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"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-29T20:51:27 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Rajya Sabha member Sasikala Pushpa, who was recently expelled from the AIADMK, appeared before the Madras High Court Bench here on Monday and conceded that she did not come to Madurai on August 17 fo | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FMadurai%2Fhc-reserves-orders-on-bail-plea-of-sasikala-pushpa%2Farticle9046747.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02991/pushpa_2991436c.jpg | en | null | HC reserves orders on bail plea of Sasikala Pushpa | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Sasikala Pushpa, Rajya Sabha member expelled from the AIADMK, had ensured that she got unprecedented security cover when she appeared before the Madras High Court Bench here on Monday. Photo:S. James
She says police have deliberately amended the FIR to implicate her.
Rajya Sabha member Sasikala Pushpa, who was recently expelled from the AIADMK, appeared before the Madras High Court Bench here on Monday and conceded that she did not come to Madurai on August 17 for authorising her lawyers to appear on behalf of her in an anticipatory bail plea as stated in a vakalat filed in court along with the advance bail petition.
The MP told Justice V.M. Velumani, before the judge reserved orders on the former’s anticipatory bail plea, that she signed
Questions invocation of POCSO provisions
Rajya Sabha member Sasikala Pushpa, who has been summoned along with her husband by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court over allegation that they had made a false statement of having signed the vakalat on their anticipatory bail plea in Madurai in August 17, said she had signed the vakalat in Delhi on August 16 and forwarded it to her Madurai-based lawyers C. Susi Kumar and J. Sathiyaraj through her husband N. Lingeswara Thilagan. Mr. Thilagan, in turn, told the court that he handed over the vakalat to the lawyers here on August 17.
Ms. Pushpa did not dispute the authenticity of her signature in the vakalat which had been countersigned by another Madurai advocate S. Vijayakumar with a statement that it was executed before him after its contents were read over to the MP, her husband and son L. Pradeep Raja, who were the co-applicants, in Tamil and they seemed to have understood them perfectly.
Contesting the claim, senior counsel Veera Kathiravan, appearing for Ms. Pushpa, accused the police of having made a false statement in court and claimed that the MP’s husband had taken a flight to Singapore from Bengaluru only on August 18 after handing over the vakalat in person to the lawyers in Madurai on August 17. He said it was wrong to claim that he left for Singapore on August 16.
He said that Thoothukudi police had registered a case against the MP and her family members under various bail provisions of the Indian Penal Code and non-bailable provisions of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act 1998 on August 9 on the basis of a complaint lodged by a 21-year-old former domestic aid accusing the family of having ill-treated and sexually abused her and her sister.
The FIR was altered on August 22 and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 were included on the grounds that the complainant had claimed to have been abused since 2011 when she was a minor. Taking exception to it, the Senior Counsel said the police were strengthening their case day by day only to ensure that his client was put behind the bars.
Police deny allegation
On the other hand, Additional Advocate-General (AAG) B. Pugalendhi said there was a delay in invoking the POCSO Act only because the police had to ascertain the age of the complainant.
Accusing the MP and her family members of not cooperating with the investigation and flying away to a foreign country, the AAG said the petition should not be entertained for the basic reason that the MP had made a false statement in court.
“Now the petitioner has admitted that she did not sign the vakalat in Madurai. Filing a vakalat is not a formality or a ritual that anybody can sign anywhere and claim that it was signed in Madurai. A fraud has been played on the court by filing such a vakalat. Even the affidavit filed by the MP today is not in proper form. It contains the date but not the place where it was executed,” he said.
She feared attack by AIADMK cadre
Sasikala Pushpa, Rajya Sabha member expelled from the AIADMK, had taken several precautionary measures and had made elaborate arrangements to ensure that she got unprecedented security cover when she appeared before the Madras High Court Bench here on Monday.
The Hindu is in possession of a copy of a letter written on her letterhead to the Station House Officer (SHO) of North Avenue Police Station at New Delhi on August 26, the day when the Supreme Court ordered her to comply with summons issued by the Madras High Court, seeking protection.
The letter signed by her reads: “As you [are] aware of my position that due to the political turmoil between me and my party leader Madam J. Jayalalithaa, many false complaints and cases were filed against me at Madurai High Court…
“On Monday, as I need to appear in front of the Madras High Court, I fear that party leader may stimulate [sic] party cadres to attack,” she said in her letter to the police.
Further, apprehending threat to her life, she requested the Delhi police to coordinate with the Tamil Nadu police for providing necessary protection to her.
A similar request was made to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel guarding the main building of the High Court Bench complex here.
Hence, the CISF, besides providing her with tight security, videographed her entire movement in the court building. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/hc-reserves-orders-on-bail-plea-of-sasikala-pushpa/article9046747.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/f556ab901a00a7648921aa2853a34f72b70b326e91482cc87df14a89c6e33d52.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T22:50:53 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Sunday admitted that his execution in the last ball of the last over led to his side’s one-run loss against the West Indies. But the captain sought to dwell on t | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fsport%2Fcricket%2Fdhoni-heaps-praise-on-rahul%2Farticle9041212.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Dhoni heaps praise on Rahul | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Chasing 246 for a win, India ended their run chase at 244 for 4.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Sunday admitted that his execution in the last ball of the last over led to his side’s one-run loss against the West Indies. But the captain sought to dwell on the positives from the nerve-wrecking Twenty20 International match.
“It was an amazing game. We couldn’t have expected more from the batting unit. The last ball, the thinking was right but the execution was wrong. Everything is judged by execution,” Dhoni said after the match.
Chasing 246 for a win, India ended their run chase at 244 for 4.
India needed two runs off the final ball to win the match but Dhoni failed to get those runs as he was caught by Marlon Samuels. India thus failed to notch up the highest ever successful run chase in T20 Internationals.
“We did most things right. Whenever there was a partnership, we kept the asking rate at just 12. I felt Rahul was outstanding throughout. The others too were superb because it’s not always easy to chase down 250. A win would have been perfect, but there were so many things we did right today,” Dhoni, who scored 43 off 25 balls, added.
West Indies captain Carlos Brathwaite said that he gave the go-ahead to Bravo’s plan to bowl a slower ball to Dhoni.
“When Bravo said he was bowling a slower ball at the end, I told him that he had my backing. But in my mind I was thinking ‘really?’ We never do things easy, but we held our nerve. We couldn’t quite tell who the home team was. It was a great game of cricket,” he said.
Dwayne Bravo said, “With nine runs to go, I said we didn’t have anything to lose. I’d like to test my skills in these kinds of situations.”
“We know what MS [Dhoni] can do. He can finish off the game with one hit. I wanted to ensure the first ball didn’t go for a boundary. I wanted to keep my composure and back my skills with the two balls: the slower one and the Yorker.” | http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/dhoni-heaps-praise-on-rahul/article9041212.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/4385c18af491c197c3966874d449251069b57ddd7e5ac39d937758c1e358e977.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T18:52:00 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Fast bowler Dale Steyn set up a series-clinching 204-run win for South Africa on the fourth day of the second and final Test against New Zealand at SuperSport Park on Tuesday.
Steyn took three wick | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fsport%2Fcricket%2Fsteyn-sets-up-south-africas-series-win%2Farticle9051279.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02992/TH31KIWIS_2992599c.jpg | en | null | Steyn sets up South Africa’s series win | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Left-handed Nicholls, playing in his sixth Test match, wages a lone battle
Fast bowler Dale Steyn set up a series-clinching 204-run win for South Africa on the fourth day of the second and final Test against New Zealand at SuperSport Park on Tuesday.
Steyn took three wickets with his first 11 balls of the innings and finished with five for 33 as New Zealand was bowled out for 195 despite a defiant innings of 76 by Henry Nicholls.
It looked as though it would be easy for the hosts when Steyn and Vernon Philander ripped through New Zealand’s top four batsmen for seven runs inside the first four overs of the innings.
But the left-handed Nicholls, playing in his sixth Test match, displayed courage and concentration in making his second Test half-century and highest score to delay South Africa’s celebrations.
He found a similarly determined partner in B-J Watling, who made 32 in a two-hour, 68-run fifth wicket partnership, while Mitchell Santner, Doug Bracewell and Tim Southee all provided varying degrees of resistance.
Nicholls was last man out after batting for 255 minutes. He faced 140 balls and hit 12 fours.
Steyn bowled Tom Latham with the first ball of the final innings, then had Latham’s fellow opener, Martin Guptill, caught at first slip, also for a first ball duck, off the final ball of the over. The magnitude of New Zealand’s task was shown in the second over when captain and first innings top-scorer Kane Williamson was struck a painful blow on the left hand by a ball from Vernon Philander which reared up off a good length. He required lengthy treatment before resuming his innings.
The team physiotherapist went onto the field twice more to treat the player before Williamson was caught behind off Philander for five.
In between, Ross Taylor was trapped leg before wicket by an unplayable ball from Steyn, which skidded through barely above ankle height off a pitch with increasingly unpredictable bounce.
Latham tried to leave the ball from Steyn that bowled him but it lifted sharply and bounced off his raised bat onto the stumps. Guptill, a heavy scorer in limited overs international cricket, again raised doubts about his technique in Test cricket when he edged a ball that seamed away from him. In three innings in the truncated series, Latham and Guptill scored a combined 23 runs and the highest total at the fall of the second wicket was 13.Watling was dropped by Stiaan van Zyl at third slip off Philander when he had five and two runs later seemed lucky to get the benefit of the doubt from television umpire Richard Illingworth when the South Africans appeared convinced that he had gloved Philander to De Kock.
South Africa added 27 runs in 13 overs, for the loss of Philander’s wicket, before declaring its second innings on 132 for seven. Temba Bavuma made 40 not out. Tim Southee bowled Philander and finished with three for 46. | http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/steyn-sets-up-south-africas-series-win/article9051279.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/8ef1759b4c9aab68e5fdb4cc25422df23ac194ce436233b22b664b6a89a82b6a.json |
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"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-31T10:51:59 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee described the Supreme Court judgment on Wednesday setting aside the land acquisition by the previous Left Front governmen | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fother-states%2Fwith-singur-verdict-i-can-die-in-peace-mamata%2Farticle9055305.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/00011/IN12_MAMATA_11993c.jpg | en | null | With Singur verdict, I can die in peace: Mamata | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Ms. Banerjee said her government will abide by the decision of the court and will return land to the farmers of Singur.
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee described the Supreme Court judgment on Wednesday setting aside the land acquisition by the previous Left Front government in 2006 at Singur for Tata Motors proposed small car factory, as a landmark victory for her.
“Despite electoral victories I had only one job left to return the land of farmers of Singur. Now I can die in peace,” Ms. Banerjee said after the judgment.
The Chief Minister said that she salutes the spirit of farmers of Singur who faced all odds but did not bow down to injustice. “This is a landmark victory for me,” she told journalists at the State Secretariat.
Reiterating her policy, that agricultural land should not be acquired forcefully Ms. Banerjee said that by forcefully acquiring land of farmers in Singur the Left Front government committed a “historical suicide.”
Ms. Banerjee said her government will abide by the decision of the Court and will return land to the farmers of Singur.
Speaking to journalists, a visibly pleased Ms. Banerjee recounted her 26 days of hunger strike from December 4 to December 29 and thanked all those who stood by her.
Farmers erupt in festivities
Meanwhile, in Singur farmers erupted in joy soon after the news of the judgment reached them. People smeared green abir on their faces, blew conch shells burst into impromptu sloganeering. They also held photographs of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and shouted ‘Mamata Banerjee zindabad.’
A timeline
The Left Front government under former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had ordered accquisition of 997 acres of land in Singur in 2006 for Tata Motors small car factory. While, 11,000 farmers owning roughly 600 acres of land had received the compensation about 2,000 farmers owning the remaining 400 acres did not accept the compensation.
Owing to the protests by farmers led by Ms. Banerjee, the Tatas decided to shift the project to Sananda in Gujarat and abandoned the project in October 2008. After coming to power the Trinamool Congress government passed Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011. On June 22, 2012 the Calcutta High Court held the Singur Act as “unconstitutional and void.” | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/with-singur-verdict-i-can-die-in-peace-mamata/article9055305.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/f8c1f51692c9caefbf9c3c9b35d9b3fa39d589888f19c8ba3ed83baefd4a8e36.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:54:11 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | The signing of the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) during Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s visit to Washington is a significant step forward for India and the U.S. The agreement | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fopinion%2Feditorial%2Fthe-lemoa-embrace%2Farticle9051237.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | The LEMOA embrace | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The signing of the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) during Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s visit to Washington is a significant step forward for India and the U.S. The agreement, which comes after more than a decade of negotiations, puts an automatic approvals process in place for the two militaries to share each other’s bases for various operations. These include port visits, joint exercises, joint training, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts; other uses are to be discussed on a case-by-case basis. The agreement will aid the sort of operations India has undertaken to rescue stranded Indians in conflict zones. Further, as the Indian military continues to expand its role to aid in disaster relief, as it did during the 2004 tsunami, it will benefit from easier access to America’s network of military bases around the world. The pact will also enhance the military’s capability to be an expeditionary force, at a time when Indian interests are distributed around the world with major investments planned both onshore and offshore in oilfields. The U.S., too, has required the help of India, as it did when emergency planes were refuelled in Delhi during the Nepal earthquake relief operation. As India and the U.S. explore plans for maritime cooperation in the Asia-Pacific as a part of the joint vision statement, LEMOA is going to add value.
LEMOA is not without its drawbacks, however, as is evident from the fact that it took so many years to agree upon. Even after the Centre had cleared the “foundational agreement”, as it is known, it took several months and at least four high-level meetings to finalise the text. A major reason for this was that although India embarked on closer defence ties with the U.S. years ago, there was no consensus or support within the establishment for an alliance of any kind, which the LEMOA had come to symbolise. As Mr. Parrikar pointed out during his joint appearance with U.S. Defence Secretary Ashton Carter, the finally negotiated text has nothing to do with setting up U.S. bases in India, and there is no “obligation” on either side to carry out any joint activity. Mr. Parrikar also mentioned a need to explain to the people the import of the agreement by bringing it into the public domain before the government considers discussions on the other foundational agreements the U.S. is keen to draw India into. The caution from Mr. Parrikar shows a nuanced understanding of the benefits and reservations about the Centre’s latest move, which is a welcome trend. | http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/the-lemoa-embrace/article9051237.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/8442efce722f3bef0cc39a214f3ec836cd4a2778c1f60be82c97e15ea32f446d.json |
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"Dennis S. Jesudasan"
] | 2016-08-26T22:52:20 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Meet 27-year old Tashi Yangzom from Bhutan, who is training at the Officers Training Academy — the first lady cadet from a friendly foreign country to be trained at the prestigious institution of the | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftamil-nadu%2Ffirst-lady-cadet-from-bhutan-feels-at-home-in-chennai-ota%2Farticle9037558.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02987/Bhutan_2987833c.jpg | en | null | First lady cadet from Bhutan feels at home in Chennai OTA | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Meet 27-year old Tashi Yangzom from Bhutan, who is training at the Officers Training Academy — the first lady cadet from a friendly foreign country to be trained at the prestigious institution of the Indian Army.
Ms. Yangzom is in her final days of training along with 32 lady cadets from India, as they eagerly await the completion of their course at the OTA, culminating in the ceremonial Passing Out Parade to be reviewed by President Pranab Mukherjee on September 10.
A native of south-eastern Bhutan, Ms. Yangzom says she is completely at home in Chennai. “I’m the first lady cadet from Royal Bhutan Army to undergo this training at OTA. Initially, it was difficult for me to catch up with the schedule and training. However, I was able to cope up later,” she says.
Recalling her last few months, she fondly remembers the support the Indian cadets gave her. “When I came here, I didn’t know how to ride a bicycle and so when everyone went on a bicycle, I went running along them. But now, with my friends’ help, I have learnt to ride a bicycle,” she says. So what was her challenge? “I was comfortable with everything except the weather in Chennai, which was very hot. I’m not used to such extreme heat.”
