பவுர்ணமி கிரிவலத்துக்கு உகந்த நேரம் அறிவிப்பு

Added : மார் 05, 2020 22:52

தி.மலை: திருவண்ணாமலையில், பக்தர்கள் கிரிவலம் செல்ல, உகந்த நேரத்தை, கோவில் நிர்வாகம் அறிவித்துள்ளது.திருவண்ணாமலை, அருணாசலேஸ்வரர் கோவிலில், பவுர்ணமி தோறும் லட்சக்கணக்கான பக்தர்கள் கிரிவலம் சென்று, சுவாமி தரிசனம் செய்கின்றனர்.மாசி மாத பவுர்ணமி திதி, 9ம் தேதி அதிகாலை, 2:09 மணி முதல், 10ம் தேதி அதிகாலை, 12:04 மணி வரை உள்ளது. அந்த நேரத்தில், கிரிவலம் செல்ல உகந்த நேரம் என, கோவில் நிர்வாகம் அறிவித்துள்ளது.

DMK, PMK flay Guv move on V-C selection

Stalin said the appointment of Jagadesh Kumar was the worst precedent. In the name of ensuring transparency in education, the Governor had resorted to such activities.

Published: 06th March 2020 05:34 AM 

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: DMK president MK Stalin and PMK founder S Ramadoss on Thursday condemned the appointment of Jawaharlal Nehru University Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar as chairman of the search committee for selecting an academician as Vice-Chancellor of Madras University.

Stalin said the appointment of Jagadesh Kumar was the worst precedent. In the name of ensuring transparency in education, the Governor had resorted to such activities. By appointing Jagadesh Kumar, he had insulted Tamil Nadu at the national level and attempted to create an impression that a suitable person for heading the search committee was not available in Tamil Nadu. 

In his tweet, Ramadoss said, “It seems the appointment has been made only with a view to appointing a person from some other State as vice-chancellor. Already, Anna University is getting ruined after a person from outside State was appointed as Vice-Chancellor,” he alleged. “State Governor Banwarilal Purohit should give up this attitude and Tamil Nadu government should not allow this to happen,” he said.

Explore medical science to help astronauts: Ex-ISRO chief

“We need to create specialised courses as well as institutions to impart education with necessary simulation and training infrastructure for our own astronauts,” he said.

Published: 06th March 2020 05:54 AM 

Governor Banwarilal Purohit handing over degree to a student at the convocation of Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University on Thursday | Ashwin prasath

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: With India’s plans for human space mission-Gaganyaan, a new dimension needs to be created in medical education to deal with physiological and psychological effects on astronauts, said K Kasturirangan, a former Chairman of ISRO, here on Thursday. Delivering the address during the 32nd convocation of Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University, he said practice of yoga helps in maintaining core and neck strength besides helping overcome problems of space motion sickness and psychological problems arising from spending long duration in isolated space environments.

“We need to create specialised courses as well as institutions to impart education with necessary simulation and training infrastructure for our own astronauts,” he said. Speaking about National Medical Policy 2020, Kasturirangan, who headed National Education Policy drafting committee, said medical education component of NEP will need considerable discussion with National Medical Commission before finalising the overall strategy, including regulatory aspects.

Governor Banwarilal Purohit presided over the function and Sudha Seshayyan, Vice-Chancellor, presented the annual report. A total of 17,500 under faculties of medical, dental, AYUSH, and allied health science courses were awarded degrees and 724 received degrees in person.

Kiran Bedi-Cabinet standoff bad news for U.T., says HC

Judges hope the differences of opinion will be resolved amicably

06/03/2020, MOHAMED IMRANULLAH S.,CHENNAI

The Madras High Court on Thursday expressed serious concern over a series of disagreements between the Council of Ministers and the Lieutenant Governor (L-G) of Puducherry Kiran Bedi resulting in many litigations before the court. The court said: “The repeated stand-off/acrimony between the said two high constitutional functionaries may not augur well for the governance of the Union Territory, especially the people.”

A Bench of Justices M. Sathyanarayanan and R. Hemalatha made the observations while dismissing a case filed by Local Administration Minister A. Namassivayam challenging the L-G’s decision to reject a decision taken by the Cabinet to appoint T.M. Balakrishnan as the State Election Commissioner and instead fill up the post through a selection committee by calling for applications from across the country.

It held that the appointment of Mr. Balakrishnan was not in consonance with the rules and that there was nothing wrong in L-G’s decision to follow a transparent mechanism to fill up the post. However, observing that the Cabinet as well as the L-G must also be aware of the consequences of frequent disagreements between them, the judges said: “This court hopes and trusts that whatever be the reasons for the difference of opinion, they will be resolved amicably.”

The judges pointed out that Section 9A(1) of the Puducherry Village and Commune Panchayats Act of 1973 states that the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls for the conduct of all elections to the panchayats shall be vested in the Election Commission consisting of an Election Commissioner to be appointed by the Administrator (L-G) and laid emphasis on the word Administrator used in the legislation.

