Tuesday, April 13, 2021

அண்ணா பல்கலையில் கொரோனா கட்டுப்பாடு


அண்ணா பல்கலையில் கொரோனா கட்டுப்பாடு

Added : ஏப் 13, 2021 00:28

சென்னை : அண்ணா பல்கலையில் பணியாற்றும் பலருக்கு, கொரோனா தொற்று உறுதி செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது. அதனால், பல்கலை வளாகத்தில், கொரோனா கட்டுப்பாடு தீவிரப்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது.

சென்னையில் உள்ள அண்ணா பல்கலையின் இணைப்பு அங்கீகாரத்தில், மாநிலம் முழுதும், 550க்கும் மேற்பட்ட இன்ஜினியரிங் கல்லுாரிகள் செயல்படுகின்றன. தமிழகத்தில், கொரோனா தொற்று பரவல் அதிகரித்ததால், கல்லுாரி மாணவர்களுக்கு, மார்ச், 31 உடன் நேரடி வகுப்புகள் நிறுத்தப்பட்டன. ஆன்லைன் வழியில் மட்டுமே வகுப்புகள் நடத்தப்படுகின்றன.அதேநேரம், பல்கலையில் பணியாற்றும் பேராசிரியர்கள், பணியாளர்கள் மற்றும் அலுவலர்கள், தினமும் பல்கலைக்கு வந்து, பணிகளை கவனிக்கின்றனர்.

அவர்களில் சிலருக்கு உடல் நலக்குறைவு ஏற்பட்டு, மருத்துவமனையில் சேர்க்கப்பட்டனர். அதில், கொரோனா சோதனையில், தொற்று உறுதி செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது. இதையடுத்து, பல்கலை வளாகத்தில் பணியாளர்கள், பேராசிரியர்கள் கூடி நிற்க வேண்டாம். அலுவலகங்களில் அருகருகே இருக்கைகளை அமைத்து கொள்ள வேண்டாம். முக கவசம் கட்டாயம் அணிய வேண்டும் என, பல்கலை நிர்வாகம் அறிவுறுத்தி உள்ளது.

கொரோனா கட்டுப்பாடுகளால் தள்ளாடும் அரசு பஸ்கள்

கொரோனா கட்டுப்பாடுகளால் தள்ளாடும் அரசு பஸ்கள்

Added : ஏப் 13, 2021 00:04

கொரோனா தடுப்பு நடவடிக்கையாக, பஸ்களில், இருக்கைகளில் மட்டுமே பயணியரை ஏற்றிச் செல்ல வேண்டும் என்ற கட்டுப்பாட்டால், அரசு பஸ்கள் ஒவ்வொரு நாளும் அதிக நஷ்டத்தை சந்தித்து வருகின்றன.

தமிழகத்தில், 22 ஆயிரம் அரசு பஸ்கள் இயக்கப்பட்டு, 2.25 கோடி பேர் பயணித்த நிலையில், பஸ் கட்டண உயர்வுக்குப் பின், 1.75 கோடி பேர் மட்டுமே பயணித்தனர். நஷ்டம்கடந்த ஆண்டு கொரோனா ஊரடங்கிற்குப் பின், பயணியரின் எண்ணிக்கை மேலும் குறைந்தது. இந்நிலையில், தற்போது இருக்கைகளில் மட்டுமே பயணியரை ஏற்றிச் செல்ல வேண்டும் என, அரசு உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளதால், பஸ்களின் எண்ணிக்கை அதிகரிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள நிலையில், பயணியரின் எண்ணிக்கை குறைந்துள்ளது.

இதனால், நஷ்டம் அதிகரித்துள்ளது.இதுகுறித்து, போக்குவரத்து அதிகாரிகள் கூறியதாவது: தமிழக அரசு போக்குவரத்து கழக பஸ்களின் வாயிலாக, ஏற்கனவே மாதம், 900 கோடி ரூபாய் வருவாய் கிடைத்தது. அதில், 330 கோடி ரூபாய் சம்பளமாக வழங்கப்பட்டது. 650 கோடி ரூபாய், டீசல் மற்றும் பராமரிப்புக்கு, ஒவ்வொரு மாதமும் செலவானது. அந்த வகையில், ஒவ்வொரு மாதமும், 80 கோடி ரூபாய் வரை நஷ்டம் ஏற்பட்டது.கொரோனா ஊரடங்குக்குப் பின், எந்த வருவாயும் இல்லாமல், செலவு மட்டும் அதிகரித்தது. இந்நிலையில், தற்போது, தினமும், 10 கோடி ரூபாய்க்கு மேல் வசூல் குறைகிறது. அத்துடன், ஒவ்வொரு பஸ்சுக்கும் ஆண்டுக்கு, ௧ லட்சம் ரூபாய் வரியாக செலுத்தப்படுகிறது.