Having been born in her village Orong in Samdrup Jongkhar district in Bhutan and having chosen law as a career initially, Ms. Yangzom believes in making complete use of opportunities that came her way. “I wanted to make use of this opportunity and take back all that I could from India,” says the cadet, who is set to join Judge and Advocate General and serve for Royal Bhutan Army in the Armed Forces Court of Justice.
Major General V.D. Chowgule, Deputy Commandant and Chief Instructor of OTA, says the training for women at the Academy was on par with that of gentlemen cadets. OTA is the only training establishment of the Indian Army that trains women cadets. About 270 cadets, including 32 lady cadets, besides 19 cadets from friendly foreign countries, are scheduled to complete their training at the Academy this year. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/first-lady-cadet-from-bhutan-feels-at-home-in-chennai-ota/article9037558.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/ef22eca512dd039cb83050fe942e88b540e4f9d8951879bf7bb29950b0cb67e6.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T04:51:58 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Hundreds of representatives of Myanmar’s ethnic tribes gathered Wednesday in the country’s capital for historic peace talks with the government aimed at ending decades of separatist insurgencies that | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Finternational%2Fmyanmar-holds-historic-peace-talks-with-ethnic-groups%2Farticle9054231.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02993/MYANMAR_2993250c.jpg | en | null | Myanmar holds historic peace talks with ethnic groups | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The first uprising launched by ethnic Karen insurgents began shortly after independence. Since then other ethnic groups have also taken up arms.
Hundreds of representatives of Myanmar’s ethnic tribes gathered Wednesday in the country’s capital for historic peace talks with the government aimed at ending decades of separatist insurgencies that have claimed thousands of lives.
The delegates, dressed in traditional garb and headgear, streamed into a conference hall in Naypyitaw for the five-day talks called by the new government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Although her title is state counsellor she is seen as the country’s real leader.
Ms. Suu Kyi, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the head of armed forces Gen. Min Aung Hlaing are scheduled to give speeches at the opening of the talks to determine the fate of the country’s various ethnic minorities, who make up about 40 per cent of the population.
“All our people around the country want peace. So I do believe we will be successful in getting it at the conference,” said Khun Than Myint, the facilitator of the meeting, whose official title is Union Peace Conference — 21st Century Panglong.
This is a reference to the Panglong Agreement brokered in 1947 by Ms. Suu Kyi’s late father, independence hero Gen. Aung San, in a town called Panglong. This week’s conference is being attended by 17 of the 20 main armed groups, including the Karen, Kachin, Shan and Wa, along with other stakeholders.
The 1947 deal granted ethnic minorities autonomy and the right to secede if they worked with the federal government to break away from Britain together. Aung San was assassinated the following year and the deal fell apart. Since then, ethnic groups have accused successive, mostly military, governments of failing to honour the 1947 pact, just before Myanmar gained independence from Britain the next year.
The first uprising launched by ethnic Karen insurgents began shortly after independence. Since then other ethnic groups have also taken up arms.
Skirmishes, particularly in northern zones where Kachin insurgents are fighting the army, have displaced more than 100,000 civilians since 2011 alone. At least 100,000 more have sought refuge in squalid camps in neighboring Thailand, and are unlikely to return home until true peace takes hold.
The rebel armies control a patchwork of remote territories rich in jade and timber that are located mostly in the north and east along the borders with China and Thailand. They represent various ethnic groups that for decades have been fighting for autonomy while resisting “Burmanisation,” a push by the Burman ethnic majority to propagate its language, religion and culture in ethnic minority regions.
Suu Kyi promised that bringing peace would be her top priority when her government assumed power earlier this year after decades of military rule. The previous military-backed government brokered individual truces with various insurgent groups and oversaw a ceasefire covering eight minor insurgencies last year that fell short of a nationwide deal.
“It is still too early to say” whether this Panglong conference is representative of the aspirations of all groups, said Khu Oo Reh, the spokesman of the United Nationalities and Federal Council, a group that represents all ethnic armed groups. “But we really hope that we can achieve real democracy and equality for all ethnic groups, and self-determination in our region.” | http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/myanmar-holds-historic-peace-talks-with-ethnic-groups/article9054231.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/44dfb63ae962021c3a145bb4a6ae1802088cebb4764d707a759eec984ef267ce.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T14:55:42 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | Iran has deployed the Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defence system around its Fordow underground uranium enrichment facility, Iranian state media reported on Monday.
Iranian state T | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Finternational%2Firan-deploys-s300-missiles-at-nsite%2Farticle9046653.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02991/Iran_missile_2991370c.jpg | en | null | Iran deploys S-300 missiles at N-site | null | null | www.thehindu.com | An S-300 missile system is displayed by Iran’s Army during a parade in Tehran.
Iran has deployed the Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defence system around its Fordow underground uranium enrichment facility, Iranian state media reported on Monday.
Iranian state TV on Sunday aired footage of deployment of the recently delivered missile system to the nuclear site in the central Iran. “Our main priority is to protect Iran’s nuclear facilities under any circumstances,” Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) air defence force told state TV.
Iran and the six major powers reached a landmark nuclear deal in 2015 aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for lifting nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Tehran over its disputed nuclear work. Enrichment of uranium at the Fordow facility, around 100 km south of Tehran, has stopped since the implementation of the nuclear deal in January.
Russia, under pressure from the West, in 2010 cancelled a contract to deliver S-300s to Iran. But Russian President Vladimir Putin lifted that self-imposed ban in April 2015, after an interim deal was reached between Iran and the six powers.
In August, Iran said that Russia had delivered main parts of the system to the country, adding that the missile system would be completely delivered by the end of 2016. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/iran-deploys-s300-missiles-at-nsite/article9046653.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/e76f3599cdf4c9557b30168728016ecc1fcc312b9d5263a5f252bfa824878c39.json |
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"Indrani Dutta"
] | 2016-08-29T04:56:08 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | Britannia Industries has entered the packaged Indian bread category with the introduction of whole wheat ‘kulchas’, according to company sources.Encouraged by its run in Delhi, BIL is now planning to | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fbusiness%2FIndustry%2Fbritannia-forays-into-packaged-bread-segment%2Farticle9043061.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02989/29TH_BU_KULCHA_2989961c.jpg | en | null | Britannia forays into packaged bread segment | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Britannia Industries has entered the packaged Indian bread category with the introduction of whole wheat ‘kulchas’, according to company sources.
Encouraged by its run in Delhi, BIL is now planning to take the product to other markets, including Bengaluru.
Admitting that it has been a late entrant to the packaged kulcha category, sources close to the development said that it “needed a strong hook” to enter a segment already well-penetrated by other key Delhi bread brands. The Kulcha is a leavened flat Indian bread, normally made using flour or maida even at home.
The company forayed into the segment “with an insight of introducing health to this traditionally perceived-indulgent category, launching whole-wheat of the Indian bread, at an attractive price.”
“Britannia definitely sees an opportunity to extend this healthy proposition and will be targeting cities like Chandigarh, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore post market consolidation efforts in Delhi NCR,” according to the sources.
Analysts have hailed the product saying that they expect Britannia’s R&D unit to provide a competitive advantage. “If this product meets the value and product-efficacy expectations of consumers, it has good potential,” according to a note from Edelweiss Securities. “We expect that Britannia’s strong product pipeline and innovations will help sustain its growth-momentum ahead of industry,” the note added. BIL’s first quarter revenue growth at 8.5 per cent and net profit growth at 13.2 per cent were ahead of analyst estimates.
The sources said that a unique sampling drive is underway at Delhi NCR with ‘Britannia Kulcha Carts’ allowing a taste of its new product to consumers at select areas and key market clusters.
Britannia set up its first-ever factory in India in 1954 to manufacture packaged branded bread. Today it is a leading national packaged bread-brand, but faces local competition. It launched its branded whole wheat bread in 2011.
Eating out has become a preferred option in many Indian homes now and companies are trying to cash in on this by offering packaged foods, whose consumption is on the rise, according to the company.
“Consumer and market studies by Britannia indicate that this increase has three pivots: higher pleasure (for consumers), better-health and increased convenience,” the company sources said. | http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/britannia-forays-into-packaged-bread-segment/article9043061.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/702e431d503a82a1ec9fd80c2997a69490f077ff31f9d66255bf3ef0ac73aed6.json |
[
"Yuthika Bhargava"
] | 2016-08-30T18:52:30 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Chinese smartphone maker LeEco aims to manufacture two lakh units in India by the end of the current yearwith an investment of $7 million, COO Smart Electronics Business Atul Jain said in an intervie | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fbusiness%2FIndustry%2Fleeco-invests-7-million-in-manufacturing-facility%2Farticle9051293.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | LeEco invests $7 million in manufacturing facility | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The firm has entered into a contract manufacturing deal with Taiwanese firm Compal Electronics
Chinese smartphone maker LeEco aims to manufacture two lakh units in India by the end of the current yearwith an investment of $7 million, COO Smart Electronics Business Atul Jain said in an interview.
The firm has entered into a contract manufacturing deal with Taiwanese firm Compal Electronics.
“We are formally starting making our phone in India. We have partnered with Compal for the facility and will start with the assembly of 60,000 units of Le2 model per month,” Mr. Jain said. This will be increased to two lakh units a month. Mr. Jain added, “We have invested around $5 million in the facility and will put in $2 million for automation.”
The facility, spread over 2,00,000 sq.ft, would provide employment to about 200 people, he said.
In the past one year, over 35 companies have set up mobile manufacturing facilities in India, generating 40,000 direct jobs and 1.25 lakh indirect employment.
“Handset manufacturing in India rose 185 per cent in value terms in 2015-16 to Rs.54,000 crore in value terms and is expected to touch Rs.94,000 crore this fiscal,” IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said while inaugurating the facility. For Compal, this facility will mark its entry into India. Overall, this will be the company’s fifth manufacturing facility after China, Poland, Brazil and Mexico. | http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/leeco-invests-7-million-in-manufacturing-facility/article9051293.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/7e6d8b90639539cbe8906f4cf5141461a18262dd126264efd181cfba034524e5.json |
[
"Bishwanath Ghosh"
] | 2016-08-26T14:52:00 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | A Facebook friend of mine — a Bangalore-based gentleman called Vijay Grover — recently posted a status update to say: “Till two days back, 90% of Karnataka did not know advocate Vittala and 90% of In | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Ffeatures%2Fmetroplus%2Fsociety%2Fwriters-block-so-do-we-ban-the-song%2Farticle9036120.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Writer's block: So, do we ban the song? | null | null | www.thehindu.com | A Facebook friend of mine — a Bangalore-based gentleman called Vijay Grover — recently posted a status update to say: “Till two days back, 90% of Karnataka did not know advocate Vittala and 90% of India did not know Ramya... then came ‘sedition’ case and rest is news.”
I mean, how true! I had no idea about the existence of a Kannada actress called Ramya — 33 years old, real name Divya Spandana — who is now into politics and belongs to the Congress party. And, of course, there was no question of my being familiar with a lawyer called Vittala Gowda, living in Kodagu in Karnataka. Then something happened that made both of them national news.
Earlier this month, Ramya visited Islamabad for a meeting of young parliamentarians from the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) nations. On her return, she told reporters, “Pakistan is not hell; people there are just like us. They treated us very well.” She thought it was important to mention that it was not like hell because Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar had recently said that going to Pakistan was like going to hell. The lawyer knew this was his moment — he could imagine himself being surrounded by TV cameras, a dozen reporters thrusting their mikes on his face — and so went to the court and filed a case of sedition against the actress-turned-politician. He accused her of “insulting” India and “provoking” its people by praising Pakistan, the “traditional enemy of India”.
Things turned out exactly the way Gowda wanted them to. For the rest of his life, he will be known as the lawyer who took Ramya to court for saying a few nice words about Pakistan. Who knows, he may float a political outfit next — depending on the outcome of the case, which will be heard in a few hours from the time you finish reading this piece.
This incident confirms the suspicion I’ve been nurturing lately: that we have become a nation of jobless people that is spending most of its time either in front of the TV or scrolling down newsfeeds on the phone. It no longer matters who has done what: what matters now is who has said what. As a result, real issues — corruption, cronyism, Government apathy, public apathy, to name a few — get swept under the carpet.
I wish we spent half that time reading — perhaps reading history. History alone can put your existence in your country (or any other country) in perspective, and therefore make you more humble and tolerant and — most important — open-minded.
The lack of knowledge of history is evident. I have come across countless Indians who are convinced that Mahatma Gandhi was responsible for the Partition — as if they were around when the events were unfolding. The truth is that Gandhi had almost no say in the matters of the Congress party during the months leading to Partition.
I have also come across people who consider Jinnah to be the architect of the Partition, and while that is true, it is also true that for the longest time, Jinnah did not want the Partition. The term ‘Pakistan’ was actually coined in 1933 by a Punjabi Muslim studying in Cambridge at the time: P for Punjab, A for Afghanistan, K for Kashmir, S for Sindh, and stan from Baluchistan. When he and his friends presented the name to Jinnah, he was livid. But the same Jinnah, by 1940s, was demanding a separate state of Pakistan. Why so? Well, you got to read history.
And if saying ‘Pakistan is not hell’ amounts to sedition, then we should all be in jail for singing and listening to Saare jahaan se achchha, Hindostan hamara, India’s best-known patriotic song, for it was composed by the poet-turned-politician Muhammad Iqbal who, in 1930, became the very first man to demand a separate province for Muslims in India. Do we ban the song? | http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/writers-block-so-do-we-ban-the-song/article9036120.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/b404fdfd9246f008c5cd601c6454dbc7bd2058a109d1882f27b90c2852a96969.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T12:51:10 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | The latest in a series of initiatives under brand ‘Amma’, Tamil Nadu government will set up 500 ‘Amma Gyms’ for youth and develop as many ‘Amma Parks’ for the public in rural areas. In a suo motu sta | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftamil-nadu%2Famma-gyms-parks-for-rural-tamil-nadu-soon%2Farticle9046205.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02991/JAYALAITHAA_jpg_24_2991209c.jpg | en | null | Amma gyms, parks for rural Tamil Nadu soon | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said 500 ‘Amma Gyms’ would be set up in rural areas to promote physical and mental health of youth.
The latest in a series of initiatives under brand ‘Amma’, Tamil Nadu government will set up 500 ‘Amma Gyms’ for youth and develop as many ‘Amma Parks’ for the public in rural areas.
In a suo motu statement in the Assembly, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said 500 ‘Amma Gyms’ would be set up in rural areas to promote physical and mental health of youth, at an estimated total cost of Rs. 50 crore. Each gym would be set up at a cost of Rs. 10 lakh, she said.
Yet another welfare initiative under brand ‘Amma,’ it would also augment basic infrastructure in the hinterland.
Ms.Jayalalithaa also announced setting up of 500 ‘Amma Parks’ in village panchayats with all amenities, including play equipment for children, toilets, cement benches for seating and paved pathways for walking at a total outlay of Rs. 100 crore.
In an initiative to help kin of those admitted as in-patients in state-run hospitals, 23 ‘short stay homes’ will be built at a cost of Rs. 11.62 crore in districts, including Chennai, where those attending on patients could stay back.
The Chief Minister unveiled a host of other initiatives, including converting incandescent bulbs used for street lighting into energy efficient LED to bring down spending on electricity consumption bills by 35 per cent and steps to completely do away with open defecation.
Low cost state-run food retail chain ‘Amma canteen’ introduced during Ms.Jayalalithaa’s previous tenure turned out to be a huge hit, prompting the government to go in for more such outlets across the state.
