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Updated : ஆக 10, 2019 02:21 | Added : ஆக 10, 2019 02:18

காஞ்சிபுரம்: அத்தி வரதர் வைபவத்தில், வி.ஐ.பி., - வி.வி.ஐ.பி., வரிசையில், முறையான ஏற்பாடுகள் செய்யப்படாததால், நேற்று, கடும் கூட்ட நெரிசல் ஏற்பட்டது. இதில், பா.ஜ.,- - எம்.பி., சுப்பிரமணியன் சுவாமி சிக்கினார்.



காஞ்சிபுரம் வரதராஜ பெருமாள் கோவிலில், அத்தி வரதரை நேற்று, பொது தரிசனத்தில் சென்ற பக்தர்கள், ஆறு மணி நேரம் காத்திருந்து தரிசித்தனர். வி.ஐ.பி., மற்றும் வி.வி. ஐ.பி., வரிசையில் சென்றோர் தரிசிக்க, மூன்று மணி நேரத்திற்கும் மேலானது. காரணம், இரு வகையான சிறப்பு பாஸ் வைத்திருந்தோரையும், ஒரே வழியில் அனுப்பியது தான்.

நேற்று முன்தினம், வி.ஐ.பி., - வி.வி.ஐ.பி., வரிசையில் செல்வோருக்கு, கோவிலில், நடைமேம்பாலம் போன்ற சாய்தள பாதை அமைக்கப்பட்டது. அதை பயன்பாட்டிற்கு கொண்டு வருவதற்குள், பல மணி நேரம் தரிசனம் பாதிக்கப்பட்டு, அத்தி வரதரை தரிசிக்காமல், பலர், ஏமாற்றத்துடன் வீடு திரும்பினர். இந்நிலையில், நேற்றும், அதே வரிசையில் ஏற் பட்ட கூட்ட நெரிசலில், சுவாமி தரிசனம் முடித்து பக்தர்கள் திரும்பி வரும் வழியில், பா.ஜ.,- - எம்.பி., சுப்பிரமணியன் சுவாமி மற்றும் முன்னாள் ஐ.ஏ.எஸ்., அதிகாரி சந்திரலேகா ஆகியோர் சிக்கினர். இவர்களை, பாதுகாப்பு அதிகாரிகள், படாதபாடு பட்டு, வெளியே அழைத்து சென்றனர்.



இதற்கிடையே, தமிழ்நாடு உதவிக்கரம் சங்கம் சார்பில், 300க்கும் மேற்பட்ட மாற்றுத்திறனாளிகள், சிரமமின்றி தரிசனம் செய்ய, ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்டிருந்தது. அவர்கள், கிழக்கு கோபுரம் அருகே, தனியார் திருமண மண்டபத்தில் இருந்து, மாற்றுத்திறனாளிகளுக்கான பிரத்யேக வழியில் சென்று, அத்தி வரதரை தரிசித்தனர். வைபவ விழா, ஒரு வாரத்திற்குள் முடிவதால், அத்திவரதரை, கடந்தாண்டுகளில் வீற்றிருந்த அனந்தசரஸ் குளத்தில் வைப்பதற்கான நடவடிக்கைகளையும், குளத்தையும், சென்னை உயர்நீதிமன்றத்தால் அங்கீகரிக்கப்பட்ட ஒப்புதல் திருப்பணி குழுவினர், நேற்றும் ஆய்வு செய்தனர்.

மின்வாரிய ஊழியர்கள் புலம்பல்:

அத்தி வரதர் வைபவத்திற்கு, கோவிலுக்குள் உள்ள மின்தட ஒயர்கள், மின்சாதனங்கள் மற்றும் மின் இணைப்புகளை ஆய்வு செய்ய செல்லும் ஊழியர்களை, போலீசார் அனுமதிப்பதில்லை என, மின்வாரிய ஊழியர்கள் குற்றம் சாட்டுகின்றனர். ஆய்வு பணியை மேற்கொள்ளாதால், ஏதேனும் அசம்பாவிதம் நடந்தால் யார் பொறுப்பேற்பது என, அவர்கள் கேள்வி எழுப்புகின்றனர். எனவே, மின் பாதுகாப்பு பணியில் ஈடுபட்டுள்ள ஊழியர்களை, போலீசார், கோவிலுக்குள் அனுமதிக்க வேண்டும் என, கோரிக்கை விடுக்கின்றனர்.

