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Girl eve-teased,
beaten up
by youths
Muzaffarnagar, Dec 28 (PTI):
A B.Com student was allegedly eveteased by two youths and later beaten
up when she resisted their attempt
here, police said today.
The accused, Arpit Jain and Vishal,
started eve-teasing the girl who was
on her way to home from college in
Kirshna Puri locality here yesterday.
Within a few minutes, she resisted
and protested against their activity,
they said. The two youths allegedly
beat up the victim when she voiced
against their harassment, police said.
A case was registered against the
accused on the directive of SSP Muzaffarnagar after her family demanded
action against them, they said.
Huge haul
of gold
Rameswaram, Dec 28 (PTI):
One kg of gold worth Rs 25 lakh
was seized by customs ofﬁcials and
two persons were arrested in this
connection today.
Following a tip-off that some persons were trying to smuggle gold
to Sri Lanka, ofﬁcials conducted a
checking in Dhanushkodi and arrested, Customs Superintendent
Pugazhendi said.
He said two others managed to escape on seeing the customs ofﬁcials.
Air Asia ﬂight to
Singapore goes missing
q Loses contact with ATC q 182 were on board * Hectic search on
Singapore, Dec 28 (PTI):
An AirAsia flight with 162 people
aboard went missing en route from Indonesia to Singapore today after losing
contact with air trafﬁc controllers.
There were unconﬁrmed reports that
an aircraft has crashed in the waters
off East Belitung, off the east coast of
Sumatra. However, the details of the
aircraft were not known.
A transport ofﬁcial said Flight QZ8501
lost contact with Jakarta air trafﬁc control just after 7.24 am local time.
The aircraft was in the Indonesian
Flight Information Region (FIR), more
than 200 nm southeast of the Singapore-Jakarta FIR boundary, when
contact was lost, Civil Aviation Authority
of Singapore (CAAS) said.
Contact with the plane was lost 42
minutes after takeoff. There were no
Indian nationals on board.
An Indonesian transport official
conﬁrmed that seven crew and 155
passengers were on board.
The plane took off from Surabaya
J&K: Stalemate
continues on next govt
Srinagar, Dec 28:
Four days after the Assembly elections result, there are still no signs of
government formation anytime soon
in Jammu and Kashmir. Governor
N N Vohra has sent letters to both
the Peoples Democratic Party and
Bharatiya Janata Party asking for
their next step.
The results on 23 December led to
a fractured mandate with the PDP
winning 28 seats, BJP 25, National
Conference 15 and Congress 12 in
the 87-member J&K Assembly with
smaller parties and independents
bagging the rest.
Senior PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Beig and BJP’s Ram Madhav
had done spade work for a possible
alliance between the two, but the latter wants structured talks on contentious issues like giving party founder
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed full six
years term as chief minister, clarity on
article 370 and revocation of Armed
Forces Special Protection Act.
No signs of PDP, BJP government
in J&K; both NC, Congress stand by
their offer
The PDP wants structured talks
with BJP on issues like giving Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed full six years
term as chief minister, clarity on
article 370, revocation of AFSPA.
Madhav said, We are not averse
to PDP’s demand of talks been
held at the highest level. The Prime
Minister can also talk with PDP
leadership.
PDP leader Naeem Akthar, however, said, ‘These are preliminary
talks. They need to be taken to
another level.’
Adding to the drama, the Congress and NC stand by their offer
to the PDP. Meanwhile, Independents too have decided to support a
secular alliance.
CPI (M) MLA Mohammed Yousuf
Tarigami said, ‘I have spoken to
two other Independents to come
together and throw weight behind
PDP-Congress government.’
Sources said the PDP is working
on a common minimum programme
which it hopes the BJP would accept.
The party is pushing for an alliance
with the BJP as after having come
to power on the promise of quick
development in the state, it wants to
ally with a party which can give easy
ﬁnancial assistance.
Ten months
ago......
(Indonesia) at 5.20 am local time and
was scheduled to land at Singapore’s
Changi Airport at 8.30 am.
A statement on AirAsia’s Facebook
page said: AirAsia Indonesia regrets
to confirm that flight QZ8501 from
Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact
with air trafﬁc control at 0724hrs this
morning.’
At the present time we unfortunately
have no further information regarding the status of the passengers and
crew members on board, but we will
keep all parties informed as more
information becomes available,’ the
Malaysia-based carrier said in a
The loss of contact with the
AirAsia plane comes nearly 10
months after the disappearance
of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH
370, which dropped off radar
over Southeast Asia on 8 March.
statement. The aircraft was an Airbus A320-200 with the registration
number PK-AXC.
At this time, search and rescue operations are in progress and AirAsia
is cooperating fully and assisting the
rescue service, the statement said.
Indonesian Transport Ministry ofﬁcial Hadi Mustofa said the plane had
asked for an unusual route before it
lost contact, local media reported.
Air Asia said the pilot had requested
deviation from the its ﬂight plan because of bad weather.
The aircraft... was requesting deviation due to en route weather, it said.
Indonesian TV channels said there
were 149 Indonesians, three Koreans, one Singaporean, one Briton
and one Malaysian on board.
Search and rescue operations
have been activated by the Indonesian authorities from the Pangkal
Pinang Search and Rescue ofﬁce.
The CAAS and Changi Airport
Group (CAG) Crisis Management
Centres have already been activated.
‘We are working with the airline’s
crisis management team,’ it said.
AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes has asked his company to stay
strong.
Thank you for all your thoughts
and prayers. We must stay strong,
tweeted Fernandes, an ethnic Indian, who set up the budget airlines
which now ﬂ ies to several countries.
Malaysia has also offered assist-
The Malaysia government today
offered help in the search of missing AirAsia ﬂight which lost contact with air trafﬁc controllers between Singapore and Indonesia.
Prime Minister Datuk Najib Razak said he had not been fully
briefed on the aircraft’s disappearance, but acknowledged that
the country may be facing its third
aviation disaster in the year, after
the loss of two Malaysia Airlines
aircraft in March and July.
ance in the search operation. AirAsia
is popular in the region as a budget
carrier. It has about 100 destinations, with subsidiaries in several
Asian countries. Searchers are yet to
ﬁnd any debris from Flight MH 370,
which ofﬁcials believe crashed in the
southern Indian Ocean. more assets
if required for the operation.
q Pledges corruption-free governance
Ranchi, Dec 28:
Jharkhand, which has seen nine
governments in the last 14 years, has
created history. Five time BJP MLA,
Raghubar Das, today took oath as
the ﬁrst non-tribal Chief Minister of
the State.
BJP, which won 37 seats in recently
held Jharkhand Assembly elections,
is set to form a stable government
in coalition with ally AJSU (5 seats)
in the 81 member Assembly which
was till date notorious for its political
instability.
The oath taking ceremony held at
the Birsa Munda Football Stadium
in Ranchi. However, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, who was to attend
the ceremony along with BJP chief
Amit Shah, took to Twitter today and
said that he will not be attending
the ceremony due to poor weather
conditions.
He also congratulated the people
of Jharkhand for electing a sta-
Raghubar Das
ble government. Cabinet Minister
Venkaiah Naidu was present during
the ceremony.
We will give good and corruptionfree governance and development
will pick up. We will also work for the
93 percent people in the unorganised
S
full use of the spill. Kohli, recording
Debutant Lokesh Rahul (3)
his ninth Test ton, mixed the right failed to capitalise on a dropped
dose of caution and aggression in chance at mid-wicket off Lyon
his 272-ball stay, his innings laced only to play another similar stroke
with 18 boundaries.
against the off-spinner on the
very next delivery as the ball
Rahane, who got his centutook a top adge and settled
ry in just 127 balls, hitting
R
O
T
P
into the hands of Josh
21 fours in his threeHazlewood (0 for 75) at
hours ten minute stay
ﬁne leg.
in the middle.
Skipper Mahendra
Rahane was finally
Singh Dhoni (11) ﬁddled
trapped lbw off Lyon
P L U S around for sometime but
but not after maintaining
his tentative approach from
a strike rate of 85.96.
Rahane’s wicket opened up the the very start cost him his wicket
gates for the host, who struck back after Harris got the wicketkeeperwith four wickets for 53 runs in the batsman caught behind.
Ravichandran Ashwin was the
ﬁnal session of play.
S
The visitors ended the day on 462
for eight as they still trail by 68 runs
at the end of Day 3.
Aided by ﬁve dropped catches,
India responded well only to lose
a bit of a momentum in the end
as new-ball bowler Ryan Harris
returned with ﬁgures of 4 for 69.
Pace spearhead Mitchell Johnson (1-133), who bled runs through
the day, also got Kohli caught
behind to get a consolation wicket
as umpires called stumps.
Getting into heated exchanges
with Johnson at different stages
of his innings, Kohli was dropped
on 88 by Shane Watson (1-65) at
ﬁrst slip in the 85th over and made
Malaysia
offers help
Raghubar Das sworn
in as Jharkhand CM
sector, Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes and the poor,’ Das was
quoted as saying by the PTI.
Das, who became a BJP national
vice president in August, has been
twice the BJP president in Jharkhand.
He became the deputy Chief Minister
Aggressive Kohli, Rahane
tons lead India’s ﬁghtback
Melbourne, Dec 28 (PTI):
Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane
struck ﬂuent centuries and stitched
a record 262-run fourth-wicket
partnership as India fought back
bravely before a late-order slide
allowed a sloppy Australia to claw
back in the third cricket Test, here
today.
Resuming the day on 108 for
one in response to the hosts’ ﬁrst
innings score of 530, India lost their
overnight batsmen early but Kohli
(169), registering his third ton in this
series, and Rahane (147) made
sure that their stand is the highest
for India in Australia at the MCG
for any wicket.
A
Huge loss
n AirAsia ﬂight from Indonesia’s Surabaya airport to
Singapore lost contact with air trafﬁc control on Sunday, a Transport Ministry ofﬁcial said. The Airbus 320-200
had 155 passengers and seven crew members on board.
Transport Ministry ofﬁcial Hadi Mustofa said the aircraft,
ﬂight number QZ 8501, lost contact with the Jakarta air
trafﬁc control tower.
Singapore said on Sunday it has activated its air force
and navy to help in the search and rescue operation for
the AirAsia (AIRA.KL) jet that went missing on a ﬂight
from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore.
Two C130s are already on stand-by for this purpose.
We remain ready to provide any assistance to support
the search and rescue effort, the Civil Aviation Authority
of Singapore said in a statement.
A waiting area, and facilities and support have been
set up for relatives at Changi Airport Terminal 2, it said.
Malaysia today offered help in the search of missing
AirAsia ﬂight. Prime Minister Datuk Najib Razak said he
had not been fully briefed on the aircraft’s disappearance,
but acknowledged that the country may be facing its third
aviation disaster in the year, after the loss of two Malaysia
Airlines aircraft in March and July.
I don’t have much detail yet on what happened, but there
is a very big possibility that a tragedy has occurred. We
will do all we can to help ﬁnd out what happened, Strait
Times quoted Razak as saying.
next as part of the mini-procession
and the No.8 batsman could only
face four balls before being caught
and bowled off Harris for a nought.
Harris was supported by Lyon
(2-108) and Watson. The bowlers
gave away far too many runs but
were disciplined in the sense that
they conceded just 2 extra in the
innings so far.
Post-tea, the two batsmen had
looked to increase their 189-run
stand and did so quite well. They
crossed the 200-run partnership
mark in the 99th over of the innings, becoming the ﬁrst batting
pair ever to put on a 200-stand for
the 4th wicket at the MCG.
in the Shibu Soren government after
the 2009 Assembly Elections.
Das joined the Janata Party in
1977 and in 1980 he joined BJP as
one of its founding member.
He took part in BJP’s ﬁrst Nation
Committee meeting in Mumbai in
1980. He was then appointed as
Sitaramdera Mandal chief. He then
became Jamshedpur city BJP secretary and then became the vice
president.
He won his ﬁrst election in 1995
from Jamshedpur East to become
an MLA in Bihar Assembly. He has
been winning from the seat ever
since.
He became Jharkhand BJP chief in
2004-05. Under his leadership, the
BJP won 30 seats in Jharkhand Assembly in the 2005 election. He was
again the BJP chief during the 2009
Lok Sabha elections. He became a
Vice President in the BJP National
Committee on August 16, 2014.