Amma drinking water, Amma pharmacies, Amma cement and Amma salt are among the other initiatives under ‘Amma’ brand. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/amma-gyms-parks-for-rural-tamil-nadu-soon/article9046205.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/f8da8e7085309fef9386a4ffb416b684539a65e0c5c9841637f7158538172ac0.json |
[
"Staff Reporter"
] | 2016-08-28T22:51:24 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | A comprehensive plan to clean up and rejuvenate Fort Kochi is getting ready. Kerala Tourism, which has taken the lead to elevate the stature of the tourist spot, will join hands with the Kochi Corpor | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FKochi%2Ffort-kochi-to-sport-a-clean-look%2Farticle9042907.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02989/28KI_GARBAGE_2989759c.jpg | en | null | Fort Kochi to sport a clean look | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Debris, mostly plastic bottles and bags, remains piled up at the Fort Kochi beach.
A comprehensive plan to clean up and rejuvenate Fort Kochi is getting ready.
Kerala Tourism, which has taken the lead to elevate the stature of the tourist spot, will join hands with the Kochi Corporation and stakeholders in the tourism sector to launch the project within a month.
The Department and tourism trade entities would provide support to the Corporation’s lead role in executing the roadmap, which called for the iconic heritage destination to be cleaned and made waste-free before the upcoming tourist season, said a release issued here.
The move to clean up Fort Kochi came after a meeting held here on Saturday in which Mayor Soumini Jain, Tourism Director U.V. Jose and representatives of various bodies participated.
Ms. Jain said several tonnes of discarded coconut shells and styrofoam waste were being collected from the coastal areas and beaches.
She said it was tough to transport the waste to the dumping yard and then segregate it. “We are mooting a permanent solution, where the waste will be collected and processed in the area itself without posing any environmental hazards,” the Mayor said.
Homestay operators and hoteliers in the area are conducting weekly cleaning drives. A concerted and systematic plan to rejuvenate the area is being planned. The Fort Kochi Heritage Conservation Society has engaged 21 workers in the area as part of the project. More workers and lorries for waste removal are expected in the coming days.
Mr. Jose said the Tourism Department would supplement the Corporation’s efforts with funds, besides providing manpower and equipment to resolve the issue. “The waste problem will be resolved before November, when the new tourist season officially kicks off,” he said. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/fort-kochi-to-sport-a-clean-look/article9042907.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/0618b5931f72e9d7d803c72b350ff3bab56e4b0efac672ae2db68fb9ec9fd1c8.json |
[
"Abhimanyu Meer"
] | 2016-08-29T04:56:13 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | The closure at this month of Blue Frog’s institutional Lower Parel outpost will no doubt turn a page on what has been a truly historic chapter for live music in Mumbai. Like many before us, we can ea | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2Fmumbai%2Fentertainment%2Fabhimanyu-meer-picks-out-the-highlights-of-blue-frogs-final-lineup-at-its-mathuradas-mill-before-it-shuts-for-relocation%2Farticle9042690.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02989/showcase2_2989589c.jpg | en | null | The final playlist | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Abhimanyu Meer picks out the highlights of Blue Frog’s final line-up at its Mathuradas Mill before it shuts for relocation.
The closure at this month of Blue Frog’s institutional Lower Parel outpost will no doubt turn a page on what has been a truly historic chapter for live music in Mumbai. Like many before us, we can easily attest to the fact that over the course of its near decade-long existence, Blue Frog has played host to a number of life-affirming moments in music. Fans, however, can take some solace in the news that the Blue Frog is only leaping across the pond to set up two new outposts within the city.
Before its time
Managing director Sumer Vaswani has said to the press that the time has come for the Blue Frog brand to venture into other locales, and understandably so. The extremely music-centric venue is less suitable in its surroundings than it was before. It had, after all, opened a decade before the big “resto-bar” explosion hit Mumbai and until then, the Frog alone occupied that landmark space just off N.M. Joshi Marg. Pretty soon, unused mill spaces like the Mathuradas Mills Compound would become hubs for ever-expanding food and beverage chains attracting clientele from Lower Parel’s business district. And while the Frog was smack bang in the middle of the city, it was still a trek for people traveling from the Western suburbs for a dose of live music, and definitely not an economical taxi ride home at 1:30am.
Working the music
It was here during my first legitimate assignment as a music journalist, stood behind the sound console with a drink in one hand and a notepad in the other, that I realised that overzealous, zany tributes to bands that most people didn’t know about had no place in our society. That first show was agonising and fuelled inside me the courage to pen my first scathing review of a tribute band that, incidentally, included a number of friends as members. I have been offending people I know personally ever since.
Over the space of a few years, I covered more shows at the Frog as a writer than I can remember. But over and above, the Blue Frog made for some lifelong memories as a music fan. I remember fondly just last year as Suman Sridhar strutted out with her new band The Oracle and captivated what was essentially a half-empty club with impossibly practiced ease. And also progressive-jazz, nine-piece behemoth Jaga Jazzist who simply electrified the club that December night three years ago. Or back in 2009, when as an encore to one of their first performances, Shaa’ir + Func’s Monica Dogra and Randolph Correia stripped their act down to a bare-bones Basement Jaxx cover that had this writer, for one, tearing up a little. And there was that weekend when French powerhouse Manu Chao and his band La Ventura played an impossibly energetic six-hour-long double-header to a packed house like we had never seen before. And of course, there was Susheela Raman, whose exploits on that February night of 2010 are tattooed on the minds of those who dared to show up and let themselves go.
On quieter nights, the club had another charm. The one-off gigs that only the diehard fans attended while the casual club-goer slept off the weekend before’s hangover offered up just as much and sometimes more. Years ago, Bangalore’s Thermal And A Quarter followed up some kind of informal guitar workshop with a revelatory, awe-inspiring performance to about 35 people in total. Recently, Kenny ‘Dope’ Gonzales, one half of dance music demi-gods, Masters At Work, managed to get the dinner crowd to put their pasta aside and break into the salsa during a sparse, midweek club night. And so many more that a column like this won’t allow space for.
Milestone duds
And of course, there were the duds. Mukul Deora’s album launch was a night I spent wishing I had the blues rather than just going there to listen to some. And Luke Kenny’s socialite-studded Michael Jackson tribute was something I really shouldn’t have spent train fare on, but I did, only to watch MJ’s hits and dance moves murdered methodically. But, I have to hand it to socialites circa 2008. There was barely a camera phone or an exasperating selfie-taker in sight. It seems our best and worst memories of the Blue Frog are simply etched into our minds and nowhere else because they were formed much before the smartphone era came along and ruined everything.
Festive farewell
While all good things must come to an end, and in Blue Frog’s case, a temporary one, we’ll be kissing its Lower Parel location goodbye with one last weekend of celebrations that began from August 26 and will wind up on August 28. The weekend-long fest will see a number of headlining performances. On Friday, August 26, Ankur and The Ghalat Family made an appearance, as did Indus Creed alongside bluesman Kush Upadhyay and young Alisha Pais. Nerm, KAOS and Spyrk will represent the electronic end of things to close the night out. Today, there will be performances by Zero, Dark Circle Factory, Tejas Menon and Bone Broke with bass music star DJ Nuphlo closing shop alongside the Midival Punditz. And finally, on Sunday, musicians Suman Sridhar, Nikhil D’Souza, drummer Ranjit Barot, axeman Dhruv Ghanekar, Ashu Phatak and Mauritian fusion band Tritonik will call curtains on this iconic insitution.
Till next time
While there are no precise details on where the two new outposts of the Blue Frog will stand in tMumbai, there’s no denying many of us will line up to get in on the first day. And we’ll be snagging free, giant Polo mints on the way out, casually reliving some of our haziest memories through that wall of photographs.
For more details on the FrogFest playlist see bookmyshow.com
Abhimanyu Meer is a freelance journalist | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/entertainment/abhimanyu-meer-picks-out-the-highlights-of-blue-frogs-final-lineup-at-its-mathuradas-mill-before-it-shuts-for-relocation/article9042690.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/9b73ca5cb32df3a4af25804e49a4b63dc2bea3f126512c843b00f5f368f11b43.json |
[
"B. Kolappan"
] | 2016-08-28T04:53:03 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | Many must have found it strange that the Singapore government played the song “Thanjavuru Manneduthu” from the film Porkalam at the beginning of the State funeral for two-time President S.R. Nathan. B | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftamil-nadu%2Fkollywood-number-served-as-a-funeral-song%2Farticle9040773.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02989/SRNathan_2989423c.jpg | en | null | Kollywood number served as a funeral song | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Singapore government played the song "Thanjavuru Manneduthu" from the film Porkalam at the beginning of the State funeral for two-time President S.R. Nathan.
Many must have found it strange that the Singapore government played the song “Thanjavuru Manneduthu” from the film Porkalam at the beginning of the State funeral for two-time President S.R. Nathan. But, lyricist Vairamuthu did not.
“He once told me that of all my songs, particularly this number, evoked inexpressible feeling. He could never locate the birth place of his ancestors in Tamil Nadu and he would take solace that it could be one of the places that finds reference in the song,” said Mr. Vairamuthu.
“I received a lot of calls from Singapore immediately after the song was played in the presence of leaders and representatives of various governments who attended the funeral. The Chinese and Malay people were keen on figuring out its meaning and the Tamils who were present on the occasion had translated the lines for them.”
It is also a strange coincidence that Oscar-winning music director A.R. Rahman included in his concert at the United Nations (UN) a Tamil film song. The performance was held to mark the 70 Indian Independence Day and the birth centenary of Carnatic singer M.S. Subbulakshmi, the first Indian to perform at the United Nations General Assembly hall.
Though he rendered the songs popularised by M.S. Subbulakshmi and Sufi songs and ‘Jai Ho’, the song by Mr. Vairamuthu from Maniratnam’s Kannathil Mutthamittal, “Vellai Pookal Ulagamengum Malargavey; Vidiyum Poomi Amaithikaka Vidikavey” (Let white flowers bloom all over the world; When it dawns, let it dawn for peace), which stressed the idea of world peace, proved more appropriate. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/kollywood-number-served-as-a-funeral-song/article9040773.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/6e8b96bfc027d580dae07e21a004aa47caf40c30175e00ca9a55ca997397a249.json |
[
"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-28T18:51:41 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | Tata Steel has decided to withdraw from its proposed 5.5 million tonne integrated steel plant project in Lohandiguda area of Maoist insurgency-hit Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.Tata Steel’s Chhattisga | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fbusiness%2FIndustry%2Ftata-steel-shelves-bastar-project%2Farticle9043060.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Tata Steel shelves Bastar project | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Tata Steel has decided to withdraw from its proposed 5.5 million tonne integrated steel plant project in Lohandiguda area of Maoist insurgency-hit Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
Tata Steel’s Chhattisgarh project head Anil Sinha said that the decision (to pull out of Bastar steel plant) was taken in the month of February-March this year. “It is officially confirmed. We have decided to withdraw because we could not convert prospecting into mining lease.” | http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/tata-steel-shelves-bastar-project/article9043060.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/67800187bc94926d2c431d2cf747c5c6662a4a9488c1beae58eccfcfa0cb5b97.json |
[
"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-31T10:58:00 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam councillors staged a walk out from the Corporation Council meeting on Tuesday accusing the civic administration of being inactive and failing to implement pending projects. A | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FTiruchirapalli%2Fdmk-councillors-stage-walkout%2Farticle9051161.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02992/TY31_CORPORATION_2992527c.jpg | en | null | DMK councillors stage walkout | null | null | www.thehindu.com | They express concern over problem in drinking water supply
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam councillors staged a walk out from the Corporation Council meeting on Tuesday accusing the civic administration of being inactive and failing to implement pending projects.
A section of them raised concerns over the problem in drinking water supply in parts of the city served by the new Coleroon Drinking Water Supply Augmentation Scheme. Raising the issue during the zero hour of an ordinary meeting of the council chaired by A.Jaya, Mayor, M.Venkataraj, DMK, said although the Corporation had promised to provide 24-hour supply when the Coleroon water scheme was commissioned several parts of his ward was getting piped water supply for less than an hour. “We are not getting the quantum of water that was supplied prior to the implementation of the new scheme. Despite the construction of additional overhead water tanks, problems in supply remain,” he said.
City Engineer Nagesh said that the civic administration was “zoning” the distribution system and the problem would be rectified soon.
K.S.Nagarajan of the DMK joined him saying that residents of his ward too were facing problems. There were complaints of water being discoloured. The Corporation has remained inactive and failed to implement many pending projects such as the integrated bus stand, he charged and led a walk-out of his party councillors.
Earlier, a section of the councillors urged the Corporation to take steps to check the mosquito menace especially along the Uyyakondan canal. They alleged that sewerage and rain water was stagnant on the canal where a rehabilitation project was being executed by the Public Works Department. Ms.Jaya said the matter has been taken up with the PWD and steps have been taken to drain the water.
Baskar of the AIADMK urged the Mayor to provide fogging machines to every ward. Mosquito larvae should be destroyed by spraying larvicide on drains, he demanded. The Mayor directed the officials to ensure that each ward was provided with fogging machines.
Many councillors complained about stray and rabid dog menace in their wards and urged the Corporation to take necessary steps to check the menace. City Health Officer M.Geethaarani said that as per law dogs could be sterilised and the civic body was carrying out the exercise regularly. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/dmk-councillors-stage-walkout/article9051161.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/27bda24a2120c2307c72a0676f96390aecc9f1bf719d20762d7bba230d497382.json |
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"G V Prasada Sarma"
] | 2016-08-29T08:55:51 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | Vizageye.com is a web portal that promises to give all the information relating to Visakhapatnam. An Android app has been launched simultaneously and for the benefit of those not conversant with the d | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FVisakhapatnam%2Fcity-information-now-a-click-away%2Farticle9043221.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02990/29VZVISKPAGE2VIZAG_2990075c.jpg | en | null | City information now a click away | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Vizageye.com is a web portal that promises to give all the information relating to Visakhapatnam. An Android app has been launched simultaneously and for the benefit of those not conversant with the digital technology a helpline is also available.
“This is a like a search engine for Vizag. The web portal gives complete information pertaining to Vizag whether it is a hospital, mall, jobs and property deals,” its CEO Sridhar Kakkerla told The Hindu.
He credits the idea to inkakinada.com of M. Pavan Kumar who used augmented reality and Vizageye worked on similar lines. Pavan Kumar is chief technical officer of Vizageye.
“We have been working on this for three years and spent two years on collection of data,” Mr. Sridhar said.
Expressing satisfaction at the work, he says it has received about 20,000 hits on the Google Index over the last two, three months.
It’s a free portal under social responsibility by Paramount Group working in retail automation for two decades giving billing and industrial solutions.
Explaining its features, Mr. Sridhar says there is something called polls. Suppose people write about a theatre and improvements and it will be taken to the notice of the authorities concerned and ensure that something happens. On shopping, discount structures will be available.
City yellow pages comprises information about 22,000 organisations, he says. "Our main aim is to cater to jobs. Anyone can post a job requirement. We collect information from all sources, check credentials like phone numbers and post them. Similarly, property sale or rentals can be posted,” he elaborates.
The ads stay for a week and will be extended if a request is made. After that the Vizageye team contacts the people concerned or they can inform us, he says.
If somebody pays a fee for the ad, it stays on top. But even otherwise, it will be posted, Mr. Sridhar explains.
A team of six technical personnel and 10 field staff that take photos and verify work for Vizageye. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/city-information-now-a-click-away/article9043221.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/ef1f391bc88cd495b7f0b478f0af1fae394aa4028bb1af80a5f3001079bbe4db.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T10:52:29 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | A court here has sentenced a youth to life imprisonment for murdering his mother. According to prosecution, M. Esakkiappan (34), an unemployed youth from Chokkalinga Vinayagar Temple Street in Thisa | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftamil-nadu%2Fyouth-gets-life-term-for-matricide%2Farticle9036916.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Youth gets life term for matricide | null | null | www.thehindu.com | A court here has sentenced a youth to life imprisonment for murdering his mother. According to prosecution, M. Esakkiappan (34), an unemployed youth from Chokkalinga Vinayagar Temple Street in Thisaiyanvilai, crushed the head of his mother Petchiammal (58) on June 19, 2014 after she refused to give him money. She died on the spot.
Tirunelveli District Principal Sessions Court sentenced Esakkiappan to undergo life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs. 500 on him on Friday. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/youth-gets-life-term-for-matricide/article9036916.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/3f998e3fd0d11658ca8542e9db8bab83fe9f0d390b35d3207cc55f0ea31bf86d.json |
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"Staff Reporter"
] | 2016-08-27T16:51:37 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Days after the Coimbatore Corporation, non-government organisations and members of the civil society came together to launch a social welfare initiative called ‘Social Capital’, a fencing player from | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FCoimbatore%2Ffencing-player-from-coimbatore-gets-support-through-social-capital%2Farticle9038540.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02988/26augcbemkhi4_s_CB_2988251c.jpg | en | null | Fencing player from Coimbatore gets support through ‘Social Capital’ | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan (right) handing over a cheque on Friday to fencing player T. Tamilkani. Photo: Special Arrangement
T. Tamilkani, a final year engineering student from the Government College of Technology, was in need of Rs. 85,000.
Days after the Coimbatore Corporation, non-government organisations and members of the civil society came together to launch a social welfare initiative called ‘Social Capital’, a fencing player from Coimbatore became its first beneficiary on Friday.
According to sources, through the ‘Social Capital’ platform, Corporation Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan and a few individuals contributed in a crowdfunding exercise to help the fencing player, T. Tamilkani, attend an international event in Bangkok, Thailand, from September 16 to 20.
The final year engineering student from the Government College of Technology was in need of Rs. 85,000 to travel, buy weapons and meet personal expenses and the ‘Social Capital’ team gave her Rs. 86,550.
It was only on Sunday that the Coimbatore Corporation and a few others launched the ‘Social Capital’ initiative and a mobile app to help all concerned come together to take up social projects.
It is a common forum for community, education institutions, hospitals, corporate companies, professional bodies and others to work with the Corporation and community in various social projects, said the app’s introduction on Play Store.
Ms. Tamilkani said that she was looking for support because it was her first international tournament after a two-year break.
She had just won a tournament in Chhattisgarh and had won several in the past – four golds in State meet and three golds, two silvers and two bronzes in national events.
But when the invitation to the Thailand event reached her, she wanted to go but did not know how.
She was put on to Saravanan Chandrasekaran of Wild Wing Trust, who contacted Mr. Vijayakarthikeyan and the ‘Social Capital’ team stepped in. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/fencing-player-from-coimbatore-gets-support-through-social-capital/article9038540.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/c5a7f416c523c0db6bac28de2460297e40c4631ea3ce32add756b563411f1e31.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T20:59:35 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Government doctors of certain specialties have given a representation to the government requesting an increase in the retirement age from 58 to 60. Senior doctors say this move will help as more doct | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2Fchennai%2Fchen-health%2Fgovernment-doctors-want-age-of-retirement-raised%2Farticle9046845.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Government doctors want age of retirement raised | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Government doctors of certain specialties have given a representation to the government requesting an increase in the retirement age from 58 to 60.
Senior doctors say this move will help as more doctors are needed in various specialties, and that this will retain experienced personnel as well as help with the expansion of healthcare services.
“We need more doctors in specialties under specialty postings,” said a senior government doctor. Another pointed out that at present, there was no manpower to expand services in certain fields of healthcare, and that world over, the retirement age of doctors was increasing. With new government medical colleges coming up, this will be very useful,” he said.
Tamil Nadu Government Doctors’ Association State secretary P. Balakrishnan said they were planning to request the Government to consider increasing the retirement age, provided certain safeguards were put in place for affected doctors.
“Increasing posts and making the head of department post rotation based are some safety steps that can be taken,” he said and added that a State-level discussion would be held on this soon.
A source in the Health Department said that this was a policy issue that needed to be discussed with various government departments. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chen-health/government-doctors-want-age-of-retirement-raised/article9046845.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/76fc89c2c5925e3a4ff4dae54cea17dc71df33ba1f8d0e72335949e259fd9b46.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T14:50:18 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Accolade and Anvill Star impressed when the horses were exercised here on Saturday (Aug. 27) morning.Inner sand:600m: Flying Show (Nazil) 40. Easy.800m: Joss (rb), Shopaholic (Bhawani) 57, 600/42. Pa | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fsport%2Fraces%2Faccolade-and-anvill-star-impress%2Farticle9040405.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Accolade and Anvill Star impress | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Accolade and Anvill Star impressed when the horses were exercised here on Saturday (Aug. 27) morning.
Inner sand:
600m: Flying Show (Nazil) 40. Easy.
800m: Joss (rb), Shopaholic (Bhawani) 57, 600/42. Pair easy. Lucas (Santosh), Pacific Dunes (Ranjane) 52, 600/39. Former moved well and they finished level. Mathaiyus (Parmar), Je Suis (Neeraj) 56, 600/42. They ended level. Arctic Whizz (rb), Ainra (rb) 56, 600/42. Pair moved freely. Silken Eyes (Merchant) 51, 600/39. Moved well. Hirohama (K. Kadam), Merchantofvenice (H.G. Rathod) 51, 600/38. They moved neck and neck freely. Minstrel Heights (Bhawani) 54, 600/40. Moved freely. Balchandra (rb) 54, 600/39. Pressed. Locarno (Baria) 52, 600/39. Good. Normandy (Akshay), Masterofbalantrae (K. Kadam) 54, 600/40. They finished level freely. Rainbow Dash (Parmar), Frosty (J. Chinoy) 53, 600/39. They moved level freely. Mount Whitney (rb), Striking Story (K. Kadam) 55, 600/41. Former ended four lengths in front. Strategic Move (S.S. Rathore) 54, 600/40. Moved freely. Safdar (Ikram) 56, 600/42. Easy.
1000m: Trombone (Neeraj), Ricardus (Ajinkya) 1-8, 600/40. Former ended three lengths in front. Star Councillor (S.S. Rathore), Flashing Honour (Bhawani) 1-7, 600/39. Former started three lengths behind and finished level. Anvill Star (rb), Q’E’ D (Bhawani) 1-6, 600/39. Former moved well and finished five lengths ahead. Erdemir (S. Sunil) 1-10, 600/42. Pressed. Iron Man (S. Sunil) 1-8, 600/40. Moved well. Anteros (Parmar), Geranium (Akshay) 1-9, 600/40. Former ended three lengths in front. Accolade (Akshay), Adam (Parmar) 1-6, 600/39. Former is in good shape. Note.1200m: Merabella (Jethu) 1-25, 600/41. Moved freely. Severus (Zervan), Covert Action (H.G.Rathod) 1-22, 600/40. Former was three lengths superior. Intelligence (Parmar) 1-23, 600/42. Moved freely. | http://www.thehindu.com/sport/races/accolade-and-anvill-star-impress/article9040405.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/a2aa1eecd0d7c9cc2179f7905ef80fd92cb9a12f6c7cb52f989f6950a9b5476e.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T12:50:15 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today defended her demand for 2 per cent cut in interest rates by RBI, saying it is essential to boost SMEs and create jobs, amid criticism that such a move would dr | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fbusiness%2F2-rate-cut-necessary-to-boost-smes-create-jobs-nirmala%2Farticle9040508.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | 2% rate cut necessary to boost SMEs, create jobs: Nirmala | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today defended her demand for 2 per cent cut in interest rates by RBI, saying it is essential to boost SMEs and create jobs, amid criticism that such a move would drastically affect fixed deposits.
“My comment about SMEs, their access to credit is based on real environment in which SMEs are doing business... world over interest rate is low... equally, income generation/ jobs are important,” she said in a series of tweets.
She said that for long periods, if rates would remain high SMEs would not be able to afford the borrowing.
Sithraman was responding to two tweets by an individual:” Have you suggested 2 per cent cut in repo rate? Are you aware how will it affect the rate of interest on FDs?... Since you will probably never contest a direct election in your life, you are not really in tune with the mood of common people“.
On not contesting elections directly, she said: “My contesting any (direct/indirect)election is my party’s decision“.
She is a Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka.
Further talking about SMEs, Sitharaman said in their respective areas they create jobs and they ask for support not charity.
“If they can be facilitated they can continue business will grow, jobs remain/grow,” she said.
Recently, the minister had pitched for as much as 200 basis points, that is 2 per cent, interest rate cut by Reserve Bank to help the cash-starved MSME sector. | http://www.thehindu.com/business/2-rate-cut-necessary-to-boost-smes-create-jobs-nirmala/article9040508.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/003c6c3425d98543c27fc884229131f39ef3b5b828a88cddcc6050b078d89638.json |
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] | 2016-08-28T14:50:48 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | There’s a certain charm when a joke is conveyed in one’s local language that English cannot achieve. Cheeky one-liners, the way a word is stretched for a hilariously risqué effect… Aayirathiyoru Iravu | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Ffeatures%2Fmetroplus%2Fthe-hindu-theatre-fest-2016-three-tamil-plays-packing-a-punch%2Farticle9040407.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02988/29MP_TF_LOGO_JPG_2988700c.jpg | en | null | The Hindu Theatre Fest | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The first of three Tamil plays of week two of The Hindu Theatre Fest 2016 had audiences roaring with laughter
There’s a certain charm when a joke is conveyed in one’s local language that English cannot achieve. Cheeky one-liners, the way a word is stretched for a hilariously risqué effect… Aayirathiyoru Iravugal, the first Tamil play of The Hindu Theatre Fest 2016, established the fact that, to a Chennai audience, Tamil is Tamil. We bought tickets for a play, but it felt more like a well-made masala movie. Vinodhini Vaidynathan, the director, promised an evening high on absurdist humour, and she delivered!
There was dance, live music, and plenty of laughs as Theatre Zero served up a potent mix of the Arabian Nights, Tenali Rama and other stories. So, you had Krishnadevaraya falling for Queen Scheherazade, even as she staves off certain death at the hands of her husband Shahryar, and a Caliph from before Shahryar’s time joins the fun on stage.
The first few frames — they were more than just scenes from a play — were high on raunchiness. But that set the stage for the King’s anger that turns unreasonable, as he sets out killing hundreds of his wives before he weds Scheherazade, the story weaver. The play featured some excellent performances by a cast that took on multiple roles and performed without a break for 90 minutes in a highly physical play. Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli, who played the Queen, was all grace as she flitted about the stage playing temptress, storyteller, ghost and dancer. Amit Singh as the tyrant king was spot-on. Bhargav (Tenali Rama) was a riot, as he used laddoos to keep track of the number of nights of storytelling.
One of the scenes that stood out was an interpretation of ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’. Actor Alexander Babu played out the entire sequence ingeniously — one moment he was the leader and the next, he was all forty bumbling thieves who spoke in Madras Tamil. The mono-act received thunderous applause. They improvised to make up for lapses on stage, such as a non-working mic and so on.
Then there was a sequence that parodied the popular reality show Neeya Naana. The blazer-clad anchor who says the same thing in various ways for extra effect, the high-brow way he deals with topics… it was a laugh-riot. Even Kamal Haasan was not spared. There was a character called K Hassan, er, Ku Hassan, actually.
Serious issues were slipped in casually — a character, for instance, tries to kill himself by consuming a popular aerated drink, for “it’s as good as poison”. The live music and dance added to the movie-like effect. The play did slacken in between, but the gags came at you so fast that you did not have the time to think much about it.
The props too did not disappoint: mops turned into horses (one named Milind Soman), oil cans turned into a magic lamp, and a laundry basket into a well! The team just used some props of minarets to recreate Baghdad of yore. This was a play where the actors owned the stage, and owned it well. Vinodhini had said her intent was to question gender roles and that she did, when Scheherazade finally manages to sleep in peace, as Shahryar meows in agitation, having been turned into a cat.
For a play that had at its core a master-storyteller and the world she creates, Aayirathiyoru Iravugal won hands down for the way the story, and the stories within the story, were narrated. There was utter chaos during certain scenes, but the audience were too busy laughing to notice anything. All in all, it was a stand-out Tamil play, in more ways than one. | http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/the-hindu-theatre-fest-2016-three-tamil-plays-packing-a-punch/article9040407.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/0db27057fb2c89279ab523afb18e74f194559ca318a5bd59c9f452ea57ee681d.json |
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"Akhil Sood"
] | 2016-08-31T10:52:55 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Rishabh Iyer recalls the time he was in Kechla, Odisha. “It was this really weird monsoon, where the clouds had turned brown, and that gave everything around a brown hue,” he says. It’s an image that’ | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2Fmumbai%2Fentertainment%2Fwild-spirit-smooth-rhythm%2Farticle9051402.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02992/31bm_LEAD_Pg4_Worm_2992654c.jpg | en | null | Wild spirit, smooth rhythm | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Electronic music producer Rishabh Iyer discusses his second full-length album, Standing Feathers, slated for release tomorrow.
Rishabh Iyer recalls the time he was in Kechla, Odisha. “It was this really weird monsoon, where the clouds had turned brown, and that gave everything around a brown hue,” he says.
It’s an image that’s stuck with him, making its way to his new album, Standing Feathers. The song in question is called, ‘Brown Clouds That Hold Rain’.
There’s another song called, ‘Blue Clouds That Hold Stars’, but there’s no story behind it; he just thought it sounded cool. Iyer functions under the slightly incongruous name Worms’ Cottage, writing mostly down-tempo, off-the-cuff electronic music that falls in that floating, melody-driven space of melancholia and contemplation. “I just had a déjà vu,” he says in the middle of our conversation about his new album.
Standing Feathers, which releases on Thursday, is the second full-length album by Worms’ Cottage. It releases under the Bengaluru-based independent label and artist collective Consolidate, and is available for pre-order from their Bandcamp page. A music video for one single, ‘Intransient Love’, is already out.
While his previous work — the album Tour Guide Imposter — had erratic, abrupt structural movement, often bursting at the seams with unexpected transitions lending the music a welcome twitch, here Iyer presents 12 new songs with a far more streamlined approach.
It’s still aberrant in its spirit, but Standing Feathers seems to evoke a smooth, molten rhythm. The clear sense of melody with hazy, often heavily-treated, mumbled vocals, and the far more relaxed atmosphere, is a deliberate attempt by Iyer to craft something more “homogenous” in its vision.
“I wouldn’t call it ‘growth’,” he says. “It’s just the kind of feel I was going for; this is more like background music, which is what the album was supposed to be, with very little vocals. Of course, that slowly changed when I got into it.”
His inspirations for this set of songs include James Blake, Earl Fletcher, and Great Dane, while he cites Bengaluru’s Machli as a big influence as well.
Further, Iyer speculates on how Deftones, a band he’s heard a lot in the past, and his love for metal — which is what he first started off with — could possibly be contributing factors to the feeling of textural unease that creeps in to the music from time to time. That eerie element is something other people have pointed out to him. He himself, however, often doesn’t hear it, attributing the thematic characteristic to subliminal musical influences entering the fray.
But for the most part, Iyer likes to keep his cards close to his chest, pleasantly but categorically sidestepping all my appeals to explain his process and the themes he’s shaping through the music. Most questions are met with a self-deprecating laugh and an “I don’t know”.
If I may hazard a guess, it’s probably to allow personal interpretations of his work, instead of explication.
The lyrics are often hard to decipher, and he tells me how he usually gets to them late in the process, once the music is already in place. The vague responses about the material, in a way, mirror the abstract, wafting cadence of the music itself.
Iyer has composed (using the software Ableton on his computer), produced, and mixed the album himself, with Bengaluru’s Rahul Giri (aka _RHL and one half of Sulk Station) giving him notes for the mix and master. The songs, he says, really came into place last summer, when he was visiting Mcleod Ganj. By that time he had accumulated a bunch of tracks and began whittling them down, before getting to the lyrics.
