Chennai : Thief leaves half Rs 10.75 lakh loot on railway platform

DECCAN CHRONICLE.

PublishedNov 3, 2017, 1:24 am IST

Egmore Railway Police have secured the abandoned cash and began enquiries into the identity of the man who escaped with the cash.

Chennai: A businessman from Salem was robbed of his suitcase with Rs 10.75 lakh cash in it while traveling in the Salem-Chennai Express train on Thursday. This is the same train in which unidentified robbers drilled a hole through the roof and decamped with Rs 5.75 crore belonging to the RBI last year. While the businessman's suitcase was found abandoned on the Tambaram railway station platform, the joy was shortlived as the person who fled with the suitcase escaped with Rs 5 lakh and left the remaining cash.

M Ravikumar of Thadakapatty in Salem was travelling in the first AC compartment of the train, which departed from Salem at 11 pm on Wednesday. He was carrying two suitcases, one with cash and the other with his personal belongings. Ravikumar woke up when the train was in Kodambakkam and was preparing to get down at Egmore when he noticed that his suitcase was missing. On getting down at Egmore, he approached the station manager and filed a complaint with the Government Railway Police.

Since the train's previous stop was Tambaram, Railway police alerted the police there and checked the CCTV footage to find a man alighting from the first AC compartment with Ravikumar's suitcase. "The man looked like a destitute and was carrying a cloth bag around his shoulder", a police officer said. A few minutes later, the man abandoned the suitcase under one of the benches on railway platform-5 and escaped. Ravikumar and a police team rushed to Tambaram and after scanning the suitcase for explosives, it was opened to find Rs.5 lakh was missing from it. Egmore Railway Police have secured the abandoned cash and began enquiries into the identity of the man who escaped with the cash. "The passenger told us that he was loitering outside the first class AC compartment until midnight seeking alms from passengers," a police official said. Further investigations are on.

Woman in China shocked to find that a tooth growing inside her nose

DECCAN CHRONICLE

PublishedNov 2, 2017, 6:20 pm IST

She had been suffering constant nosebleeds for decades and thought it was due to inflammation.

At first doctors thought of the circular object in the scan as a stone (Photo: YouTube)

Several people have long term health issues which they tend to take lightly without considering the grave possibilities behind them. These seemingly minor problems may at times turn out to be shocking conditions which a person can’t possibly imagine.

A bleeding nose can mean many things but what it revealed in a case from China is the last thing anyone can think of. A woman believed that an inflammation of the nose membrane was the cause for the constant nosebleeds that she suffered for decades.

But she was shocked when a scan revealed that she had a tooth growing in her nasal cavity. Even the doctors first suspected the circular object in her nose to be a stone when they saw it.

When they peeled layer after layer of the nasal cavity during surgery, the doctors found out that it was a fully grown tooth with a root and a crown. They pulled the tooth out and since then the woman identified as Xia has been feeling much better.

The condition is known as supernumerary teeth which causes extra teeth to grow randomly in any part of the face.

Polytechnic student 'seeks alms' to pay for  transfer certificate in Coimbatore

By PTI  |   Published: 02nd November 2017 09:57 PM  |  

Last Updated: 02nd November 2017 10:07 PM  

COIMBATORE: A polytechnic student chose to 'seek alms' in front of the District Collectorate here today to mobilise Rs 70,000 to obtain the transfer certificate, as allegedly sought by the institution.

"Give me alms to pay to a private college, which is seeking huge amount of money for a certificate" read a placard carried by Ashok, as he stood in front of the Collectorate.

Speaking to reporters, Ashok said he had applied for the TC to pursue higher education, but that the college had demanded Rs 70,000. This amount could be more than the government prescribed fee, the student said.

Stating that he had already lodged complaints about the college with the officials concerned, Ashok said he had also met office-bearers of Adi Dravidar Welfare Association on the issue, but that no action was taken.Ashok said if there was delay in issue of the TC he would not be able to apply for another course and hence had chosen this novel protest of seeking alms from the public.

He was later was taken into custody by police for questioning.

Jayalalithaa death: DMK member urges probe panel to summon former TN governor, CM, doctors and others

Siddharth Prabhakar| TNN | Updated: Nov 2, 2017, 14:28 IST

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The DMK member has stated that the press bulletins issued by Apollo Hospitals were contradictory to the treatment summary.

The petitioner has raised questions about the thumb impression affixed by Jayalalithaa to allot the two leaves symbol in favour of AIADMK candidates in byelections.

He has taken exception to the statement issued by the former governor that the condition of Jayalalithaa was “progressing well.”

