பி.ஆர்க்., கவுன்சிலிங் தேதிகள் அறிவிப்பு

Added : ஆக 03, 2019 00:53


சென்னை:பி.ஆர்க்., மாணவர் சேர்க்கைக்கான, கவுன்சிலிங் தேதி அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. 

அண்ணா பல்கலை இணைப்பில் உள்ள, இன்ஜினியரிங் கல்லுாரிகளில், மாணவர் சேர்க்கைக்கான, கவுன்சிலிங் நடந்து முடிந்துள்ளது. இதில், 83 ஆயிரத்து, 396 இடங்கள் நிரம்பின. இதை தொடர்ந்து, 'ஆர்கிடெக்ட்' என்ற, கட்டட வடிவமைப்பு கலை படிப்புக்கு, மாணவர் சேர்க்கை துவங்கியுள்ளது.அண்ணா பல்கலை இணைப்பில் உள்ள, 50க்கும் மேற்பட்ட, ஆர்கிடெக்ட் கல்லுாரிகளில், பி.ஆர்க்., படிப்பில் மாணவர்கள் சேர்க்கப்படுகின்றனர். இதற்கான, 'ஆன்லைன்' விண்ணப்பப்பதிவு, ஏற்கனவே முடிந்தது.

இதையடுத்து, கவுன்சிலிங் நடத்தும் தேதி, நேற்று அறிவிக்கப்பட்டது. வரும், 6ம் தேதி, கவுன்சிலிங் துவங்க உள்ளது. முதல் நாளில், சிறப்பு பிரிவினருக்கும், பின், 7 மற்றும் 8ம் தேதிகளில், பொது பிரிவு மாணவர்களுக்கும், கவுன்சிலிங் நடத்தப்படுகிறது.சென்னை, தரமணியில் உள்ள, மத்திய பாலிடெக்னிக் கல்லுாரி வளாகத்தில் நடக்கும் கவுன்சிலிங்கில், மாணவர்கள் நேரடியாக பங்கேற்க வேண்டும். மதிப்பெண் விபரங்கள், ஜாதி மற்றும் பள்ளி சான்றிதழ்களை, முன்கூட்டியே தயார் செய்து கொள்ள வேண்டும்.மேலும் விபரங்களை, தமிழ்நாடு இன்ஜினியரிங் கவுன்சிலிங் கமிட்டியின், tneaonline.in என்ற, இணையதளத்தில் தெரிந்து கொள்ளலாம்.

திருப்பதி லட்டின் வயது 302

Added : ஆக 03, 2019 00:00

திருப்பதி:திருமலை ஏழுமலையானுக்கு, பிரசாதமாக படைக்கப்படும், லட்டின் வயது, 302 வருடங்கள் என, தேவஸ்தானம் தெரிவித்துள்ளது.

திருமலை ஏழுமலையானுக்கு, விசேஷ பிரசாதமாக படைக்கப்படுவது லட்டு. இந்த லட்டு, கடலை மாவு, சர்க்கரை, நெய், ஏலக்காய், பச்சை கற்பூரம், பாதாம், முந்திரி ஆகியவைகளை, குறிப்பிட்ட அளவில் சேர்த்து தயாரிக்கப்படுகிறது.திருமலையில், தினசரி, 2 லட்சம் முதல், 3 லட்சம் எண்ணிக்கையில் லட்டு பிரசாதங்கள் தயாரிக்கப்படுகிறது. உற்சவ நாட்களில், 5 லட்சம் லட்டுகள் வரை, சேமிப்பில் வைக்கப்படும்.

இந்த லட்டு நிவேதனம், ஏழுமலையானுக்கு, 1715ம் ஆண்டு, ஆக.2ல், துவக்கப்பட்டது. இந்நிலையில், லட்டு பிரசாதத்திற்கு, இன்று, 302 வயதாகிறது.கடந்த, 2009ல், திருமலை லட்டு பிரசாதத்திற்கு, புவிசார் குறியீடும் வழங்கப்பட்டது. லட்டு பிரசாத விற்பனை மூலம், தேவஸ்தானத்திற்கு, மாதம் ஒரு கோடி ரூபாய் வருமானம் கிடைத்து வருவது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது. லட்டு படைத்ததற்கு முன், திருமலை ஏழுமலையானுக்கு, வடை முக்கிய பிரசாதமாக படைக்கப்பட்டு வந்தது.

