ஹஜ் யாத்திரை முதல் குழு பயணம்

Added : ஜூலை 15, 2018 03:54

புதுடில்லி:ஹஜ் யாத்திரை செல்லும் முதல் குழு, டில்லி விமான நிலையத்தில் இருந்து, நேற்று புறப்பட்டது. மத்திய சிறுபான்மை நலத்துறை அமைச்சர், முக்தர் அப்பாஸ் நக்வி, கொடி அசைத்து, பயணத்தை துவங்கி வைத்தார்.
இஸ்லாமியர்களின் புனிதப் பயணமான ஹஜ் யாத்திரைக்கு, மத்திய அரசு ஆண்டு தோறும், ஏற்பாடு செய்து வருகிறது. இந்த ஆண்டுக்கான யாத்திரை நேற்று துவங்கியது.டில்லி விமான நிலையத்தில் இருந்து, 1,200 பயணியர் அடங்கிய முதல் குழு, மூன்று விமானங்களில், வளைகுடா நாடான, சவுதி அரேபியாவுக்கு புறப்பட்டது. இந்த யாத்திரையை, மத்திய சிறுபான்மை நலத்துறை அமைச்சர், முக்தர் அப்பாஸ் நக்வி, கொடி அசைத்து துவங்கி வைத்தார்.

மேலும், பீஹாரில் இருந்து, 450 பேர், அசாமில் இருந்து, 269 பேர், உ.பி.,யில் இருந்து, 900 பேர், ஜம்மு - காஷ்மீரில் இருந்து, 1,020 பேர், நேற்று ஹஜ் யாத்திரை புறப்பட்டனர்.இது குறித்து, மத்திய சிறுபான்மை நலத்துறை அமைச்சர் முக்தர் அப்பாஸ் நக்வி, செய்தியாளர்களிடம் கூறியதாவது:
இந்திய ஹஜ் கமிட்டி மற்றும் சவுதி அரேபிய துாதரகத்தின் ஒத்துழைப்புடன், இந்த ஆண்டுக்கான ஹஜ் யாத்திரை, சிறப்பாக ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்டு உள்ளது.நாடு சுதந்திரம் அடைந்த பின், முதல் முறையாக, இந்த ஆண்டு தான், 1.75 லட்சம் பேர், ஹஜ் பயணம் செல்கின்றனர். இதில், 47 சதவீதத்துக்கும் அதிகமான பெண்கள் உள்ளனர்; 1,300 பெண்கள், ஆண் துணையின்றி தனியாக செல்கின்றனர்.இவ்வாறு அவர் கூறினார்.

Medical student kills himself

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

CHENNAI, JULY 15, 2018 00:00 IST

A native of Krishnagiri, he is said to have suffered from depression

A third-year student of medicine committed suicide at a house in Nerkundram due to depression caused by the absence of his mother with whom he was very attached.

The police said the victim, Thirumal, a native of Krishnagiri, was good at studies and scored high marks in his Plus Two examinations.

He was pursuing medicine at the Government Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital.

He and his mother were staying in a rented house in Nerkundram for the past one year. Thirumal was suffering from depression as his parents were separated. He was more attached to his mother.

A few days ago, his mother went to Krishnagiri, but he could not bear her absence and cut his vein, according to the police.

One of his friends who noticed it, immediately rushed him to Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital for treatment.

Two days later, he had a long conversation with his mother over phone. He called his friends too who were taking care of him. But before they reached his house, he hanged himself from the ceiling fan. The police had recovered a suicide note from the house.

Assistance for overcoming suicidal thoughts is available on the State’s health helpline 104 and Sneha’s suicide prevention helpline 044-24640050.

Sharif complains no bed or AC in jail, meets lawyers

Omer Farooq Khan TNN

Islamabad:  TOI  15.07.2018

Deposed Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif was not allotted an ‘A’ class category cell in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Central Jail, while his daughter Maryam Nawaz was kept in the women’s barrack of the same prison, a day after the duo was arrested upon their arrival in Pakistan to face detention in a corruption case.


