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H CHENNAI H TUESDAY 28.10.2014 (EVENING) H OTHER STATIONS WEDNEESDAY 29.10.2014 (MORNING) H 8 PAGES Rs. 4.00 H Regd. No., TN/CC(S) Dn. / 223 / 12-14, RNI No: 33810 / 82
TN earmarks
Rs 60 cr to
repair roads
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
Chief Minister O Panneerselvam today said Rs 60 crore will be allocated
to repair roads and ponds which were
affected in the recent rains.
In a statement here, he said a high
level meeting was held at the Secretariat today, during which relief works
were reviewed.
At the meeting, it was decided to
enhance solatium to the family of
victims who died due to rains from the
existing Rs 1.50 lakh to Rs 2.50 lakh.
Owners of cattle which died due to
the downpour have also been given
compensation, he said.
The Chief Minister said officials
concerned have been advised to assess rain damage to crops after the
ﬂood subsided.
Since the rains are expected to last
till the end of this year, Ministers and
ofﬁcials have been directed to take
necessary steps.
The meeting was attended by
Electricity Minister Natham R Viswanathan, Housing Minister R Vaithilingam, Highways Minister Edappadai
Palanisamy and higher ofﬁcials.
AIADMK man
murdered
at Velacheri
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
A member of the AIADMK
was murdered while he taking a morning stroll near
Housing Board quarters in
Velacheri.
According to police sources, Ezhumalai (45), a ward
secretary of the AIADMK
and a resident of Ambedkar
Nagar in Adambakkam, was
taking his routine walk at
around 6.30 am, when he
was attacked and killed by
unknown persons.
Police said there have been
reports of dispute within his
family and his brother’s son is
suspected to be involved in the
murder.
The Velacheri police have registered a case and further investigations are on.
Delhi stalemate: SC
slams Centre, Governor
q ‘President rule can’t go on forever’ q ‘Enough time has been given’
New Delhi, Oct 29:
The Supreme Court today pulled
up the Central government as well
as the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi,
Najeeb Jung, for delay in taking decision regarding government formation
in the national capital.
Resuming hearing on the petition
ﬁled by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
seeking dissolution of the Delhi Assembly and fresh polls, the court
said that the LG should have taken
decision on government formation at
the earliest and should not have taken
ﬁve months’ time.
The apex court said that people of
Delhi have a right to have a government and not be under President’s Rule
even if the Lieutenant Governor calls
the largest party to form government.
The court questioned whether
The apex court
said that people of
Delhi have a right to
have a government
and not be under
President’s Rule
any of the parties have the required
numbers to form the government.
The BJP has 29 MLAs, Aam Aadmi
Party 27 and Congress eight in the
70-member House.
A party needs at least 36 MLAs to
stake claim to form the government.
‘In a democracy, President’s Rule
can’t go on forever,’ the apex court
stated.
The court adjourned further hearing
on the petition even as the Centre
told the court that the President has
allowed the LG’s proposal to invite
BJP to form government.
‘Suppose Lt Governor is going to
invite the largest party (BJP). Are
they in a position to form the government?’ the court enquired, apparently
making a reference to the number of
The spot where Ezhumalai (inset) was murdered this morning.
q All that he wanted was ‘VIP treatment’
FAKE ACCOUNT
The car used by Vivekananda
Mishra (inset) for his ‘operations’.
past 25 days, he is said to have used
the luxury of VIP lounges at railway
stations and jumped signals.
As per initial inquiries, he has not
cheated anyone of cash.
Police said, although a doctor’s
visiting card was found in his posses-
legislators the BJP has in the Delhi
Assembly.
‘Our understanding was to give
time to the Lt Governor to decide. If
you had told us that we cannot take
decision, we may have heard the Aam
Aadmi Party petition and decided the
matter either way’.
‘With greatest respect at our command we feel the government should
have taken the decision earlier. All of
us know that the matter is pending
before the court and time has been
given to decide.’
The court added that it will hear
AAP’s plea on merit on the issue.
Earlier this morning, sources had
claimed that the President has
given the nod to the LG to explore
options for government formation
in Delhi.
Light showers
predicted
for city
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
The city is expected to receive
light showers for the next two
days, with the trough shaping
as severe cyclone and moving
up towards the Western side.
The Meteorological Department has predicted rains for
southern Tamilnadu, and scant
rains for the Coastal State.
Whereas Pondicherry and
northern parts of the State will
receive scattered showers.
Further, Chennai will record
a maximum temperature of 32
degree celsius and minimum of
25 degree celsius today.
After favouring coalition,
Sena praises Modi
CRIME SCENE
The curious case
of a con-cop
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
At a time when plain-clothed policemen are making rounds to catch offenders in the city, a peculiar case took
the department by surprise on Monday.
Here was a man. who dressed up in
police uniform and drove around in a
vehicle with a police sticker, only to
gain the ‘respect’ normally associated
with police personnel.
According to police sources, a Trafﬁc Sub Inspector who was on duty
near Maduravoyal in Koyambedu,
pulled up a car for driving on the
wrong side. However, the man behind
the wheel, who claimed to be an IPS
ofﬁcer, sped away when asked to
produce the identity card.
The trafﬁc personnel at subsequent
signals were alerted and he was caught.
Police found Vivekananda Mishra
(43) was carrying a fake ID issued from
the ‘Metropolitan police’ and travelled
in a car with police sticker. He had
convincingly behaved like a top ofﬁcer,
police said, but there has been no
cases or complaints ﬁled against him.
In the guise of a top ofﬁcer for the
On the backfoot
resident Pranab Mukherjee has given his consent
to Delhi LG’s proposal to invite BJP to form the
government in the national capital, the Centre today
told the Supreme Court which rapped the LG for the
ﬁve-month delay in taking a decision.
The apex court said that in a democracy, President’s
Rule cannot go on forever and questioned why the
authorities failed to act expeditiously.
A ﬁve-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice
H L Dattu said that it will hear the petition ﬁled by Aam
Aadmi Party (AAP) seeking dissolution of the House even
though the Centre informed the bench that the President
has given his consent on Lt Governor Najeeb Jung’s
proposal to invite BJP to form government.
The bench also asked why the Centre always comes
out with one statement or another just a day before
the matter is taken up for hearing by it.
In Mumbai, even as back channel talks over power
sharing were on between BJP and Shiv Sena, the latter, in an apparent attempt to mend ties with its former
ally ahead of government formation in Maharashtra,
praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for hosting a
Diwali tea party for NDA allies.
The Sena had yesterday spoken openly in favour of
a BJP-led coalition government for the ﬁrst time and
today it showered praises on Modi for changing the
cultural face of the country.
In the guise of a top
ofﬁcer for the past
25 days, he is said to
have used the luxury
of VIP lounges at
railway stations and
jumped signals
sion, he reportedly said he had never
posed as one. On investigations,
it was revealed that Vivekananda,
a resident of Annanur near Avadi,
moved to the city three years ago.
Having completed a course in
hotel management and working in
the industry for over eight years, he
has also worked as a chauffeur in an
Egmore restaurant.
A police source said, the department has come across several men
who pose as police ofﬁcers for jewels
and money. However, this is a unique
case, in which the man wanted the
position to satisfy his vanity.
He is currently remanded at
Puzhal prison.
Photo: K VIJAY ANAND
Mumbai, Oct 28 (PTI):
Even as back channel talks over power sharing were on between BJP and
Shiv Sena, the latter, in an apparent attempt to mend ties with its former
ally ahead of government formation in Maharashtra, praised Prime Minister
Narendra Modi for hosting a Diwali tea party for NDA allies.
The Sena had yesterday spoken openly in favor of a BJP-led coalition government for the ﬁrst time and today it showered praises on Modi for changing the
cultural face of the country. ‘Prime Minister Modi has changed the cultural face of India
after coming to power. This is commendable. Until yesterday only Iftar parties were
being held by leaders during the Eid festival, today Diwali is being celebrated as well.
This is an important change,’ the Sena said in an editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana.
Notably, the editorial is in stark contrast to an article published in ‘Saamana’
earlier this month, when the Sena had accused the BJP of not recognising the
party (Sena) after winning the State Assembly elections.
However, softening its stand, the Sena had yesterday said, ‘If Shiv Sena
and BJP come together to form a government it will be stable. Our ties with
BJP are very old. Whatever happened during the elections we have forgotten.’
The party today praised the Prime Minister saying that, ‘Modi used the occasion (the high tea organized for NDA MPs on Sunday) to put forward his
schemes for the development of the poor. He asked all the MPs to work for
the beneﬁt of common man. Whatever he said was true.’
‘Lakhs of crores have been spent on development schemes, but nothing
substantial has been done by the previous governments in the last 50 years.
The new government should now ﬁnd out where did all that money go and
whom did it beneﬁt,’ the editorial stated.
Gurunath’s role in IPL
betting getting clearer
New Delhi, Oct 28:
Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of ICC chairman N Srinivasan
is back in the news
again. According to
call data records of the
IPL spot-fixing case,
there were 200 calls
made between Vindoo Dara Singh, bookie
Vikram Aggarwal and
Gurunath Meiyappan in
just three days, as per
media reports.
It also said that Meiyappan had procured
mobile sim cards by submitting fake documents
for the purpose of cricket
betting.
Few days ago, the
Forensic Science
Laboratory in Mumbai had identified the voice of Meiyappan in a
tapped phone conversation. According to multiple media reports,
Meiyappan was heard talking to Vindoo Dara Singh, an accomplice in this case.
Two bodies found
near beach
Mangalore, Oct 28 (PTI):
The bodies of two persons who had
been missing since Saturday after they
drowned at the Kaup beach in Udupi,
was found at Udayavara-Padukere
area last evening, police said.
Of the three persons of a family who
were washed away by the waves, the
body of Jagadish Rao (40 )was recovered on Saturday itself. The bodies of
Sunil Rao (33) and Harsha (14) were
found yesterday after two days of
search by rescuers, police, ﬁre force
and local people, police said.
Teen assaulted
at Avadi
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
A teen who is an accused in a murder
case, was seriously injured when he
was assaulted by unknown person(s)
on New Avadi Road this morning.
According to police sources, Gopinath
(18), a ﬁrst year B, Com student from
Lakshmi Nagar Third Street at Villivakkam, was on his way to college when
unidentiﬁed person(s) attacked him.
On sustaining severe injuries on his
head and hands, he was rushed to
Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital
where his condition is said to be critical.
Police said that Gopinath is an accused
in the murder of one Sathish, and he must
have been attacked for revenge. The
Villivakkam police has registered a case.
US court summons
Amitabh Bachchan
Los Angeles, Oct 29:
The Federal court of Los
Angeles has summoned
top Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan for allegedly instigating violence
against the Sikh Community in 1984.
