தரமற்ற 5 டன் முந்திரி வருகை: திருப்பியனுப்பிய திருப்பதி தேவஸ்தானம்

By DIN | Published on : 20th October 2019 02:17 AM

 

திருப்பதி: திருமலை தேவஸ்தானத்துக்கு அனுப்பப்பட்ட முந்திரி பருப்பு தரமற்றது என பரிசோதனையில் நிரூபிக்கப்பட்டதால் 5 டன் முந்திரி பருப்பை தேவஸ்தானம் திருப்பி அனுப்பி உள்ளது.

திருமலை ஏழுமலையானுக்கு பிரசாதமாக படைக்கப்படும் லட்டு பல்வேறு பொருள்களை வைத்து தயாரிக்கப்பட்டு வருகிறது. அதற்காக தேவஸ்தானம் கடலை பருப்பு, நெய், கற்கண்டு, ஏலக்காய், உலா் திராட்சை, முந்திரி, பாதாம், சா்க்கரை உள்ளிட்டவற்றை மொத்தமாக கொள்முதல் செய்து வருகிறது. கொள்முதல் டெண்டா் விடுத்து, அதன் மூலம் நடைபெற்று வருகிறது. எனினும், பொருள்களின் தரத்தை பரிசோதித்த பின் மட்டுமே தேவஸ்தானம் அவா்களுக்கு டெண்டரை முடிவு செய்யும்.

இந்நிலையில், லட்டு பிரசாதம் தயாரிக்க தேவஸ்தானம் கேரள அரசிடமிருந்து, ஒரு கிலோ ரூ. 669 என 100 டன் ரூ. 70 கோடிக்கு கொள்முதல் செய்ய ஒப்பந்தம் கையெழுத்திடப்பட்டது. இதையடுத்து, கடந்த அக். 3-ஆம் தேதி கேரள அமைச்சா் மொ்சிகுட்டி அம்மா முதல் முறையாக 5 டன் முந்திரி பருப்பை திருப்பதிக்கு கொடியசைத்து அனுப்பி வைத்தாா். அவை திருப்பதியை அடைந்தவுடன், அதன் தரத்தை தேவஸ்தானம் ஆய்வுக் கூடத்தில் பரிசோதித்தது. அப்போது அவை தரமற்றவை என நிரூபிக்கப்பட்டதைத் தொடா்ந்து, 5 டன் முந்திரி பருப்பையும் தேவஸ்தானம் திருப்பி அனுப்பியது.

'நீட்' தேர்வு ஆள் மாறாட்ட வழக்கு ஜாமின் விசாரணை ஒத்திவைப்பு

Added : அக் 19, 2019 22:05

தேனி,'நீட்' தேர்வு ஆள்மாறாட்ட வழக்கில் ஜாமின் கோரிய ஐந்துபேரின் மனுக்கள் மீதான விசாரணை தேனி நீதிமன்றம் நாளை (அக்., 21) ஒத்தி வைத்தது.'நீட்' தேர்வு ஆள்மாறாட்ட வழக்கில் மாணவர்கள் பிரவின், ராகுல், பிரியங்கா, இர்பான் , அவர்களது தந்தையர்கள் டாக்டர் வெங்கடேசன், சரவணன், டேவிஸ், முகமதுஷபி, தாயார் மைனாவதி ஆகியோர் சிறையில் உள்ளனர். மாணவர் உதித் சூர்யாவிற்கு உயர்நீதிமன்ற மதுரை கிளை நிபந்தனை ஜாமின் வழங்கியது.இந்நிலையில் பிரவின், ராகுல், தந்தையர்கள் சரவணன், டேவிஸ், முகமது ஷபி ஆகிய ஐந்துபேர் ஏற்கனவே ஜாமின் கோரியிருந்தனர். இம்மனுக்கள் நேற்று தேனி மாவட்ட செசன்ஸ் நீதிமன்றத்தில் விசாரணைக்கு வந்தது. நீதிபதி விஜயா விடுப்பில் சென்றதால், மகளிர் நீதிமன்ற நீதிபதி கீதா விசாரித்தார். இவர் இம்மனுக்களை நாளை ஒத்திவைத்தார்.

SRM university hosts national level hackathon 

DECCAN CHRONICLE.

Published Oct 20, 2019, 2:53 am IST

 The winner was team Dragon_Booster from Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur. 


People's Favorite award was won by SRMIST's Beeclust_mrsl group consisting of Inderan Kannan, Atul John Abraham, and Sukriti.

Chennai: Future mobility, Defence, Sustainability, Technology in Brand Experience, IT Security and Tourism were the themes of the fourth edition of the SRM Hackathon, organised by the IT Association, School of Computing and SRM Institute of Science and Technology, at the SRMIST campus.