On July 6, Pakistan’s anticorruption court had sentenced Sharif to 10 years and Maryam to seven years in prison, stating that they had failed to disclose how their family had bought four luxury apartments in London. Maryam’s husband Muhammad Safdar was also sentenced to one-year imprisonment.

The case, known as the Avenfield Reference, was one of the three corruption cases filed against Sharif and his children by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Pakistan’s anticorruption watchdog, on the Supreme Court’s orders in the Panama Papers case verdict that had disqualified the former PM from office on July 28 last year.

On Saturday, Sharif met with his legal team in the prison, and the meeting, according to sources, lasted for few minutes in the presence of the jail superintendent.

During the meeting with his lawyers, sources confided, Nawaz complained about the lack of facilities in the ‘B’ class category room where he has been kept. According to media reports, Sharif stated that there was only a mattress and a fan in the room. Nawaz complained that there was no bed, air-conditioning and the washroom was unclean and in a despicable condition.

Maryam, however, claimed that she declined better facilities at Adiala Jail. A letter posted on social media stated that Maryam had been asked to submit an application to the jail superintendent for better facilities but she turned it down.

Following Sharif and his daughter’s arrest, the government issued a notification, stating that due to security reasons hearing of the two remaining corruption references — Al Azizia Steel Mills/Hill Metal Establishment in Jeddah and offshore companies, including Flagship Investment Ltd and 15 other companies, will be held in Adiala Jail where Sharif and Maryum have been incarcerated.

Meanwhile, around 1500 PML-N workers and leaders, including Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Shahbaz Sharif, were booked on Saturday under terrorism and other charges for taking out a rally in Lahore in support of Sharif. More than 50 people, including 20 policemen, were injured during clashes in the PML-N rally on Friday. They have been booked for violating the law, attacking policemen and rangers, causing damage to the public property and hurling abuses at judiciary and military.



TOUGH TIMES: Nawaz Sharif

ATTENTION DEFICIT

Your smartphone is killing your ability to focus at work
The cognitive cost of smartphones is higher for people who have a heavy dependence on their handsets

businessinsider.in  15.07.2018

You read it right. Your phone is probably hurting your ability to focus at work, according to new research. A recent study published in the journal The Consumer in a Connected World, and described in The Harvard Business Review, concluded that having your phone nearby — even if it’s not buzzing or ringing, and even if the power is off — can hurt your performance.

The creepiest part is that you may not even realise just how distracting your phone can be. For the study, the researchers asked hundreds of people to work on two different cognitive tasks. Sometimes people were asked to leave their phones on the desk; sometimes in their pocket or bag; sometimes in another room. In all cases, sounds and vibrations were turned off.

Interestingly, when the researchers asked participants whether the location of their phone had affected their performance, most said it hadn’t. That suggests the phones are influencing our behaviour in ways we might not even be consciously aware of.

The researchers found that certain people were more susceptible to their phone’s negative influence. Participants who agreed with statements like, ‘I would have trouble getting through a normal day without my cellphone’ were strongly affected. Bottom line: Consider planning to keep your phone in another room while you are working. You can also consider designating some phone-free time blocks to improve your concentration.

The research builds on a similar study, published 2015 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. That study found hearing your phone buzz, even if you don’t interact with it, can hurt your performance on cognitive tasks.

Trichy to get Wi-Fi hotspots as a part of smart city plan

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Trichy:15.07.2018

The Trichy Corporation will launch public Wi-Fi hotspots across the city as part of the ‘Smart City’ programme to bridge the digital divide and to encourage residents in using information and communication technology (ICT) enabled services, including digital grievance redressal platforms. The civic body is now undertaking preliminary studies to identify suitable hotspots covering all 65 wards.

Addressing an interactive session with various residents welfare associations (RWAs) on Saturday, corporation commissioner N Ravichandran said, “Soon, the entire city will be covered under Wi-Fi hotspots through which people can utilise internet services free of cost for the first 30 minutes. After the free usage, user will be charged.”

