Woman forgets ₹6L gold in auto, driver returns it

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:2.11.2019

An autorickshaw driver returned a handbag containing 25 sovereigns of gold jewellery worth around ₹6 lakh left behind by a woman passenger at Saligramam on Thursday night.

Police said Vijayalakshmi, 46, of Kamarajar Street, Teynampet, was to attend a wedding at Saligramam. Since she felt that it was not safe to wear gold jewels while travelling, she kept them in a bag.

At 6pm, she got into the auto of Udayakumar, 46, of Ramanathan Street, T Nagar. While getting down from the vehicle, she forgot to take the bag. Vijayalakshmi called up the police control room and reported the issue. Since she did not book the autorickshaw through any app, she did not have a phone number or the vehicle’s number.

Udayakumar, who took another passenger to Pondy Bazaar, saw the bag on the back seat.

He reached the marriage hall where he had dropped Vijayalakshmi and returned the bag. Since Vijayalakshmi had lodged a complaint, they went to the Virugambakkam police station and the bag was ‘formally’ handed over to the woman.

Udayakumar told police he usually checked his auto after passengers left but since Vijayalakshmi had kept the bag in a corner, it was not visible.

Government talks tough, forces striking docs to return to work

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Chennai:2.11.2019

A week after boycotting work, barring emergencies, across government hospitals, doctors were forced to return to duty on Friday. The government had flexed its muscles, transferred some doctors who spearheaded the strike, and vowed disciplinary action including dismissal. Although doctors did all they could, including staging a fast unto death, the government refused to engage them in talks until they withdrew the strike.

The Federation of Government Doctors Association – a group of five associations – began the strike on October 25 demanding increase in salaries, recruitment of more doctors and 50% quota for service candidate in PG medical admission. When health minister C Vijayabaskar and health secretary Beela Rajesh refused to meet them until they withdrew the strike, five doctors went on a hunger strike demanding an appointment with the chief minister.

On Wednesday, after several warnings, 70 doctors were transferred to districts including remote and hilly regions. The health department issued showcause notices for initiating disciplinary action against some doctors for violating service rules and preventing colleagues from discharging duties. Police were posted on campuses to discourage protesters from gathering in more members.

On Thursday, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Vijayabaskar said they would replace the posts of doctors abstaining from work with internal transfers or new recruits. The government said week-long absence would be considered break in service. At 8pm on Thursday, the association told reporters it would not yield to government threats and would continue to protest until demands were met, but support dwindled.

On Friday, when the deadline given by the government was to about end, the federation withdrew the strike. “Directors of health spoke to us. They assured us that the government was looking into our demands seriously. We have withdrawn our strike with the hope that our demands will be met. We want the government to call us for talks and withdraw all disciplinary action taken against us,” FOGDA convenor Dr P Balakrishnan told reporters. He was one of those transferred out of Chennai’s Stanley Medical College and Hospital. Several association leaders and district heads were also transferred.

Vijayabaskar said no action would be taken against doctors back at work.

While senior advocate R Vaigai said most protesters should consolidate themselves better to face challenges thrown by an indifferent government, other legal experts said it was time to acknowledge that strikes no longer worked. “Teachers, transport employees or doctors, all of them were asked to withdraw the strike before talks. Courts too have been supportive of the government strategy,” said senior advocate S Prabakaran.

HC on doctor stir: Why wasn’t TESMA invoked?

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:2.11.2019

The Madras high court has wondered why the Tamil Nadu Essential Services Maintenance Act (TESMA) was not invoked against the striking government doctors and asked the state government whether the law was still in force.

“Nature of a person’s work determines whether they can go on strike or not. What would happen if the army, police or the conservancy workers go on such strike?” asked a division bench of Justice M Sathyanarayanan and Justice N Seshasayee on Friday. The bench made the observations while hearing a batch of pleas against government doctors resorting to strike.

Advocate general Vijay Narayan submitted that the TESMA was brought in only as an ordinance a few years ago and said he would verify its present status and inform the court. He further said the protesting doctors had informed the state government that they were withdrawing their strike and resuming work.

Dad, 82, kills 44-yr-old mentally ill son

City Pensioner Feared Nobody Will Care For Son After His Death

Sindhu.Kannan@timesgroup.com

Chennai:2.11.2019

An 82-year-old Alwarpet resident killed his mentally challenged son by giving him an overdose of sleeping pills and stayed with the body for four days after his attempt to end his own life proved futile on Monday, police said.

