesia on Sunday, is led by Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Earlier,
an Indian diplomat met Rajan at a
police detention centre in Bali.
The visit of the joint team of CBI and
Mumbai and Delhi police officers comes
two days after India wrote a letter to the
MONDAY
2 NOVEMBER 2015
Savita Raj Hiremath, the producer of
Dibakar’s directorial debut Khosla Ka
Ghosla, has criticised the filmmaker’s
decision to return the National Award for
the film, saying he was desperate for
media attention
the agitating
FTII students
and protest
against the
growing instances of
intolerance in
the country.
Khosla Ka
Ghosla won
the National
Award for Best Feature Film (Hindi)
in 2006. Savita said Dibakar has no
right to return the award as it is not
his personal honour but a recognition of the team behind the film.
‘I am very hurt that my film has
got involved in this controversy.
Dibakar has no right to return the
award because this award is not his.
It is given for the film that includes
everyone actors, producer. How
can he return the award? He should
have spoken to me before making a
decision,’ Savita told PTI.
The producer does not think that
Dibakar’s decision is politically motivated but feels the director wanted
to get some media attention for
his latest production Titli, which
released this Friday.
‘I don’t think his decision is motivated by politics. Dibakar is a good
soul. But there are other ways to
protest too. It is very clear that he
is trying to get media space for his
film which has just released. He is
desperate.’
chairman after the 2014 revamp of
the world body, with a two-year term,
but it’s the prerogative of the cricket
board to decide its representative.
If Manohar’s name is accepted by all
members, which seems a formality,
the new board president will serve
as the ICC chairman till June 2016.
In case Srinivasan is withdrawn from
the ICC, the Chennai administrator
will cease to be a significant player in
Indian cricket affairs for the first time
in a decade.
‘This could end the Srinivasan era,
for now. But in BCCI, things can always change,’ said a board official.
BCCI is considering the option of
reverting back to its previous policy
of allowing broadcasters to select
commentators.
The Indian board has also done away
with its legal team and is set to hire a
firm to look into their court cases.
Besides, the IPL governing council,
which is likely to meet on 8 November, is expected to look into the tender
process to invite two new teams for
the next two years to replace Chennai
Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals,
which have been suspended for alleged violation of norms.
It may be noted that Shashank
Manohar, who began his second
innings as BCCI president followng
the demise of Jagmohan Dalmiya,
has been a fierce critic of Srinivasan.
The current ICC chairman (Srinivasan) has been the subject of
Manohar’s scathing scorn and he
had insisted that his (Srinivasan’s)
‘autocratic behaviour’ had tarnished
the Board’s image gravely.
To eat or not?
Debate over consumption of processed meat
Indians at lesser risk of cancer as they
prefer fresh meat
NT Bureau
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an agency of
the World Health Organisation (WHO), has stated in a study that processed
meat is carcinogenic to humans and its consumption can cause colorectal
cancer. Experts concluded that each 50-gram portion of processed meat
eaten daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 18 per cent. A lowdown on the report.
What is processed meat?
Any meat that is transformed through
salting, curing, fermentation, smoking,
or other processes to enhance flavour or
improve preservation. Most processed
meats contain pork or beef, but processed
meats may also contain other red meat,
poultry, offal, or meat by-products such
as blood. Examples of processed meat
include hot dogs (Frankfurters), ham,
sausages, corned beef, and biltong or beef jerky as well as canned meat
and meat-based preparations and sauces.
And, for Indians?
The association between cancer and red meat was
observed mainly for colorectal cancer, but associations were also seen for pancreatic cancer
and prostate cancer.
‘For an individual, the risk of developing
colorectal cancer because of their consumption of processed meat remains small, but this
risk increases with the amount of meat consumed,’
said Kurt Straif, head of the IARC Monographs Programme. Many
national health recommendations advise people to limit intake of
processed meat and red meat, which are linked to increased risks
of cancer and other heart diseases.
However, experts say that the threat is rather low for Indians as
majority of the people still rely on fresh meat, cooked in conventional ways.
Haem iron is the arterial component of meat. It can also
contain chemicals that form
during meat processing or cooking. For instance, carcinogenic
chemicals that form during meat
processing include N-nitroso
compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Cooking
of red meat or processed meat
also produces heterocyclic aromatic amines as well as other
chemicals including polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons, which
are also found in other foods
and in air pollution. Some of
these chemicals are known or
suspected carcinogens. Cooking at high temperatures or
with the food in direct contact
with a flame or a hot surface,
as in barbecuing or pan-frying,
produces more of certain types
of carcinogenic chemicals, it is
reported.
IYKOT HITECH TOOLROOM LIMITED
TN derails
Railways for
crucial win
New Delhi, Nov 2 (PTI):
Former champions Tamilnadu posted a crucial eightwicket win over Railways in
a Group ‘B’ Ranji Trophy
encounter at the Karnail
Singh stadium here today.
Resuming at the overnight score of 200 for 4,
Railways lost top-scorer
Cheluvaraj for 88 to the
bowling of Rahil Shah,
who got four wickets for
the visitors. Cheluvraj’s
exit sparked a collapse as
the home side was bowled
out for 240 in the second
innings, leaving Tamilnadu
to score 77 for a win.
Tamilnadu skipper Abhinav Mukund fell early
in the chase but Dinesh
Karthik and B Aparajith
took the team close before
the former fell for a wellmade 43. Aparajith and
Vijay Shankar took the
team past the winning line
and ensured that the side
got six points.
Earlier on Sunday, fast
bowler A Aswin Crist registered the best bowling figures of his first class career
to help Tamilnadu enforce
follow-on on Railways on
the third day.
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50
Meenakshi
is back
Shah Rukh Khan
turns
R
emember Meenakshi of Karuppasamy Kuthagaikarar. She acted in few films and disappeared without
any trace. Now she is back in Kollywood. she tested
water playing a cameo as Parthiban’s wife in Nanum
Rowdy Thaan.
Now she is playing the female lead in Nermugam. The
movie is directed by Murali Krishna and stars a newcomer
Rafi in lead role. Playing the heroines are Meenakshi and
Meera Nandhan.
It is about seven couples who venture to forest and
the challenges they face. Produced by Hitech Pictures,
the movie has cinematography by Jagadeesh Viswam.
— NT Bureau
q Thanks fans for their love
q Promises aplenty on bg screen
B
ollywood biggie Shah Rukh
Khan, who has a string
of hits from Baazigar to
Chennai Express over a career
spanning 27 years, turned 50
today and expressed gratitude to
his millions of fans.
To wish the actor on his milestone birthday, his fans started
gathering outside his bungalow
‘Mannat’ since the wee hours.
Shah Rukh came out to greet
them and later took to Facebook
to say that he is humbled by the
love showered on him by his
admirers.
Right now so humbled by the attention and love being given to my
Birthday. Didn’t ever realise living
will be so beautiful. Thanks all, an
emotional SRK posted.
On his 50th birthday, Shah Rukh
took to social media to unveil
the second teaser of his muchawaited film Fan, which provides
a glimpse of Gaurav, the biggest
fan of the biggest movie star.
Today as I turn 50 I turn 25
again- for all the years of love
you have given me, I give you my
most heartfelt creation. Gaurav
the FAN. You and I are a Belief!
?#?IAmGaurav? and meet me
here, SRK posted alongside a
link of the teaser of the Maneesh
Sharma-directed film.
Shah Rukh made humble beginnings on the small screen, featuring in shows like Fauji, Circus and
others. After having a successful
stint on television he turned towards Bollywood with Deewana.
Initially he played anti-hero parts
in films like Baazigar, Darr, Anjaan
and also appeared in comedy,
drama and romantic films.
Though he has acted in films
across genres but he came to be
known as the King of Romance,
who mesmerised everyone with
his charm in films like Dilwale
Dulhania Le Jayenge, Mohabattein, Kuch Kuch Hota Hain, Dil
To Pagal Hai and Rab Ne Bana
Raji, Meenakshi in
Nermugam
Di Jodi among others.
His second stint on TV was when
he replaced megastar Amitabh Bachchan for a season as the host of Kaun
Banega Crorepati in 2007. A year later,
Shah Rukh hosted another show Kya
Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain. He
also appeared in Zor Ka Jhatka: Total
Wipeout the Indian version of American reality show Wipeout.