Previously as well, Iyer has spoken of a fascination with the hills, but it’s not something that actively makes its way into the songs. “It’s more like a subconscious thing,” he says. “Not even a single track is about the hills and such. But when I’m picturing a song in my head, whatever’s happening is happening in the hills. Even if it’s about… even if I’m just talking about a feeling or an emotion. I guess I just romanticise it. It’s imagery that I like.”
Iyer, 22, is studying film at Bengaluru’s Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, and he’s originally from Delhi (or Gurgaon, as he clarifies). He’s also made the music video for the first single, ‘Intransient Love’. He started mucking about with electronic music when he was studying in Pune (for a year, before moving to Bengaluru), using the software Logic Pro on a Mac at his college after classes. “I’d stay there and play around with sounds. I play a little bit of drums, a little guitar and a little tabla. I wanted to start a band, and this was just supposed to be a side thing,” he says. That’s not quite how it panned out though, and he continued writing electronic music after getting plenty of encouragement from his brother’s friends.
He hasn’t planned anything special for the album launch, with no real blueprint to promote or market Standing Feathers beyond the music video, which is already out. The underground electronic music scene in Bengaluru has grown considerably, and most producers tend to perform live often. But Iyer isn’t sure of taking that leap just yet. “I don’t know; I don’t play live that often, because I don’t have the equipment to practice on. Plus, in general, I’m not very comfortable with playing live. I get really nervous.” He concedes that he’s comfortable playing gigs with artists he knows and likes — mostly from the Consolidate roster — and his college schedule keeps him quite busy, but performing regularly is something he’d consider in due course of time.
The author is a freelance writer
Standing Feathers is available at Bandcamp.com on pre-order at $4 (approximately Rs. 269) | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/entertainment/wild-spirit-smooth-rhythm/article9051402.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/53b50241823f951865ee6bba1c5bc33e02d6acf6bf05627033326dfe0e4dac84.json |
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"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-28T20:52:12 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Sunday announced that his party will hold a massive demonstration in Coimbatore on September 3 to insist that the Centre must not grant permission to the Kerala governm | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftamil-nadu%2Fdmk-protest-against-dam-on-sept-3%2Farticle9043136.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02922/VBK-KARUNANIDHI_2922090c.jpg | en | null | DMK protest against dam on Sept. 3 | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Three districts in State would turn into a desert if Centre accords permission: Karunanidhi
DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Sunday announced that his party will hold a massive demonstration in Coimbatore on September 3 to insist that the Centre must not grant permission to the Kerala government for building a dam across the Siruvani river.
In a statement, he said three districts in Tamil Nadu would turn into a desert if the Centre granted permission for the dam.
The DMK chief said that after seeing the “shocking news report” in The Hindu that the Tamil Nadu government had failed to respond to several letters of Ministry of Environment and Forests and Kerala government, he and other party leaders had issued statements condemning the State government.
He alleged that after waking up to the gravity of the issue, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that she had taken up the issue with the then Prime Minister in 2012.
“But, four years have passed (since she wrote to Manmohan Singh). Has the Tamil Nadu government informed the BJP-led government at the Centre or has the Chief Minister informed Mr. Modi when she met him in person (about the opposition to the project). She also has not given the dates when she wrote (these) letters to the Centre,” Mr Karunanidhi said.
“People of Coimbatore, Erode and Tirupur have raised such doubts. Whether the government takes efforts to stop the dam or not, the DMK has decided to stage a massive protest led by party treasurer M.K. Stalin,” he said seeking the cooperation of the public, particularly farmers for the protest. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/dmk-protest-against-dam-on-sept-3/article9043136.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/e21aab01472556d1d02d153f457b7385e75997f17a2d7bc09897278460abe0db.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T10:55:03 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | The walk-in interview for selection of JRF/JPF scheduled for September 2 at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Valiamala, here has been rescheduled for 1.30 p.m. on September | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FThiruvananthapuram%2Fselection-of-jrfjpf%2Farticle9053000.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | SELECTION OF JRF/JPF | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The walk-in interview for selection of JRF/JPF scheduled for September 2 at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Valiamala, here has been rescheduled for 1.30 p.m. on September 5 (Monday). — Staff Reporter
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"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-31T06:57:02 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | The Bombay High Court on Tuesday quashed an first information report (FIR) against former Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation commissioner Sitaram Kunte and three senior IAS officers in the September | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2Fmumbai%2F2013-collapse-hc-quashes-fir-against-sitaram-kunte%2Farticle9051423.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | 2013 collapse: HC quashes FIR against Sitaram Kunte | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The Bombay High Court on Tuesday quashed an first information report (FIR) against former Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation commissioner Sitaram Kunte and three senior IAS officers in the September 2013 Dockyard Road building collapse where 62 people died.
A division Bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice A.A. Sayed quashed the FIR against Mr. Kunte, Rajiv Jalota, then additional municipal commissioner, Manisha Mhaiskar (now principal secretary in the medical education department), and ex-additional municipal commissioner Mohan Adtan. In November 2014, the Bhoiwada metropolitan magistrate’s court summoned all four, saying prima facie, there was evidence to prosecute them under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and Section 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.
Eleven people, including 10 civic officials, were arrested in the case. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/2013-collapse-hc-quashes-fir-against-sitaram-kunte/article9051423.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/612c7d24d2f8211326841e0e125569c3bfbb64502c796be2a0f33ebe35abeb02.json |
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"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-29T22:51:13 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Coincidence or otherwise, Kerala remained virtually shut down during the past two years on September 2. This year too it is going to be the same. In 2014, it was because of a Statewide hartal called | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fkerala%2Fthe-hartal-link-to-september-2%2Farticle9046328.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | The hartal link to September 2 | null | null | www.thehindu.com | For the third consecutive year, State will see a shutdown on that day
Coincidence or otherwise, Kerala remained virtually shut down during the past two years on September 2. This year too it is going to be the same. In 2014, it was because of a Statewide hartal called by the Bharatiya Janata Party and last year as part of a nationwide general strike called by trade unions. This year, it is because of the latter reason.
The BJP and other Sangh Parivar organisations had called for the Statewide hartal on September 2, 2014, to register protest against the murder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist Elanthodath Manoj at Kathiroor in Kannur district. The hartal had disrupted normal life in Kerala and in some districts there were reports of violence.
Kerala remained shut down on September 2, 2015, because of the one-day nationwide general strike called by trade unions in protest against the proposed changes in the labour laws moved by the Centre. While the public transport system, including buses and autorickshaws kept off roads, banks too remained closed.
On September 2 this year, trade unions have called for an all India general strike to protest against “the Union government’s anti-people economic policies and anti-worker labour reforms”. Bank employees are joining the strike this time too. The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, the trade union wing of the BJP, had kept away from the September 2, 2015 general strike and is staying off this year too. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/the-hartal-link-to-september-2/article9046328.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/8f4c242088f95ff412c86a489d3f1e427b97c34af60a83bd5bed715524731e92.json |
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"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-29T20:51:34 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | French submarine builder DCNS on Monday obtained a temporary restraint order against The Australian newspaper from releasing any more classified documents related to Indian submarines into the public | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fscorpene-data-leak-dcns-obtains-restraint-order-against-newspaper%2Farticle9046837.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02991/lanba_2991497c.jpg | en | null | DCNS obtains restraint order against newspaper | null | null | www.thehindu.com | DCNS moves New South Wales court to prevent newspaper from releasing more info,
French submarine builder DCNS on Monday obtained a temporary restraint order against The Australian newspaper from releasing any more classified documents related to Indian submarines into the public domain.
The temporary order directs newspaper to remove all sensitive data from its website and not to publish any new information. The order expires on Thursday as the Australian Supreme Court is set to hear the case filed by DCNS.
DCNS has argued that publication of the data would cause direct harm to “DCNS and its customer in terms of spread of sensitive and restricted information, image and reputation.”
The newspaper has over the last week released several pages of classified information from among the 22,400 pages it obtained, in redacted form, detailing the stealth and combat capabilities of the Scorpene under construction for the Indian Navy.
Meanwhile, speaking for the first time on the Scorpene submarine data leak since it came into the public domain, Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba said that the service was taking the issue very seriously but observed that it was “not a matter of much worry.”
“Any leak of information is viewed very seriously. We have viewed the leak of the Scorpene data very seriously, we have asked DCNS to launch an urgent investigation, we have ourselves set up a high-level committee to investigate this,” he told reporters outside the South Block on Monday.
Cameron Stewart of The Australian who broke the story told The Hindu: “It is a matter for the courts now. But I would note that DCNS, by its actions, appears to have greater concerns about the sensitivity of the leaked documents than does India’s defence minister.” Last week Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar had stated that “what is on the website is not of concern to us.” | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/scorpene-data-leak-dcns-obtains-restraint-order-against-newspaper/article9046837.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/001dfe0d9283e247a1977fd30201abc6d0ba8c52f330fb6fd30530cc0c7556f0.json |
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"Santosh Patnaik"
] | 2016-08-27T15:00:40 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Build, operate and transfer (BOT) operators of ports are seeking clarity on concession agreements to ensure a level-playing field before the Central Port Authorities Bill becomes law. Union Minister f | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fbusiness%2FIndustry%2Fbot-port-operators-seek-clarity-on-concession-pacts%2Farticle9032454.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02985/TH24_BU_PORT_2985897c.jpg | en | null | BOT port operators seek clarity on concession pacts | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The proposed Bill envisages an independent board to carry out the residual function of TAMP
Build, operate and transfer (BOT) operators of ports are seeking clarity on concession agreements to ensure a level-playing field before the Central Port Authorities Bill becomes law.
Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari said in an interview that an exercise was underway to address the concerns expressed by the investors on the future of BOT projects.
The Minister, however, declined to elaborate further on the move. “The Minister indicated that they are going to end the Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP) regime,” Visakhapatnam Stevedores Association president and VPT trustee K.V. Krishna Kumar said, referring to a meeting Mr. Gadkari had held with stakeholders last week. “But a clear indication on the fate of BOT operators is yet to come,” he said. The Centre has finalised a legislation to replace the Major Port Trusts Act of 1963 with the Central Port Authorities Bill of 2016. | http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/bot-port-operators-seek-clarity-on-concession-pacts/article9032454.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/2aaaaea236e3fb68dd29a0b982c7e1d9f21fa742a33ba2ba9d3c2569bbbf2c8b.json |
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"Ganesh Prabhu"
] | 2016-08-27T06:50:10 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | A large number of people took part in a procession of the Sri Krishna Leelotsava, popularly called the “Vittal Pindi” festival, on the Car Street here on Friday. The procession started from the entra | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fkarnataka%2Fmosaru-kudike-a-major-draw-at-vittal-pindi%2Farticle9037172.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02987/27MN_VITTAL_PINDI_2987745c.jpg | en | null | ‘Mosaru kudike’, a major draw at ‘Vittal Pindi’ | null | null | www.thehindu.com | A large number of people took part in a procession of the Sri Krishna Leelotsava, popularly called the “Vittal Pindi” festival, on the Car Street here on Friday.
The procession started from the entrance of the Sri Krishna Math/Temple at 3.30 p.m. Vishwaprasanna Tirtha Swami, junior seer of Paryaya Pejawar Mutt, installed a clay idol (“utsava murthy”) of Lord Krishna on the top of the golden chariot (“ratha”). The idols of Lord Ananteshwara and Lord Chandramouleshwara were placed in the “Navaratna Ratha”, ahead of the golden chariot.
These chariots were pulled on the Car Street with a team of musicians from Bhaivaranath Tarun Mandal from Pune, Chilipili Gombe Balaga, Marakalu dancers, and “Huli Vesha” dancers ahead of them.
A major attraction of the festival was “mosaru kudike” or breaking of earthen pots. As many as 15 wooden “gopuras” were constructed around the Car Street. As soon as the procession reached a “gopura”, a person would climb atop the “gopura” and hang pots containing milk, milk products and water mixed with vermilion.
A group of persons dressed in folk costumes would stand below the “gopura” with long sticks and jostle with one another to break the earthen pots (with the sticks). This process was repeated at all the wooden “gopuras.”
The people applauded them whenever they broke the earthen pots. The “mosaru kudike” here is different from other places, where human pyramids are formed to break earthen pots.
Then, Vishwesha Tirtha Swami of Paryaya Pejawar Mutt, Vishwaprasanna Tirtha, Lakshmivara Tirtha Swami of Shiroor Mutt, and other seers distributed “ladoos” and “chakkulis” at a stage near the Ananteshwara Temple Cross Road.
A “Huli Vesha” dancer spitting fire in the procession was yet another attraction. After going around the Car Street, the procession culminated at the entrance of the Sri Krishna Math.
The clay idol of Lord Krishna was removed from the golden chariot and taken in a golden palanquin to Madhwa Sarovara pond. Vishwaprasanna Tirtha took the clay idol around in the boat in the pond even as students studying in the mutt were swimming and following him to catch the idol.
Suddenly, Vishwaprasanna Tirtha jumped from the boat and immersed the idol into the pond marking the culmination of the festival. While he swam back, one of the students was successful in getting the idol from the water.
Earlier, during the “Anna Santharpane” held in the noon, nearly 30,000 devotees had food (prasadam) at the temple. Both Vishwesha Tirtha and Vishwaprasanna Tirtha served food to the devotees. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/mosaru-kudike-a-major-draw-at-vittal-pindi/article9037172.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/a5ad0b9e3daf861dcd40e0dd7e7de4fdffb20347f635a4f66fd8a381e0627b7f.json |
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"R. Prasad"
] | 2016-08-27T20:51:34 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has charged OMICS Group Inc, a Nevada corporation with Hyderabad as its principal place of business, the publisher of “hundreds of purported online academic journals | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fus-group-charged-with-duping-researchers%2Farticle9040894.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | U.S. group charged with duping researchers | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Academics identified by publisher have no connection with journals; no standard peer review is done
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has charged OMICS Group Inc, a Nevada corporation with Hyderabad as its principal place of business, the publisher of “hundreds of purported online academic journals with deceiving researchers about the nature of its publications and hiding publication fees ranging from hundred to thousands of dollars”. The complaint is against two other affiliated companies.
The FTC, which is an independent agency of the U.S. government and created by statute, has filed a complaint with the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada for permanent injunction and other equitable relief. “The Commission files a complaint when it has “reason to believe” that the law has been or is being violated and it appears to the Commission that a proceeding is in the public interest,” a FTC press release says. The OMICS Group has since at least 2009 published online publications “styled as academic journals”.
Mr. Kishore, a lawyer at OMICS’s Hyderabad office, told The Hindu that the group has already responded to the complaint. Citing confidentiality, he refused to divulge further details.
In order to solicit articles and manuscripts from consumers, the publishers claim that “various academic experts serve as editors, are members of the editorial boards, and consumers’ articles are subject to industry-standard peer review before publishing. They also represent that their journals have high impact factors”.
But “in reality, in many instances, the academic experts identified by Defendants [OMICS Group] lack any connection with Defendants’ journals. Further, in many instances, articles submitted for publishing do not undergo standard peer review before publishing. And journals’ impact factors are not calculated by Thomson Reuters, nor are their journals included in PubMed Central” the FTC’s complaint says.
In April 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Public Health Division had sent a cease-and-desist letter to OMICS Group as it had claimed that their “journals are indexed in PubMed Central and for using quotes from and photographs of NIH employees on its websites without permission”.
The Group “fails to disclose, or disclose adequately, that consumers must pay a publishing fee for each published article. In many instances, consumers only discover that their articles will not be peer reviewed and that they owe fees ranging from several hundred to several thousands of dollars after Defendants inform them that their articles have been approved for publication. Consumers’ attempts to withdraw their articles are frequently rejected, thereby preventing them from publishing in other journals,” the complaint states.
