A proud moment for Salem ticket examiner 

DECCAN CHRONICLE. | ZAKEER HUSSAIN

Published Sep 6, 2019, 3:47 am IST

Ms. Uma Maheswari was given a cash award and certificate of merit by the divisional officers. 


 
D. R. Uma Maheswari (far left) travelling ticket examiner and N. Gurunathan (far right), travelling Ticket Inspector hand over the retreived suitcase to the passengers. (Photo: DC)

SALEM: Ms D R Uma Maheswari, travelling ticket examiner, Erode and N Gurunathan, travelling ticket inspector, Erode (batch-in-charge of train), did the Salem railway division proud by quickly restoring valuable gold and cash kept in an unlocked suitcase, which a passenger had absent-mindedly left behind in the Karaikal-Ernakulam Tea Garden express on Wednesday.

The passenger, K Jeyaanandan and family, travelling in S4 coach in the train alighted at Thirussur, leaving their suitcase in the train itself. When they realised their mistake, they immediately informed the RPF staff at Thrissur, Mr. Omanakuttan, stating that their suitcase had valuables including 168 grms of gold and Rs 14,000 in cash.

Omanakuttan immediately flashed a message to the coach ticket checking staff on duty in that train, Ms. Uma Maheswari, and N Gurunathan, TTE inspector, Erode.

On receipt of the message, the coach TTE Ms. Uma identified the suitcase in the said berth and it was handed over to the passenger concerned, a railway press release here on Thursday said.

Congratulating the ticket checking staff, Uma Maheswari and Gurunathan (batch-in-charge of the train), the Salem divisional railway manager, U Subba Rao, appreciated them for their 'exemplary duty'. Further Ms. Uma Maheswari was given a cash award and certificate of merit by the divisional officers.

A proud moment for Salem ticket examiner
DECCAN CHRONICLE. | ZAKEER HUSSAIN
Published Sep 6, 2019, 3:47 am IST
Updated Sep 6, 2019, 3:47 am IST
Ms. Uma Maheswari was given a cash award and certificate of merit by the divisional officers.

D. R. Uma Maheswari (far left) travelling ticket examiner and N. Gurunathan (far right), travelling Ticket Inspector hand over the retreived suitcase to the passengers. (Photo: DC)

SALEM: Ms D R Uma Maheswari, travelling ticket examiner, Erode and N Gurunathan, travelling ticket inspector, Erode (batch-in-charge of train), did the Salem railway division proud by quickly restoring valuable gold and cash kept in an unlocked suitcase, which a passenger had absent-mindedly left behind in the Karaikal-Ernakulam Tea Garden express on Wednesday.

The passenger, K Jeyaanandan and family, travelling in S4 coach in the train alighted at Thirussur, leaving their suitcase in the train itself. When they realised their mistake, they immediately informed the RPF staff at Thrissur, Mr. Omanakuttan, stating that their suitcase had valuables including 168 grms of gold and Rs 14,000 in cash.





Omanakuttan immediately flashed a message to the coach ticket checking staff on duty in that train, Ms. Uma Maheswari, and N Gurunathan, TTE inspector, Erode.

On receipt of the message, the coach TTE Ms. Uma identified the suitcase in the said berth and it was handed over to the passenger concerned, a railway press release here on Thursday said.

Congratulating the ticket checking staff, Uma Maheswari and Gurunathan (batch-in-charge of the train), the Salem divisional railway manager, U Subba Rao, appreciated them for their 'exemplary duty'. Further Ms. Uma Maheswari was given a cash award and certificate of merit by the divisional officers.

Thanjavur: Surgery done to remove mercury from baby in GH 

DECCAN CHRONICLE. | G.SRINIVASAN

Published Sep 6, 2019, 3:56 am IST

The baby was kept under observation as the mercury administered accumulated in a portion of the large intestine. 


 
The baby is on the ventilator now. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

THANJAVUR: Doctors of the Rajah Mirasudhar Government Hospital here performed surgery to remove mercury accumulated in the large intestine of a 20-day-old baby girl who was admitted to the hospital on August 17 from Mayiladuthurai. She was given a mercury coated betel leaves by her grandmother to cure 'cradle cap'.

"The baby was kept under observation as the mercury administered accumulated in a portion of the large intestine. Finally we decided to perform surgery and remove the mercury. Colostomy, a surgical procedure that brings one end of the large intestine out through the abdominal wall, was done. During this procedure, one end of the colon is diverted through an incision in the abdominal wall to create a stoma. A stoma is the opening in the skin where a pouch for collecting feces is attached. The baby is on the ventilator now. When she is off the ventilator after normalcy, the large intestine will be pushed back into the stomach," explained Dr Kumudha Lingaraj, dean of Thanjavur Medical college, speaking to DC over phone on Thursday.

UoM student set to move court against termination

T Kirubamohan, a University of Madras student, whose admission has been cancelled, will soon move the court against the varsity’s action.

Published: 06th September 2019 06:33 AM |

University of Madras

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: T Kirubamohan, a University of Madras student, whose admission has been cancelled, will soon move the court against the varsity’s action.

“The manner in which my admission has been cancelled is unfair and illegal. The authorities have targeted me because I am a member of the Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle (APSC). I will fight against the injustice,” Kirubamohan said on Thursday, adding that he was consulting lawyers in this regard.

He alleged that the varsity authorities had terminated his admission citing the reason that he had not submitted eligibility certificate, a certificate mandatory for students to submit, who pursued undergraduation in other university. “Prior to taking admission in the M.A(Buddhism) this year, I had studied Master’s in Journalism in 2016-18 in the University of Madras and then I had submitted my eligibility certificate. I don’t understand why I need to submit it again,” he said. However, denying Kirubamohan’s claim, Vice-Chancellor P Duraisamy said his admission was cancelled because he had not submitted important documents. The student’s allegations are completely false, the V-C added.

