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Laudable
legal triumph
n a decision of enormous signiﬁcance for Tamilnadu and indeed
for politics in the rest of India, the Karnataka High Court acquitted J Jayalalithaa of all charges in the disproportionate assets case
against her. It is verily a triumph of her karmic equanimity and
poised positivity in the face of concerted campaigns. And it is a victory duly delivered in the court of law, which makes it all the more
laudable. And politically speaking, this is the most sensational of
all comebacks and all those who had written her political obituary
have been proved hasty and wrong.
On to the facts of the verdict. Justice C R Kumaraswamy, not only
acquitted Jayalalithaa and three others in the case, but also speciﬁcally said in his order: ‘Litigation made by persons who advance the
political gain and to settle the scores under the guise to ﬁght a legal
battle should not be entertained.’ Forget the sentence construction,
the fact of the matter is Justice Kumaraswamy also felt that the case
was foisted on her and others for political motive. It is a charge that
Jayalalithaa has been making from day one. It now redounds to her
credit that the High Court also felt that way.
It is pertinent to note that the HC said there was no ‘acceptable
evidence’ to point out that Jayalalithaa spent Rs 3 crore on her foster
son’s wedding. ‘Just because Accused No.1 was Chief Minister at that
time, we cannot saddle all the marriage expenses on her part...Arriving
at Rs.3,00,00,000/- towards marriage expenses and ﬁxing liability of
Rs.3,00,00,000/- to A-1 (Jayalalithaa) alone is not proper. It also removed
‘the exaggerated value of cost of construction’ from her income.
‘If we remove the exaggerated value of cost of construction and
marriage expenses, the assets will work out at Rs. 37,59,02,466. The
total income of the accused, ﬁrms and companies is Rs. 34,76,65,654.
Lack of proportion amount is Rs. 2,82,36,812. The percentage of
disproportionate assets is 8.12 per cent,’ Kumaraswamy said knocking the stuff out of the case against Jayalalithaa.
In essence, the High Court concluded that the prosecution and trial
court had erred by underestimating Jayalalithaa’s actual income and
overestimating her expenditure on the marriage of her foster son
and on property that was allegedly owned by others on a benami
basis. After recalculating her income and expenditure, the HC concluded that the quantum of disproportionate assets in her possession
amounted to only 8.12 per cent of her income, a ﬁgure below the 10
per cent threshold for conviction.
Away from the legalities, Jayalalithaa has once again proved that
people who write her off do so only at their own peril. Ever since
the verdict of the trial court in September, she had maintained a stoic
silence, Knowing her time will come, she removed herself from
the scene with admirable phlegmatism. It was the proverbial grace
under pressure. Now it has all paid dividends. Jayalalithaa has come
out with her dignity intact and her political reputation enhanced. As
she rightly pointed out in her typical succinct reaction ‘...the verdict
paved way for me to emerge like tested pure gold,’ Jayalalithaa was
typically spot on. It is said that the verdict acquitting her ran to 916
pages, and make no mistake ‘916’, in bullion markets, indeed represents pure gold. No doubt, Jayalalithaa is destiny’s favourite child.
negligence by the youngsters
themselves.
Inspector of Police, Chandru said,
‘Though Raja and Vicky claim that
Selvam rode the bike at the time of
accident, police feel that Vicky, the
owner of the bike rode it’.
The allegations that the men
lost balance and fell from the twowheeler after getting hit by the
police, is also not true, he said,
adding that they had only followed
them in a jeep.
Also, the youngsters are yet to
submit their driving license.
‘They were driving fast, they did not
have a license, they violated trafﬁc
rules and did not stop when policemen asked them to’, the Inspector
stated.
Meanwhile, residents of K K
Nagar say that it is routine for the
day after AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa
was acquitted in the disproportionate assets case,
senior Ministers and senior party functionaries today
vied with each other to express their happiness for
‘Amma’, in the form of posters and ﬂex banners across
the city.
Meanwhile, speculation grew as to when the
AIADMK MLAs would meet and when Jayalalithaa
would return as the Chief Minister. It is learnt that
a meeting of AIADMK MLAs would be held in the
city tomorrow, where a formal decision on electing Jayalalithaa as the Legislative party leader
would be taken.
Following this, Chief Minister O Panneerselvam would
submit his resignation, and the decision of AIADMK
MLAs would be conveyed to the Governor, paving way
for Jayalalithaa coming back to the top seat.
Sources said Jayalalithaa could be sworn in on 17
May. However, there was no conﬁrmation of the date
with several dates ﬂoating around.
Meanwhile, as Narendra Modi government completes one year in ofﬁce, BJP today lauded the Prime
Minister’s efforts towards cooperative federalism and
setting in motion a strategy for inclusive development
and hoped it will succeed in fulﬁlling promises made
to the people.
Another quake,
another shock
q Nepal, India struck by powerful earthquake again
q Rajnath Singh chairs crucial meeting
New Delhi, May 12:
Nepal was today hit by another strong
earthquake, sending people in the capital
Kathmandu rushing out on to the streets
just weeks after a devastating quake killed
more than 8,000 people and destroyed
hundreds of thousands of homes.
The US Geological Survey initially
said the quake had a magnitude of
7.1 and struck 42 miles (68km) west
of the town of Namche Bazaar, close
to Mount Everest. The quake was
upgraded to a magnitude of 7.4 minutes later. Shockwaves were felt as
far away as Delhi, West Bengal and
several parts of north India.
The quake’s epicentre was close to
Everest base camp, 83km (52 miles)
east of Kathmandu, which was evacuated after an avalanche triggered by
the 25 April quake killed 18 climbers.
‘The quake measured 7.4 on richter
Chennai feels impact
scale with epicentre somewhere in
Nepal,’ an IMD ofﬁcial said.
Immediately after the quake at around
12:35 pm, panic- stricken people were
seen rushing out of buildings in Delhi.
Metro services were immediately
put on restricted mode with speeds
being slowed down.
Authorities said in many areas,
high-rise buildings are being vacated.
The quake was felt as far as Afghanistan where it was measured 6.9
on the richter scale.
Tremors were felt in some parts of Chennai city. The impact was felt in
Kodambakkam and Pattinapakkam areas. ‘I felt slight tremors around noon,’
Senthilvel, a private sector employee in Kodambakkam locality, said. According to reports, some other areas in the city also felt the tremors.
Late last month, the earthquake that devastated parts of Nepal had its
echo in Chennai, too, with people in areas such as Nandanam, Guindy,
Santhome and Kodambakkam running out of houses and ofﬁces, claiming the buildings ‘shook slightly’.
The tremors were recorded by seismological observatory at Salem.
Meteorological ofﬁcials at the India Meteorological Department’s seismic
observatory said it was possible that tremors from an earthquake on a
Richter scale of 7.9 could be felt mildly in a city located so far away from
the epicentre as Chennai.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Rajnath
Singh said the that Ministry was collectiong details and information about
any damage from earthquake in India,
he said there is no need to panic and
NDRF is on alert.
When will Jaya
become CM?
q Crucial meeting of AIADMK MLAs soon
q Fort St George gets ready for big day
NT Bureau
Chennai, May 12:
The stage is set for AIADMK general
secretary J Jayalalithaa’s return as
Chief Minister. As per sources, she
would take the oath within a few days.
It is learnt that a meeting of AIADMK
MLAs would be held in the city tomorrow, where a formal decision on
electing Jayalalithaa as the legislative
party leader would be taken.
Following this, Chief Minister O
Panneerselvam would submit his resignation, and the decision of AIADMK
MLAs would be conveyed to the
Governor, paving way for Jayalalithaa
coming back to the top seat.
Sources said Jayalalithaa could be
sworn in on 17 May. However, there
was no conﬁrmation of the date with
several dates ﬂoating around.
Meanwhile, sources said that the
Chief Minister’s chamber at Fort St
George, which houses the Secretariat-Assembly complex, is being
KK Nagar incident: Police
await Magistrate’s conclusion
NT Bureau
Chennai, May 12:
After a police chase allegedly
claimed the life of a youngster at K
K Nagar on Saturday, police is now
looking forward to the Magistrate’s
conclusion on the actual cause of
the mishap.
Selvam (19) and Raja (20) from Maduravoyal, hopped on to Vicky’s (16)
bike and were on their way to a movie
on 80 Feet Road, when Selvam was
killed after their vehicle rammed into
a median (following a chase by the
police for riding triples) and an iron
rod from the divider’s railing pierced
his abdomen.
Although a case has been registered under CRPC 176, the police department wants the Magistrate to find out if the accident
was caused due to the chase or
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police to carry out vehicle checks
on weekends, where two-wheelers
and share autos are stopped and
checked.
The department also noted
that if the trio had stopped when
constable Sivanandam and Inspector Sargunam signalled, the
turn of events would have been
different.
It is reported that Magistrate T
Jayashree of Saidapet Court will
continue collecting versions from
on-spot witnesses, victims and
the police.
Sivanandam and Sargunam who
were also injured after a mob attack
following the mishap are currently
undergoing treatment. The duo is
said to be placed in vacancy reserve,
and Raja who also seriously injured
is under medical care.
given a new look. ‘Maintenance
and renovation activities are taking
place,’ they added. It is also learnt
that the Assembly session would be
conveyed next week.
On Monday, a special bench of the
Karnataka High Court in Bengaluru
acquitted Jayalalithaa in the dispro-
Gold, cash stolen
from house at Ennore
NT Bureau
Chennai, May 12:
Gold and cash were found missing from
a house at Ramaswamy Nagar in Ennore.
According to police sources,
Bhaskaran (40) who works in a private ﬁrm at Ambattur, had gone to
his native place. On return, he is said
to have found that 40 sovereigns of
gold and Rs 50,000 cash were stolen.
He has ﬁled a complaint with a police
that a duplicate key was used to enter
the house and steal the valuables.
15 ‘petrol bombs’
found in Kovai
Coimbatore, May 12 (PTI):
A woman today found a bag lying in
front of her house at Ammankulam here,
which contained 15 ‘petrol bombs’, police
said. The woman was surprised to ﬁnd a
carry bag in front of her house and when
she opened it she found the petrol bombs
(bottles ﬁlled with petrol and attached with
fuse wires), police said.
portionate assets case.
The acquittal triggered celebrations by
AIADMK supporters all across Tamilnadu, with wishes pouring in on her from
various quarters. The charges were not
‘sustainable’, Justice C R Kumaraswamy
said in the much-awaited verdict.
The value of disproportionate assets
was Rs. 2.82 crore and this value
was not enough to convict them on
charges of corruption, said Justice
Kumaraswamy in his verdict while
disagreeing with the verdict of the
Special Court, which had computed
the value of DA at Rs 53.6 crore.
‘It is not a victory for me but a victory
for justice,’ said Jayalalithaa, while
reacting to the judgement.
‘I am immensely satisﬁed with the
verdict... Verdict paved way for me
to emerge like tested pure gold,’ said
Jayalalithaa. She warned her political
opponents to end their conspiracies
against her and thanked the partymen
and people who prayed for her.
Tremors felt in Kutch
A mild quake measuring 4.3 on the
Richter scale was felt this morning in
Kutch district of Gujarat.
However, there were no reports of
any casualties.
NJAC issue:
SC rejects
Centre’s plea
New Delhi, May 12:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday
rejected the Centre’s preliminary
plea that the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC)
issue be heard by a larger bench
of 9 or 11 judges. A c c o r d i n g t o
PTI, the apex court also ruled
that the arguments on petitions challenging NJAC Act will
c o n t i nue before the five-judge
bench.
The ruling comes a day after the
apex court made it clear that it
would first decide on the issue of
referring the challenge to the new
system of appointment of judges
to a larger bench of nine or eleven
judges and then go into the merits
of the case.
It also said it would pass an order
on appointment of additional judges of High Court, whose tenure
was ending, because the National
Judicial Appointments Commission was not in place yet. ‘We all
have tentatively agreed on this
that we will first decide the issue
of reference (to a larger bench)
and then take a call on the entire
matter,’ a five judge Constitution
Bench headed by Justice J S Khehar said on Monday.
10-month NDA govt better
than 10 years of UPA: Modi
New Delhi, May 12:
Days before the BJP-led National
Democratic Alliance government is set
to complete its ﬁrst year in ofﬁce, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi today exalted the
progress achieved by his government
since it assumed power in May 2014.