Many States reel under monsoon fury
10/08/2019

Across Karnataka, there were 1.74 lakh people in relief camps, about 35,000 of them rescued since Thursday night. About 64,300 hectares of agricultural land was inundated, taking the total area affected to 2.56 lakh hectares. Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa put the preliminary estimate of flood losses at ₹5,000 crore, and Union Minister of Paliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi said that the Centre had released ₹200 crore for flood relief.

Houses buried

In the worst-hit Kodagu district, five members belonging to two families were buried alive after their houses located next to each other collapsed in a landslip at Korangala village near Bhagamandala. Local residents rescued three persons.

In five districts of Western Maharashtra, the death toll in the last fortnight has touched 29, while 2.35 lakh people have been evacuated from Sangli and Kolhapur, besides 50,000 in Satara, Pune and Solapur.

Pune Divisional Commissioner Dr. Deepak Mhaisekar said the casualties include nine people who died in the Sangli boat accident on Thursday, and 11 people were missing, nine of them from the boat incident.

Deficit wiped out

Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris district recorded a staggering 91 cm of rain at Avalanche for a 24-hour period until Friday morning.

Six people have died in rain-related incidents in the Nilgiris in the week-long showers. The deaths were caused by collapsing buildings, flood waters and landslips. Three women and an 8-year-old child are among the dead.

In Gujarat, 26 out of 30 gates of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam were opened for the first time in two years to maintain water level at the 131.18-metre limit.

While the rain has had a devastating impact, it has nearly wiped out the monsoon deficit. The IMD on Friday said the monsoon deficit was down from 10.5% on July 31 to 0.6% as of August 9.

The IMD forecast was a 4% below normal season from June-September. Mr. Mohapatra said such spells were typical for August, but not reason enough to assume yet that it would be a ‘normal’ monsoon.

A new rain-bearing system was seen forming in the Bay of Bengal by August 12 with potential to bring rain to North India, particularly Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.

83 NDRF teams

“So far, 83 National Disaster Response Force teams have been positioned in vulnerable areas of flood-affected States along with all necessary equipment. These are in addition to the 173 teams of Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard. Control rooms in the Ministry of Home Affairs, NDRF, IMD, and Central Water Commission are keeping a close watch. They have evacuated over 82,000 people to safer places and rescued 2,325 people,” a statement from the Press Information Bureau said. This followed a review meeting chaired by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai.

The Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam continued to fill up fast but acted to maintain the water level at 131.18 metres, the limit allowed by Narmada Control Authority. Gujarat

The administration alerted the downstream districts of Narmada, Bharuch and Vadodara about potential flooding. Several bridges have been closed as the Narmada is flowing at danger level.Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam MD Rajiv Kumar Gupta visited Sardar Sarovar dam. Dr. Gupta tweeted that the 1,200 MW power house was operated on Thursday after a gap of two years.

On Friday, Gujarat continued to receive medium to heavy rainfall. More than 3,000 people were shifted to safer locations.

The Gujarat government said 168 taluks received rain during the last 24 hours, and 14 dams and reservoirs were overflowing. But total monsoon rainfall in the State stood at 66.41% in the season.

Massive rainfall in Tamil Nadu’s elevated ranges in the Western Ghats disrupted life in the plains, with the Noyyal, Bhavani and Moyar rivers swelling up to the brim. Valparai, the tea and coffee-growing part of the mountains was lashed by torrential rain, sending copious inflows to reservoirs in the Parambikulam-Aliyar Project.