74-year-old ‘barren’ Guntur woman gives birth to twins

Samdani.MN@timesgroup.com

Guntur:06.09.2019
A 74-year-old woman from a village in East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh became perhaps the oldest ever to become a mother when she gave birth to twin girls at a private hospital in Guntur on Thursday. The woman, who married her farmer husband 57 years ago, opted for in vitro fertilisation (IVF). A team of four doctors performed a caesarean section on her, after which the twins were born.

Yaramati Sitarama Rajarao, a farmer from Nelaparthipudi village, had married Mangayamma in 1962. They were not able to conceive a child despite consulting several doctors and temples.

Mangayamma says not bearing a child had been a heavy burden that she carried all these years. “People looked at me with accusing eyes as if I had committed a sin,” she told TOI. “Neighbours would call me ‘godralu’ (a curse-word for a childless woman). However, my husband stood by me.”

“We are the happiest couple on earth today. We have our own children,” said an ecstatic Rajarao who is confident that they will be able to bring up the girls well.

In fact, the couple had given up on becoming parents until they consulted IVF expert Dr Sanakkayala Umasankar in Guntur about a year ago.

Keeping Mangayamma’s age in mind, Dr Umasankar constituted a board of cardiologists, gynaecologists and paediatricians before deciding on treatment. Mangayamma conceived in the very first cycle of the IVF procedure.

The doctors convinced the couple to take the IVF route since Mangayamma had crossed the menopausal stage. However, Umasankar refused to divulge the details. “Keeping in view the confidentiality clause in the agreement with the patient, we can’t disclose certain details. But we followed all rules,” he told TOI.

Mangayamma was admitted to the hospital in January and stayed under the observation of the medical team. The 74-year-old’s sound physical health also made the job of the doctors easier. She was also subjected to several rounds of psychological counselling to ensure she remained mentally strong throughout the procedure. “Both the mother and babies are doing fine. Ten doctors worked for nine months to keep a close watch on her health. This is a medical miracle,” Dr Umasankar told reporters after the operation.

“It’s due to the grace of God and doctors that I have now become a proud father of two baby girls,” said a jubilant Rajarao, who celebrated the occasion by distributing sweets at the hospital. “I am very happy. After 54 years, God has answered our prayers,” Mangayamma said.

Meanwhile, a debate has been triggered in the medical fraternity on whether it is wise to make a woman undergo IVF at Mangayamma’s age. Many gynaecologists in Guntur and Vijayawada said they were against it. “The doctors should not have considered the case even if the couple pleaded with them,” said a gynaecologist, who didn’t wish to be quoted.

Full report on www.toi.in 



Mangayamma is probably the oldest woman to give birth

SC disapproves of HC judge ‘copy-paste job’

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New Delhi:06.09.2019

Responding to P Chidambaram’s allegation that the high court judge did a copy-paste job by relying blindly on an “unsubstantiated” note handed over by CBI/ED after the hearing had concluded, the Supreme Court on Thursday disapproved verbatim quoting of the sealed envelope note in the judgment.

A bench of Justices R Banumathi and A S Bopanna said there was nothing wrong on the part of the judge to go through the sealed envelope report but said, “We do not endorse the approach of the single judge in extracting the note produced by the Enforcement Directorate. “Of course, while considering the request for anticipatory bail and while perusing the material/note produced by ED/CBI, the single judge could have satisfied his conscience to hold that it is not a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail. On the other hand, the single judge has verbatim quoted from the note produced by ED. The single judge was not right in extracting the note produced by ED/CBI which in our view, is not a correct approach for consideration of grant/ refusal of anticipatory bail.”

The bench further said, “But such incorrect approach of the single judge, in our view, does not affect the correctness of the conclusion in refusing to grant anticipatory bail to the appellant in view of all other aspects considered herein. Though we do not endorse the approach of the single judge in extracting the note produced by the Enforcement Directorate, we do not find any ground warranting interference with the impugned order.”

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Unaccounted income of two raided TN distilleries may be highest in country: I-T
Sivakumar.B@timesgroup.com

Chennai:06.09.2019

The unaccounted income assessed by the income tax department following seizure of several bank documents during searches in SNJ Distilleries and Kal’s Distilleries in Tamil Nadu in early August could well be the highest in the country.

The searches in the two distilleries began on August 6 in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Goa and continued until August

9. A spokesman from the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) confirmed that the unaccounted income of these two distilleries was the highest so far in the country.

Efforts to reach S N Jayamurugan of SNJ distilleries proved futile. There was no response to calls and messages to Jayamurugan’s two mobile numbers on Wednesday.

I-T official said searches in SNJ distilleries resulted in the unearthing of similar tax evasion by another business group, Kal’s. Consequently, the department launched search operations in the premises of Kal’s distilleries on August 9. About seven premises of this group in Chennai and Karaikal were covered in the second phase of the search. “We did not realise that the unaccounted income from the distilleries would be so high. But after collating data from all the bank documents seized, we found that the total unaccounted income totalled several crores of rupees,” an I-T official, seeking anonymity, told TOI. “We found evidence of the modus operandi that involved over-invoicing of purchase of raw material and bottles, which constituted a major portion of the cost of production,” said the official.

Suppliers received payments by cheques at inflated value or RTGS, but paid back the excess in cash to ‘confidante’ employees. The search teams gathered evidence of such over-invoicing and return of cash. Over-invoicing led to suppression of taxable income over six years. Documents are being checked to see if the case can be filed under the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988.