2 SUNDAY
28 DECEMBER 2014
City
Centre
No service in this lane
CHENNAI
Card problems
Commuters vexed with damaged road near
Rangarajapuram yover
Residents want ‘Aadhaar’ process to be streamlined
Aadhaar cards are back in the
news. With the Central government
announcing the DBTL scheme for
LPG cylinders and linking them to
Aadhaar, residents are looking to
apply for the same. However, they
are confused as to how to go about
it.
It can be said that getting a
Aadhar card still remains a
distant dream due to glitches in
the ongoing enrollment process
happening in the locality.
According to ofcial sources, the
Directorate of Census Operations
has set up 18 permanent
enrollment centres in 13 zones
and ve unit ofces for residents
to obtain the card. The Directorate
has set up 268 enrollment centres
in the State. It also plans to set up
50 permanent enrollment centres
in Chennai and 469 in the State.
The centres include taluk ofces,
municipal
corporations
and
municipalities.
Currently, the centres are
in the process of lling the
NPR forms and the bio-metric
process is going on in full
swing. But residents lamented
that the cumbersome procedure
is slow at snail’s pace.
Elaborating,
a
resident
Somasundaram
said,
‘Filling
application forms remain tedious
for many as they are available in
English and many here are facing
difculty in lling it. Besides,
details like police jurisdiction and
middle name, etc are not known to
many people living here.’
The general public have to ll
up the NPR forms and submit
them to the authorities concerned
at the centres. Accordingly, after
completion of data entry process
work (through lled-in NPR forms),
RAM
A
TAMB
members of the public will be called
for bio-metric process.
Further, complaints like lack of
preparedness among ofcials and
basic computer knowledge among
many residents are issues. About
this, a resident Muthukrishnan said,
‘People queue up from 9 a.m but
ofcials arrive late. It is disorganised
and ofcials take a long time to
nish the process. Ofce-goers
have to take a day off to undergo
the cumbersome procedures’.
— NT Bureau
Service lane near Rangarajapuram yover needs attention.
T
he service lane adjacent to
Rangarajapuram
yover
at
Mambalam
is
inconveniencing
commuters with its damaged road and
associated dangers. The condition
of the pathway has raised safety
concerns among two-wheeler riders
and pedestrians, particularly during the
dark hours.
Contributing to the existing problems
on this stretch is the recently-opened
two-wheeler subway which, commuters
allege, has resulted in additional trafc
on the service lane.
Speaking on the issue, residents Raja,
Rajasekar, Srinivasan and few others of
nearby Giri Street say, ‘Although the
subway was opened several months
ago, the service lane was not properly
laid. There is a huge portion on the
northern side of the lane which has
been completely left untouched by civic
SMOOTH
RIDE
The recent
concrete road relaid
at Jaishanker Street
is expected to
facilitate easy
commuting.
authorities. The stretch was attended
to after numerous representations by
residents, but it is a half-done job. They
(civic staff) simply lled the portion
without adding bitumen. As a result, the
condition of the lane worsened after the
recent rains’.
It may be noted that ever since the
yover on Arcot Road was closed, this
stretch is frequented by many to reach
destinations like Kodambakkam and
Vadapalani. The lane, being relatively
trafc-free, has proved to be an
added advantage, but for its poor civic
conditions, it is learnt.
Savithri Ganesan, a commuter states,
‘The lane is a useful one to reach
Kodambakkam railway station without
trafc snarls. However it is difcult to
drive on the jerky road’.
Apart from the damaged surface,
the numerous potholes on this stretch
AM
BAL
MAM
are giving commuters the
jitters.
An immediate re-lay of the
road which would facilitate
smooth commuting is the
need of the hour, feel
— NT Bureau
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28 DECEMBER 2014
Region
CHENNAI
3
Govt to do away norms
set in British era: Minister
q Visits Tirupur to highlight PM’s ‘Make in India’ project
Cleveland V V Sundaram presenting Tiruvarur Rajagopala Iyer Memorial Award to musician N Ramani at a function organised by Tiruvarur
Tala Vadya Vidyalaya Trust in Chennai recently.
Neyveli Lignite Corporation Managing Director B Surendar Mohan
inaugurating the lift facility for patients at NLC General Hospital,
Neyveli recently.
Coimbatore, Dec 28 (PTI):
As part of its efforts to improve
ease of doing business in the country, Union Commerce and Industry
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on
Saturday said that the government
was in the process of weeding out
unnecessary and unwanted rules
and regulations which prove to be
impediments.
The rules and regulations, some
enacted during the British era, were
becoming stumbling blocks for doing
business and the government was
working on removing unnecessary
rules as it wanted to simplify the
procedures, she told reporters here.
‘We actually wanted to put an end
to the control mechanism or licence
quota Raj and totally remove the
residual impact of such Raj, as done
in the Defence sector,’ she said.
There were hundreds of such rules
and some 60 to 70 decade-old archaic laws, which had to be removed,
‘Docu ﬁlms should
educate people’
NT Bureau
Chennai, Dec 28:
Documentary ﬁlms produced should
inspire and educate people, said
Tamilnadu Governor K Rosaiah.
Participating at the golden jubilee
celebration of noted documentary
ﬁlm making company ksrishnaswamy
associates here yesterday, he said
documentary ﬁlms should establish
in such a way that their messages
get implanted deep in the minds of its
viewers. Putting expansive insights to
its central theme and ensuring that it
reaches a wide range of audience is
necessary, he said.
krishnaswamy associates’ efforts to
produce independent documentary
films and make them reach large
masses by releasing them even in
theatres are laudable, the Governor
said.
Justice V Ramasubramanian said
amidst a situation where writing a
cohesive history of this nation was
an uphill task owing to its vaired
cultures, religions and diversity and
Take steps to lift
ban on Jallikattu:
Vasan to govts
Chennai, Dec 28 (PTI):
Ahead of Pongal festival celebrations
next month in Tamilnadu, former Union
Minister G K Vasan on Saturday asked
the Centre and State governments to
make efforts to get permission from the
Supreme Court for continuing the traditional bull taming event ‘Jallikattu’ in the
state. The apex court had on May 7 this
year banned bull ﬁghts and bullock-cart
racing in Tamilnadu and other states.
The Centre and the State governments should take steps to conduct
Jallikattu this year itself in a way that
doesn’t injure the bulls much and
also ensure safety of the participants
and audience after getting permission from the Supreme Court, Vasan,
Tamil Maanila Congress Chief, said in
a statement.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley have convened a
meeting of State Chief Secretaries and
Secretaries of various departments on
29 December to elicit their opinions and
ascertain the problems faced by the states in
implementing the ‘Make in India’ project
she said. The Cabinet this week had
worked out a procedure in the medical and diagnostic equipment sector.
The Minister was on a visit to the
city and nearby hosiery town of
Tirupur to highlight Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s ambitious project
‘Make in India’ and to know the
problems and issues being faced
in the manufacturing and textile
sector, including knitwear, hosiery,
NT Bureau
Chennai, Dec 28:
Care Institute of Behavioural Sciences is conducting a certiﬁcate course
in learning disabilities (Dyslexia) from 19
January, 2015.
According to a press release, parents,
teachers and health professionals can
get orientation training to identify and
help children with Learning Disability
(Dyslexia). The minimum eligibility is Plus
Two standard. The last date for registration is 12 January 2015. For details
about admission process contact the
institute at #1, 5th Street, Dr Thirumurthy
Nagar, Nungambakkam, Chennai - 34.
Ph: 2821 2828/ 98439 74984. Email :
[email protected]
NT Bureau
Chennai, Dec 28:
Chennai District Collector A Sundaravalli has announced that people who
missed renewing their employment
exchange status in the last three
years can now do so before 7 March,
2015. Such people may approach the
exchanges where they registered with
the employment ID card and renew
their status, she said.
Lawyer invents new
engine, seeks help
NT Bureau
Chennai, Dec 28:
Chennai- based High Court lawyer
M Elumalai is seeking help to bring
out his innovation work ‘a closed type
electrical heat engine’ that promises
to generate power without using petrol, diesel, LPG gas or coal.
The engine can be used to run
anything, right from a car to a car
factory, he claimed at a press meet
here on Friday.
The closed type electrical engine
is like a steam engine that uses the
play of heat on water and oil follow-
M Elumalai
ing thermodynamic cycles of heating,
expansion, cooling and compression
to operate the piston. The engine
heats water and oil to push and pull
the piston and thus runs the engine.
Elumalai claimed that the engine
design has the capacity to withstand
the possible induction heating range,
temparature of ﬂuids and pressure
of steam.
‘I have brought out the innovation
after a research of 10 years, which I
took up at my ad-hoc labs in Chennai
and Puducherry while pursuing law.
I am now seeking support of individuals, government or private sector
undertakings to bring it into limelight
for which I need an investment of Rs
10 to 15 crores.’
‘Docs working on integrating
modern & traditional medicine’
NT Bureau
Chennai, Dec 28:
In a bid to provide holistic treatment for the patients, doctors are
working towards integrating modern
medicine with traditional system like
Ayurveda and yoga, said TRIMED
founder and director Ennapadam S
Krishnamoorthy.
Participating in the fourth anniversary celebrations of TRIMED, a
Chennai- based healthcare start-up
focused on chronic diseases, here
yesterday, Krishnamoorthy said,
‘We are trying to integrate both the
medicine and looking at tying up with
doctors to provide overall treatment.’
Delivering the Neurokish Lecture,
S H Subramony, professor of Neurology and Paediatrics at the MC
Delivering the Neurokish Lecture,
S H Subramony, professor of
Neurology and Paediatrics at the
MC Knight Brain Institute at
University of Florida said that
more focus has to be given to
prevention of genetic disease along
with ﬁnding a cure for it
Knight Brain Institute at University
of Florida said that more focus has
to be given to prevention of genetic
disease along with ﬁnding a cure
for it.
He pointed out if people are tested
TRIMED founder and director Ennapadam
S Krishnamoorthy at fourth anniversary celebrations of TRIMED in Chennai yesterday.
early with their genetic disease,
then it is possible for them to decide
to have children, as the disease will
be passed on to the child.
TRIMED and NEUROKRISH
conducted an exhibition by and of
on FTP, which has ﬁnancial commitments among other things.
She also said Modi and Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley had convened
a meeting of State Chief Secretaries
and Secretaries of various departments on 29 December to elicit
their opinions and ascertain the
problems faced by the states in
implementing the ‘Make in India’
project.
Certificate
course in learning
disabilities
Renewal of
job registration
Tamilnadu Governor K Rosaiah at the golden jubilee celebrations
of krishnaswamy associates in Chennai yesterday. The associates
founder and managing director S Krishnaswamy and Justice Ramasubramanian are present.
ethnicity, krishnaswamy associates
wamy welcomed the gathering.
was a company that made efforts to
The associates chairman Mohana
document the history of this country,
Krishnaswamy, educationist Mrs Y
which is admired by everyone.
G Parthasarathy and Prince of Arcot
Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali were
krishnaswamy associates founder
among others present.
and manging director S Krishnas-
spinning and autoloom.
Replying to a question, she said
major part of works had been
completed with regard to Foreign
Trade Policy while her Ministry had
reviewed Free Trade Pacts, particularly with European Union, and
Special Economic Zones, the two
issues raised by the industrialists.
She, however, added that no
speciﬁc time frame could be given
people with medical disability. A
team of artists worked with spastic
children to develop these paintings
over a two-day period. The artists
themselves donated some work of
art of their own for the cause.
Madras School of Economics chairman C Rangarajan lighting the
traditional lamp during the launch of the book ‘Thalaivali’ in Chennai
yesterday. Adyar Cancer Institute chairperson Dr V Shanta and author
of the book Dr J Bhaskaran are present.
Doc releases book
on headaches
NT Bureau
Chennai, Dec 28:
To bring relief to headache, which is
emerging as a common medical aliment, a city-based doctor J Bhaskaran turned into an author and has
written a book addressing the issue.
Members of the Savithri Foundation
released the book titled ‘Thalaivali’
here on Saturday.
Adyar Cancer Institute chairperson
Dr V Shanta, who was present on
the occasion pointed out that medical care these days are becoming
costlier.
Stating that earlier doctors used to
talk to patients and diagnose them,
she said, ‘these days they lack communication and even to diagnose
the problem, the doctor makes use
of technologies. This effects patient
care.’ Madras School of Economics
chairman C Rangarajan said that
though awareness of headache has
increased, only very few go to the
doctor. And most of them are aware
of the pain but do not know the
cause behind it. This book will help
such people where the symptoms,
cause and the treatment plans are
clearly jotted down, he said.