During the BJP Parliamentary Party
meeting, which began at 9:30 am,
he compared the achievements of
his government with the previous
Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government. The work done by
our government in 10 months is better
than that by the UPA government in
10 years, said Modi.
Reiterating the government’s stance
on the issue of black money, the PM
said he was satisﬁed with stringent
laws made in this regard.
Praising the benefit people got
from the social security schemes
his government launched, the PM
also pointed out that a year old NDA
government worked more than the
UPA government in the department
of foreign relations too.
Addressing the media after the
BJP Parliamentary Party meeting,
Union Minister of State for Minorities
Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said
the meeting discussed the work the
government did in the ﬁrst year of its
inception.
Hailing the government for improving foreign relations, the PM said only
the NDA government is capable of
developing good ties with Pakistan.
Naqvi also said it was the NDA government which solved issues with
India’s neighbouring countries like
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Modi also said that India helped
Nepal and Maldives during their time
of crisis, added Naqvi.
The PM also urged parliamentarians to give the details of the work
they did to the people of this country.
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Reddy Street not ready
Centre
We are watching you
CHENNAI
CCTV cameras installed at Mugappair East
Stretch in Villivakkam plagued with trafc congestion
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Residents are calling for efforts to ease trafc
congestion on Reddy Street and areas nearby.
esidents living in Reddy Street and those living in neighbouring ones want measures to ease trafc congestion
at the junction. Considered to be the ‘shopping zone’ in the
locality, the street is more often than not busy.
According to the chairman of Welfare Association Rajaji Nagar
Civic Exnora A V Surendiran, there is the Councillor’s ofce,
Amma canteen and a few hotels, those coming to these places
park their vehicles in haphazard manner and block road space.
He wanted trafc police personnel to be stricter with motorists,
who leave their vehicles o n t h e
road, eating into
available space.
With several
buses plying
M there is alon the stretch,
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ways a premium
on space
and this puts other
motorists in a spot of
bother. He suggested that buses exiting the terminus
can be allowed to
reach the junction of Reddy Street
and MTH Road, while buses bound for Villivakkam bus terminus
can be allowed to enter through Sivan Koil East Mada Street
and Sivan Koil West Mada Street instead of Reddy Street’s
intersection with MTH Road.
As of now, buses use Reddy Street to enter and leave the
terminus, which contributes to the trafc snarls.
R Vaidyanathan, a resident of Reddy Street said the system
which was in practice some two or three years ago can be
reintroduced.
He also pointed out that four-wheelers can be diverted to use
the street behind the bus terminus and area around Sivan Koil
Tank, which could lessen the trafc on Reddy Street.
If such steps are taken, minor mishaps and quarrels among
motorists would be reduced.
- NT Bureau
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any crime or unforeseen event
happening in the colony. A single
camera will record 30 GB of data
in a day. A total of 31 cameras will
record 930 GB footage in a day’.
The association can be contacted
at 26567575, 9962002202.
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contributed
about
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total of
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was collected
and 31
cameras were
installed
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esidents of Everest Colony sociation president V Karuppiah,
at Mugappair East are hap- secretary N Ayyanar, treasurer B
py these days. This is because, S Gurumaharaj, joint secretary S
31 CCTV cameras have been S Kumar, assistant secretary T D
installed in their colony. This is the Rajan and others took part in the
first time such a huge number of function.
cameras are installed in a single
Srinivasan added, ‘we fixed two
colony.
cameras facing Paari Salai at the
Everest Colony Resident As- entrance of the main gate to help
sociation manager S Srinivasan, the police to incase of any emersaid ‘for the past 10 years, not gency. There were five entrances
even a single crime took place in the colony. Each entrance has
in the colony. We have posted a CCTV camera fixed. Movements
m a n y s e c u r i t y p e r s o n - n e l of vehicle entering the
here. But many residents
area can be
felt the need for
easily monitored
CCTVs so that
through the varwomen and senious cameras
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ior citizens will
fixed on the
be well protected.
building. We are
The association acalso having an additional camera
cepted their request.
Each as replacement’.
member contributed about Rs
Kannan, a senior technician who
4,000. A total of Rs 6.4 lakh was installed the security system, said,
collected and 31 CCTVs were ‘the cameras will be working 24
installed.’
hours and videos will be stored
The inaugural was held on 3 in a computers. As precautionary
May. JJ Nagar Police Inspector measure, videos of last 30 days
(Law and Order) Ravi declared will not be destroyed. This will
open the system. Residents as- be very useful in case if there is
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CHENNAI
PM greets Jaya
q Top guns from various walks of
life wish AIADMK general secretary
NT Bureau
Chennai, May 12:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers, leaders from various
national and regional parties, industrialists and personalties from film
industry extended their greetings to
AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa upon
her acquittal in the disproportionate
assets case on Monday.
‘Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Puratchi Thalaivi
Amma and extended his greetings
over phone,’ an AIADMK release said.
Tamilnadu Governor K Rosaiah also
spoke to Jayalalithaa over phone and
sent in a ﬂower bouquet to her.
External Affairs Minister Sushma
Swaraj and Union Minorities Welfare Minister Najma Heptullah also
extended their greetings to AIADMK
supremo over phone, the release said.
Party seniors including presidium
chairman E Madhusudhanan and
Chief Minister O Panneerselvam,
Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar
Prasad,
NCP chief Sharad Pawar, CPI leader
Atul Kumar Anjan, Tamil Maanila
Congress leader G K Vasan, MDMK
general secretary Vaiko, BJP national
secretary H Raja, BJP Tamilnadu unit
president Tamizhisai Soundararajan,
AIADMK allies--Indian Republic Party,
AISMK, AIFB and Tamilnadu Kongu
Peravai also extended their greetings
to her, the release said.
Industry captains such as Venu
Srinivasan of TVS Motors,
Vinu Mammen of MRF Tyres,
TUESDAY
12 MAY 2015
A verdict based
on facts, figures
Trial court has not appreciated evidence
in a proper perspective: Judge
N Srinivasan of India Cements, Apollo
Hospitals Chairman and Managing
Director Dr Prathap C Reddy, SRU
Chancellor V R Venkatachalam, T
Santhakumar of Keerthilal Jewellers,
Veeramani of Gem Granites,
Ayyappan of Chettinad Cements,
Sanjay Jayavardhan Velu of Lakshmi Machine Works and T S Kalynaraman of Kalyan Jewellers also
greeted Jayalalithaa.
Further, scores of Tamil cinema
industry professionals including
musician Ilayaraja, actresses Saroja Devi, ‘Vennira Adai’ Nirmala,
Vijayashanthi, actors Rajnikanth
Prabhu, Surya, Vikram, Tamilnadu
Film Producers Council president
S Dhanu, ﬁlm producers Aascar V
Ravichandran, danseuse Padma
Subramaniam were among others
extended their greetings to Jayalalithaa on being acquitted in the
case, the release said.
NT Bureau
Chennai, May 12:
Giving a clean chit to AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa, the Karnataka High Court on Monday held that
the judgement and ﬁnding recorded
by the trial court convicting her and
three others suffers from inﬁrmity and
it is not sustainable in law.
Acquitting Jayalalithaa and three
others of ‘all the charges levelled
against them’, the single bench
judge Justice C R Kumaraswamy
set aside the trial court’s conviction,
allowing the criminal appeals ﬁled by
the four convicts.
In his 916-page judgement, Justice
Kumaraswamy also quashed the
order of the trial court relating to conﬁscation of the properties both movable and immovable. ‘Taking into
consideration overall circumstances
and material placed on record, in my
view, the judgement and ﬁnding recorded by the trial court suffers from
inﬁrmity and it is not sustainable in
law,’ the judge said in a verdict that
has paved the way for Jayalalithaa
to return to Chief Ministership.
On disproportionate assets, the
judge held that ‘it is relatively small.
In the instant case, the disproportionate asset is less than 10 per cent
and it is within permissible limit.’
In his 916-page judgement, Justice
Kumaraswamy also quashed the order of
the trial court relating to conﬁscation of the
properties both movable and immovable
‘Therefore, the accused are entitled to acquittal. When the principal
accused (Jayalalithaa) has been
acquitted, the other accused, who
have played a lesser role, are also
entitled to acquittal,’ the court said.
The judge said it is a well-settled
law that according to the Krishnanand Agnihotri case, when there is
disproportionate asset to the extent
of 10 per cent, the accused are entitled to acquittal.
The margin of 10 to 20 per cent
of the disproportionate assets has
been taken as a permissible limit,
taking into consideration the inﬂationary measures. ‘Since the value
of apparels and slippers and others
(of Jayalalithaa) were of ‘insigniﬁcant value’, I did not deduct this
amount from the assets of DV & AC
(Directorate of Vigilance and AntiCorruption,’ the judge said.
He held that the prosecution has
mixed up assets of accused, ﬁrms
and companies. ‘If we remove
the exaggerated value of cost of
construction and marriage expenses, the assets will work out at
Rs.37,59,02,466’.
‘In this case, the trial court has ignored the Income Tax proceedings
as minimum evidentiary value. The
trial court has not appreciated the
evidence in a proper perspective,’
Justice Kumaraswamy said.
He said though the trial court in
its judgement mentioned that the
accused availed loan by the Indian
Bank, it has not considered the
same as income. Therefore, the
trial court has erred in not considering the loans as income.
Even the valuation though disputed by the defence, the trial court
has failed to examine the evidence
relating to cost of construction at
that relevant time and simply arrived at a conclusion that 20 per
cent of the cost has to be reduced
without appreciating the evidence
placed on record,’ he said.
3
PG diploma in
spl education
NT Bureau
Chennai, May 12:
Vidya Sagar, an NGO that works
with children and adults with neurological impairments, is offering
a one-year, full-time PG Diploma
course in Special EducationMultiple Disabilities (Physical and
Neurological).
The course includes a threemonth internship to generate
trained resource persons in special education.
The course is recognised by the
Rehabilitation Council of India and
affiliated to Madras University.
Applicants should be a graduate
or above in any discipline from a
university/ college recognised by
University of Madras.
For details contact: Uma, Coordinator, HRD @ 9840035203 or
email:[email protected]
Free coaching
for TNPSC exam
Chennai, May 12:
Crescent IAS Academy is offering
free coaching classes for TNPSC
Group II Services Exam from 15
May.
The exam which is to be held on
26 July, 2015 is open to all students.
Application forms for the coaching
classes can be obtained from the
Centre in person on payment of
Rs 100 or by downloading from the
website www.bsauniv.ac.in.
For further details contact Director, Crescent IAS Academy at 044
- 2275 1155.
Banking on new tank(s)
q Chrompet residents welcome civic body’s move
LAASYA SHEKHAR
Chennai, May 12:
R Mallika of Pallavaram need not
walk long distances any more to
fetch water. This is because, she
can do so from a tank constructed
at Gandhi Nagar area in Chrompet,
which caters to the water needs of
residents in the locality.
Following complaints and appeals
from residents with regard to water
shortage, Pallavaram Municipality
has built a tank near Durgai Amman
temple in Radha Nagar.
It may be noted that the Municipality
which has 42 Wards and a population of around 2.5 lakh sources water
from Metrowater (Pallavaram) and
TWAD (Chrompet). Sources said that
55 lakh litres of water is necessary to
meet the crisis.
It may be recalled that residents were
facing a tough time due to the inadequate water supply as an average of
20 lakh litres only supplied each day.
‘This is an increase in demand for water in the neighbourhood. Water made
available from Palar and TWAD has
become very irregular, which made
residents feel the pinch,’ said Harish,
a long-time resident of Nehru Nagar.
The Rs ﬁve lakh project which was
completed some two weeks ago has
become a prime source of water supply now. ‘Not just residents of Radha
Nagar, but those in nearby areas are
beneﬁted too as more than 3,000
litres a day is available,’ said sources
Following complaints
and appeals from
residents with regard
to water shortage,
Pallavaram Municipality
has built a tank near
Durgai Amman temple in
Radha Nagar
Women drawing water from the newly constructed tank at Gandhi
Nagar, Chrompet.
in Pallavaram Municipality.
pacity and residents of the locality
The tank has a good storage ca- are optimistic that construction of
‘Huge demand for
safety ofﬁcers’
IIT offers
part-time course
in data science
TUV Rheinland NIFE courses get Skill
Development Corpn recognition
NT Bureau
Chennai, May 12:
The Department of Computer
Science and Engineering at IIT
Hyderabad is launching a new
Executive M.Tech programme
in Data Science, exclusively for
industry professionals in the next
academic year (August 2015).
