TNPSC exam aspirants’ age limit raised

Chennai: 02.06.2018

Unveiling reforms made in Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission recruitment norms under rule 110, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said the age limit for appearing in Group 1,1-A and 1-B exams has been raised from 30 to 32 – on a par with Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) norms.

For candidates belonging to scheduled caste (SC), scheduled tribe (ST), backward class (BC), most backward class (MBC) and denotified communities (DNC), the upper age limit has been changed from 35 to 37, Palaniswami said in the assembly on Friday. The CM said the changes were introduced following repeated requests from various quarters.

This announcement comes against the backdrop of a police probe into TNPSC Group I officers’ recruitment scam. TNN

How docs saved man pierced by grille
1ft-Long Rod Was Inches From Man’s Heart, Aorta

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Chennai: 02.06.2018
At first look, it seemed like a man crouched on top of a compound wall. It took a second look for the passerby to realise the man wasn’t sitting. He was pinned to the iron grille.

Too scared to scream or move with the rods in his flesh, 29-year-old Vetrivel put his weight on his arms, which he rested on top of the wall. He bent his knees to stop his legs from pulling him down.

Vetrivel, a driver who stayed with his employer at Jayalakshmipuram in Nungambakkam, had returned late at night after watching a film on May 20. As the gates were locked, he scaled the compound wall and jumped on to the balcony on the first floor, where he stayed. As the doors there were shut too, he tried to leapfrog from the balcony out of the compound, landing on the grilles instead.

Half an hour later, a passerby noticed him hanging by his skin and alerted the police. “It was beyond us to extricate him,” said T Sundaramoorthy, Nungambakkam police inspector. “We we were running short of time.”

In 15 minutes, close to 1am, two firemen arrived with hydraulic cutters to cut the rods, leaving the pierced portion inside. It took more than 20 minutes to slice the metal. “We had to do it without moving Vetrivel. We knew a slight movement of the metal inside could be harmful,” said a rescue team member.

Immobilising an accident victim is a lesson that is taught in basic emergency medicine. This lesson is what saved Vetrivel’s life. He was rushed to the government general hospital in a prone position, with the 3ft metal grille. A CT scan revealed one rod of the grille – with a spike and hooks — lodged deep in his thoracic cavity. “The grille was less than an inch from his aorta and the heart,” said Dr A Sivaraman, chief of cardiothoracic department at the hospital. If the police and firemen tried to extricate Vetrivel, the grille could have torn through the aorta and heart. “He would have died on the spot,” said the doctor.

At 2.45am, Vetrivel was taken to the operating room where three doctors tried to dislodge the grille surgically. The rod had pierced just below Vetrivel’s seventh rib.

“We made an incision below the fifth rib at the back to feel how far the grille had gone,” said Dr K S Saravana Krishna Raja. The grille, around 3cm wide, had gone up his thoracic cavity, pierced his left lung and lay lodged just below the skin fat on the second rib. The doctors had to pull the grille out, while ensuring it didn’t nip the vital organs. The punctured lung required around seven stitches. The procedure took less than three hours.

The case was unlike anything the doctors had seen. “We have had patients being brought in with knives inside them, but this was unusual,” said Dr Sivaraman. Vetrivel, who was under observation for more than a week was discharged on Thursday. 

NO REPRIEVE
SC refuses bail to S Ve Shekher, asks him to surrender

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Chennai: 02.06.2018

More than 40 days after sharing an abusive Facebook post about woman journalists, actor and BJP functionary S Ve Shekher failed to earn any reprieve in the Supreme Court.

The apex court refused to grant anticipatory bail to the popular comedian on Friday and, instead, directed him to surrender before a judicial magistrate in court in Chennai and seek regular bail there. The court had earlier stayed Shekher’s arrest.

But on Friday, vacating the interim stay, a vacation

bench of Justice L Nageswara Rao and Mohan M Shantanagoudar directed Shekher to surrender before the jurisdictional magistrate.

During arguments, Tamil Nadu government’s counsel submitted that chargesheet in the case had already been filed by the prosecution. Recording the submission, the court directed the actor to appear before the judicial magistrate and seek regular bail.

The actor had on April 20 shared the controversial facebook post targeting woman journalists, triggering protests and court cases by journalists. When went underground and moved the high court for anticipatory bail, apprehending arrest in the case, journalists joined in as interveners and opposed bail for him.

On May 10, the Madras high court dismissed his bail application with caustic remark: “If sharing bed is the only way for women to come up in life (as per Shekher’s FB post), then does it include all women who are holding high posts now?”

Addressing another important issue concerning social media posts, the court said, “forwarding a message is equal to accepting the message and endorsing it.”

Even after the high court order the actor was not arrested by Tamil Nadu police, prompting filing of another writ petition in the high court alleging that police were reluctant to arrest him because he was a family member of incumbent chief secretary Girija Vaidyanathan. The petition has since been dismissed as withdrawn.

ACCIDENT CLAIM

In a 1st, HC recognises religious body as legal heir of dead nun

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Chennai: 02.06.2018

In a significant first, the Madras high court has recognised a religious organisation as the legal heir of a deceased person, and declared it eligible to receive compensation in a motor accident claim.