The petition against Bachchan was
ﬁled by Sikhs for Justice legal advisor
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
According to the petition, Bachchan
instigated the attacks. He allegedly
raised slogans saying, ‘Khoon ka
Badla Khoon se lenge’ (‘Blood for
Blood’) after former Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi was assassinated.
The actor has 21 days to respond.
Petitioner Gurupatwant Pannun,
member of US-based human rights
group ‘Sikhs For Justice’, has accused Bachchan of instigating violence through his slogan.
2 TUESDAY
28 OCTOBER 2014
City
Centre
The gates are closed
CHENNAI
TWIT PICK
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Residents want parks at Porur to be opened soon
The park in Madha Nagar
which provides facilities
such as toilets, play area,
acupuncture stones and
“The battle is all over except the
“shouting” when one knows what is
wanted and has made up his mind to
get it, whatever the price may
be.”
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ight parks which were
to be open to the public
in
Madhanandapuram
and
Mugalivakkam are yet to serve
their purpose and have not been
inaugurated as yet.
The
parks
were
supposed
to
be
inaugurated by the Chief
Minister of Tamilnadu
through video conferencing.
Ofcials have been giving
reasons that park is not functioning
because they were nding it hard
to get security guards.
The park in Madha Nagar which
constructed at a cost
provides facilities such as toilets,
play area, acupuncture stones and
sports equipment was constructed
at a cost of Rs 59.9 lakh.
The other parks which are to be
inaugurated in the
neighbourhood
also sport the
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same
facility
POR
and nearly cost
the same. Several residents
have
complained
to
ofcials
regarding the issue but none seem
to bother.
‘It is nearly two months since the
park was completed but it is still not
Narendra Modi @narendramodi
of Rs 59.9 lakh
We pay rich tributes to our Infantry Martyrs
who dedicated their lives to protect the unity &
integrity of our Nation
open, some miscreants jump into the
park during the night and damage
the property,’ says Shyamala a
resident of Mugalivakkam.
‘Many elders nd it hard to walk
on these roads, as they are not
properly tar coated. A park like this
would do them much good and will
help them in their daily walks,’ adds
Shyamala.
Residents have planned on
submitting a petition to the
Corporation regarding the issue
soon.
-Napoleon Hill
Divinity reigns at
Amman Koil Streets
ROAD BLOCK
Alavatta Amman Koil Street boasts of good roads and a lot of greenery.
A
stream of temples welcomes
one while fresh breeze wafts
across the temple pond
and clean, well-laid roads
seem to reassure
residents every
time they enter
and leave Alvatta
Amman Koil Street
and Ponni Amman
Koil Street.
This reporter took a
stroll
in the area and caught up w i t h
residents and found out that this
place was one to be in!
‘Denitely we don’t have any
problems here. It’s safe, clean,
green and has a very homely
environment.
Neighbours
are
just like family members. And
maintaining
the serenity of
this place
are the
temples.
I would
be
a
fool if I would ever
think of leaving this place. This
is my home. A perfect place,’ said
V Nagarajan, a resident of Ponni
Amman Koil Street.
He goes for an evening walk
regularly around the temple pond
where a well maintained space has
been kept for people to walk and
relax. People here don’t just think
UR
IY
SELA
Construction material dumped on the roadside at
Thiruvalluvar Street in Selaiyur leaves no space for
pedestrians and motorists.
Photo: E K SANJAY
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about themselves but also about
their environment. The area is very
green with many trees and plants.
It is claimed that no crime has
come to light from this area.
Children, women and the elderly
live without fear here, residents
said.
One cannot even spot any
garbage heap as residents make
sure the area remains hygienic
as well.The two streets have
become yet another example in
the neighbourhood for being calm,
green as well as clean.
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TUESDAY
28 OCTOBER 2014
Around Town
CHENNAI
VIGILANCE
week
3
Music & the
healing effect
q Listening to songs helps boost kids’ self-esteem
Aavin chief vigilance commissioner Ravi at the inauguration of the
Vigilance Awareness Week observed by BPCL in Chennai yesterday.
BPCL’s Retail Head (South) Santhosh Kumar and Senior Manager
(Vigilance) N Venkatramani are also present.
Former Central Vigilance Commissioner P Shankar unveiled a
special poster for Vigilance Awareness Week at CPCL in Chennai
yesterday. CPCL Director (Operations) S Venkataramana and CPCL
Chief Vigilance Ofﬁcer, Y Ravindranath are present.
CPCL unveils
special poster
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
A special poster was unveiled to mark Vigilance Awareness
Week at Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL).
The week long observance was inaugurated by former Central
Vigilance Commissioner P Shankar at CPCL’s Manali Refinery
here on Monday.
Speaking on the occasion, Shankar complimented CPCL
for their continuous effort in implementing systems and
p r o ce d u r e s. H e a l s o unveiled a special poster prepared for the
occasion.
In his presidential address, CPCL Director (Operations) S Venkataramana said CPCL has continuously strived to enhance transparency in its functioning by adopting innovative methods leveraging
technology.
He mentioned that more than 90 per cent of the value of tenders ﬂoated
by CPCL are in the form of e-tendering.
Earlier, CPCL Chief Vigilance Ofﬁcer, Y Ravindranath, explained the
importance of observing the Vigilance Awareness Week every year and
the programmes lined up for the week.
During the week-long programme, CPCL has planned a number
of events for students, employees, interaction meet with the
vendors/customers, apart from a number of vigilance awareness
programmes.
Port Trust to conduct
contests for employees
SANGEETHA R
Chennai, Oct 28:
Music may be of different types
and styles, but most importantly it
can cheer one up when he/she is
sad, make one move the body to
his/her favourite number and also
allows an individual to shut out the
world when the need arises.
But, grooving to music is not all,
as the same harmonic tunes have
scientiﬁc uses too.
Music has a great impact on lives
of people. It evokes emotion, and
with it, memory. One of the great
beneﬁts (of music) is that it is effective for relaxation and stress
management.
‘I believe music makes me ‘come
alive’ and has the ability to convey
all sorts of emotion - whether it is
joy, happiness, sadness or despair. While a day at school or work
would have stressed you for the
day, the only solution to release the
stress is listening to your favourite
soundtrack’, says Aishwarya, a
college student.
There is no denying that listening to music can change one’s
mood. In particular, athletes who
are about perform, listen to their
favourite tunes to ease the pressure in the arena.
‘I have seen many world class
athletes plugged in before perform-
Over 7 lakh forms
at spl campaign
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
A total of 7,45,177 applications were
submitted to election ofﬁcials at a special campaign held all over the State
on Sunday.
Around 6. 17 lakh applications were
for inclusion of names; 9,229 for deletion; 91,396 for correction in voter
details; and 26,708 for a change in
address within the constituency. Furthermore, 9,536 applications were
submitted online.
The next round of campaign will take
place at designated places on 2 November. In Tuticorin, it will be held on 1
November. Ofﬁcials would be present
at the designated locations to receive
the ﬁlled in forms between 10 am and
5 pm on the campaign day, an ofﬁcial
press release said.
Frontier Lifeline
opens cardiac unit
in Nigeria
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
Frontier Lifeline Hospitals has launched
a cardiac unit at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Nigeria.
This collaboration aims at conducting
cardiac surgeries in Nigeria, and also
to offer training to doctors, nurses and
paramedical technicians from LUTH.
‘Frontier Lifeline will also provide
training for cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, nurses and paramedical staff
from Nigeria, thereby ensuring that the
standards of care are maintained to
ensure a seem-less delivery of quality
cardiac care in Nigeria’, said Dr K M
Cherian, Chairman & CEO, Frontier
Lifeline Hospitals in a release.
What
is it?
Music therapy is the
use of music by healthcare professionals to
promote healing and
enhance quality of life
for their patients. This
form of therapy may
be used to encourage
emotional expression
and promote social
interaction.
ing for their lifetime. As a school-level
athlete, it not only makes you feel
good, but also, a great motivator’,
says Vasu, working in a private organisation.
‘It is important to choose songs
to your own preference which
makes you feel soothed either
during workout or during warmup. For some, fast music helps
concentrate better. A classical
or slower tempo usually relaxes
muscles and gives peace of mind.
This helps an athlete boost his/her
performance’, he adds.
It is a known fact that it can relieve
stress and provide an overall sense
of well-being. But it also has many
health-promoting ways, which is
the basis for a ﬁeld known as music
therapy.
According to a study, music therapy
can reduce depression i n c h i l dren and adolescents
w i t h
behavioural and emotional
problems.
Researchers found
that children had significantly improved
their self-esteem
and depression had
reduced. It
can also lower heart rate,
blood pressure
and breathing
rate.
SRM Varsity sets
record in placements
q Computer Science graduate gets
Rs 33 lakh as annual package
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
SRM University has set a record
with companies hiring the most
number of students during campus
interview.
Speaking to mediapersons here
yesterday, SRM University president P Sathyanayaranan said,
‘When the employment for engineers is becoming a tough sport in
any other colleges, SRM University
has marked the record with 3,689
students being recruited by reputed
companies with an annual salary
ranging from 3 to 3.5 lakh.’
Sathyanarayanan said prominent
companies like Wipro, Cognizant
and Infosys offered the placements
for the academic year 2015 on ﬁrst
day of campus interview.
The university dean for placements,
S Ganapathy said Works Applications, a Japanese company, offered
an annual package of Rs 5 million
Japanese Yen (Rs 33 lakh approximately) for a computer science ﬁnalyear student, Abhishek Gupta.
He further said many companies
have offered paid internships to
about 200 students. The university
SRM University president P Sathyanayaranan addressing mediapersons
in Chennai yesterday. The university dean (Placements) S Ganapathy
and registrar N Sethuarman are present.
‘Prominent companies like Wipro,
Cognizant and Infosys offered the
placements for the academic year 2015
on ﬁrst day of campus interview’
is also offering various scholarship programmes to economically
backward and physically challenged
students, he said.
SRM Engineering and Technology
director C Muthumizhselvan and registrar of the university NO Sethuarman were present on the occasion.
PHC bags Lions Club honour
Ofﬁcials of Chennai Port Trust administered Vigilance Awareness
Week pledge to employees in Chennai yesterday.
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
Chennai Port Trust will conduct various competitions such as essay
writing and poster making for ofﬁcers/employees of the Port and also for
school and college students focusing on information technology as a tool
for combating corruption.
According to a press release, the competitions are conducted as part
of Vigilance Awareness Week 2014 from 27 October to 1 November.
The awareness week commenced with administration of pledge by IRTS
Deputy Chairman, Chennai Port Trust, I Jayakumar and Chief Vigilance
Ofﬁcer of the Port, T Kandasamy, in Tamil and English respectively for
employees here on Monday. Deputy Conservator of the Port, M K Sinha
administered the pledge in Hindi. The Heads of Departments, ofﬁcers/
employees of the Port and CISF personnel participated.