A press note said the programme
is self-paced so that candidates
have flexibility in completing it
two-four years. It would provide
participants with the knowledge
and essential skills needed to
address the challenges of data intensive decision-making environments. This is a case-study based
course that will help participants
get extensive hands-on training
using the open source R statistical software.
Prospective candidates can submit their applications online from
11 May and last date for submitting
online applications is 22 June.
It would be held at IIT Hyderabad,
Ordnance Factory Estate, Yeddumailaram, Hyderabad.
For more information, visit http://
cse.iith.ac.in/program/emds
NT Bureau
Chennai, May 12:
There is a growing demand for
safety ofﬁcers (SO) in engineering
plants and at construction sites
these days and the number is
expected to double in the coming
years, said M V Thomas, director of
TUV Rheinland NIFE, a vocational
training institute with centres in over
a 100 places in India.
He said, ‘We have already seen a demand for them steadily increasing over
the years. Less than a decade ago, we
had less than a 1,000 students at our
school. The last two years have seen
over 5,000 to 6,000 students enrolled
and graduating. This number is expected to double in the coming years.’
The institute recently received the
National Skill Development Corporation’s recognition for its courses.
‘The Construction Workers’ Safety Act
is being implemented very strictly now.
We have seen our students constantly
being placed in major construction
companies because a construction
site can no longer operate wiithout a
qualiﬁed safety ofﬁcer,’ Thomas said.
And now, newly graduated safety
ofﬁcers earn salaries in excess of
Rs 25,000 a month within a year at
their jobs. Those who go abroad earn
even more.
‘This may not sound very high,
atleast for those who work in India.
But considering the proﬁle of the students, it is substantial,’ Thomas said.
The courses offered by TUV Rheinland NIFE span across Fire Safety
and Lift Technology, which run for a
year, and Fibre Optics and Inventory
and Stores, which run for four months.
The eligibility for both courses is
just a Class 10 pass certiﬁcate as per
NSDC rules. The fee is Rs 80,000 for
Fire Safety and Lift Technology and
Rs 40,000, for the other two.
Thomas said that the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (Middle East)
have some of the largest budgets
for safety ofﬁcers presently and said
‘some 25 per cent of our students are
currently working in this region.’
more would help overcome water
problems.
‘Many areas in Hasthinapuram, Pallavaram and Chitlapakkam get water
supply only once in 10 days. Poor
and middle-class people often ﬁnd
it difﬁcult to purchase from private
water suppliers,’ said Neeraja, a resident of MGR Street, Hasthinapuram.
The erection plant works as a minipower pump system and one-third
of the water drawn from the underground sources would go waste.
‘The waste water will again be recycled to multiple times. A pump system
installed can purify it,’ said assistant
engineer at Pallavaram Municipality
Seenuvasan.
When the Municipal Commissioner
Sivasubramanium was contacted,
he said that steps would be taken to
construct more tanks in the locality.
‘Tanks will be constructed in those areas where poor people live. It would
be constructed in four places - Zamin
Pallavaram, Keelkattalai, Hasthinapuram and Nemilicherry,’ he said.
Chief consultant of Delhi Metro R Rajaraman at the Probus Club
meeting in Chennai yesterday.
Thumbs up
for CMRL
NT Bureau
Chennai May 12:
Things may ﬁnally be moving on
the right track as far as the Metro
Rail project, which has been hanging ﬁre for a long time with a section
awaiting inauguration. As uncertainty remains over the opening of
the Koyambedu-Alandur section
of CMRL, which has been cleared
by the Safety Commissioner, the
acquittal of AIADMK supremo J
Jayalalithaa may pave way for the
services being opened up for public.
Meanwhile, chief consultant of
Delhi Metro R Rajaraman, who
was in the city yesterday, said
CMRL would be a boon to Chennaiites. Participating in a meeting
organised by Probus Club here on
‘Urban Transportation’, Rajaraman
spoke about how the Metro Rail
project can be helpful in reducing
trafﬁc in the city.
He pointed out that travelling from
Washermenpet to the airport which
usually takes more than an hour
can be completed in lesser time
and it will be more convenient and
comfortable for people.
Club president S Venkatraman,
sectretary Nagarajan and treasurer
A Krishnasamy were also present.
ON RIGHT TRACK
The Highways department has expedited the construction of a ﬂyover at the Moolakadai junction in north
Chennai. Once completed, it would ease trafﬁc congestion during peak hours.
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12 MAY 2015
CHENNAI
Is Osama’s death
Obama’s stunt?
IN TROUBLED WATERS
White House rejects Hersh’s version on Al Qaeda chief’s ‘assassination’
Vehicles move through a ﬂooded street following a heavy downpour
in Agartala, Tripura. In the other photograph, a car drives south on
a ﬂooded Ocean Boulevard after it drove past barricades warning of
the high water, in North Myrtle Beach, SC.
Seventeen endangered
monkeys stolen
SAINT-AIGNAN:
Two families of endangered monkeys were stolen from a zoo in central
France over the weekend, the
sanctuary’s director has said.
Rodolphe Delord said
the thieves broke in to
the zoo in Beauval on
Saturday night, avoiding
security cameras and
patrols, and took seven
golden lion tamarins and
10 silver marmosets.
‘These are extremely rare, extremely fragile monkeys that are
part of an international breeding
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the golden lion tamarins belong to the
Brazilian government.
‘We have absolutely no idea how
such a thing could have happened,’ he said. ‘The thieves
were experts. They knew
exactly which to take.’
The zoo is currently
looking through CCTV
footage and the French
police and veterinary services have been informed,
Delord said.
Concerns are now mounting for
the health of the monkeys, which require a strict diet and are only allowed
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Ego is often the biggest
obstacle to success.
Funds sought for
tiny £6 computer
SAN FRANCISCO:
A Californian start-up is seeking
funding to make a computer that will
cost $9 (£6) in its most basic form.
Next Thing wants $50,000 to ﬁnish
development of the credit-card sized
Chip computer.
The ﬁrst versions will have a 1Ghz
processor, 512MB of Ram and 4GB
of onboard storage. The gadget, due
to go on general release in early
2016, could become yet another
rival to the popular Raspberry Pi
barebones computer.
The Chip shares some technical
elements with the Pi in that it is built
around an Arm chip but it includes
some networking technologies,
such as wi-fi and Bluetooth 4.0,
that are not present on the standard
Raspberry conﬁguration.
The gadget can
run a version of the
Linux operating system and connects
to monitors and displays via a basic
composite connector.
Next Thing is also planning to
make a version of the Chip into a
handheld gadget called the Pocket
Chip that will sell for about $49.
The ﬁrst ﬁnished Chip boards are
due to reach backers in December.
Though some people who sign up
to be a ‘kernel hacker’ backer will
get theirs in September.
Since launching on Kickstarter, the
project has proved popular and has
already exceeded its funding goal.
Currently almost 13,000 people
have pledged more than $645,000
WASHINGTON:
The White House rejected ‘baseless’ a report, which claimed that
the ofﬁcial US version of the raid
on Osama bin Laden’s compound
was a cover up.
‘There are too many inaccuracies
and baseless assertions in this
piece to fact-check each one,’ White
House National Security spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
President Barack Obama announced on 2 May 2011, that SEALs
had killed the Al Qaeda leader the
same night in a helicopter raid.
The elite commandos ﬂew in under
cover of darkness from Afghanistan
as the administration decided not
to consult or inform Pakistan about
the operation. Also read: Ex-intelligence man told US about Osama’s
hideout: author But the piece that
journalist Seymour Hersh wrote is
raising new questions. It showed
that ‘everything you know about
Osama bin Laden’s killing is wrong,’
observed the Slate magazine.
The White House rejected Hersh’s
assertion that the CIA and other
US agencies collaborated with the
Tornadoes kill
at least 5 in
Texas & Arkansas
VAN:
Emergency responders searched
through splintered wreckage after
a line of tornadoes battered several
small communities in Texas and Arkansas, killing at least ﬁve people.
A couple, in their late 20s or early
30s, died when a twister hit their
mobile home late Sunday in the Arkansas town of Nashville.
Michael and Melissa Mooneyhan
were trying to protect their daughter
when the parents’ trailer ﬂipped over
and ‘exploded,’ Howard County Coroner John Gray said. ‘It’s a miracle that
little girl survived,’ Gray said.
The girl, who is about 18 months
old, was taken to the hospital and
later released to relatives.
In neighboring Texas, a tornado
pummeled the small town of Van,
damaging about 30 percent of the
community, according to Chuck
Allen, ﬁre marshal and emergency
management coordinator for Van
Zandt County.
Authorities conﬁrmed at least two
deaths. For much of the day, eight
people were still unaccounted for in
Van, population 2,600, southeast of
Dallas. But by late Monday night, everyone on the missing list had been accounted for, said Texas Department
of Public Safety Trooper Jean Dark.
She said that just to be safe, cadaver dogs were checking the area.
Hersh also claimed that Dr Shakil Afridi, the
physician now jailed in Peshawar for helping
the CIA trace bin Laden’s hideout, was a CIA
asset but did not know about the raid. Afridi
was used as a cover to hide the real story
Seymour Hersh
Pakistani military to kill bin Laden.
‘As we said at the time, knowledge
of this operation was conﬁ ned to
a very small circle of senior US
officials. The President decided
early on not to inform any other
government, including the Pakistani
government, which was not notiﬁed
until after the raid had occurred,’
Price said.
‘We had been and continue to be
partners with Pakistan in our joint
effort to destroy Al Qaeda, but this
was a US operation through and
through.’
Veteran American journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed that Osama bin Laden was a prisoner of
Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI
at the Abbottabad compound since
2006, and that a Pakistani intelligence ofﬁcer gave him up to the
US in return for a $25 million reward.
Writing in the London Review of
Books on the fourth anniversary
of the Abbottabad raid that killed
bin Laden, Hersh claimed that the
then Pakistan army chief, General
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, and head of
ISI, Lt General Ahmed Shuja Pasha,
knew of the US Navy Seals’ raid and
made sure that the two helicopters
carrying the Seals to Abbottabad
crossed Pakistani airspace without
triggering an alarm. Bin Laden was
‘Abuse driving
migrants away’
LONDON:
This week, Europe will debate setting up a quota system for allocating among EU member states the
hundreds of thousands of refugees
arriving on the continent. The discussion comes as Amnesty International warns that brutal treatment of
migrants in Libya - including beating,
torture and rape - is driving many to
escape across the Mediterranean.
As Europe’s politicians continue to
debate immigration, the boats keep
on coming.
At Reggio Calabria in southern Italy,
more than 400 migrants were brought
ashore by German naval vessels.
Germany is also bearing the greatest
burden of refugees. Over 400,000
asylum seekers are expected to arrive
in the country this year - double last
year’s total.
It prompted German Chancellor
Angela Merkel to hold an emergency
summit Friday, in which she called for
European partners to share responsi-
Pranab to present
Nightingale Awards
NEW DELHI: Health Minister J P Nadda as well as
President Pranab Mukherjee will Minister of State for Health Shripad
Yesso Naik will also be present
present the National Florence
on the occasion.
Nightingale Awards to 35
nursing professionals on
‘Until 2014 a total
International Nurses
of 306 nurses were
Day, today.
decorated with this
award. This year,
The Health Minis35 nursing persontry had instituted the
nel will be conferred
awards in 1973 as a
with the awards,’ the
mark of recognition for
statement said.
the meritorious services of
Pranab Mukherjee
nurses.
The Award carries Rs
‘President Pranab Mukherjee will 50,000 cash, a certiﬁcate, a citation
present the National Florence Night- certiﬁcate and a medal.
ingale Awards to nursing personnel
Florence Nightingale, founder of
tomorrow at Rashtrapati Bhavan on modern nursing, was born on May 12,
the occasion of International Nurses 1820 and hence this day is celebrated
Day,’ an ofﬁcial statement said.
as International Nurses Day all over
Health Ministry ofﬁcials said that the world.
Priti Patel gets Cabinet
rank in Cameron’s team
(£416,000) to the project.
But experts warned that the Chip’s
low price tag only covered the basic
board.
Writing on hardware news site
Bit-Tech, Gareth Halfacree said the
Chip had ‘sacriﬁced a few features’
in its desire to be
smaller and cheaper
than the Pi.
He pointed out
that beeﬁng up the
graphical abilities to
match the Pi raised the price to
$24 - far closer to the $35 that the
Raspberry Pi 2 costs.
He added that shipping charges
outside the US could also make
the Chip more expensive than it
first appeared. The computer is
also launching into a market getting
increasingly crowded with small,
powerful computers. These range
from barebones boards aimed at
hardware hackers through to entire
computers on USB sticks chips
made by Intel and Google.
LONDON:
Prime Minister David Cameron promoted one of Britain’s most prominent
Indian-origin MPs Priti Patel by making her the new Employment Minister.
was re-elected from Witham in Essex with a big majority in the 7 May
general election.
The 43-year-old replaces another
female MP in the Cabinet, Esther
McVey, who lost her seat at the polls.
‘A real privilege to be appointed as
Minister of State for Employment at
the Department for Work and Pensions,’ Priti Patel said in a Twitter
message.
While the London-born mother
of one will not be in charge of the
Department for Work and Pensions,
she has been given a Cabinet rank
as a promotion from her previous
role as Exchequer Secretary to the
Treasury. It remains to be seen if she
will also carry on in her honorary role
as the British Prime Minister’s Indian
Diaspora Champion.
Her appointment reﬂects PM Cameron’s plans to shake up the party’s
old fashioned all-male image and
killed in Abbottabad, home to the
Pakistan Military Academy, on the
night of 2 May 2011, in a CIA-led
operation conducted by Seal Team
Six of the US Navy.
Hersh won the 1970 Pulitzer
Prize for International Reporting
after he broke the story on the My
Lai massacre in 1969 during the
Vietnam War. His reports in 2004
on the US military’s ill-treatment
of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison
in Iraq also drew global attention.
As per the ofﬁcial US version, bin
Laden’s location at Abbottabad was
identiﬁ ed by the CIA by tracking
an al-Qaeda courier, Abu Ahmed
al-Kuwaiti. Hersh, however, claims
that a former senior Pakistani intelligence ofﬁcer betrayed the secret of
bin Laden’s presence at Abbottabad
in return for the $25 million reward
offered by the US.
In August 2010, this Pakistani
intelligence ofﬁcer, who has since
been relocated with his family to
Washington and is a consultant
to the CIA, walked into the ofﬁce
of the CIA Station Chief at the US
embassy in Islamabad.
Priti Patel
have a signiﬁcant number of women
around the Cabinet table.
Amber Rudd has been appointed
Energy and Climate Change Secretary and Baroness Stowell is pro-
NEWS MAKER
of the day
moted to the Cabinet as the Leader
of the House of Lords.
PM Cameron had already conﬁrmed
Nicky Morgan in her previous post as
Secretary of State for Education and
Minister for Women and Equalities.
Other key announcements today
included Pakistani-origin Sajid Javid
moving from Culture Secretary to
Secretary of State for Business and
London Mayor Boris Johnson being
made a minister without a portfolio.
Johnson, widely seen as a Conservative party leadership contender,
will attend Political Cabinet until he
completes his term as mayor in 2016
when he is expected to be given an
ofﬁcial portfolio. PM Cameron said:
‘Boris Johnson will be attending my
Political Cabinet. As promised, he will
devote his attention to his ﬁnal year
as Mayor of London.’
Iain Duncan Smith, often referred
to by his initials IDS, will be Ms Patel’s boss as the Work and Pensions
Secretary and veteran Tory MP John
Whittingdale is to become Secretary
of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
Some of the senior ministerial posts
were conﬁrmed soon after the election results were ﬁnalised on Friday.
Chancellor George Osborne, Home
Secretary Theresa May, Foreign
Secretary Philip Hammond and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon were
re-conﬁrmed in their respective posts.
bility. ‘There will be no alternative to
European solidarity to get to a solution,’ she said. Hundreds of refugees
pass through Italy’s Milan station en
route to Germany every week. Volunteer aid worker Susy Iovieno offers
them food, clothing and advice. She
said Europe must make reforms.
She said this is needed ‘to create
a humanitarian corridor, give the
possibility to these people to apply
for an entry visa legally, at the different embassies in the neighboring
countries like Lebanon, Jordan and
Turkey. That would help avoid the
illegal transport and risky trips to
Europe,’ she said.
Conservative
leader thanks
penis artist
LONDON:
A winning Conservative candidate
in Britain’s general election said he
would like to thank the anonymous
voter who drew a penis next to his
name on the ballot paper and had it
counted as a valid vote.
Glyn Davies, elected in the Welsh
seat of Montgomeryshire, said he
was grateful for the support, even
though he was not sure the artist had
intended it.
‘One voter decided to draw a detailed representation of a penis
instead of a cross in my box on one
ballot paper,’ Davies wrote on his
Facebook page.
‘Amazingly, because it was neatly
drawn within the conﬁnes of the box
the returning ofﬁcer deemed it a valid
vote.’ No one was answering the
telephone at the Montgomeryshire
electoral ofﬁce, but local Conservative party chairman Aled Davies
conﬁrmed the incident to Reuters.
As Glyn Davies won by 5,325 votes,
the unorthodox support was not vital.
VOICE MAIL
Encroachment
on footpath
Sir,
Vehicles to a commercial building (under construction) at the
entrance of North Crescent Road
in T Nagar completely encroach
the footpath.
This leads to heavy trafﬁc congestion at North Crescent Road
and G N Chetty Road. This has
often led to trafﬁc bottlenecks. The
worst affected as residents here,
who have to put with all this mess.
We had already represented the
issue before various authorities,
but still action is awaited.
Kannan, T Nagar
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CHENNAI
Stage set for Modi’s
Silk Road sojourn
q China visit to debate economic & trade ties
Beijing, May 12 (PTI):
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
visit this week will focus on cementing India’s relationship with China by
leveraging on their growing trade and
economy, even as the two countries
grapple with contentious issues of
boundary and strategic regional rivalry.
Serious differences continue to
prevail on the border issue even
as both sides are making efforts to
ensure that peace and tranquillity
prevails, ofﬁcials said here ahead of
Modi’s three-visit to China beginning
on 14 May.
External Affairs Minister Sushma
Swaraj during her recent visit
here said there is a need for
an ‘out of the box’ solution in
order to not leave it for future
generations.
Both sides have agreed for
a fourth meeting between the
commanders in Arunachal
Pradesh.
Sources said despite the differences, both sides are keen to push
forward the relations with focus on
economic and trade issues.
Several agreements were expected to be signed in the meeting
between Modi and Chinese Premier
Li Keqiang here on 15 May.
Indian ofﬁcials said New Delhi’s
reservations over MSR remained.
Swaraj said earlier that India will
back Silk road proposals where ever
the synergies meet.
China is proposing to link its strategic projects with that of India espe-
What’s in
pipeline?
Besides new investments,
the two countries are set to
sign a number of agreements
to deepen cooperation in skill
development
cially in the Indian Ocean.
Modi’s visit will also focus on more
cooperation between Chinese provinces and Indian state government
regarding investments.
During his stay in Beijing on 15
May, he would be meeting
Chinese provincial leaders.
Chief Ministers of Gujarat,
Maharashtra and Karnataka
are due to take part in some
of the business meetings
attended by Modi.
Besides talks with Chinese Premier Li, Modi is set to meet top
Chinese CEO including Alibaba
founder Jack Ma and address IndiaChina Business Forum at Shanghai
on 16 May, the last day of his
visit.
China has committed to invest
$20 billion in two industrial parks
in Gujarat and Maharashtra in the
next ﬁve years and the money has
not started ﬂowing into India yet.
Chinese officials complain of issues relating to visa access and red
tape resulting in the delay of ﬂow of
investments.
THOSE IN NEWS
AM AM gets fi
AMCHAM
first
woman chairperson
New Delhi, May 12 (PTI):
American Chamber of Commerce in India on Monday appointed Vanitha
Narayanan as new chairperson, the ﬁrst woman to hold this post since the
industry body’s inception here in 1992. Narayanan, who is the managing
director of IBM India, holds an MBA in Marketing and Information Systems.
She has been responsible for taking up multiple challenging assignments for
India and several other countries. ‘I shall strive towards making AMCHAM a
more credible voice for American business in India’, Narayanan said.
Narayanan is responsible for all of IBM’s sales, marketing, services and
global delivery operations in the India / South Asia region, including operations in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
With 27 years of experience, she is also a member of IBM’s Growth &
Transformation Team, a member of IBM’s Global Women’s Council and
Chairperson of the Board of governors for National Institutes of Technology
(NIT) heading NIT-Suratkal.
Uninor CFO steps down
New Delhi, May 12 (PTI):
Uninor’s chief ﬁnancial ofﬁcer Vivek Anand has resigned, about a year
after joining the company. Anand had joined Uninor in May 2014 after its
then CFO Prasoon Sinha was elevated to handle Group Finance function
at headquarters in Oslo. ‘Uninor’s chief ﬁnancial ofﬁcer Vivek Anand has
decided to pursue his future aspirations outside of our company. Vivek
has been instrumental in streamlining the ﬁnance deliveries for Uninor’,
the company said in response to an e-mail query.
Before joining Uninor, Anand was chief ﬁnance ofﬁcer at Unilever Bangladesh. Last week, Norwegian telecom company Telenor’s Indian arm Uninor
had posted an operating loss of about Rs 127 crore in the ﬁrst quarter ended
31 March, 2015. The company had posted a proﬁt of about Rs 1,561 crore
a year ago due to refund of licence fee to the tune of Rs 1,660 crore from
the Indian government.
PIO appointed SoftBank President
Tokyo/New Delhi, May 12 (PTI):
Indian-origin Nikesh Arora was on Monday appointed as president and COO of
Japan’s SoftBank and may become the next CEO, as the telecom major expands
its presence in overseas market including India. Arora will assume his new role on
19 June. Speaking at the company’s earnings conference, CEO Masayoshi Son
said the former Google executive is a ‘strong candidate’ to lead the company in
future, ‘He’s 10 years younger than me, and he has more abilities than me’, he
said. ‘The last nine months I’ve spent with him have made me sure of that...
Nikesh and I will lead SoftBank in its second stage’, he said.
Son added that Arora’s experience and insight on the global Internet
business model will help SoftBank grow further.
Arora joins the ranks of Pepsico Indra Nooyi, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella,
Mastercard’s Ajay Banga and Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen, the Indian-origin
business leaders heading global giants.
Over the top trouble
New Delhi, May 12 (PTI):
Bringing over-the-top (OTT) players
like WhatsApp and Skype under a
licensing regime will result in ‘negative unforeseen consequences’ for
technology start-ups and ecosystem,
internet service providers have said.
‘The hasty imposition of an additional regulatory framework on internet
in India, without full consideration of
its implications for the Indian digital
economy, is almost certain to result
in negative unforeseen consequences
for internet-based innovation and the
still nascent internet startup ecosystem in India’, industry body IAMAI said
in its counter-comments submitted
to TRAI.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of
India (TRAI) on 27 March came out
with a consultation paper on Net Neutrality with 24 April and 8 May as the
last day for submission of comments
and counter comments, respectively.
The regulator received over 10
lakh comments from various telecom
ﬁrms, associations and individuals.
It received 42 counter-comments
from industry lobbies including COAI,
NASSCOM, IAMAI and operators including Vodafone, MTNL and RCOM
apart from individuals.
TRAI, which is examining the comments, is yet to give its ﬁnal recommendations on the Net Neutrality.
In its comments, GSM telecom
operators lobby COAI said there
is a need to evolve the regulatory
framework for OTT communications
Eastern eyes on India
Hanoi, May 12 (PTI):
Vietnam, which is fast-emerging
as a major tourist destination in the
world, is eyeing India as a potential
market to attract visitors to its scenic
locations and the treasure trove of
war-time history.
‘In 2008, nearly four million tourists visited Vietnam while in 2014,
just within six years the number
had reached eight million’, Vietnam
National Administration of Tourism
Chairman Nguyen Van Tuan told a
delegation of Indian journalists.
India is a potential market for Vietnam in terms of tourism, he said
adding that the bilateral relations between the two nations have always
remained good.
A total of 2.17 lakh Vietnamese tourists including those residing overseas
visited India in 2014 while 54,000 Indian tourists visited Vietnam, Nguyen
told reporters who were here on a
visit to attend the 40th anniversary
of 30-year-longVietnam War and its
reuniﬁcation.
Vietnam, a strategically-important
Southeast Asian country, has earned
$9 billion from tourism alone.
Moody’s optimistic
on credit conditions
New Delhi, May 12 (PTI):
Rating agency Moody’s on Monday
said credit conditions are likely to
improve for rated Indian corporates
over the next 12-18 months on the
back of upturn in economic activities, government’s reform push and
transmission of monetary easing.
In a report, the global agency said
that over the next 12 to 18 months,
credit conditions are likely to improve
forrated Indian corporates and infrastructure debt issuers in a number of
pro-cyclical industries, such as industrials, transport infrastructure, metals and
automotives.
‘These industries stand to beneﬁt from
an upturn in economic growth, gradual
transmission of monetary easing, weaker
commodity prices and the government’s
pro-growth policy agenda’, it said.
better quality of service’.
He added that the IT infrastructure market will go up
to $2.29 billion in 2018.
Domestic companies will
focus on creating integrated data centres for optimising existing IT assets
and delivering non-stop IT
services to business, the
consultancy said, specifying where it sees the
demand coming from.
It further said the enterprise networking market
will grow 7.02 per cent to
$944 million in 2015 driven
by an increased focus
on mobility and big data
activities and software
deﬁned networking.
Storage modernisation and
consolidation, backup and
recovery, and disaster recovery will result in a 9.23 per
cent growth in the storage
market to $426 million.
However, the servers
segment will be a drag on
the overall IT infrastructure spend and will witness
a 4.77 per cent dip at $658
million, it estimated.
AURUM SOFT SYSTEMS LIMITED
CIN No: L32200TN1994PLC026958
Regd. Ofﬁce:
New No:9, Ground Floor,
4th Street, Venkateswara Nagar, Adyar,
Chennai-600 020, India
Tel.: ( 91)-44-42187785/ 94
e-mail : [email protected]
Website: www.aurumsoftsystems.com
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that pursuant
to Clause 41 of the Listing Agreement,
a meeting of the Board of Directors of
the Company will be held on Saturday,
May 30, 2015, inter alia to consider the
audited standalone ﬁnancial results of
the Company for the quarter and the year
ended March 31, 2015 and the audited
and consolidated ﬁnancial results of the
Company and its subsidiaries for the
year ended March 31, 2015.
By order of the
Board of Directors
Srikanth
Ramanathan
Date : May 11 2015
Managing Director
Place : Chennai
NAME CHANGE
I, P. SHRUTHI, daughter
of Thiru S. Prakash, born on
25th February 1993 (native
district: Chennai), residing
at Old No.22, New No. 30
Rajaji Street, Nehru Nagar,
Chrompet,
Chennai-600
044, shall henceforth be
known as P. SRUTHE.
P. SHRUTHI
I, P. USHA, wife of Thiru
S. Prakash, born on 11th
September 1963 (native
district: Thiruvannamalai),
residing at Old No.22, New
No. 30 Rajaji Street, Nehru
Nagar, Chrompet, Chennai600 044, shall henceforth be
known as P. VATSALA.
P. USHA
ﬁrm Celframe, topped the list with a
personal fortune of $4 billion.
Pudur, a 37-year-old native of
Chennai, founded Celframe in 1998
after graduating from university, and
the software ﬁrm now produces the
world’s second most popular word
processor after Microsoft.
He also has assets tied up in diversiﬁed businesses in the ﬁelds of mining
and real estate, Wealth-X said.
Pudur is followed by Zhou Yahui of
China at the second place with a net
worth of $2.2 billion.
The Chinese dominated the list with
six entrepreneurs in the top 10, while
Japan had three. Nine of the self-made
billionaires on the Wealth-X top 10 list
amassed fortunes from the technology
sector. The only exception is 35-yearold Zhang Bangxin from China, who
made his wealth from tutoring services company TAL Education Group.
Zhang’s estimated networth of $2.2 billion puts him in the third spot on the list.
The youngest entrepreneur on the
list is 32-year-old Leo Chen, who
is the chairman and CEO of Jumei
International Holding, one of China’s
largest online cosmetics retailers.
mandates, will result in revenue losses to the government, approximately
Rs 4,600 crore a year’, COAI said.
However, IAMAI contended that application-based services are ‘not same
class of service as the normal calls’. ‘The
internet-based communications (VOIP
and Chat) cannot be offered without
Internet unlike traditional wireless or wire
line calls. There are similar services but
deﬁnitely not the same’, it said.
IT body NASSCOM said it is important to note that internet platforms and
services are ‘inherently different’ from
the services being offered by telecom
operators.
Pharma sector
falling sick?
Hyderabad, May 12 (PTI):
Indian pharma exports are
estimated to have grown,
but at a slower pace of 2.2
per cent to about $15.2
billion during the ﬁnancial
year ended March 2015
against $14.9 billion in the
previous ﬁscal, said a top
ofﬁcial of Pharmexcil, an
export promotion body,
here on Monday.
Pharmaceuticals Ex-
port Promotion Council
(Pharmexcil) director General PV Appaji said the
depreciation of Russian
rouble, coupled with the
Ukraine situation, mainly
led to a degrowth in overall
pharma exports despite
a solid showing in the US
market.
‘In rupee terms, the exports were at Rs 96,000
crore during 2014-15. We
I, KIRTHI ACHAR, Wife of
Thiru V.Balaji Srinivasan, born
on 11th April 1968 (native
district: Bangalore-Karnataka),
residing at Old No. 14, New
No.28, 7th Main Road, Raja
Annamalaipuram, Chennai-600
028, Tamilnadu, India, shall
henceforth be known as KIRTHI
ACHAR SRINIVASAN.
KIRTHI ACHAR
Chennai, 09.05.2015.
Ind Bank Housing Ltd.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Under instructions from my client
Syed Mohamed S/o. Hussain,
residing at No.13339, 14th Cross
Street, Kannagi Nagar, Okkiyam
Thuraipakkam, Chennai - 600 097.
Property situated at Madurai District,
Sub-Registration District of Madurai,
Madurai West Taluk, 51, Neer
Chellur Village, Survey No.14/2,
Plot No.4, total extent of 3 cents Sale
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Okkiyam Thuraipakkam to Tambaram
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said property make a claim to the
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date of publication failing which it
will be construed that no person
have any claim or title over the
property.
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Plot No.6, 6th Street,
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Chennai - 600 045
Cell: 98410 65566
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are yet to receive the ﬁgure
in dollar terms... It will be
about 2.2 per cent growth’,
he told reporters on the
sidelines of a programme
organised by Indus Foundation.
Appaji said the growth in
the US would be around 13
per cent last year despite
various regulatory issues
compared with 18 per cent
earlier.
Corporate Ofﬁce: 480, III Floor, Anna Salai, Nandanam, Chennai - 600 035.
AUDITED FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31.03.2015
Sl.
No.
(Rs. in Lakhs)
Quarter Ended Quarter Ended Quarter Ended Year Ended
(Audited)
(Unaudited)
(Audited)
(Audited)
31.03.2015
31.12.2014 31.03.2014 31.03.2015
DESCRIPTION
Year Ended
(Audited)
31.03.2014
1
Net Sales/Income from
operations
3.97
5.30
11.27
44.80
2
Other Income
235.30
9.48
12.11
265.75
28.54
3
Total income
239.27
14.78
23.38
310.55
49.13
4
Expenditure
a) Staff Cost
b) Other Expenditures
20.59
4.69
3.00
4.89
13.74
15.69
10.58
2.18
2.21
27.25
15.75
0.00
0.42
0.86
0.42
d) Provision & contengencies
-466.09
-35.13
-3.14
-503.39
-16.35
5
c) Bad Debts written off
TOTAL (4a to 4d)
-450.82
0.00
-29.95
4.38
-461.54
15.51
6
Interest
695.75
271.73
245.61
1487.17
957.10
7
Depreciation
0.20
0.12
0.15
0.91
0.59
8
Total Expenditure (5+6+7)
245.13
241.90
250.14
1026.54
973.20
9
Proﬁt (+)/Loss (-)
before tax (3-8)
0.00
-5.86
-227.12
-226.76
-715.99
-924.07
10
Provision for Taxation
19.02
11
Net Proﬁt (+) / Loss (-) (9-10)
-24.88
-227.12
-226.76
-735.01
12
Add : Prior period adjustment *
0.00
5.67
0.00
0.00
0.00
13
Net Proﬁt (+) / Loss (-) (11-12)
-24.88
-232.79
-226.76
-735.01
-924.07
14
Paid-up equity share capital
1000.00
1000.00
1000.00
1000.00
1000.00
15
Reserves excluding
revaluation reserves
583.17
583.17
583.17
583.17
83.17
11675.69
11650.81
10940.68
11675.69
10940.68
19.02
-924.07
16
Accumulated Losses
17
Basic and diluted EPS for the period
for the year to date and for the previous
year (not to be annualised) Rs.
Negative
Negative
Negative
Negative
Negative
18
Public Shareholding
Number of Shares
4900000
4900000
4900000
4900000
4900000
49%
49%
49%
49%
49%
Percentage of Shareholding
19
Promoter & Promoter Group Shareholding
a) Pledged/encumbered
- Number of shares
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
- Percentage of shareholing as
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
% of the total shareholding of
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
Promoter & Promoter Group
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
- Percentage of shareholing as
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
% of the total shareholding of
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
the company
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
b) Non-encumbered
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
NIL
- Number of shares
5100000
5100000
5100000
5100000
5100000
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
51%
51%
51%
51%
51%
- Percentage of shareholing as
% of the total shareholding of
the total shareholding of promoter &
Pormoter Group
- Percentage of shareholing as
% of the total shareholding of
the company
Investor complaints
Pending at the beginning of the quarter
0
received during the quarter
0
Disposed off during the quarter
Remaining unresolved at the end of the quarter
0
0
SUMMARISED BALANCE SHEET
NAME CHANGE
New York, May 12 (PTI):
Indian tech billionaire Arun Pudur
has been ranked as Asia’s wealthiest
entrepreneur under the age of 40, according to the Wealth-X list released
on Monday.
The global wealth intelligence and
prospecting company said Pudur,
the owner and president of software
‘The hasty imposition of an additional
regulatory framework on internet in India,
without full consideration of its implications
for the Indian digital economy, is almost
certain to result in negative unforeseen
consequences’, IAMAI said
services as imbalances exist between
the telecom service providers and
OTT communication players and
‘need of the hour is to address them
at the earliest’.
The telecom body said if the principle of ‘same rules, same service’ is
not applied, it will have an adverse
impact on the telecom industry, the
economy and cause signiﬁcant loss
of revenue to the exchequer.
‘The continued substitution of communication service from mobile operators to OTT players as a result of
price differentials resulting from the
imposition of regulatory and policy
5
Chennai bizman
tops Asia’s
wealthiest list
q Service providers warn against licence regime
‘IT infra spending to grow 3.3%’
NT Bureau
Chennai, May 12:
Global consultancy firm
Gartner on Monday said IT
infrastructure spending in
the country will rise 3.3 per
cent to $2.02 billion this year,
mainly driven by data centre
modernisation initiatives.
‘The Indian IT infrastructure market will total $2.02
billion in 2015, a 3.3 per
cent increase from 2014’,
Gartner said in a statement.
The IT infrastructure market includes server, storage
and networking equipment.
Commenting on the ﬁgures, Gartner research director Naveen Mishra
said, ‘The domestic infrastructure market will witness investments primarily fuelled by data centre
modernisation initiatives
to drive uninterrupted and
TUESDAY
12 MAY 2015
As at
31.03.2015
(Rs. in Lakhs)
As At
31.03.2014
SHAREHOLDERS FUND
(a) Capital
(b)Reserves and Surplus
LOAN FUNDS
Other long term liabilities
Current Liabilities and Provisions
TOTAL
FIXED ASSETS
INVESTMENTS
Long term loans and advances
CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS AND ADVANCES
(a) Sundry Debtors
(b) Cash and Bank balances
(c) Loans and Advances
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
TOTAL
1000.00
583.17
1000.00
583.17
10512.81
9456.34
312.89
305.49
310.55
435.98
12714.36
1.82
11786.04
2.81
3.50
2.88
494.08
348.12
0
0
528.71
10.56
478.87
12.68
11675.69
112714.36
10940.68
11786.04
NOTES :
1. The above results were reviewed by the Audit Committee and
adopted by the Board of Directors in their meeting held on
11.05.2015
2. The only business activity of the Company is housing
ﬁnance and hence no segment
reporting has been done.
3. The depreciation for the current year has been revised in
tune with the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013
4. Prior period expenditure shown in the quarter ended
Dec 2014 is group under interest head for the year ended
31.03.2015
5. Previous year’s ﬁgures are regrouped and reclassiﬁed
wherever necessary, to confirm to the current years
classiﬁcation
6. The ﬁgures for the quarter ended 31.03.2015 are the
balancing ﬁgures between unaudited ﬁgures in respect
upto the quarter ended 31.12.2014 and the published year
to date ﬁgures upto the period ended 31.03.2015 of the
current ﬁnancial year
By Order of the Board
Place : Chennai
Date : 11.05.2015
For Ind Bank Housing Ltd.
Sd/- BANABIHARI PANDA
MANAGING DIRECTOR
6 TUESDAY
12 MAY 2015
Sports
CHENNAI
Henriques did it
for us: Warner
SRH captain happy to overcome Miller blitz
Hyderabad, May 12:
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) captain David Warner heaped praise
on fellow Australian all-rounder
Moises Henriques after the team
posted a nervy ﬁve-run win over
the struggling Kings XI Punjab to
edger closer to the play-offs spot
in the IPL 2015.
Speaking after the match against
George Bailey & Co on Monday,
the dashing Australian opener
said, ‘that’s one of the three we
needed to win. We had to be
clinical and work on the Rajasthan
ﬁnish.’
He was however in awe of David
Miller, who almost took Kings
XI past the ﬁnish line and said,
‘Phenomenal innings from Miller.
He batted fantastic but credit to
Moises Henriques for four overs - 3
for 16. Knowing this ground, 160
was probably par. Credit to the
bowlers for taking early wickets.
We are playing a positive brand of
cricket, we look to build momentum
and make it four
in a row.’
Warner
said he was
dejected to
miss out on a
ton and added,
‘there was a little
bit of an error
in my mind thinking that I could try
and scoop it. It is just not my style
of play and my game. That’s why I
was frustrated. I should have just
backed myself to hit straight. I got
a well executed yorker but it was
my fault I got out the way I did because I was trying something that
I shouldn’t have done. ‘
The losing captain Bailey said,
‘It was extraordinary. We just left
a little too much for him (Miller).
We have plenty of positives in the
last couple of games. We have to
get our starts better. Can’t fault the
effort of the boys.’
Miller, who ﬁnally came good
with a solid knock, said, ‘This is
my best knock so far this year
in the IPL. I haven’t really had a
cracker of a season to be honest. I have just been there and
thereabouts with a few good
starts. I am actually feeling really good about my batting at
the moment. I knew just hanging in there would always help
and one big knock will always
be round the corner.
Moises Henriques
SRH players celebrate the win over Kings XI Punjab.
No recall for KP
despite triple ton
Kevin Pietersen
London, May 12:
Kevin Pietersen will not
be recalled by England
despite scoring an unbeaten 326 for Surrey,
British media reported
on Monday.
The controversial
right-hander made
the ﬁrst triple century of his career
to offer a timely
reminder of his talents to new England
cricket director Andrew Strauss.
But after meeting with Strauss
in
the
evening
P i -
Murray undecided
about playing in Rome
Rome. May 12:
Andy Murray was reportedly ready
to make a decision on whether to
take part in the Italian Open after
completing the best week of his
career on clay with his ﬁrst two titles
on the surface.
Murray’s comprehensive 6-3, 6-2
defeat of Spanish ace Rafael Nadal
in the ﬁnal in Madrid on Sunday
knocked the king of clay down to
seventh on the ATP list, his lowest position in a decade.
Murray and his team were
seriously discussing the pros
and cons of playing in Rome,
after their man won trophies
in Munich and Madrid in the
space of seven days.
Should he decide to play, Murray
will open in the second round against
Jeremy Chardy of France.
The third-ranked Scot could not
have asked for a better French Open
preparation and might not want to risk
either injury or fatigue with Roland
Garros starting in 13 days. It’s a
different story completely for Nadal,
who desperately needs matches and
conﬁdence after going down in front
of his home public to Murray in a Madrid ﬁnal which did not even extend
to 90 minutes.
Nadal insisted he feels his tennis is
on the right path despite not having
won a spring clay title.
‘I’m already thinking in
Rome, it’s an important
change. You change from
playing with altitude to no
altitude there,’ the Spaniard said.
On court at the ATP and WTA
event, 10th seed Grigor Dimitrov began his week with a
defeat of Pole Jerzy Janowicz 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) while
French 12th seed Gilles Simon put out American Jack Sock 4-6,
7-6 (7/2), 6-3.
American 16th seed John Isner
downed Joao Sousa 7-5, 6-3. German Philipp Kohlschreiber, Munich
runner-up to Murray a week ago,
reached the second round over
American Donald Young 6-4, 6-1.
Gilles Simon
etersen was told he will not be recalled to the England side. Pietersen,
sacked by England last year, batted
for over seven hours against Leicestershire at The Oval. ‘I’m desperate
to play for England again.
That’s what I want to do.
It’s not just numbers, but
how important the timing
is,’ the South-African born
batsman told Sky Sports.
‘The pressure I was under
this morning ... that’s
one of the best innings
I’ve ever played.
‘I knew that I basically
needed to answer and question with
runs and goodness: 326 is a pretty
good argument.’It was Pietersen’s
50th ﬁrst-class ton and his ﬁrst county
championship hundred for nearly two
years. He has faced 373 balls, hitting
34 fours and 14 sixes. Pietersen was
sacked by England in February
2014 following the team’s 5-0
Ashes defeat in Australia after
being accused of being a divisive
character in the squad. But the
Cricket
34-year-old said the only thing that
mattered was what the players produced on the ﬁeld.
‘Personal differences between
personalities have nothing to do with
what the public wants. The public
wants to see England cricket winning. I feel I can add to the England
team doing well this summer,’ he
said.
Pietersen met with former England
captain Strauss, who
has had his own problems with the controversial right-hander, and ECB
chief executive Tom Harrison
on Monday evening.
England’s leading run scorer in all
forms of international cricket was
dropped after sending text messages
about his skipper Strauss to South
Africa players during a test series in
2012. Strauss had to apologise last
year after using an offensive term to
describe Pietersen while working as
a television commentator. He had not
been aware his comments could be
heard live on air.
Aamir plays 1st competitive
match in ﬁve years
Karachi, May 12 (PTI):
Banned Pakistan left-arm pacer
Muhammad Aamir played his ﬁrst
proper competitive match in ﬁve
years yesterday when he appeared in the national T20 super
eights tournament at Faisalabad.
Aamir, whose spot ﬁxing ban
ends in September that will
make him eligible to play for
Pakistan again, picked
up two wickets for 15
runs in 2.1 overs while
playing for the Rawalpindi
Rams against Abbotabad
Falcons.
Aamir, 22, played in the Patrons
Trophy Grade-2 competition for a
private team in March-April but it was
a non-ﬁrst class tournament.
Aamir suffered a hamstring injury
during the ﬁnal of the tournament
in which he took 22 wickets in
four games. The International
Cricket Council has given
Aamir special permission
to resume playing domestic
cricket before his ﬁve-year
ban ends later this year. ‘It
was a terriﬁc feeling playing
in a big tournament after
so many years,’ Aamir told
reporters.
The Super Eights tournament is
televised live and the winner wins
the right to represent Pakistan in the
Champions League tournament.
Lanka picks Ramanayake
as fast bowling coach
Colombo, May 12 (PTI):
Champaka Ramanayake has replaced Chaminda Vaas as Sri Lanka’s fast bowling coach, Sri Lanka
Cricket announced yesterday.
Vaas left his position last month at
the end of his contract. He was said
to be having a rough relationship
with head coach and former teammate Marvan Atapattu.Ramanayake
will be in charge for the next three
international home series against
Pakistan, India and the West Indies.
Ramanayake, a former fast bowler,
played 18 Tests between 1988 and
1993.
Late Gomis goal sinks Arsenal
London, May 12:
Arsenal’s hopes of catching Manchester City for second place in the
Premier League suffered a setback
after a late Bafetimbi Gomis header,
verified by goalline technology,
handed Swansea City a 1-0 win at
the Emirates on Monday. Substitute
Gomis struck five minutes from
time, meeting Jefferson Montero’s
cross with a header that crossed
the line before it was scooped out
by keeper David Ospina, the goal
conﬁrmed almost immediately to the
referee by the goalline technology
system.
Frenchman Gomis also scored the
winner when Swansea beat Arsenal
2-1 at home in November.
Arsenal, who
have three
games left to
play, remain on 70
points, three points
behind City who
have two games
left. Manchester
United, in fourth,
have 68 points
Advani takes a swipe
at TOP scheme
New Delhi, May 12 (PTI):
Twelve-time world champion cueist
Pankaj Advani feels the governmentrun TOP Scheme for India’s Olympic
medal hopefuls clearly shows how
sport is treated unequally in the
country.
Advani, who has brought many laurels to the country with his exploits in
snooker and billiards, goes on to say
that India can improve in the world of
sport only if all disciplines are treated
at par.
‘Personally, it is tough to understand our country’s obsession with
Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games. I know they are
big events, I know they come once in
four years, but just because of this it
doesn’t mean they are the be all of
sport. ‘So I feel if you are supporting
sports and sportspersons, don’t have
an event oriented policy,’ Advani told
PTI when asked about TOP Scheme,
which will fund training for select 75
athletes ahead of the Rio Olympics.
Advani further explains his point.
with the top three securing automatic
entry into the Champions League
group stage. United host Arsenal at
Old Trafford on Sunday. ‘We were
a bit unlucky with the goal. There
are a lot of positives. This kind of
game you play 20 times and win
19 times,’ Arsenal manager Arsene
Wenger told Sky Sports.
‘In patches our domination was
top quality. You have to learn from
defeat and we take encouragement
from a defeat like that. Swansea
deserve
credit for
their defensive display but they probably had the fewest passes in our half
of any team here this season.’
Swansea goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski frustrated his former club, the
Poland international making several
good saves in the second half to thwart
the home side. Arsenal, unchanged
for ﬁfth successive game, had rarely
tested Fabianski in a tepid opening
half. It took almost an hour for Arsenal
to muster their ﬁrst shot on target with
Olivier Giroud shooting straight at
Fabianski.
Hamilton to ink new
deal with Mercedes
Lewis Hamilton
London, May 12:
Lewis Hamilton’s long-awaited
new deal with Mercedes could be
announced at the showcase race of
the Formula One season in Monaco
next week.
Dismissing media reports that the protracted
negotiations had become
deadlocked over money,
the double world champion indicated everything
was on track with
an announcement
imminent.
‘You’ll see it in Monaco -- I will have
some news for you
in Monaco,’ the
Briton told reporters after Sunday’s
Spanish Grand Prix in
Barcelona.
Media reports have indicated that the 30-year-old,
who leads German team
mate Nico Rosberg by 20
points in the championship after ﬁve
races, could net more than $40 million a year under the new contract.
Hamilton is out of contract at the end
of this season and the saga of his
negotiations has kept the media busy
since last year, when the talks were
put on hold for him to concentrate on
the title battle.
He told reporters before the Malaysian Grand Prix in March that it was
99.6 per cent done with only
some ‘legal stuff’ remaining.
The BBC reported in March
that Hamilton, who has conducted his own negotiations
with Mercedes, would earn
about the same basic salary
as in his ﬁrst contract with the
team he joined in 2013.
However other sources indicated
the terms would be more lucrative, to
reﬂect his success and status.
Hamilton, who won the ﬁrst of his
two titles with McLaren in 2008, is
already one of the three highest paid
drivers in the sport with Ferrari’s
Sebastian Vettel and McLaren’s
Fernando Alonso reckoned to earn
at least as much.
Mixed Bag
CHENNAI
TUESDAY
12 MAY 2015
7
BJP MPs laud PM
‘Hope govt succeeds in fulﬁlling promises made to people’
VIT University vice-presidents Sekar Viswanathan and G V Selvam
handing over the admission letter to a candidate on the ﬁrst day of
counselling at the VIT University, Vellore, on Monday. S Narayanan,
Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Manivannan, Director-UG admissions are
among those present.
New Delhi, May 12 (PTI):
As Narendra Modi government
completes one year in ofﬁce, BJP
today lauded the Prime Minister’s
efforts towards cooperative federalism and setting in motion a
strategy for inclusive development
and hoped it will succeed in fulﬁlling
promises made to the people.
As it prepares to highlight the
government’s achievements during
the week-long anniversary celebrations, the BJP Parliamentary Party,
Regd. Off: HDFC Bank Hosue, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai-400 013.
AUCTION NOTICE FOR GOLD ORNAMENTS
The borrower (s) (whose details are provided in the table herein below),in particular, and the public, in general, are hereby informed that the below
mentioned loan account is overdue, and the borrower account holder has not responded to/complied with the communications and notices send
by HDFC Bank Limited (the “Bank”) requesting the borrower to clear his/her/ their dues as per the documents in respect of the below mentioned
loan signed/accepted by the borrower (such documents, collectively “loan agreement” ) and therefore defaulted in terms thereof . The bank has
in exercise of its rights as a pledgee, decided to enforce the pledge and therefore hold a public auction of the gold ornaments pledged to the bank
as security for the loan for the purpose of selling the same and realizing / recovering the dues owed by the borrower to the bank. The auction will
be conducted at below mentioned branch. 20-05-2015 at 11.00 am onwards.
KUMAR MUNIASAMY 174/31 NEW NO ANNA WEST
STREET MADURAI - 625009
A0213474 SURESHRAJA RAJAMANI 191 NNO 132 PP CHAVAI
MAIN MADURAI HO - 625010
26-May-14
27-Jan-15
67804.67
3
1304329
VIDYASAGAR SABESAN 159/4C KAMARAJAR SALAI
MADURAI - 625009
11-Jul-14
236950
4
1466586
KARTHIKEYAN SIVASUBRAMANIAN 88 KALIAMMAN
KOVIL STREET PALANGANATHAM MADURAI-625003
30-Jul-14
36875.26
5
1421175
PANDIYAMMAL SENTHILVEL NO 82/92 CHINNASAMBAI
VENNATHUR RAMANATHAPURAM-623531
11-Aug-14
49121.51
6
1113834
12-Aug-14
72508.49
HDFC BANK LTD., NO.40, SALMA CENTRE, VANDIKARA STREET,
RAMANATHAPURAM-623501
20-Aug-14
79278.36
HDFC BANK LTD., NO. 34, SRI NITHIYAKALYANI TOWERS,
KRISHNARAYAR TANK STREET, NORTH VELI STREET,
MADURAI-625001
HDFC BANK LTD., 78/4, S S TOWERS, BYE PASS ROAD,
MADURAI-625016
Loan No
1
136014
2
7
PRABAKARAN VARATHARAJAN 1E/NA EB MAIN ROAD
MUTHURAMALINGAPURAM PYKARA WARD 100
MADURAI-625004
559935R2 SAILA PREMKUMAR 75 WEST ANAND MODLA VEATHI
MADURAI CORP MADURAI-625001
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1115763
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1180255
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1070347
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844060
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1272204
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1331794
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Borrower`s Name & Address
Date of Loan
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1198888
24571.4
26-Aug-14
58229.52
07-Apr-14
65314.31
HDFC BANK LTD., PLOT # 46, DOOR NO 23, 1ST MAIN ROAD
NANGANALLUR CHENNAI-600061
48
A0070366 RAJADHESINGH DAIVASIGAMANINO24 VOC STREET
KARUNANITHI NAGARULLAGARAM CHENNAI 600061
21-Aug-14
27503.73
HDFC BANK LTD., PLOT # 46, DOOR NO 23, 1ST MAIN ROAD
NANGANALLUR CHENNAI-600061
49
VENNILA MURUGANNO 2-161-A/-NEHRU STREET
PASUMPANNAGAR PERUMBAKKAM CHENNAI 600100
SIVAKUMAR VEERAPPANNO 4 ISHWARYA GARDEN
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STDURGAMCHEYYAR632317
HDFC BANK LTD., NETWEST VIJAY, PHASE I VAIGAI BLOCK NO. 48
VELACHERY - TAMBARAM MAIN ROAD CHENNAI-600100
HDFC BANK LTD., NETWEST VIJAY, PHASE I VAIGAI BLOCK NO. 48
VELACHERY - TAMBARAM MAIN ROAD CHENNAI-600100
HDFC BANK LTD., 27 A FIRST FLOOR, TRUNK ROAD
POONAMALLEE CHENNAI-600056
HDFC BANK LTD., 27 A FIRST FLOOR, TRUNK ROAD
POONAMALLEE CHENNAI-600056
HDFC BANK LTD., 10/B, SRI NARAYANA KRISHNA COMPLEX, M.C.
ROAD, AMBUR - 635802
PANDIYAMMAL SENTHILVEL 82 SAMBAI VENNATHUR
(P) RAMNAD-623531
PAPPATHI SOMASUNDARAM 101 BAHARSA STREET
VILLUPURAM 605602
RAMESH PRAMMAMATHAN 140 MARIAMMAN KOIL
STREET PANAEMPATTU VILLUPURAM SOUTH 605103
01-Sep-14
40986.59
02-Aug-14
113097.21
18-Aug-14
44090.97
20-Aug-14
51534.25
22-Aug-14
126679.89
25-Aug-14
1006602.74
25-Aug-14
42488.08
01-Sep-14
34001.41
26-Nov-14
51672.6
HDFC BANK LTD., 61 NO 2 GANDHIJI ROAD KORANADU
MAYILADUTHURAI-609001
24-Sep-14
285677.33
HDFC BANK LTD., NO - 19, TPK NAGAR, POONTHOTAM
OPPOSITE TO NEW BUS STAND VILLUPURAM -605602
27-Nov-14
187198.8
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54
55
56
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58
59
HDFC BANK LTD., SOORYA ICON, GR.FLR., # 360
M.G.ROAD, PUDUCHERRY OPP.PETIT SEMINARE SCHOOL
PONDICHERRY-605001
HDFC BANK LTD., NO. 16, CENTIGO BUILDING 100 FEET ROAD,
ELLAIPILLAICHAVADY PONDICHERRY-605005
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62
63
64
65
HDFC BANK LTD., NO. 16, CENTIGO BUILDING 100 FEET ROAD,
ELLAIPILLAICHAVADY PONDICHERRY-605005
66
HDFC BANK LTD., SOORYA ICON, GR.FLR., # 360
M.G.ROAD, PUDUCHERRY OPP.PETIT SEMINARE SCHOOL
PONDICHERRY-605001
HDFC BANK LTD., 74 / 1A VINAYAGA TOWERS OPP TO LVB
SALEM MAIN ROAD VILUPURAM - 606202
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20-Aug-15
1038818
HDFC BANK LTD., 214 / 15, DDJ CENTRE, OPP VADASERY BUS
STAND NAGERCOIL NAGERCOIL-629002 TAMIL NADU INDIA
73
02-Jan-15
59458.4
HDFC BANK LTD., T.S.NO.9954/3A1,MARTHANDAPURAM 3RD
STREET,ALANGUDI MAIN ROAD,PUDUKKOTTAI 622001
74
29-Jan-15
243607.47
HDFC BANK LTD., NO 150/2599, KAILASH COMPLEX, SOUTH
MAIN ROAD,THANJAVUR 613009
14-May-14
261166.92
HDFC BANK LTD., NO.11 PLA KANAGU TOWERS, 1ST FLOOR,
11TH CROSS MAIN ROAD,THILLAI NAGAR, TRICHY 620018
14-Nov-14
94323.37
03-Nov-14
76539.97
HDFC BANK LTD., NO.420/11 KAMBANS NAGAR,TRICHY MAIN
ROAD,PERAMBALUR 621212
HDFC BANK LTD., NO.11 PLA KANAGU TOWERS, 1ST FLOOR,
11TH CROSS MAIN ROAD,THILLAI NAGAR, TRICHY 620018
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141190.7
HDFC BANK LTD., 1635, TRICHY ROAD, CLASSIC TOWERS, TRICHY
ROAD, COIMBATORE- 641018
28
1250551R SRIKUMAR JAYABALAN NEW NO.13/A6
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THOTTAM,MANIYAGARAMPALAYAM
COIMBATORE-641049
15-Nov-14
95933.59
HDFC BANK LTD., 1/180-2, NANJAMMAS BUILDING,
METTUPALAYAM, THUDIYALUR, COIMBATORE- 641034
11-Aug-14
87694.82
HDFC BANK LTD., 1635, TRICHY ROAD, CLASSIC TOWERS,
TRICHY ROAD, COIMBATORE- 641018
20-Aug-14
66479.18
HDFC BANK LTD , #307, SREE GOKULAM TOWERS, 7TH STREET
100 FEET ROAD GANDHIPURAM COIMBATORE-641012
01-Sep-14
59917.97
HDFC BANK LTD., 1/180-2, NANJAMMAS BUILDING,
METTUPALAYAM, THUDIYALUR, COIMBATORE- 641034
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13-Aug-14
27820.54
HDFC BANK LTD., NO : 24 , MILL ROAD MODACHUR ROAD ,
GOBICHETTIPALAYAM-638452 TAMIL NADU .
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7TH STREET KANGAYAM ROADTIRUPUR - 641604
A0025859 GUNAPATI VENKATA KRISHNAREDDYNO S-3 2 NDGOKUL
17-Feb-14
648369.33
COLONY, SABABATHIPURAM, TIRUPUR-641601. TAMIL NADU.”
HDFC BANK LTD., NO. 50, FIRST MAIN ROAD, NANDANAM
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10-Apr-14
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CHENNAI CHENNAI-600035
HDFC BANK LTD., NO. 50, FIRST MAIN ROAD, NANDANAM
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Q BLOCKNUNGAMBAKKAMCHENNAI600034
A0025985 SARAVANAKUMAR KRISHNAMOORTHYFLAT NO 40
21-Aug-14
72057.22
CHENNAI CHENNAI-600035
HDFC BANK LTD., NO. 50, FIRST MAIN ROAD, NANDANAM
14-Aug-14
48313.21
HDFC BANK LTD., NO. 50, FIRST MAIN ROAD, NANDANAM
04-Aug-14
103840.67
21-Feb-14
133296.18
HDFC BANK LTD., #46 GANDHI MANTAPAM ROAD CHENNAI
CHENNAI-600085
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34
11-Aug-14
46810.48
HDFC BANK LTD., #307, SREE GOKULAM TOWERS, 7TH STREET
100 FEET ROAD GANDHIPURAM COIMBATORE-641012
07-Aug-14
26964.52
HDFC BANK LTD., #307, SREE GOKULAM TOWERS, 7TH STREET
100 FEET ROAD GANDHIPURAM COIMBATORE-641012
25-Nov-14
53549.32
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HDFC BANK LTD., NO 29, 30 &31 NELLUKARAN STREET 1ST
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18-Aug-14
102439.53
HDFC BANK LTD., NO.1, BLOCK NO.5, PARI SALAI, MOGAPPAIR
EAST CHENNAI 600037
18-Aug-14
70084.77
HDFC BANK LTD., NO.1, BLOCK NO.5, PARI SALAI, MOGAPPAIR
EAST CHENNAI 600037
31-Jul-14
38426.41
HDFC BANK LTD., NO.1, BLOCK NO.5, PARI SALAI, MOGAPPAIR
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1250320R GEORGEKENNEDY JESUDHASON NO 2 MULLAI
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90043.33
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COIMBATORE-641001
30
02-Apr-14
13-Aug-14
69 A67129
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96535
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HDFC BANK LTD., 214 / 15, DDJ CENTRE, OPP VADASERY BUS
STAND NAGERCOIL NAGERCOIL-629002 TAMIL NADU INDIA
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Place of Auction
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Borrower`s Name & Address
Naqvi said after the meeting. The party
had earlier said that Union ministers,
MPs and functionaries will go to various parts of the country to tell people
about the welfare measures taken for
underprivileged sections and farmers
as part of a week-long ‘Jan Kalyan
Parv’ from 26 May to June .
Union Minister Piyush Goyal said the
party was unanimous in appreciating
Modi’s leadership and hoped government will succeed in fulﬁlling the
promises made.
