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HC dismisses doctor’s plea

STAFF REPORTER

MADURAI, SEPTEMBER 07, 2018 00:00 IST


The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday dismissed a plea of a doctor who sought a direction for the return of his documents entrusted to an eye hospital, with which he had executed a bond agreeing to serve it for two years.

The petitioner J. Praveen who completed his MBBS degree in 2011 applied for his postgraduation in MS (Ophthalmology). As per an allotment by the Director of Medical Education, he secured a seat at the Arvind Eye Hospital, Madurai.

The petitioner submitted eight original certificates at the time of admission and executed the bond that he would serve the institution for two years after the completion of the three-year postgraduation. He also agreed to pay Rs. 20 lakh in case of default of the agreement.

However, after completion of the course, the petitioner aspired to work in the government sector and requested the eye hospital to return the original certificates. The request was denied citing the agreement.

Taking up the plea for hearing, Justice V. Parthiban observed the petitioner wanted to have the cake and eat it too, wanting the best of both worlds.

It said the petitioner was bound to serve the hospital for two years or make good the quantified damage as per the agreement.

Family fight breaks out over Krishna Sweets

Legal Correspondent

CHENNAI, SEPTEMBER 07, 2018 00:00 IST



High Court grants interim stay for two weeks and orders issuance of notices to the IPAB and Mr. Murali. 

It gets embroiled in a legal dispute over trademark between the two sons of the firm’s founder N.K. Mahadeva Iyer

In a not so sweet news, the famous Sri Krishna Sweets, known for its mouthwatering Mysurpa, has got embroiled into a legal battle over its trademarks. What’s more is that the dispute is between M. Krishnan and M. Murali, the two sons of the firm’s founder N.K. Mahadeva Iyer.

The Madras High Court on Thursday entertained a batch of three writ petitions filed by Sri Krishna Sweets, represented by its Managing Director Mr. Krishnan, and stayed the operation of an order obtained by Mr. Murali from the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (PAB) on May 21. A Division Bench of Justices R. Subbiah and R. Pongiappan granted the interim stay for a period of two weeks and ordered issuance of notices to the IPAB as well as Mr. Murali. They also stayed all further proceedings initiated by the latter before the IPAB after the May 21 order.

In his affidavit, Mr. Krishnan, 64, stated to have started Sri Krishna Sweets Private Limited as a partnership firm in 1979. “I took lot of efforts and care for promoting the name of the business by giving due importance and emphasis for the name Krishna and coined the words Sri Krishna Sweets in such a way that it has a special appeal,” he said.

Claiming to have got three trademarks registered, he said the company was originally promoted by his wife and him. Mr. Murali was inducted as director only on March 23, 2002 and held the post till his resignation on August 27, 2010. It was further claimed that the younger brother was permitted to do use the trade marks in select territories. As per the leave granted by the writ petitioner, Mr. Murali opened branches of the sweet shop in Chennai, Puducherry, Tiruvannamalai, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur. “I wrote a letter to the fourth respondent (younger brother) on September 30, 2015 requesting him to regularise the permission arrangement for which he did not cooperate.

“The petitioner also sent a letter on October 30, 2015 to the fourth respondent revoking the permission granted in favour of him in view of his failure to cooperate with the petitioner in regularising the permission granted to him. This resulted in a suit being filed by the petitioner before Additional District Judge, Coimbatore in 2016,” the petitioner said.

The main prayer in the suit was to restrain the younger brother from infringing the trademarks. Though the petitioner had also sought for an interim relief to restrain Mr. Murali from using the word ‘Krishna,’ the interlocutory application was dismissed by the district court on June 5, 2017. Further, the High Court too dismissed appeals preferred by the writ petitioner against the lower court’s refusal to grant interim relief. However, a direction was issued to the district court to complete the trial within a year and when the suit was ripe for trial, Mr. Murali filed petitions before the IPAB to get the petitioner’s trademark registrations cancelled.

There was a legal hitch before the IPAB, hence the younger brother’s counsel urged the Board to treat the petitions as abandoned with liberty to file fresh applications. The IPAB granted the liberty on May 21 and it was that order which was under challenge at present before the High Court.

Mr. Krishnan contended that the IPAB becomes functus officio after treating a petition as abandoned and it does not have any authority under law to grant liberty for filing a fresh application. Grant of such liberty had made Mr. Murali to file fresh applications challenging the writ petitioner’s trademarks, he said.

