4-day closure of Dwarka temple

4-day closure of Dwarka temple

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Rajkot: 7.8.2020

The famous Dwarkadhish temple of Lord Krishna will remain closed for four days from August 10 to August 13 to avoid heavy rush of devotees for Janmashtami.

Lakhs of people throng the temple town for Krishna Janm on the day of the festival and they start trooping in a day before. Devbhumi Dwarka district collector NK Meena, who issued a notification in this regard on Thursday, said, it’s not possible to control the massive rush even with pass systems. “With passes, we can only accommodate 10,000 devotees in a day.”

Though the temple will remain closed, prayers will be performed inside and the entire ritual will be streamed live on the social media. There are total 97 Covid-19 positive cases in the district out of which eight are reported in Dwarka town.

The temple will remain closed for Janmashtami from August 10 to 13 due to Covid pandemic

Couple moves HC to talk to grandchild

Couple moves HC to talk to grandchild

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad  7.8.2020

An elderly couple has moved the Gujarat high court with a prayer that it should direct their son-in-law in the US to allow them to talk on video call to their 9-year-old granddaughter, who is not in their contact for over a year.

The city-based couple has filed a habeas corpus petition to establish contact with their granddaughter, who is a US citizen because of her birth in Texas. They complained that their son-in-law has snapped all ties with them suddenly more than a year ago after demise of their daughter and after his second marriage.

Their advocate Bhargav Hasurkar said that since custody of a foreign national cannot be secured through a habeas corpus petition and this is a family matter, court’s directions were sought.

The lawyer said that after hearing the case, the high court on Thursday issued notice to the son-in-law and asked him to remain present along with the girl before the court through video conferencing next week.

In this case, the couple got their daughter married to a US-based professional in 2009. The couple had a girl child in 2011. The wife died in 2016 at an age of 30, and the man re-married few months later. The family left for the US in January 2017. The grandparents in Ahmedabad claimed that they last saw the child in 2016. After the family went to USA, they continued to talk on video.

However, in April 2019, the son-in-law suddenly snapped all ties with them. They have urged the HC to direct their son-in-law to allow them to talk to the girl on video call because they cannot visit USA.

Govt staff kin compensation cut to ₹25 lakh

Govt staff kin compensation cut to ₹25 lakh

Chennai: 7.8.2020

Tamil Nadu government has reduced its compensation and sanctioned ₹25 lakh each to the 28 families/legal heirs of government staff and local body employees who died of Covid-19 while engaged in frontline pandemic work. The members died between May 10 and June 26, and at least eight of them were from Greater Chennai Corporation limits.

In April, CM Edappadi K Palaniswami had announced that ₹50 lakh each will be extended as relief to the bereaved families of government employees involved in Covid-19 duty. This was reduced to ₹25 lakh each. “The relief has been revised due to more deaths and likely numbers in future,” said a senior official, seeking anonymity. TNN

Fake online maid agency busted, 1 held

Fake online maid agency busted, 1 held

Chennai: 06.08.2020

A 41-year-old woman was arrested in Neelankarai on Tuesday night for running a fake domestic help placement agency online.

The newly launched cyber cell at Adyar police district busted the fake agency and arrested R Bulkees alias Amul, of Saidapet.

Police said Ashokraj of Vettuvankani recently lodged a complaint with the Neelankarai police alleging that Roja Manpower Services, an agency providing house maids, cheated him. A woman who called him within five minutes of him contacting the agency promised to send a maid to his house and made him pay ₹4,500 online. However, since she did not send the maid even after a week, Ashokraj dialled the agency number which remained unreachable. Realising that he had been cheated he lodged a complaint. A case of cheating was registered and the woman was traced with the help of the cyber cell police.

Investigation revealed that she has cheated several people using the same modus operandi. She was remanded in judicial custody on Wednesday. TNN

திருவாரூரில் உள்ள தமிழ்நாடு மத்தியப் பல்கலைக்கழகத்துக்கு பொறுப்பு துணைவேந்தர் நியமனம்

திருவாரூரில் உள்ள தமிழ்நாடு மத்தியப் பல்கலைக்கழகத்துக்கு பொறுப்பு துணைவேந்தர் நியமனம்

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ஏ.பி.தாஸ் ஓய்வுபெற்ற நிலையில் பொறுப்புகளை புதிய துணைவேந்தராக (பொ) பொறுப்பேற்றுள்ள கற்பக குமாரவேலிடம் ஒப்படைத்தார். அருகில் பல்கலைக்கழக பதிவாளர் புவனேஸ்வரி உள்ளார்.

திருவாரூரில் உள்ள தமிழ்நாடு மத்தியப் பல்கலைக்கழகத்துக்கு துணைவேந்தர் (பொறுப்பு) நியமனம் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளார்.