Besides his love for cinema, SRK
has a penchant for video games and
sports. He is the co-owner of the
Sri Balaji, Sony Sreeshta in Inji Morappa
One more
in Deepavali
race
Indian Premier League cricket team
Kolkata Knight Riders.
Currently, Shah Rukh is busy finishing the shoot of Rohit Shetty’s
Dilwale, which will hit theatres on
18 December. It will be followed by
the release of Aditya Chopra’s home
production Fan and Rahul Dholakia’s
Raaes.
Interestingly, this year, the famous
Khan trio of Bollywood--Aamir, Shah
Rukh and Salman--all turn 50.
— PTI
SHE sings
not just songs
PEPPY AND PACY
J
oining Thoongavanam and
Vedalam in Deepavali race is Inji
Morappa. Blue Hills Productions
and Radhakrishnan Film Circuit
have come together to come out
with Inji Morappa.
Playing the lead role is newcome
Sri Balaji. Sony sreehshta and
Sree play female leads. Krishnaraj,
Rishika, Nellai Siva are also in the
cast. Mani Sharma has scored the
music.
Says the filmmaker, ‘It is a story
of brother-sister bonding and everything has come good’.
— NT Bureau
Jayam Ravi
plans big
Actor Jayam Ravi is going great guns.
His Romeo Juliet and Thani Oruvan have
become huge hits. Meanwhile, the actor has
almost completed the shoot of his next movie
with Naigal Jakirathai fame Shakthi Rajan
and is getting ready for his next.
This what Jayam Ravi tweeted, ‘Currently, #JR19 #miruthan directed by @
ShaktiRajan is nearing completion &
#JR20 is for @PDdancing studios directed by @dirlaxman’.
— NT Bureau
SPLASH, WASH
American singer Maya Azucena performing at a workshop organised by
K M College of Music And Technology by U S Consulate in Chennai
M
usic performers must carve
out their own style during
performances if they are to
tread to the top in their career, said
American singer and social activist
Maya Azucena.
Many artistes may not be willing to
carve out their own style, but history
has shown those who have braved
to come out of the routine with their
own style have emerged winners,
she said speaking at a workshop at
K M College of Music And Technology by U S Consulate in Chennai in
association with the college.
She was accompanied on Christian Ver Halen on guitar, Anthony
U
It is no motocross. But a jeep that wades through water on Porur Road after a brief spell of rain last night.
Photo: K VIJAY ANAND
ndeterred by the non-showing
of Rajini Murugan at the box
office, Sivakarthikeyan has
moved ahead. He has started shooting for his next and
the movie went with a simple
muhurtrat in Chennai today.
Initially a song sequence between
Sivakarthikeyan and Keerthy Suresh
will be shot.
Music is by Anirudh and cinenatography by P C Sreeram. The
photo shoot of the movie took
place recently. Produced by
RD Raja, the film will have art
direction by Muthuraj. Directed
by Bhagiyaraj, the movie will be
completed in one go.
Buzz is that Sivakarthikeyan will
appears as a woman in the movie.
Noted makeup artiste Sean Foot (from
the company WETA), known for his
Hollywood movie Lord of the Rings
who was roped in by Shankar for his
film I, has been brought on board by
Sivakarthikeyan.
— NT Bureau
Miller on keyboard and Ivan Katz
on drums when she demonstrated
various genres.
The workshop explored how
vocalists, drummers, guitarists,
keyboardists, bassists and other
band members come together to
create a unique sound associated
with genres of American music like
jazz, the blues, funk, rock, reggae
and hip hop. ‘Try not to imitate,
come out with your own technique,
for imitation will always put you as a
second best winner but not number
one, she said.
Saying that she was inspired by
folk music, she advised the vocal-
ists to focus on rhytham and know
their role in the band well. Tuning in
with the rhythm and getting well with
the band are essential for a good
music performance, she added.
Singers must breathe life into
the song by including emotions,
she said speaking more on essentials for a good performance
and added involving self honestly
in the performance attracts audience.
She finally adviced singers to have
a good control over their breath
which is essential for retaining good
voice effect during performances.
— S VISHNU SHARMA
Sivakarthikeyan’s
next starts today
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