Further, Section 9A(2) of the Act states that subject to the provisions of any law made by the Legislative Assembly of the UT, the conditions of service and tenure of office of the Election Commissioner shall be such as the Administrator may by rule determine and pointed out that the appointment of Mr. Balakrishnan had not been approved by the L-G and therefore such appointment could not be sustained in law.

‘No need to panic over COVID-19’

06/03/2020, STAFF REPORTER,MADURAI

Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey urged the public not to panic over COVID-19 and stated that the Central government was fully prepared to tackle any situation.

Addressing mediapersons here on Thursday, Mr. Choubey said that the Union government started conducting meetings through videoconferencing with State officials well in advance.

The Minister said that 29 people in India had tested positive for coronavirus till March 4.

As a preventive measure, the government had suspended visas granted to people from Italy, Iran, China, South Korea and Japan.

There were 15 laboratories across the country to conduct the test for COVID-19. Another 19 laboratories would be established soon, he added.

Assistant Professor booked for sexual harassment

06/03/2020, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,TIRUNELVELI

Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, in a bid to fulfil the direction of Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, has filed a complaint against an Assistant Professor in the Department of History five years after students levelled sexual harassment charges against him.

Based on the complaint preferred by Registrar S. Santhosh Baboo, Pettai police have registered a case against Vinod Vincent Rajesh. When a good number of girl students charged that Vinod Vincent Rajesh was sexually harassing them in 2015, the administration did not take any punitive action against him, forcing the students to launch a series of protests on the university premises.

As the protests continued despite intimidation by a few people in the administration, the MSU was forced to constitute an internal inquiry committee to probe the sexual harassment charges.

After the committee, comprising R. Kala of the Department of Mathematics, P. Madhava Somasundaram of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a few others, inquired the affected students and the witnesses, it recorded in its report that Vinod Vincent Rajesh had used “unprofessional statements” in the classroom.

Since the committee’s findings confirmed the charges levelled by the students against the Assistant Professor, the MSU administration placed him under suspension for a few months and then reinstated him. As he was allowed to work in Nagalapuram Mano College, the affected students objected the move.

Adding fuel to the fire, the MSU Internal Committee, which should have forwarded a complaint against Vinod Vincent Rajesh to the jurisdictional police after a prima facie case existed, did not fulfil the legal obligation, forcing the affected girl students to approach the court that directed the MSU to file a complaint with the police against the accused.

Dr. Santhosh Baboo filed the formal complaint on Wednesday and the police registered the case late in the night.

Courses offered by medical varsity without MCI nod illegal, says HC

CJ’s Bench concurs with decision taken by a single judge of the court in June

06/03/2020, MOHAMED IMRANULLAH S.,CHENNAI

The first Division Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday confirmed an order passed by a single judge of the court in June last declaring as illegal a host of courses offered by Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University without obtaining necessary approval as required under Section 10(A) of the Indian Medical Council (MCI) Act of 1956.

Chief Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi and Justice Subramonium Prasad concurred with the decision taken by Justice S.S. Sundar, who had restrained the university from continuing the illegal courses either directly or through medical colleges affiliated to it. The Bench recorded the submission of MCI counsel V.P. Raman that it had not approved the courses.

However, the Bench struck off the costs of ₹5 lakh imposed by the single judge on the State-run university for having run medical courses in violation of the law, along with a directive to pay the money within four weeks to the School Education Department so that it could be used for improving the infrastructure of needy government schools.

Giving reasons for striking off the order imposing costs, which had not been paid since the university preferred an appeal, Chief Justice Sahi said it only appeared that the varsity had conducted those courses not with a mala fide intention but only on a misconception that it could offer such courses without the approval of the Union Health Ministry and the MCI.

Apart from the directive related to imposition of costs, “we find no reason to take a different view than what had been taken by the learned single judge... There is no material to find fault with the findings of the learned single judge,” the Bench said while dismissing the writ appeal preferred by the university last year and pending since then.

Ruling upheld

Justice Sundar had declared the courses illegal while allowing a writ petition filed by Doctors’ Welfare Association of Tamil Nadu (DWAT), represented by its general secretary K. Srinivasan, in May last year. The judge agreed with the petitioner’s counsel, P. Ebenezer Paul, that even a State-run university should follow the requirements of a Central law.

In its petition, the association had urged the court to prevent the university from offering one-year fellowships in HIV medicine, occupational health, clinical immunology, palliative medicine and sexual medicine.

It wanted the university to be prevented from offering two-year courses in medical genetics, critical care medicine, clinical diabetology, ultrasound (obstetrics and gynaecology) or any other unauthorised PG degree, diploma, certificate or fellowship in medical sciences course for which an MBBS degree is the requirement for admission.

Opposing the writ petition, the university had claimed that the courses were started only after clearance by its governing council and that it was empowered to offer the courses in medical sciences, depending on the need for such courses, even without obtaining the approval of the Centre or the MCI.

Rejecting the contention, the judge had said Central enactments would prevail over State laws and that a Division Bench of the High Court in Dr. V. Balaji versus Union of India (2008) had stressed upon the need for every medical course to have been approved by the Centre and MCI.