In a bid to build a healthier society, Rangarajan said that the
country has to grow faster and
more should be spent towards
health and education. He pointed
out that at present 1.4 per cent of
the GDP is spent on health which
has to increase to 2.5 per cent.
To achieve this goal more private
and public partnership should be
encouraged, he added.
NIOT retrieves lost
heavy-weight torpedo
Chennai, Dec 28 (PTI):
In a ﬁrst, a heavy-weight torpedo
lost by a Naval laboratory during a
technology demonstration trial off
Visakhapatnam has been retrieved
from the sea by the National Institute of Ocean Technology’s Deep
Sea Technology team, a top NIOT
ofﬁcial said yesterday.
The Naval Science and Technological Laboratory under Defence
Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) lost the torpedo
‘Varunastra’ which had ‘vital’ data
on 6 November off Visakhapatnam
coast and sought NIOT’s help in
its recovery.
‘Our Deep Sea Technology team
retrieved the torpedo. Earth Sciences vessel ORV Sagar Nidhi
was used for the purpose,’ Director, Earth Systems Sciences
Organisation of the city-based
National Institute of Ocean Technology M A Atmanand told PTI.
‘Something like this has not happened before. No lost torpedo has
been recovered so far,’ he said.
The team was joined by Naval lab scientists and a Naval
Commander at Visakhapatnam
Port in the retrieval mission.
‘We retrieved this torpedo on 23
The Naval Science
and Technological
Laboratory under
Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO) lost the
torpedo ‘Varunastra’
which had ‘vital’ data
on 6 November off
Visakhapatnam coast
and sought NIOT’s
help in its recovery.
December off Visakhapatnam
coast,’ he said adding a deep sea
search operation was conducted
at a depth of 180 meters using
ship-based multi-beam sonar and
parametric echo-sounder.
The NIOT team located the torpedo embedded in the seabed vertically at a depth of 168 meters. The
team devised a method to release
the torpedo from the sea bed and
after repeated attempts succeeded
in retrieving the torpedo, he said.
The torpedo was brought onboard Sagar Nidhi, he added.
4 SUNDAY
28 DECEMBER 2014
Blend
DoT's strong yes to NOFN
Date with fate
DECADE OF DISASTER
Survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are gathering
for commemoration ceremonies to remember the tragedy 10 years ago that left an estimated 230,000 people
dead on 26 December.
The tsunami was triggered by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake, which struck off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, and hit coastal communities across the Indian
Ocean. Thousands of Indonesians gathered in Banda
Aceh, the capital of Aceh province on Sumatra, to hold
a memorial service.
Banda Aceh was largely attened by the earthquake
and subsequent waves and around 170,000 people
died. Earlier, a Muslim prayer service was held at the
19th century Baiturrahman Mosque, one of the few
buildings in Banda Aceh that remained standing.
A woman at the service shared her thoughts on the
lasting impact of the tsunami.
'The prayer session makes us remember the tsunami
and be thankful that we're safe,' she said. 'The tsunami destroyed the city, but it also blessed us. God
has brought love among the people and Aceh received
so much help from the outside world because of the
disaster.'
Survivors of tsunami paying oral tributes at Besant Nagar beach on Friday, on its 10th anniversary
Photo: A R JAYAKUMAR
Senior Police Inspector Anil Akade of the Narpoli Police
Station in Bhiwandi said.
Soon after, at least a dozen re engines were rushed to
the scene. Firemen are still ghting the blaze, Chief Fire
Ofcer of Bhiwandi Fire Station, Nitin Chavan said.
The cause of the re is not yet known and investigations are underway, he said. The injured have been admitted to a local hospital and one them has been shifted
to Sion hospital.
Jharkhand: Raghubar Das
is first non-tribal CM
After 14 years since Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar on the question of a distinct tribal identity, the State
is set to get its rst
non-tribal Chief Minister.
The
Bharatiya
Janata Party legislative party elected
Raghubar Das as its
leader paving
way for him to be
Jharkhand's
next Chief Minister.
The
party,
which has an absolute majority
in the 81-member
Jharkand
Assembly along with its
ally All Jharkhand
Students Union Party,
with will now claim the stake to form its fth and the
10th government of Jharkhand.
Das, who won the Jamshedpur East seat with a huge
margin of 70,000 votes, will be the rst non-tribal Chief
Minister of the State which has seen ve people from
the tribal community occupying the top spot in the state.
A strong section of the BJP backed by party President
Amit Shah had pushed for a non-tribal CM in the State.
The BJP won in 37 constituencies while the AJSU
bagged ve seats.
Eight killed in
timber mart fire
At least eight persons were today charred to death
and three others seriously injured in a re in a timbre
mart in the powerloom town of Bhiwandi here, police
and re ofcials said.
The inferno began around 2.30 am when a re broke
out in a wood godown of Madvi compound in Rahnal
and spread to at least three other adjacent godowns
including that of a scrap dealer, killing eight persons,
IAS officials
reshuffled in TN
The Department of Telecom has asked ofcials to
fast-track the national optical bre network (NOFN)
project and warned of action against those who are not
taking decisions or delaying it.
Telecom Secretary Rakesh Garg has stressed upon
the need to improve decision making and directed that
administrative action be taken against ofcials delaying
the project.
He emphasised at a recent review meeting of the
NOFN project that it is being monitored at the highest
level and every possible measure should be taken to
make it a success.
The project aims at providing the basic infrastructure
for the Digital India programme.
NOFN aims to provide high-speed broadband connectivity to 2.5 lakh gram panchayats by December
2016 and the estimated cost of the project is over Rs
20,100 crore.
Government had set a target to roll out optical bre
network across 50,000 village panchayats by the end of
this nancial year, one lakh by March 2016 and another
one lakh by end of 2016.
The Tamilnadu government transferred many IAS of-
Sun TV COO in trouble
The chief operating ofcer (COO) of Sun TV network
was taken for inquiry by the police, after a former colleague led a sexual harassment complaint against him.
According to police sources, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Shyamala Devi of Central Crime
Branch (CCB) picked Praveen from his house in Anna
Nagar.
Deepthi Sivan who was an employee of Surya TV, a
channel of Sun Network, has alleged in her complaint
that Praveen had been sexually harassing her and had
deferred in paying her salary.
Deepthi, a native of Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala,
was the head of the channel's production unit and had
reportedly resigned following Praveen's harassment.
She is reported to have asked for her settlement
amount (Rs 30 lakh), which he refused to give and had
also subsequently threatened her.
Source say that although Deepthi had led a complaint
ve months back with the Anna Nagar police and with
the Commissioner's ofce, no action was taken.
Producers Council polls:
3-cornered contest likely
The elections to Tamil Flm Producers Council (TFPC)
slated for 29 January will witness a three-cornered contest. Apart from veteran producer Kalaipuli S Thanu,
Kameela Nasser and actor Mansoor Alikhan are also in
the fray.
Following a High Court order, the team led by Keyar,
which was in charge of day-to-day activities, was disbanded and Justice A K Rajan, a retired judge of the
Madras High Court was appointed as receiver to take
charge and administer the council and maintain accounts.
The judge-receiver was also instructed to conduct
fresh elections for the council as per the bye-laws of the
Council by following principles of natural justice on 29
January.
cials, including Collectors of some important districts.
In a statement here, Chief Secretary K Gnanadesikan
said Registrar of Co-operative Societies R Kirlosh Kumar was transfered and posted as Director of Town and
Country Planning.
Tiruchirapalli Collector Jayashree Muralidharan has
been transfered as Registrar of Co-operative Societies,
while Theni Collector K S Palanisamy has been posted
as Tiruchi Collector.
Dindigul Collector N Venkatachalam will take charge
as Theni Collector, while Virudhunagar Collector T N
Hariharan has been appointed as Dindigul Collector.
Sivagangai Collector V Rajaraman will be the new Collector of Virudhunagar, while Nagapattinam Collector T
Munusamy has been posted as Sivagangai Collector.
Deputy Secretary to government, School Education
Department, S Palanisamy will be the Nagapattinam
Collector.
Cop commits
suicide
A police constable who was reportedly under stress,
ended his life at his residence in Thirumullaivoyal.
According to police sources, Balamurugan (36) from
Kalaignar Nagar, lived with his wife Lavanya and two
children.
He worked in the police control room of the CB-CID
department and was said to be suffering from an acute
wheezing problem for the past six months.
Police said he was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Anna Nagar. Two days ago, he sent his wife
and children to his sister-in-law's place, during which
he contemplated suicide.
He was found hanging from the ceiling of his house,
following which his neighbours reported the incident to
the police and his family.
New non-invasive method
can detect Alzheimer's early
Researchers, including
those of Indian origin,
have developed a noninvasive method that can
detect Alzheimer's disease in a living animal,
well before typical symptoms appear.
An
interdisciplinary
team of Northwestern
University scientists and
engineers have developed a noninvasive MRI
(magnetic resonance imaging) probe
that pairs a magnetic nanostructure
(MNS) with an antibody that seeks out
the amyloid beta brain toxins responsible for onset of Alzheimer's disease.
The accumulated toxins, because of
the associated magnetic nanostructures, show up as dark areas in MRI
scans of the brain.
'We have a new brain imaging method that can detect the toxin that leads
to Alzheimer's disease,' said neuroscientist William L Klein who led the research team along with materials scientist Vinayak P Dravid.
'Using MRI, we can see the toxins
attached to neurons in the brain. We
expect to use this tool to detect this
disease early and to help identify drugs
that can effectively eliminate the toxin
CHENNAI
and improve health,' Klein said.
The new MRI probe technology is
detecting something different from
conventional technology: toxic amyloid beta oligomers instead of plaques,
which occur at a stage of Alzheimer's
when therapeutic intervention would be
very late.
Amyloid beta oligomers now are
widely believed to be the culprit in the
onset of Alzheimer's disease and subsequent memory loss.
In a diseased brain, the mobile amyloid beta oligomers attack the synapses of neurons, destroying memory and
ultimately resulting in neuron death.
As time progresses, the amyloid beta
builds up and starts to stick together,
forming the amyloid plaques that current probes target. Oligomers may
appear more than a decade before
plaques are detected.
'Non-invasive imaging by
MRI of amyloid beta oligomers is a giant step forward
towards diagnosis of this debilitating disease in its earliest form,' said Dravid, the
Abraham Harris Professor
of Materials Science and Engineering at the McCormick
School of Engineering and
Applied Science.
'This MRI method could be
used to determine how well a new drug
is working. If a drug is effective, you
would expect the amyloid beta signal
to go down,' Dravid said.
The nontoxic MRI probe was delivered intranasally to mouse models with
Alzheimer's disease and control animals without the disease.
In animals with Alzheimer's, the toxins' presence can be seen clearly in
the hippocampus in MRI scans of the
brain. No dark areas, however, were
seen in the hippocampus of the control
group.
Researchers Ruchi Sureka, Mrinmoy
De, Shaleen Vasavada, Sreyesh Satpathy, Summer Wu, Hrushikesh Joshi
and Pottumarthi Prasad also worked
on the study published in the journal
Nature Nanotechnology.
HEALTH TODAY
Clarke unlikely to
be fit for WC start
Australia captain Michael Clarke doubts he will be t for
the start of the World Cup in February but hopes to be
back at some stage during the tournament.
Clarke had surgery on his injured hamstring after straining it for a fourth time in as many months during the rst
test against India in Adelaide.
Clarke came out of the surgery feeling positive but conceded on Saturday he would struggle to be t for Australia's opening match against England on 14 February.
'I'm really condent that the way things are progressing
at the moment, that if I continue ticking the boxes, I'll be
a really good chance for the World Cup,' Clarke told host
broadcaster Channel Nine.
'I think I'll certainly be t and available for the majority
of the World Cup.
'I'm hoping the selectors will give me the opportunity (to
come back).'
Steven Smith has been leading the Test side in Clarke's
absence while George Bailey led the one-day international team during the recent series victory at home
against South Africa.
First hybrid-electric airplane
tested in the UK
An aircraft with a parallel
hybrid vengine - the rst
ever to be able to recharge
its batteries in ight - has
been successfully tested in
the UK, an important step
toward cleaner, low-carbon
air travel.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge, in association with Boeing, tested the
rst aircraft to be powered by a
parallel hybrid-electric propulsion system, where an electric
motor and petrol engine work
together to drive the propeller.
The demonstrator aircraft
uses up to 30 per cent less fuel
than a comparable plane with
a petrol-only engine. The
aircraft is also able
to recharge its batteries in ight, the
rst time this has
been achieved, researchers said.