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
Australia and India are like-minded
countries and share common values
such as democracy and respect for human rights, Australian Consul General
to South India Sean Kelly has said.
She was speaking at a function
organised by Lions Club of Central
Madras to celebrate United Nations
Day here last night during which
awards were presented in various
categories with the city’s Public
Health Centre, popularly known as
PHC receiving one.
Sean Kelly said the two countries
had demonstrated their commitment
to peace and security by regularly
committing to UN peacekeeping
missions. While India deployed over
1,60,000 troops in 43 missions,
Australia, with a population of only
22 million people sent over 65,000
troops in 50 missions.
He also congratulated India on its
recent re-election to the UN Human
Australian Consul-General to South India Sean Kelly giving away
Dr C V Ananthasayanam Memorial award to Public Health Centre
Medical Director Dr M K Srinivasan at a function organised by Lions
Club of Central Madras in Chennai yesterday.
Rights Council for the period 2015-’17.
Kelly made a special remark on
Chennai as their Consul had also
shown keen interest in Madras Day
celebrations held recently.
He recalled the First World War
when a German ship -- ‘Emden’
bombed the city continuously and
was ﬁnally drowned by a war ship
from Australia.
He also gave away awards instituted
in memory of outstanding Lions Club
activists such as E S Krishnan, Dr
P Sivaraj, Dr C V Ananthasayanam
and Dr V Aravinth Reddy to various
institutions and individuals. Among
the recipient of awards were Public
Health Centre (West Mambalam),
Sree Muthukumaraswamy College
(Kodungaiyur), Lions Club of Kallakurichi (Villupuram) and former director
of Institute of Diabetology, Madras
Medical College, Dr N Rajendran.
Lion Club’s G V Raman, R Kumar
and Srinivas Chakravarthy also spoke
on the occasion.
Sankara Nethralaya’s chairmanemeritus Dr S S Badrinath was also
present as special guest.
Later, in a chat with this reporter,
one of the awardees, Dr Rajendran referred to the alarming rise in
number of diabetes patients, especially among the younger generation.
To a question about the increase
in diabetes cases in the country,
Rajendran said though people suffered from the disease in the past
they seldom knew about it and cared
very little. However, now with lot of
awareness programmes and scientiﬁc and testing methods, reality about
diabetes is emerging clearly.
‘Unless we take adequate precautions both with regard to food habits
and proper medicines, the disease
though not infectious will be a very
big danger to society’, he cautioned.
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Cong conundrum
Unless they have no other option, most Congressmen tend to stay,
at least publicly, loyal to the Gandhis who seem to have a vice-like
grip on the party. Those devoid of any hope of getting any crumbs
from the Congress’s high table, or are foolhardy enough to speak
their mind openly, often dare to call a spade a spade --- and end up
immediately being silenced by the high command. Post-Lok Sabha
poll, a number of mid-level Congress leaders have been made to pay
the price for daring to express their true views about Rahul Gandhi,
with one of them actually calling him a ‘joker’ Privately, however,
a vast majority of Congressmen share their dissatisfaction with the
Gandhi scion. Now, following the drubbing in the Assembly polls in
Maharashtra and Haryana, there is a fresh wave of resentment and
anger against the high command. Indeed, even before the party could
absorb the shocks from Mumbai and Chandigarh, the announcement
of the poll schedule for Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand has lent
a sharper edge to the sense of despondency in the party.
With prospects in the two States set to go to the polls next no
better than the outcome in Maharashtra and Haryana, the downcast
mood in the party is easy to understand. But it is the failure of senior
Congress leaders to do an honest post-mortem of a series of abject
defeats this year that is mainly to blame for the party’s failure to come
to grips with its major ailment, that is, the lacklustre leadership of
the Gandhis. Even those Congressmen who ought to know better
refrain from calling the problem by its name. And, in one word, its
name is Rahul Gandhi.
The other day P. Chidambaram, surfaced on television to talk
about this and that but he fell well short of naming the malaise
that has hollowed the Congress from within. That he is keen on
entering Parliament through the backdoor is widely suspected. He
had chickened out of contesting the Lok Sabha poll, ﬁelding his
son instead, who got a few more votes than the bank ATMs his
father had got opened in the constituency thanks to his stint as the
country’s Finance Minister. But the very articulate and very clever
Chidambaram was unlikely to reveal his real motive of wanting a
Rajya Sabha seat, so he talked in generalities about the revival of
the Congress.
Instead of admitting that Rahul Gandhi had given no indication
of possessing any leadership qualities, he merely suggested that
the mother and son duo engage with the media more often. This
was a rather polite way to evade the real issue of the Gandhis’ lack
of leadership. Indeed, if the Gandhis were to heed the sole piece
of advice Chidambaram offered for the revival of the Congress,
wouldn’t it expose them further to public ridicule for their lack of the
gift of articulation and more than a nodding familiarity with current
affairs, domestic and global?
A complete leader wanting to rule India ought to have the mental
wherewithal to grasp broadly major problems facing the country
and be in a position to outline, again broadly, the solutions he or she
canvasses for resolving them. Chidambaram himself is a clever talker,
but when he says that the Gandhis too should interact with the media
more often, is he sure that they can handle the two-way dialogue?
For the record, he conceded that it was possible for someone else
other than a Gandhi to lead the party.
Of course, the possibility was always there but the question is who
will bell the cat? Who will muster the courage to gather support
within the higher echelons of the serried ranks of yes-men for
replacing at least the non-performing Congress vice-president with
someone more dynamic, more articulate, more go-getting than the
Gandhi scion? The fear that without the Gandhis acting as the glue
the party will disintegrate cannot be allowed to perpetuate their
stranglehold even as the Congress tests ever new lows of defeat and
rejection. Someone who has the good of the party at his heart, and
does not merely want a seat in Parliament, ought to have the courage
to call a spade a spade and rescue the Grand Old Party from further
marginalisation. Alas, are there such men left in the Congress?
Voice
Mail
Tough ride
Sir,
P V Vaithiyalingam Road, which leads to a leading college in Pallavaram
is in bad condition and ﬁlled with potholes. Due to this, frequent accidents
are reported with people falling off from their two-wheelers. Even going in
car is becoming difﬁcult and frequently tyres gets punctured.
This road is being used by students and parents dropping wards to the
schools on the stretch and also members of the public to reach the main
road leading to 100 feet Pallavaram chrompet Radial Road for going to
their ofﬁces. Residents staying in Zamin Pallavaram area have to use P V
Vaithiyalingam Road only for going to the main road.
This road was laid with sub-standard concrete blocks somewhere in 2010.
And after that it has been never laid. Monsoon rains in the last two-three
years, have battered the road completely making it unusable. It is high time
that the Pallavaram Municipality relay this load on a war- footing.
Anand, By email
Construct over-bridge
Sir,
I am writing this to bring to attention the plight of residents of Sanatorium
and Chitlapakkam, who use the (Sanatorium) subway daily to reach the
Railway station or GST Road. Some years back the subway was constructed
and subsequently walls were constructed in front of Railway gates on both
sides to prevent passengers from crossing the tracks. This is for public
safety, we agree. But the problem is, there is no alternative for pedestrians
to enter the station or to reach GST Road except through this subway.
This results in lots of sufferings to the public during rainy seasons as
the subway becomes unusable. These problems can be avoided if an
overbridge is constructed so that public get an alternative to enter station
or reach GST Road.
V Gayathri, Tambaram
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UN concludes visits to
Ebola-affected countries
‘Robust’ recovery plan in pipeline
UNITED NATIONS:
The head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response
(UNMEER) has wrapped up his visits
to the three West African countries
battling the Ebola outbreak as part
of the Organization’s ongoing efforts
to drum up international support in
tackling the deadly crisis, it was announced today.
Over the past week, UNMEER
chief, Anthony Banbury, met with the
Presidents of Guinea, Sierra Leone
and, on Friday, Liberia, in a series of
consultations focusing on how an operational framework for international
efforts could be ‘adapted and implemented to best support the ongoing
national responses,’ the mission said
in a press release.
In addition to his consultations with
the leaders, he also engaged in a
series of meetings with national and
international partners and visits to
health facilities under construction to
hear and see ﬁrst-hand how efforts to
stop the Ebola virus are progressing.
According to the UN World Health
Organization’s latest situation report, there have
been 9,936 cases of Ebola and 4,877 deaths so far
Developed in a recent
high-level meeting of
senior UN ofﬁcials and
external stakeholders
from the World Bank,
the United States’
Centers for Disease
Control, and the United
Kingdom’s Department
for International Development, the UN operational framework was
designed to provide a
UN response speciﬁc
to the needs of each country while
maintaining the centrality of national
ownership.
The Governments of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - each of which
has the ﬁnal decision on the overall
approach and strategy for dealing
with Ebola in their respective countries - have national response plans
in place and have been responding
to the crisis for many months. Those
Governments provided input and direction on the operational framework.
Google honours
Jonas Salk
Google has celebrated the 100th
birthday of Dr Jonas Salk, the American scientists who developed the
ﬁrst successful polio vaccine, with a
doodle on its homepage.
The heart-warming illustration depicts two children holding up a sign
reading ‘Thank you, Dr Salk!’ - a
tribute to the virologist’s work against
a disease whose main victims were
children.
In the two years before his vaccine
was made widely available, the average number of polio cases in the US
was more than 45,000. By 1962, that
number had dropped to 910.
Salk graduated from New York
University School of Medicine in 1939
with his MD degree, and soon started
work as a staff physician at Mount
Sinai Hospital in New York City.
He would then apply his talents to
the field of research, becoming a
fellow at the University of Michigan
where he worked to develop a ﬂu vaccine at the request of the US Army.
By 1947, he was appointed director
of the Virus Research Laboratory at
the University of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine, the institution where he
African lion to get
‘endangered species’
protection
WASHINGTON:
Loss of habitat and prey are putting
African lions in danger of extinction,
and the majestic creatures need
protection in
order to save
their species,
the US government said.
‘Following a
review of the
best available
scientiﬁc information, the US
Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed listing the
African lion as threatened under the
Endangered Species Act,’ the FWS
said in a statement.
‘The agency’s analysis found that
lions are in danger of extinction in
the foreseeable future.’ Such protection would allow US authorities to
toughen enforcement and monitoring
of imports and international trade, the
FWS said. Listing an animal under
the Endangered Species Act can also
help raise awareness and money to
help conservation efforts.
developed the techniques that would
help him discover a vaccine for polio.
Salk re-worked the established idea
of a vaccine by suggesting that immunity could be established in the body
by using inactivated viruses.
The virologist’s research soon
caught the attention of Basil
O’Connor, president of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
(now known as the March of Dimes
Birth Defects Foundation), whose
organisation funded Salk’s efforts to
develop a vaccine against the devastating disease. The resulting vaccine
was tested ﬁrst in monkeys and then
in patients at the DT Watson Home for
Crippled Children (now The Watson
Institute), who already had polio.