The incident came to light on Friday morning after neighbours complained of foul smell from the flat in Triveni Apartments. Police barged in to find the elderly man lying beside the decomposed body. Police said Viswanathan, who retired as a stenographer from a central government office, was taking care of his 44-yearold son Venkatraman all alone. Viswanathan's wife had died 15 years ago. “He decided to kill his ailing son fearing that no one would take care of him after his death,” a police officer said.

Police have booked Viswanathan, who is undergoing treatment in an intensive care unit. Viswanathan has been suffering from age-related health issues, and got no help. Venkatraman, who was also physically challenged, was dependent on his father for all his needs. “He was not able to see his son suffering during the days he fell sick,” said an investigating officer. “They lived on his pension, and he thought there would be none to attend to his son once he was gone.”

Police said Viswanathan on Monday gave his son food laced with a heavy dose of sleeping pills. He, too popped in a few of the tablets. While his son died, Viswanathan fell unconscious, but survived. He was lying on the same bed, where his son’s body was found.

The neighbours too did not find anything unusual as the father and son mostly remained indoors. When the foul smell came on Friday, some neighbours went to check. When nobody answered the door, they called police. The Teynampet police sent a team that recovered the body and took Venkatesan to a hospital. Police said they have contacted Viswanathan’s brother and are awaiting his arrival.

Vazhapadi to have world’s tallest statue of Murugan at 145ft

Senthil.Kumaran@timesgroup.com

Salem:2.11.2019

The world’s tallest Murugan statue, at 145 feet, is getting ready in Salem district. Sri Muthumalai Murugar Trust (SMMT) that is building the statue at Puthiragoundampalayam near Vazhapadi said work will be completed before October 2020.

“I got this idea to build the tallest Murugan statue after I came to know about the 140ft Murugan statue in Malaysia,” N Sridhar, chairman of SMMT, told TOI. Not many people can visit Malaysia to worship the deity. “They can easily come to Salem to worship Murugan.”

Sridhar, a businessman from Attur, decided to construct the temple and statue in his own land in 2014. He took nearly two years to initiate the construction process along with sculptor ‘Tiruvarur’ Thiyagarajan, who had constructed the 140ft Murugan statue in Malaysia in 2006.

The trust performed bhoomi puja on March 13, 2016, and named the statue ‘Muthu Malai Murugan’. They will be building Murugan statues in different postures as in the ‘arupadai veedu’ (six abodes) temples: Tirutani, Swamimalai, Palani, Pazhamudhircholai, Tirupparankundram and Tiruchendur.

Around 2 lakh bricks and several thousands of bags of cement have so far gone into building the statue. “A total of 25,000 people are working round the clock,” he said. An 80-foot-long spear (vel) has been completed.

Sridhar’s father Muthu Natarajan, who died in 2018, had constructed three temples — the Periyanayaki Amman temple at Kallakurichi, the Pachiamman temple in Attur town and the Ranganathar temple at Narasingapuram. An elevator will be set up near the statue to take devotees up to a height of 120 ft to have close darshan. An ‘Annadhana’ hall will be built to offer free prasadam.

“We plan to construct a hospital that will offer free medical care, a marriage hall and an old age home on the temple premises,” Sridhar said.


TALL ORDER: ‘Tiruvarur’ Thiyagarajan, who sculpted the 140ft Murugan statue in Malaysia in 2006, is building the statue

விருத்தாசலம் நகரில் தீராத பிரச்சினை: தெரு நாய்களின் அட்டூழியத்தால் 

மக்கள் எரிச்சல்




விருத்தாசலம்

விருத்தாசலம் நகரில் தெரு நாய்களின் தொல்லை அதிகரித்து வருகிறது. குறிப்பாக, ஜங்ஷனிலிருந்து, பேருந்து நிலையம் செல்லும் பயணிகளை இந்த தெரு நாய்கள் துரத்தி தாக்குகின்றன. இந்த நாய்கள் இரு சக்கர வாகன ஓட்டிகளை வெறித்தனத்தோடு விரட்டுவது, சிறுவர்களை கடித்துக் குதறுவது என அட்டூழியம் செய்கின்றன.

முன்பெல்லாம் மாதத்திற்கு ஒருமுறை நகராட்சிகளில் இருந்து வரும் நாய் பிடி வாகனம், வீதியில் திரிந்து கொண்டிருக்கும் நாய்களை பிடித்து, மலைப்பகுதிக்கு கொண்டு சென்று விடும். அதனால் நகரப் பகுதிகளில் நாய்களின் நடமாட்டம் கட்டுக்குள் இருந்தன. பிராணிகள் நல அமைப்பினரின் எதிர்ப்பால் நாய் பிடிப்பதில் தொய்வு ஏற்பட்டு, இதனை நிறுத்தினர். இதனால் தெரு நாய்களின் பெருக்கம் அதிகரித்தது.

