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Man murders wife
at Injambakkam
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
A man strangled his wife to death yesterday after he found that she was having
an illegal relationship with his brother.
According to police sources, Prabakaran (28) from Injambakkam,
worked in a private ﬁrm and was married to Saranya (23) for six months.
Last evening, police said, Prabakaran
who came home, found Saranya talking
with his brother, Bala (alias) Balaji, and
apparently warned her.
Saranya then left home and returned
late, following which Prabakaran and
Bala got into a heated argument, following which an angered Prabhakaran
strangled Saranya to death.
Prabakaran is reported to have confessed
to the police that his neighbours had earlier
informed him about his wife’s extra-marital
affair, and that he couldn’t control his anger
when he caught the duo red- handed.
Saranya’s body has been shifted
to Royapettah Government Hospital
and a case has been registered by
the Neelankarai police.
Kin of Ethiopia blast
victims protest for relief
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
Relatives of the six men who died in a
boiler blast in Ethiopia last week, protested at the city airport this morning.
They had allegedly refused to accept the bodies of the victims.
The men from Kumbakonam in Tanjore were killed in a blast at an Ethiopian sugar mill on Friday. The bodies,
with the exception of one, reached the
city last night in a private aircraft.
According to police sources, the
relatives were unwilling to take the
bodies home, until the State government announces adequate relief.
Looking ahead
n an apparent effort to mend differences with the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shiv Sena today
announced that it will support any leader from the
BJP who will be given the task to lead the State. The
party even toned down its aggressive stand against
the division of Maharashtra, which is said to be on the
BJP’s agenda.
‘The people’s blessings cannot to be conﬁned within
limits. Shiv Sena will stand with absolute force and
courage with whoever is given the chance to ride the
chariot to take Maharashtra forward,’ said an editorial
in party mouthpiece Saamna.
Following the Maharashtra state assembly results,
the Sena president Uddhav Thackeray had said that
his party will extend support to the BJP only after the
assurance of united Maharashtra.
Sena’s changed position comes in response to the
statement of Senior BJP leader Vinod Tawde on Sunday, where he said that the BJP wanted a tie-up with
the Sena, but without any condition.
Meanwhile, Indian medium-pacer Mohammed Shami
has been ruled out of the ﬁve-match ODI series against
Sri Lanka starting 2 November, due to an injury.
Maharashtra medium-pacer Dhawal Kulkarni has
replaced Shami in the 15-member Indian squad to be
led by Virat Kohli, which has been announced for the
ﬁrst three ODIs, said a BCCI release.
Black money: Govt
reveals three names
q Only businessmen, no politicians in the list submitted to SC
New Delhi, Oct 27:
The Union government has named
three persons who are black money
account holders in an afﬁdavit to the
Supreme Court.
According to reports, the three persons named are director of the Burman
Group, Pradip Burman, a Rajkot-based
bullion trader Pankaj Chimanlal Lodya
and a Goa-based miner and owner of
Timblo Pvt Ltd Radha S Timblo.
Last week, it was revealed that the
Centre was likely to tell the apex
court the names of the people against
whom strong evidence exists of
stashing away black money in Swiss
banks in a major step in its crackdown
on India’s parallel economy.
On Monday, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi is reported
to have submitted a supplementary afﬁdavit in the
apex court detailing plans
to submit the list of names
in a sealed envelope.
The court is due to continue hearings on a petition on black money the
following day.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is moving fast to repatriate hundreds
of billions of dollars in slush funds or black
money stashed abroad, as part of a
wider clampdown on corruption that he
promised during his election campaign.
MONEY, MONEY
PANKAJ CHIMANLAL LODHIYA: He runs
a business house called Shreeji Group, and
is a bullion trader from Rajkot. The group’s
website says it initially started its business
operations in the realty sector and then began
its journey into bullion business. The group
is run by Pankaj Lodhia, his father Chimanlal
Laljibhai Lodhiya and his brother Kaushik Chimanlal Lodhiya.
The government is building pressure particularly on Switzerland,
seeking details of Indians who have
parked unaccounted for money in
Switzerland’s highly secretive banks.
It has quickly implemented a Supreme Court directive to set
up a high-powered special
investigation team, headed
by retired judge M B Shah,
to look into the issue.
While there are no ofﬁcial
estimates, Global Financial
Integrity (GFI), a Washington-based
think-tank, has estimated that Indians
had parked USD 462 billion in overseas
tax havens between 1948 and 2008.
Black money arises mainly from
incomes not disclosed to the government usually to avoid taxation, and,
sometimes, because of its criminal
links. About a third of India’s black
RADHA S TIMBLO:
Timblo is owner of
a Goan mining partnership ﬁrm which is
being investigated for
alleged illegal mining
in Goa. The ﬁrm comprises Timblo Private
Limited, Ms. Radha S
Timblo and others.
Rs 28.6 lakh cr
Between 1948-2008, a sum of
Rs 28.6 lakh crore in overseas
tax havens. It is 25 per centof
India’s GDP.
Rs 14K crore
The total sum of money in
Swiss Banks held by Indians
$ 1.4 trillon
Parked by undisclosed accounts overseas
money transactions are believed to
be in real estate, followed by manufacturing and shopping for gold and
consumer goods.
Earlier, the BJP government had told
the apex court that it could not disclose
the names of those who have depos-
PRADEEP BURMAN: In 2002,
Pradeep Burman was appointed as whole-time Director of
Dabur India. Pradeep Burman
is the only member of his family to be an executive director
on the board of Dabur India.
The Burman family collectively own around 78 percent
of the company.
ited money in banks abroad as it this
would jeopardize tax agreements with
nations providing those names to India.
There were murmurs of protest within
the ruling BJP that not disclosing names
would hurt the party’s image after it had
made bringing back black money, a key
issue in a general election that it won by
a landslide. The Centre’s stand also drew
a strong response from the Congress,
which accused it of hypocrisy.
Turning the tables on the Congress,
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had recently said the disclosing of names of
people holding black money accounts
will embarrass the opposition party.
The Congress had hit back, daring
the government to come out with
complete information without indulging in selective leaks and pointing out
that the Congress is not going to be
blackmailed under any such threat.
Sena makes U-turn
SEE NEAR SEA
q Offers unconditional support to BJP
A large part of sand in Marina is covered by a sheet of water, thanks to the recent rain.
Photo: A R JAYAKUMAR
Moderate showers
likely in city
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
After days of rain, Chennai may
likely get light showers today.
The MET ofﬁcials said the sky will remain
cloudy for the next 24 hours with little
chance of rain. The maximum and minimum temperature for today will be around
32 and 25 degree Celsius respectively.
The city may see rainfall between the
range of light to heavy ones as the monsoon still lingers. Meanwhile, motorists
continue to face the brunt of bad roads.
‘Arcot Road needs to be patched up
again’, feels Sundar, a resident of Kodambakkam. ‘The rains have made
the already worse Arcot Road, bad.
Forget a permanent solution, we want
the roads to be patched up again so
that our bikes don’t breakdown often’.
People feel that the light drizzling
yesterday made the weather a pleasant one for travelling.
2G: SC refuses relief
to Dayalu Ammal
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
The Supreme court today refused to relieve DMK president M Karunanidhi’s
wife Dayalu Ammal in the 2G case.
According to reports, a plea to relieve her from the multicrore case was ﬁled
by her daughter Selvi.
This comes at a time when just two days left for a special 2G court to deliver
its order on the issue of taking cognisance of the CBI chargesheet in the AircelMaxis case, in which former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother
Kalanithi Maran and others have been named as accused.
Earlier this month, Special Judge O P Saini reserved the order after hearing
the public prosecutor for the CBI, K K Goyal, who submitted that prima facie,
a case was made out against all the accused.
The CBI in August ﬁled the charge sheet alleging that Dayanidhi Maran
had entered into a criminal conspiracy with T Ananda Krishnan, owner of
Malaysian company Maxis, and coerced Chinnakannan Sivasankaran, owner
of telecom company Aircel, to sell his shares to the former allegedly in lieu
of investments by the foreign company through another company into Sun
Direct TV Private Ltd.
Mumbai, Oct 27:
In an important development regarding government formation in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena said today
that they would support Bharatiya
Janata Party’s decision on Chief
Minister of the State.
Shiv Sena in its mouthpiece ‘Saamna’ has written that whether it was
Nitin Gadkari or Devendra Fadnavis,
the party would support the leader
who takes Maharashtra forward.
The article also said that the Shiv
Sena wants the state to have ‘Shiv
Rajya’ and inspirational leadership.
Meanwhile, BJP’s Maharashtra
legislative party is scheduled to meet
soon to formally elect the next Chief
Minister of the State.
BJP’s central observers Rajnath
Singh and JP Nadda are likely to
attend the meet. The swearing-in
ceremony may take place on October
30 at Wankhede stadium.
As per reports no concrete talks took
place between the Shiv Sena and the
BJP over government formation in
Maharashtra at PM Narendra Modi’s
Attempt to
rob ATM at
Kilpauk
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
An unidentiﬁed person attempted
to rob an ATM on Lanterns road in
Kilpauk this morning.
According to police sources,
the man had entered an ATM
belonging to the State Bank of
Mysore, in the pretext of withdrawing cash and used tools
to break open the vault of the
machine.
However, he fled the spot when
he saw a police patrolling team
nearby.
The police has collected the CCTV
footage and a case has been ﬁled.
BJP MLA dies of
heart attack
Newly elected BJP MLA from
Mukhed in Nanded district
Govind Rathod died here following a heart attack.
Rathod was on his way to Mumbai by Devgiri Express when he
was taken ill last night, party
sources said. With Rathod’s
passing away, the strength of
BJP in the 13th Assembly is 121.
tea party for NDA MPs yesterday.
The Prime Minister had hosted a
high tea for all NDA MPs - the ﬁrst
such event after the BJP-led alliance
stormed to power in May - and utilised the occasion to ask them to be
a symbol of positive political entity.
All Shiv Sena MPs were also
present, including Union Heavy Industries Minister Anant Geete.
No political discussions took place
during the meeting. It was purely an
ofﬁcial function,’ he said.
Sandeep to replace
Praveen Kumar
as CEO
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
The Tamilnadu government today
said the Election Commission of
India, in consultation with the State
government, has nominated Sandeep
Saxena as the Chief Electoral Ofﬁcer
of Tamilnadu.
An order issued by Chief Secretary
Mohan Verghese Chunkath said,
‘The Election Commission of India in
consultation with the government of
Tamilnadu has nominated Dr Sandeep Saxena, IAS, Agricultural Production Commissioner and Principal
Secretary to government, Agriculture
Department as Chief Electoral Ofﬁcer for the State of Tamilnadu vice
Praveen Kumar IAS.’
It added that the orders regarding the posting of a successor to
Sandeep Saxena would be issued
separately.
According to sources, Praveen Kumar had written to the Election Commission, seeking a transfer after the
Opposition parties found fault with his
implementation of Section 144 during
the Lok Sabha election.
It may be recalled that the DMK
petitioned President Pranab Mukherjee for action against him, levelling
charges that his implementation of
Section 144 helped the AIADMK in
the recent Lok Sabha elections.
SC rejects
Nalini’s plea
New Delhi, Oct 27:
The SupremeCourt today junked a
petition ﬁled by Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict Nalini against
law requiring Centre’s approval for
her release.