To entice researchers to submit manuscripts to their journals, the Group resorts to “email solicitations regarding the reputation and credibility of their journals and their publishing process”. As in the case of all predatory journals, in numerous instance, editors, members of editorial boards, or otherwise associated with the Group’s journals “either have not agreed to be associated with the journals or initially agreed to serve as editors, but later changed their minds and asked to be removed from its websites, with no success”.
In numerous instances, peer reviewers “either never receive any manuscripts to review” or discover that “the articles have already been approved for publication”.
When researchers wish to withdraw their articles “either because they were unaware of the publication fees or because they doubt the journal’s legitimacy due to its questionable review practices, Defendants nonetheless publish the article over consumers’ objections” thereby preventing researchers from publishing their work in other, more reputable publications. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/us-group-charged-with-duping-researchers/article9040894.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/e3ab90509937cad8b9e2e3fd416be6a66c82e1f2763efd0b745c827031ced8ed.json |
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"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-28T00:51:20 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | The Kerala High Court has set aside a government order removing the chairman of the State branch of the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS), dissolving its executive committee and various district commit | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fkerala%2Forder-removing-state-ircs-chief-set-aside%2Farticle9040628.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Order removing State IRCS chief set aside | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The Kerala High Court has set aside a government order removing the chairman of the State branch of the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS), dissolving its executive committee and various district committees, and appointing the respective district collectors as administrators of the society.
The court issued the order while allowing a writ petition filed by Sunil C. Cherian, former chairman and other office-bearers of the society.
The court observed that the Governor was the ex-officio president of the society. The power for superseding the society could not be exercised by the Governor, in the absence of any power conferred on him by the statute or the rules made there under.
Even if the impugned order was passed by the government with the concurrence of the Governor, it was of no consequence. The State and branch committees of the society were under the control and supervision of the managing body of the society. It was for the managing body to take appropriate action against the State and district branches of the society on a complaint, the court observed.
The State government submitted that it had ordered a quick verification into a complaint of financial irregularities allegedly committed by the chairman. The government later ordered a Crime Branch probe on the basis of the recommendation of the Vigilance.
The chairman, executive committee, and district committees of the society had been removed for conducting an effective Crime Branch investigation. In fact, the order was passed with the approval of the Governor. The government could not be a mute spectator to allegations of corruption and nepotism in an organisation under the patronage of the Governor.
The petitioners contended that the State government had no authority to meddle in the affairs of the State branch of the society under the Indian Red Cross Society Act.
The Assistant Solicitor General, appearing for the Centre, also argued that going by the scheme of the Act, the State government had no authority to supersede the State and district branches of the society. The power could only be exercised by the managing body of the society. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/order-removing-state-ircs-chief-set-aside/article9040628.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/410eb4d8c9ab21665ce4beac88af671e07140ac6740e1e7015e3681e33f714cc.json |
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"Staff Reporter"
] | 2016-08-30T06:52:54 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Normal operations of intra-State and short-distance train services will be restored by Tuesday, while it will take up to three days for long-distance services to adhere to schedule. Though damaged tra | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FKochi%2Fnormal-rail-services-in-3-days%2Farticle9048370.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Normal rail services in 3 days | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Normal operations of intra-State and short-distance train services will be restored by Tuesday, while it will take up to three days for long-distance services to adhere to schedule. Though damaged tracks and sleepers were restored at Karukutty, trains diverted through Madurai were being delayed. “This has affected timely availability of rakes and the rescheduling of trains,” said Thiruvananthapuram Divisional Railway Manager Prakash Bhutani. Many long-distance trains are running late by eight hours. This has affected availability of pairing trains, said Senior Divisional Operations Manager Asok Kumar P.L.
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"Rajulapudi Srinivas"
] | 2016-08-30T02:52:02 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | About 20 gangs, which descended on the city a few days before Krishna Pushkarams, will follow the calendar and tour the entire country and rob the devotees during religious events and festivals.Many o | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FVijayawada%2Ffollowing-calendar-for-wrong-reasons%2Farticle9048837.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02992/30-VJ-PUSHKARAM_30_2992022c.jpg | en | null | Following calendar for wrong reasons | null | null | www.thehindu.com | 78 theft cases reported during Krishna Pushkarams; 229 persons arrested
About 20 gangs, which descended on the city a few days before Krishna Pushkarams, will follow the calendar and tour the entire country and rob the devotees during religious events and festivals.
Many of the gangs which were rounded up by Vijayawada Police, operated during Godavari Pushkarams, Mahankali Bonalu in Telangana, Venkatagiri Poleramma Jatara, Dasara Utsavams at Mysore, rituals, religious processions and festivals.
“Of the 229 arrested, 60 were women and most of their husbands are convicted or under trial in different states. The women are committing robberies and pickpocketing to pay money (sureties) for release of their husbands or to the lawyers,” said City Police Commissioner D. Gautam Sawang.
Police, who used latest technologies in the recent Krishna Pushkarams, arrested 229 robbers of 20 gangs from 12 States in India. Booty valued at about Rs.18.99 lakh was seized. Police also took 138 suspects into custody and was verifying whether they had any links with the robber gangs, said Mr. Sawang at a meeting with the media here on Monday.
No firearms
“We are confident that 90 per cent of the theft cases can be detected and police got good leads with the arrest of the robber gangs from Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka, Bihar, West Bengal and other States. Police seized many knives, cutters and other material used for committing thefts, but no fire arms were recovered from the robbers,” the Commissioner said.
The robbers, most of whom are from Tamil Nadu, revealed that they follow the calendar, attend utsavams and religious events and commit thefts, the officer said. Mr. Sawang praised the Central Crime Station (CCS) police and the spotters who rounded up the gangs and helped to prevent further crimes during the river festival. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/following-calendar-for-wrong-reasons/article9048837.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/d047f07d4e2313352faf612f757b4362fe2ed2d69b1c2914772b5c72e05f85cd.json |
[
"Nikhil Raghavan"
] | 2016-08-31T10:53:09 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | When English guitar icon and the 1993 winner of Guitarist Magazine’s Guitarist of The Year, Guthrie Govan says, “If you don’t know about Prasanna, prepare to be terrified; he plays like nobody on the | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2Fmumbai%2Fentertainment%2Fone-for-the-terrain%2Farticle9046735.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02991/30bm_pg5_Prasanna__2991413c.jpg | en | null | One for the terrain | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Guitarist-composer Prasanna’s new album has got universal approval, including a pat on the back from AR Rahman.
When English guitar icon and the 1993 winner of Guitarist Magazine’s Guitarist of The Year, Guthrie Govan says, “If you don’t know about Prasanna, prepare to be terrified; he plays like nobody on the planet,” he is referring to the ace Indian guitarist-composer’s latest album.
Prasanna’s latest effort, All Terrain Guitar (ATG), just released to worldwide acclaim.
AR Rahman, alongside whom Prasanna performed at the United Nations as a tribute to MS Subbulakshmi, is just as euphoric. The Academy Award-winning musician says: “Prasanna’s ‘Springtime in New York’ (the album’s opening track) is as beautiful as chilling out in Central Park and having a masala dosa.”
Prasanna himself feels ATG has the soul to touch people in a simple, direct, and powerful way.
Coming out with a new record is about welcoming new listeners to his world as well as reconnecting with his loyal fans. “For me, the keyword is love… and some sustained feedback on the overdrive pedal,” he says, likening ATG to the thrilling world of ATVs (all-terrain vehicles) and SUVs (sport utility vehicles). The nine songs from the album are an amalgam of the triple-genre guitarist’s style that straddles, very comfortably, the unique worlds of jazz, Carnatic and fusion.
Named among the Top 50 Creative Indians by Open Magazine in 2010, Prasanna is the quintessential Indian Renaissance man. He’s a guitarist and composer whose prolific body of work is as diverse as it is inclusive. After the jazz-fusion album Be The Change (2004) and Jimi Hendrix-inspired Electric Ganesha Land (EGL), Prasanna took 10 years to come up with ATG.
Between his last two albums several things kept him busy. The musician had taken up the position of president of the Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music in Chennai. The two bands he is associated with, Raga Bop Trio and Tirtha, required his time for recordings and tours. “Most importantly, I was introspecting a lot…it was time to move forward from just being a solo performer to collaborative projects,” he says.
ATG was recorded almost at one go, so to speak, and has been ready for quite some time. Prasanna calls it his most intensely personal recording to date. “I just didn’t know if I was ready to share it with the world. I had to age with it and wait till the inner voice told me: now is the time!”
Prasanna is equally comfortable playing purist jazz, classical Carnatic and an eclectic fusion of the two. But, he sees himself as composer/performer instead of being slotted into any strict genres. “I am beyond styles and all I seek is expressing music in my most individualistic way. For instance, I rarely play jazz the way other people expect me to. Of course, the way I express Carnatic or jazz will be different from, say, the blues. The feeling is similar, but the expression is different. I want my audience to listen and catch on to the emotive quality; as artistes, we should just do music and let it speak in its natural tongue,” he explains.
Besides Raga Bop Trio (with Steve Smith and George Brooks), Tirtha (with Vijay Iyer and Nitin Mitta), Prasanna is currently experimenting with newer sounds: hard rocking metal, with Raga Metal Conversations, featuring Anton Fig on guitar and Alex Skonick on drums, besides himself. “In each of these bands, there are vast elements of compositional inputs brought in by other musicians and thereby, the songs and performances become very collaborative and creative,” says Prasanna.
“The other members of each of these bands are all world-class performers in their own capacity and have, in turn, played with several international acts. When we perform together, it is a sound that is unique to us and these cannot be slotted into any genre, although there will be a lean towards either Carnatic, jazz, rock or fusion,” Prasanna says.
Musicians joining Prasanna on All Terrain Guitar include Shalini Lakshmi and Natalie John (vocals), Vijay Iyer (piano), Dave Douglas (trumpet), Rudresh Mahanthappa and David Binney (saxophone), Mike Pope and Bill Urmson (bass), and Rodney Holmes and Mauricio Zottarelli (drums).
Prasanna cites the influence of two legendary composers, Ilaiyaraja and Frank Zappa. “The love for form and structure I developed from Ilaiyaraja’s music and the outlandish creativity and musical blasphemy that I have associated Frank Zappa’s music with, is probably reflected in ‘Pinch Pennies in Monaco’ (a track from ATG),” he says. There are mini-stories and episodes built into it and there is no way to explain why one musical interlude leads into another with so many layers of ragas coming in and going. According to him, Ilaiyaraja and Zappa are talented composers/performers who can do so many things within a song. “This is an area that I am slowly heading into and ATG’s songs reflect that evolution,” says the musician.
The author is a freelance writer
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[
"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-28T08:52:43 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | Kerala will be declared fully electrified on March 15, 2017, Electricity Minister Kadakampally Surendran has said.
He was inaugurating work on the 66-kV substation at Enathu, near Adoor, on Saturda | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fkerala%2Fstate-to-be-fully-electrified-by-march%2Farticle9042121.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02989/27ptkrk08-elect_28_2989323c.jpg | en | null | Kerala to be fully electrified by March | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Electricity for all:Electricity Minister Kadakampally Surendran inaugurating the work on a 66-kV electrical substation at Enathu, near Adoor, on Saturday.
The State is purchasing 65 per cent of its electricity demand from outside
Kerala will be declared fully electrified on March 15, 2017, Electricity Minister Kadakampally Surendran has said.
He was inaugurating work on the 66-kV substation at Enathu, near Adoor, on Saturday.
The government was for providing power connection to those who reside even on poramboke land. Local bodies should give temporary house numbers to those residing there, Mr. Surendran said.
He said the State was purchasing 65 per cent of its electricity demand from outside the State. He said it was high time the State concentrated on power generation and the government had decided to go ahead with various power projects suitable for the State. Mr. Surendran said the State was losing Rs. 50 to 60 crore in transmission loss owing to the delay in executing the Edamon-Kochi high tension line. He said the government would go ahead with its decision to draw transmission lines, taking the people into confidence. Chittayam Gopakumar, MLA, presided over the meeting. Annapoornadevi, district panchayat president; R.Girija, District Collector; B.Mohankumar, Deputy Chief Engineer; and N.Venugopal, KSEB member, spoke.
Inaugurates substation
The Minister also inaugurated a 33-kV substation at Kadapra, near Thiruvalla, earlier in the day. Mathew T.Thomas, MLA, presided over the function. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/state-to-be-fully-electrified-by-march/article9042121.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/e0fae688f3697bd3c8000567e407472017184be8a54fb1df6d677cf1802a18a1.json |
[
"V. V. Subrahmanyam"
] | 2016-08-27T10:50:43 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Silver medallist in the recent Rio Olympics, P.V. Sindhu, offered ‘pattu vastrams’ to Goddess Durga at the famous Lal Darwaza temple in the Old City of Hyderabad on Saturday morning.Sindhu attired in | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fsport%2Fother-sports%2Frio-olympics-silver-medallist-pv-sindhu-visits-lal-darwaza-temple-in-hyderabad%2Farticle9039992.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02988/SINDHU-HYDERABAD_2988604c.jpg | en | null | Sindhu visits Lal Darwaza temple | null | null | www.thehindu.com | "I always seek the blessings of the Goddess and prayed for the welfare of every citizen," she said.
Silver medallist in the recent Rio Olympics, P.V. Sindhu, offered ‘pattu vastrams’ to Goddess Durga at the famous Lal Darwaza temple in the Old City of Hyderabad on Saturday morning.
Sindhu attired in traditional saree and accompanied by her parents — P.V. Ramana and P. Vijaya — offered prayers at the temple.
Later, Sindhu said that she had been visiting the temple every year and Saturday’s visit was to offer prayers as she promised to do after winning a medal in Rio Olympics.
“I always seek the blessings of the Goddess and prayed for the welfare of every citizen,” she said.
The images of Sindhu carrying the traditional Bonam during the recent Bonalu festival went viral on the social networking sites. | http://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/rio-olympics-silver-medallist-pv-sindhu-visits-lal-darwaza-temple-in-hyderabad/article9039992.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/f6c3fa7a4e7243103beb26b25102573ebb20c9dcd5d1ca7115a7994fb1429121.json |
[
"R. Krithika"
] | 2016-08-26T14:50:50 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | “Come quickly,” whispered my husband, looking very excited. I followed him, wondering what got this usually phlegmatic man so worked up. It was a dragonfly. So what, you may ask. Yes, you’ve probably | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Ffeatures%2Fmetroplus%2Fclose-encounters-with-insects-in-anaikatti%2Farticle9036232.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02987/27CBMP-DRAGONFLY_j_2987343c.jpg | en | null | Close encounters with insects in Anaikatti | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Living in Anaikatti means being at close quarters with all kinds of creatures. Sometimes too close.
“Come quickly,” whispered my husband, looking very excited. I followed him, wondering what got this usually phlegmatic man so worked up. It was a dragonfly. So what, you may ask. Yes, you’ve probably seen dragonflies before but not like this one: all red, purple and pink. As it danced over a dark pink rose, it was difficult to tell where the rose began and where the dragonfly ended.
Living in Anaikatti means being at close quarters with all kinds of creatures. Sometimes too close. Once, we were sitting in my mother-in-law’s office chatting casually. The window was set wide open so that we could enjoy the evening breeze. From the corner of my eye, I noticed a black shape climbing in through the window. I turned to get a better look and froze. It was a large black scorpion with an I-have-a-right-to-be-here attitude.
“Amma, look,” I yelled. She looked at me uncomprehendingly. All I could say was “move” and point at the window. She turned, looked and jumped up from her chair. Unfortunately her way out was past the window. Between our yells and the thuds of books and stuff being flung haphazardly, it turned around and scuttled away. I swear I heard it sniff as it disappeared.