The record for the highest rain volume in the State, held by Cuddalore since 1943, was broken for two consecutive days in Avalanche in the Nilgiris, with 820 mm on Thursday, and 911 mm on Friday.

Red alert sounded at Chennai airport after bomb threat

10/08/2019, S. VIJAY KUMAR,CHENNAI

A red alert was sounded at the airport following a bomb threat early on Friday. Security was intensified after an input was conveyed from New Delhi about a caller who warned of an explosion in the airport.

Security personnel conducted anti-sabotage check and enhanced armed guards at vantage points, police sources said.

A phone call was received at the New Delhi airport police control room saying that a woman passenger boarding a flight in Chennai-bound to Saudi Arabia was carrying an explosive substance. An emergency meeting was convened involving officials of Airports Authority of India, Central Industrial Security Force, Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, intelligence agencies and others. Heightened security arrangements are already in place at all airports in the State ahead of the Independence Day and following the revocation of special status for Jammu & Kashmir.

Frisking was intensified shortly after midnight on Friday and entry to the airport was restricted to passengers and authorised personnel.

Holiday for schools, colleges

10/08/2019, STAFF REPORTER

 

,COIMBATORE/UDHAGAMANDALAM

All government and private schools and colleges in Coimbatore and the Nilgiris districts will be closed on Saturday due to incessant heavy rain, the administration in both the districts said on Friday.

Coimbatore airport ready to receive diverted flights: official

10/08/2019, STAFF REPORTER,COIMBATORE

In the wake of Kochi Airport stopping flight operations till Sunday due to heavy rain, the Coimbatore International Airport is prepared to receive diverted flights, a senior airport official said here on Friday.

No firm schedules have arrived yet regarding the diversion of flights, the official told The Hindu. Various airlines are in talks with the officials of the Coimbatore International Airport and are in the process of obtaining the necessary approvals before finalising the diversions, the official said.

Meanwhile, airport sources confirmed that a flight from Singapore to Kochi was diverted to Coimbatore on Thursday night due to bad weather. The MI 468 flight, with 162 passengers and eight crew members on board, landed at the Coimbatore airport at around 10 p.m. on Thursday.

While some passengers made their own arrangements for travel to their destinations, the airline arranged accommodation in nearby hotels, according to the sources.

However, the official said that the MI 468 flight's landing was not planned earlier.

Cancel licence of doctors who still conduct two-finger test’
Rape survivors submit letter to apex court, call for action

10/08/2019, PRESS TRUST OF INDIA,NEW DELHI

As many as 1,500 survivors of rape and their families submitted a letter to the apex court on Friday demanding cancellation of licences of medical practitioners who still conduct the “humiliating two-finger test” despite a Supreme Court ban.

The letter was submitted by Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan (RGA), a survivor-centric forum with more than 12,000 survivors of sexual violence and their families.

The two-finger test, to ascertain rape, was banned by the Supreme Court in 2013.

“The test was banned because not only does it violate a survivor’s right to privacy, but also because it is unscientific and tends to be used as evidence in court to shame the survivor of previous sexual history. The forum has documented over 57 cases of such violations by medical practitioners,” the letter stated and demanded cancellation of licences of all medical practitioners conducting it.

Child rape

The RGA, in the letter, thanked the Supreme Court for the suo motu public interest litigation initiated by the court on the rise in cases of child rape, “corresponding lack of infrastructure and delay in probe and trial of these cases”.

Cases of commercial sexual exploitation of children and sex trafficking are actually cases of serial rape of children, according to the letter. “However, data tracked in six States show that the police are registering these cases only under trafficking related laws and not under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act, 2012, which has more stringent and adequate procedures for speedy trial and rehabilitation,” the letter said.

RGA latter also said that minors, who became pregnant after rape, struggle to receive permission from the court for abortion.

The forum requested the court to have in place due procedures to ensure examination and treatment for at least three months and separate proforma to be developed for the cases of child rape.

According to the campaign, over in 202 cases it has dealt with, the survivors have neither received any interim nor final compensation even after conviction of the accused in the case.

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