Polio-free volunteers, including
Salk, his laboratory staff, his wife and
their children, were given the vaccine
- none of whom reacted badly to the
experimental drug.
In 1954, national testing began on
one million children, ages six to nine,
who became known as the Polio Pioneers: half received the vaccine, and
half received a placebo. On April 12,
1955, the vaccine was declared safe
and effective.
Salk chose not to patent the vaccine
and did not earn any money from his
discovery, preferring to see it distributed as widely as possible. He died
at age 80 on 23 June, 1995.
Quake-resistant
house built, tested
WASHINGTON:
Stanford engineers have designed
and built an earthquake-resistant
two-story house which can withstand
destructive tremors and shakes.
The house stayed
staunchly upright even
as it shook at three
times the intensity of the
6.9 magnitude destructive 1989 Loma Prieta temblor in northern
California, researchers
said.
The engineers outﬁtted their scaled-down,
boxy house with sliding
‘isolators’ so it skated
along the trembling
ground instead of collapsing.
They included extra-strength walls
to create a home that might replace
the need for residential earthquake insurance, said project leader Gregory
Deierlein, Stanford University’s John
A Blume Professor in the School of
Engineering.
The modiﬁcations are inexpensive
and could be incorporated into new
homes as soon as designers and
contractors decide to try them, according to the researchers.
We want a house
that is damage free
after the big earthquake, said Eduardo
Miranda, an associate professor of civil
and environmental
engineering.
Residential homes
already do a good
job of keeping the
people inside safe
when a temblor hits.
But earthquakes typically do a lot of minor structural damage. Even if the walls stay up in a
quake, wall ﬁnishes like
drywall and stucco, along with
architectural ﬁxtures like cabinetry,
are damaged because of the large
sideways movements caused by
earthquakes, Deierlein said.
‘Making mistakes while
learning good for memory’
TORONTO:
Making mistakes while learning can beneﬁt memory and
lead to the correct answer, as long as you are not blindly
guessing, a new study has found.
‘Making random guesses does not appear to beneﬁt later
memory for the right answer, but near-miss guesses act
as stepping stones for retrieval of the correct information
- and this beneﬁt is seen in younger and older adults,’ said
lead investigator Andree-Ann Cyr, a graduate student with
Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute and the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto.
Cyr’s study expands upon a previous paper she published in 2012 which found that learning information the
hard way by making mistakes (as opposed to just being
told the correct answer) may be the best boot camp for
older brains.
Cyr’s latest research provides evidence that trial-and-
error learning can beneﬁt memory in both young and old
when errors are meaningfully related to the right answer,
and can actually harm memory when they are not. In the
study, 65 healthy younger adults (average age 22) and
64 healthy older adults (average age 72) learned target
words (eg, rose) based either on the semantic category
it belongs to (eg, a ﬂower) or its word stem (eg, a word
that begins with the letters ‘ro’).
For half of the words, participants were given the answer
right away and for the other half, they were asked to guess
at it before seeing the answer.
On a later memory test, participants were shown the
categories or word stems and had to come up with the right
answer. The researchers wanted to know if participants
would be better at remembering rose if they had made
wrong guesses prior to studying it rather than seeing it
right away.
‘The framework sets out the stepby-step process on how the UN and
international partners could support
the three governments on achieving
the overarching objective of assisting
them to become Ebola-free,’ UNMEER explained, while underlining its
‘immediate objective’ of 70 per cent
of Ebola cases treated and 70 per
cent of burials carried out safely by
properly trained and equipped teams
by 1 December.
Banbury’s meetings with President
of Guinea, Alpha Condé, President
of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma,
and with President of Liberia, Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf, provided inputs and
direction for the reﬁning and updating of the operational framework,
the UN mission noted. In addition,
it would now serve as a guide to be
followed by all UN agencies, funds
and programmes and form the basis
for the UN Ebola Crisis Managers in
each country as they engage with
their national counterparts.
App to track
Ebola epidemic
NAIROBI:
A new mobile telephone based
mapping service has been created in
a bid to track Ebola and better help
communities hit by the virus in west
Africa, developers said.
The system, a collaboration between technology giant IBM, mobile
telephone companies and academics, allows people in affected areas to
send free text messages about Ebola
to track problems and trends, with the
program mapping the exact location
from where it is sent.
‘It has already brought to light speciﬁc regions with growing numbers
of suspected Ebola cases which
require urgent supplies like soap and
electricity, as well as faster response
times for body collection and burials,’
IBM said.
The company claims it can create
a range of maps to track needs and
problems, to better allow health workers and governments tackle them.
‘We saw the need to quickly develop
a system to enable communities
directly affected by Ebola to provide
valuable insight about how to ﬁght it,’
IBM Research Africa’s chief scientist
Uyi Stewart said in a statement.
‘Using mobile technology, we have
given them a voice and a channel
to communicate their experiences
directly,’ Stewart said.
Hitler’s copy
of ‘Mein Kampf’
may fetch $100k
NEW YORK:
German dictator Adolf Hitler’s personal copy of ‘Mein Kampf’ - believed
to be the only existing author-owned
copy of the book - is expected to fetch
over $100,000 at an online auction.
‘This is not your run-of-the-mill
copy of Mein Kampf,’ said antiquities dealer Craig Gottlieb, who is
auctioning the book online at www.
historyhunter.com.
‘Obviously Hitler must have had
multiple editions of his own book, but
this one was in his Munich apartment
and Hitler’s eyes almost certainly
scanned its pages at some point,’
Gottlieb said.
The 1932 edition of the book bears
Hitler’s own bookplate afﬁxed to the
inside front cover. The auction began
on 18 October and will end on 1 November, 2014.
Mein Kampf - or My Struggle - is an
autobiographical manifesto by Hitler,
where he outlined his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
The book was written by Hitler following the failed Munich Putsch in
November 1923 and was ﬁrst published in July 1925.
The book was part of a group of
Hitler’s personal belongings that
was liberated from Hitler’s Munich
apartment in 1945 by US Army 1st
Lieutenant Joseph Ben Lieber.
Enterprise
CHENNAI
Indiabulls Housing net up by 21%
Shanthi Gears posts Rs 2.27 cr
profit
Shanthi Gears Limited announced its unaudited results for the quarter ended 30 September 2014.
According to a press release, the turnover for the quarter was Rs 36.77
crore against Rs 40.64 crore in the same quarter last year. The net proﬁt for
the quarter was Rs 2.27 crore against Rs 6.73 crore in the previous year. The
proﬁt for the half year ended 30 September was Rs 4.12 crore against Rs
10.09 crore in the previous year.
Company built its order book by Rs 54.6 crore (PY Rs 33.7 crore) under difﬁcult market conditions. The increase in the orders booked during the quarter
represents a growth of 62 per cent over the previous year. The company’s
order book currently stands at Rs. 92 crore, the release said.
Two fresh orders passed on different complaints
New Delhi, Oct 28 (PTI):
In yet another directive against
Coal India for abusing its dominant
position, Competition Commission
on Monday asked the State-owned
miner to cease and desist from unfair business practices.
Competition Commission of India
(CCI), which last year slapped a
penalty of Rs 1,773.05 crore on Coal
India for indulging in unfair business
practices, on Monday passed two
fresh orders on different complaints.
The two complaints, ﬁled last year,
pertain to anti- competitive practices
in an e-auction scheme and fuel
supply pacts, respectively.
In recent times, the Commission
which keeps a tab on unfair business
practices at the market place has
passed quite a few orders against
Coal India and is also probing certain complaints against the miner.
The Rs 1,773.05 crore penalty has
Country ranks low in
gender equality: WEF
Poor performance in R&D and economic ownership
New York, Oct 28 (PTI):
India has performed poorly in removing gender-based disparities,
ranking 114 out of 142 countries in
World Economic Forum’s 2014 gender gap index, scoring below average on parameters like economic
participation, educational attainment
and health and survival.
India’s slipped 13 spots from its last
year’s ranking of 101 on the Gender
Gap Index by the World Economic
Forum. India is part of the 20 worstperforming countries on the labour
force participation, estimated earned
income, literacy rate and sex ratio at
birth indicators.
On the other hand, India is among
the top 20 best-performing countries on the political empowerment
subindex.
The index was ﬁrst introduced by
the World Economic Forum in 2006
as a framework for capturing the
magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracking their progress. The
index benchmarks national gender
gaps on economic, political, education and health criteria.
‘Workplace equality in
distant future’
If you’re waiting for gender equality in the workplace, be prepared
to wait a long time. While women are rapidly closing the gender gap
with men in areas like health and education, inequality at work is not
expected to be erased until 2095, according to a report published by
the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Monday.
The organisation said that the worldwide gender gap in the workplace had barely narrowed in the past nine years.
Since 2006, when the WEF first began issuing its annual Global
Gender Gap Reports, women have seen their access to economic
participation and opportunity inch up to 60 per cent of that of men’s,
from 56 per cent.
On the criteria of economic participation and opportunity, India was
ranked 134. Its female to male ratio in labour force participation was
0.36. The disparity in estimated
earned income was high with females earning $1980 compared to
$8087 earned by their male counterparts.
On educational attainment, India
ranked 126 with female to male ratio
in literacy rate at 0.68. India was the
second-lowest performing country
Jindal ties
up with HP
on health and survival, ranking 141
just ahead of Armenia.
The report said that India has the
highest difference between women
and men on the average minutes
spent per day on unpaid work- a
difference of 300 minutes. It is also
among the countries with the highest
difference in the female and male
percentage of total R&D personnel.
India has one of the lowest percentages of ﬁrms with female participation in ownership.
In recent times, the Commission which keeps
a tab on unfair business practices at the
market place has passed quite a few orders
against Coal India and is also probing certain
complaints against the miner
been challenged by it.
In one of its ruling on Monday,
the Commission found Coal India
in violation of fair trade norms with
respect to provisions in the spot eauction scheme 2007.
There was a provision in the
scheme whereby a buyer is liable
for penalty for non-lifting of coal after successful participation in the eauction without any corresponding
liability upon the miner and its subsidiaries for failure to deliver the dry
fuel in respect of accepted bids. This
has been found to be in violation of
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
Jindal Education Welfare Society, Raigarh, under the aegis of JSPL
Foundation, announced its working with HP to establish 12 cloud-enabled eHealth Centres (eHC) over the next ﬁve years that will provide
affordable healthcare services to citizens in India.
According to a press release, the eHealth Centres will be launched
in a phased manner across Orissa, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand. In the ﬁrst
phase, the eHealth Centres will be introduced at Tamnar, Patratu, Barbil
and Jeraldabaru. The initiative is part of JSPL Foundation’s sustained
effort to facilitate affordable and accessible healthcare to local communities and society at large.