In a place like this, you have to watch where you put your feet. Walking on the grounds of the school, I was rather startled when a dry leaf moved away rather purposefully. A closer look showed that it was an insect. We crouched down and followed it around for a while. Nobody seemed to know what it was. Finally Google came to our rescue: it was a brown leaf insect and here I thought all leaf insects were green.
On warm sunny days, the call of the cricket fills the air; almost seeming to shimmer in the air before me, making me want to reach out and hold it. Once that insistent chirp begins, we would smile and say, “the cricket’s calling” and go back to whatever we were doing. But, one Sunday morning, I decided that I had to see this noisy little fellow. And so we searched and we searched …
It took us a whole hour to spot a little brown protrusion on the branch of the tree we were under. It didn’t look like an insect. “That’s the cricket,” my mother-in-law insisted. “But it looks like an extra knobbly branch,” I said. We would have gone on with this argument endlessly had not the critter suddenly unfurled its feelers. It probably wanted us to go away and leave it to its song.
When night falls, the air is full of bugs of all sizes and colours that seemingly appear out of nowhere. There’s one brown one in particular who makes a beeline for the tube light, buzzes around it for a few minutes and then falls with a splat. He’ll lie there buzzing incoherently for a while and then start bouncing. At first, it’s just practice — just a few inches off the floor — with sound effects. His practice bounces sound like the plops you get when someone chucks a stone into a pond.
Once we hear those plops, we know it’s time to watch out. He gives a whole new meaning to bouncing off the walls. One minute he’s on my shoulder, the next on my son’s head, the third on the ceiling. If he’d stop using us to bounce off from, we’d like him a lot better. “He’s just like you,” I tell a friend who tanks up on sugary stuff and bounces off my chat wall.
Once these bugs come out, the lizards make an appearance. The living room is their smorgasbord. Want a small prickly bug? Join the gang. Prefer a nice plump one? No problem. One small fellow is light golden in colour and has eyes almost popping out of his head at the feast before him. He runs to and fro, stuffing himself till his tummy seems fit to burst. Another looks very delicate. His skin is so transparent that you can see his insides. “Yuck, get away from there,” says my mother-in-law, as I play ‘Spot the lizard’s intestines’ with my son.
There are some colourful skinks around too, but any attempt to chase them is greeted with shouts of “vesham ma, kitta pogathey” (it’s poisonous, don’t go near it) from the locals. I try explaining that these little things are non-venomous but all I get are annoyed looks.
There’s one now… excuse me while I run behind it. | http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/close-encounters-with-insects-in-anaikatti/article9036232.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/2cfa7dcfe2f92293a3e3d704e623c162fc59b705fad244b3419683791eb8d71d.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T12:51:03 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza received a confidence booster ahead of the US Open Grand Slam tournament beginning on Monday with a doubles title victory at the Connecticut Open with Monica Niculescu o | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fsport%2Ftennis%2Fconnecticut-open-tennis-championships-sania-wins-doubles-title-ahead-of-us-open-championships%2Farticle9042646.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02982/SANIA_2982137c.jpg | en | null | Connecticut Open tennis championships: Sania wins doubles title ahead of US Open championships | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Sania and Niculescu capped off their newly rekindled doubles partnership with their first title together with a straight set victory.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza received a confidence booster ahead of the US Open Grand Slam tournament beginning on Monday with a doubles title victory at the Connecticut Open with Monica Niculescu of Romania in New Haven.
Sania and Niculescu capped off their newly rekindled doubles partnership with their first title together with a straight set victory over the duo of Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine and Chuang Chia-Jung of Taiwan in the final.
The Indo-Romanian pair won 7-5, 6-4 in the summit clash that lasted one hour and 30 minutes.
After pocketing a tough first set 7-5, Sania and Niculescu won a tightly contested second set 6-4 en route to lifting the trophy.
The last time Sania and Niculescu partnered up was way back in 2010, where they joined forces to reach the quarterfinals at the Western and Southern Open. They played that one tournament together before calling time on the partnership.
Sania recently parted ways with Swiss Martina Hingis after a hugely successful partnership. She partnered with Barbora Strycova of Czech Republic at the Cincinnati Masters last week and won their debut tournament as a team, by defeating former partner Hingis and American Coco Vandeweghe.
Despite winning a title on their first tournament back together, Sania and Niculescu both made it clear that this partnership is just for the short term and both will return to their regular partners in time for the US Open.
“I play with Barbora Strycova,” said world number one Sania at the post—match press conference last night.
“I play with Vania King. That’s why I said I hope it’s not the last time we going to play together,” Niculescu said.
Talking about teaming up with Sania in this tournament, Niculescu said, “I asked Sania in Cincinnati. I had an idea maybe she wants to play here. I ask her. When she said yes, I was so excited. It seems we won the tournament, so I’m happy I asked her.”
“We know each other for a long time. Also our games kind of suit each other, so you have that confidence. I think it helped we got a couple first easy matches in terms of the way we played. We kind of found our rhythm almost immediately,” said Sania.
Sania and Niculescu opened their Connecticut Open campaign with a commanding straight sets win over American wildcards Alison Riske and Louisa Chirico, then overpowered regular duo Darija Jurak and Anastasia Rodionova in straight sets. They faced a close fight against the No.3 seeded Andreja Klepac and Katarina Srebotnik, squeezing out a comeback, 2-6, 6-3, 10-8, to make it to the final.
“It’s always nice to have the week before a Grand Slam where you’re able to ease up,” Sania said.
“We go to New York and there’s so much happening there.
Here you have nice restaurants and even though we’re in the city, you feel quite quiet around here.
“I was actually not planning on completely playing this week. But when Monica asked me, I thought we could obviously win together.” | http://www.thehindu.com/sport/tennis/connecticut-open-tennis-championships-sania-wins-doubles-title-ahead-of-us-open-championships/article9042646.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/a2372c31e463779ccc070c5a5ae563ed9493cdd6cc8fdeb1b9c7a3cd22898215.json |
[
"Staff Reporter"
] | 2016-08-31T10:56:28 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Alleging that the cement manufacturing companies in the country colluded to create an artificial demand and hike the price, members of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of Indi | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FVijayawada%2Fcredai-urges-govt-to-rein-in-cement-manufacturers%2Farticle9053432.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02993/31-VJ-CREDAI_GA_31_2993181c.jpg | en | null | CREDAI urges govt. to rein in cement manufacturers | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Alleging that the cement manufacturing companies in the country colluded to create an artificial demand and hike the price, members of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI), Andhra Pradesh, have threatened to go on a strike and boycott construction activity in the State and import cement.
‘Artificial scarcity’
“For the past 15 days, the cement companies have not been despatching cement creating artificial scarcity. Now, a bag of cement is being sold at around Rs. 350 against the normal price of Rs. 230. They formed a syndicate to create this [situation] and the State and Central governments need to intervene and take action,” said CREDAI, AP president A. Siva Reddy at a press conference here.
If the situation continued, in a couple of days we will meet the Chief Minister and present a representation before going on strike, he added. Building agreements had been made at the regular price and the 30 per cent hike with no reason would only result in losses to the builders, he said.
CREDAI, Vijayawada chapter president Ch. Sudhakar said they would import cement from countries like Sri Lanka.
“We have made inquiries with neighbouring States and found that the price per bag of imported cement will be at least Rs. 60 less than that of the hiked price here. The quality of imported cement is finer and we will start using it if the local companies do not end the drama,” he added.
They said the price hike was affecting both the government projects and the general public. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/credai-urges-govt-to-rein-in-cement-manufacturers/article9053432.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/eb5d35aa82abda9e808a66d2ee915ddd7521b79396e0f0127503debaabfd00de.json |
[
"Biju Govind"
] | 2016-08-28T02:50:38 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | Twelve coaches of Train No.16347 Thiruvananthapuram-Mangaluru express, which left Thiruvananthapuram at 8.40 p.m. on Saturday, derailed near Karukutty station, after passing Aluva at about 3 a.m. on | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fkerala%2Fthiruvananthapurammangaluru-express-derailment%2Farticle9042487.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02989/Karukutty-toAluva_2989415c.jpg | en | null | 12 coaches of Thiruvananthapuram-Mangaluru Express derail, no injuries | null | null | www.thehindu.com | No injuries or casualties reported; train services likely to remain hit for hours as both tracks have been affected.
Twelve coaches of Train No.16347 Thiruvananthapuram-Mangaluru express, which left Thiruvananthapuram at 8.40 p.m. on Saturday, derailed near Karukutty station, after passing Aluva at about 3 a.m. on Sunday. No injuries or casualties reported. Both the tracks have been affected. Train services likely to be hit until the rescue operations are over.
Tickets will be refunded. Buses have been arranged to transport passengers from Karukutty to Chalakudy from where they will be taken to their destination by special trains.
Due to the Train No. 16302 Thiruvananthapuram-Shoranur Venad Express and Train No.12076 Thiruvananthapuram-Kannur Janshatabdi Express leaving Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday, will now run only up to Ernakulam Jn.
The track on which trains run from Chalakudy to Thrissur is likely to be engaged for 10 hours while that to Ernakulam is likely to be engaged for 5 hours.
Helpline Numbers: 9746769960, 9746761072, 0471-2320012. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/thiruvananthapurammangaluru-express-derailment/article9042487.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/5b1cd78f31e757e675323308e95a150fd9673ee0300a991b7672deb80946f652.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T08:52:45 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | Of late, the monthly farmers’ grievances meetings are being turned into platforms for staging agitations on one issue or other by a section of farmers’ representatives in the district. It has almost b | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftamil-nadu%2Freporters-diary%2Farticle9044359.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Reporters' Diary | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Of late, the monthly farmers’ grievances meetings are being turned into platforms for staging agitations on one issue or other by a section of farmers’ representatives in the district. It has almost become customary for a group of farmers to be on their feet as soon as the meetings begin seeking to highlight their grievances. Very often, the issues raised by the farmers involve policy matters of the State or Central government leaving the district officials helpless. Some of the issues are raised repeatedly with the officials just explaining that the farmers concerns have been taken up with the government. At times, sections of the farmers choose to stage a walk out and stage a demonstration outside the venue at the Collector’s office. On some occasions, they rush to the table of the Collector to raise slogans. Pleas for order often go in vain. It has become customary for a team of police personnel to be deployed around the venue to keep a watchful eye on the farmers and intervene if the situation threatened to go out of control.
Students bear the brunt of monkey menace on the Keeranur – Kundrandarkovil highway. A group of students of Government Higher Secondary School at Odugampatti say that they have to exercise caution, particularly during the lunch hour, as the monkeys arrive at the school campus. Devotees and residents of Kundrandarkovil are disappointed over the extensive damage caused to the idol of Sri Gajasamharamurthy at the ‘rajagopuram’ of Sri Parvathagiriswarar temple, a rock-cut temple. K. L. Kumarasamy, a former headmaster, says that the rajagopuram was cleared of trees and bushes by the Archaeological Survey of India and was renovated in 2009. But the monkeys had damaged the hands of Lord Gajasamharamurthy, he lamented.
Now, the DMK has set its eye on the local body polls.
The party treasurer and opposition leader M.K. Stalin chose the public meeting organised in Tiruchi the other day as a perfect platform to exhort the cadre to gear up for the local body elections. The meeting was organised to explain to the public the plight of democracy in the Assembly in the wake of the suspension of DMK MLAs by the Speaker. The heavy downpour when Mr. Stalin began to speak came to an end only when the DMK leader concluded.
Contributed by
S.Ganesan and
M. Balaganessin
and R. Rajaram | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/reporters-diary/article9044359.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/061494c938b1426e0598bf3fd23628880814dbb761833ac2f83dc2cddb7783df.json |
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"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-28T08:53:05 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | A meeting of the State’s farmers’ associations on Saturday, in which representatives of six political parties participated, resolved to meet Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. “We managed to meet the Karnat | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftamil-nadu%2Ffarmers-threaten-agitation-in-september%2Farticle9040767.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Cauvery: Farmers threaten massive stir | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The farmers’ associations also want Ms. Jayalalithaa to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure that the Centre takes steps to resolve the issue.
A meeting of the State’s farmers’ associations on Saturday, in which representatives of six political parties participated, resolved to meet Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.
“We managed to meet the Karnataka Chief Minister. Will we able to meet the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister,” asked K. Balakrishnan, president of the CPI(M) affiliated Tamil Nadu Farmers’ Association. He was referring to their meeting with the Karnataka Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah, on August 25 when he declined to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu.
The farmers’ associations also want Ms. Jayalalithaa to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure that the Centre takes steps to resolve the issue.
“The Tamil Nadu government went to the Supreme Court only after we held protests on August 19 demanding release of Cauvery water… Regardless of the immediate solutions, the Centre should constitute the two tribunal-mandated bodies to share Cauvery water,” Mr. Balakrishnan said.
The Supreme Court is to hear an urgent plea by Tamil Nadu seeking the release of 50.052 tmc of Cauvery water, on September 2. Meanwhile, the associations decided to meet again on September 10 to take stock of the situation. “ We will decide whether or not to go ahead with a massive shutdown in the second week of September. Not just the Cauvery, but also the Mullaiperiyar and the Palar issues will be on the agenda,” said Mr. Balakrishnan.
The meeting also urged the Tamil Nadu government not to allow the construction of dam at Mekedatu. Saturday’s meeting, held at the AICUF House in Nungambakkam, was attended by representatives of farmers’ associations affiliated to the DMK, the CPI(M), the CPI, the VCK, the MDMK and the TMC. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/farmers-threaten-agitation-in-september/article9040767.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/3eb27a5ea173c98b4b2bd4b6dccc5e8e969fc3670b938b7877b947f09c190f47.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T04:51:10 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Separatist shutdown continued in Kashmir on Tuesday despite the relaxation of curfew in the Valley.
“Except for Pulwama town and two police station areas of Nowhatta and M.R.Gunj in Srinagar, there | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fother-states%2Fseparatist-shutdown-continues-in-kashmir%2Farticle9049592.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02992/30IN_KASHMIR_PROTE_2992068c.jpg | en | null | Separatist shutdown continues in Kashmir | null | null | www.thehindu.com | A masked Kashmiri protester throws stones at government forces during a protest after curfew was lifted in some parts of Srinagar on Monday, Photo: AP
Separatists have extended their protest shutdown call up to September 1 asking people not to resume normal activities.
Separatist shutdown continued in Kashmir on Tuesday despite the relaxation of curfew in the Valley.
“Except for Pulwama town and two police station areas of Nowhatta and M.R.Gunj in Srinagar, there would be no curfew anywhere in the Valley,” a senior police official said.
“In order to maintain law and order, restrictions under section 144 CrPc will, however, continue.”
Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh is arriving here on September 4 and will hea an all party delegation to the Valley which will hold meetings with local leaders aiming to stop the unrest.
Officials, however, said the delegation has no plans to meet any separatist leader who have been put under detention.
Separatists have extended their protest shutdown call up to September 1 asking people not to resume normal activities.
Despite lifting of curfew, no major markets were open or public transport was on the roads in summer Srinagar and elsewhere in the Valley on Tuesday.
For the last 53 days, all educational institutions have also remained closed.
So far, 71 people including 68 civilians and three policemen have been killed and over 11,000 injured in the unrest that started here on July 9. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/separatist-shutdown-continues-in-kashmir/article9049592.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/51591cb29c164ee368994cb63578003571df7cfaca8df576a0939088f30d557b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T20:50:55 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | Burkinis must be banned throughout France, ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy said at his first campaign rally for the 2017 presidential election on Thursday. The statements were made before the country’s | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Finternational%2Fburkinis-ban-sarkozy-unveils-hardline-election-platform%2Farticle9037018.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Burkinis ban: Sarkozy unveils hardline election platform | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Burkinis must be banned throughout France, ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy said at his first campaign rally for the 2017 presidential election on Thursday.
The statements were made before the country’s highest administrative court suspended a ban on the swimwear in a town in the southern part of the country.