The apex court ordered that Nalini
and six other convicts in the case
cannot be released prematurely by
Tamilnadu government without consulting the Centre.
The Court had earlier issued notice
to the Centre on a plea
by Nalini, undergoing life
imprisonment in the case,
challenging the law mandating Centre’s approval
for her release and that of
six other convicts.
A bench headed by
Nalini
CJI R M Lodha sought
response from the Centre which had
earlier contended that Tamilnadu
can’t release the convicts without its
approval and had derailed the state
government’s decision to release them.
In her petition, Nalini challenged
Section 435(1) of the CrPC which
mandates the state government to
consult the Centre before premature
release of a convict if the case was
investigated by the CBI.
Nalini has been in jail for the last 23
years and undergoing life imprisonment
after her death sentence was commuted.
She was sentenced to death penalty by
the trial court on 28 January, 1998.
Her death sentence was commuted
to life term by the Tamilnadu Governor on 24 April, 2000.
BROKEN ARROW
The ATM at Kilpauk where a robbery attempt was made.
Photo: ARJ
2 MONDAY
27 OCTOBER 2014
City
Centre
Need for an alternative
terminus in T Nagar
Operating of few MTC routes from Panagal Park bus stop will
ease out congestion in T Nagar bus terminus.
T
Nagar bus terminus is
the terminus.
buffeted by expanding crowd
It is claimed that cops, re
all through the festive season. In
tenders and ambulance services
the event, commuters demand
are having a tough time to pass
developing an alternative terminus
through the depot.
in the neighbourhood to ease the
On this, Ramani, a resident of
congestion here.
Baroda Street
Passengers suggest that
and a frequent
operation of few MTC
commuter,
R
A
G
buses can be shifted to
said,
‘The
T NA
the Panagal Park bus stop
number of visitors
on Prakasam Road.d
are high during the festive season.
Accordingly, MTC services
Regular travellers have to move
-11A, 12, 13 --- can be operated
with these shoppers, and this
from Panagal Park to take away
causes problem. Buses which ply
a chunk of crowd, namely ofce
via Parrys Corner, Vivekananda
goers and school students, from
house and Triplicane are jam
WATER WOES
A blocked drain cause lot of inconvenience to the commuters and pedestrians at the busy North
Usman Road.
Photo: M SRINIVASAN
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developed as a
terminus
packed. These crowded buses
can be diverted, especially during
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Another resident, Shyamala Ravi,
feels, ‘It is a viable idea as both
(T Nagar terminus and Panagal
Park) are located at a considerable
distance. Also, women commuters
will feel safe to travel amidst less
crowd.’
Such alternative arrangements
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What is new at
Mugappair bus stand
T
he Chennai Corporation has
taken steps to construct two
toilets (one each for men and
women) at the park in Mugappair
West. It is also building four
lavatories near Mugappair West
bus terminus.
‘Commuters at bus stand have to
look elsewhere when it comes to
toilet facility. The existing ones are
restricted to bus conductors and
drivers’, complains Gurumurthy, a
regular commuter.
‘People have been deprived of a
urinal facility and this has given rise
to another problem. Since there is
no toilet in the terminus, Bharathi
Street located behind the bus depot
has been turned into an open toilet,’
he adds. As Muthukumar points
out, ‘Only if there is a toilet facility,
commuters here would be relieved
of the trouble’.
Ward
Councilor
Tamilselvan
explains, ‘People at Mugappair and
surrounding areas have emphasised
about having public toilets near
east and west bus terminus.
Geographically, it is the centre
which connects the neighbourhood
towards Anna Nagar and Ambattur.
It is one of the major bus stands
where hundreds of passengers
daily visit. So, as a basic facility,
the Corporation is constructing rest
rooms for the public’. Duraipandian,
a resident says, ‘Toilets have to be
maintained. We see toilets being
Construction of public toilets at Mugappair West park and bus
stand is in progress.
Commuters at bus stand have to
look elsewhere when it comes to
toilet facility, as the existing ones
are restricted to conductors and
drivers
PPAIR
MUGA
constructed, people keep using them, and as usual they are neglected.
No one bothers and they become a mountain of lth.’
— NT Bureau
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Region
CHENNAI
A
clean
sweep
q PM’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ call
has stirred Chennaiites
Apart from
keeping the
environment
Lieutenant General Jagbir Singh, General Ofﬁcer Commanding,
Andhra, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Kerala Area laying a wreath at
War Memorial in Chennai today on the occasion of Infantry Day.
Modern School
lads land top prize
School students battle it out in the ‘Punitha Bharatham’ quiz contest in
Chennai yesterday.
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
Students of Modern Senior Secondary School (Nanganallur) displayed thier
skills to win the ﬁnals of ‘Punitha Bharatham’, an inter-school quiz competition
on Indian culture and heritage.
The school’s R Abhinav, Sushrut Vinayk and R Chandrasekaran won the ﬁrst
place by scoring 225 points. The winners received Rs 75,000 from noted mridangist Umayalpuram K Sivaraman and CEO and administrator of Sringeri Mutt V
R Gowrishankar. The contest was organised by Vidyatheertha Foundation to
mark 25th Aradhana of Jagadguru Sri Abhinav Vidyatheertha Mahaswamigal,
the 35th Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Sringeri Sharada Peetham and silver
jubilee of Peetharohanam of his holiness Sri Bharathi Theertha Mahaswamigal,
the present Shankaracharya of the peetham.
SRDF Vivekananda Vidyalaya team comprising Manassa S, Shrihruthi S and
S Swaminathan secured second place with 165 points. Another team from
SRDF Vivekananda Vidyalaya secured the third place and fourth place went
to Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan.
Speaking on the occasion, Umayalpuram Sivaraman said quiz programmes like
these help spread knowledge about our culture and heritage among youngsters.
Gowrishankar said the quiz programme must be conducted in other parts
of Tamilnadu. K S Lakshmi of Meenakshi College for Women was among
others present.
Essay competition
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
Nandini Voice For The Deprived, a
Besant Nagar-based NGO, is organising an All-India essay competition on
‘Strategies for success of clean India
campaign’.
Those interested to participate can
send their essay written in English,
Tamil or Hindi of maximum 1500 words
to N S Venkataraman, trustee, Nandini
Voice For The Deprived.
For further details call 24916037 /
9445100129 or email to [email protected].
qqq
Yoga classes
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
Adambakkam Calm Trust Sky Yoga
Centre is organising a Yoga camp
on 2 November between 6 and 7
pm, at 28, New NGO Colony Second Main Road (Opp:Brindavan
Nagar Library & Near Saneeswaran
Koil), Adambakkam. For details, call:
9445216732 / 944165220.
SHWETA V
Chennai, Oct 27:
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s ambitious ‘Swachh
Bharat’ programme seems
to be catching up with more
and more people joining the
‘cleaning bandwagon.’ Several organisations and associations too have pitched in,
it should be said in an effort
to keep the city neat.
Meanwhile, Chennai has
been named as ninth best
cosmopolitan city in the world
in a report published by Lonely
Planet, while constantly witnessing developments in various ﬁelds, is apparently seeing an increase in awareness
among the public to keep the
metropolis clean.
It is said that the ‘Swachh
Bharat’ mission’ has sparked
numerous awareness programmes in the city. Schools
and colleges have done their
bit to make the Prime Minister’s
call a reality.
That is not all, Chennaiites are thriving hard to
show the city in good light
by turning their focus on
cleanliness.
People belonging to all
strata of society - the working class, government employees to businessmen,
celebrities, et al are involved in cleaning work.
Promotions through the
social media is also one
big reason for more people
responding to Modi’s call.
Many neighborhood associations are involved in
cleaning roads and social activists are
pitching in too.
Speaking to News Today, Jayalakshmi,
a social activist said, ‘The need of the
hour is to clean the city. It is one of the
major civic problems faced by people
here. Therefore, everyone needs to work
towards keeping it tidy.’
‘(More) bins should be placed at public
places. Use of plastics can be minimised
and alternatives like paper and jute products can be utilised’.
Shalini, an alumni of Madras Christian
College said, ‘Many youngsters are
involved in such campaigns. When we
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were in college, we made a campaign,,
‘Cut the Crap’, which was aimed to
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make useful products like bags, files,,
pen stands and a lot more out of paperr
and other waste. We conducted rallies
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to spread awareness, and programmes
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in schools. ‘
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a feeling of patriotism is high among the
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present generation of youth and students..
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Bharat mission’
clean, focus
must be on
switching to
alternatives like
plastics, jute
products, say
social activists
Members of the public
cleaning a city road
Actor Sivakumar presenting the ‘Ilakkiya Veedi Annam’ title to Sahitya
Akademi award-winning novelist Joe De Cruz at a function held at
Krishna Gana Sabha in Chennai yesterday.
He categorised many such novelists
like Jayakanthan, Na Parthasarthy,
Ra Ki Rangarajan who brought the
Spiritual
fervour
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
Arulmigu Sivasubramania
Swamy Temple, Senguntha
Kottam, Saidapet will celebrate
kandha Sashti till 31 October
at temple premises. Various
utsavams will be
performed during
the day.
On 29 October, maha
abishegam will
be performed
and Thiruveedi
Ula with Pushpam will be held at 6
p m followed by Soorasamharam at 7 pm (near Metrowater
ofﬁce). Deivanayagi Thirukalyanam in Mayil Vahanam will be
performed on 30 October at 8
pm and Kandapodi Utsavam will
be held on 31 October at 4 pm.
Thirunakshatra Vizha
Spiritualist Muraidhra Swami is
organising Thirunakshata Vizha
till October at Ayodhya Mandapam, Arya Gowda Road, West
Mambalam. For details, contact
97899 27202.
Narayaneeyam
Vedhashreni Prabhanda
Samithi, 8, Second Main Road,
CIT Nagar (East) will conduct
free classes on Narayaneeyam
on Mondays and Tuesdays
between 3.30 and 4.30 pm in
its premises.
Samithi is conducting classes on
veda, sloka and Prabhandam for
over 10 years at the above mentioned venue.
For details, contact 98406
40705.
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Devotional
programme
‘Novels reﬂect people’s
behaviour pattern’
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
Novelists bring reality into life and
bring to focus the lifestyle and behaviour pattern of people who lived
in earlier centuries, said veteran actor
Sivakumar.
He was speaking at the Sri Krishna
Gana Sabha, T Nagar last evening
at an event orgnanised jointly by
the Sabha, Sri Krishna Sweets and
Ilakkiya Veedi (literary forum) to remember veteran novelist La Sa Ra
(La Sa Ramamirtham) and to honour
the Sahita Academy award winning
novelist Joe De Cruz with the ‘Ilakkiya
Veedi Annam’ award.
Sivakumar narrated a short story in
Tamil ‘Snekidanukku kaditham’ (letter
to a friend)’ written by LaSaRa, which
appealed to one and all at the venue.
He paid rich tributes to the veteran
novelist as a phenomenon in describing the reality of life and pointed out
that the works would be remembered
forever.
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reality of life of various ages into our
eyes.
Sivakumar also recalled the days
when some of his ﬁlms were made
based on stories written by novelists.
LaSaRa’s son and novelist Saptharishi, in his speech recalled the experiences he had with his father and
quoted various instances from the
novels that had become reality now.
Hymavathi Ramanujam who was
also present gave an emotional
speech about the greatness of her
husband to the entire family and
society.