இதற்கு முடிவுகட்டும் வகையில், நாய்களின் இனப்பெருக்கத்தைக் கட்டுப்படுத்தும் வகை யில், நாய்களுக்கு இனப்பெருக்க கருத்தடை செய்ய முடிவு செய்யப்பட்டு, சுகாதாரத் துறை யால் நிதி ஒதுக்கப்பட்டது. சில இடங்களில் நாய் இனப்பெருக்கத்துக்கான கருத்தடை செய்யப் பட்ட போதிலும், அவையும் தற்போது கைவிடப் பட்ட நிலையில், நாய்களின் இனப்பெருக்கம் அதிகரித்து, அவை குழுவாக சுற்றித் திரிந்து விருத்தாசலம் நகர மக்களை அச்சுறுத்தி வரு கிறது. இது தொடர்பாக அப்பகுதி மக்கள் விருத்தாசலம் நகராட்சியில் புகார் அளித்தும் நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படவில்லை என்று இப் பகுதி மக்கள் தெரிவிக்கின்றனர்.

இதுபற்றி விருத்தாசலம் நகராட்சி சுகாதாரத் துறை ஆய்வாளர் குமாரிடம் கேட்டபோது, "ஒரு நாய்க்கு கருத்தடை செய்ய அரசு ரு.445 நிர்ணயம் செய்துள்ளது. ஆனால், இந்த தொகை கட்டுப்படி யாகவில்லை என்று கால்நடை மருத்துவர்கள் கைவிரித்து விட்டனர்.

அவர்கள் ஒரு நாய்க்கு கருத்தடை செய்ய ரூ.900 கேட்கின்றனர். நாய் பிடிப்பதற்கு ஒரு நாய்க்கு ரூ.50 கேட்கின்றனர். கருத்தடை செய்த பின் 3 தினங்களுக்கு நாயைப் பராமரித்து, அதற்குரிய உணவை வழங்கி, பிடித்த இடத்திலேயே விட வேண்டும். இது தொடர்பாக அரசுக்கு பரிந்துரைத்துள்ளோம். அரசும் அதனை ஆய்வு செய்து வருகிறது'' என்றார்.

நடுவானில் தவறான அலாரம்: குவைத்துக்கு புறப்பட்ட விமானம் மீண்டும் சென்னைக்கே திரும்பியது 

 Published : 01 Nov 2019 16:15 pm



பிரதிநிதித்துவப் படம்

புதுடெல்லி, பிடிஐ

சென்னையிலிருந்து இன்று அதிகாலை 160 பயணிகளுடன் குவைத் புறப்பட்டு சென்ற இண்டிகோ விமானம் நடுவானில் தவறான அலாரம் ஒலித்ததன் காரணமாக விமானிகள் 'நடுவான் நெருக்கடி'யை அறிவித்தனர்.

இதனையடுத்து குவைத் விமானம் சென்னை விமான நிலையத்திற்கு மீண்டும் திரும்பியது.

இதுகுறித்து விமானத்தின் செய்தித் தொடர்பாளர் கூறியதாவது:

சென்னை விமான நிலையத்திலிருந்து இண்டிகோ ஏ 320 இயக்கும் 'சென்னை-குவைத் 6 இ -1751' விமானம் இன்று அதிகாலை 1.30 மணியளவில் புறப்பட்டுச் சென்றது.

புறப்பட்ட 15 நிமிடங்களில் தீ விபத்து எச்சரிக்கையை அறிவிக்கும் அலாரம் ஒலிப்பதை விமானிகள் கண்டுபிடித்தனர். உடனடியாக எமர்ஜென்ஸி அறிவிப்பு எண்.7700 ஐ அனைத்து விமானப் போக்குவரத்து கட்டுப்பாட்டுப் பகுதிகளுக்கும் அனுப்பினர்.

இதைத் தொடர்ந்து முன்னெச்சரிக்கையாக, விமானம் மீண்டும் சென்னை விமான நிலையம் வந்தடைந்தது. சென்னையில் தரையிறங்கிய விமானத்தில் ஆய்வு செய்யப்பட்ட பிறகு அலாரம் தவறானது என்பது உறுதி செய்யப்பட்டது.

இவ்வாறு இண்டிகோ விமான செய்தித் தொடர்பாளர் தெரிவித்தார்.