The demonstrator
is based on a commercially-available
single-seat aircraft, and
its hybrid engine was designed
and built by engineers at Cambridge with Boeing funding
support.
The aircraft uses a combination of a 4-stroke piston engine
and an electric motor/generator, coupled through the same
drive pulley to spin the propeller.
During take-off and climb,
when maximum power is required, the engine and motor
work together to power the
plane, but once cruising height
is reached, the electric motor
can be switched into generator
mode to recharge the batteries
or used in motor assist mode
to minimise fuel consumption.
The same principle
is at work in a hybrid car.
'Although
hybrid cars have
been available
for more than a
decade,
what's
been holding back
the development of
hybrid or fully-electric
aircraft until now is battery
technology,' said Dr Paul Robertson of Cambridge's Department of Engineering, who led
the project.
'Until recently, they have
been too heavy and didn't
have enough energy capacity. But with the advent of improved lithium-polymer batter-
ies, similar to what you'd nd
in a laptop computer, hybrid
aircraft - albeit at a small scale
- are now starting to become
viable,' he said.
The hybrid power system in
the Cambridge demonstrator
is based on a Honda engine,
in parallel with a custom lightweight motor.
A power electronics module
designed and built in the Engineering Department controls
the electrical current to and
from the batteries - a set of 16
large lithium-polymer cells located in special compartments
built into the wings.
The petrol engine is optimally
sized to provide the cruise
power at its most efcient operating point, resulting in an
improved fuel efciency overall.
While the Cambridge demonstrator is an important step
in the development of hybrid
or fully-electric aircraft, more
research is required before
commercial airliners will be
powered entirely with electric
motors, researchers said.
Test ights for the project
took place at the Sywell Aerodrome, near Northampton.
These tests consisted of a series of 'hops' along the runway,
followed by longer evaluation
ights at a height of over 1,500
feet.
Enterprise
CHENNAI
SUNDAY
28 DECEMBER 2014
5
Durables makers for
reduced excise duty
q ‘Higher tax would increase product prices’
M S Raghavan, chairman and managing director of IDBI Bank, inaugurating the bank’s Poonamallee branch in Chennai recently. Nagaraj
Garla, chief general manager - South I and V Venkatakrishnan, general
manager, Regional Head, Tamilnadu I are also present.
EPFO: Digital life
certiﬁcates for pensioners
New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI):
Retirement fund body EPFO has
launched pilot projects that will eventually lead to a nationwide facility for
pensioners to submit digital life
certiﬁcates through mobile phones.
The pilots have been started in Delhi
and Chandigarh. Once implemented
across the country, the facility will allow
about 47 lakh pensioners to submit digital life certiﬁcates using their mobiles.
Currently, pensioners are required to
submit a life certiﬁcate every year in
November.
The Employees’ Provident Fund
Organisation (EPFO) has started two
pilot projects at Chandigarh and Delhi
(North) for testing the facility for submitting digital life certiﬁcates by pensions,
a senior ofﬁcial said.
The two regional ofﬁces have been
asked to prepare a report on the testings and submit it by January 26, he
said.
It will reveal as to how the
facility works using EPFO database
and applications software and whether
any glitches need to be ﬁxed before the
ﬁnal launch, he added.
New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI):
Consumer durables industry wants
the government to extend the reduced excise duty beyond December
31, stating a higher tax could lead to
increased product prices that may
affect already sluggish sales.
We have asked the government to
extend the excise duty beneﬁt failing
which we will be forced to increase
prices. Our costs have gone up. Rupee has weakened and there is additional cost to comply with new energy
norms for refrigerators, Haier India
President Eric Braganza told PTI.
He is also Secretary of industry
body Consumer Electronics and Appliances Manufacturers Association
(CEAMA).
Agreeing with Braganza, Whirlpool
of India Vice President (Corporate
Affairs and Strategy Asia South)
‘Demand for consumer
durables is very sluggish and the industry
needs excise duty beneﬁt to support growth’
Shantanu Das Gupta said demand
for consumer durables is very sluggish and the industry needs excise
duty beneﬁt to support growth.
The belief that we were beginning
to see the revival of growth has been
proved wrong with poor sales in November and December, Das Gupta
said.
When asked if Whirlpool will consider increasing prices in January,
he said: ‘We will wait till we see the
announcement from the Ministry of
Finance. We are hopeful that the
RBI targeting inﬂation
over medium term: Rajan
Udaipur, Dec 28 (PTI):
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan
said the central bank would like
to focus on medium-term inﬂation
targeting and will not chase the
short-term goals.
The medium term is what gives
you time to let the economy adjust
to the changes that are happening.
This is the sensible inﬂation targeting that we have to debate about,
he said at the annual conference of
Indian Economic Association.
Rajan stressed no country in the
world chases short-term inflation
target ignoring domestic and global
developments.
What typically done is ... mediumterm ﬂexible inﬂation targeting ... We
want to achieve this objective and we
Rajan said no
country in the
world chases shortterm inﬂation
target ignoring
domestic and global
developments.
are going to give a time to reach that
objective. And if we go off track we
will recalibrate to reach that objective
within the medium term. So, I don’t
have to achieve tomorrow
but I have to try and get back to it
over the medium term, he said.
The RBI-appointed Urjit Patel panel
has suggested that the central bank
should aim at 8 per cent retail inﬂation
‘Power situation
has improved a lot’
NT Bureau
Chennai, Dec 28:
Tamilnadu has an installed capacity of 12,484 MW and we are
expecting an additional 1900MW
worth projects to be commissioned,
said director projects, Tamilnadu
Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO), RS
Alagappan in Chennai yesterday.
Speaking at the conference ‘Energy ‘14’ on the theme ‘Creating an
Energy Driven Economy’ organised
FICCI, he said,’We face a deﬁcit of
10 per cent but we have improved
in the recent past.’
He also said that the Central Government has sanctioned a 4000MW
mega power project at Cheyyur of
which 1600MW would belong to
the TNEB. ‘The tender has been
ﬂoated,’ he said.
Convener, Energy Pannel FICCI
TNSC, M Nandakumar said, ‘76 per
cent of the coal consumed in the
world is by three countries United
States, China and India. While both
the countries have started reducing their coal consumption, Indian
BPL eyes big in
LED segment
New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI):
Consumer electronics maker BPL is
looking to expand its product offerings
in the LED lighting segment after having started with solar lanterns about a
year back.
BPL intends to add more products
through introduction of more efﬁcient
and superior LED light sources, BPL
Techno Vision CEO K Vijaya Kumar
told PTI.
According to him, India has a huge
potential for LED smart lightings.
In 2013, LED market was worth Rs
1,825 crore and registered 46 per cent
growth. He added: We are focusing
only on LED lantern market at present.
In the future, we may venture into other
forms of LED smart lighting for the
lifestyle segment.
The company is presently selling two
models of solar-based light emitting
diode (LED) lighting solutions - Solar
lanterns SL 1300 and Chirag.
M&A, PE deals
by Indian cos
surge 26 per cent
The Centre has
sanctioned a 4000MW
mega power project
New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI):
Resurgence in business sentiment following the new government at the Centre pushed up the
value of M&A as well as private
equity deals involving Indian
ﬁrms by 26 per cent to USD 48
billion this year, says a report.
1600MW would
gap between demand and supply.’
He also said the delay in commissioning of projects, acute corridor constraint for transmission of
power, etc., are the other factors
attributable for power shortage.
The event focused on implying
the fact that the energy sector in
crucial for a thriving economy. The
conference dealt on important issues such as the efficient modern
technologies for power production,
innovation for self reliance in energy, techno economic focus in
energy sector and achieving self
sufficiency in energy.
Chennai, Dec 28:
Realtors’ apex body CREDAI Chairman and CMD of
Kumar Urban Development Pvt Ltd Lalit Kumar Jain
has called for ‘political will with spine’ to bring about real
estate reforms and revive the crisis-ridden industry to
rejuvenate the economy.
Lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Cabinet
colleagues for their ideas, Jain said ‘we need fast implementation; else there is a risk of losing steam.’
‘I see lack of energy expected in some bureaucrats
which is a matter of worry. Yet, we see the glass half
full and the remaining half is ﬁlled with hope,’ he said
in a press note.
‘The continuous fall in fuel prices is not translating into
price reduction of inputs like cement, steel and even
transport. The Government needs to regulate steel and
cement prices just as the power regulators monitor tariff,’
he said in his thoughts for the New Year
Stocks to trade sideways
next week, say experts
New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI):
Stocks may trade sideways next
week as investors prefer to hold
lighter positions as the year draws to
an end while caution is likely to prevail ahead of monthly sales data for
cement and auto ﬁrms, say experts.
Traders feel benchmark indices
Sensex and Nifty will consolidate
further after adding a robust 30 per
cent in 2014 so far -- the best rally
since 2009.
Cues to watch out for in the yearend week include overseas investment trend, rupee’s moves against
the US dollar, crude oil price and
trend in global markets.
This week we have HSBC Manufacturing PMI data, which is scheduled to be released on January 2,
2015. Besides, auto and cement
companies also are expected to
be in limelight as these companies
report their monthly sales figure,
said Jayant Manglik, President-retail
distribution, Religare Securities.
Vivek Gupta, CMT - Director Research, CapitalVia Global Research
said, Movement of rupee, trend of
the global market and investment
by FII may affect market movement
in near term. Automobile stock may
remain in focus as most of these
companies will declare sales numbers this week.
In the holidayshortened previous week, the S&P
BSE Sensex fell by 130 points to end
at 27,241.78. The 50-issue CNX Nifty
of the NSE settled at 8,200.70, a net
fall of 19.65 points, or 0.24 per cent.
New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI):
The Finance Ministry said the Ordinance for insurance sector reform will
help companies raise capital through
new and innovative instruments, besides promoting economic growth and
job creation.
The content of the Ordinance is also
aimed at allowing insurance companies to raise capital through new and innovative instruments, which would help
capital intensive insurance industry to
garner resources for business growth,’
the Ministry said in a release.
The Insurance Laws (Amendment)
Ordinance 2014, which was promulgated by the President, will be taken
up for consideration and passage in
the next session of Parliament, beginning February.
The amendment is aimed to enhance
the FDI cap in an Indian insurance
company from 26 per cent to 49 per
cent with the safeguard of Indian ownership and control.
The hike in foreign investment limit in
the insurance sector has potential to
attract up to USD 7-8 billion (about Rs
50,000 crore) from overseas investors,
giving a major boost to the segment.
The proposed step, the Ministry said,
is also for furtherance of the broad
objective of deepening the reform process in the economy in general and the
insurance sector in particular.
This is of paramount importance to
create an investor friendly environment
NT Bureau
belong to the TNEB’
Amidst lack of fresh cues, we
expect the markets to remain in the
range of 8,100-8,550 levels in the
medium term and remain sideways
for the coming week, said Rakesh
Goyal, Senior Vice President, Bonanza Portfolio.
Experts said the next major trigger
for stocks is third quarter results
which will start from second week of
January 2015.
The year 2015 could be an important one in terms of the economic
history of this country. It could be the
year where we see passage of key
reforms which lay the foundations of
the sustainable long term economic
growth, said Nilesh Shetty, Associate
Fund Manager - Equity, Quantum
Mutual Fund.
erators would go up from January 1,
2015. It would mean that for the star
bands ranging from 1 to 5, companies will
have to decrease the energy consumption for each of the rating increasing costs in turn.
The companies have been already
up against high input costs due to
weakening rupee.
While Panasonic India did not
comment on hiking prices, its MD
Manish Sharma said: For Panasonic,
consumer satisfaction is of utmost importance, we try and absorb as much
cost as possible so that consumers
don’t feel the pinch.
However, he added: We hope that
further extension will be considered
by the government with regard to
excise duty beneﬁts resulting in a
growing economy.’
‘Insurance Ordinance to
help ﬁrms raise funds’
CREDAI chief calls for
political will with spine
at Cheyyur of which
continues to increase it every year.’
Head-Engineer, PC Boilers, Isgec
Heavy Engineering Ltd, L Viswanathan said, ‘After the southern
grid was connected to the national
grid in December 2013 we thought
it would reduce the power deﬁ cit
but we received only 800MW of the
1800 MW.’
Advisor to FICCI President, P
Murari said, ‘Increase in per capita
consumption pattern due rise in
the number of consumers and their
consumption pattern on one side
and capacity addition on the other
have resulted in widening of the
(CPI) by March 2015 and 6 per cent
by March 2016.
‘I do believe RBI still has a role in
controlling inﬂation. We are not going
to close shop and go home.’
RBI has kept interest rate (repo) unchanged at 8 per cent since January
despite industry and government urging it to cut the rate. The Wholesale
Price Index (WPI) based inﬂation is on
a decline and in November dropped
to zero level, the lowest in about
ﬁve-and-a-half years. Retail inﬂation,
too, fell for the ﬁfth straight month in
November at 4.38 per cent.
RBI will be announcing its next
bi-monthly monetary policy on 3
February.
concession will be extended, and we
hope that it will be for a longer period.
Similarly, we will closely watch the
movement of currency over the next
fortnight before taking a decision.’
In its interim budget in February
2014, previous UPA government had
announced 2 per cent cut in excise
duty on consumer durables at 10 per
cent. This was extended by another
six months by the current government in July and ends on December
31, 2014.
Another issue that consumer durables makers are facing is new
energy efﬁciency norms that direct
cool refrigerators manufacturers to
comply with from January 1, 2015,
which would increase their cost.
As per the Bureau of Energy Efﬁciency, the energy efﬁciency ratio
for all star bands in direct cool refrig-
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public to note that my client Mr.P.Selvaraj,
Son of Late T.S.Poochi Chettiar, residing
at TAAS VILLA’’ Flat NO.1D, First Floor,
Door No.17, Halls Road, Egmore, Chennai
600 008, is the absolute owner of the land
building bearing Door No.64, Old Door No.62,
Ponnappa Chetty Street, Park Town, Chennai
- 600 003, measuring an extent of 875 Squre
Feet, comprised in Old Survey NO.973, ReSurvey No.9377/1, Collector’s Certiﬁcate
No.5396. He had lost his Original Title Deeds
and Parent documents relating to the said
property, namely 1) Sale Deed Dated 28-031935 registered as Document No.379 of 1935
at SRO Sowcarpet, executed by Singarammal
and others in favour of Devaki Bai. 2) Sale
Deed Dated 07-05-1947 registered as
Document No.462 of 1947 at SRO Sowcarpet,
executed by Devaki Bai and others in favour of
Narmadasanker Devay and 3) Release Deed
dated 21-12-1970 registered as Document
No.1073 of 1970, executed by Maya Ben in
favour of Harivadan Devay and others, while
sent it for taking Photo Copy on 22-12-2014
in Thambu Chetty Street, Chennai - 1. Anybody
having the cutody of the said Original Title
and Parent Documents or having any claim,
right, title, interest or whatsoever over the said
property, may contact the undersigned with
sufﬁcient documentary proof within 7 days
from the date of this publication, failing which
it shall be legally contrued and concluded to the
contrary and accordingly proceeded with.
A.BABU
Advoate
New Door No.315 Old Door No.152,
3rd Floor, Thambu Chetty Street,
Chennai - 600 001.
9444110131
in the country to achieve the various
goals related to enhanced investment,
economic growth and job creation in
the economy, the Ministry said.
There are 52 insurance companies
operating in India, of which 24 are in
the life insurance business and 28 in
general insurance business. In addition, GIC is the sole national reinsurer.
Insurance penetration in India is very
low compared to the global average.
The sector requires capital to expand
and ensure better access to insurance
services, especially in rural areas and
for economically weaker sections.
Enhancement of the foreign equity
cap to 49 per cent with the safeguard of
Indian ownership and control is a critical aspect of the Ordinance, which will
potentially enhance capital availability,
the Ministry added. The government
further said the Ordinance will also substantially enhance penalty provisions
to ensure compliance with Insurance
Laws by companies, which is essential
to uphold the consumer interest.
The Insurance Laws Amendment
Bill, 2008 could not be taken up for
discussion despite being approved
by the Select Committee of the Upper
House because of the uproar over the
conversion and other issues.
The total capital deployed in the
private life insurance sector is close
to Rs 35,000 crore. With FDI at 26
per cent, foreign equity is close to Rs
8,700 crore.
PUBLIC NOTICE
My client Mr.R. Raja residing at
No.55/26, Akbar Sahib Street, 2nd
Lane, has lost his Original partition
deed registered as Document
No.625/1966 and Settlement deed
registered deed registered as
Document No.160/2004 before the
SRO Triplicane while proceeding
from Triplicane Post Ofﬁce Stopping
to Broadway in Route No.32-A, Bus.
It is found that the bag contained the
document missed.
If anybody found the documents
handover the same either to the
undersigned or to my client. If anybody
tried to create any encumbrance, it will
not bind on my client.
Schedule of property
The part and parcel of land and
house situate at No.55/26, Akbar
Sahib II Lane, Triplicane, Chennai 600 005, bearing old Survey No.1258,
R.S.No.2652/16 part, within the Sub
Registration District of Triplicane
and Registration District of Chennai
Central.
Bounded on the North by : Passage,
South by: Akbar Sahin Street II Lane,
West by: Mahalinga Iyer house, East
by: Part of Partitioned property.
Yours sincerely
(P.KOTHANDARAMAN, B.A.,B.L.,)
Advocate
9840207374
PUBLIC NOTICE
This is to inform the general public that
my clients 1) Mr.N.Ganesh, 2) N.Vignesh, &
3) N.Sabarish all sons of Thiru Nithyanandha
represented by their power agent Mr.Kumaravel
son of Thiru T.C.Manikam, Sole Proprietor
of Mars Foundation having ofﬁce at No.5/20,
Temple Avenue, Sri Nagar Colony, Saidapet,
Chennai - 600 015 are the joint owners of
the property which is morefully described in
the schedule hereunder. The original parent
deed i.e. Sale Deed Doc.No.2562 of 1962
duly registered at S.R.O. Saidapet, Joint II,
Chennai South Chennai which stood in the
name of their grandmother Mrs.G.Ganga wife
of Thiru.Venkatakrishna Rao is lost in transit on
24/11/14 last month. It is advised not to deal
with anyone other than my clients in respect of
the schedule property Further, whoever ﬁnds
the said Original sale deed may hand it over the
same to the undersigned immediateliy.
Schedule
All that piece and parcel of land and Building,
bearing old No.2 and new No.6, East Mada
Street, Sri Nagar Colony, Saidapet Chennai
- 600 015 situated at Venkatapuram Village,
comprised in paimash No.79, the New Town
Survey No.17, Block No.5, measuring an
extend of 2400 sq.ft or there abouts and the
land being bounded on the; North by: Babuji
House, South by: 4th Street Rangarajapuram,
East by: Farradhin House, West by: East Mada
Street. Situated within the registration district
of south Chennai and sub registration district
of Joint II Saidapet Chennai - 600 015.
K. BHASKER
Advocate
No.44, Moore street,
Parrys Corner, Chennai - 600 001
Mobile: 94440 12800
PUBLIC NOTICE
[Pursuant to rule 30 the Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014]
NOTICE IN TERMS OF SECTION 13(4) OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 2013
AND RULE 30 (6) (a) OF THE COMPANIES (INCORPORATION) RULES, 2014
BEFORE THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR,
SOUTHERN REGION BENCH, TAMIL NADU AND
IN THE MATTER OF M/S JAYAMKONDAM POWER LIMITED
HAVING ITS REGISTERED OFFICE AT KOTHARI BUILDING,
115, MAHATMA GANDHI ROAD, NUNGAMBAKKAM, CHENNAI 600 034
... ... PETITIONER
Notice is hereby given to the General Public that the company proposes to
make application to the Central Government under Section 13 of the
Companies Act, 2013 seeking confirmation of alteration of the
Memorandum of Association of the Company in terms of the special
resolution passed at the Extraordinary general meeting held on 8th
December, 2014 to enable the company to change its Registered office from
“State of Tamil Nadu” to “State of Maharashtra”.
Any Person whose interest is likely to be affected by the proposed change of
the Registered office of the company may deliver or cause to be delivered or
send by registered post of his/her objections supported by an affidavit
stating the nature of his/her interest and grounds of opposition to the
Regional Director, Southern Region, 5th Floor Shastri Bhawan 26 Haddows
Road, Chennai- 600 006, within Fourteen days from the date of publication of
this notice with a copy of the applicant company at its Registered office at
the address mentioned above.
For and on behalf of
JAYAMKONDAM POWER LIMITED
Sd/Mohan Limaye
Director
DIN 01837625
28th December, 2014
Sports
6 SUNDAY
28 DECEMBER 2014
CHENNAI
Ajmal wasn’t feeling
effective enough: Coach
‘No Indian conspiracy behind pullout’
Saeed Ajmal
Karachi, Dec 28 (PTI):
Rejecting suggestions
of an Indian conspiracy
in Saeed Ajmal’s pullout from next year’s ODI
cricket World Cup, Pakistan’s bowling coach Muhammed Akram has said
the off-spinner withdrew
as he did not feel ‘effective enough’ after reworking his suspect bowling
action.
Akram strongly refuted assertions that
India was behind
the crackdown
against bowlers
with illegal actions
to target Ajmal and
Muhammad Hafeez.
‘First of all I don’t think
anyone is involved. Until the ICC allowed it
Saeed and others kept
on playing without problems. Now
with new protocol in place things
have changed,’ Akram told ‘Ary News
channel’.
Akram, who is one of the experts
working on correcting Ajmal’s bowling action, also made it clear that the
decision to pull out of the World
Cup was taken by the suspended off-spinner himself.
‘It was purely a decision by
Saeed who felt his bowling
after modication was still not
effective enough for international cricket,’ Akram, who
is also the head coach
of Pakistan’s National
Cricket Academy, said.
The PCB announced yesterday that
Saeed would continue remedial work
on his bowling action and would not
be sent for further biomechanic tests
to Chennai until he is condent himself about his action.
‘Saeed is a champion bowler and
Banned Ojha set for
tests in Chennai
New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI):
The BCCI has nally banned discarded India left-arm spinner Pragyan
Ojha from bowling in competitive
matches due to suspect action as he
will be heading to Chennai for taking
corrective measures.
The BCCI has ofcially informed
Ojha’s home State association Hyderabad about his action needs remedial measures and accordingly he
was withdrawn from team’s Ranji Trophy home encounter against Services
starting today. HCA joint secretary
Purushottam Agarwal admitted having received a letter from the BCCI.
‘Yes, the BCCI did sent us a letter
informing about their decision that
Pragyan needs to undergo rehabilitation programme in regards to action
Pragyan Ojha
Sarita keen to win
medal at Rio
Sarita Devi
Kolkata, Dec 28:
Overwhelmed by the support she
received from Boxing India and her
fellow countrymen including cricket
icon Sachin Tendulkar while facing
the prospect of a life ban, boxer L
Sarita Devi hopes to make it count
by winning a medal at the 2016 Rio
Olympics.
‘I really thank Sachin Tendulkar,
Boxing India and my fellow countrymen who stood behind me and gave
me a second chance. I don’t want to
let go their support in vain and win an
Olympic medal,’ Sarita Devi, who was
handed a one-year ban by AIBA for
showing dissent at the Asian Games
Incheon in October, said here.
Here in the city for a felicitation
programme, the Manipuri boxer said
she wants to forget the past and start
a new life.
‘I don’t want to talk about what happened. I was very much mentally disturbed and I’ve forgotten every bit of
it. All my focus is now on earning my
country an Olympic medal in 2016,’
the 29-year-old said.
The lightweight pugilist was furious
after losing her seminal to local favourite Park Ji-na and she refused to
accept the bronze medal, prompting
the AIBA to suspend her indenitely.
correction. However, they haven’t
intimated us about the timeframe.
Pragyan is still in Hyderabad but will
head for Chennai soon,’ Agarwal
told PTI yesterday. Ojha’s action has
been under cloud for quite some time
now despite being the quickest Indian
bowler to reach to 100-wicket milestone. He has taken 113 wickets from
24 Test matches and 21 wickets from
18 ODIs. He also played 6 T20 Internationals in which he got 10 wickets.
Ojha has been at times criticised for
wearing full sleeves while bowling in
order to hide the elbow kink which is
above permissible limit of 15 degrees.
Ironically, in his last Test match
against West Indies in Mumbai, he
got man-of-the-match award for his
match-haul of 10 for 89.
Ronaldo keen to
improve on 2014
Madrid, Dec 28:
Not content with four titles in 2014,
including his second Champions
League, prolic Real Madrid forward
Cristiano Ronaldo is determined
to make next year an even bigger
success.
Ronaldo netted 51 goals in 47
appearances last season, setting a
record of 17 goals for one edition of
Europe’s elite club competition, as
Real secured a record-extending 10th
continental crown and the King’s Cup.
The Portugal captain continued
where he left off in 2014-15 as
the world’s richest club by income
claimed the European Super Cup and
Club World Cup and he has amassed
an incredible 32 goals in 25 games in
all competitions.
His haul of 25 in 14 La Liga matches
is a Spanish record and he looks set
to smash the biggest total for a season in Spain’s top ight of 50 scored
by Lionel Messi in 2011-12.
‘It would be a dream if 2015 was like
2014 or even better,’ Ronaldo said in
an interview published in sports daily
<I>As<P> on Saturday.
‘It is possible to do it because Madrid is always a candidate to win the
competitions it is playing in,’ added
the 29-year-old.
‘We have a team spirit that can help
us win the most titles possible and
we will ght to the death to get them.’
thinks like a champion. He himself
wants to work further on his bowling
so that he is as effective as before.
He is facing issues with the elbow
extension while bowling the Doosra
delivery. But even otherwise
he has developed a carrom
ball and also seam up delivery
to improve his effectiveness,’
Akram said.
The academy’s head coach said
that Ajmal himself will now decide
when to take the ICC test.
‘Life does not end with the
World Cup and there is lot of
cricket after the tournament
and Saeed also realises this
and is accordingly working more on
his modied action,’ Akram said.
Akram was also asked about the
reasons for not sending Ajmal for
the informal bowling test in Chennai.
‘There were issues there rst of all
the visas came late and secondly now
even Saeed wants to rst improve
his effectiveness before taking any
tests,’ Akram said. The PCB after
a high level meeting on Saturday
agreed that Ajmal still needs more
time to work on correcting his bowling
action in order to pass the ofcial ICC
bowling action test. But it conrmed
that all-rounder, Muhammad Hafeez
would y to Chennai next week for an
informal test and if that was cleared,
he would then be sent for the ICC ofcial test to enable him to bowl in the
World Cup. The PCB decision comes
after a lot of delay in taking a decision
by the PCB which gave every facility
to the off-spinner to correct his bowling action since he was suspended
from bowling in international cricket
in September by the ICC. The PCB
said it had taken a decision on Ajmal
based on reports from Pakistan’s
former Test spinner Saqlain Mushtaq
and the national team bowling coach
Mushtaq Ahmed and the head coach
of the national cricket academy.
CITY SPORTS
Saranya held
to a draw
NT Bureau
Chennai, Dec 28:
J Saranya was held to a draw by
K K Gowtham in the fourth round
of the second Arrvindurga all-India
Open FIDE-rated chess tournament,
organised by Arrvindurga School
of Chess at Valluvar Gurukulam
School, Tambaram.
Results (fourth round): Vinay Vijaykumar (3) lost to R Balasubramaniam (4); J Saranya (3.5) drew with
K K Gowtham (3.5); Osama Salim
(4) bt R Akash (3); Narayanasamy
Prasanna (3.5) drew with P Balaji
(3.5); H Balasubramaniam (3) lost
to Rajarishi Karthi (4); Sa Kannan
(4) bt H Azeezuddin (3).
P Shet Prajwal (4) bt K Keerthivasan (3); K U Marthandan (3.5)
drew with P Bala Kannamma (3.5);
S Vigneshwaran (3.5) drew with S
Raghul (3.5); R Dileep Kumar (3.5)
drew with A Harshini (3.5); S Sivaji
Baskar (4) bt G B Harshavardhan
(3); B. Vinodh Kumar (4) bt J Shakthi
Vishal (3); Prasant N Nayagam (3)
lost to C M N Sunyuktha (4).
Cricket tournament
South Madras Cricket Academy
will be conduct Champions Trophy
tournament from the third week of
January, open to all clubs.
For details, contact, secretary,
SMCA, at 98843 02787.
Japanese coach
denies xing claims
Tokyo, Dec 28: I have never done anything unethiJapan coach Javier Aguirre de- cal or unprofessional,’ Aguirre told
nied on Saturday any involvement reporters at the JFA’s headquarters
in match-xing in Spain and called in Tokyo on Saturday.
for calm from the
‘I would like to tell
team’s supportour supporters to
ers during their
stay calm during
Asian Cup dethis investigation.
fence.
We need their
support to take
The Mexican
the Asian Cup tiwas among 41
tle.
Javier Aguirre
people named by
Spain’s anti-cor‘I will be conruption prosecucentrating and
tor in court this
preparing for the
month following
Japan team to win
a probe into Real
the Asian Cup.’
Zaragoza’s 2-1 win at Levante on the
The 56-year-old Aguirre replaced
nal day of the 2010-11 campaign.
Italian Alberto Zaccheroni, who
The victory ensured Zaragoza, stepped down after Japan were elimicoached by Aguirre, avoided relega- nated in the rst round of this year’s
tion.
World Cup in Brazil.
The Japan Football Association has
The prosecutor in Spain alleges the
sent a delegation to Spain to conduct Levante players were paid a total of
a probe into the case but said Aguirre 965,000 euros to deliberately lose
will remain in charge for next month’s the game.
Asian Cup in Australia.
‘I will be cooperating with the SpanSpeaking through a translator, ish authorities and seeing this case
Aguirre said he believed Spanish soc- through to the end,’ Aguirre added.
cer was clean and the investigation
Defending champions Japan open
would not impact Japan’s prepara- their tournament against Palestine on
tions for the tournament.
12 January and also have Iraq and
‘I worked in Spain for 12 years and Jordan in their group.
Terry is all gold for Mourinho & Chelsea
London, Dec 28:
Former England captain John Terry
is performing as well in central
defence as he was a decade ago,
according to Chelsea manager Jose
Mourinho.
Terry scored for the second time
in ve days when his rst-half goal,
the 61st of his club career, paved
the way for Premier League leaders
Chelsea to beat London rivals West
Ham United 2-0 on Friday.
Just as pleasingly for Mourinho, the
34-year-old gave a masterclass in the
art of defending as he subdued West
Ham’s in-form striker Andy Carroll.
‘He is full of condence,’ Mourinho
told reporters after Chelsea kept
up their 100 per cent home
record in the league this
season to stay three points
clear at the top.
‘I see my John of 2004,
2005 and 2006, I don’t see
any difference. The only difference is seeing his twins
when they go to the training
ground, they had only just
been born in that period but
now they are running around
and kicking balls.
‘John is playing so good but
I always say the same, when
the team is playing so well
it’s easy for individuals,’ the
Portuguese added.
John Terry
Mourinho, who led Chelsea
to the league title in 2005
and 2006 and returned for
a second stint in charge 18
months ago, said the upbeat
mood at Stamford Bridge
was in stark contrast to the
atmosphere that characterised the end of his time with
previous club Real Madrid.
‘Our results are good and
the players are happy,’ he
explained. ‘I’m happy as a
coach because the team is
playing well.
‘I’m happy as a guy because I love my players.
It’s important to feel happy
with the people that surround me, it’s
something I missed for a while.’
Chelsea, who are also through to
the Champions League last 16 and
League Cup semi-finals, narrowly
missed out on the Premier League
title last season but Mourinho believes there is a big difference in his
side now.
‘We are a much better team when
we have the ball,’ he added. ‘Last year
we were very strong defensively and
very well organised but we lacked a
bit of creativity when we had the ball.
‘The challenge this year was to bring
that creativity and dynamic without
losing the defensive qualities of the
team.’
Ganguly backs
captain Dhoni
Melbourne, Dec 28 (PTI):
Former India captain Sourav
Ganguly feels that current skipper
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has not
been able to get the best out of
the team at the Test level for quite
some time despite being the leader
for close to 60 matches.
Ganguly, who has been an expert
commentator in the ongoing Test
series between India and Australia,
termed Dhoni’s record as an ODI
captain has been exceptional but
said the veteran wicketkeeperbatsman has been struggling for
some time as the skipper at the
ve-day format.
‘It’s not just these two matches,
it’s for a while now (that Dhoni has
struggled). He just has not really
got the team going at Test match
level. That’s up to the selectors but
he has had a lot of time as captain,
close to 60 Test matches. I think he
has had a lot of time,’ Ganguly said.
‘I think Dhoni is a good captain.
The record he has in one-day
cricket, he is a good captain. But
in Test conditions overseas, it’s
just fallen away a bit. This series is
not over yet so maybe we can talk
differently at the end of this series.
Hopefully he can reinvent himself
and nd a way to lead this team
forward,’ he added.
Ganguly spoke highly of combative vice-captain Virat Kohli, whom
he termed as the ‘future’ of Indian
cricket.
‘I think he (Kohli) is the future.
He will be captain of India. You
need positivity. You need positive
captains. MS will captain at the
World Cup, then we’ll have to see
what happens after that,’ the former
left-handed batsman said.
‘I like his (Kohli’s) passion. You’ve
got to have passion. It should
mean something to you, any job
you do. I like him, I like what I see,’
he was quoted as saying in Daily
Telegraph.
Dhoni, 33, has played 90 Tests,
but Ganguly said that he should
continue to play on under Kohli if
a captaincy change was decided
upon.
‘Absolutely. When Sachin nished
as Test captain, he played under
me. When I nished as Test captain, I played under Dravid. Dravid
played under MS. Ricky Ponting
played under Michael Clarke. I do
not think that’s a problem,’ he said.
‘As you long as you keep performing, captaincy is just one role. Your
major role should be to contribute
to the team.’
Misbah needs
time for full
fitness: PCB
Karachi, Dec 28 (PTI):
Pakistan Cricket Board has said
that Test and ODI captain Misbahul-Haq has made improvement
on his hamstring injury but still
required more time to be 100 per
cent t.
In a statement on the fitness
status of Misbah, left-arm pacer
Junaid Khan, batsman Sohaib
Maqsood and all-rounder Ehsan
Adil, the Board did not make it
clear when these players would be
available to play again.
The statement, full of medical
terms and explanations, and prepared by the GM Medical in the
PCB, Dr Sohail Saleem stated
that Misbah needed more time for
a complete recovery.
Initially, it was said that Misbah
required four to six weeks to make
a complete recovery from his hamstring problem.
Misbah strained one of his hamstrings while elding against New
Zealand in the recently concluded
ODI series.
‘Fresh scans done on Misbah
suggested that the swelling/edema
around his strained muscles has
reduced to a great extent. His
scans suggested a Grade II strain
of the hamstring. Misbah thus
progressed on to phase two of his
rehabilitation, after the criteria for
this progression were met,’ the
statement said.
‘He now has a normal walking
stride without any pain, jogging too
is pain-free and his resistance testing against 70 per cent of manual
resistance is pain-free.
‘Apart from other criteria, Misbah
needs to achieve pain-free full
strength and range of motion and
replicate his sports specic movements near maximal speed without
pain, before he is declared as t to
take the eld in Pakistan colours,’
the statement added.
About Junaid who suffered a
knee injury, the statement said that
he was recovering well and has
started bowling in the nets.
Mixed Bag
CHENNAI
SUNDAY
28 DECEMBER 2014
7
Saradha, Sinha and SC kept CBI in limelight
New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI):
Controversy surrounding its chief
Ranjit Sinha, the Supreme Court and
the Saradha scam kept the CBI in headlines during the year as it tried hard to
maintain its reputation amid reprimands
from courts over closure
reports and charge sheets in the coal
scam.
Sinha, who retired this month, kept attracting media attention as the Supreme
Court made scathing observations
against his purported meetings with
the suspects in the 2G scam and coal
cases and even directed him to recuse
from the crucial 2G scam probe- a ﬁrst
in the history of the agency.
The issue of the purported visitors’ diary, which carried details of his alleged
frequent meetings with the suspects
in the scams at his residence, and the
letter written to the then Attorney General allegedly seeking re-investigation
of 2G case brought forth the ire of the
Supreme Court on him.
Sinha, an IPS ofﬁcer with over four
decades of policing career, was asked
by the apex court to recuse himself
from the 2G scam probe with Additional
Director R K Dutta given charge of the
case till the CBI chief’s retirement.
The Supreme Court had also asked
the CBI not to take any ﬁnal decision
on coal scam cases after the allegations against Sinha were leveled by two
NGOs. The apex court, however, did
not take any adverse action
against him in the ﬁnal orders and
Boult double gives
Kiwis the edge
Christchurch, Dec 28 (AFP):
Two late wickets by Trent Boult put
New Zealand back in control of the
ﬁrst Test against Sri Lanka today after
a maiden Test century by Dimuth
Karunaratne had brieﬂy given the
tourists a glimmer of hope.
Sri Lanka were closing in on wiping
out their 303-run ﬁrst innings deﬁcit
with seven wickets in hand when Boult
brought their cautious progress at
Christchurch’s Hagley Oval to a halt.
He removed the deﬁant Karunaratne
for 152 and Niroshan Dickwella for four
as Sri Lanka were reduced to 293 for
5 at stumps, still 10 runs from making
New Zealand bat again.
Angelo Mathews is not out 53 with
Tharindu Kaushal on ﬁve while Boult,
New Zealand’s chief wicket taker, has
three for 62.
Karunaratne’s wicket was vital for
New Zealand after the 26-year-old
had stood in 87-run partnership with
Lahiru Thirimanne (25) for the third
wicket and then a 97-run stand with
Angelo Mathews.
The left-hander had been under enormous pressure after making a four-ball
Pranab
greets Vasan
NT Bureau
Chennai, Dec 28:
TMC(M) president and former
Union Minister G K Vasan turned
50 today. President Pranab
Mukherjee, actor Rajinikanth and
leaders of various political parties
greeted him
on the occasion.
Party cadres organised celebrations across
the State
and special
prayers were
organised at
various temples, churches and
mosques.
Various welfare measures
were also distributed.
Among others who wished
Vasan were former Union Ministers A K Antony, Milind Deora,
Praful Patel, Supriya Sule from
NCP, DMDK chief Vijayakanth,
BJP leader L Ganesan, CPI
leader D Raja, CPI(M) leader T
K Rangarajan, TMC leaders S
R Balasubramaniam, B S Gnanadesikan and Peter Alphonse
among others.
duck in his opening bat when Sri Lanka
were rolled for a paltry 138 in reply to
New Zealand’s 441 and were forced to
follow on.
But he handled the occasion with
aplomb as he easily surpassed his previous Test best of 85.
Sri Lanka were in trouble when they
lost two quick wickets at the start of the
third day, including another failure by
the world’s top ranked batsman Kumar
Sangakkara. But if New Zealand’s hopes
were up with Sri Lanka at 94-2 and
trailing by 209, Karunaratne had other
ideas. With survival foremost in
his mind he was in the middle
for a shade over eight hours
and faced 363 deliveries in
his marathon stand which
included 17 fours.
Before being bowled by Boult
he had offered one opportunity 17 runs
earlier but the nick off spinner Mark
Craig went through Ross Taylor’s left
hand at ﬁrst slip.
Karunaratne started the day on 49
with Sri Lanka 84-0 and reached his
ﬁfth half century with a single off the
second ball.
closed the cases ﬁled in this connection
by NGOs Common Cause and Centre
for Public Interest Litigation.
Sinha was replaced by Anil Sinha, a
1979-batch soft-spoken IPS
ofﬁcer from Bihar cadre, as
CBI chief on 2 December.
The selection was made
through collegium comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader of largest
Opposition party Congress
Mallikarjuna Kharge and
Chief Justice of India H L Dattu. This
was the ﬁrst-ever selection of the CBI
chief through the new process given
under the Lokpal Act which came into
being this year.
In May, the Supreme Court ordered
phishing, scanning, spam, malicious code and website intrusions.
There has been an annual increase of more than 40 per cent in
cyber crime cases registered in the
country during the past two-three
years, a Home Ministry official
said.
India with a fast growing economy is susceptible to international
and domestic cyber attacks and
there is a need to ensure cyber
crime-free environment, the official said.
The cyber attacks have been observed to be originating from the
cyber space of a number of countries including the US, Europe,
Brazil, Turkey, China, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Algeria and the UAE.
It has been observed that the
attackers compromise systems located in different parts of the world
and user masquerading techniques
and hidden servers to hide the iden-
The modus operandi was similar
as people were promised attractive
returns and a piece of land for their
investments. With over five crore
investors, the company’s business
interests were spread across India,
Australia and other countries.
Nirmal Singh Bhangoo, Managing
Director of the Pearls group, who was
booked by the CBI in February is yet
to be arrested, as the agency claims
that he is ‘cooperating’ in the probe
even as it maintains that with over
1000 bank account of the company,
the probe is taking time to conclude.
In a similar case, the CBI also started
probe against Jignesh Shah, promoter
of the NSEL and his company for allegedly duping the investors and the
state run companies
Steady Abhinav holds fort for host
NT Bureau
Chennai, Dec 28:
It was slow progress for host Tamilnadu on a rather gloomy opening day
of their Group ‘A’ Ranji Trophy encounter against Railways at the M A
Chidambaram stadium here today as
they reached 97 for 3 after 35 overs.
In fact play was stopped for a brief
while owing to bad light a little while
after the fall of the ﬁrst wicket.
Tamilnadu captain R Prasanna
won the toss and chose
to bat ﬁrst and it was a
sedate start as the home
side lost opener K Bharath Shankar early, when he
fell to Arnab Arun Nandi for
4 with the score on 5.
B Aparajith, who joined India discard Abhinav Mukund in the middle,
then began to play some strokes and
put on 35 runs with the left-handed
opener, before falling for 27, which
included two fours and a six.
Former Indian wicketkeeper Dinesh
be reported individually. Investments
below Rs 2 lakh may be reported
together,’ it said. Earlier, the limit
was Rs 1 lakh.
In the latest form, employees need
to declare expensive furniture, ﬁxtures, antiques, paintings and electronic equipment also.
As per the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual
Return of Assets and Liabilities and
the Limits for Exemption of Assets
in Filing Returns) Second Amendment Rules, 2014, a public servant
shall ﬁle the returns of his assets
and liabilities, including that of
his spouse and dependent family
members, for the current ﬁscal by
30 April, 2015.
As per rules, all Group A, B and
C employees need to declare such
details as on 31 March every year
on or before 31 July of that year. For
the current year, the last date for ﬁling these returns was 15 September,
which was later extended to December-end and now till April next year.
The declarations under the Lokpal
Act are in addition to similar ones
ﬁled by the employees under various services rules.
India sees 40 % rise
in cyber crimes
New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI):
Hacking, publication of obscene
contents, credit card and banking
frauds among other cyber crimes
have registered an annual increase of more than 40 per cent in
the country in the past two years.
According to Home Ministry statistics, as many as 71,780 cyber
frauds were reported in 2013, while
22,060 such cases were reported
in 2012. There have been 62,189
incidents of cyber frauds till June
this year.
In 2013, a total of 28,481 Indian
websites were hacked by various
hacker groups spread across the
globe. The number of hacking incidents were 27,605 in 2012 and
21,699 in 2011.
Obscene publication, transmission of unauthorised contents,
credit card and banking frauds are
the widespread cyber crime faced
worldwide. Other cases include
while kept registering cases and making arrests with the probe reaching the
doors of West Bengal government as
state Transport Minister Madan Mitra
was arrested by the CBI in connection
with the scam recently.
So far, the CBI has registered six
cases against the Saradha group
of companies, 44 cases in Odisha
against the other chit fund companies
and four more cases in West Bengal
against the non-Saradha chit fund
companies. Even as the CBI was
grappling with mammoth investigation
into the Saradha scam spread across
multiple states, it started probe in another huge scam of over Rs 47,000 crore
spread across Punjab, Haryana and
Rajasthan involving the Pearls group.
Early strikes peg TN back
Babus have to declare
foreign account details
New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI):
All Central government employees
will now have to declare details of deposits in foreign bank accounts which
includes those of their spouses and
children, as per the new rules notiﬁed
under the Lokpal Act.
The Department of Personnel and
Training (DoPT) has notiﬁed a new
form for the employees to declare
details of their assets and liabilities,
along with that of their spouse and
dependent children, which is mandatory under the Lokpal Act.
‘Details of deposits in foreign bank(s)
to be given separately,’ the notiﬁcation said.
The new form has been issued
after concerns were raised by some
employees regarding putting details
of their assets and liabilities in public
domain. However, the government
is still mulling whether such details
should be made available to public,
ofﬁcial sources said.
The employees will also have to
inform separately in case of any
investments of over Rs 2 lakh made
in movable assets, insurance, bonds,
shares and mutual funds in the new
form. ‘Investment above Rs 2 lakh to
the CBI to take over probe in the over
Rs 2,000 crore Saradha scam in which
about 25 lakh gullible investors were
duped of their hard earned money by
the group.
Even though it
was ordered by
the apex court,
the probe done
by the Special Investigation Team
of the CBI got into
a political blame
game with the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal accusing the
BJP of turning the agency into its
‘political tool’.
The Special Investigation Team under Joint Director Rajiv Singh mean-
tity of the actual system from which
the attacks are being launched.
Cyber space is virtual, borderless
and anonymous due to which it
becomes difﬁcult to actually trace
the origin of a cyber attack, the
ofﬁcial said.
As per the cyber crime data maintained by National Cyber Records
Bureau, a total of 1,791, 2,876 and
4,356 cases were registered under
the Information Technology Act in
2011, 2012 and 2013, respectively.
A total of 422, 601 and 1,337 cases
were registered under cyber crime
related sections of the Indian Penal Code in 2011, 2012 and 2013,
respectively.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has
said in Parliament recently that
there was a need to strengthen
cyber monitoring in the wake of
growing use of Internet and social
media by global terror outﬁts like
ISIS to indoctrinate the youth.
Tamilnadu batsman B Aparajith is dismissed by Arnab Nandi on
the opening day of the Ranji Trophy match against Railways in
Chennai today.
Karthik, who scored a blistering
hundred in the last game against
Madhya Pradesh, didn’t last too
long as he was dismissed by Ashish
Yadav for 15.
Aparajith’s twin brother Indrajith,
who joined Abhinav in the middle,
ensured that Tamilnadu didn’t suffer
more jolts as they took the total close
to the 100-mark. Abhinav was batting
on 35 and Indrajith on 15. Tamilnadu
brought in ODI captain R Sathish in
place of the rested Laxmipathy Balaji
for this game.
It is a crucial match for former
champions Tamilnadu, who started
the 2014-’15 Ranji campaign poorly
after being brushed aside by holders
Karnataka in the opening match in
Bangalore. They, however, bounced
back strongly by crushing Jammu &
Kashmir at Dindigul thanks to the
heroics by the spinners Malolan Rangarajan and Aushik Srinivas.
The previous game against Madhya
Pradesh at the MAC saw Tamilnadu
share honours though they conceded
a huge ﬁrst innings lead before hitting
back on the ﬁnal day and forcing the
visiting team to ﬁght for a draw.
Mumbai takes control
In other Ranji games being played
across the country, former champion
Mumbai was 158 for 2 against Bengal, while Jharkhand was 161 for 4
against Kerala.
Passengers suffer as
bus workers strike work
CM holds emergency meet
NT Bureau
Chennai, Dec 28:
A day ahead of their scheduled
agitation, several employees of
Tamilnadu State Transport Corporations struck work today pressing for
various demands, including hike in
salary and bonus.
Police personnel were deployed in
all bus depots across the city. Meanwhile, Tamilnadu Chief Minister O Paneerselvam convened an emergency
meeting to take stock of the situation.
Earlier, on 22 December, transport
employees announced that they
would go on strike from 29 December.
Meanwhile, talks held between
Transport Trade Unions and Tamilnadu Labour Welfare Board (TNLWB), regarding withdrawal of strike
ended in a stalemate.
The meeting was chaired by Special Deputy Commissioner, TNLWB,
Yasbeen Begum and attended by
ofﬁcials of Chennai City Transport
Corporation and Salem Transport
Corporation. Various trade unions
RUSA at
slow pace
New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI):
The Rashtriya Ucchatar Shiksha
Abhiyan (RUSA), which seeks to
improve overall quality of higher education in the country, is progressing
at a very slow pace and still ‘way of
the mark’ in infrastructure
augmentation, creation of universities and faculty recruitment support.
As against the plan of creating
45 varsities by upgrading existing
autonomous colleges during the
12th Plan, only one could see the
light. Similarly, only ﬁve universities
have been created by conversion of
colleges in a cluster as against the
target of 35.
Though the mission is just over a
year old with the mandate of fulﬁlling the target by 2017, the progress
achieved so far is still ‘way of the
mark’, admitted ofﬁcials in the HRD
Ministry.
Recently, in a written reply to the
Lok Sabha, HRD Minister Smriti Irani
said while RUSA provides faculty
recruitment support for 5,000 positions, the target achieved so far has
been only 156.
Workers belonging to various trade unions of State Transport
Corporation protesting in front of T Nagar Bus depot.
like Anna Thozhir Sangam, CITU,
AITUC, PMS, MLF, AALF attended
the meet.