The awardee at the function novelist Joe De Cruz took the stage to
describe the pains of fisherfolk in
the southern districts of Tamilnadu
and also thanked the organisers for
selecting him for the honour.
He had words of praise for Sivakumar for being an outstanding example
of how a person should lead his life.
Earlier, Ilakkiya Veedi’s Iniyavan
felicitated the guests and offered
tributes to LaSaRa. Among those
present at the venue include the
seasoned novelist Tirupur Krishnan.
Sri Karpaga Vinayakar Temple
at Second Link Street in Karpagam Gardens, Adyar, is hosting
devotional programmes on 29
and 31 October.
On the occasion of Sri
Kanda Sashti
on 29 October,
abhishekam to
Sri Balasubramanyar will
be held at 7.30
am with Sahasranama Archanai at 8.45 am and
followed by Chandana Kaappu
at 6.30 pm. On 31 October, Sri
Lalitha Sahasranama Parayanam at 6 pm. For details, contact
9444034221.
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Rallying
for a cause
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
CAN-STOP (Cancer Support Therapy To Overcome
Pain) is organising a car rally
here, in view of International
Breast Cancer Awareness
month.
According to a press release,
the event titled ‘Down the Pink
Road-a car rally’ will be held on
16 November between 9 am
and 2 pm at Lady Andal School,
Chetpet.
The voluntary organisation
provides counselling services
to patients, family and friends,
and also conducts awareness
programmes and screening
camps.
TANKER dialysis unit gets 6 more machines
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
The subsidised dialysis unit of
Tamilnadu Kidney Research (TANKER) Foundation has got six more dialysis machines. They were donated
by Cognizant Foundation.
The ‘Rekha Memorial Renny Abraham Ambattur Rotary Dialysis Unit’
at the Ambattur Rotary Hospital has
been expanded and now has a total
of 23 dialysis machines.
Inaugurated by actor R S Suriya,
TANKER Foundation’s goodwill ambassador, and N Lakshmi Narayanan,
vice-chairman, Cognizant and director, Cognizant Foundation, the additional dialysis machines will help them
take in some 30 more patients at the
unit, said Latha Kumaraswami, managing trustee, TANKER Foundation.
The TANKER Dialysis Unit was
inaugurated by Suriya, the Cognizant
Foundation Wing by Lakshmi Narayanan and the new dialysis machines
by S Ramamurthy, director, Cognizant Foundation and N Rajashree,
Chief Operating Ofﬁcer, Cognizant
Foundation at the Ambattur Rotary
Hospital today.
Suriya said that along with treatment
it was important to prevent disease by
making lifestyle changes. He urged the
gathering to eat right and exercise regularly and that people over 30 should
regularly check their BP and blood for
early detection of kidney disease as it
was getting to be more prevalent in the
younger age groups as well.
He also fondly reminisced about
his days in Ambattur Industrial estate
when he was working here in a company and earning a princely sum of
Rs 4000 a month.
AIEMA president Sai Satyakumar,
Rotary Club of Ambattur president
Yadav Murthy and Ambattur Rotary
Charitable Trust managing trustee
Sridaran reiterated their support to
TANKER’s cause to help the needy
It is important to prevent kidney diseases
by making lifestyle changes and people need
to eat right and exercise regularly and
those over 30 should regularly check
their BP and blood for early detection of
ailments as it was getting to be more
prevalent in the younger age groups as well
— ACTOR SURIYA
Actor Suriya inaugurating TANKER Dialysis Unit at Ambattur Rotary
Hospital yesterday. Cognizant vice-chairman N Lakshmi Narayanan
is among those present.
with kidney disease.
S V Venkatesan, trustee, TANKER
Foundation, proposed a vote of thanks.
TANKER is a non-proﬁt charitable
organisation started in 1993 to help
underprivileged patients with kidney disease. Representatives from
TANKER, Cognizant Foundation,
Ambattur Industrial Estate Manufacturers Association, and Rotary Club of
Ambattur were among those present.
TANKER’s four subsidised dialysis
are in Ambattur Rotary Hospital, TVS
Hospital, Chokkikulam (Madurai),
RVS Hospital, Sulur, Coimbatore and
in Corporation PHC Nungambakkam.
The foundation conducts upto 1,697
dialyses per month, of which 1,528
are free of cost with help from the
Chief Ministers Comprehensive
Health Insurance Scheme (CMCHIS)
and other donors.
Almost 2.5 lakh people die of kidney
failure in India every year. It is the
third largest killer after malignancy
and heart disease. Millions suffer
from some form of kidney disease
and many of them, particularly in
India cannot afford the cost of treatment or care.
TANKER is a registered non-proﬁt
charitable organisation with the aim of
helping underprivileged patients with
kidney disease, by giving subsidised
dialysis and one time ﬁnancial help
for medication, investigation and
transplantation, as well as to spread
awareness about kidney disease.
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27 OCTOBER 2014
WHAT NEWS TODAY PRINTS IS NEWS THAT COUNTS
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Poll pointers
espite widespread misgivings about holding the election in the
ﬂood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, the Election Commission
has scheduled the Assembly poll in the State between 25 November
and 20 December, with the counting of votes set for 23 December.
The poll time-table for Jharkhand too was announced by the Chief
Election Commissioner V S. Sampath at a press conference in the
national capital on Saturday. The term of the present Assemblies
in both these States is due to end in January. While there can be no
problem in holding the poll in Jharkhand on schedule, it is in Jammu
and Kashmir that the ruling National Conference-Congress combine
had pleaded for putting off the polls in view of the unsettled conditions in the State due to the lingering effects of the unprecedented
ﬂoods last month.
Indeed, the NC leadership has termed the EC poll schedule as
`inopportune.’ Quite clearly, the Abdullah Government is reluctant
to go back to the people. Having frittered away its mandate in poor
performance and corruption scams, the NC-Congress alliance was in
a terrible shape. Sensing the shape of things to come, the two partners
had decided to go their own separate ways a couple of months ago.
Thanks to the drastic change in the political scenario nationally, the
father and son duo of Farooq and Omar Abdullah after a long time
ﬁnd themselves friendless. All along, they had succeeded in hitching
their wagons to the dominant party in New Delhi. But things are
quite different now.
The ruling BJP is in no mood to yield any quarter to the Abdullahs.
In the recent Lok Sabha poll, the National Conference had failed to
win any of the six seats from the State. Indeed, the new BJP President
Amit Shah has sent a shiver down the spine of the NC leadership by
openly launching Mission-44 in Kashmir. The aim is for the BJP to so
overwhelm the old and tainted Kashmir-centric parties that the party
on its own can make a credible bid for power in the State. Whether
or not Shah’s mission will succeed remains to be seen, but there is
no denying his ambitions for the party he leads. Besides, Mehbooba
Mufti’s Peoples’ Democratic Party is keen to make a serious bid for
power in the State and, with that objective in view, it would not be
averse to an understanding with the BJP.
Since the Congress and the NC have irretrievably lost the trust of
the people, whether they ﬁght the election jointly or separately can
make little difference to the ultimate outcome. However, a BJP-PDP
understanding can catapult them into the seats of power in Srinagar.
The State has suffered from enormous neglect due to the inability
of Omar Abdullah to get a grip on the administration. Even though
the jihadi terror has been more or less contained regardless of the
obligatory noises made periodically by the Pak-funded separatist
leaders, the people in the State have suffered for want of purposeful
governance. The recent ﬂoods further exposed the incompetence of
the Abdullah Government. It was the reason why the Prime Minister
on his visit to the State on Diwali undertook to transfer cash relief to
the victims of the ﬂoods directly into their bank accounts. Nobody
trusts the Abdullah Government.
Meanwhile, the conditions in Jharkhand which too is set to
simultaneously elect a new Assembly seem ripe for the return of the
BJP to power. Here the JMM-Congress-RJD combine had virtually
turned the government into a gravy train. In a state endowed with
vast natural resources, government leaders have openly colluded
with vested interests to denude it of its riches. After the stupendous
success of the BJP in Haryana and Maharashtra elections, a resurgent
BJP is bound to exert its energies to reclaim Jharkhand outright and
make a bid for sharing power with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir.
Of course, no arrangement seems to have been made thus far
between the two parties, but from tentative moves it does appear
that the declaration of the poll schedule would lend a sense of
urgency for the two parties to reach some understanding. If that
happens, the process of mainstreaming of Jammu and Kashmir
would get a big boost.
Voice
Mail
Tippler trouble
Sir,
The liquor shop situated on the western side of Chakrapani Street at the
junction of Five Lights, poses trouble to residents and passersby.
The customers of this shop encroach the footpath by parking two-wheelers
haphazardly.
Walking is difﬁcult for senior residents like me in the street with the pavement area completely taken over by the customers of liquor shop.
Also, these tipplers trouble the women and children who walk through
the area to reach the shrines and educational institutions situated nearby.
Most of the vehicles including the recently introduced small buses seldom respect the ‘No Entry’ signal at Thambiah Road and drive rashly into
Chakrapani Street.
For the beneﬁt of residents and visitors, it is better to shut the concerned
liquor shop in this area.
R RAMADURAI,
Mambalam
Where is the space?
Sir,
T M Maisrty Street near Adyar is a so called ‘road’ with 15 feet width. It
starts from the main and busy junction of Vannanthurai in Besant Nagar.
It is the link road to Thiruvanmiyur and hundreds of vehicles pass through
the small road everyday.
All types of two-wheelers, cars and a number of vans are plying at high
speed. At the time of rainy season there is virtually a wet parade walking
through the tiny street. Water logging is very heavy in the street and virtually there is no space for your feet.
S VENUGOPALAN,
Vannanthurai
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Samba time for Rousseff
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA:
Brazil’s leftist President Dilma
Rousseff narrowly won re-election on
Sunday after convincing voters that
her party’s strong record of reducing
poverty over the last 12 years was
more important than a recent economic slump.
After one of the closest, most divisive campaigns in Brazil in decades,
Rousseff won 51.6 percent of votes
in a runoff against centrist opposition
leader Aecio Neves, who won 48.4
percent with more than 99 percent of
the votes tallied.
At a hotel in Brasilia where Rousseff
was due to speak, party supporters
waved red ﬂags and jumped up and
down, screaming in celebration.
In Sao Paulo, a stronghold of Neves’
Brazilian Social Democracy Party
(PSDB), a more subdued mood was
punctuated by some government supporters honking horns and screaming
with joy. Voting was peaceful and
Brazil’s robust democracy is free of
Wins second term as Brazil President
Dilma Rousseff
the political violence that mars some
other countries in Latin America. Yet,
at a time when the economy is facing
deep challenges, Ideli Salvatti, one
of Rousseff’s top ministers, said the
government would seek to lead ‘a
national reconciliation process given
how tight the result was.’
‘We have to calm our hearts down
ﬁrst and then get back to work tomorrow,’ she told reporters. The result
means another four years in power for
the Workers’ Party, which since 2003
The result means another four years in
power for the Workers’ Party, which since
2003 has virtually transformed Brazil lifting 40 million from poverty, reducing
unemployment to record lows and making
big inroads against hunger in what remains
one of the world’s most unequal countries
has virtually transformed Brazil - lifting 40 million from poverty, reducing
unemployment to record lows and
making big inroads against hunger in
what remains one of the world’s most
unequal countries.
The party’s star has faded recently.