சுங்கக் கட்டணம் உள்ளிட்ட வகையில் செலவு ஏற்படுகிறது.சென்னை மாநகர போக்குவரத்து கழகங்களில், கொரோனா ஊரடங்குக்குப் பின், 2,200 பஸ்கள் இயக்கப்பட்டு, தினமும், 30 லட்சம் ரூபாய் வருவாய் ஈட்டப்பட்டது. 'இ- - பாஸ்'தற்போது, 2,700 பஸ்கள் இயக்கப்பட்டு, 15 லட்சம் ரூபாய் மட்டுமே வருவாயாக கிடைக்கிறது. இதனால், டீசல், பராமரிப்பு, சம்பளம் உள்ளிட்ட வகையில், கூடுதல் செலவாகிறது. அதேபோல, விரைவு போக்குவரத்து கழகத்திலும், 2.15 கோடி ரூபாய் தினமும் வசூலான நிலையில், 1.60 கோடி ரூபாய் மட்டுமே, தற்போது வருவாய் கிடைக்கிறது.

தற்போது, கர்நாடகாவில் இருந்து தமிழகத்திற்கு வர, 'இ- - பாஸ்' நடைமுறை உள்ளதால், பெங்களூரு உள்ளிட்ட நகரங்களில் இருந்து, வருவோரின் எண்ணிக்கையும் குறைந்துள்ளது. அதேபோல், திருப்பதி ஏழுமலையான் கோவிலில், இலவச தரிசன வசதி நிறுத்தப்பட்டு உள்ளதால், ஆந்திரா செல்வோரின் எண்ணிக்கையும் கணிசமாக குறைந்துள்ளது. எனவே, அரசு பஸ்கள் செலவுகளை சமாளிக்க முடியாமல், தள்ளாடும் நிலைக்கு சென்றுள்ளன. எனவே, அரசு பஸ்களுக்கு, சுங்கக் கட்டணம், சாலை வரி மற்றும் டீசல் வரி உள்ளிட்டவற்றை செலுத்த வேண்டாம் என, சலுகை அளித்தால், மக்கள் சேவையை தொய்வின்றி தொடர முடியும்.இவ்வாறு, அவர்கள் கூறினர்.

மன்னார்குடியில் இருந்து பகத் கி கோதிக்கு ரயில்

மன்னார்குடியில் இருந்து பகத் கி கோதிக்கு ரயில்

Added : ஏப் 13, 2021 00:04

சென்னை : மன்னார்குடியில் இருந்து, ராஜஸ்தான் மாநிலம், பகத் கி கோதிக்கு, வாராந்திர சூப்பர் பாஸ்ட் ரயில் இயக்கப்படுகிறது.

இந்த ரயில், மன்னார்குடியில் இருந்து, மே, 3 முதல், திங்கள்கிழமைகளில், மதியம், 1:10க்கு புறப்பட்டு, புதன்கிழமை மாலை, 3:15 மணிக்கு, ராஜஸ்தான் மாநிலம், பகத் கி கோதி நிலையம் சென்றடையும்l பகத் கி கோதி நிலையத்தில் இருந்து, வியாழக்கிழமைகளில், மாலை, 4:10க்கு புறப்பட்டு, சனிக்கிழமை மாலை, 4:40 மணிக்கு மன்னார்குடி சென்றடையும் l இந்த ரயில், திருவாரூர், மயிலாடுதுறை, விழுப்புரம், தாம்பரம், சென்னை எழும்பூர் மற்றும் ஆந்திரா மாநிலம், சூலுார்பேட்டை வழியாக இயக்கப்படும். இதற்கான முன்பதிவு இன்று துவங்குகிறது.

Baby born mid-air gets a birth certificate


Baby born mid-air gets a birth certificate

Yeshika.Budhwar@timesgroup.com

Jaipur:13.04.2021

The baby boy born mid-air on the Bengaluru-Jaipur Indigo flight on March 17 was finally issued a birth certificate on Monday.

