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தீபாவளி பண்டிகையையொட்டி தயார் செய்த 250 கிலோ தரமற்ற இனிப்பு, கார வகைகள் பறிமுதல்




சென்னை புறநகர் பகுதிகளில் தீபாவளி பண்டிகையையொட்டி தயார் செய்யப்பட்ட, 250 கிலோ தரமற்ற இனிப்பு, கார வகைகளை உணவு பாதுகாப்புத்துறை அதிகாரிகள் பறிமுதல் செய்தனர்.

பதிவு: அக்டோபர் 31, 2018 04:45 AM
தாம்பரம்,

தீபாவளி பண்டிகையின் போது இனிப்பு மற்றும் கார வகை உணவு பொருட்களின் விற்பனை அதிகமாக இருக்கும். இதை பயன்படுத்தி சில கடைகளில், காலாவதியான மூலப்பொருட்கள் மற்றும் அதிக சாயத்தை கொண்டு இனிப்பு மற்றும் கார வகைகளை தயாரித்து விற்பனை செய்கின்றனர். இதனால் இவற்றை சாப்பிடும், மக்களுக்கு அஜீரணம் உள்ளிட்ட பாதிப்புகள் ஏற்படும். தற்போது பலகார வகைகள் தயாரிக்கும் பணி தீவிரமாக நடைபெற்று வருகின்றனர்.

இந்தநிலையில், விற்பனை செய்யப்படும் பலகாரங்கள், இனிப்பு வகைகள் தரமானதாக இல்லை என உணவு பாதுகாப்பு துறைக்கு புகார்கள் வந்தன. இதை தடுக்கும் வகையில், காஞ்சீபுரம் மாவட்ட உணவு பாதுகாப்பு நியமன அலுவலர் ராமகிருஷ்ணன் தலைமையில் உணவு பாதுகாப்பு அலுவலர்கள் செந்தில்குமார், விஜயன் ஆகியோர் குன்றத்தூர் மற்றும் பம்மல் பகுதிகளில் உள்ள 12 கடைகளில் சோதனை நடத்தினர்.

அப்போது காலாவதியான 250 கிலோ இனிப்பு மற்றும் கார வகைகளை அதிகாரிகள் பறிமுதல் செய்தனர். அவற்றை பம்மல் குப்பை கிடங்கில் கொட்டி அழித்தனர். காலாவதியான உணவு பொருட்களை விற்பனை செய்த கடைகளுக்கு நோட்டீஸ் வழங்கப்பட்டுள்ளதாக, உணவு பாதுகாப்பு அதிகாரிகள் தெரிவித்தனர்.

இது தொடர்பாக காஞ்சீ புரம் மாவட்ட உணவு பாதுகாப்பு நியமன அலுவலர் ராமகிருஷ்ணன் கூறுகையில், ‘காலாவதியான உணவு பொருட்கள் தொடர்பாக, 9444042322 என்ற வாட்ஸ்-அப் எண்ணில் பொதுமக்கள் புகார் தெரிவிக்கலாம். தீபாவளி பண்டிகைக்காக தனியாக ஆர்டர் எடுத்து இனிப்பு மற்றும் கார பலகாரங்கள் செய்து கொடுப்பவர்கள் உணவு பாதுகாப்பு துறையினரிடம் உரிய அனுமதி பெற வேண்டும்’ என்றார்.

Magistrate cannot be a witness: HC

STAFF REPORTER

MADURAI, OCTOBER 31, 2018 00:00 IST

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday expressed its displeasure over the police including name of judges who record S 164 CrPC statements (Examination of witness) as a witness in the final report in such cases.

Justice N. Anand Venkatesh observed that the magistrate recording the statement under S 164 CrPC cannot be examined as a witness. Time and again police had been directed not to include judges as witnesses but the mistake was getting repeated, the court said.

The court was hearing the case of K. Sathish Kumar of Ramanathapuram, arrayed as accused in a case of kidnap and harassment of a minor girl under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the POCSO Act.

He sought to transfer the case from the file of a special judge alleging that the judge had also recorded the witness statement in the case.

Also, in the final report submitted by the police, the judge was named as a witness. He alleged that this would not result in a fair trial. However, the court held that the judge or the magistrate is only a recording machine and merely records the statement.

Teacher gets 21 years jail for sexual abuse

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

DHARMAPURI, OCTOBER 31, 2018 00:00 IST

The Fast Track Mahila Court here on Tuesday sentenced a Math teacher at A. Pallipatty Government Middle School to 21 years imprisonment for sexually harassing four students.

The accused Senthil Kumar was arrested based on a complaint lodged by the parents of the four girls in 2016.

Hearing the case, the court sentenced the accused to 20 years under the POCSO Act and an additional one year under Section 323 of IPC. The accused was also imposed with a fine of Rs. 5,000.

Panic booking triggers LPG refill backlog

V.S. Palaniappan

COIMBATORE, OCTOBER 31, 2018 00:00 IST



With the backlog in refill supply increasing, the Indane LPG refilling plant in the city has started working overtime to meet the demand.S. Siva SaravananS. SIVA SARAVANAN

With Deepavali just a week away, panic booking of LPG refills by a section of consumers seems to be triggering a backlog for LPG distributors in Coimbatore.

Indane of Indian Oil Corporation, a major player in the LPG market in this region, has been witnessing a 10 % to 12 % surge in refill bookings.

This is because the LPG consumers want to have both their cylinders full at home for the festival. A surge in booking during festive season is common in the industry, say Indane official sources.

However, if the panic booking is not curtailed, the surge in booking could further go up, say LPG distributors. Indane has 60 distributors in Coimbatore catering to a little over 6 lakh LPG consumers. At present, the refill waiting period ranges from two to seven days.

If the panic booking continues, the waiting period can also go up and the Indane refilling plants and distributors will have to work overtime to clear the backlog. The situation will ease only three weeks after Deepavali, say a section of the distributors.

Meanwhile, Indane has asked its customers to book refills only when the second cylinder is about to run dry. Only then, the refill requests can be honoured within two to three days, say official sources.

The LPG refilling plant of Indane at Periya Kazhandhai near Negamam has been functioning overtime and is working on Sundays to increase the rolling out of cylinders.

At present, the plant is rolling out close to 120 loads of cylinders a day.

A lorry load translates into 306 cylinders.

Indane officials say that the pumping in of LPG refills into the market is getting stepped up and is eventually expected to bring down the backlogs over the next 10 to 15 days.

NEET registration from Nov. 1

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

CHENNAI, OCTOBER 31, 2018 00:00 IST

The online registration for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for 2019, the gateway to MBBS, BDS courses, will begin on November 1. Registration will be open till November 30.

NEET 2019 will be conducted by National Testing Agency. Registrations can be made at nta.ac.in from Thursday.

The admit card can be downloaded from the NTA website in April.

The pen-and-paper two-hour test in Physics, Chemistry and Life sciences (biology, zoology and botany) will be held on May 5. The results are likely to be declared by June 5.

Revaluation scam: 3 AU professors to be sacked

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

CHENNAI, OCTOBER 31, 2018 00:00 IST



Decision taken at Syndicate meeting after panel finds merit in the allegations

Three professors of Anna University are to be dismissed from service for their “involvement in a scam in the revaluation of answer papers” in 2012.

A decision to this effect was taken by the Syndicate of the university at its meeting held in September. The scam pertains to the tenure of Vice-Chancellor P. Mannar Jawahar, between the years 2008 and 2012. Though the Mr. Jawahar was initially suspended, he was later acquitted of all charges.

The three professors — the then additional controller of examinations P. Tamilporai; assistant professor, Ramanujan Computing Centre, K. P. Mani Anand; and assistant professor at the Madras Institute of Technology campus, R. Sivakumar — had been charged with irregularities in revaluation.

Faculty confess

After talk of a scam began doing the rounds, an assistant professor claimed that he was asked to revaluate 18 subjects on a single day. He stated that the faculty had increased the marks scored by a student of the College of Engineering, Guindy, to 50-60 in all 18 subjects.

The scam made headlines after one of the professors involved in the malpractice wrote to the Chief Minister’s cell providing details about all that he had been forced to do, and sought pardon. A similar confession detailing the malpractices was sent to the government in 2009-2010.

The three professors were suspended soon after and the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption slapped charges against them.

Since a three-member committee, constituted by the university also found the allegations to be true, it was recommended that the three teachers be dismissed, university officials said.

Meet the son who’s taking his 70-yr-old mum for an India-darshan on his 20-yr-old scooter

— Kimberly.Colaco@timesgroup.com 31.10.2018

DKrishna Kumar, a 39-year-old ex-marketing official, says he is on a ‘mathru seva sankalpa yatra’ wherein he is taking his 70-year-old mother Chudarathna on a journey across India on his 20-year-old scooter.

They set out from Mysore on January 16, and have covered a span of 26,000 kilometres so far, exploring the southern belt, including Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka and now Goa, along the way.

WHY HE DECIDED TO EMBARK ON THIS YATRA

He says, “I lost my father in 2015, and shortly after that while chatting with my mother, I asked her if she had seen Belur Halebidu, a district in Karnataka which is 120 kilometres away from Mysore.” Her response shocked Krishna. “She told me she hasn’t seen any place other than her own village. While my father was alive, all she had to do was be the housewife and her day would start and end with her focusing on household chores. That’s when I decided to take her around India, so she could see the temples and even meet and interact with people,” he says, adding that he decided at the age of 21, that he would never marry, and never make his mother do the same mechanical work she did when her husband was alive.

THE STORY BEHIND THE SCOOTER

“My father had gifted me the scooter when I was in my early 20s, and I have continued to maintain it and ensure it remains in the same state as it was in when he had gifted it to me. In fact, there were motorbikes available then too, but I didn’t want those. Whenever I ride the scooter, I feel that I’m also travelling with my father. It’s not a journey of two, but three people — my mom, dad and me. Before taking my mom on such long trips, I started off by taking her on smaller rides. Then, I kept increasing the distance so that she grew more comfortable on the scooter.”

‘I GOT IN TOUCH WITH MY MOM’S SCHOOLFRIENDS’

To make it a memorable journey for his mother, Krishna also tracked down some of her school friends, whom she had lost touch with over the years. “To see my mother hugging and talking to them, and being so happy, made me feel very satisfied. This is what is important in life, not money.”

While talking about his old job in Bengaluru, he says, “I worked for 13 years. I have made enough money, or as much as I need. The rat race never stops in the corporate world until you know what you want.”

Chudarathna chimes in at this point, “He’s my only son, and he has already done a lot for me. He has taken care of me in my old age. It’s hard to find that in today’s world. I am very proud of him. When he took me to meet my friends, it was one of the happiest days of my life for me. Many people ask me how I travel such a long distance, but I have never felt any pain or faced any problems. I put both my legs on either side of the scooter, and while we travel, I hold him very tight.”

Living simply all through their travel, the mother-son duo stay at various ashrams, mutts and dharamashalas along the way.

D Krishna Kumar with his mother, Chudarathna