CHENNAI: DMK candidate in the November 19, 2016 Thiruparankundram assembly byelection P Saravanan has petitioned the Justice A Arumughaswamyprobing the death of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa to summon former governor C Vidyasagar Rao, chief minister Edappadi K Palanisami, deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam, health secretary J Radhakrishnan, jailed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala and all doctors who treated her in Apollo Hospitals for an inquiry.

Saravanan, a doctor, stated that the press bulletins issued by Apollo Hospitals when Jayalalithaa was hospitalised were contradictory to the treatment summary issued by the hospital later.

In his petition, Saravanan has also raised questions about the thumb impression affixed by Jayalalithaa to allot the two leaves symbol in favour of AIADMK candidates in the assembly byelections as she was in an unconscious state of mind.

He has also taken exception to the statement issued by Rao -- after visiting Apollo Hospitals on October 22, 2016 -- that the condition of Jayalalithaa was "progressing well."

Jayalalithaa died on December 5, 2016 after undergoing treatment in Apollo Hospitals for over 70 days.

Officials downplay waterlogging as city takes pounding

TNN | Nov 3, 2017, 00:02 IST

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Chennai: Downplaying the effects of the heavy downpours across the city was top of the agenda for corporation officials during the northeast monsoon review meeting at the Ripon Buildings complex on Thursday.

The irony was that officials were sitting inside an air-conditioned hall claiming to have solved waterlogging issues while being completely oblivious to the pounding the city was going through outside. Over 10 cm rainfall was recorded on Thursday night, inundating the Ripon Buildings premises too. But the commissioner and special officer D Karthikeyan suggested that the situation would be back to normal by morning.

Minister S P Velumani clarified his comments from two days ago, when he equated the corporation's handling of the crisis to cities in the US and UK. "When US cities flooded recently, we saw how they struggled to solve it. We are handling our city's problem the best way we can," he said.

"In areas like SIDCO Nagar in Villivakkam, localities are secure because of the storm drains we constructed," Karthikeyan said, in response to a TOI story on Thursday highlighting how SIDCO Nagar was no better than it was during the 2015 floods.

"There will be no water in SIDCO Nagar in the morning," he added, before driving away in knee deep water that had engulfed the Ripon Buildings complex.

Government dithers, then shuts schools as Chennai braces for more rain

TNN | Nov 3, 2017, 06:33 IST



CHENNAI: After taking a battering from just four days of rainfall from Monday and left bracing for more, the city on Thursday had little assurance coming its way from the government, which has for the best part since the onset of the northeast monsoon on October 27 made inaccurate claims about its rain preparedness and dithered or made hasty decisions on issues such as declaring schools closed.

Vague weather forecasts from the Met office, to be fair, have not helped the government. A lack of clarity on how heavy the rain would be the next day left the authorities in a cleft stick for more than 12 hours on Thursday -indicating in the after noon that schools would stay open on Friday , only to declare a holiday after heavy evening showers.

Schools in Chennai, which have already lost precious time, will be shut for a fourth successive day on Friday despite the fact that rainfall on Tuesday (4.1cm) and Wednesday (4cm) was not nearly heavy enough to warrant a government-ordered closure in a knee-jerk reaction to Monday's 11.6cm of rainfall. With independent weather forecas ters, who have mostly got it right, predicting rain in the city over the next three to four days, schools remained uncertain about when they could get back to routine.

Meanwhile, torrential rains inundated many parts of Tirunelveli and wreaked havoc in other districts along the state's coastline. The Met office predicted rain across most southern districts for the next few days.

Sasikala’s husband Natarajan discharged from Chennai hospital after dual organ transplant

Pushpa Narayan| TNN | Nov 2, 2017, 17:25 IST



CHENNAI: AIADMK leader V K Sasikala's husband M Natarajan, who underwent a dual organ transplant in Gleneagles Global Health City in Chennai, was discharged on Wednesday, doctors said.

The 74-year-old chronic liver disease patient underwent a seven-and-a-half hour kidney and liver transplant surgery, which began on the night of October 3. Natarajan got organs from 19-year-old Karthik N, who was declared brain dead after a road accident in Pudukottai district.

After the transplant surgery, Natarajan had been in the intensive care unit for nearly two weeks.

Doctors did a tracheotomy - a surgical incision in the airway - to connect him to the ventilator.

"He recovered well. Two weeks ago, we moved him to the ward. He was doing well without the ventilator and was breathing normally in the ward. We discharged him on Wednesday and advised him to come for follow-ups," said Dr K Ilankumaran, director, Institute of Liver Diseases and Transplantation at Gleneagles Global Health City.

Sasikala visited him in the hospital in October, after getting a five-day parole from jail.