The winner was team Dragon_Booster from Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur. The Social Stars award was won by Team Gen-Y of SRMIST, comprising Shwet Mishra, Siddhant Tibrewal, Saurabh Agrawal, Subhashree Hazra and Atif Hossain. Their application was to solve travel plan complexity and help people create any trip according to their preferences.

People's Favorite award was won by SRMIST's Beeclust_mrsl group consisting of Inderan Kannan, Atul John Abraham, and Sukriti. Their work was a prototype that uses algae and draws in CO2 and other harmful gases like

Sulphur Di Oxide and fullerenes (excess air) into the system. The major highlights include the production of zero to no waste, completely environment-friendly and low energy consumption when compared to the conventional air purifiers.

SRM Hackathon 4.0 was a 36-hour long event and had about 1000 entries. Only 40 ideas were selected for the finals, held under the guidance of a panel of mentors and judges. The idea was to create a platform for young developers and professionals to showcase their projects.

Speaking at the event, SRMIST Vice-Chancellor Dr. Sandeep Sancheti said that novelty and innovation formed the core of such Hackathons. “It is important to learn from such competitions that provide a space for developers to come across 50-odd solutions for a single problem”, he said, pointing out that Prime Minister Narendra Modi also promoted such hackathons.

Absence of injury no ground to say there was no sex abuse: Madras high court 

DECCAN CHRONICLE. | J STALIN

Published Oct 20, 2019, 4:48 am IST
 
The case of the prosecution was that the mother of the victim minor girl, had lodged a complaint on May 27, 2016. 

Madras high court

Chennai: Observing that when parents, who discover that their child has been abused often find themselves experiencing a range of feelings from confusion and anger to horror, disgust, grief and betrayal and many will feel frustrated and helpless and some find themselves feeling a sense of numbness, the Madras high court has upheld the conviction and sentence of 10 years rigorous imprisonment awarded to an accused, who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl in Erode district.

Dismissing the appeal filed by the accused P.Prakash, Justice S.Vaidyanathan said, “The accused does not deserve for any leniency from this court, as the acquittal of a person like the accused will tantamount to posing a threat to female children and there may be a possibility of losing their virginity at the young age itself”.

“Nowadays, several couples are facing infertility problem in India, on account of which, they are longing for a child and when that child is abused and assaulted sexually, it will amount to removal of a bud from a plant to prevent flower and fruit from forming”, the judge added.

The case of the prosecution was that the mother of the victim minor girl, had lodged a complaint on May 27, 2016, against the accused, stating that on May 27, 2016, at about 5 pm, while her second daughter aged about 12 years, was playing hike and seek game with her friends, the accused forcibly took her to his house and committed a sexual assault on the victim minor girl, which resulted in registration of a case for the offences under section 366 IPC and section 6 read with 18 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act). After trial, the Sessions Court (Mahalir Fast Track Court), Erode convicted and sentenced the accused to 10 years RI for offences under section 366 IPC and 7 years RI under the POCSO Act. Aggrieved, the accused filed the present appeal.

The judge said the counsel for the appellant placed much reliance on the statement made by Dr Malarvizhi that in the event of any physical violence, there must have been bodily injury on the person, who was subjected to such violence, in the absence of which, it cannot be said that the victim minor girl was subjected to sexual harassment. It was a highly fallacious argument advanced by the counsel for the accused in as much as a minor girl did not even know as to what for she was being pulled in and touched and therefore, an inference can be drawn that there cannot be much resistance on the side of a minor girl and in the absence of any opposition, naturally, there was no possibility of sustaining any injury on the body. Mere absence of bodily injury cannot be a ground to say that there was no offence at all, especially, when it was reported that semen was detected on the churidar. Thus, the version of the victim minor girl has been duly supported by the report of the forensic sciences department, as the vi
ctim minor girl in her 164 statement before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Erode had clearly stated that when the accused had touched her, some liquid like water fell on her churidar pant and on seeing the same, she had run out of the house and the said deposition cannot be said to be a tutored one. Even though, this court thought of incorporating the deposition of the girl in the order, in the interest of the child and with a view to avoid inclusion of obscene words contained in the deposition, this court has refrained from extraction of those contents, the judge added.

The judge said on the side of the accused, no iota of evidence has been furnished to show that he was falsely implicated in this case owing to the previous enmity and a mother cannot play with the life of her daughter in order to gain financially or any other thing. The problem of sexual harassment relates to the roles which were attributed to men and women in social and economic life, which, in turn, directly or indirectly, affects women's positions in the labor market, the judge added.

Haveri college apologies for ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking

20/10/2019 , Staff Reporter , Bengaluru

A day after students of Bhagat PU College in Haveri were made to wear boxes on their heads to prevent them from copying, the management of the college has apologised for the incident.

The administrator of the college, M.B. Satish, submitted a written apology to the Deputy Director of PU Department in the presence of Deputy Commissioner, Haveri district.

Minister reacts

Primary and Secondary Education Minister S. Suresh Kumar told The Hindu that he had directed officials concerned to submit a report on the incident. “Stringent action will be taken against the college for the unacceptable action. This is to ensure that such incidents do not repeat. It is shameful that such incidents occur,” he said.

FB to deliver News Corp stories 

Its upcoming news tab will highlight headlines from WSJ
 
20/10/2019 , Agence France-Presse, San Francisco 


Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook on Friday confirmed that some stories from News Corp, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, will be among the headlines delivered in a news tab the leading social network plans to launch in coming weeks.

Edited by seasoned journalists, the tab will be separate from the feed that displays updates from people’s friends, according to the California-based tech giant.

The new feature marks a departure from Facebook’s longstanding practice of letting algorithms dictate users’ experiences.

“I’m excited we’ll have the opportunity to include award-winning journalism from The Wall Street Journal — and other U.S. News Corp properties — in our news tab,” the firm’s co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.

No details were provided about the agreement, but last month Facebook said it plans to pay only a portion of the publishers whose stories appear in the tab.

Facebook and Google currently dominate the market for online advertising, making it harder for traditional news organizations to gain traction in digital.

Mr. Zuckerberg and his social network have also come under intense pressure in recent years over the spread of so-called “fake news” and data privacy issues.

The WSJ has reported that Facebook plans to pay about a quarter of the estimated 200 news organisations whose articles will be featured.

CBI alleges illegal gratification in INX Media case 

₹3.2 crore paid by it to four companies after Chidambaram cleared downstreaming of investments

20/10/2019 , Special Correspondent, NEW DELHI 


P. Chidambaram after he was produced in court. file photo


The CBI has alleged that four invoices were raised for payment of over ₹3.2 crore by INX Media to four companies after its proposal for downstreaming investments into INX News was cleared by the then Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, in 2008.

The companies are Advantage Strategic Consulting Private Ltd. (ASCPL), which is allegedly controlled by Karti Chidambaram, its Singapore wing, North Star Software Private Ltd. and the Greece-based Geben Trading Limited, the CBI said.

On March 13, 2007, the company applied for investments from three Mauritius-based firms — Dunearn Investments, New Silk Route and New Vernon Private Equity Ltd. — by way of preferential allotment of 14.99 lakh equity shares at ₹10 a unit.

However, as alleged, INX Media had entered into a deal with the investors for issuance of shares at a premium of ₹862.15 a unit. The quoted amount of the proposed influx was just ₹4.62 crore, but the real figure turned out to be ₹403.07 crore.

The proposal was put up before the FIPB (Foreign Investment Promotion Board), which recommended it, clarifying that a separate approval was needed for downstreaming. Mr. Chidambaram cleared it, but the approval letter did not quantify the FDI in monetary terms, allegedly to conceal the exact amount of influx. It was showed only as 46.2% of the issued equity share capital of the company to the investors, the CBI said.

In February 2008, the then Information and Broadcasting Minister received complaints about the source of funding to INX News from some media representatives. The matter was sent to the Department of Revenue (DoR). Some former MPs, besides former INX Media employee Vir Sanghvi, too approached the Finance Minister, who also referred the issue to the DoR.

The Income Tax Department initiated an inquiry and sought clarifications from the Finance Ministry’s FIPB unit on “excess” investment and 26% downstreaming in INX News. The FIPB unit officials, named in the CBI chargesheet filed on Friday, defended the decision on the FDI issue, the CBI said.

The agency alleged that correspondences between the Income-Tax Department, the FIPB unit and INX Media were on when then INX Media director Peter Mukerjea allegedly contacted Mr. Chidambaram to resolve the issues. On his instructions, it is alleged, the company directors met Mr. Karti Chidambaram at Hotel Hyatt in mid-2008.

At the meeting, a demand for $1 million was made, of which ₹9.96 lakh was paid in advance to ASCPL in the guise of consultancy, the CBI said.

As advised by Mr. Karti’s company Chess Management Services, INX Media replied to the FIPB unit's queries on the issues of “excess” investment and downstreaming. The official who received the response proposed to forward it to the Income Tax Department for further action. However, the accused FIPB officials buried the matter, saying that INX News had been told to apply afresh for downstreaming.