Chairperson of JSPL Foundation, Shallu Jindal, said, ‘This initiative
will help connect patients in remote areas to receive consultations and
early diagnosis from physicians and specialists, all at an affordable
cost’.
HP will provide the cloud-enabled eHealth Centre to Jindal Education Welfare Society, Raigarh, which will impart training for the Health
Cloud system to the entire paramedics staff and identiﬁed doctors of
eHC for EMR operations, medical device operations and other operational activities, the release said.
competition norms.
Finding that Coal India imposed
unfair conditions upon the bidders
under the scheme, the Commission
has issued a ‘cease and desist order’ apart from directing the miner to
suitably modify the terms and conditions of the scheme.
In a separate case, the Commission found that Coal India imposed
unfair conditions in Fuel Supply
Agreements (FSAs) with the power
producers for supply of non-coking
coal.
The fair trade regulator found that
Indo-Vietnam ties
set for a boost: Govt
New Delhi, Oct 28 (PTI):
Indian infrastructure companies
are keen to execute projects in Vietnam that will help more than double the bilateral trade to $15 billion
by 2020, Power and Coal Minister
Piyush Goyal on Tuesday
said.
He said that dialogue is on with
domestic
companies to set up
projects in Vietnam on build, operate and transfer
basis.
At an interac
tive session of visiting Vietnam
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung,
Goyal said: ‘Your trip will set the
tone for economic ties between
the two countries and also take
forward the people-to-people exchange. Given the fact that there is
very low penetration in the renewable energy in Vietnam, India has a
lot to offer in that ﬁeld’, the minister
said.
Going forward Prime Minister
Narendra Modi-led government
aims to double the bilateral trade
from $7 billion to $15 billion by
2020.
‘In the ﬁeld of energy there is
great potential to expand the relationship, to move forward expeditiously, considering that in all ﬁelds
-- thermal, renewable or hydro
energy, India has made
rapid strides’, he added. The Indian
government is
also looking
at
expanding
bilater
al ties and will
offer both technological and ﬁ
nancial services
t o
Vietnam.
Jet Airways will start a direct airline services to Vietnam from 5
November. The ﬂights will connect
Delhi and Mumbai to Ho Chi Minh
City.
It may be noted that private power utility Tata Power had last year
signed an agreement with Vietnamese government for setting up
a 1,320 MW thermal plant.
The project, consisting of two
units of 660 MW each is likely to
come up at an investment of over
Rs 10,000 crore.
Victoria Beckham is UK’s
most successful entrepreneur
London, Oct 28 (PTI):
Singer-fashion designer Victoria Beckham has been
named Britain’s most successful entrepreneur after
seeing her fashion empire grow over the
last ﬁve years.
The 40-year-old singer-turned-fashion designer has topped a list of over
100 business people after seeing her
fashion empire’s turnover rise from one million pound
to a staggering 30 million pound in just ﬁve years, with
her staff growing from three employees to 100, reported Contactmusic.
‘She’s got a real business, some design talent and
some business nou. She gets a lot of stick for being a
celeb fashionista but I don’t think that’s fair. She has
HP India’s Director Corporate Affairs, Ambrish Bakaya signing an
MoU with JSPL’s group vice president (CSR) Prakash Tewari at an
event in New Delhi recently.
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Be fair, CCI tells
Coal India
Q2 Quiz
Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (IBHFL) announced its unaudited results for
the quarter ended 30 September 2014.
An ofﬁcial statement said, the dividend of Rs nine per share has been paid
during the quarter. With this, a total dividend of Rs 17 per share has been
paid during H1 FY 2015. The net proﬁt for the quarter was Rs 448.3 crore
as against Rs 370.4 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous year,
showing a growth of 21.0 per cent.
The net interest income (NII) was Rs 737.4 crore as against Rs 644.9 crore
in the corresponding quarter of the previous year, showing a growth of 14.3
per cent.
The net proﬁt for the ﬁnancial year period was Rs 872.1 crore as against
Rs 721.9 crore in the corresponding period of the previous year, showing a
growth of 20.80 per cent.
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28 OCTOBER 2014
built something real out of her own celebrity which
is quite a contemporary story. She deserves to be
celebrated’, it said.
Victoria launched her eponymous
label in 2008 and opened her
ﬁrst
stand-alone boutique in London
last month.The magazine considered
factors such as number of jobs created, overall estimated wealth and sales
ﬁgures over a ﬁve-year period in compiling the list.
Amit & Meeta Patel, founders of pharmaceutical
group Auden Mckenzie, and Mahmud Kamani of
Boohoo.com took second and third place in the list
respectively.
Satyam: Verdict
likely on 30 Oct
Hyderabad, Oct 28 (PTI):
A local court trying the case of multi-crore accounting fraud in erstwhile
Satyam Computer Services Limited
(SCSL) may announce a date for
verdict on 30 October.
CBI special public prosecutor K
Surender said the court has ordered
all the accused to appear before it
on that date.
The ten accused in the case include prime accused Satyam Computers founder and former chairman B Ramalinga Raju, his brother
and Satyam’s former MD B Rama
Raju, ex-CFO Vadlamani Srinivas,
former PwC auditors Subramani
Gopalakrishnan and T Srinivas,
Raju’s another brother B Suryanarayana Raju, former employees
G Ramakrishna, D Venkatpathi Raju
and Ch Srisailam, and Satyam’s
former
internal
chief
auditor
V S Prabhakar Gupta. The trial in
Satyam fraud case had concluded
in June before the special court,
which examined 216 witnesses and
marked 3,038 documents during the
course of the hearing.
Touted as the country’s biggest
accounting fraud, the scam came to
light on 7 January, 2009 after Raju
allegedly confessed to manipulating
his company’s account books and
inﬂating proﬁts over many years to
the tune of several crores of rupees.
Raju was arrested by the Crime
Investigation Department of Andhra Pradesh Police two days later
along with his brother.
In February that year, CBI took
over the investigation and ﬁled
three charge sheets (on 7 April,
2009, 24 November, 2009 and 7
January, 2010), which were later
clubbed into one.
ReGen launches
largest wind turbine
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
ReGen Powertech has introduced
India’s largest wind turbine WD 2.8
with a rated power output of 2.8 MW
and rotor diameter of 109 meters. This
is the largest capacity turbine with the
biggest rotor diameter to be developed in India.
According to a press statement, this
turbine is entirely designed and developed by ReGen’s own R & D subsidiary in Germany, Wind Direct GmbH,
and is primarily developed for the medium and high wind regions. Intended
for export to the emerging markets
outside of the Indian subcontinent, the
generator of WD 2.8 offers IP 54 protection compared to IP 23 protection
normally available for generators of
other gearless wind turbines.
The generator is of segmental design and has two fully independent
power systems, each of 1.4 MW capacities. This allows operation of the
turbine at half the rated power in case
of any maintenance to some of the
segments of the generator, the statement said.
Coal India and its subsidiaries operate independently of market forces
and enjoy undisputed dominance in
the relevant market of ‘production
and supply of non- coking coal to the
thermal power producers in India’.
This case was taken up following
a complaint by Sai Wardha Power
Company against Coal India and its
subsidiary Western Coalﬁelds with
respect to cost plus mines.
In the ruling on complaint ﬁled by
Sai Wardha Power Company, the
Commission said that Coal India
through its subsidiaries operates
independently of market forces and
enjoys undisputed dominance in the
relevant market of production and
supply of non-coking coal to the thermal power producers in the country.
Apart from ‘cease and desist’ directive, the fair trade watchdog has
asked the miner to modify its fuel
supply pacts.
Softbank to
invest $627 mn
in Snapdeal
Snapdeal has said Japanese
telecom giant Softbank will invest $627 million (about Rs 3,762
crore) in the company, becoming
the largest shareholder in the online marketplace major.
This is the largest investment
made by a single investor in an
e-commerce company in India.
Other existing investors have also
participated in this round of investment but the company declined to
disclose the amount.
Snapdeal will use the investments in expanding its chain of
fulﬁlment centres and make acquisitions in the coming few months
speciﬁcally in the area of mobile
technology.
Daikin plans
second
plant in India
Japanese air conditioner maker
Daikin is considering setting up
a second manufacturing plant in
India to double its production capacity.
The company’s existing annual
production capacity is 10 lakh
units of residential air conditioners.
It also launched next generation VRV IV technology (Variable
Refrigerant Volume) for commercial air conditioning in the Indian
market and is expecting to clock
a turnover of Rs 2,500 in ﬁnancial
year 2014-15.
Intertek exits
mineral
business
Quality control service provider,
Intertek India has sold its mineral
business to Dr Amin Controllers
for an undisclosed amount.
The deal involves the transfer of
all assets and employees of the
unit along with all the ongoing and
future contracts to Dr Amin Controllers.
These contracts include the
laboratory testing from Kolkata,
Paradip and Chennai in the minerals business.
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Sports
Querrey wins battle
of big servers
Paris, Oct 28:
American qualifier Sam Querrey reached the second round of
the Paris Masters by beating 2012
runner-up Jerzy Janowicz 6-7 (5),
6-2, 6-4 Monday.
Querrey had 17 aces to 12 for Janowicz, a 2013 Wimbledon semiﬁnalist
from Poland, and 46 winners to 32.
Richard Gasquet of France, Philipp
Kohlschreiber of Germany and
Dominic Thiem of Austria also advanced.
Gasquet, a semiﬁnalist at the 2013
US Open, was leading 6-7 (4), 6-2,
4-0 when Uzbek qualifier Denis
Istomin retired because of a right
leg injury.
Thiem, the youngest player in the
top 50, beat Alexandr Dolgopolov of
Ukraine 6-2, 4-6, 6-0, while Kohlschreiber cruised past French wild card
Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-3, 6-1 to
next play defending champion Novak
Djokovic.
Janowicz won four straight points to
lead 6-3 in the tiebreaker and capitalised on a double-fault from Querrey
to take the ﬁrst set.
But Querrey broke Janowicz twice
in the second set and slammed an
ace to even the match. The American broke for a 2-1 lead in the ﬁnal
set and converted his
second
match point with a
forehand winner.
Fernando Verdasco
of Spain and Santiag o
Giraldo of Colombia
also won their firstround matches, along
with American qualiﬁer Jack Sock, Austrian
veteran Jurgen Melzer and
Frenchmen Julien Benneteau and Adrian Mannarino.
Verdasco overcame American
qualiﬁer Donald Young 4-6, 6-1,
6-3, Giraldo defeated Mikhail Youzh-
Results
Singles: First Round: Dominic
Thiem def Alexandr Dolgopolov
6-2, 4-6, 6-0; Santiago Giraldo def
Mikhail Youzhny, 6-2, 6-4; Sam
Querrey def Jerzy Janowicz 6-7
(5), 6-2, 6-4; Adrian Mannarino
def Pierre-Hugues Herbert 7-6
(3), 6-3; Philipp Kohlschreiber def
Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-3, 6-1.
