வரவேற்பு இல்லாததால் நெல்லை - தாம்பரம் ரயில் ரத்து

Added : பிப் 12, 2020 01:37

சென்னை : பயணியரிடம் போதிய வரவேற்பு இல்லாததால், திருநெல்வேலி - தாம்பரம் இடையே இயக்க வேண்டிய வாராந்திர எக்ஸ்பிரஸ் ரயில்கள் ரத்து செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன.

திருநெல்வேலியில் இருந்து தென்காசி வழியாக தாம்பரத்துக்கு, பிப். 20ம் தேதி மாலை, 5:45க்கும், தாம்பரத்தில் இருந்து, திருநெல்வேலிக்கு, 21ம் தேதி மாலை, 6:00 மணிக்கும், வாராந்திர சிறப்பு கட்டண ரயில் இயக்கப்படும் என, அறிவிக்கப்பட்டிருந்தது.இந்த ரயில்களுக்கு, பயணியரிடம் போதிய வரவேற்பு இல்லாததால், ரத்து செய்யப்படுவதாக தெற்கு ரயில்வே அறிவித்துள்ளது.

காரணம் என்ன

இந்த ரயில்கள் தென்காசி வழியாக, சுற்றிச் செல்லும் என, அறிவிக்கப்பட்டதாலும், நெல்லை எக்ஸ்பிரசை விட, பயண நேரம் ஐந்து மணி நேரம் அதிகம் என்பதாலும், கட்டணமும் அதிகமாக இருந்ததாலும், பயணியரிடம் வரவேற்பு கிடைக்காமல் ரத்து செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன.

63 out of 66 Congress candidates lose deposit
Party’s pitch failed to win over voters

12/02/2020, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,NEW DELHI

Empty seats at the Delhi Congress office on Tuesday.

In a repeat of 2015, the Congress was decimated in the Delhi Assembly elections on Tuesday with its vote share falling from 9.7% to 4.27%. A total of 63 out of 66 Congress candidates forfeited their deposit this time.

Arvinder Singh Lovely from Gandhi Nagar, Devender Yadav from Badli and Abhishek Dutt from Kasturba Nagar were the only ones who managed to save their deposits.

Even sitting Chandini Chowk MLA Alka Lamba who switched from the Aam Aadmi Party to the Congress lost her deposit.

The party’s strategy of promising voters a throwback to a “Congress wali dilli” and highlighting achievements during the 15-year tenure of Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit failed to strike a chord with voters.

Rahul Gandhi’s four election rallies in which he pushed the party’s plans to generate employment for the youth failed to garner support from the voters.

Delhi Congress chief Subhash Chopra took responsibility for the defeat and said that the party would need to introspect on what went wrong. He blamed politics of polarisation for the party’s fall in vote share.

The Congress contested the elections this time in alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), fighting on 66 seats and leaving four for its ally.

Thalaivasal veterinary college will become functional this year: 

Minister Radhakrishnan

12/02/2020, STAFF REPORTER

SALEM

Minister for Animal Husbandry Udumalai K.Radhakrishnan said that the proposed veterinary college on the premises of the Advanced Institute for Integrated Research on Livestock and Animal Sciences at Thalaivasal here would become functional this year.

At the valediction of the three-day farmers’ exhibition at Thalaivasal, Mr. Radhakrishnan said “The veterinary college would begin functioning this year and 40 seats would be available in the first year. Construction of the college building will be completed at the earliest.” The exhibition was inaugurated by Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Sunday.

Scrapping of new pension scheme demanded

12/02/2020, STAFF REPORTER,MADURAI

Members of Central, State Government and Public Sector Pensioners’ Confederation staging a protest in Madurai on Tuesday. G. Moorthy G_Moorthy

Members of Central, State Government and Public Sector Pensioners’ Confederation, Madurai Zone, staged a protest here on Tuesday, demanding scrapping of the New Pension Scheme introduced in 2003 by the Centre.

S. Sampath, State joint secretary, Retired Transport Employees Federation and coordinator of the Pensioners’ Confederation, said the need for scrapping the scheme was apparent as there was lack of clarity from both the Central and the State governments about what the scheme would entail.

He said uniformity of pension across cadre must be implemented at the earliest. “Due to the implementation of different pay commissions over the years, there is a large anomaly between pensioners of the same cadres. It has been successfully corrected in the army after years of struggle, and the same must be done in our case,” he said.

Mr. Sampath said the minimum pension across the board must be fixed at ₹21,000 per month and uniform medical insurance must be provided for pensioners across all sectors. The protesters also condemned freezing of DA to transport pensioners and delaying of disbursal of their terminal benefits.

Govt. can seek fresh execution dates: SC

Solicitor General calls for separate executions of Nirbhaya case convicts

12/02/2020, LEGAL CORRESPONDENT,NEW DELHI

Steel will: The parents of the Nirbhaya rape case victim outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi in December. PTI

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Union government to approach the trial court for issuance of a fresh date for the execution of the death sentence of the Nirbhaya gang rape convicts.

Appearing before a three-judge Bench led by Justice R. Banumathi, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said the Nirbhaya convicts were trying the patience of the nation.

Mr. Mehta made a chilling reference to how policemen who gunned down the four gang rape and murder accused in Hyderabad were cheered by people, calling the incident a symptom of people losing faith in the process of law.

“This case [Nirbhaya] is of 2012 and I am still struggling to execute the death sentence. They [convicts] are acting in tandem to misuse the law by filing one petition after the other… People will stop having faith in the judicial system. Seven years have gone by and the convicts are still playing the judicial system… It is in situations like this that people celebrate encounter killings,” Mr. Mehta submitted.

The Solicitor General said convicts Mukesh, Vinay and Akshay have seemingly exhausted remedies. The fourth, Pawan Gupta, is yet to file a mercy petition.

Fresh plea

Mr. Mehta said a plea to fix a new date for the executions in the trial court would immediately see one or the other of the four convicts move court in a bid to further prolong the process.

As indicated, within a few hours of the hearing, Vinay moved the Supreme Court challenging the rejection of his mercy petition by the President.

Mr. Mehta stressed that the Supreme court should instead focus on the government’s appeal to allow the four convicts to be separately executed. The court issued notice to the four convicts on this point and scheduled a hearing for February 13.

Octogenarian moves High Court seeking divorce

Judge dismayed over rise in cases of marital discord, says ego is prime reason for broken marriages

12/02/2020, MOHAMED IMRANULLAH S.,CHENNAI

Justice S. Vaidyanathan of the Madras High Court was taken aback on Tuesday when a case seeking divorce for an 80-year-old ex-serviceman was listed before him.

Suprised at the octogenarian being adamant on obtaining divorce from his estranged wife, with whom he had got married in 1970 and from whom he had separated in 1982, the judge initially wanted to know whether there was any possibility for reunification. When he was told that the aged man from Tiruvannamalai was very particular about getting his marriage nullified, the judge simply admitted the case and ordered notices to the appellant’s wife, now 70 and a mother of three, and a person with whom she reportedly had an illicit affair. Expressing dismay over the rise in marital discord cases, the judge said ego was the prime reason for the rising instances of broken marriages.

On going through the records, the judge found that the appellant as well his wife had accused each other of adultery. While the appellant’s case was that his wife was living an adulterous life and had begotten three children through some other individual, the wife, in turn, had accused the appellant of insisting upon getting divorced only to ensure that his pension, properties and other finances go to a woman with whom he was living illicitly.

He had filed a divorce petition before a district court in Tiruvannamalai in 2007 on two grounds - adultery and desertion. However, when it was taken up for final hearing in 2017, the ex-serviceman gave up the ground of adultery and pressed the ground of desertion alone. The trial court found that the wife separated only because of the illicit relationship between her husband and another woman. The petitioner is not entitled for decree of divorce on the ground of desertion,” the trial court had concluded, pointing out that the witnesses examined on behalf of the ex-serviceman had not supported the allegation of adultery levelled against his wife, and had instead confirmed his own .

Assailing the trial court’s refusal to grant him divorce, the octogenarian contended before the High Court that there could be no scope for reunion between a couple living separately for nearly 38 years, and hence, it was a fit case for grantof divorce.

AAP sweeps Delhi with 62 seats

AAP gets 53.6%, marginally below its 54.2% share in 2015BJP wins 8 seats, 5 more than 2015, with 38.5 % vote shareCongress candidates set to lose deposits in 63 seats

12/02/2020, JAIDEEP DEO BHANJ , JATIN ANAND,NEW DELHI

Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were voted back to power with a massive mandate in the Delhi Assembly election as the party won 62 seats in the 70-member House.

The party dropped just five seats and less than a percentage point in vote share from its stellar 2015 showing.

Despite a hard-fought and bitter campaign that saw big guns, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah address rallies, the BJP managed to win only eight seats, up five from its 2015 tally. The Congress, yet again, failed to open its account — the party’s candidates looked set to forfeit their deposits on 63 of the 66 seats contested.

Speaking after the victory, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, “The people of Delhi have given birth to a new kind of politics — the politics of work. This is a vote for those who build schools, who provide electricity and healthcare. This augurs well for the country.”

Ministers post wins

The AAP secured 53.57 % of the vote share, while the BJP got 38.5% and the Congress 4.3%. Though three of the AAP’s incumbent Ministers — Manish Sisodia, Kailash Gahlot and Satyendar Jain — were trailing after the first few rounds of counting, they went on to retain their seats.

Raghav Chadha, Atishi Marlena and Dilip Pandey from the AAP, who lost in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, strode into the Assembly.

On the other hand, former AAP Minister Kapil Mishra, who left the party and fought on a BJP ticket, was defeated. Anil Bajpai, also a former AAP legislator, however, retained his Gandhi Nagar seat.

Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari, while accepting responsibility for the dismal performance, argued that the party had, however, been able to increase its vote share. “I congratulate Arvind Kejriwal... In comparison to 2015, the BJP’s vote share has registered an increase, which is the result of the hard work put in by its workers... these results also seem to herald the dawn of a new political era in the city, which has become bipolar instead of triangular,” he said.

BJP sources, however, blamed the party’s strategy of not projecting a chief ministerial face against Mr. Kejriwal, not being able to counter the AAP’s power and water subsidy schemes and “unwarranted comments” against Mr. Kejriwal by senior party leaders — including Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur — for the results.

“All that these star campaigners ended up doing was overshadowing the local candidate; they also took the focus away from local issues,” a BJP insider said.