The economy has slowed dramatically under Rousseff’s heavy-handed
and often unpredictable policies,
making Brazil’s glory days of robust
growth last decade an ever-more
distant memory. Numerous corruption
Teen wounded in US
school shooting dies
Toll raises to 3, two others critical
WASHINGTON:
One of the teenagers wounded
in a Washington state high school
shooting has died, raising the number
of fatalities from when a student
opened ﬁre in a cafeteria to three.
Officials at Providence Regional
Medical Center Everett confirmed
14-year-old Gia Soriano died
yesterday night. Another girl was
killed during the shooting Friday
by a popular first-year student at
Marysville-Pilchuck High School
north of Seattle. The shooter, Jaylen
Fryberg, died of a self-inﬂicted wound.
Three other students remain
hospitalized, two in critical condition
and one in serious condition. At a news
Pak Army chief
to visit US
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan’s Army Chief Gen
Raheel Sharif will visit the US next
month for crucial security talks
with American defence ofﬁcials,
his ﬁrst such trip since taking over
as Chief of Army Staff (COAS) last
year. His week-long visit is likely
to start from mid-November and
preparations for trip are underway,
defence sources said.
Gen Sharif has been invited by
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen
Martin Dempsey. He is expected
to meet Defence Secretary Chuck
Hagel, Cenycom Commander
General Lloyd Austin and also visit
Centcom headquarters in Tampa,
Florida.
Gen Sharif assumed the post of
army chief in November and it took
him almost a year to decide on a
trip to the US, a move which speaks
about the tensions between the
defence establishments of the two
countries over an array of issues.
However, the visit indicates
that the two sides are ready to
look forward and ready to work in
post-2014 Afghanistan where a
sizeable number of US and NATO
troops will stay.
Pakistan had asked US not to
completely abandon the war-torn
Afghanistan which needs both
security and economic support for
its survival.
conference, Dr. Joanne Roberts read a
statement from Soriano’s family.
‘We are devastated by this senseless
tragedy. Gia is our beautiful daughter,
and words cannot express how much
we will miss her,’ the statement said.
Roberts said Soriano’s family was
donating her organs for transplant.
Earlier yesterday, parents and
students gathered in a gymnasium at
the school for a community meeting,
with speakers urging support and
prayers and tribal members playing
drums and singing songs. Fryberg
was from a prominent Tulalip Indian
tribes family.
Young people hugged each other
and cried and speakers urged people
to come together during the gathering
Sunday. ‘Our legs are still wobbly,’
said Tony Hatch, a cousin of one of
the injured students. ‘We’re really
damaged right now.’
Of the wounded students, only
14-year-old Nate Hatch showed
improvement, though he remained
in serious condition in intensive.
Fifteen-year-old Andrew Fryberg
also remained in critical condition in
intensive care. Both are cousins of
Jaylen Fryberg.
Meanwhile, 14-year-old Shaylee
Chuckulnaskit remained in critical
condition in intensive care. Fryberg
died in the attack after a ﬁrst-year
teacher intervened.
scandals, high inﬂation and frustration
over poor public services like health
care tempted many to consider a
switch to Neves’ more pro-business
agenda.
Yet Rousseff and her supporters
spent the campaign warning voters,
especially the poor, that a vote for
the PSDB would mean a return to the
less compassionate, more unequal
Brazil of the 1990s - an argument
that Neves rigorously denied, but
ultimately prevailed anyway.
France gripped
by clown terror
AGDE:
An ‘evil clown’
craze that has
taken off in the
US and Britain
has seen 14
arrested in
southern France
for threatening people with knives
and guns.
French police say the group,
dressed as clowns, were chasing
locals and ‘laughing maniacally’ in
the Mediterranean resort of Agde
when they were arrested.
A French national police
spokesman told The Mirror: ‘Since
mid-October, a rumour inspired by
videos published on the Internet has
created the presence of threatening
and aggressive clowns in France.
‘Symptomatic of the impact of the
Internet, this phenomenon can lead
to damaging individual acts and
disturbances to public order.’
Ebola scare in Australia
SYDNEY:
Australian authorities said early
that a teenager who was in isolation in hospital had tested negative
for Ebola after she developed a
fever following her arrival from
Guinea.
The 18-year-old, who arrived in
Australia 12 days ago with eight
other family members, had been
in home quarantine in Brisbane before she developed
a raised temperature and was put into isolation at the
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.
‘The Queensland Chief Health Ofﬁcer, Dr Jeannette
Young, reports the results of tests on an 18-year-old
woman in Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital are
negative for Ebola virus disease,’
a statement from the ofﬁce of the
Queensland Minister for Health
said. Young had said earlier that
a second test would be taken in
three days.
She would not specify the teenager’s nationality, but said she was
moving to Australia permanently
and authorities had been informed
of her family’s arrival several days before the ﬂight.
The rest of the woman’s family was quarantined at
home. Young said Queensland health authorities were
monitoring four families from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra
Leone, where the vast majority of Ebola cases have
occurred.
Boko Haram strikes again
KANO:
Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped at least 30 boys and girls from a village in
northeast Nigeria during the weekend. The
abductions are the latest
in a string of recent kidnappings by Boko Haram
that dims hope for the
anticipated release of
219 schoolgirls ?held
by the group since April
following a controversial ceasefire declared
by Nigerian authorities.
Heavily armed Boko
Haram gunmen invaded the town of Mafa, in
Borno state, on Friday
through Saturday and seized 30 boys and girls, local leaders said.
The news of the kidnappings was slow to emerge due to lack of telecom
service in the region, where most telecom towers have been destroyed in
Boko Haram’s ﬁve-year insurgency against Nigeria’s government.
‘In the past two days Boko Haram insurgents stormed Mafa and abducted
30 boys aged 13 and above and girls aged 11 and above,’ Mafa local government chairman Shettima Maina said.
Mallam Ashiekh Mustapha, the local chief of Mafa who conﬁrmed the
abductions, said the kidnappers also stole 300 cows from the farming
community in the raid.
Gunman in Canada attack
prepared video of himself
TORONTO:
A gunman who shot and killed a
soldier at Canada’s national war memorial and then stormed Parliament
before he was gunned down had
prepared a video recording of himself
that police say shows he was driven
by ideological and political motives,
police has said.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Commissioner Bob Paulson said in
a statement yesterday they have ‘persuasive evidence
that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau’s attack was driven by
ideological and political motives.’
A detailed analysis of the video was being conducted
and Paulson said they cannot release the video at
this time. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called
Wednesday’s shooting a terror attack, and the bloodshed raised fears that Canada is suffering reprisals
for joining the US-led air campaign
against Islamic State extremists in
Iraq and Syria.
Police are investigating ZehafBibeau’s interactions with numerous
individuals in the days leading up to
the attack and whether they could
have contributed or facilitated it.
Paulson said a knife carried by
Zehaf-Bibeau was taken from his
aunt’s property in Mont Tremblant,
Quebec, and they’re looking into how he got the riﬂe.
Paulson called it an old, uncommon gun that police
suspect he could have also hidden on the property.
Paulson said investigators also identiﬁed where he
got his money for the car he bought and his pre-attack
activities. He said Zehaf-Bibeau has been employed
in the oil ﬁelds in Alberta, saved his money and had
access to a considerable amount of funds.
Thousands flee
during truce
in Lebanon
TRIPOLI:
Thousands of civilians ﬂed their
homes in a battered district of
northern Lebanon’s Tripoli, taking
advantage of an informal truce
in ﬁghting between the army and
Islamist militants.
An AFP journalist in Tripoli
reported the lull in fighting after
three days of heavy clashes in
Tripoli, the country’s second biggest
city, even as the army vowed to
crush the militants.
But Syria’s Al-Qaeda branch
renewed a threat that it will execute
one of 27 Lebanese soldiers it has
held hostage since August unless
the military halts its operations
in Tripoli. The coastal city has
seen repeated clashes between
Sunni militants sympathetic to rebel
ﬁghters in neighbouring Syria and
Alawites loyal to the Damascus
regime.
The Sunnis have recently focussed
their attacks on the army over its
alleged support for Damascus
ally Hezbollah. The latest clashes
erupted on Friday at the city’s
historic market, which is a major
tourist attraction.
Army mortar fire pounded
the impoverished, outlying
neighbourhood of Islamist bastion
Bab al-Tebbaneh, where the
gunmen were pushed back and
cornered. Five civilians have been
killed in three days, among them
a child and two adults yesterday,
said a security ofﬁcial. After pleas
from residents and mediation by
clerics, the army allowed thousands
of civilians who had been caught in
the crossﬁre for hours to ﬂee Bab
al-Tebbaneh.
Enterprise
CHENNAI
Good show by
DHFL in Q2
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
DHFL today announced a net proﬁt
growth of 20 per cent in the ﬁrst half of
the 2014-15 ﬁnancial year ending 30
September, 2014, in comparison to
the corresponding period of the previous ﬁnancial year.
An ofﬁcial statement said, the second quarter of the current ﬁnancial
year also witnessed net proﬁt growth
of 18 per cent, when compared with
the corresponding period of the 201314 ﬁnancial year.
Assets Under Management (AUM)
grew 28 per cent year-on-year, reaching close to Rs 50,000 crore from Rs
38,500 crore as on 30 September,
2013. Net interest mrgin stood at 2.75
per cent, while the gross NPA stood
at 0.78 per cent and the net NPA after taking into account total provision
is NIL
Proﬁt before tax rose by 32 per cent
to Rs 227.97 crore for the quarter ended 30 September, 2014 as against
Rs 172.51 crore in the correspond-
ing quarter of the previous year. The
Company retains its 30 year focus on
enabling convenient and efﬁcient ﬁnancial access for every Indian to own
a home of his own, through its wide
network presence and product proposition. In the ﬁrst half year ending 30
September, 2014, DHFL expanded
its network strength by 100, taking its
points of presence to over 500 locations.
DHFL’s chairman and managing director Kapil Wadhawan said,
‘It is heartening for me to note that
government-led developments in the
ﬁrst half of the 2014-15 ﬁnancial year
gives us a solid foundation to embark
upon a meaningful journey in the second half. We will continue to focus on
this customer segment, by reaching
out to them in tier 2, 3, 4 and 5 locations, while maintaining a healthy loan
portfolio and steady net proﬁt growth.
DHFL expanded its branch network
considerably in line with its strategy
of being accessible to our focus customer segment across India’.
Govt revises rules Unspent funds to be carried over
New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI):
Coming out with revised guidelines, the government has made
it mandatory for all proﬁt-making
central public sector companies to
spend money on CSR activities.
Besides, these enterprises cannot
include money spent on sustainable
development efforts under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
ambit.
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has come out with the
revised guidelines following the new
Companies Act making social welfare spending compulsory for certain
class of proﬁtable corporates mandatory.
In comparison with provisions under the Companies Act, 2013, the
latest DPE norms are more strict
since it would be applicable on all
proﬁt-making central public sector
enterprises.
As per the companies law,
The proposals are likely to face stiff resistance
from brokers who claim to be already operating in
a tightly regulated environment wherein supervisory functions are discharged by multi-level regulatory bodies such as stock exchanges, clearing
corporations, depositories and SEBI
as stock exchanges,
clearing corporations,
depositories
and
SEBI.
In a representation
to BSE, brokers have
submitted that in the
last few years stock
broking has seen ‘a
turbulent business environment
leading to dwindling revenue and
also exit of many trading members
from the market’.
The brokers are of the view that the
proposed joint inspections would put
further pressure on their resources,
while they have already been raising
concerns before SEBI with regard to
multiple inspections of books of accounts and records being carried out
by the stock Exchanges and others.
The new proposal for joint inspection by three exchanges (BSE, NSE
Finland keen to
tie-up with India
Helsinki, Oct 27 (PTI):
Finland, known for its knowledgebased society, is keen to team up
with India in range of areas like
cleantech, ICT, education, environment and energy, as the two nations
have agreed to double the trade volume over the next three years, top
Finnish ofﬁcials said.
The huge Indian market offers
Finnish companies a range of business opportunities in sectors such
as infrastructure construction, energy production, forestry, information
and communications technology,
environmental and food technology,
health care and education, they said.
Trade volume between Finland
and India is currently $1.5 billion.
There is particular demand for
Finnish cleantech expertise in India,
Mika Finska, senior advisor, Cleantech Finland, Finpro said.
India’s needs in solutions for energy efﬁciency and energy conservation, waste treatment, water puriﬁcation and biofuels are increasing
quickly while reliance on imported
fuel added burden on the economy.
‘These are all issues that Finland
has dealt with over the decades.
Finns have managed to cut down
harmful environmental impacts
while maintaining steady economic
growth. By working together, Finland
and India can help each other build
an economically and ecologically
sustainable future’, Finska told visiting Indian journalists.
During the recent state visit of President Pranab Mukherjee to Finland,
the ﬁrst by an Indian Head of State in
26 years, the two nations inked more
than a dozen bilateral agreements,
including a cooperation agreement
between Finnish universities and Indian institutes of technology, and an
agreement on the use of renewable
energy sources.
Finland’s investment in education
and its policy of equal opportunities for all have paved the way to a
knowledge-based society.
and MCX-SX), however, has been made
with a presumption
that it will save time
and cost of the trading member and the
regulatory authorities.
Typically, the brokers
are required to submit voluminous data prior to the
inspection as per the questionnaire
and as per the speciﬁc requirements of the exchanges and other
front line regulators after submissions of certain details.
The brokers are also wary that
collection of data by each exchange for sharing on one platform
could lead to privacy issues. They
have also requested SEBI to avoid
onsite inspection, as far as possible, and conduct it only after giving
sufﬁcient advance notice.
CPSEs that do not meet the eligibility criteria
under the Companies Act but have made proﬁt
in the preceding year are now required to
spend ‘at least two per cent of the proﬁt made
in the preceding year on CSR activities
certain class of entities are required
to shell out at least two per cent of
their three- year annual average net
proﬁt towards CSR activities. This
would be applicable to companies
having at least Rs ﬁve crore net profit, or Rs 1,000 crore turnover or Rs
500 crore net worth.
According to revised DPE guidelines, issued on 21 October, ‘it is
mandatory for all proﬁt-making CPSEs to undertake CSR activities as
per provisions of the Act and CSR
rules’.
These guidelines are effective from
1 April.
Cairn India
revenue at
Rs 3,892 crore
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
India Limited (CIL) reannounced its second
ﬁnancial results for the
ending 30 September,
Cairn
cently
quarter
period
2014.
According to a press release,
revenue of Rs 3,982 crore ($
657 million), EBITDA of Rs 2,701
crore ($446 million) was posted
in the quarter.
Depreciation and depletion
charge for the quarter was higher at Rs 703 crore, compared to
Rs 547 crore in Q2 ﬁscal 2014, as
a result of change in method of
depreciation adopted in the previous quarter and an increase
in asset capitalisation. Proﬁt after tax for the quarter stood at
Rs 2,278 crore with a Cash EPS
of Rs 13.77, adding to a strong
cash position.
Earnings before interest, tax,
depreciation and amortisation
was Rs 2,701 crore for the quarter compared to Rs 3,619 crore
in the same period previous year
impacted by increased facility
and well maintenance costs related to the shutdown at Rajasthan, and exploration costs, the
release said.
CPSEs that do not meet the eligibility criteria under the Companies Act but have made proﬁt in the
preceding year are now required to
spend ‘at least two per cent of the
proﬁt made in the preceding year on
CSR activities’.
Under the guidelines, prepared after consultations with the Corporate
Affairs Ministry, sustainability efforts
cannot be considered as CSR activities.
‘Amount spent on sustainability
initiatives in the pursuit of sustainable development while conducting
normal business activities would not
New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI):
Country’s largest IT services ﬁrm
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
expects digital platforms like cloud,
Big Data and mobility solutions to
bring in cumulative revenues of
over $5 billion in next few years.
Earlier, the Mumbai-based ﬁrm
had said that it expects to do $5 billion cumulative business over the
next three to four years from the
‘digital opportunity’.
‘The way to look at it is that, when
I originally said it, I said that over
the next three to four years we will
do $5 billion cumulative. But now, I
think we will do
much more than
that on a cumulative basis’, TCS CEO
and managing director N
Chandrasekaran told analysts.
The run rate will not touch the
$5 billion mark but it will deﬁnitely
touch a few billion dollars, he added.
He said the opportunity is huge
as most of the ADM work that is
getting replaced or rationalised is
moving into digital.
‘Most of the infrastructure contracts come up with outsourcing of
infrastructure to maintain the serv-
Etihad not to lease
Boeing aircraft from Jet
New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI):
Amid a growing clamour for naming of alleged black money holders,
industry body Assocham on Sunday
said the government should not prematurely disclose the names of such
persons as it could hamper battle
against this menace.
‘The double taxation avoidance
treaties are important for the Indian
residents and corporates which can
avoid paying taxes twice. Revealing
the names of individuals allegedly
holding unaccounted money can
make to headlines but will surely
make India’s battle against the
menace weak. Besides, violation of
DTATs will deal a severe blow to
the country’s credibility’, it said in a
statement.
‘If names are placed in public domain and those named ﬁnally do
not get convicted, there would be
immense damage to the reputation
of the individuals or entities. Impression should not be given as if there is
a wild goose chase which can harm
the entire jurisprudence’, it said.
Mumbai, Oct 27 (PTI):
Jet Airways’ foreign equity partner, UAE-based Etihad,
has dropped its plan to lease three Boeing 777 aircraft
from the airline, putting the domestic carrier in a difﬁcult
situation, sources said.
These aircraft, B 777-300 ERs, were with the Turkish
Airlines and have recently come back to Jet Airways after
completing the lease period, an airline source said.
‘Etihad had earlier sought to lease these aircraft as it
wanted to deploy them on its international network.
offered by Nokia, while other trade union
members advocated a government takeover of the plant and a roll-out of ‘Amma’
branded mobile phones along the lines of
Amma water and Amma salt.
Most others are clinging to the hope that
their jobs might still be saved.
Earlier this year, about 3,000 employees afﬁliated to Nokia India Thozhilalargal
Sangam (Nokia India Employees Union)
staged a one-day fast, seeking to draw the
attention of the Central and State governments to their plight.
It may be recalled that Nokia started
manufacturing in Chennai from January
2006 and exported to markets including
the Middle East and Africa, Asia, Australia
and New Zealand from there.
constitute a part of the CSR spend
from two per cent of the proﬁts as
stipulated in the Act and the CSR
Rules’, DPE, the nodal agency for all
public sector companies, has said.
Besides, the public sector entities
are required to carry forward the unspent CSR funds to the next year.
‘In case of CPSEs mere reporting
and explaining the reasons for not
spending this amount in a particular
year would not sufﬁce and the unspent CSR amount in a particular
year would not lapse. It would instead be carried forward to the next
year for utilisation for purpose for
which it was allocated’, it said.
Among others, DPE has said that
public sector companies should look
at collaborations in CSR activities for
‘greater social, economic and environmental impact’ of such works.
CPSEs have to adopt a CSR and
Sustainability Policy with approval
from their respective boards.
TCS bets big on
digital services
Black money:
Assocham against
names disclosure
Nokia Chennai plant:
4 days to switch off
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
With a little over three days left for suspension of operations at the city’s Nokia plant in
Sriperumbudur, the fate of workers hangs
in balance. It has been a legally exhausting
journey for the factory right from September
2013, when tech giant Microsoft purchased
Nokia’s handset business for $7.2 billion.
Wired in legal tussles, the plant was left out
of the deal and eventually became a contract
manufacturing unit, with the factory’s assets
frozen by the tax department.
The end for the unit was spelled out soon after Nokia announced that that it will shut down
the plant from 1 November. Left with fewer
alternatives, 5,000 employees had reportedly opted for Voluntary Retirement Scheme
5
CSR must for PSUs
Brokers may face
joint inspection
New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI):
To put in place a more effective
system for monitoring brokers so
as to check unfair trade practices
and frauds, capital markets regulator SEBI is mulling over a proposal
to allow stock exchanges to conduct
‘joint inspection’ of their members.
A concept note was earlier ﬂoated
by leading bourse BSE for joint inspection of trading members by exchanges, clearing corporations and
depositories, and it is now being
considered by SEBI for possible implementation, sources said.
The proposal involves joint inspection of brokers, as also collection of
data at a single platform by each
and every exchange and other capital market infrastructure institutions
such as clearing corporations and
depositories.
Besides, offsite joint inspection
could be conducted as per analysis
of this data, while it has also been
proposed that internal audit should
be made more frequent.
The proposals are likely to face stiff
resistance from brokers who claim
to be already operating in a tightly
regulated environment wherein supervisory functions are discharged
by multi-level regulatory bodies such
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ice levels in a managed services
model, but with a transformation
component to move to cloud infrastructure’, he said.
And commoditised applications,
when they are transitioned, customers are willing to look at application platforms which are cloudbased, he added.
‘So, all these three facts will deﬁnitely move things to Digital’, he
said.
Chandrasekaran, who recently
got a ﬁve-year extension, said at the announcement of the
ﬁrm’s second quarter
results that TCS
is
contemplating
whether to disclose
numbers from the
digital technologies
stream.
For the July-September quarter, the Mumbai-based company
posted 13.2 per cent jump in its net
proﬁt at Rs 5,244 crore as against
Rs 4,653.9 crore in the year-ago
period.
Revenue jumped 13.5 per cent
to Rs 23,816 crore in the second
quarter ended 30 September as
compared to Rs 20,977 crore in the
corresponding period of last year.
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Sports
Serena sends ominous
message to rivals
Singapore, Oct 27:
The older Serena Williams gets,
the more dominant she becomes.
At 33, an age when most players
start to fade, her grip on women’s
tennis looks as secure as ever.
Each time she is presented with
a new challenge she ﬁnds a way
to overcome it, emerging stronger
each time, and her will to win is
not fading.
On Sunday, she won the WTA
Finals — an elite tournament that
sits just behind the grand slams in
terms of importance -- for the third
year in a row, despite concerns
about her health and form.
She arrived in Singapore with
an injured knee and suffered her
heaviest defeat in 16 years in her
group match with Simona Halep,
who is 10 years her junior.
Yet, four days later, she turned
the tables on Halep, spanking the
world number three 6-3, 6-0 in the
ﬁnal, proving yet again that she is
not only the most powerful player
in women’s tennis, but the most
determined.
‘It’s great. I didn’t expect to
end the year on this note,’ she
said. ‘I was just happy to even
Barca’s Iniesta
out due to injury
Barcelona, Oct 27:
Barcelona midﬁelder Andres Iniesta
could miss next week’s La Liga clash
with Celta Vigo and the Champions
League tie against Ajax Amsterdam
after injuring himself against Real
Madrid on Saturday. Iniesta has had
plenty of highs and lows during his
career but will quickly want to forget
a nightmare ‘Clasico’.
Not only did he commit the howler
that led to Real’s third goal in a 3-1
comeback win at the Bernabeu but
he was also forced off with a calf
injury in the 71st minute. Tests on
Sunday conﬁrmed damage to the calf
muscle in his right leg. ‘How the injury
develops will determine when he’ll
be able to return to training with the
group,’ Barca said on their website
(www.fcbarcelona.es) on Sunday.
SA soccer
captain killed by
intruders
Johannesburg, Oct 27:
South Africa’s soccer captain Senzo
Meyiwa was shot dead by intruders
in a township near Johannesburg on
Sunday in what local media reported
as a botched robbery.
The Orlando Pirates goalkeeper
was shot after two men entered a
house in Vosloorus where Meyiwa
was visiting, at about 8 p.m. local
time, South Africa police said in a
statement. The intruders ﬂed, along
with a third man who had been
waiting outside. Other people in the
house were unharmed.
Local media said the intruders had
demanded a mobile phone.
‘We can conﬁrm that Bucs (Pirates)
keeper Senzo Meyiwa has been shot
and sadly declared dead on arrival
at hospital,’ the South African Police
Services said on its Twitter feed.
‘We must emphasise break of
protocol... We know there are upset
and hurt pple (people) at the house
where (the) incident occurred and at
hospital. Calm please.
‘We can assure all South Africans
that we will do all we can to bring
Meyiwa’s killers (to) book,’ the police
said in a further tweet, offering a
reward of R150,000 ($13,700).
The 27-year-old captained South
Africa in their last four matches in
the African Nations Cup qualiﬁers
without conceding a goal and played
on Saturday when his club advanced
to the semi-ﬁnals of the South African
League Cup.
be competing here. ‘It makes
everything much more sweeter
and satisfying, especially for me.
It wasn’t my best year, but I’m just
happy to have won one more title
this year.’ There was an element
of ruthlessness about the way
she disposed of Halep in the ﬁnal,
an ominous warning to the next
generation that the world number
one is as motivated as ever.
‘I made so many unforced errors
in our first match, and I think
knowing that she has the ability
and the capability to play so well,
I knew that I had to step up my
game,’ Serena said.
‘I knew that I had to play a
lot better, so I obviously was
expecting a much better player
than I was in the earlier rounds.
But I think being ready for that
really was able to help me out.
‘It was also good for me to lose
that match, because now I know
what to expect next year. I really
know and I’m ready for that next
year. So I know what to go home
and work on once pre-season
starts.’ That is bad news for her
rivals, both present and past, as
she closes in on the sport’s most
revered records.
Last month, she won her 18th
grand slam singles title at the U.S.
Open, elevating her to a threeway tie for fourth with Martina
Navratilova and Chris Evert.
Margaret Court holds the all-time
record with 24.
Serena never talks about records
but is constantly reminded of
where she sits. Time, rather than
her opponents, now looks like her
biggest hurdle.
CHENNAI
Rejuvenated Federer
sets sights on No.1
Swiss wins home tournament for 6th time
Basel, Oct 27:
Roger Federer has his sights set on
ending the year as the world’s topranked player after the 33-year-old
claimed his ﬁfth title of the year in his
home town on Sunday.
The 17-times grand slam champion
outclassed David Gofﬁn 6-2, 6-2 to
win the Swiss Indoor tournament in
Basel for a sixth time, moving ever
closer to Serbian Novak Djokovic at
the top of the rankings in the process.
A strong ﬁnish at the Paris Masters
and the ATP World Tour Finals could
see him end the year as number
one for the ﬁrst time since 2009 -proof that his skills are not in decline
despite the advancing years and two
sets of twins.
‘It would be very special, you can’t
say it’s not important, world number
one, it’s what it’s all about really,
together with some tournaments you
really care about,’ Federer told the
ATP’s ofﬁcial television channel after
his 51-minute thrashing of Gofﬁn.
‘With the year I’ve had and the
amount of finals I’ve played, the
level of tennis I’ve played, I’m really
pleased that I have a shot at being
there.
‘But I’m sure Novak will be very
motivated. It’s going to be interesting
weeks ahead.’
Federer, whose 302 weeks as world
number one is a record, as is his
streak of 237 consecutive weeks atop
the rankings, is less than 500 points
behind Djokovic with a combined
2,500 points up for grabs in Paris
and London.
Djokovic won both of those titles
and can potentially close the gap.
Federer was at his majestic best
at times against Gofﬁn, the Belgian
The final rush
With the ATP Race to London entering its ﬁnal week, and four berths
at stake, all eyes will be on the BNP Paribas Masters. Six contenders
including Andy Murray and David Ferrer are jockeying to join Novak
Djokovic, Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka and Marin Cilic from the Tour
ﬁnale from 9 November.
Those in the running are: Murray, Kei Nishikori, Tomas Berdych, Ferrer,
Milos Raonic and Grigor Dimitrov.
last year and therefore cannot
signiﬁcantly add to his haul as he will
be defending points, while Federer
lost in the semi-ﬁnals at both events
who has rediscovered his best form
since Wimbledon, winning 43 out
of 45 matches, including on the
Challenger Tour, to rocket up the
world standings. He was never in with
a chance against Federer though as
the local boy delighted his fans with
a faultless display to take his career
title tally to 82 and extend his winning
streak to 12 matches after his title in
Shanghai.
The ﬁrst two of those wins came as
Federer helped steer Switzerland into
the Davis Cup ﬁnal against France.
Murray triumphs
Andy Murray saved five match
points before ﬁghting back to beat
Tommy Robredo 3-6, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (8)
in a grueling Valencia Open ﬁnal on
Sunday.
Last month, Murray also saved ﬁve
match points against the Spaniard
on his way to winning the ﬁnal in
Shenzhen, China. This time, he had
to do it in front of Robredo’s home
fans, who ended up applauding
the effort made by both players on
Valencia’s indoor hard court.
Robredo came from a break down
in the second set to force a tiebreaker
that could have earned him his ﬁrst
win against Murray since 2007.
Murray looked ﬂustered, slamming
his racket down twice, but he
managed to save two match points
before leveling at a set each.
The Briton then saved three more
match points in the ﬁnal tiebreaker
before hitting a decisive backhand to
win in 3 hours, 20 minutes, making
it the longest ﬁnal on the ATP circuit
this year. Murray embraced Robredo
over the net at the ﬁnish.
We saved the best Sevilla goes
joint top
for the last: Sania
Singapore, Oct 27:
They had to save match points
in their first two matches of the
week, but everything clicked in the
third - Cara Black and Sania Mirza
steamrolled Hsieh Su-Wei and
Peng Shuai on Sunday to lift the
season-ending BNP Paribas WTA
Finals here.
Black and Sania’s road to the ﬁnal
was anything but routine - they fought
off a match point to beat Raquel
Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears in
the quarterﬁnals, then three match
points to get by Kveta Peschke and
Katarina Srebotnik in the semiﬁnals.
Sania joked after that semifnal
match on Saturday, ‘I hope we
don’t have another match like that,
because my heart’s not able to take
it anymore!’
Much to her delight, this one would
actually be nothing like the other two.
After Peng held serve to open the
match, the No.3-seeded Black and
Mirza stormed through 12 games in
a row to hand the No.2 seeds and
defending champions a 59-minute,
6-1, 6-0 loss. They never faced a
break point.
‘We saved the best for last,’ Mirza
said. ‘We’ve played together almost
Younis wants to
play World Cup
Karachi, Oct 27 (PTI):
Pakistan’s man of the match in the
ﬁrst Test win over Australia in Dubai,
Younis Khan, is keen to
play in next year’s World
Cup despite the national
selectors sidelining him
for the one-day series
against the
Australians.
Younis, who scored
twin centuries in the
Dubai Test, said he
was ready to play in the
World Cup in Australia
and New Zealand if the
selectors put faith in him.
‘I just feel that the selectors should
not take into consideration age,
position or colour while selecting
teams. No matter what age a batsman
is, if he is in form and has match
ﬁtness he should be selected to play
in ODIs,’ Younis said on Geo Super
channel.
‘The idea should be to
play the players in form.
Age should not be a bar.
If any player can serve
Pakistan cricket in the
World Cup he should be
considered for selection.
It is about playing the
right combination for a
match or event,’ Younis
said.
Younis, who has
become the highest Test centurymaker for Pakistan with 26 hundreds
after the Dubai Test, said he was
ready to play for Pakistan even in
ODIs.
all year, I think, and it was at least
one of our best matches. It was
definitely the best match we’ve
played against them.’
‘We came out and didn’t give
them any free points,’ Black said.
‘Like Sania said, it was one of
the best matches we’ve played
against them. We had a game
plan, and I think we executed it
well.”
It was their fifth and biggest
WTA doubles title together. They
had one Premier title (Beijing
in 2013), two other Premiers
(Tokyo in 2013 and 2014) and an
International (Oeiras in 2014).
But it will be their last, too - while
much has been made of Hsieh and
Peng’s partnership wrapping up in
Singapore, Black and Mirza will
be splitting up too, a subject they
discussed in their presser.
India slides in
ICC Test rankings
Dubai, Oct 27 (PTI):
India are all set to drop a rung
to sixth in the ICC Test rankings,
replaced by arch-rivals Pakistan in
the fifth position after Misbah-ulHaq’s men took a 1-0 lead in the
ongoing series against Australia
here. ‘Pakistan’s victory in the Dubai
Test has not only ensured that it will
move ahead of India in ﬁfth position
irrespective of how the Abu Dhabi
Test ends, it has dashed Australia
hopes of regaining the number-one
Test ranking,’ the ICC said in a
statement. To move ahead of South
Africa, Australia needed to win both
the Tests. Now, their best series
result can be a 1-1 draw, which will
keep them in second position, three
points behind South Africa.
In contrast, if Pakistan win the
second Test, then they will leapfrog
England, Sri Lanka and India into
third position.
Madrid, Oct 27 (AFP):
Sevilla moved joint top of La Liga
alongside Barcelona as two late
goals from Denis Suarez and Carlos
Bacca gave them a 2-1 win over
Villarreal.
Champions Atletico Madrid also
moved to within two pointes of the
leaders as they were 1-0 victors
at 10-man Getafe thanks to Mario
Mandzukic’s ﬁrst-half goal yesterday.
Villarreal seemed set to take all
three points when substitute Luciano
Vietto clipped home Cani’s pass to
open the scoring 11 minutes from
time.
However, Suarez slotted home a
loose ball inside the area two minutes
from time and Bacca converted from
the penalty spot deep into stoppage
time after Giovani Dos Santos had
upended Benoit Tremoulinas.
Victories for Sevilla and Atletico
leaves the top five separated by
just two points. Villarreal enjoyed
the better of the play in the first
period at the Sanchez Pizjuan, but
it was Sevilla who came closest to
breaking the deadlock when Gerard
Deulofeu’s corner came back off
the post.
Sevilla ‘keeper Beto was forced
to make a point-blank save from
Ikechukwu Uche just before the
break and the Nigerian striker should
have done better when he ﬁred wide
11 minutes into the second-half.
Uche’s replacement Vietto was
more clinical when handed the
chance to give Villarreal the lead as
he raced onto Cani’s through ball to
lift the ball over the advancing Beto.