After TOI highlighted that the parents had been running from pillar to post to get the document, government officials got in touch with the airline which then sent a confirmation email about the child being born on board. The Jaipur municipal corporation was then contacted and it issued a birth certificate. Speaking exclusively to TOI, 27-day-old Lakshit’s father, Bhairu Singh, said, “After our son’s birth, I was being passed from one government office to another and all the officials seemed confused as he was born on a flight. I am really happy that finally the birth certificate has been issued and it is a weight off my shoulders. If the media had not highlighted the issue, I would probably have still been struggling.” Bhairu and his wife Lalita had boarded the flight at around 5.45 am at Bengaluru and landed at Jaipur airport at about 8 am on March 17 with their newborn baby.

“First I went to the sarpanch who asked me to go to the government hospital. But the staff there claimed that they could not issue the birth certificate because the baby was not born there and my wife only went to the government hospital for post-natal treatment. After the normal delivery mid-air, we were taken to a private hospital in Jaipur but the expenses were too high due to which we came home to our village in Beawar,” the father said.

After reading about the couple’s plight in TOI, Mahendra Pratap Singh, deputy secretary, Rajasthan state commission for protection of child rights, wrote to Indigo airlines and got a reply confirming the birth within a day. “I wanted to help the couple. Once the airline replied, I shared the details with the municipal corporation in Jaipur and fortunately they issued the birth certificate at the earliest,” said the deputy secretary.

After TOI highlighted that the parents had been running from pillar to post to get the document, govt officials got in touch with the airline

OCIs move Supreme Court, seek dual citizenship rights


OCIs move Supreme Court, seek dual citizenship rights

SC Seeks Response From Centre

Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:13.04.2021

As many as 80 Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs), most of them residing in their homeland, on Monday requested the Supreme Court to direct the government to end treating them as second class citizens, allow them to freely express their views and dissent against government and confer on them all the rights enjoyed by an Indian citizen.

Appearing for the OCIs, 57 of whom are residents of Bengaluru, senior advocate R Venkataramani told a bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian that though they contribute a lot to India through payment of taxes and through their profession, they live in the fear of losing their OCI status because of arbitrary power conferred on government to cancel their status. The bench sought the Centre's response.

The petitioners said the statutes and policy decisions of the Indian government severely curtailed "the basic rights of OCIs and gave the government unbridled and uncanalized discretionary powers to terminate their citizenship. This subjects OCIs to a constant state of hardship, fear and uncertainty. Further, this wholly defeats the very purpose of the OCI scheme which was unequivocally to grant dual citizenship. "

The petitioners led by Bengaluru-based medicine expert Radhika Thappeta said section 7D of the Citizenship Act allows the Union Government to cancel the registration of OCIs and prohibit them from residing in India over the violation of any law or for showing disaffection to the Constitution of India. "Section 7D(b) of the Act allows the government to cancel a person’s OCI registration if they show disaffection to the Constitution of India and Section 7D(da) allows cancellation of OCI registration for the violation of any law. Both these provisions under Section 7D are arbitrary and have a chilling effect on the freedom of expression of OCIs," they said.

While the MHA notification of November 15, 2019 allowed OCIs to practice the professions of doctors, architects, advocates and chartered accountants as per the relevant laws, there are a whole list of other provisions that are arbitrarily left out of such a list without sufficient reasons, they complained.

"By limiting the number of professions that OCIs can have parity with NRIs in pursuing, several OCIs practicing other non-enumerated professions are hindered from meaningfully participating in and contributing to their professional streams in India. Although several OCIs reside and pay taxes in India, such persons are unable to meaningfully voice their grievance with local government authorities over civic infrastructure out of fear that their overseas citizenship may be cancelled for expressing their right to peacefully raise public grievances," they said.

Even while OCIs work and reside permanently in India, they are often disentitled to seek information from state authorities under the Right to Information Act, the petitioners said.

They said, the November 2019 MHA notification granted adoption rights to OCIs on par with NRIs. "However, where an OCI or NRI living abroad adopts a child from India following the inter-country adoption regulations, then the host foreign country often automatically grants foreign citizenship to the adopted child who has at least one parent as a citizen of that host country. As per Section 9(1) of the Citizenship Act, this results in the child automatically losing his or her Indian citizenship without granting any opportunity to the child to retain his or her Indian citizenship on attaining majority," the petitioners said.



Petitioners told SC that though they contribute a lot to India through payment of taxes and through their profession, they live in the fear of losing their OCI status because of arbitrary power conferred on government to cancel their status

In-laws post video of woman’s suicide online as proof of innocence

In-laws post video of woman’s suicide online as proof of innocence

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Muzaffarnagar: 13.04.2021 

As a woman, 25, hanged herself to death, her in-laws lined up outside to shoot a video through the window and then shared it on social media to “absolve” themselves of murder. Her parents have alleged they had been hounding her for dowry, which led to her death. The woman’s father-in-law and mother-in-law have been arrested while her husband and her brother-in-law, also booked, are on the run.

