3% DA hike for state govt staff, pensioners

3% DA hike for state govt staff, pensioners

28.10.2021

The Karnataka government on Wednesday announced it has increased the dearness allowance of its employees and pensioners from 21.5% to 24.5% with effect from July 1 this year. TNN

Court notice over medico’s papers

Court notice over medico’s papers

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Ahmedabad:28.10.2021

A division bench of the Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued notice to the state government over an appeal filed by an MBBS student and his father seeking directions to GMERS, Himmatnagar to supply documents including the internship certificate.

Petitioners – Rajesh Patel and his son Neil – have filed the appeal after they were not satisfied with the single-judge bench’s order, by which the HC had ordered the college management to return the original documents including mark sheets, which were retained by the college on the ground that Neil had not paid Rs 2 lakh bond or served in rural areas.

On the other hand, the petitioners have been claiming that the student had never submitted the bond and he was not bound to discharge any obligation to this effect.

While ordering the college management to return all original documents to the student, the single-judge bench also paved way for the college to recover the bond amount of Rs 2 lakh from the student, who is eager to get the internship certificate so that he could pursue further studies in the US.

As the issue involves payment of bond amount to which the petitioners show resistance, the bench of Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Mauna Bhatt made it clear, “You are a doctor who has studied in a government medical college through a quota seat.

This court has consistently taken the view that MBBS doctor, who got admitted to the said courses are bound by duty to serve in rural areas.” The court refused to grant any interim relief and posted further hearing beyond Diwali vacation, but permitted the petitioners to approach the court during the vacation if they feel it is necessary.

27 PG dental seats empty

27 PG dental seats empty

Ahmedabad:28.10.2021

The Admission Committee for Professional Post-Graduate Medical Education Courses conducted the mop-up round for 188 seats lying vacant for post-graduate dental courses, and filled all but 27.

“On Wednesday there were 27 empty seats with the others were taken in the mopup round,” said sources close to the development.

The admission committee this year carried out two rounds of admission. Now, it has decided to give the task of filling these seats to the institutes, sources added. TNN

Govt schoolboy from Trichy gets seat in IIT Hyderabad

Govt schoolboy from Trichy gets seat in IIT Hyderabad

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Trichy:28.10.2021

P Arun Kumar, a government school student from a hamlet near Manapparai in Trichy who had cleared JEE (advanced), has secured a seat in Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H). Son of labourers, he was allotted BTech Chemical Engineering at the online counselling held on Wednesday.

“I am extremely happy to have been allotted chemical engineering. Getting into IIT was my dream and it has come true. NIT Trichy students guided me during the counselling,”

Arun Kumar told TOI. He secured the IIT-H seat under OBCNCL category in which he secured a rank of 2,503. Sounding confident that he can manage campus life without facing any language barriers, Arun Kumar, a student of Sevalpatty government higher secondary school, said he was keen to enrol in IIT-Madras. “If there are unallotted seats in IITMadras and If I get a chance, I will opt for the institute irrespective of the course available,” he said.

Amid odds, the boy underwent coaching from 2019 under IGNITTE, the teaching club of NIT-Trichy that helps economically backward and government school students. While the club has helped rural students get into NITs, this is the first time a government school student coached by it secured IIT admission. After TOI reported his achievement on October 23, many reached out to him including the district administration and management of SASTRA University, Thanjavur.

Air fares to Singapore, Malaysia remain pricey

Air fares to Singapore, Malaysia remain pricey

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Chennai:28.10.2021

Air fares from Chennai to Singapore and Malaysia are several-fold higher than pre-Covid rates at a time when the travel sector is inching back to normalcy.

The two countries relaxed norms recently so that people who have permanent residency permits, workers and others can start travelling.

One-way fare on direct flights is ₹25,000 to ₹27,000 to Singapore while it is ₹26,000 to Kuala Lumpur for travel in November. The fare is higher for travelling via Colombo or Dubai but many are not travelling via transit hubs because of ever-changing restrictions.

The fare is high because the government is yet to permit more flights on the route and continues to run 'air bubble' flights operated by Air India Express or Air India.

Airport sources said that foreign carriers, which used to have one or two flights per day from Chennai in the pre-Covid-19 days, are unlikely to resume flights till end of December unless the government fully allows scheduled services.

Fewer flights and high fares have troubled those who are flying on business, jobs and on permanent residency visas and those who have a second home.

Travel and tour operators are hoping that Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand will soon permit leisure travellers. Singapore has allowed transit passengers but people are not able to use it because there is only one flight from Chennai.

S Baskar from Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) said fares would reduce only if commercial flights resume operations.

Some travel agents expect southeast Asian countries to allow leisure travellers by next month.

Basheer Ahmed of Chennai Metro Travels said, “There are only limited seats but people who are citizens, those with permits and those who need to return have begun buying tickets. There used to be around five to six flights per day to Singapore and three flights to Kuala Lumpur in the pre-Covid-19 days. Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand were the most popular leisure destinations. There is hope that leisure travellers will be allowed by mid-November.”