Indian students win World Debating Championship

Five-member team from Chennai, Mumbai and Jaipur underwent gruelling preparation with varied research

03/08/2019, STAFF REPORTER,CHENNAI

Winning team: Saranya Ravindran, Bhavya Shah, Tejas Subramaniam, Prithvi Arun and Manya Gupta won the World Schools Debating Championships 2019 held in Thailand. R. Ragu

An Indian team emerged world champion at the World Debating Championships 2019, defeating Canada, with Tejas Subramaniam of the Padma Seshadri Bal Bhavan (PSBB) School, Chennai, adjudged the best speaker.

The five-member Indian team included Tejas Subramaniam (PSBB School), Bhavya Shah (a visually impaired student from the Rao Junior College of Science, Mumbai), Manya Gupta (Neerja Modi School, Jaipur), Saranya Ravindran (also from PSBB School, Chennai) and Prithvi Arun (Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School, Chennai). The tournament, which was held in Thailand, saw 600 participants from 64 nations, and the Indian team reportedly did not lose a single round. After an elaborate selection process, the five students were chosen by the Indian Schools Debating Society (ISDS) and trained for months.

Tejas Subramaniam, a Class XII student says, for seven months, they attempted 140 debates on various topics. “We had to research feminism, sports and environment, sit for training in video calls, and listen to lectures on finance and developmental economics. It was gruelling training but everything paid off in the end,” he said.

For Bhavya Shah, a Class XII student and the first visually impaired debater in an Indian team, the world of debating, rebuttal, reasoning and arguments were rather new before he applied to get on the team. In the quarter finals, the team faced Pakistan on the topic ‘This House supports China’s attempts at becoming a dominant global power’. When a member of the Pakistan team said they supported China as it was the Avengers of the global south, Mr. Shah, known for his humour, shot back, “If you think China are the Avengers, I marvel that.”

P.R. Venketrama Raja, Chairman of the Ramco Group, which sponsors the ISDS, said: “There should be reason rather than rhetoric and emotions. Debaters may have opinions, but since they have been trained to have both points of view, they may never get offended because someone is differing from their opinions.”

Karnataka to HC: 41 children are with their prisoner-mothers
There are 641 women prisoners; overcrowding in State prisons pegged at 11%

03/08/2019, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,BENGALURU

There are 41 children — 24 boys and 17 girls — below the age of six accompanying their mothers in 12 prisons of the State, the government informed the High Court of Karnataka on Friday.

While pointing out that there are 641 women prisoners — 437 undertrials and 204 convicted, the Superintendent of Prisons, Headquarters, office of the Director-General of Prisons and Correctional Services, stated in an affidavit that diet and clothing to the children in the age groups of zero to three and three to six, and facilities to pregnant and lactating women prisoners have been provided by amending the Karnataka Prison Rules and Manuals in 2006 on the directions of the Supreme Court.

The affidavit was filed before a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice A.S. Bellunke during the hearing of a PIL petition, initiated suo motu by the High Court on the issues of overcrowding of prisons, medical and other facilities available for prisoners, including women prisoners, etc.

While pointing out that authorised capacity of nine central prisons, 21 district prisons, 29 taluk prisons and one open prison is 13,622, it has been stated in the affidavit that total inmates lodged in these prisons as on July 22, 2019 is 15,257, which amounts to overall overcrowding of 11%.

However, the percentage of overcrowding in individual central and district prisons ranges between 101 and 276 against the actual capacity of each prison. While Raichur district prison has overcrowding of 101%, Gadag district prison as the highest overcrowding of 267%. The overcrowding is 160% in Bengaluru Central Prison, 168% in Mysuru Central Prison, 193% in Vijayapura Central Prison, and 173% in Kalaburagi Central Prison.

Apart from allowing interview facilities for prisoners, landline phones are provided for communication as per the Prison Manuals and Rules, and a proposal for video calling facility with family members was submitted to the government in December 2018, the affidavit stated.

New diet for prisoners was introduced in 2014 by providing varieties of breakfasts, midday and evening meals for labouring adult and non-labouring adults, and special diet such as mutton once a week for non-vegetarian prisoners, sweets for vegetarians, and fish meal in coastal areas is being provided. Steam cooking units have been installed in central and district prisons, it was stated in the affidavit.

HC: Temples are not commercial spaces

‘Gratuity to employees not under Gratuity Act, but under State’s law’

03/08/2019, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, ,BENGALURU

Declaring that a temple is not a “commercial establishment” and does not come within the meaning of an “establishment” under provisions of the Karnataka Shops and Commercial Establishments (KS&CE) Act, 1961, the Karnataka High Court has held that employees of a temple in Karnataka are not entitled to gratuity under Payments of Gratuity (PG) Act, 1972.