Fernando Verdasco def Donald
Young 4-6, 6-1, 6-3; Jack Sock
def Pablo Andujar 6-1, 6-1; Jurgen Melzer def Guillermo GarciaLopez 6-4, 6-1; Richard Gasquet
def Denis Istomin 6-7 (4), 6-2, 4-0;
Julien Benneteau def Yen-hsun
Lu 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles -- First Round: Leander Paes and Stan Wawrinka def
Feliciano Lopez and Max Mirnyi
6-1, 2-6, 10-7; Juan Sebatian
Cabal and Robert Farah def Gael
Monﬁls and Gilles Simon 7-5, 6-4.
ny of Russia 6-2, 6-4, Sock routed Pablo Andujar of Spain 6-1, 6-1, Melzer
dismissed Guillermo Garcia-Lopez
of Spain 6-4, 6-1, Benneteau ousted Lu YenHsun of Taiwan 6-3,
6-4, and Mannarino
beat Pierre-Hugues
Herbert of France
7-6 (3), 6-3.
Sam Querrey
Argentina
recalls Tevez
Buenos Aires, Oct 28:
Argentina have picked Carlos Tevez in their squad for the ﬁrst time in more
than three years for friendlies next month against Croatia and Portugal,
the Argentine Football Association said on Monday.
The striker, who last played for his country at the 2011 Copa America on
home soil, missed this year`s World Cup in Brazil despite
scintillating form for Juventus. Tevez was among four forwards
including captain Lionel Messi, Sergio Aguero and
Gonzalo Higuain in the squad picked by coach
Gerardo Martino and posted on the AFA website
(www.afa.org.ar)
Argentina will play Croatia at West Ham
United’s Upton Park ground in London on 12
November and Portugal six days later at
Manchester United’s Old Trafford
stadium where Tevez spent two
years from 2007 to 2009.
Tevez’s last action in an
Argentina shirt was
missing the penalty that sealed
Argentina’s
elimination
by Uruguay in
their Copa
A m e r i c a
quarter-final in
July 2011.
His recall gives the
former Boca Juniors, Corinthians,
West Ham, Manchester United
and Manchester City striker
the chance to help Argentina win the South American title held by UruCarlos Tevez
guay at next year’s
tournament in Chile.
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Djokovic aware of
big task at hand
q New dad gears up to hold off Federer challenge for top spot
Paris, Oct 28:
Amid the joy of becoming a father, Novak Djokovic has to turn his attention back to tennis rather
quickly as he tries to fend off Roger Federer for the
year-end No. 1 ranking.
Djokovic is defending his title at the Paris Masters
this week, his ﬁrst tournament since the birth of his
ﬁrst child last week. He has left the boy, Stefan,
at home with his wife Jelena, but said Monday he
hopes to incorporate his family life into his tennis
travels next year.
‘I would like to be with him every single day and
with my wife,’ Djokovic said, ‘but sometimes that’s
not possible, like this week for example . because
the baby is too young to travel yet.’
Djokovic leads Federer by 2,230 points in the
world rankings. But the top-ranked Serb has
2,500 points to defend as he won the Paris
Masters and the ATP World Tour Finals last year,
while Federer can gain points as he lost in the
semiﬁnals of both events.
‘Honestly, the way I feel right now, I feel like I’m
already No. 1 with becoming a father last week.
Real Madrid
to take up
Zidane case
Madrid, Oct 28 (AFP):
Former France legend Zinedine
Zidane and his club European champions Real Madrid were embroiled
in an embarrassing dispute with the
Spanish Football Federation who
according to inﬂuential Madrid-based
sports paper Marca handed him a
three month coaching ban.
The 42-year-old -- who inspired
France to the 1998 World Cup trophy
and was also a member of the Euro
2000 title winning side -- has been
coaching Real’s reserve side Castilla
but the federation claims he does
not possess the required coaching
qualiﬁcations.
Real have said they will appeal
against the punishment by ‘all legal
avenues open to them’. The reserve
team’s assistant coach Santiago
Sanchez was also punished. Real
issued a statement yesterday declaring their ‘total disagreement’ with the
decision taken against one of their
former iconic players, who scored a
wonder goal for the ‘meringues’ when
they beat Bayer Leverkusen to win
the 2002 Champions League trophy.
They pointed out that Zidane ‘has
been authorised by the French Football
Federation to work as a head coach in
the category Real Madrid Castilla currently ﬁnd themselves in.’
Zidane -- who was linked with the head
coach post at another of his former
clubs Bordeaux in the close season -- was elevated to reserve
team coach at the beginning
of this season following
a single campaign as
Carlo Ancelotti’s assistant which saw Real win
a 10th European Cup
in May.
Spanish coaching school, the
Cenafe, has
submitted a
complaint to the
Spanish Federation against
Real, claiming
they are using assistant
Sanchez’s name on the
teamsheet to bypass the
regulations.
For me, this is the most important moment in my both of us, the goal (is) to ﬁnish the year as No. 1
life,’ said Djokovic, who topped the rankings at the of the world. Of course it’s a big objective.’
end of 2011 and
2012.
Federer won the Swiss Indoors title in his homeBut, he
town tournament on Sunday. The 17added: ‘Of
time Grand Slam champion could ﬁnish
‘Honestly,
course it is,
the season as the top player for the sixth
f o r
the way I feel time and tie Pete Sampras’ record.
‘This year he came out strong again,’
right now, I
Djokovic said, ‘competing for Grand
Slam titles, now competing for No. 1 of
feel like I’m
the world. And I never thought that he’s
already No. 1 not a competition for No. 1 of the world.’
with becoming Last year, Federer was bothered by
a sore back and went through one the
a father last
worst seasons of his career, winning
week. For me, only one title.
‘I don’t think that age is an issue for
this is the most him,’ Djokovic said. ‘As a matter of fact,
I think he’s playing some of his best tenimportant
nis this year.’
moment in my Djokovic and Federer are tied for most
Novak Djokovic
titles this season with ﬁve each and could
life,’
with wife Jelena
meet in the ﬁnal of the Paris Masters.
South Africa shocked
over Meyiwa killing
Johannesburg, Oct 28:
South Africa’s national soccer goalkeeper and captain Senzo Meyiwa
has been shot dead by burglars during a break-in, a killing that shocked
the country and turned the spotlight
once again on gun violence here.
At an emotional news conference on
Monday, Meyiwa’s colleagues paid
tribute to the 27-year-old, who was
hit by a single round in the chest on
Sunday night as he confronted two
intruders at the home of actress and
singer Kelly Khumalo.
Meyiwa, who was shot in Vosloorus
township southeast of Johannesburg,
was dead on arrival at hospital, police
said.
His death highlighted the problem
of gun violence in South Africa only
days after Paralympic sprinter Oscar
Pistorius was jailed for ﬁve years for
shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva
Steenkamp last year.
This weekend’s Johannesburg
Prosecutors set to appeal
Pistorius verdict
Johannesburg:
South African prosecutors will appeal against the culpable homicide
verdict and ﬁve-year jail sentence
passed on Oscar Pistorius last week
after public and legal criticism of the
judge’s decision to absolve the track
star of murder.
The Olympic and Paralympic athlete, whose lower legs were amputated as a baby, killed his girlfriend
on Valentine’s Day last year by ﬁring
four 9mm rounds into the locked
door of a toilet cubicle in what he
said was the mistaken belief an
intruder was hiding behind it.
The announcement of the appeal
came on Monday in a Twitter statement from Nathi Mncube, spokesman for the National Prosecuting
Authority (NPA): ‘Oscar Pistorius
judgement, NPA will be appealing
both the conviction and sentence.’
Mncube conﬁrmed the appeal in
an email to Reuters but gave no further details. During the sensational
Income Tax
captures title
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
Income Tax emerged champion on the ﬁnal day of the SRM
University-Chennai District ‘A’ Division Volleyball League Championship 2014 held at SDAT Multipurpose Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor
Stadium here yesterday.
The ﬁnal set of matches saw Indian Bank beat Southern Railway
25-22, 19-25, 25-21, 19-25, 16-14 and SRM University beat ICF
(26-24, 25-21, 25-20.
Additional Commissioner of Income Tax Mathivanan presided
over the valedictory function. SRM University (Vadapalani campus)
director M Subramanian and SRM University Director - Sports K
Vaithianathan were the Chief Guests.
A press note said Sri Ramasamy Memorial Trophy and Valliammai Memorial Trophy were awarded to the winners and runners
respectively. The victorious Income Tax team took home Rs one
Lakh while SRM received Rs 75,000. The total prize money on
offer was Rs 2.5 lakh.
The Chennai District girls team, winner of the Junior State Championship were felicitated on the occasion. Final standing: 1. Income
Tax; 2. SRM University; 3. ICF; 4. Southern Railway.
Senzo Meyiwa
The victorious Income Tax team receiving the trophy.
TN lads in lead
Tamilnadu players S Nitin and B Kumaran jumped into the lead
with four points at the end of the fourth round of Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering National Youth (Under-25) Chess Championship being held here. Intrernational Master Nitin of Salem won his
game easily against Ganesh Babu of Madurai in 30 moves while
Chennai boy Kumaran played an attacking game and won in 38
moves against Karnataka player Vinayak Kulkarni.
Important results: Pranav Vijay 3.5 drew Shyam Nikhil 3.5; S
Nitin 4 beat Ganesh Babu 3; Vinayak Kulkarni 3 lost to B Kumaran
4; VAV Rajesh 3.5 beat Sai Viswesh 3; R Prajesh 2.5 lost to T U
Navin Kanna 3.5.
Oscar Pistorius
seven-month trial, the state failed
to convince judge Thokozile Masipa
of Pistorius’ intent to kill when he
ﬁred, leading to his conviction for
negligent killing - culpable homicide
- and a ﬁve-year jail term last week.
However, Masipa’s decision to rule
out murder was criticised by several legal experts and the Women’s
League of the African National Congress (ANC) as an erroneous interpretation of ‘dolus eventualis’, the
legal principle by which a person is
held accountable for the foreseeable
consequences of their actions.
A possible error of law opens the
way for an appeal by the State.
derby between Soweto giants Kaizer
Chiefs and Orlando Pirates - the club
Meyiwa joined as a 13-year-old and
ended up leading - was postponed as
a mark of respect.The derby is usually
played in front of 90,000 fans.
‘Don’t think such a good man
as Senzo can go and vanish. His
spirit will live,’ said Shakes Mashaba,
coach of the Bafana Bafana national side, tears streaming down
his cheeks and his voice quavering
with emotion. ‘He would always be
the leader.’
Even though South Africa’s murder
rate has been gradually dropping, it
remains one of the world’s most violent countries, with police recording
more than 17,000 murders last year,
or 31 per 100,000 people - seven
times the rate in the United States.