However, Villarreal couldn’t
withstand the late waves of Sevilla
pressure as Suarez pounced to hook
the ball into the far corner following a
scramble inside the area.
City Sports
Customs posts win
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
Customs quelled Indian Bank’s challenge, posting a 25-21, 25-21,
24-26, 25-17 win in the SRM University-Chennai District ‘A’ Division
Volleyball League Championship 2014 at SDAT Multipurpose Jawaharlal
Nehru Indoor Stadium here yesterday.
In other matches, SRM beat SDAT 25-18, 25-16, 25-14, Income Tax
defeated St Joseph’s 25-16, 25-27, 25-16, 25-20 and Panimalar edged
out Southern Railway 26-24, 31-29, 14-25, 23-25, 15-13.
Dipika, Harinder move up
Dipika Pallikal entered the last eight of the women’s event in the JSW
Indian Squash Challenger Circuit here yesterday, beating Harshit Kaur
Jawanda 11-6, 11-4, 11-3 in a quick 29-minute game.
In another match, Lakshya Raghavendran beat Aparajitha Balamurukan
14-12,11-9,4-11,12-10 in 43 minutes.
Asian Games medallist Harinder Pal Sandhu also showed his mettle
as he emerged victorious against Pakistan’s Ahsan Ayaz beating him
11-4, 11-7, 8-11, 9-11, 11-7 in a marathon match lasting 81 minutes.
India’s Ravi Dixit and Kush Kumar also won as Ravi beat Velavan
Senthilkumar 11-5,11-8,11-7 in 32 minutes and Kush defeated Lance
Beddoes (NZL) 11-2, 11-9, 8-11, 11-5.
Misbah hails Pak’s crushing win over Oz
Dubai, Oct 27:
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul Haq
hailed his side’s ﬁrst Test victory
over Australia in Dubai on Sunday
as ‘one of the ﬁnest wins’ but added
his team needed to remain focused
to win the series. Pakistan thrashed
Australia by 221 runs on the ﬁfth
and ﬁnal day with just 21.5 overs
remaining in the game. Australia
were dismissed for 216 after left-arm
spinner Zulﬁqar Babar took 5 for 74
and leg spinner Yasir Shah ﬁnished
with 4 for 50 to give Pakistan a 1-0
lead in the two-Test series. Misbah
said the win was the second best
behind a 3-0 rout of the then world
number one team England in the
United Arab Emirates in 2012.
‘It’s difﬁcult where to rank this win
but it is one of the ﬁnest victories,’
said Misbah after the match. ‘I
always rank 3-0 against England
at the top but after that this is a
big achievement, also as captain.
‘We will try to do this again and try
to focus more and are determined
not to be lazy against a team like
Australia who always look for an
opportunity,’ said Misbah.
Pakistan will look to win or avoid
defeat in the second Test, starting
in Abu Dhabi on 30 October, to
seal their ﬁrst series victory against
Australia since 1994. Misbah said
the win was an achievement in the
context of Pakistan’s 2-0 defeat
in Tests in Sri Lanka and 3-0
humiliation in the preceding one-day
series against Australia.‘Of course,
a victory against any side is always
important in a Test, especially
against Australia and in the context
that we were playing before, the
last series (in Sria Lanka in August)
then we lost the one-days and the
Twenty20 and also not having your
regular players here,’ said Misbah.
Mixed bag
CHENNAI
MONDAY
27 OCTOBER 2014
7
Dhoni to cheer
Chennai at ‘home’
Local outﬁt faces might of Mumbai FC
Tamilnadu Governor K Rosaiah administering vigilance awareness
week pledge at Raj Bhavan in Chennai today.
City student wins prize for
system to track sand theft
TCS’s Head (accreditation process for South India) A K Pattabiraman
presenting an award to R Snegapriya, an IT student of SRM Easwari
Engineering College in Chennai today. Chairman of SRM Group
of Institutions (Ramapuram and Tiruchi campus) R Sivakumar is
also seen.
NT Bureau
keys to success in today’s world of
Chennai, Oct 27: competition. Students must master
SRM Easwari Engineering College them to reach the pinnacles of glory.
He further said students must learn
student R Snegapriya was the
cynosure of all eyes. The lass won the constantly to improve their knowledge
TCS Best Project Award sponsored base, they must take part in project
by TATA Consultancy Services Ltd works, which can help boost their
(TCS) for designing UAE auto pilot innovative and creative abilities.
system to track sand thievery along
Chairman of SRM Group of
river beds.
Institutions (Ramapuram and Tiruchi
It can be used to patrol river beds campus) R Sivakumar said creative
where sand thefts happen. The and innovative ideas must be followed
system can take pictures of such by brain storming sessions and take
activities and send them to authorities the path of team work to bring out
concerned for appropriate action. This technologies that can transform the
also has collision technology which lives of humans for better. Principal
can detect hurdles encountered in of the college M Sekar welcomed
its ﬂight path and move away from it. the gathering. Regional head (talent
She received the award from Head acquisition) at TCS, Chennai R
(accreditation process for South Vignesh and GC member of Easwari
India) at TCS A K Pattabiraman. He Engineering College N Sethuraman
said innovation and creativity are were among others present.
Dental camp
for the poor
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
The city gears up for its second ISL
contest with Chennaiyin FC taking
on the powerful Mumbai City FC at
the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium here
tomorrow.
The game has stirred up a lot of
interest already as the Chennai
franchise would be looking to return
to winning ways after being trounced
by Delhi Dynamos in their previous
match. The win against FC Goa
set the ball rolling for the soccer
fans in the city and the presence
of the superstars of Indian cinema
Amitabh Bachchan and Rajinikanth
and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar
apart from Chennaiyin FC co-owner
Abhishek Bachchan gave the
spectators a lot to cheer about.
Now, Indian cricket captain M S
Dhoni, who is a co-owner of the
Chennai team is expected to be
present at the venue when the team
takes on Mumbai tomorrow.
Srinivasan
refuses comment
on WI pullout
Kolkata, Oct 27 (PTI):
ICC chairman N Srinivasan refused
to comment on the West Indies
team’s sudden pullout of the India
series. ‘I have left the BCCI. I cannot
comment on this,’ he told reporters
here when his reaction was sought
on West Indies’ pullout of their India
tour midway early this month.
The BCCI then suspended all
bilateral cricket tours with West
Indies and decided to initiate legal
proceedings against the WICB for
abruptly cancelling the tour, because
of which the Indian cricket board
suffered huge losses.
Srinivasan, also India
Cements Managing Director,
was in Kolkata to attend an
event organised by ‘The Refuge’, a
shelter home for orphans, old and
disabled people.
During the event he was showered
with gifts from around 90 sport clubs
from all over the State.
‘I am overwhelmed by the felicitation.
I have no words to say but a personal
thank you to each one of you,’
Srinivasan said.
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
Saidapet Exnora Innovators Club and Our Lady of Health Little Mount jointly
organised a free dental camp recently at St Thomas Community Hall, Little
Mount here recently.
According to a press release, the camp was inaugurated by the priest of the
shrine, MV Jacob. Dr Rakesh and his team from Kottivakkam Dental Health
Centre examined patients and offered free consultation.
It was organised to beneﬁt the poor and downtrodden people located at
saidapet and its surrounding areas.
More than 150 people were beneﬁted from the free camp, noted press
release. Joint general secretary, Exnora International, R Govindaraj, and
senator, KV Suresh also participated in the camp.
A team of doctors from Kottivakkam Dental Health Centre at the camp
at St Thomas Community Hall in Chennai recently.
Gangrape: Victim
to get compensation
Muzaffarnagar, Oct 27 (PTI):
A compensation of Rs ﬁve lakh
has been provided by district
administration to a victim of
gangarape during communal riots
last year, in compliance with a
Supreme Court order, a senior
ofﬁcial said today. District Magistrate
Koshal Raj Sharma said here that on
the direction of state government, Rs
ﬁve lakh has been provided to the
victim in a gang rape case in which
the Special Investigation Team (SIT)
had ﬁled an FIR against ﬁve accused
at Phugana village.
The development came after the
apex court issued contempt of court
notice against the state government
and directed the SIT officials to
appear before it on a plea by the
victim. The court had ordered in
March this year that compensation
be provided to all rape victims but
the woman was not provided relief
after which she moved the court.
Injured Shami
ruled out
of Lanka ODIs
New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI):
Indian medium-pacer Mohammed
Shami has been ruled out of the ﬁvematch ODI series against Sri Lanka
starting 2 November, due to an injury.
Maharashtra medium-pacer Dhawal
Kulkarni has replaced Shami in
the 15-member Indian squad to be
led by Virat Kohli, which has been
announced for the ﬁrst three ODIs,
said a BCCI release.
It is learnt that the Bengal mediumpacer has been advised 10 days of
rest following his injury in the right toe.
Dhawal, who made his ODI debut
against England this year, will be
eager to make an impression after a
good showing in the Duleep Trophy
quarter-ﬁnal this month.
The West Zone medium-pacer
picked up seven wickets in the match
(7 for 90), albeit in a losing cause
against East Zone in the four-day
game at Lahli.
Winter session of
Parliament from 24 Nov
New Delhi, Oct 27:
The Winter session of Parliament is
likely to start from 24 November and
is expected to be a month-long affair.
A meeting of the Cabinet Committee
on Parliamentary Affairs headed
by Home Minister Rajnath Singh is
scheduled on Monday.
The meeting will decide the
schedule and would send
the recommendation to the
President. Generally, the
Winter session lasts till 23
December.
Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley, External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj,
Law Minister Ravi Shankar
Prasad, Chemicals and
Fertilisers Minister Anant
Kumar and Parliamentary
Affairs Minister M Venkaiah
Naidu are members of the Committee.
HRD Minister Smriti Irani and
Ministers of State for Parliamentary
Affairs, Prakash Javadekar and
Santosh Gangwar are special invitees
to the Committee.
After a bright start to their
campaign, Chennaiyin
FC stuttered against Delhi
Dynamos and will be aiming
to return to winning ways
tomorrow
He wrote on his Twitter feed: ‘Will
be there to watch second home
game of chennaiyin FC.Finally will
be in front of Chennai fans.Vanga
vandhu parunga.’
Maybe his presence would inspire
Chennaiyin FC to seal a win as the
tournament gets interesting at the
top. After a bright start and two
straight wins, the Chennai team was
found wanting against a marauding
Delhi Dynamos a couple of days ago.
They need to put the loss behind
them and look ahead.
Mumbai, counted among the
early title favourites and boasting a
formidable line-up. A goal in the ﬁrst
minute proved to be the turning point
in the Delhi game for Chennaiyin
FC and they would be keen to avoid
such lapses on the morrow.
On the other hand, Mumbai have
only one win from three encounters
and will be eager to get their
campaign back on track and will
sure make a big push in Chennai
on Tuesday.
Teams:
Chennaiyin FC: Goalkeepers:
Abhijit Mondal, Shilton Paul,
Gennaro Bracigliano; Defenders:
Dhanachandra Singh, Abhishek
Das, Gouramangi Singh, Khelemba
Singh Meetei, Bernard Mendy, Jairo
Suarez, Mikael Silvestre, Marco
Materazzi. Midfielders: Anthony
Barbosa, Dane Pereira, Denson
Devadas, Harmanjot Khabra, Jaison
Vales, NP Pradeep, Sukhwinder
Singh, Bojan Dordjic, Elano
Blummer, Bruno Pelissari, Cristian
Hidalgo, Pierre Tillman;
Forwards: Balwant Singh, Jayesh
Rane, Jeje Lalpekhlua, Eduardo
Silva Lerma, John Mendoza.