SC ticks off panel probing Jaya’s death27/10/2021 “How will Dr. Reddy get the documents of a U.S. hospital? What they did was out of a Robert Ludlum novel,” Mr. Sundaram said. Senior advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing for Tamil Nadu, which wants the Commission to finish its work and submit its report, retorted sarcastically that John Grisham would be a better choice of author. “Grisham is more straight-forward. Ludlum is better, considering the intricacies involved,” Mr. Sundaram shot back.Mr. Sundaram clarified that he was not seeking to arrest the inquiry into the circumstances leading to the former Chief Minister’s death. “Please do not stop the inquiry, but do appoint someone else with very strict guidelines. They should have a competent medical board to assist them… I am not here to thwart the inquiry,” he submitted on record.The proceedings before the CoI were stayed by the Supreme Court in April 2019 on a plea by Apollo Hospitals that the inquiry panel’s functioning was “replete with bias”. “Parties who had criticised her while she was living now express sadness after her death,” Mr. Sundaram said. He said the CoI was supposed to be a fact-finding body and not a “fault-finding body”.Justice Nazeer then asked a legal question about the hospital approaching the court at this stage. The judge said the CoI reports are usually placed before the Legislative Assembly. “Bias is a ground for me to come to court at any time of the inquiry. If my reputation is affected, anytime. There are three grounds on which I can come. They are bias, natural justice and jurisdiction... Can I have a reasonable feeling of non-bias here?” Mr. Sundaram replied.Apollo Hospitals had submitted that the Commission, instead of conducting an impartial probe, had filed a pleading alleging “criminal intent” on the part of the hospital and its doctors. Justice Nazeer asked whether the process of the CoI was adversarial or not. “Can the Commission participate as a litigant?” he asked. Mr. Sundaram replied that the process was not supposed to be adversarial.Mr. Sundaram had previously argued that the Commission was filing applications “on its own behalf before itself” alleging negligence on the part of the hospital in the treatment of Jayalalithaa. “The CoI has to only extract the facts... This Commission goes about saying how this or the other treatment could have prolonged the CM’s life — now is this a medical fact-finding body? The CoI may be proficient in law but how does the CoI give expert views on medical terms which can be hardly pronounced... I have no faith in the Commission and everything it has done has to be called off,” he said.

தந்தை பிரிந்து சென்றுவிட்டதால் தாய் பெயரை முதல் எழுத்தாக பயன்படுத்த மகளுக்கு அனுமதி: 30 நாளில் முடிவெடுக்க உயர் நீதிமன்றம் உத்தரவு

தந்தை பிரிந்து சென்றுவிட்டதால் தாய் பெயரை முதல் எழுத்தாக பயன்படுத்த மகளுக்கு அனுமதி: 30 நாளில் முடிவெடுக்க உயர் நீதிமன்றம் உத்தரவு

மதுரை  27.10.2021

தந்தை பிரிந்த நிலையில் தாயாரின் பெயரை மகளுக்கு முதல் எழுத்தாகப் பயன்படுத்த அனுமதி கோரிய மனு மீது 30 நாளில் நடவடிக்கை எடுக்க உயர் நீதிமன்றம் உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளது.

கரூர் மாவட்டம் கடவூரைச் சேர்ந்த போதும்பொண்ணு உயர் நீதிமன்றக் கிளையில் தாக்கல் செய்த மனு:

எனது மகள் காவ்யா, கடவூர் அரசு உயர்நிலைப் பள்ளியில் 9-ம் வகுப்புப் படிக்கிறார். கணவர் 14 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன் என்னை விட்டுப் பிரிந்து சென்று விட்டார். நானும், மகளும் எனது தந்தையின் பராமரிப்பில் இருக்கிறோம். மகளை பள்ளியில் சேர்த்தபோது எனதுபெயரின் முதல் எழுத்தை (இன்ஷியலாக) அவளது பெயருக்கு முன்னால் பதிவு செய்தேன். ஆதார் அட்டையிலும் எனது பெயரின் முதல் எழுத்தையே மகளின் பெயருக்கு முன் குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளேன்.

இருப்பினும் எனது பெயரின் முதல் எழுத்தை ஏற்க பள்ளி நிர்வாகம் மறுத்துவிட்டது. 10-ம் வகுப்புப் பொதுத்தேர்வின்போது பிரச்சினை வரும் என்றும், அதனால் தந்தை பெயரின் முதல் எழுத்தைக் குறிப்பிடுமாறு பள்ளி நிர்வாகம் அறிவுறுத்தியது. எனவே, எனது பெயரின் முதல் எழுத்தையை மகளின் பெயருக்கு முன் பயன்படுத்த அனுமதிக்க உத்தரவிட வேண்டும் என மனுவில் கூறப்பட்டிருந்தது.

இந்த மனு நீதிபதி செந்தில்குமார் ராமமூர்த்தி முன் விசாரணைக்கு வந்தது. பின்னர் நீதிபதி, மனுதாரரின் மனுவை 30 நாளில் பரிசீலித்து பள்ளிக்கல்வி இயக்குநர், கரூர் மாவட்ட ஆட்சியர், தேர்வுத்துறை இயக்குநர் ஆகியோர் உரிய உத்தரவு பிறப்பிக்க வேண்டும் என உத்தரவிட்டார்.