Windies will be
at World Cup,
says official
Sydney, Oct 28 (AFP):
Cricket World Cup chief executive
John Harnden today said that he was
conﬁdent the West Indies would play
in next year’s tournament, despite
their shock withdrawal from a tour
of India.
The West Indies cut short their India
tour this month over an internal pay
dispute, despite a ﬁfth and ﬁnal OneDay International, a Twenty20 match
and three Tests still to be played.
The situation has raised doubts as
to whether the Caribbean side will
be able to fulﬁl its upcoming international engagements, including a
tour of South Africa followed by the
World Cup.
Harnden said he was conﬁdent the
issues would be resolved and the
West Indies would play in the World
Cup being jointly hosted by Australia
and New Zealand from mid-February.
‘We see that everyone’s very focused on resolving the situation as
quickly as possible,’ Harnden said.
‘We’re not overly
dependent on Elano’
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
Chennaiyin FC’s assistant coach
Vivek Nagul said his boys are not
scared of Mumbai City FC team’s
marquee striker Nicholas Anelka, who
is expected to play his ﬁrst
match when the two teams
lock horns in the Hero ISL,
here tonight.
‘We won’t have any particular strategy for Anelka. We
have players to do a job for
us both with and without the
ball. We have the quality to
stop Anelka also when he is in possession,’ a conﬁdent Nagul told reporters
at the pre-match press conference
yesterday.
Nagul also dismissed notion that
Chennai was overtly dependant on
Brazilian Elano Blumer.
‘We are not dependent on one single
player. Our team is a blend of youth
and experience. We have good attackers. You will see a positive change in
the attitude of our players compared
to what it was when we played against
Delhi Dynamos,’ Nagul said.
The Chennai team is not
planning any change in the
starting line-up despite their
1-4 drubbing at the hands of
Dynamos in the last match
in Delhi.
On captain Bojan Djordjic not being able to play
through the match, Vivek
said, ‘He struggled a bit in the last two
matches. We do not want to force any
player unnecessarily. We have strong
midfield bench-strength and Bojan
not playing the match through is not a
problem for us. We are focused fully
to deliver the result against Mumbai
City FC.’
TUESDAY
28 OCTOBER 2014
Mixed Bag
CHENNAI
TN pins hopes on
Sathish, youngsters
Samuels counters
Bravo’s claim
Bridgetown, Oct 28:
West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels contested
Dwayne Bravo’s claim that he had agreed to abide by any
decision taken by his team - including leaving the India
tour before schedule. In an interview to ESPNCricinfo, the
33-year-old Jamaican further said that the entire salary
row was mis-handled by all parties involved - West Indies
Players Association (WIPA), the cricket board (WICB)
Marlon Samuels and the players themselves.
Taking on skipper Bravo’s claim that Samuels was part of a ‘unanimous’
team decision, Samuels revealed that he had never given his word.
‘No, I did not say that I am going to stand by any decision,’ he said. ‘Because
nobody asked me questions like that. It is up to the individual to say okay I
am with you. You had people in the room that didn’t even open their mouth or
say anything.’This comes in sharp contrast to Bravo’s statements that claimed
Samuels was an active participant in team meetings during the India tour.
The entire controversy erupted when the players felt that WIPA
chief Wavell Hinds had ‘hoodwinked’ them by agreeing to the new
contracts without taking them into conﬁdence.
While the players eventually decided to cut short their India tour
leaving WICB red-faced, Samuels reportedly wanted the tour to
be ﬁnished as per schedule. The 33-year-old all-rounder has also
said that he wanted that fans should have more clarity - a view
that Bravo disagreed with.
‘One of the questions I asked was the public don’t really know what is
happening,’ Samuels said. ‘The public are being misled. They need to
know the truth behind this (pullout). They need to go out there and explain
what is really happening. He (Bravo) wasn’t willing to go and do that. That
is why I say that if you are not up to doing what I want to go there and
do, which is the right thing, then you are not going to get my full support.’
West Indies players had made the Dharamsala ODI their last and Bravo
has said in a media release last week that the decision to ﬂy back home
was supported by all his players.
q Subbiah Pillai Trophy, the ﬁrst test for underperfoming team
C SHYAM SUNDAR
Chennai, Oct 28:
Tamilnadu cricket teams haven’t
had the best of time in national level
tournaments in recent years. Despite
boasting a competitive line-up and
national stars, they have flattered
to deceive and the capitulation to
Bengal in last year’s Ranji Trophy is
fresh in the minds of fans.
That is history now, the
repeated ﬂop shows has got
the State selectors and the
think-tank into looking at new
options. There was speculation that the captaincy may be
handed to younger players and not
thrust on the likes of Dinesh Karthik,
who is trying to force his way back
into the national side.
The onus of leading the ODI side
in the prestigious K S Subbiah Pillai
Trophy South Zone one-day tournament fell on Rajagopal Sathish of Jolly
Rovers. The dynamic all-rounder,
known for his electric ﬁelding skills,
the Tiruchi-born cricketer’s life has
Centre sacks six
PSU banks chiefs
Executive Directors through a fresh
process involving RBI Governor or
his nominee.
The probe into the selections to
banks like Bank of Baroda and Canara Bank followed arrest and termination of Syndicate Bank CMD SK
Jain for alleged graft. A Finance Ministry statement said future vacancies
of chairman and managing directors
(CMDs) as well as executive directors of PSU banks will now be ﬁlled
through a new selection process.
Following the arrest of Jain, the
Finance Ministry had set up a committee comprising Expenditure Secretary, RBI Governor and Secretary
School Education to examine the selections to six PSBs. ‘After receipt of
the report of the Committee, the gov-
New Delhi, Oct 28:
The Narendra Modi government has
sacked the heads of six Public Sector
Unit banks. The move comes after the
Chairman of Syndicate Bank was arrested on bribery charges in August.
A high-level panel report submitted
to the government stated that there
were irregularities in the selection
process of the Chairman and Managing Directors of these banks.
A panel headed by the RBI Governor during the UPA rule had shortlisted the names for Bank of Baroda,
Canara Bank, Indian Overseas
Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce,
United Bank and Vijaya Bank. The
government has now scrapped the
process and decided to ﬁll vacancies
of 8 posts of CMDs and 14 posts of
7
ernment has decided to cancel the
current selection process of CMDs/
EDs of Public Sector Banks (PSBs),’
a Finance Ministry statement said.
‘The Government (had) constituted
a Committee consisting of Secretary
(Expenditure), Secretary (School
Education) and Governor, Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) to examine the
selection process adopted for the
selections to the posts of CMDs/EDs
of Public Sector Banks (PSBs) for the
year 2014-15,’ it said. ‘...Eight posts
of CMDs and 14 posts of EDs would
require to be ﬁlled-up de novo,’ it said.
Also, it has decided to ‘ﬁnalise a new
process for selection of CMDs/EDs
for all future vacancies.’ The statement, however, did not spell out the
process to be followed.
Building
collapses at
Purasawalkam
R Sathish
The team picked for the
tournament includes former
Indian players L Balaji,
Dinesh Karthik Abhinav
Mukund (the vice-captain)
and those who have
performed in the local league
consistently.
come a full circle, so to speak. From
being on the fringes of the Tamilnadu
team, he tried his luck elsewhere plying
his trade with sides in the North-East
including Assam and was part of the
now-defunct ICL.
It must said his skills came to the fore
in the ill-fated ICL as he performed
brilliantly. After getting amnestry from
BCCI for his involvement in the socalled rebel league (ICL), Sathish has
gained in stature steadily. He was
roped in by the IPL franchise Mumbai
Indians and occasionally showed his
utility value. Later, he moved to Kings
XI Punjab where he shone in the
chances he got.
Now, a bigger responsibility beckons
as Sathish would be leading a bunch
of talented players with lots of experience thrown in as he aims to revive the
team’s fortunes.
TNCA honorary secretary K S Viswanathan said Sathish was an experienced player and it will stand him in
good stead when he captains the team
in the Subbiah Pillai Trophy.
He is a ﬁne all-rounder and a very
good ﬁelder and his utility will be a
strength to the side, Viswanathan said.
Further, the TNCA secretary said
Sathish had led Jolly Rovers for a long
time and proved his (leadership) skills.
Sathish is a match-winner in the
limited overs format and is expected
to inspire his team-mates by leading
from the front.
The team picked for the tournament
includes former Indian players L Balaji,
Dinesh Karthik Abhinav Mukund (the
vice-captain) and those who have performed in the local league consistently.
The highly-rated twins B Aparajith and
B Indrajith will look to pull their weight
as Tamilnadu looks forward to the new
season with a lot of hope.
The Subbiah Pillai tourney will
be held at Hyderabad from 7 to 14
November.
Squad: R Sathish (captain), Abhinav Mukund (vice-captain), K
H Gopinath, B Aparajith, Dinesh
Karthik, K Shri Vasudeva Das, B
Indrajith, M Shahrukh Khan, Vijay
Shankar, M Prabhu, Rahil Shah, L.
Balaji, V Yomahesh, Sunil Sam, M
Mohammed. Coach: W V Raman.
J&K polls:
EC issues
notification
Jammu, Oct 28 (PTI):
The Election Commission today
issued notiﬁcation for the ﬁrst of the
ﬁve phases of Jammu and Kashmir
Assembly polls.
In the ﬁrst phase due on 25 November, polls will be held in 15 Assembly
segments spread across seven
districts of Bandipora, Ganderbal in
Kashmir Valley, Kargil, Leh of Ladakh
region, Kishtwar, Doda and Ramban
of Jammu region.
The processional deity of Sri Parthasarathy Swami Temple in Triplicane
being taken around the Mada streets on the occasion of Sri Manavala
Maamunigal Avathara festival today.
‘UK won’t interfere
in Kashmir issue’
q Keen to host Modi, says David Cameron
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 28:
A 60-year-old two-storey building
on Millers Salai at Purasawalkam
collapsed in the wee hours of today.
Houses and shops nearby suffered severe damage. Three ﬁre
engines and ﬁremen were deployed
to the spot for rescue operations.
Five members in the building were
rescued and it is said there were no
loss of lives in the incident.
Tamilnadu Minister for Handlooms and Textiles Gokula Indira
visited the spot and supervised
relief works.
Fire personnel carrying out rescue operations in Purasawalkam after
a 60-year-old building collapsed today.
VIGILANCE
week
Staff of V O Chidambaranar Port Trust being administered Vigilance
Awareness Week pledge in Tuticorin yesterday.
VOC Port to conduct
series of activities
NT Bureau
Tuticorin, Oct 28:
As per the directives of the Central Vigilance Commission, V O Chidambaranar
Port Trust, is observing Vigilance Awareness Week celebration from 27 October
to 1 November.