The woman, Komal, lived in Muzaffarnagar's Datiyana village with her husband, Ashish, and in-laws. On Sunday, as she prepared to hang herself, her in-laws waited outside. In the video, she can be seen tying a noose around a beam lining the asbestos roof. She gasps once as she ties the blue stole around her neck, tightens it and tests the grip so it doesn’t give way. After one last check, she lets go and hangs herself as a man’s voice says, “Apne aap latak rahi hai (she hanged herself on her own).” The man’s voice is presumably that of her father-in-law. On Monday, they shared the video on social media, hoping it would go viral. It did.

While confirming the video had been shot from outside the room where she hanged herself, SP (city) Arpit Vijayvargiya said, “They had tried to stop her from killing herself.” Her parents, however, had a different story to tell. Komal and Ashish got married in September 2019. “I had given Rs 5 lakh and a bike to his family at the time. But his father Devendra, mother Savita and brother Sachin were not happy. About six months ago, they beat up Komal and drove her out of the house. The elders of the village sent her back,” her father Anil Kumar wrote in the complaint to the police. “Two months ago, they started demanding Rs 1.2 lakh. They said they would get Ashish married to someone else if she could not come up with the dowry. All four of them got together and killed my daughter.”

An FIR was lodged on Sunday, a day before the video went viral, against Ashish, his brother and his parents under sections 304B (dowry death), 498A (cruelty to married woman) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC and under sections 3 (giving or taking dowry) and 4 (demanding dowry) of The Dowry Prohibition Act.

“His parents have been arrested and will be produced before the magistrate.” Ashish and his brother Sachin are on the run, SHO Yashpal Singh said.

The woman’s father-in-law and mother-in-law have been arrested while her husband & her brother-in-law, also booked, are on the run. The woman's parents have alleged they had been hounding her for dowry, which led to her death

Now, virus settling deep down in lungs


Now, virus settling deep down in lungs

Condition Making Diagnosis Tough: Delhi Docs

DurgeshNandan.Jha@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: 13.04.2021 

The novel coronavirus variant that is causing the current wave of Covid-19 is not just highly infectious but also stealthy.

City hospitals say there are getting cases where a patient has typical symptoms of the disease but tests negative for the viral infection, sometimes twice or thrice even through RT-PCR, considered the gold standard for Covid testing. “We have received many such patients in the past few days. They had fever, cough, shortness of breath and the CT scan of the lungs showed lighter-coloured or gray patches. It is referred to as patchy ground glass opacity in medical terms. The condition is one of the defining characteristics of Covid-19,” Dr Aashish Chaudhry, managing director of Aakash Healthcare, said.

He added that some of the patients underwent bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), a diagnostic method in which a flexible scope is passed through the mouth or nose into the lungs with a measured amount of fluid introduced and then collected for examination, which confirmed the diagnosis.

“All such persons who tested negative through conventional Covid-19 testing methods but had disease symptoms came positive in the lavage test,” Dr Chaudhry said.

What could be causing this? Dr Pratibha Kale, associate professor of clinical microbiology at Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, said, “It is possible that in these patients the virus didn’t colonise the nasal or throat cavity because of which swab samples taken from these areas didn’t yield a positive result.” The virus, she added, attached itself to the ACE receptors — a protein found on the surface of many cell types — in the lungs and “that’s why when the fluid samples from the organ were analysed, it confirmed Covid-19 diagnosis”.

Dr Vivek Nangia, the chief of pulmonology division at Max Healthcare, said nearly 15-20% of the Covid-19 patients suffered from this problem. “They are highly symptomatic of the disease, but test negative. This is a serious problem because such patients can continue to spread the infection if they are admitted in non-Covid areas. Also, it can delay the treatment,” he added.

The pulmonologist said the symptoms in Covid patients also varied significantly in the current wave compared to previous outbreaks caused by SARS-CoV-2. “A significant mutation in the virus cannot be ruled out. It is the most plausible explanation for the changes being witnessed,” he said.

Dr Arup Basu, senior consultant in the chest medicine department of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, said nose running, cold and conjunctivitis like symptoms were also being seen in Covid-19 patients this time, which were not present earlier. “Many patients do not have cough or breathlessness and the result of the CT scan of their lungs is also normal. However, they have persistently high fever for eight to nine days that necessitates hospitalisation,” he said.


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