திருவாரூர் அருகே, நீலக்குடி கிராமத்தில் தமிழ்நாடு மத்தியப் பல்கலைக்கழகம் செயல்பட்டு வருகிறது. இந்த பல்கலைக்கழகத்தின் துணைவேந்தராக ஏ.பி.தாஸ் பதவி வகித்து வந்தார். இவரின் பதவிக்காலம் நேற்றுடன் (ஆக.5) நிறைவடைந்த நிலையில், பல்கலைக்கழகத்தின் இடைக்கால துணைவேந்தராக பேராசிரியர் கற்பக குமாரவேல் (பொறுப்பு) பதவி ஏற்றுள்ளார்.

நேற்று மாலை பல்கலைக்கழகத்தில் நடத்தப்பட்ட நிர்வாகக் குழுக் கூட்டத்தில் இந்த முடிவு எடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இவர் முன்னதாக மதுரை காமராஜர் பல்கலைக்கழகத்தின் துணைவேந்தராக பணியாற்றியுள்ளார். மேலும், மனித வள மேம்பாட்டு மையத்தின் இயக்குநராகவும், யூஜிசி ஆராய்ச்சி ஒருங்கிணைப்பாளராகவும் பணியாற்றி வருகிறார்.

"ஜனநாயக வழியில் எனது நிர்வாகப் பணி இருக்கும். நடுநிலையுடன் மத்திய பல்கலைக்கழகத்தின் வளர்ச்சியை துரிதப்படுத்த அனைத்து வகையான முயற்சிகளும் மேற்கொள்ளப்படும்" என கற்பக குமாரவேல் தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

[Breaking] 11 Students Move SC Seeking Postponement Of NEET, JEE Exams

[Breaking] 11 Students Move SC Seeking Postponement Of NEET, JEE Exams

LIVELAW NEWS NETWORK

6 Aug 2020 6:41 PM

Citing the risk of COVID-19 pandemic, a writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking the postponement of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), scheduled to be held in September 2020.

The petition filed by eleven students from eleven States contends that the decision to hold JEE(Main) through online mode from September 1 to 6 and NEET UG-2020 through offline mode on September 13 at 161 centres across India are "utterly arbitrary, whimsical and violative of the fundamental right to life of lakhs of affected students".

"It is further respectfully submitted that due to their unwell health conditions or due to strong possibility of getting affected by COVID-19, many students may be deprived from appearing in their aforesaid JEE (Main) April-2020 and NEET UG-2020 Exams, which will be in flagrant violation of their fundamental right to equality, as enshrined within Article 14 of Constitution of India", states the plea filed through Advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava.

The petition points out that the Institution of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has cancelled the CA exams citing COVID-19 risk. The remaining exams of CBSE/ICSE/ISC have also been cancelled. The Common Law Admission Entrance Test (CLAT) and the National Institute of Open School exams have also been postponed.

Therefore, the petitioners seek parity with the said examinations.

"Lakhs of young students are likely to appear in the aforesaid JEE (Main) April-2020 and NEET UG-2020 Exams in the months of September, 2020. Meanwhile, COVID-19 cases are increasing in India at an alarming rate. The deadly pandemic COVID-19 has already affected about 20 Lakh people in India and situation is worsening by every passing day. Conducting the aforesaid examination across India at such perilous time, is nothing else but putting lives of lakhs of young students (including Petitioners herein) at utmost risk and danger of disease and death", the plea reads.

It is further argued that the authorities have arbitrarily overlooked that most of the parents of the affected students are facing utmost financial distress due to reduced financial opportunities amid COVID-19 crisis.

"In such a situation, further burdening them with the cost of Transportation, Accommodation and Medical Treatment of their wards, for appearing in the captioned examination, is utterly unjust, unfair and unwarranted", the plea states.

The petitioners also argue that there will be discrimination between students who have access to technology and the internet and those who lack such access.

"It is respectfully submitted that the students who are well equipped with computer and strong internet connection will give online exams while in other hand the students who are unable to give and arrange online exams, will have to come to exam centres by risking their lives. This is a discrimination between students which must be avoided".

"The Respondents have ignored the plight of lakhs of students belonging to Bihar, Assam and North Eastern States, which are presently witnessing incessant flood and thus conducting online or offline examinations in such places, is not possible. The Rail/ Bus and/or other Public Transport are still operating in a restricted manner, as of now. There is no free movement of Railways and only a selected number of Trains are operating.

Those students who are not living in the close proximity of the Examination Centres, will face a lot of difficulties in getting rented/ PG accommodations across India, as Landlords are unwilling to give such accommodation nowadays, due to COVID-19 outbreak. Furthermore, those students who are living in Hostels, will have to share rooms, washrooms and mess with other students, which will enhance their chances of COVID-19 infection", the plea adds.

The petitioners therefore seek to direct the authorities to conduct NEET and JEE "only after normalcy in restored in our country, post COVID-19 crisis".

The petitioners also urge the Court to increase the number of NEET and JEE examination centres across the country and provide at least one centre in one district of each state.

[Breaking] 11 Students Move SC Seeking Postponement Of NEET, JEE Exams

[Breaking] 11 Students Move SC Seeking Postponement Of NEET, JEE Exams: Citing the risk of COVID-19 pandemic, a writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking the postponement of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance