Partner has every right to sue the other one: Madras HC

The HC held that under Section 14 of the Partnership Act, property of the firm includes all property rights and interests brought into the stock of the firm.
 
Published: 15th September 2019 04:42 AM

Madras High Court

By Siva Sekaran

Express News Service

CHENNAI: A partner in a partnership firm is entitled to sue other partners, the Madras High Court has held in a significant order, while permitting BR Srinivasa Rao, one of the partners in Cauvery Hospital to take steps to evict the hospital from its current premises in Villivakkam.

According to advocate VS Suresh, Rao’s partners were his close relatives. After certain disputes erupted in the family, Rao sought to evict the hospital from the premises. However, lower courts rejected his plea following which he moved the High Court.

Justice Saravanan of the High Court held that under Section 14 of the Partnership Act, property of the firm includes all property rights and interests brought into the stock of the firm. Unless a contrary intention appears, the property and rights and interest in the property acquired and the money belonging to the firm, are deemed to have been acquired by the firm.

Thus, unless the intention was to amalgamate the premises with that of Cauvery Hospital, it cannot be said that Rao cannot exercise an independent right over the property, which has been settled by his father to him.Therefore, it cannot be said that Rao cannot demand rent or seek for the eviction of the hospital from the premises merely because he also happens to be a partner in it.

Mandatory certification for engg faculty soon, says AICTE chairman He was speaking at a national conference on innovation in higher education, conducted by Education Promotion Society for India (EPSI), here on Saturday.

Published: 15th September 2019 04:46 AM 

AICTE  Chairman Anil Sahasrabudhe and governor Banwarilal Purohit at conference on Saturday | R Satish Babu
By Express News Service

CHENNAI: All engineering faculty and aspirants may soon have to undergo a mandatory eight-module teacher certification programme, said Anil Sahasrabudhe, the chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). He was speaking at a national conference on innovation in higher education, conducted by Education Promotion Society for India (EPSI), here on Saturday.

The modules include passion for teaching, creating new curriculum, using Information and Communication Technology, classroom interaction with students, examination methodology, honing innovation and creativity, and administrative and leadership training, among others, he said.

“For teaching in a school, you currently need to have teachers’ training. Whereas, higher education faculty just needs a Ph.D. They do not have any pedagogical training,” he said, adding that many technical educators lack the ability to train students efficiently.

The certification will also include an industrial training to help teachers understand the industrial skill demands. “Teachers will have to spend time at an industry, the way students do an internship. After this, they must implement all their learning for a semester at a college to get their certificate,” said Sahasrabudhe.

Further, the certificate will be mandatory for existing faculty as well as to apply for promotion, he said.

Sahasrabudhe announced that the Ministry of Human Resource Development will soon launch a B.Tech programme on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science. He encouraged other universities to include courses like AI, Data Science, Internet of Things and Block Chain among others into the existing curriculum.

He said that all universities should revise their curriculum every year, to suit the real world needs. “The revision should be continuous and meaningful. We cannot be outdated in a world rapidly transforming everyday.”

Power shutdown in parts of Chennai on Sept 17

Supply will be resumed before 05.00 P.M if the works are completed.
 
Published: 14th September 2019 06:23 PM |

Power shutdown in Chennai owing to maintenance
By Express News Service

CHENNAI: Power supply will be suspended in the following areas on 17.09.2019 from 09.00 am to 05.00 pm for maintenance work.

Supply will be resumed before 05.00 P.M if the works are completed.

PUZHAL AREA : Jail Quarters, Anthoniyar st (Puzhal), Kannapa swamy nagar, One part of GNT road, Vandivedu, Anna street, PWD st & Market, GNT service road, Kamaraj nagar, M.A Nagar, Padiyanallur, Indira Gandhi salai.

LAKSHMIPURAM AREA : Teachers colony, Venkataeswara nagar, Ganapathy nagar, Krishna nagar, Devi nagar, Kumaran nagar, Iyyappa nagar, Sathya nagar, Bhavani st, Jayanthi nagar, Vivekananda nagar, Kadappa road, Sarathi nagar.


VELACHERY AREA: Ram nagar, By pass, Seetharam nagar, Dandeeswaram, Tansi nagar, Vijay nagar, MGR nagar, Velachery main road Jegannathapuram, Rajalakshmi nagar, TA Koil st, Gandhi salai, KA Ramasamy nagar, Anna garden, VGP Selvan nagar, Anna nagar, Venkateshwara nagar, Murugu nagar, Nehru nagar, Sarathi nagar, Baby nagar, Annai Indra nagar, Park Avenue, Part of Tharamani 100 feet road.

PAMMAL AREA : Balaji nagar, Gurusamy nagar, Venkateswara nagar, Kasthuribai nagar, Sathya nagar, Elumalai st, Pammal main road, Anna nagar area, Signal office road, Gandhi road, Nallathambi road, H.L colony, Pammal, Nehru nagar, Venkateswara nagar (Nehru nagar feeder), Agatheeswara nagar, Bharathi nagar, Pozhichalur bus stand, Prem nagar.

Tamil Nadu: Fake doctor tries to cheat woman of Rs 10 lakh, arrested

TNN | Sep 14, 2019, 05.21 AM IST

CHENNAI:

 A 32-year-old man, who posed as a government doctor, has been arrested on the day of his marriage reception in Madhavaram. The suspect, identified as Karthik of Coimbatore, had cheated another woman posing as a doctor and took Rs 12lakh from her parents.

In the latest incident, he had collected Rs 10lakh from the bride’s mother. The bride’s family became suspicious when the man, on the day of the reception, demanded another Rs 1lakh.

Karthik was introduced by the bride’s family friend Thai Anban of Kolathur. Thai Anban was an engineer in a firm in the city. He had met Karthik six months back in Coimbatore, when he had gone there for official work. The two became friends when Karthik asked Thai Anban to look for a rented house in Chennai as he would be working in the GH. Thai Anban arranged a place for Karthik in Villivakkam. He pretended to hail from a wealthy family and claimed that he was orphan.

Thai Anban’s friend, a nurse, was looking for a bridegroom and they decided to get the woman married to Karthik, police said.

Soon after the marriage was fixed, Karthik collected Rs 10lakh from the nurse.

New Chennai airport terminal to be ready in a year

TNN | Sep 14, 2019, 05.39 AM IST  CHENNAI: 

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is working to complete by September 2020, a new integrated terminal in the space between the domestic and international terminals at Chennai airport. It will be used partly for domestic and international passengers.

A senior AAI official said around 21% of the work was over. “It is moving at a pace good enough to meet the next September deadline. The terminal work is being done in two phases. The first is to complete the building. We will then move the international arrival to the new building and pull down the old one for rebuilding.”

The project is expected to be completed by 2022, he added. AAI chairman Anuj Agarwal held a review meeting on Thursday to assess progress.

Work on the integrated building began in July 2018 at the old Kamaraj domestic terminal. The new building is being designed to help handle domestic and international flights simultaneously. International arrivals are currently operated from the old building which will have to be pulled down and a new building constructed and linked to the integrated building. This will boost the terminal capacity to 30million passengers a year. AAI wants to speed up the work as the airport is expected to get saturated by 2022 and the state government is yet to identify land for the second airport.

Once ready, the new building will handle international arrivals and the existing building would be pulled down. The new international arrival terminal is to be ready by 2022 under a Rs 2,000crore project that is part of the airport’s phase-2 expansion. A domestic terminal and international terminal were commissioned in 2013 in the first phase. “The challenge is to carry out construction when there are two terminals on either side of the plot where passengers are handled. This means we can’t build it like a greenfield airport where work is done on open land. We have to ensure flight operations and passenger movement on the city side are not affected,” said an official. The authorities had to reallocate parking bays for flights away from the terminals. There are not enough aerobridges either as most of them were connected to the already-razed Kamaraj terminal.

In a year, most of the hassles faced by airlines and passengers will be removed, said officials. While the integrated terminal will have aerobridges and a modern check-in and boarding system, parking bays will be closer to reduce boarding time. Feedback is being obtained at all stages to ensure the building is user-friendly. As no feedback from airlines was taken before 2013, when the existing international terminal was being built, the facilities did not match user requirement. AAI has still not been able to open the arrival portion on the ground floor of the existing steel and glass building.

Nurse, boyfriend stage kidnap, held in Chennai

TNN | Sep 15, 2019, 06.45 AM IST  CHENNAI: 

A day after a nurse was reported to have been kidnapped by unidentified men from Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus (CMBT), police revealed that the kidnap had been staged by the woman and her boyfriend. The two were arrested and are now in jail.

While the woman, A Vidya, 22, of Telangana, is a nurse at a private hospital, her boyfriend Mano, 25, of Karaikal, works in a software firm. Vidya's father Arumugam, had received a call from an unknown number on Wednesday, saying his daughter had been kidnapped, and that he should pay 10 lakh to get her back.

Vidya's brother Vignesh, 24, also received a call with the same demand and to convince him further, Vidya spoke in a choked voice begging to be rescued.

Vignesh lodged a complaint at the Koyambedu police station, and a team headed by joint commissioner B Vijayakumari probed the incident. Mano confessed to hatching a plan to extort money from Vidya's father, as he needed money to go abroad for a job.

Chennai: Inspector turns midwife, helps woman deliver baby on roadside

TNN | Sep 15, 2019, 06.43 AM IST   CHENNAI: 

A woman police inspector on night patrol turned guardian angel for a 26-year-old woman in labour and helped her deliver a boy by the roadside with the help of some rag pickers in Choolaimedu in the wee hours on Friday. New mom Banumathi and her son are said to be doing fine at the Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital where they were admitted.

Inspector S Chitra was on her weekly night rounds in Choolaimedu when she found the pregnant woman crying for help on Nelson Manickam Road. Banumathi’s husband Vasanthakumar had gone to get an autorickshaw to take her to a hospital. The couple did not have a cellphone to call for an ambulance.

“She was unable to bear the pain as her water broke. She was well into labour and needed immediate attention,” said Chitra, recalling the experience.

“I decided to take the woman to a hospital in my patrol vehicle, but she had started crowning and a rag picker nearby advised me against it,” said the 2004-batch officer.

With time running out, Chitra asked her driver M Padmavathi to alert a ‘108’ ambulance and mustered courage to tend to the woman herself. Using towels from her car and the support of the rag pickers around, the group walked the woman through the labour, helping her deliver a boy.

“We cut the umbilical cord using pen-knife but didn’t have any clip/ band to tie it. I snatched the twine from which a Lord Hanuman figurine was suspended in my car and used it to tie the cord,” said the officer, a mother of two.

Soon, a ‘108’ ambulance arrived and Banumathi’s husband reached the spot. The mother and child were sent to the hospital. “Only after sending them I realised that I hadn’t even asked the woman her name. Her husband gave me their details as I wanted to visit the child later,” Chitra said.

Appreciation has been pouring in for inspector Chritra and driver Padmavathi since. They were rewarded by city police commissioner A K Viswanathan on Saturday.

Saying she would remember the incident for all her life, Chitra said, “For those 15 minutes, I was not a police officer. All that was in my mind was that two lives were at risk. I never knew I was capable of such a thing.”