Justice A M Basheer Ahamed permitted St Maria Auxilum Sisters’s Congress, represented by its mother general, Sister Animariya, to claim compensation for the death of Sister Alangara Mary.

On March 1, 2002, Mary died in a road accident involving a

state transport corporation bus, while she was riding a twowheeler on the Trichy-Dindigul road.

Claiming that the death occurred due to rash and negligent driving by the bus driver, the congress, of which Mary was a member, approached the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Trichy, seeking compensation.

Allowing the claim, the tribunal directed the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation Ltd, (Kumbakonam Divisional 2), to pay ₹3.22 lakh as compensation to the congress.

‘Employer cannot be legal heir of dead staffer’

Aggrieved, the corporation preferred the present appeal in the high court. When the plea came up for hearing, the corporation disputed the locus standi of the congress to claim compensation, as legal dependent of the deceased.

The corporation contended that a religious organisation cannot be a legal representative of the deceased claiming compensation. “There was an employer-employee relationship between the deceased and claimant, and so an employer cannot be a legal heir of the deceased employee,” the corporation said.

Opposing the contention, the congress relied on the decision made by the Supreme Court in Montfort Brothers of St Gabriel case and said a religious organisation might suffer considerable loss due to the death of voluntary worker making it eligible to claim such compensation.

“The deceased joined the organisation and did services to the society after denouncing her family and was working as a sister under the congress prior to the date of accident. The tribunal concluded that the claimant organisation suffered considerable loss due to the death of the voluntary worker in a fatal accident and has allowed the claim,” the congress said.

Concurring with the submissions, the judge said, when there is no evidence that the deceased was having other legal representative on the date of the accident, considering the decision of the Apex Court relied on by the congress, it has locus standi and entitled to maintain the claim petition, as legal representative of the sister.

Welcoming the judgment, advocate and motor accident claim expert V Suresh said: “Though the Supreme Court has upheld the legal right of such institutions to claim compensation on the death of its members, this is the first time the high court has allowed such a claim petition in Tamil Nadu.”

Register continuing medical education hours, doctors told

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Chennai: 02.06.2018
In a process that could help the state update its record of working doctors – for the first time since 1914 – the Tamil Nadu medical council has asked medical practitioners to register the number of hours of continuing medical education they attended since 2012 by the end of this year.

Those falling short of attending 30 hours of CME in five years, as required under the Indian Medical Council (Professional conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations 2002, will have to pay a “nominal” defaulters’ fee – a move that has brought the statutory body under fire from doctors’ associations.

The council is currently in the process of accrediting hospitals, medical colleges and doctors’ associations that can organise CME programmes recognised by it. Over the last one week, 37 medical institutions and 11 associations have registered with the council. From July 1, doctors or associations will have to furnish documentary proof of attendance since 2012. “Hospitals and associations will have to give us 72 hours prior intimation of a CME, and attendees will have to upload documents in the medical council website within 48 hours of attendance,” said Dr R V S Surendran, vice-president of the council.

Those unable to meet the required 30 hours by December 31 will have to pay a fine. “We had initially decided to charge them ₹100 for each hour they had missed,” said Dr Surendran. However, after a furore among doctors, the council has decided to revise the fine. A meeting will be held in Madurai on Sunday to decide the fine amount. “It will be nominal. The money will be used for maintain a database of these registrations,” said Dr Surendran.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has, however, resisted the step to monetarily penalise doctors. “CME programmes are held to enhance medical education. By this move, the council is encouraging ‘buying’ an hour of education,” said Dr Jayalal J A, president of Tamil Nadu chapter of IMA, which has 32,000 members. It has also objected to the council asking doctors to present themselves physically to register their credit hours instead of doing it online.

Dr Surendran said doctors will be asked to be physically present only if their online medical council accounts have been inactive for a long time. “One of our objectives in registering these CME credit hours is to map how many doctors are practising in the state,” said Dr Surendran.

Around 1.10 lakh doctors are in the council’s register. The earliest registrants date to 1914. The council’s office-bearers said at least 10% of those in their records may have passed away. “Another 10% may have left the state or country, and around 6-8% may not be practising,” said Dr Surendran, adding that those attending CME programmes would give them an indication of how many doctors continue to practice in the state.

மானியமில்லா சிலிண்டர் விலை ரூ.50 அதிகரிப்பு: வர்த்தகப் பயன்பாட்டுக்கான சிலிண்டர் விலை ரூ.1,302 ஆக நிர்ணயம்

Published : 02 Jun 2018 07:28 IST

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வீட்டு உபயோகத்துக்கான மானியமில்லா சிலிண்டர் விலை ரூ.49.50 பைசா உயர்ந்து ரூ.734 ஆக உள்ளது. இதேபோல், வர்த்தகப் பயன்பாட்டுக்கான சிலிண்டர் விலையும் ரூ.78 அதிகரித்துள்ளது.

பெட்ரோல், டீசலுக்கான விலை நிர்ணயம் செய்து கொள்ள எண் ணெய் நிறுவனங்களுக்கு அனுமதி வழங்கிய நிலையில் பெட்ரோல், டீசல் விலை நாளுக்கு நாள் அதிகரித்துக் கொண்டே செல்கிறது.

இந்நிலையில், மக்கள் அன்றாடம் பயன்படுத்தும் சமையல் எரிவாயு சிலிண்டரின் விலையும் தற்போது உயர்ந்து வருகிறது. சர்வதேச நிலவரத்தின்படி சமையல் எரிவாயு சிலிண் டர் விலையை எண்ணெய் நிறுவனங்கள் நிர்ணயம் செய்கின்றன.

மத்திய அரசு வர்த்தக சிலிண்டர்களுக்கான மானியம் வழங்குவதில்லை. இதன் விலையை மாதம்தோறும் எண்ணெய் நிறுவன கூட்டமைப்பு நிர்ணயம் செய்து அறிவிக்கிறது. இதனால், மாதம்தோறும் வர்த் தக சிலிண்டர்களுக்கான விலையில் ஏற்ற இறக்கம் இருந்து வருகிறது.

கடந்த ஆண்டு ஜுன் மாதம் 19 கிலோ எடை கொண்ட வர்த்தகப் பயன்பாட்டுக்கான சிலிண்டர் விலை ரூ.1,143-க்கு விற்பனை செய்யப்பட்டது. இது படிப்படியாக உயர்ந்து கடந்த மாதம் ரூ.1,224-க்கு விற்பனை செய்யப்பட்டது. தற்போது, இதன் விலை ரூ.78 அதிகரித்து ரூ.1,302 ஆக நிர்ணயிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

இதேபோல், வீட்டு உபயோகத்துக் கான மானியமில்லா 14 கிலோ எடை கொண்ட சிலிண்டர் விலை கடந்த மாதம் ரூ.684.50-க்கு விற்கப்பட்டது. இது நடப்பு மாதம் ரூ.49.50 அதிகரித்து ரூ.734 ஆக நிர்ணயிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. மேலும், மானிய விலையில் வழங்கப்படும் வீட்டு உபயோகத்துக் கான சிலிண்டர் விலை ரூ.2.42 அதிகரித்து ரூ.481.84 ஆக நிர்ணயிக்கப் பட்டுள்ளது.

ஏற்கெனவே பெட்ரோல், டீசல் விலை கடுமையாக உயர்ந்து வரும் நிலையில், வர்த்தக பயன்பாடு மற்றும் வீட்டு உபயோகத்துக்கான மானியமில்லா சிலிண்டர்களின் விலை உயர்த்தப்பட்டுள்ளது, வர்த்தகர்கள் மற்றும் பொதுமக்களிடையே கடும் அதிருப்தியை ஏற்படுத்தியுள் ளது.

நடிகருக்கு முன்ஜாமின் உச்ச நீதிமன்றம் மறுப்பு

Added : ஜூன் 02, 2018 03:10

புதுடில்லி:பெண் பத்திரிகையாளர்கள் குறித்து, சமூக வலைதளத்தில், இழிவான கருத்துக்களை பகிர்ந்த, நடிகர், எஸ்.வி.சேகருக்கு முன்ஜாமின் வழங்க, உச்ச நீதிமன்றம் மறுத்துள்ளது.

நடிகரும், பா.ஜ., பிரமுகருமான, எஸ்.வி.சேகர், பெண் பத்திரிகையாளர்கள் குறித்து, இழிவான கருத்துக்களை, தன், 'பேஸ்புக்' பக்கத்தில், சமீபத்தில் பகிர்ந்திருந்தார். இதற்கு, கடும் எதிர்ப்பு எழுந்ததுடன், அவர் மீது போலீசில் புகாரும் அளிக்கப்பட்டது.போலீஸ், தன்னை கைது செய்யலாம் என்ற நிலையில், சென்னை உயர் நீதிமன்றத்தில் முன்ஜாமின் மனுவை, எஸ்.வி.சேகர் தாக்கல் செய்தார். அவருக்கு கண்டனம் தெரிவித்த நீதிபதிகள், மனுவை நிராகரித்தனர்.

இதையடுத்து அவர், உச்ச நீதிமன்றத்தை நாடினார். அவரது மனுவை விசாரணைக்கு ஏற்ற நீதிபதிகள், நேற்று வரை, அவரை கைது செய்ய தடை விதித்திருந்தனர்.இந்நிலையில் நேற்று, அவரது மனு மீண்டும் விசாரணைக்கு வந்த நிலையில், எஸ்.வி.சேகருக்கு முன்ஜாமின் வழங்க, நீதிபதிகள் மறுத்து விட்டனர். தமிழக அரசு சார்பில் தாக்கல் செய்யப்பட்ட மனுவில், 'எழும்பூர் நீதிமன்றத்தில், 30ம் தேதியே, அவர் மீது குற்றப்பத்திரிகை தாக்கல் செய்யப்பட்டு உள்ளது' என, கூறப்பட்டது.

இதையடுத்து, 'எழும்பூர் நீதிமன்றத்தில், எஸ்.வி.சேகர் ஆஜராக வேண்டும்' என, நீதிபதிகள் உத்தரவிட்டனர்.