Mumbai City FC: Subrata Paul,
Johan Letzelter, Raju Gaikwad,
Tiago Ribeiro, Manuel Friedrich (vice
captain), Jan tohanzl, Rohit Mirza,
Fredrik Ljungberg, Abhishek Yadav,
Diego Nadaya, Javi Fernández,
Singam Subash Singh, Ram Malik,
Nadong Bhutia, Asif Kottayil, Peter
Costa, Deepak Mondal, Sushil
Kumar Singh, Syed Rahim Nabi
(captain), Lalrindika Ralte, André
Moritz, Lalrin Fela, Ilias Pollalis,
Pavel C, Ishan Debnath, Nicolas
Anelka, André Preto.
(Match begins at 7 p.m)
Loss will ﬁre us,
says Clarke
Dubai, Oct 27:
Australia captain Michael Clarke
said his team would be fired up
by defeat in the first Test against
Pakistan but clearly needed to
improve in all facets of the game to
square the series later this week.
The defeat by 221 runs in Dubai
on Sunday was Australia’s second
in ﬁve Tests this year, a run
which included the last
victory in their 5-0 home
Ashes triumph and their
2-1 series win in South
Africa. ‘Any time we lose a
game it breeds ﬁre in your
belly, you don’t like losing,’ Clarke
told reporters in Dubai. ‘Australians in
general don’t like losing, so we’ve got
a couple of days to prepare as well as
we can and we’ll look forward to that
second Test match.
‘Pakistan deserve a lot of credit for
the way they played over the full ﬁve
days. But we know we can play a lot
better and we look forward to showing
that in the second Test match.’
Clarke said he had been proud of
the deﬁance Steve Smith (55) and
Mitchell Johnson (61) showed on
the ﬁnal day, which Australia started
on 59 for 4 chasing 438 for an
improbable victory.
‘I’m obviously very disappointed
with the result but really impressed
by the way Steve Smith and Mitchell
Johnson in particular showed a lot of
grit today,’ he added. ‘They fought
their backsides off and that’s part
of the Australian way, I guess, we
weren’t going to turn up here and
throw our wickets away.
‘We were going to fight really
hard and I think those two played
CM to pay homage
at Thevar memorial
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 27:
Chief Minister O Panneerselvam and other Ministers will pay homage at
Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar’s memorial on 30 October, on the occasion
of 52nd Guru Pooja.
According to an ofﬁcial release here, Housing Minister R Vaithilingam,
Cooperatives Minister Sellur K Raju, Food Minister R Kamaraj, Sports and
Youth Development Minister S Sundararaj, Revenue Minister R B Udayakumar
and others will pay homage at the freedom ﬁghter’s memorial.
Four days ahead of the Jayanthi celebrations, the 13-kg gold armour
donated by AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa was ﬁxed to the statue
of Muthuramalinga Thevar at the memorial in Pasumpon on Saturday after
special poojas, giving it a grand look.
The armour donated by Jayalalithaa that was kept in the safety locker of Bank
of India’s Madurai branch, was handed over to Gandhi Meenal, administrator
of the memorial by Panneerselvam on Saturday as the three-day Thevar
Jayanthi celebrations is set to begin from 28 October.
really well in tough conditions.’ That
said, Clarke was clear that a big
improvement was required if Australia
were to get back to winning ways in
the second Test, which starts in Abu
Dhabi on Thursday.
‘We were outplayed in all three
facets of the game, our fielding
wasn’t as good as it needs to be,’
he said. ‘When you lose the toss on
a ﬂat surface, you can’t afford to drop
catches. ‘I think we’ve got to keep trying
to ﬁnd a way to take wickets, keep
looking at footage of Pakistan players.
I think we can know their players a little
bit better. But it’s about execution, it
doesn’t matter how much information
you have, if you don’t execute, you are
not going to get the rewards.’
Although the result continued
Australia’s struggles on the slow
wickets of the subcontinent, Clarke
was conﬁdent the team was a long
way from the shambles of the 4-0
humiliation in India last year.
‘Unfortunately, the result was the
same as India,’ he said. ‘But, as
a team in general, I think we’ve
improved out of sight since that series
for a number of reasons.’
Modi hails Sania
New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI):
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today
congratulated tennis ace Sania Mirza
for winning the season-ending WTA
Finals women’s doubles title, calling
it a ‘proud accomplishment.’
‘Congratulations to @MirzaSania
for the victory in WTA ﬁnals. This is
yet another proud accomplishment!’
Modi tweeted.
Sania was quick to thank the Prime
Minister, saying, ‘@narendramodi
Thank you very much Sir..humbled
by your wishes.’
Sania and her Zimbabwean partner
Cara Black ended the season and
their partnership on a remarkable
high by clinching a comprehensive
triumph in the summit clash of the
season ﬁnale yesterday.
Restrictions
imposed in parts
of Srinagar
Satyam case: Court to
announce verdict date
Srinagar, Oct 27 (PTI):
Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir
today imposed restrictions on
movement of people in parts of the
summer capital in view of a strike
call by separatist groups protesting
against landing of army in the Valley
on this day in 1947.
‘Restrictions have been imposed in
ﬁve police station areas of Nowhatta,
Khanyar, M R Gunj, Zadibal and
Safakadal,’ a police spokesman said.
He said security forces have been
deployed in strength in these areas
and other sensitive areas of the Valley
to thwart any protest demonstrations.
Separatist groups, including all
factions of Hurriyat Conference, had
called a general strike to protest
against landing of Army in Kashmir
on 27 October, 1947.
Hyderabad, Oct 27 (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 October 30.
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.
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Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Dull
(Happy New Year)
N
ew year has come on Deepavali for Shahrukh’s fans. Directed by Farah Khan, it is
a mix and match of ‘Hail India’ portions from SRK’s Pardes to Swades to Chak De,
laced with lots of commercial elements.
A shrewd Farah Khan has played it to her strength - dance forms the crux. A revenge
drama where an underdog emerges winner against all odds is what Happy New Year is
all about. High on entertainment but low on content.
As like any other Farah Khan’s ﬁlm, HNY has a huge star cast, grand sets and
unlimited fun. Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani,
Sonu Sood and Jackie Shroff among others form part of the cast.
Chandermohan Manohar Sharma (Shahrukh Khan) aka Charlie, manages to bring
together a team of friends (Boman
Irani, Abhishek, Sonu Sood, Vivian
Shah) who plan to steal diamonds
from Charan Grover (Jackie
Shroff) who is settled in Dubai. The
diamonds are locked in a safe which
can be opened only by Grover’s son
Vicky (Abhishek Bachchan).
Charlie and his team get the help
of a bar dancer Maya (Deepika
Padukone) to prepare themselves for
World Dance Competition that takes
place in Dubai. Their participation
would mean an opportunity to steal
Rajni
leaves
for Dubai
T
he cast and crew of Lingaa including
Rajnikanth and ﬁlmmaker K S Ravikumar
are off to Macau, Dubai, Abu Dhabi to shoot
song sequences for the ﬁlm.
Sources say that an intro song for Rajni
will be shot ﬁrst. Buzz is that the audio will
be released in the early second week of
November.
Produced by Rockline Venkatesh, Lingaa
has music by A R Rahman. Anushka and
Sonakshi Sinha play heroines. Santhanam
and Krunakaran are also in the cast.
Ravikumar is planning release on 12
December (Rajni’s birthday).
Rajni’s last was Kochadaiiyaan, directed by
his daughter Soundarya.
— NT Bureau
the diamond. What happens in their
journey and did they accomplish the task
form the rest.
Shahrukh is all through. He is as usual
cool and bubbly. His eight pack abs and
his typical dialogue delivery would go down
well with his fans. Deepika is reduced to a
mere glam doll. Remember she played a
central character in Farah Khan’s last Om
Shanthi Om.
Abhishek Bacchan is the real scene
stealer. He begins from where he left in
Dhoom 3. Adds some funny body language
to his performance, he comes up trumps.
A daring cameo by ﬁlmmakers Anurag
Kashyap, Vishal Dadlani and Sajjid Khaan
tickles our funny bone. HNY has some
foot-tapping music, with Nonsense Ki Night
and Indiawalee being the best of them all.
On the ﬂip side, a major portion of the
movie gives a deja vu. Also a bit too long.
Had Farah Khan stepped a little out of her
comfort zone and tried a tad different, the
movie would have lived up to its title.
— M Bharat Kumar
A still from Goli Soda
Goli Soda pasanga
together again
T
he boys of Pasanga and Goli Soda - Sriram, Kishore, Pandi and Kutty
Mani come together again. This time they team up for a movie titled
Vajram. Produced by Sri Sai Ram Film Factory, the movie is directed by
Ramesh Selvan, who made ﬁlms like Ulavu Thurai and Jananam in the
past.
Bhavani Reddy plays the female lead while the cast includes
Jayaprakash, Thambi Ramiah and Mayilsamy.
The movie speaks about the educational system in our
country. It speaks against corporatisation of educational
system.
A major portion of the movie was shot in
Chennai, Chalakudy and Moonar.
— NT Bureau
Jai Hind 2 from
7 November
Vijay’s gift
to Anirudh
T
he wait is finally over. Actorproducer-director Arjun has
planned to release sequel to his earlier
hit Jai Hind on 7 November.
Speaking about the ﬁlm, Arjun, said,
‘It is an action-packed entertainer with
a strong message on current status
of education. Formal education and
patriotism will help any nation prosper.
I have tried to convey this message
in an entertaining manner’, he adds.
Much recently he released the audio
of the movie in which the family of
Major Mukund Varadarajan (who died
ﬁghting terrorists in Kashmir) were
honoured.
Arjun’s last was Kadal in which he
played a negative role.
— NT Bureau
Arjun
I
mpressed with his work in Kaththi, actor Vijay has gifted music
composer Anirudh a piano.
Kaththi, directed by A R Murugadoss, featured Vijay and Samantha in
the lead role. The ﬁlm went on to become a huge hit. The songs and
background score in the ﬁlm also became huge hit. The number Selﬁe
Pulla was sung by Vijay himself and it is topping the charts.
— NT Bureau
Samudhirakani’s
next is Kitna
D
irector-actor Samudhirakani is busy
with his directorial venture Kitna. He
also plays a prominent role in it.
Interestingly a major portion of the
movie is being shot in dense jungle.
Mahima of Sattai fame plays dual
role in the ﬁlm. She says, ‘ I thank
Samudhirakani sir. He gave many tips
about acting when we worked together in
Sattai. To do a dual role in his directorial
venture delights me’.
— NT Bureau
A still from Kalkandu
Kalkandu
to release
31 Oct
C
ome 31 October, actor Gajesh Babu,
grandson of veteran actor late Nagesh,
will have his maiden acting venture Kalkandu hitting the
screens. The movie is directed by Nandakumar.
Says the director, ‘Gajesh is amazing. He suits the role well’.
On his part, Gajesh, said, ‘ I enjoy being part of the hilarious
subject’.
The audio of the movie was released much recently.
Thamizh Padam fame Kannan has scored the music.
— NT Bureau
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