பொங்கல் பணம் ரூ.1,000 நாளையும் வாங்கலாம்

Added : ஜன 18, 2020 23:13

சென்னை:ரேஷன் கடைகளில், 1,000 ரூபாய் ரொக்கம் அடங்கிய, பொங்கல் பரிசு தொகுப்பை வாங்காத, அரிசி கார்டுதாரர்கள், நாளையும், நாளை மறுதினமும் வாங்கலாம்.தமிழகத்தில், 2.05 கோடி ரேஷன் கார்டுகள் உள்ளன.
அதில், இரண்டு கோடி அரிசி கார்டுதாரர்களுக்கு, தலா, 1 கிலோ பச்சரிசி, சர்க்கரை; தலா, 20 கிராம் முந்திரி, திராட்சை; 5 கிராம் ஏலம், கரும்பு, 1,000 ரூபாய் ரொக்கம் அடங்கிய பரிசு தொகுப்பை, தமிழக அரசு அறிவித்தது. இவை, இம்மாதம், 9ம் தேதி முதல், 13ம் தேதி வரை, ரேஷன் கடைகளில் வழங்கப்பட்டன. 

பொங்கல் பரிசு வழங்கியதில், தர்மபுரி மாவட்டம், 99.25 சதவீதம்; வேலுார், 99.15 சதவீதத்துடன் முதல், இரண்டு இடங்களில் உள்ளன.கோவை, சென்னை முறையே, 96.69 சதவீதம் மற்றும் 96.56 சதவீதத்துடன் கடைசி இரண்டு இடங்களில் உள்ளன.மற்ற மாவட்டங்களில், 97 முதல், 98 சதவீதம் பொங்கல் பரிசு வழங்கப்பட்டு உள்ளது. ஒட்டுமொத்தமாக, 98.05 சதவீதம் அதாவது, 1.96 கோடி கார்டுதாரர்கள், பொங்கல் பரிசு வாங்கியுள்ளனர்.

பொங்கலை கொண்டாட, பலர் சொந்த ஊர்களுக்கு சென்றதால், இதுவரை, 3.91 லட்சம் கார்டு தாரர்கள் வாங்கவில்லை.அவர்கள், வரும், 21ம் தேதி வரை, பொங்கல் பரிசு வாங்கலாம் என, அரசு அறிவித்தது. அதன்படி, பரிசு தொகுப்பு வாங்காத அரிசி கார்டுதாரர்கள், ரேஷன் கடைகளில், நாளையும், நாளை மறுதினமும் வாங்கிக் கொள்ளலாம்.

இதே நாளில் அன்று

Added : ஜன 18, 2020 21:24




ஜனவரி 19, 1933எஸ்.கோவிந்தராஜன்:நாகப்பட்டினம் மாவட்டம், சீர்காழியில், சிவசிதம்பரம் -- அவையாம்பாள் தம்பதிக்கு, 1933ல் பிறந்தார். சென்னை இசைக் கல்லுாரியில், 1951ல் பயின்ற அவர், தன், 19வது வயதில், சங்கீத வித்வான், இசைமணி ஆகிய பட்டங்களை பெற்றார்.பொன் வயல்என்ற படத்துக்காக, 1953ல், 'சிரிப்புத் தான் வருகுதைய்யா' என, துவங்கும் பாடல் தான், இவரது திரைப்படத் துறையின் முதல் பாடல். ஆனால், அப்பாடலுக்கு முன்பே, ஜெமினி நிறுவனம் தயாரித்த,அவ்வையார்திரைப்படத்திற்காக ஆத்திச்சூடியை பாடினார். அந்த திரைப்படத்தில், சீர்காழி கோவிந்தராஜன் பெயர் வெளியிடப்படவில்லை.எம்.ஜி.ஆர்., -- சிவாஜி உள்ளிட்ட முன்னணி நடிகருக்கு, ஏராளமான பின்னணி பாடல்கள் பாடியுள்ளார். முருகன், விநாயகர் பக்தி பாடல்களும் பாடியுள்ளார்.அகத்தியர்உள்ளிட்ட, சில திரைப்படங்களில் நடித்துள்ளார். பிரபல கர்நாடக இசைக் கலைஞரும், திரைப்பட பின்னணி பாடகருமான, சீர்காழி கோவிந்தராஜன், 1988 மார்ச், 24ல் இறந்தார்.அவர் பிறந்த தினம் இன்று.

Don’t do politics over Nirbhaya, CM tells BJP

18/01/2020, STAFF REPORTER,NEW DELHI

Reacting to Union Minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani blaming the AAP government for the “delay” in hanging of Nirbhaya case convicts, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said he feels “sad that politics is being done on such an issue”. Asking the BJP not to indulge in politics over the case, he said everyone must work together to ensure that justice in such cases is delivered at the earliest.

Meanwhile, DCW chief Swati Maliwal said the convicts are exploiting “shortcomings” in the system to delay their execution.

Death sentence for rape-murder in 2019 highest in 4 years: NLU report

17 out of 26 cases of capital punishment awarded by HCs related to sexual offences

18/01/2020, SOIBAM ROCKY SINGH ,NEW DELHI

Higher number of death sentences awarded in India in recent years relate to cases of sexual offences, a report by National Law University (NLU), Delhi, revealed.

The fourth edition of ‘The Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics’ published by Project 39A of NLU-Delhi said the number of death sentences awarded for murders involving sexual offences in 2019 was at the highest in four years.