ANUBHARATHY VENKATARAMANFLAT NO-6 DABC
ABHINAYAM PHASE-1SRIRAM NAGAR MAIN ROAD
NOLAMBURCHENNAI600095
A0070423 MAHESWARI CHINNA KARUPPASAMYE4-44/NAVOC
STREETOTTERY EXCHENNAI600048
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HDFC BANK LTD., NO. 34, SRI NITHIYAKALYANI TOWERS,
KRISHNARAYAR TANK STREET, NORTH VELI STREET,
MADURAI-625001
HDFC BANK LTD., NO.40, SALMA CENTRE, VANDIKARA STREET,
RAMANATHAPURAM-623501
HDFC BANK LTD., NO - 19, TPK NAGAR, POONTHOTAM
OPPOSITE TO NEW BUS STAND VILLUPURAM -605602
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cooperative federalism, for providing transparent and accountable
governance and for enhancing the
country’s standing and image among
the international community,’ the
resolution said.
‘Prime Minister Narendra Modi told
the party MPs that there will be weeklong celebrations on completion of one
year of NDA government and MPs will
highlight the initiatives taken by the
government in each of their constituencies,’ Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas
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11th May 2015
443896.6
S.
No
in a unanimous resolution passed
at its meeting chaired by Modi here,
backed initiatives to ensure social
security for poor and vulnerable
sections of society and provide
transparent and accountable governance.
‘The BJP Parliamentary Party has
commended Prime Minister Narendra Modi for arresting the drift in governance by infusing the much desired
sense of purpose and for improvising
the governance architecture through
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HDFC BANK LTD., NO.27, MGR SALAI, KANDHANCHAVADI,
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HDFC BANK LTD., NO.419, C T H ROAD, PATTABIRAM,
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WHERE THEY STAND
TEAMS
Warner the batsman,
captain, fan
Hyderabad:
Each time David Warner walks out with a bat in
his hand going through his regular routine of walking to the crease loosening up and swinging his bat
with one hand in a circular motion, you can sense
purpose. It is almost like a time bomb ticking vigourously waiting to explode and create mayhem on the
22 yards.
On Monday night at Hyderabad was one such night
when Warner not just exploded but blew away the
Kings XI Punjab bowlers to all parts of the ground.
This, not before he played out the ﬁrst over watchfully; the overs to follow were dealt with severity
though.
In the process he became the highest run-scorer of
the tournament and the ﬁrst one to get to 500 runs
this year. Those numbers are a pointer of his dominance and consistency with the bat. The Sunrisers
are at the top four of the table and with wins in each
passing game are making a statement that they belong. They are leaving no stone unturned to stay in
the hunt for the playoffs. Much credit goes to Warner
who has well and truly led by example and marched
his troops with effectiveness. As his side recorded a
nervy ﬁve-run victory over Kings XI Punjab, Warner
spoke to iplt20.com on the way forward for Sunrisers,
his batting and captaincy.
Q: Got tense towards the end, but would you
call it a near perfect win for you?
A: Defending the target, the message to my bowlers was clear and that was early wickets. I did not
want a repeat of the Rajasthan Royals game (SRH
won by seven runs after scoring 201). We have been
so good at death bowling but it seems as though
when we get close to dominating the opposition
we ﬁnish off a lit bit slow. We have to work on the
execution of death bowling. When you have 60 odd
runs to play with in 18 balls you should be winning
these games with atleast 15 to 20 runs to spare. But
the bowlers were fantastic tonight. Credit has to go
to Moises Henriques for the way he bowled. It was
a great spell of bowling. Four overs for 16 runs and
three wickets is a phenomenal effort on this pitch.
But some batsmen you don’t want to bowl to as a
bowler is David Miller at the end. His striking of the
ball is fantastic.
Q: You very much looked in the zone to get a
century. Dejected to miss out on a well deserved
ton?
A: It is a bit frustrating. I try to bat as deep as I
could there. There was a little bit of an error in my
mind thinking that I could try and scoop it. It is just
not my style of play and my game. That’s why I was
frustrated. I should have just backed myself to hit
straight. I got a well executed yorker but it was my
fault I got out the way I did because I was
trying something that I shouldn’t have
done.
Q: Leading run-scorer and
consistent in the tournament,
is captaincy one of the reasons
behind
it?
A: Not really. I think I can play with
the freedom
that I do because
me and Shikhar
Dhawan have
been getting off to
a good start. Even
though we lose quick
wickets we still back
our ability. That is our
job; our job is to score runs
and if it comes off it comes
off. If not you can’t rely on
that speciﬁc group of the top
order. We all have to keep working
together and at the moment the
middle-order is coming off really
well. They are playing fearless
cricket and that is what we
have asked for from them.
Q: Next you face Royal
Challengers Bangalore
and then there is the AB
factor. Do you think you
almost pulled off an innings similar to his tonight?
A: (Smiles) I am not in the
same category as AB de Villiers. He is a guy that comes
out and gets himself in and then
all of a sudden he just switches
from slow motion to the extreme
rocket or something like that.
Whatever he is eating, we want
some of that. That’s the way he
plays; it is fearless cricket. The
thing is, he is able to do that because his top two are scoring the
runs. It allows your middle order
to play in when your top three are
scoring runs.
Q: Just to put you on a spot, if you
had to pay to watch three players in
international cricket, who would that be?
A: I would pay to watch Mitchell Starc bowl, AB
de Villiers bat and I would say David Miller if he is
batting while chasing. They are three guys I would
deﬁnitely pay to watch
Mat
Lost
Tied
N/R
12
8
4
0
0
16
Kolkata Knight Riders
12
7
4
0
1
15
Sunrisers Hyderabad
12
7
5
0
0
14
Rajasthan Royals
13
6
5
0
2
14
RCB
11
6
4
0
1
13
Mumbai Indians
12
6
6
0
0
12
Delhi Daredevils
12
4
8
0
0
8
Kings XI Punjab
12
2
10
0
0
4
PTS
TOMORROW’S MATCH
KIngs XI Punjab vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
at Mohali, 8 pm.
Steyn yearns
for another WC
David
Warner
is all
admiration for
AB de Villiers, who
he said
played
fearless
cricket
and was
among
the guys
he would
pay to
watch
Hyderabad:
Dale Steyn has expressed willingness to play one more
World Cup and suggested that he may not be available for
South Africa’s full tour of Bangladesh in July. The South
Africa pace bowler is aware that at 31, his career may
wind up soon and he wants to save his best for all leading
tournaments.
‘At this stage of my career, I’d rather be saving myself to
go and participate in the major tournaments, rather than
wasting the few balls I have left in my career in a Bangladesh match,’ Steyn told Wisden India in an interview.
‘I’d rather go to Bangladesh to help and support future
South African bowlers, and use what is left of the 10,000 or
20,000 deliveries that I have in my body for the big tournament. That’s where I’m at personally. But at the beginning
of my career, I would have done everything. I would have
gone every tournament and to every place. But I’ve done
it all now.’
Steyn admitted that as his career reaches its twilight, he
might no longer be able to continue bowling with the same
intensity throughout. He considers Test cricket to be the
most challenging and wants to play as many as he can
before calling it a day.
‘I love playing Test cricket and I know that my days are
numbered with regards to how many Test matches Im going to have left, so Id prefer to play a lot more Test cricket,’
Steyn said.
Having featured in two 50-over and four T20 WCs, Steyn
believes that it’s better for him to stay fresh. He stressed
on wanting to win a World Cup for South Africa, which has
always been the main agenda on his list.
David Warner
Dale Steyn
GOING BY
NUMBERS
ORANGE CAP
(MOST RUNS)
1. David
Warner (504)
2. Ajinkya
Rahane (461)
3. AB de Villiers
(436)
PURPLE CAP
(MOST WICKETS)
1. Dwayne Bravo
(19)
2. Bhuvneshwar
Kumar (18)
3. Ashish Nehra
(18)
‘Form matters
not age’ as DD
backs Yuvi
NEW DELHI:
Delhi Daredevils CEO Hemant
Dua has said that it was IPL market
that decided Yuvraj Singh’s price
of Rs 16 crore and the franchise
is ﬁ rmly backing the ageing star
despite his failure to turn the team’s
fortunes in the ongoing eighth edition of the league.
Yuvraj has managed only 205 runs
at a dismal average of 18.63 from 12
games and DD are practically out of
contention for a place in the play-off.
‘I think we talk about Rs 14 croreRs 16 crore but that’s all a market
place. As Yuvraj had rightly said (in
Vizag) that he never asked for that
price. It was a market place,’ DD
CEO Dua told PTI during an interaction where he analysed the team’s
performance in the current season.
Raghava Lawrencce
in Pataas remake
Anupam Kher
joins American
drama series
A
ctor-ﬁlmmaker Raghava Lawrencce will soon play the lead in yet-untitled
Tamil remake of recent Telugu hit Pataas.
Raghava has just delivered a hit with his latest Tamil directorial Kanchana 2.
‘I’m taking a break from direction. I’ll be acting in the remake of Pataas. It
was a fun ﬁlm and I’m going to love working in it. We are on the lookout for
a suitable director for this project,’ said Lawrencce.
Producer RB Chaudhary has bagged the ﬁlm’s remake rights.
A sleeper hit, Pataas revolved around a corrupt policeman who gets changed
for good due to an incident.
Meanwhile, Lawrencce has a few scripts ready for some of the leading
heroes of southern cinema.
‘I have two scripts ready for superstar Rajinikanth. I’m working on a script for
actor Pawan Kalyan. As soon as I complete it, I intend to go and meet him.
I’m also getting ready with the next part of Kanchana,’ he said.
V
eteran actor Anupam Kher has been roped in to be a part of
the upcoming American sci-ﬁ drama series ‘Sense8,’ which will
premiere on digital streaming service Netﬂix on 5 June.
The web TV series has been created, written and executive-produced
by ‘The Matrix’ trilogy creators Andy and Lana Wachowski and ‘Babylon
5’ helmer J Michael Straczynski.
Kher, 60, who shared the trailer of the series on Twitter, said he is
proud to be associated with it.
‘Presenting the sensational trailer of Wachowskys @sense8 for
#Netﬂix. Happy to part of this terriﬁc project,’ he tweeted.
‘Sense8’ also stars Brian J Smith, Tuppence Middleton and Aml
Ameen in lead roles.
Kher becomes the third Bollywood star in the recent past to star
Won
Chennai Super Kings
Anupam Kher
on American series after close
friend Anil Kapoor, who starred
on ‘24’ and will be seen voicing
for popular comedy show ‘Family Guy.’ Actress Priyanka Chopra will be seen on ‘Quantico.’
— PTI
Mike Tyson lands role
in Kung Fu biopic
‘CROW’DSOURCING
F
ormer heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has landed a role as
a street ﬁghter in ‘Ip Man 3.’
The ‘Hangover’ star will play a property developer and brawler in the movie
about Bruce Lee’s former mentor Wing Chun aﬁcionado Yip Man, reported
Variety online. Donnie Yen will reprise his role as Ip and will face off with
Tyson in the ﬁlm.
Wilson Yip will return as director of the movie, which is due to hit theatres
next year in 3D. The original ‘Ip Man’ became a cult action movie upon its
release in 2008. The ﬁrst sequel hit the big screen in 2010.
Tyson, 48, has acted in ﬁlms including ‘The Hangover II’, ‘Scary Movie5’ and
the upcoming ‘Meet The Blacks.’
— PTI
A murder of crows takes a break from the summer heat, by making use of water near Marina beach.
Photo : A R Jayakumar
Boxer Mike Tyson with Donnie Yen.
Raghava Lawrencce
‘American Idol’
ending with
season 15
The upcoming 15th season of popular
singing talent hunt ‘American Idol’ will
mark the end of the reality TV series.
Fox announced that it had renewed
the ageing singing competition, and the
current judges roster of Jennifer Lopez,
Keith Urban and Harry Connick, Jr will
all return with it - as will long-running
host Ryan Seacrest, said the Hollywood Reporter.
The network did not mince words
in its announcement of the renewal,
conﬁrming No 15 would be the last for
the one-time behemoth and referring to
it as a ‘season-long celebratory event.’
It’s been expected for some time that
this renewal would be Idol’s last, as
the show has seen both its ratings
and relevance fade in an increasingly
crowded landscape.
The current season has generated
stronger critical favour but only averaged a 2.7 rating among adults 18-49
and 10.7 million viewers on Wednesday nights.
— PTI
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