According to a press release, Chief Vigilance Ofﬁcer, R Ramakrishnan and secretary of the Port, URM Raju, administrated the pledge to the employees at the
administrative ofﬁce yesterday. All the head of Departments, Deputy Chief Vigilance
Ofﬁcer, ofﬁcers and employees of the Port took the pledge.
A week long activity comprising awareness programme on vigilance, essay
competitions for employees and school children, elocution competitions for college
students and slogan competition for employees will be held.
London, Oct 28: important inﬂuence in our economy. And I think it is right that
British Prime Minister David Cameron has reiterated all the political parties listen to them. I know that my party
that the United Kingdom wants deeper ties with India and wants to celebrate the contributions made by British Indians
to our country and also forge strong relationship
claimed that the two democracies face many similar
with India,’ Cameron was quoted as saying.
challenges while also making it aptly clear that his
government will never interfere in the highly vexed
The British leader also expressed his desire to
Kashmir issue.
host Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ‘He (Modi) has
an open invitation. My Deputy PM, my Chancellor
The Conservative Party leader was on Tuesday
and my Foreign Secretary have all been to India
quoted as saying to a TV news channel, ‘We are two
and met Prime Minister Modi. I have made 3 visits
great democracies that face many of the same chalto India as PM and am looking forward to making
lenges. We need more economic growth, we need
David Cameron
more investment in trade. We both have to ﬁght extremism further visits as well. But there is an open invitation for PM
and terrorism. These are shared challenges that Britain and Modi to come here and we will give him a warm welcome,’
he said.
India should face together.’
The British Prime Minister, who is seeking re-election in the
Importantly, Cameron indicated that Britain did not intend to
2015 polls, also sought to woo the vast Indian population liv- intervene in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan
ing in UK by calling for greater ties between the two countries. by saying, ‘It is the engagement between the two nations and
‘There are over 800 thousand British Hindus and I think that is for these countries to lead these debate on this issue
they already play an important role in elections. They are an and not for others to interfere.’
NLC goes tech-savvy to
increase transparency
NT Bureau
Neyveli, Oct 28:
Vigilance Department of
Neyveli Lignite Corporation
(NLC) is aimed at increasing
transparency in all its activities
with the help of technology,
said NLC Chairman and Managing Director, B Surender
Mohan.
Participating at the inauguration of Vigilance Awareness
Week-2014 at
Neyveli yesterday, he said
NLC has moved much forward
in bringing accountability and
transparency by utilising technology in all its activities.
The Online Material Management System (OLIMMS),
e-tendering and Reverse Auction Procedures are effectively
used in purchase and control
over materials by NLC. Details
regarding vendor payment in
NLC’s website, online submission of application for recruit-
A handbook on ‘Ethical Awareness Programme Educators’ was released on the occasion of Vigilance
Awareness Week-2014 at Neyveli yesterday. Chief of staff, Army Headquarters, Major General R G
Krishnan and NLC CMD B Surendar Mohan are among those present.
ment have also been added to the
list, he said.
Earlier, chief of staff, Army Headquarters, Major General R G
Krishnan, presided as the chief
guest and kicked-off the weeklong celebrations under the theme
‘Combating Corruption- Technol-
ogy as an Enabler’.
Krishnan lauded efforts taken by
NLC in building up the nation by its
‘proven values and powerful vision’.
He said, ‘Corruption is one of the
major violations of human rights.
One should feel responsible individually to combat corruption and
act accordingly in right time, which
shows signiﬁcant change in global
level.’
Other programmes like ‘Ethical
awareness, a character education
for children’ and ‘Online Vigilance
Clearance’ for employees were
inaugurated during the event.
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developmental milestones are
and how toys can help babies
reach them, including with my
own son.
I wanted to design a line
of toys that stimulated
development in the crucial
early stages of life, the stages
in which learning can be
achieved through supervised
play, fostering the development
of psychological, social and
motor skills’, she said.
The items will go on sale next
month and all proceeds will
go towards Shakira’s Barefoot
Shakira to release
own range of toys
P
regnant singer Shakira
is set to release her own
collection of baby products,
including a bouncer which plays
music, alphabet blocks and a
musical soccer ball.
Shakira, 37, who has 21-monthold son Milan with boyfriend
Gerard Pique, has teamed
up with Fisher-Price on the
First Steps collection of baby
products, and has co-developed
six items, reported Contactmusic.
‘I saw how important
Foundation, which helps
provide education and nutrition
to disadvantaged children in
her native Colombia.
As part of the venture,
Shakira will also star in a
12-part web series for the
company, and some of the
three to ﬁve minute-long
episodes will feature her son.
— PTI
Kim obsessed
with Johnny Depp
Koothu Kavvum...
Vijay Sethupathi, Vimal, Vidharth learnt acting at KPP
T
heatre, a forgotten art
form, is being kept alive
in the city by a group
of stage enthusiasts led by
N Muthuswamy, who runs
Koothu-p-Pattarai (KPP).
Founded in 1977, it deals
with contemporary themes,
using traditional stageidioms of Tamilnadu, and
by incorporating elements
of dance, folk, puppetry and
martial arts.
KPP which has been
functioning as a full time Tamil
theatre repertory since 1988
has 60 major productions to
its credit. It has been identiﬁed
by UNESCO as one of the ﬁve
learning centres for theatre in
the world.
‘I started my career as a
short story writer. My ﬁrst play
Kaalam Kaalamaga came out
in 1969. I learnt that koothu
was a regional variation of
Indian theatre and wanted
to pursue it as I discovered
my passion for playwriting.
I started Koothu-p-Pattarai
along with writers such as
Ramakrishnan, Jaya and
Veeraswami, with the hope
of reviving the dying art form,’
says Muthuswamy, a poet,
playwright and recipient of
Padmashri award.
Strong messages are
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
accolades for its plays like
Unthichuzhi.
Kattiyakkaran is the latest
venture that was staged by
them in their premises.
Koothu-p-Pattarai Trust is
located at 58/16. Third Main
Road, Sri Iyyappa Nagar,
Virugambakkam.
For details, contact 65373633.
— NT Bureau
N Muthuswamy and other members of Koothu-p-Pattarai.
(Below) A scene from one of their plays.
Koothu-p-Pattarai has been
functioning as a full time Tamil
theatre repertory since 1988 and has
60 major productions to its credit. It
has been identiﬁed by UNESCO as
one of the ﬁve learning centres for
theatre in the world
conveyed through their plays. At
every event, they aim to instill a
moral and leave the audience
in silent thoughts. Kuberan and
Sanjeevi, lead actors of KPP,
say, ‘We owe all our acting skills
to KPP. It is here that we learnt
the art of acting and have grown
as ﬁ lm actors. We have acted
in the recent movie Moodar
Koodam and have signed up for
a few more. Actors like Vijay
Deepika wants
to work with
SRK’s son
R
eality TV star Kim
‘I don’t know who Khloe was
Kardashian West says
into - she was younger than
she is being ‘obsessed’
us, so it wasn’t cool for us to
with Johnny Depp.
hang out with our little sister’,
she said.
The mother of one revealed
Kim Kardashian West
she even had a cut-out of the
The 34-year-old star says
actor on her wall because
now that she should have spent
she loved the hunk so much,
more time in her teens paying
reported Femaleﬁrst.
attention in history lessons at school.
‘Kourtney and I actually shared a room together at
‘I travel a lot now and when I’m going to see these
one point growing up. I loved Johnny Depp, I was pretty castles, people talk about all these kings and
obsessed with him, and she was really into Leonardo queens and families. Obviously I had heard of them
Dicaprio, so we had cutouts of them on our wall next but I wish I remember their history’, she said.
to our Michael Jackson posters.
— PTI
Amitabh Bachchan’s
next is Wazir
B
ollywood megastar
Amitabh Bachchan’s
upcoming ﬁlm with Farhan Akhtar, which
was earlier named Do, has been ofﬁcially
titled Wazir.
The ﬁlm, which also stars Aditi Rao Hyadri in a
prominent role, is being directed by Bejoy Nambiar,
and is written and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra.
Farhan took to Twitter to announce the change in the
ﬁlm’s title. ‘The Vidhu Vinod Chopra/ Bejoy Nambiar
ﬁlm is now ofﬁcially titled Wazir’, he wrote on his
Twitter page.
Bachchan, 72, reportedly plays a paralysed
chess grandmaster in the movie and
Farhan, 40, plays an ATS ofﬁcer in
the ﬁlm.
— PTI
GOOD AND BIRD
S
hah Rukh Khan is elated that the cameo by
his youngest child AbRam in Happy New
Year is fetching compliments.
The actor, 48, said he received many messages
about AbRam’s appearance in the end credits
but the best compliment came from his co-star
Deepika Padukone. AbRam is Shah Rukh’s third
child born via surrogacy last year.
‘AbRam is looking adorable in the ﬁlm. The best
compliment I got was from Deepika. She said
she wants to do her next ﬁlm with him (AbRam)
as she ﬁnd him adorable’, SRK told reporters in
Mumbai during the success party of the movie.
When asked about playing with his children, the actor
said, ‘Aryan and I used to play FIFA video games and
otherwise I play football and cricket with him. With
AbRam, I only do the head bang. He keeps searching
in the iPad where he can utter words like A B and few
animals sounds... so he does play’, he added.
Talking about his latest Deepavali release, which
according to SRK’s production company Red Chillies
Entertainment, has
collected Rs 108.86 crore on the opening weekend,
the actor said the numbers will keep increasing with
every big release.
‘I have always maintained that numbers keep
changing as big ﬁlms keep coming on holidays and
in weekends. When I was being asked this during
Chennai Express, I said maybe next one is going to
bigger and better because the screens and platforms
are increasing.
‘The days of silver jubilee are gone. The ﬁlm has
released in 6000 theatres so all the people reach to
ﬁlms in ﬁrst week’, he said.
— PTI
Harry Potter
themed hotel in
London
A
It’s a nice sight to see a ﬂock of birds taking wings at the Marina, especially on a day when the rain was
playing hike and seek.
PHOTO: A R JAYAKUMAR
Sethupathi, Vidharth and Vimal
were our seniors here.’ Several
plays ranging from classics to
poetry are performed by KPP
actors. The theatre production
has won several awards and
Harry Potter -themed hotel has been
created to be a replica of the ﬁlm set in
London near Victoria Station.
The 163-year-old Georgian House hotel has
now introduced replica Hogwarts rooms as well
as personalised wizarding packages, reported
the Daily Mirror.
These include a tour of central landmarks
from the ﬁlms and a trip to the Warner Bros
Studio for The Making of Harry Potter Tour.
Special guest rooms will include trunks, potion
bottles, cauldrons and spell books.
With prices starting at 249 pounds per night
in the smaller Wizard Chambers, which sleeps
three people, it can rocket up to 363 pounds a
night for the ﬁve-person room.
Without the extras it will cost just 209 pound
for two people.
— PTI
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