Cases and convictions

The trial courts in India imposed 102 death sentences in 2019, a significant drop from 162 death sentences in 2018. However, the percentage of sexual offences in these cases increased from 41.35 (67 out of 162) in 2018 to 52.94 in 2019 (54 out of 102 sentences). This trend was also seen at the High Courts where 65.38% (17 out of 26) cases of confirmations of death sentences involved sexual offences along with murder, the highest in four years.

The Supreme Court in 2019 dealt with 27 capital punishment cases, highest number since 2001, primarily under former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi’s tenure.

The report said that this can be linked to the priority given to such cases by Chief Justice Gogoi. The Supreme Court last year confirmed the death penalty of seven cases out of which four were of murder involving sexual offences. It commuted a total of 17 cases of death penalty.

The report stated that there were widespread discussions on capital punishment in 2019 involving sexual offences against women and children.

POCSO Act amendment

It observed that the amendment to The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, introducing stringent mandatory minimum punishments and death penalty for penetrative sexual assault on children was a major development in this direction.

Additionally, in response to the public outcry following a brutal gang-rape and murder in Hyderabad, the Andhra Pradesh amended the Indian Penal Code to introduce the death penalty for rape.

“National debates and legislative trends, as well as data on administration of death penalty in this report, indicate that the issue of sexual violence against women and children is now at the heart of the debate on capital punishment in India,” the report said.

It added that the “rampancy and impunity of sexual violence and the fractures within the criminal justice system perpetuating this cycle has led to a public outcry for harsher punishments”.

There was also a corresponding increase in death warrants issued last year, six against one in 2018, with all warrants eventually stayed by the courts, the report stated.

“All warrants that were issued indicate a lack of compliance with the guidelines issued in the case of Shabnam vs. Union of India, which requires that a warrant for execution not be issued until reasonable time for exhausting all remedies under the law has lapsed and specifies procedures to be followed in issuing such warrant,” Project 39A report stated.

Nirbhaya killers to hang on February 1

President rejects Mukesh’s mercy plea

18/01/2020, SOIBAM ROCKY SINGH,NEW DELHI

On a day President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy plea of death row convict Mukesh Singh in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case, a Delhi court on Friday issued a fresh death warrant to hang all four convicts in Tihar jail at 6 a.m. on February 1.

Mukesh had submitted a mercy petition to the President earlier this week. He had followed this up with a petition at the Delhi court, seeking the postponement of his execution.

Additional sessions judge Satish Kumar Arora, who had previously ordered the execution of all four convicts on January 22, questioned why the other three convicts had not yet appealed against the death warrant or exhausted their legal remedies.

“Would it not be delaying tactics? How far can it be stretched,” the judge asked.

The Delhi Prison Rules state that, “If the sentence of death has been passed on more than one person in the same case, and if an appeal or an application is made by or on behalf of only one or more but not all of them the execution of the sentence shall be postponed in the case of all such persons (prisoner sentenced to deaths).”

Currently, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh have exhausted their option of a curative petition before the Supreme Court against the death sentence, while the other two — Pawan Gupta and Akshay Singh — are yet to approach the apex court with their curative pleas.

Sharma, Gupta and Akshay Singh — have also not filed a mercy plea before the President. Advocate A.P. Singh, representing Sharma and Gupta, said a case was pending before the Supreme Court on the question of Gupta’s alleged juvenile status when the crime was committed.

Tuition teacher, husband held under Pocso Act

19/01/2020, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ,CHENNAI

The All-Women police, Avadi, on Saturday arrested a 37-year-old man for aggravated sexual assault on a six-year-old girl. His wife, a tuition teacher, was arrested for abetting the crime.

According to police sources, the victim was studying in second standard at a private school. On the day of the crime, the victim’s mother left her, along with her five-year-old brother, at a home tuition centre.

When the mother returned, the boy told her that his sister was crying during the tuition. The child did not immediately tell her mother what had happened, and revealed the incident only 10 days later, the police said.

Based on the mother’s complaint, the police interrogated the tuition teacher, Vijayalakshmi, 33, and her husband, H. Naresh, 37. The police said that Naresh committed aggravated sexual assault on the child and his wife abetted the crime.

The All-Women police, Avadi, booked a case against them under sections 9 (aggravated sexual assault) and 10 (punishment for sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, 2012, and arrested them.

We buried our differences, couple inform HC Bench

19/01/2020, STAFF REPORTER ,MADURAI

Taking cognisance of the fact that a married couple from Nagercoil had buried their differences and were living together, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court closed a divorce application pending before the Additional District Judge, Nagercoil.

It was hearing the appeal filed by the husband, Solomon Banerji from Nagercoil, who challenged the trial court’s order granting ₹ 8,000 towards maintenance to his wife and children. During the course of the hearing, it was informed that the couple had settled their differences amicably and were living together.

Taking note of the submission made by the couple who were present before the court, Justice N. Sathish Kumar said since the matter was settled, the divorce application pending before the lower court could be closed. Additional District Judge, Nagercoil, is required to close the divorce petition as infructuous as the matter had been amicably settled between the parties, the court said.

The court said that as far as the appeal was concerned, the trial court had taken note of the factual scenario then and awarded the maintenance. Since both parties were residing together, the question of executing the order does not arise. However, the court said that if the husband in future neglects to maintain his wife and children, the trial court order can be put in execution and enforceable by the wife. The appeal was disposed of.