The court said the employees are entitled to gratuity under provisions of the Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowment (KHRI&CE) Act, 1997, and not under the PG Act, 1972, as the the Union government has not notified temples as an “establishment” under this law, and the State government too has not notified temples as an “establishment” under provisions of the KS&CE Act, 1961.

A three-judge bench comprising Justice B.V. Nagarathna, Justice K.N. Phaneendra and Justice B.A. Patil delivered the verdict on August 1 while partly allowing an appeal by Shri Mookambika temple in Kolluru.

The temple had questioned the orders, passed by labour authorities in 2011-12 to pay gratuity of ₹2.91 lakh with 10% interest under the PG Act, 1972 to an employee, Raviraja Shetty, who was relived from work on attaining superannuation in 2005.

The bench also set aside a 2012 verdict of a division bench in the case of the management of Sri Venkataramana temple and Sri Hale Mariyamma temple at Kaup in Udupi district, which had said that employees of temples are entitled to gratuity under the Payments of Gratuity (PG) Act while relying on a Odisha High Court judgement in a case pertaining to the Sri Jagannatha temple.

The three-judge bench pointed out that the Odisha HC’s verdict is not applicable to Karnataka as Odisha’s law on shops and establishments included a “temple trust” under “establishments” unlike the KS&CE Act, 1961.

Observing that “a temple is a place of religious worship or meant for a religious purpose which includes worship of deities or worship in temples, mandirs, shrines, samadhis, brindavanas, gadduges or similar places installing shrines, samadhis, brindavanas, gadduges or similar places fostering spiritual fraternity, imparting spiritual, moral and religious education and teaching of philosophy, observance of religious festivals and any other public religious purpose,” the three-judge bench said that “a temple cannot be any stretch of imagination be construed as an establishment” under KS&CE Act, 1961.

The three-judge bench also held that the KHRI&CE Act, 1997, being a special enactment and had received the President’s nod, prevails over the PG Act, 1972, which is a general enactment, in the matter of payment of gratuity to employees of temples in Karnataka.

The bench directed the temple to pay gratuity as per KHRI&CE Act, 1997 to Mr. Raviraja Shetty within four weeks.

2 Bengaluru institutions fail to get IoE status

03/08/2019,NEW DELHI

The UGC has recommended 20 institutions for the grant of the Institute of Eminence (IoE) status. Two Bengaluru-based institutions, Azim Premji University and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, have failed to get the tag.

Saudi women allowed to travel independently

King amends guardianship policy

03/08/2019, ASSOCIATED PRESS,DUBAI

Women over the age of 21 can travel abroad without prior consent. REUTERSFaisal Nasser

Saudi Arabia on Friday published new laws that loosen restrictions on women by allowing all citizens, women and men alike, to apply for a passport and travel freely, ending a long-standing guardianship policy that had controlled women’s freedom of movement.

The development is a potential game-changer for Saudi women’s rights.

The kingdom’s legal system has long been criticised because it treated adult women as minors and required them to get a man’s consent to obtain a passport or travel abroad. Often a woman’s male guardian is her father or husband, and in some cases a woman’s son.

The changes were widely celebrated by Saudis on Twitter, with many posting memes showing people dashing to the airport with luggage and others hailing the 33-year-old Crown Prince believed to be the force behind these moves. But the changes also drew backlash from conservatives, who posted clips of senior Saudi clerics in past years arguing in favour of guardianship laws.

Other reform measures

Other changes issued in the decrees allow women to register a marriage, divorce or a child’s birth, and obtain official family documents, which could ease hurdles women faced in obtaining a national identity card and enrolling their children in school.

Women are now also allowed to be legal guardians of their children, a right previously held only by men.

Still in place, however, are rules that require male consent for a woman to leave prison, exit a domestic abuse shelter or marry. Women, unlike men, still cannot pass on citizenship to their children and cannot provide consent for their children to marry.

Rights over children

Under the Kingdom’s guardianship system, women essentially relied on the “good will” and whims of male relatives to determine the course of their lives. There were cases, for example, of young Saudi women whose parents are divorced, but whose father is the legal guardian, being unable to accept scholarships to study abroad because they did not have permission to travel.

Amnesty International said Friday a lot remains to be done for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia but that the new laws could ease the guardianship system. Guardianship laws have “been a stifling system in the daily lives of women in Saudi Arabia,” said Lynn Malouf, West Asia’s research director at Amnesty.

The new rules, approved by King Salman and his Cabinet, allow any person 21 and older to travel abroad without prior consent and any citizen to apply for a Saudi passport on their own.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the new rules go into effect immediately.