The Wi-Fi service will be established as a part of smart city mission to encourage residents to connect with the civic body for registering complaints as well as to serve as an amenity for tourists visiting the city.

“There will a smart pole in which a LED light, Wi-Fi router and a CCTV will come as a set. The routers will be placed in such a manner that the entire city would get public internet service,” the commissioner told TOI.

Representatives of RWAs were told about the zero wet waste initiative of the civic body aimed at encouraging residents to recycle biodegradable waste either as biofertilizer or biogas.

The initiative would reward residents with ₹1,000 worth gift voucher from a private textile unit here if the house was found recycling wet waste by self instead of handing over them to corporation.

“We have planned to host an exhibition showcasing the possible methods to recycle the domestic waste and produce energy from them. It will help residents and bulk waste generators to identify suitable and affordable model for recycling the waste,” the commissioner added.

AIADMK likely to confront BJP in Parl on dam, UGC bill
EPS Government Feels Heat Of Poor Finances

Julie.Mariappan@timesgroup.com

Chennai: 15.07.2018

As the monsoon session of Parliament is scheduled to meet on Wednesday, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam have convened a meeting of the AIADMK MPs and senior functionaries on Monday to decide the party’s strategy during the month-long session. The meeting gains significance as it comes close on the heels of the AIADMK adopting a confrontationist stand with the Centre on a range of issues.

Palaniswami on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that the proposed move to scrap the UGC, vested with regulatory and financial powers, be dropped. The state has strong reservations over the draft bill on setting up the Higher Education Commission of India, because it lacks financial powers. “Our experience of sanction of funds objectively based on merits to Tamil Nadu has not been very positive by various ministries of government of India. Further, if this financial power is taken over by ministry, we apprehend that the funding pattern would change from 100% funding to 60:40 ratio between the Centre and state,” the CM said. His government had earlier objected to the Dam Safety Bill, 2018. TN assembly also passed a unanimous resolution against the Dam Safety Bill.

The 17-month-old EPS regime has been feeling the heat of poor finances and Centre’s ‘indifference.’ Partly, it has to blame itself. Devolution of funds to local bodies is not happening as there is no elected body in the state. Both the CM and his deputy have not been able to get an appointment with the PM for one-on-one meetings since October, last year. Rampant corruption in the state administration has become a talking point.

BJP national president Amit Shah’s recent remarks that TN was one of the most corrupt states is widely perceived as criticism of the AIADMK government. Whether the translator got it wrong or not, LS deputy speaker M Thambidurai on Saturday hit back. “There is no place for national parties, including the BJP, in Tamil Nadu,” he said.

On Friday, Thambidurai had taken a dig at Shah for addressing the party meet in Hindi, instead of his mother tongue, Gujarati. “And they seem to promise protection of Tamil language and culture. Is it possible,” he asked.

He said Tamils would come together and fight against the “forces” that impose policies like one language, one country, one election and one tax. Against this backdrop, the BJP may need the AIADMK support for the RS deputy chairman election. BJP RS MP L Ganesan said Amit Shah did not comment on any political party or government. “We (BJP) want to give corruption-free government and that is what he meant,” he said.



POLITICAL CALCULATIONS

AICTE plans common nat’l engg entrance

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Coimbatore: 15.07.2018

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has been focusing on making students set up their own businesses, rather than leaving them as job seekers, said AICTE advisor Dileep Malkhede here on Saturday. He added that the council had discussed the idea of having a centralised entrance examination for undergraduate engineering courses in the country.

“We had put forward the idea of a common entrance exam for engineering courses as several universities are having their own entrance exams and students have to prepare for them separately,” Malkhede said. However, there is progress in this regard so far he said, speaking on the sidelines of convocation at Kumaraguru College of Technology.

To a question about graduates’ difficulty in finding jobs, he said, “We have been promoting incubation centres and other initiatives to promote entrepreneurship. AICTE has also started courses on entrepreneurship, which has been adopted by universities.”