Jet’s senior staff to get salary in 2 instalments

New Delhi: times 07.09.2018

Cash-strapped Jet Airways will pay its senior employees, pilots and aircraft engineers salary in two instalments for the next three months. The airline’s chief people’s officer Rahul Taneja sent a mail to employees on Thursday evening, saying “disbursal of salary for GMs and above, cockpit crew (pilots) and AMEs (aircraft maintenance engineers) will be postponed for the month of August 2018, and shall be disbursed in 2 instalments — 50% by September 11 and balance 50% by September

26. For the months of September and October 2018, the same disbursement schedule will be followed.” Jet’s employee remuneration cost was ₹2,995 crore in 2017-18.

“We have recently sent a mail expressing our alarm at the unnecessary increase in expenditure …. pilots are being forced to bear the brunt of this financial mismanagement…,” NAG said in a letter. TNN

Uber may block passengers whose rating’s below 4 star

Sabrina Barr

times 07.09.2018

Reaching that elusive fivestar rating on Uber is a top priority shared by many people in today’s digital day and age. Falling below four stars on the app may not only hurt your pride, but could also now prevent you from using Uber at all in future, due to new community guidelines introduced by the company.

The newly updated community guidelines have been introduced in Australia and New Zealand. It’s outlined that as of September 19 this year, people using the app in both countries could risk being blocked from the driving service if they fall below a certain score.

Amanda Gilmore, Uber’s New Zealand country manager, explains these changes have been introduced following feedback that the company has received from its drivers. “This change is really about setting good standards of behaviour, and creating a mutual level of respect between drivers and riders,” Gilmore added. This rule is already used in the US but hasn’t been implemented yet in the UK

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THE INDEPENDENT

Dubai-New York flyers may have caught flu

New York: times 07.09.2018

Eleven people on an Emirates flight were taken to a New York City hospital suffering flu-like symptoms on Wednesday after scores of passengers and crew complained of feeling sick during a 14-hour trip from Dubai, officials said.

Laboratory tests on respiratory samples from the patients have yet to confirm the illness, but their histories and symptoms — fever, cough and vomiting — indicate influenza, said Dr Oxiris Barbot, New York City’s acting health commissioner.

Some passengers in recent days had attended the annual Haj pilgrimage to the city of Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula, a region where the flu virus was circulating, and could have contracted the illness there, Barbot said. It was also possible the virus was transmitted between passengers during the lengthy flight, she said. All who were hospitalised were in stable condition and none was in need of “extreme” medical attention, Barbot said. The flu’s incubation period typically is one to seven days, Barbot said, and people who are infected can be contagious before showing signs of illness.

The airliner, with at least 521passengers, landed at John F Kennedy International Airport and was surrounded by dozens of emergency vehicles as passengers waited to be evaluated by health officials. The airline and the mayor’s office said 19 people were confirmed ill. Three passengers and seven crew members went to a hospital, and nine other passengers medically evaluated at the scene were released afterward, Emirates said. The rest were allowed to leave and clear customs, the airline said.

Dr Demetre Daskalakis, New York’s deputy commissioner for disease control, said it was rare for so many people aboard a single commercial flight to fall ill at once. REUTERS


Eleven flyers were hospitalised in what Emirates called a ‘precaution’

RAJIV CONVICTS’ RELEASE CASE

TN govt to take decision after studying SC order

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:07.09.2018

The Tamil Nadu government will take a decision on the release of convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case after going through the Supreme Court’s order based on a plea by one of them. The government said it is for the release of all seven convicts currently in jail.

“It is our stand and desire of Amma (Jayalalithaa) that all the seven convicts should be released. Chief minister (Edappadi K Palaniswami)

will take a decision after going through the Supreme Court’s order,” law minister C Ve Shanmugam told reporters here on Thursday.

He was reacting to the court’s order directing Tamil Nadu governor to consider the mercy petition of A G Perarivalan, one of the seven life convicts in the case. An apex court bench comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi, Naveen Sinha and K M Joseph disposed of the Centre’s petition on the Tamil Nadu government’s proposal for the release of the convicts.

Earlier in the day, Perarivalan’s mother Arputhammal appealed to the state government to initiate steps for the early release of her son. She expressed hope that her son could be set free within the next one week.

Welcoming the order, DMK president M K Stalin urged chief minister Palaniswami to convene the state cabinet meeting at the earliest, to take this forward. DMK’s alliance partner Congress was cautious in its reaction. “Whatever measures legally allowed in this, should be legally followed,” TNCC president S Thirunavukkarasar told reporters in New Delhi.

While PMK youth wing president Anbumani Ramadoss urged the state government to release all the seven convicts immediately, CPM state secretary R Balakrishnan asked the state government to avoid any further delay in releasing all the convicts. “I request the chief minister to immediately convene a cabinet meeting, pass a firm resolution to release all the seven convicts and recommend the same to the governor,” MDMK general secretary Vaiko said in a statement.