In some parts of Chennai, trade
unions of opposition parties com-
menced their strike today itself.
Being a holiday, those visiting
various places with their families
were worst hit. Several roads wore
a deserted look.
CBI to ﬁle case against
Dera chief tomorrow
New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI):
CBI is likely to register a case
against Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
of Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda
tomorrow in connection with the alleged forced castration of his followers inside his Dera.
CBI sources said the FIR was to be
registered yesterday but could not
be done because of some technical
issues and is likely to be registered tomorrow. They said the agency move
is the result of a Punjab and Haryana
High Court order directing it to take
action against the Dera chief, who is
soon going to make his movie debut
with ‘Messenger of God’.
A former Dera follower, Hansraj
Chauhan, had approached the
High Court alleging that he, along
with around 400 saints of the Dera,
was castrated inside the ashram on
the orders of Gurmeet Ram Rahim
Singh.
Seeking a CBI probe, Chauhan
has claimed before the bench that
castration process of Dera followers
is being done by the chief through
doctors employed in his hospital.
Chauhan had said in the petition
that they were assured that those
who would get castrated will be
able to meet the God through the
Dera head.
Justice K Kannan of the High
Court passed the order on the petition ordering a CBI inquiry into the
incident. Taking cognizance of the
petition, the HC had earlier ordered
medical examination of petitioner
Chauhan from the government
multi-speciality hospital which found
that he has been castrated.
Besides, in a report submitted
before the High Court, the State
government said that it has recorded
the statements of seven persons,
associated with the Dera head, and
all of them have conﬁrmed that they
have been castrated, Singh said.
The Dera chief, who is going to hit
the big screen next month with his
ﬁlm ‘Messenger of God (MSG)’, has
already courted controversy with Sikh
organisations, including Akal Takht,
seeking a ban on it.
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TOMORROW IN SABHAS
Vocalist Gayathri Girish performing at the December Art Festival in Sivagami Pethachi Auditorium organised by Brahma Gana Sabha
in Chennai recently. (Right) Vocalist Varaki Vijayaraj performing at the annual music festival of Tiruvarur Tala Vadya Vidyalaya Trust
in Chennai recently.
Photo: B ANAND
What’s special
in Sabhas?
Seeking solace in songs
(Vyasaraya)
KN
D
EN
Also called Vyasaraja or Vyasaraya or Vyasacharya, he
was
acclaimed as one on the three spiritual lights
THE LEG of Vedanta. He was a scholar of very
W
O
high order with a judicious defence of
the Dvaita Vedanta against all rival
schools of thought. Vyasatirtha was a
multi-faceted personality. It was under
his guidance that Carnatic music
revolution started in south-ern India.
He also brought the Haridasa religion,
historically be-lieved to be propagated by Sri
Narahari
Tirtha, into limelight. He belonged to the Dvaita
school of Madhvacharya. Vyasatirtha’s genius lay in his clear
understanding and exposition of all his opposing schools of
thought, for which even his Vyasaraya opponents admired him.
His noted debate was with Basava Bhatta of Kalinga which was
won comprehensively after a thirty day -debate. It was during
the time of Krishnadevaraya that Vyasatirtha saw the peak of
his inﬂuence over the empire. Vyasatirtha was the Rajguru of
Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara empire. It was under his
tutelage that the great king took the empire to its zenith. The
king’s admiration for the saint was so high that he regarded
Vyasatirtha as his Kuladevata or family God, as evidenced
by many writings attributed to the great king. It was under his
guidance that Carnatic music revolution started in southern
India. Both Purandaradasa, the father of Carnatic music, and
Kanakadasa were his students. Krishna Nee Begane Baaro is
one of his famous Kannada compositions. He also composed
the Prameya shloka which brings out the nine fundamental
tenets of Dvaita philosophy in a single shloka.
Sabhas in Chennaiy have
received a thundering response from rasikas. The
younger lots have joined the
seniors and making a beeline
to watch concerts.
Vocalists such as Malladi
brothers, O S Thiagarajan,
Sikkil C Gurucharan will perform at Mudhra Fine Arts
festival happening at Infosys
Hall, Bazullah Road, T Nagar. Harikatha by Dhusyanth Sridhar, rendering of
pancharatina kritis, Y Gee
Mahendra’s skit, thematic
dance presentation will also
be held this week.
At Sri Krishna Gana Sabha
in Maharajapuram Santhanam Salai, a range of concerts including Kuchipudi,
Kathak,Bharatanatyam, violin
duet, lectures, Oddisi, ﬂute,
Saxophone, Veena, discourses by eminent musi-
cians and scholars will be
held. Renowned musician K J
Yesudas will stage a concert
on 30 December at 6.30 pm
in Bharat Kalachar, YGP
Auditorium, Thirumalai Road.
Also seasoned vocalists
O S Arun, Mala Ramadurai
(Hindustani Vocal), Aswath
Narayanan, Bombay Sisters,
S Mahati, M Narmada (violin)
will entertain the rasikas in
this season.
At Thyagara Brahma Gana
Sabha, rasikas can listen to
music from seasoned musicians such as S Saketharaman, Trichur brothers, Kadri
Simbu sings
for Prashanth
P
opular actor Simbu has sung a song
Desi Desi Girl in the action-comedy
ﬂick Saahasam, a remake of Telugu hit
Julayi.
Actor Prashanth is playing the lead
role in the movie, produced by his father
actor-director Thiagarajan. The movie is
directed by debutante Arun Raj Varma.
Desi Desi Girl is penned by Karki
Vairamuthu. The movie would see
Prashanth and Bollywood actress Nargis
Fakhri dancing to the tunes, a press
release said.
Fakhri is making her debut in Tamil ﬁlm
industry through this song.
The female version of Desi Desi Girl is
sung by another actress Lakshmi Menon.
S Thaman has scored the music for the
movie.
—NT Bureau
Thaman, Prashanth and Simbu
Samantha
opposite
Dhanush
S
amantha is the latest addition to
Dhanush’s next ﬁlm with Velraj.
The actress will join the team next
year and will start ﬁlming from February 2015.
The movie already has Amy Jackson
as Dhanush’s love interest. Velraj has
written the script and will also direct
the ﬂ ick while Anirudh Ravichander
composes music.
Samantha is currently shooting for
the climax portions of 10 Enradhukulla.
— NT Bureau
Gopalnath (saxophone),
Gayathri Venkataragavan,
O S Arun in the days to come.
Seasoned dramatists like S
Ve Shekar, Crazy Mohan
and TV Varadarajan will also
stage their plays in the coming week.
The ongoing Chennai Cultural Academy’s music festival at Rama Rao Kalyana
Mandapam, Habibullah Road
will see a combination of vocal, instrumental and Bharatanatyam concerts of seasoned artistes like Madurai
T N Seshagopalan, Madurai
R Muralidharan will perform
during this week.
Andal Ramanthan, an NRI
and ardent music lover, says,
‘I take breaks during the
music season, to enjoy the
music thoroughly. This year
programmes are aplenty and
spoilt with options’.
MUDHRA INFOSYS HALL, T Nagar
O S Thiagarajan (Vocal), Embar Kannan (Violin), Mannargudi A Easwaran (Mridangam),
Udupi Sridhar (Ghatam), 6.15 pm
THE MYLAPORE FINE ARTS CLUB, Musiri Subramaniam Road, Mylapore
Subha Ganesan, V V Srinivasa Rao, B Sivaraman, 9.30 am
G Abhilash, Kamala Kiran, V S Raghavan, 12 pm
Arvind Sridhar, Tirucherai Karthik, Krithivasan, 1.30 pm
V Sankaranarayanan, B U Ganeshprasad, Neyveli Skandasubramaniam,
G Chandrasekara Sharma, 4 pm
Sambo Mahadeva, Visaka Hari (Sangeetha Upanyasam), B Ananthakrishnan (Violin), S
J Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), Sukanya Ramgopal (Ghatam and Konnekol)
RUKMINI ARANGAM, Kalakshetra
Kalakshetra Foundation (Sabari Moksham), 6 pm
SRI THYAGA BRAHMA GANA SABHA VANI MAHAL, T Nagar
Madav Iyengar (Vocal), Vignesh Thyagarajan (Violin), L Subramaniam (Mridangam), 1 pm
R Kashyapmahesh (Vocal), T V Sukanya (Violin), Akshay Ram (Mridangam), 2.15 pm
A Narayanan (Vocal), C N Srinivasamurthy (Violin), Aswin Sridhar (Mridangam), G Ravichandran (Ghatam), 4 pm
Srikrishna Mohan and Ramkumar Mohan (Vocal), M A Sundareswaran (Violin), Trichur
Mohan (Mridangam), D V Venkatasubramaniam (Ghatam), 6.30 pm
SRI KRISHNA GANA SABHA DR NALLI GANA VIHAR, T Nagar
Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar (Maha Bhaktha Vijayam), 7 am
Shobha Korambil (Kutchipudi), 1.30 pm
Neyveli Santhanagopalan, H K Venkatram, K Arun Prakash, B S Purushothaman, 4 pm
Padma Subrahmanyam’s troupe (Bharathanatyam), 7 pm
SRI PARTHASARATHY SWAMI SABHA VIDYA BHARATHI, Mylapore
K Gayatri, Charulatha Ramanujam, Poongulam Subramaniam, K V Gopalakrishnan, 10 am
Hariharan Ravi, Kamal Kiran, Akshay Venkatesh, 12.30 pm
D B Ashvin, M Rajeev, R Ramkumar, Nanda Masti, 2 pm
Papanasam Ashok Ramani, Mysore Nagaraj, Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan,
Trichy Krishnaswamy, 4 pm
S Sowmya, Parur M S Ananthakrishnan, Poongulam Subramaniam, Chandrasekara
Sharma, 6.30 pm
Sangeetha Swarangal
Mambalam Sisters (Vocal), 5 - 6 pm on Vasanth TV
Na Muthukumar
reigns supreme
Y
et again, lyricist Na Muthukuamar has topped the list. This
year too he has emerged the lyricist,
who penned most number of songs.
In 35 ﬁlms, he has written over 100
songs. A record that he been maintaining for the past few years. It may
be recalled that Na Muthukumar
was recently awarded a doctorate
by the International Tamil University
in the United States for his contribution to Tamil literature and ﬁlms.
He already holds a doctorate degree from the Madras University.
This was awarded to him in 2006 for
his research on Tamil songs.
—NT Bureau
Na Muthukuamar
Actors Vishal, Arya, Sathish, Vaibhav, director S A Chandrasekar
and actresses Kushboo and Hansika at the audio launch of
Ambala
‘Ambala will be
released for Pongal’
V
ishal-Hansika-starrer Ambala
will be released this Pongal. It
is a ﬁlm that will entertain families,
says producer-actress Kushboo.
Ambala is produced by Kusbhoo’s Avni Films in association
with Vishal Film Factory. Directed
by Sundar C, it has music by Hip
Hop Thamizha.
The audio was launched in a gala
manner in Chennai on Saturday.
The ﬁrst copy was released by director Suseenthiran and producer
Anbu Chezhiyan. It was received
by ﬁlmmaker S A Chandrasekar
and actor Arya.
Speaking on the occasion, Kush-
boo, said, ‘My husband (Sundar C)
and Vishal share a good rapport.
Both of them work hard. We are
planning for a release this Pongal’.
On his part, Vishal, said, ‘It is a
holiday family entertainer. Sundar
C completed the movie in quick
time. The quality is amazing’.
All the speakers at the event
heaped laurels on Hip Hop
Thamizha for catchy tunes.
Those who took part in the audio
launch include actress Hansika,
producers T Shiva, Subash Chandra Bose, directors Selvamani,
Mansoor Ali Khan among others.
—NT Bureau
Ode to friendship
T
he audio of the ﬁlm Ore Oru Mokkai Raja was released
at a function held in Chennai on Saturday. The ﬁrst copy
was released by noted playback singer Chitra.
Directed by newcomer Santosh Gopal, the movie has
Sanjeev Murali and Sriraksha play the lead roles. Veteran
actor Ranjith and Sagar are also in the cast’.
Produced by Devikala Films, the movie is about an innocent youngster in a village who wants to have friendship
with a local dadha. It lands him in trouble. The movie has
music by Suman Pichu and camera by Ayyappan.
Speakers at the event lauded the songs and expressed
conﬁdence that the humourous entertainer will make it big.
— NT Bureau
Playback singer Chitra, director Santhosh
Gopal and music director Suman Pichu at
the audio launch of Ore Oru Mokkai Raja
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