Hundreds of supporters waving French flags chanted his name and applauded as Mr. Sarkozy, who led France from 2007-2012 before losing an election to Socialist Francois Hollande, promised to protect the French people.
“I will be the President that re-establishes the authority of the state,” Mr. Sarkozy told supporters packing a sports hall in Chateaurenard.
“I refuse to let the burkini impose itself in French beaches and swimming pools...there must be a law to ban it throughout the Republic's territory,” he said. Security and immigration are now central to the presidential election campaign and Mr. Sarkozy is tapping into the worries of voters on the right with a hardline platform of law and order.
“In my speech there is no fear, there is no hatred, there is just common sense,” Mr. Sarkozy said. “The French people are not fascist because they consider there are security problems.” — Reuters | http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/burkinis-ban-sarkozy-unveils-hardline-election-platform/article9037018.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/f8fb9bc292589a64f46ebf2bb168d56523aa01272c0d3aea4fe81744c01ec6b9.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T20:52:31 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | Vijay Sakhi (Srinath up), won the first division of the Democracy Plate, the main event of the races here on Sunday (August 28). The winner is owned by M/s. Vijay Racing & Farms Pvt.Ltd. rep. by | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fsport%2Fraces%2Fvijay-sakhi-clinches-main-event%2Farticle9042914.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Vijay Sakhi clinches main event | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Vijay Sakhi (Srinath up), won the first division of the Democracy Plate, the main event of the races here on Sunday (August 28). The winner is owned by M/s. Vijay Racing & Farms Pvt.Ltd. rep. by M/s. Vijay Kumar Gupta & Susheel Kumar Gupta & Mr. Ahmed Alam Khan and trained by Laxman S.
The results:
1. DONEGAL PLATE (2,000m), 5-y-o & over, rated upto 50 (Cat. III): Upon A Star (Akshay Kumar) 1, Undu Undu Undu (Srinath) 2, Buckshee (G. Naresh) 3 and Lightning Streak (K. Sai Kiran) 4. All ran. 1-1/4, shd and 1/4. 2m 10.80s. Rs 106 (w), 21, 12 and 10 (p), FP: Rs 452, SHP: Rs 24, Q: Rs 231, Tanala: Rs 2099 (35 tkts.). Favourite: Vijays Splendour. Owner: Mr. Umesh Kumar Gupta. Trainer: A. Vatsalya.
2. DEMOCRACY PLATE (Div. I), (1,100m), 5-y-o & over, rated upto 75 (Cat. II): Vijay Sakhi (Srinath) 1, Always Together (Aneel) 2, Red Express (K. Sai Kiran) 3 and Dandy Girl (Akshay Kumar) 4. 1-3/4, nk and 1-1/4. 1m 7.77s. All ran. 1-3/4, Nk, 1-1/4. 1m 07.77s. Rs 8 (w), 6, 22 and 19 (p), FP: Rs 119, SHP: Rs 72, Q: Rs 94, Tanala: Rs 1023 (72 tkts.). Favourite: Vijay Sakhi. Owners: M/s Vijay Racing & Farms Pvt. Ltd. Rep. by M/s. Vijay Kumar Gupta & Susheel Kumar Gupta & Mr Ahmed Alam Khan. Trainer: Laxman S.
3. ELUSIVE HERO CUP (1,200m), 4-y-o & over, rated upto 50 (Cat. III): Onk Onk Onk (Sai Kumar) 1, Vijays Delight (Laxmikanth) 2, Golden Angel (G. Naresh) 3 and True Pearl (K. Sai Kiran) 4. Hd, 1-3/4 and 1-1/2. 1m 15.56s. All ran. Rs 12 (w), 7, 8 and 14 (p), FP: Rs 59, SHP: Rs 24, Q: Rs 32, Tanala: Rs 319 (263 tkts.). Favourite: Onk Onk Onk. Owners: M/s Rakesh Reddy Kondakalla & N. Shaym Sunder. Trainer: R. H. Sequeira.
4. DEMOCRACY PLATE (Div. II), (1,100m), 5-y-o & over, rated upto 75 (Cat. II): Altruist (Sai Kumar) 1, Vijays Grandeour (Khurshad Alam) 2, Midnight In Paris (N. Rawal) 3 and Catherine (A. S. Pawar) 4. 2, nk and 1/4. 1m 8.29s. All ran. Rs 14 (w), 8, 22 and 84 (p), FP: Rs 335, SHP: Rs 56, Q: Rs 231, Tanala: Rs 9880 (9 tkts.). Favourite: Sprint Legend. Owner: Mr M. Ramchandra Rao. Trainer: R. H. Sequeira.
5. POLICE TROPHY (1,100m), (Cat. II), maiden 3-y-o only (Terms): Vijays Wonder (Laxmikanth) 1, Chinese Thought (C. S. Vikrant) 2, Cash Landing (A. S. Pawar) 3 and Golden Joy (G. Naresh) 4. 3/4, 1 and nk. 1m 9.24s. All ran. Rs 20 (w), 7, 15 and 6 (p), FP: Rs 168, SHP: Rs 53, Q: Rs 128, Tanala: Rs 278 (329 tkts.). Favourite: Cash Landing. Owners: M/s Vijay Racing & Farms Private Limited rep. by Mr Vijay Kumar Gupta & Mr Susheel Kumar Gupta. Trainer: Deshmukh.
6. KHAMMAM PLATE (1,200m), 3-y-o only, rated upto 50 (Cat. III): Ans Ans Ans (Sai Kumar) 1, George Cross (Srinath) 2, Vijay's Dynamite (Deep Shanker) 3 and Golden Adara (Ajit Singh) 4. 1-1/4, 2-3/4 and 1. 1m 14.46s. All ran. Rs 18 (w), 9, 8 and 7 (p), FP: Rs 84, SHP: Rs 27, Q: Rs 42, Tanala: Rs 204 (549 tkts.). Favourite: Sea Castle. Owners: M/s M. Ramachandra Rao & Ramachandra Raju Manthena. Trainer: R. H. Sequeira.
Treble (i): Rs 665 (46 tkts.); (ii): Rs 387 (122 tkts.). Jackpot: Rs 2254 (113 tkts.). Consolation Jackpot: Rs 253 (430 tkts.). | http://www.thehindu.com/sport/races/vijay-sakhi-clinches-main-event/article9042914.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/fce0f6cbcaa118d36cb46280d896971d9ce2972df392eca4865010c198b050bd.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T18:50:59 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | For a nation to prosper, the health and state of its women must be at the front of all decisions. The legitimacy of the surrogacy Bill rests on this (‘Being’ page – “Why the Surrogacy Bill is necessa | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2Fits-about-a-framework%2Farticle9043146.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | It's about a framework | null | null | www.thehindu.com | For a nation to prosper, the health and state of its women must be at the front of all decisions. The legitimacy of the surrogacy Bill rests on this (‘Being’ page – “Why the Surrogacy Bill is necessary”, Aug.28). It is not, as some argue, about snatching away the so-called right to freedom of individuals and couples, but about granting a systemised approach towards enabling a regulated sector and ultimately ensuring better health for women, the right to parenthood, and a lot more for the child who enters the world through this route. It is understandable that commercial surrogacy was a solution for a couple unable to have a biological child by natural means, but there are always other avenues to explore. Adoption is one of them. It’s time that we promote this underutilised solution to infertility.
Barbie Goyal, New Delhi | http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/letters/its-about-a-framework/article9043146.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/d3afbe3bdf25fc619e67e14de1cc2533d4c8ce6fc3b83adbb4dfaea2a7f61a93.json |
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"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-27T10:50:52 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | G. Parameshwara, Home Minister, said on Friday that the incident of throwing eggs at the car of the former MP, Ramya, (for her comments on Pakistan) in Mangaluru on Thursday, should not have taken pl | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fkarnataka%2Framyas-statement-twisted-out-of-context-says-home-minister%2Farticle9037168.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02988/PARAMESHWARATH_2988435c.jpg | en | null | Ramya’s statement twisted out of context, says Home Minister | null | null | www.thehindu.com | G. Parameshwara, Karnataka Home Minister, speaking to presspersons after offering prayers at the Sri Krishna Mutt/Temple in Udupi on Friday.
‘Egg protest’ against Congress member should not have taken place: Parameshwara
G. Parameshwara, Home Minister, said on Friday that the incident of throwing eggs at the car of the former MP, Ramya, (for her comments on Pakistan) in Mangaluru on Thursday, should not have taken place.
Speaking to presspersons after offering prayers at the Sri Krishna Mutt/Temple here, Dr. Parameshwara said that Ms. Ramya’s comments should be seen in the proper perspective. She had only said that the people there had treated the Indian delegation well, when it had gone to Pakistan.
Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi had invited Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for his swearing-in ceremony. The intention behind Mr. Modi inviting Mr. Sharif was to have peaceful and friendly ties with Pakistan. There was no point in twisting statements out of context as in the case of Ms. Ramya’s. She had also clarified her statement.
On Ms. Ramya’s reported comment terming Mangaluru as “hell”, Dr. Parameshwara said that this statement had not come to his notice and he would not comment on it.
He believed that Mangaluru should be developed as an alternative to Bengaluru. Mangaluru was a port city with lot of potential for economic development, he said.
On the investigation in the Bhaskar Shetty murder case, he said that the case was handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) because of shortcomings in the preliminary investigation.
There was also a perception that the investigation is going slow. Though the CID had been instructed to complete investigation as soon as possible, no deadlines could be given, he said.
To a query that innocent persons had been arrested in the Praveen Poojary murder case, Dr. Parameshwara said that if that was the case, then they would be let off after the investigation. But it had to be decided through legal proceedings, he said and added that a person should not have been murdered because of allegations that he was transporting cattle.
He said that there was severe drought in the State for the last three years.
“Hence, I have offered prayers at the Sri Mookambika Temple at Kollur and here for plentiful rain during the rest of the rainy season,” Dr. Parameshwara said.
‘It is not in Mangaluru’s nature’
Mangaluru Staff Correspondent reports:
Meanwhile, speaking to presspersons in Mangaluru, the Home Minister said that the way right wing activists behaved during Ramya’s visit to the city on Thursday goes against the nature of the region that is known for its hospitality and literacy.
Dr. Parameshwara said that there was no inkling of the nature of the protest against Ms. Ramya. Moreover, as leaders always work among the public, there will be threats from organisations to such leaders asking them not to visit certain places.
“We cannot bow down to such threats and sit at home,” he said.
Asked whether the visit of Ms. Ramya on Krishnastami day was risky, Dr. Parameshwara said, “There was no risk. Our leaders and party activists are active here (and capable of handling the situation).” | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/ramyas-statement-twisted-out-of-context-says-home-minister/article9037168.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/2195e714f74572c4effc67cb1d6bfe7de8e39669b4af6fe0a5279ff4a320eb3c.json |
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"Rajesh B. Nair"
] | 2016-08-27T12:52:50 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy on Friday told the Assembly that the government was making efforts to get proper clarification from the Centre on National Entrance and Eligibility Test (NEET) admissio | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2Fpuducherry%2Fclarification-sought-from-centre-on-neet-says-cm%2Farticle9036994.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02987/PY-WALKOUT__2987630c.jpg | en | null | Clarification sought from Centre on NEET, says CM | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Government in the dark about mode of admission, counselling process
Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy on Friday told the Assembly that the government was making efforts to get proper clarification from the Centre on National Entrance and Eligibility Test (NEET) admission.
Replying to a question on the issue raised by the AIADMK, he said by the time NEET was introduced the government had managed to get 283 seats as government quota from private medical colleges and deemed universities.
There were no details available with the administration regarding the number of students who had appeared for NEET and those who had cleared.
The Central Board of Secondary Education was requested to provide details, he said, adding that apart from the stipulation on the 15 per cent government quota there was no clarity on the mode of admission.
The Union Health Ministry had only issued a notification stating that there should be joint counselling and government officials should be part of the process. However, the notification was silent on what capacity the officials would take part in the counselling process.
As soon as the Chief Minister ended his reply, Health Minister Malladi Krishna Rao rose to make certain clarifications, to which the AIADMK members, who by the time had resumed their seats, raised objections.
With Ministers A. Namassivayam, R Kamalakannan and government whip R.K.R Anantharaman coming to Mr. Rao’s defence, the House witnessed noisy scenes. A stern warning by the Speaker put the House back into order.
Mr. Rao said he had written to the Centre and convened several meetings with representatives of medical colleges and parents association. The government would take all steps to protect the interest of students here.
Walkout
The opposition AIADMK staged a walkout in the Assembly after Speaker V. Vaithilingam refused to take up an adjournment motion moved by the party seeking a debate on the plight of students who have cleared the National Entrance and Eligibility Test (NEET)
As soon as the House met, AIADMK legislative party leader A. Anbazhagan was on his feet urging the Chair to take up the motion. As the Speaker refused permission, Mr. Anbazhagan made a short speech criticising the government’s reluctance to come clean on its stand about the NEET exam.
The government was unaware of the number of students who had appeared for the exam and those who had cleared. There was “total confusion,” in admitting students to the private medical colleges. The students were kept in the dark on the mode the management would adopt to fill the seats, he said.
The AIADMK leader sought to know on what basis Health Minister approached the Centre seeking 10 per cent of the seats. After the Speaker failed to heed the AIADMK request for taking up the adjournment motion, party legislators staged a walkout. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/clarification-sought-from-centre-on-neet-says-cm/article9036994.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/1139387c1ce23457f38aeec113af35445765f0fe5c271bb9c11478c4ccb44341.json |
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"Staff Reporter"
] | 2016-08-31T10:53:34 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | A cab driver allegedly tried to molest and rob a woman in the early hours of Tuesday under Rajendranagar police station limits. The incident took place at about 3.30 a.m., after the victim took the ca | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FHyderabad%2Fcase-against-cab-driver-for-rape-attempt-robbery%2Farticle9052903.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Case against cab driver for rape attempt, robbery | null | null | www.thehindu.com | A cab driver allegedly tried to molest and rob a woman in the early hours of Tuesday under Rajendranagar police station limits. The incident took place at about 3.30 a.m., after the victim took the cab to purchase some medicines.
According to the Rajendranagar police, the victim, an air-hostess with a private airline, left home in the wee hours of Tuesday to purchase some medicines due to an emergency. “After she got into the cab, the driver took her to the outskirts where he tried to rape her,” said an official, and added that the accused later dropped her.
The driver, whom the police are on a lookout for, was identified after the victim provided details of the cab, said the official. “She could not call us immediately because the cab driver had taken away her mobile phone. The moment we were informed, we immediately helped her,” stated the official. A case has been registered against the accused under Section 376 (read with 511) of the IPC for rape and also Section 394 for robbery. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/case-against-cab-driver-for-rape-attempt-robbery/article9052903.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/53970e2686f1c243f2db21eadf211805649eaf2f90279e124f627b5d8f54a928.json |
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"Special Correspondent",
"M. Soundariya Preetha"
] | 2016-08-29T16:54:02 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | Religion
Arulmigu Rathina Vinayagar Temple:
Pradosham pujas, R.S. Puram, 4.30 p.m.General
Avinashilingam University:
Special talk on “Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”, 10 a.m. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftamil-nadu%2Fengagements-coimbatore%2Farticle9044242.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Engagements. Coimbatore | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Religion
Arulmigu Rathina Vinayagar Temple: Pradosham pujas, R.S. Puram, 4.30 p.m.
General
Avinashilingam University: Special talk on “Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”, 10 a.m.
Dr. G.R. Damodaran College of Science and The Eye Foundation: Eye screening camp, RD Auditorium, 10 a.m.
Dr. G.R. Damodaran College of Science: Inauguration of Communique – 2016, 10 a.m.
Dr. G.R. Damodaran Academy of Management: MBA induction programme, 9.45 a.m.
Karpagam University: Lecture on impact of service tax, 10.30 a.m.
Karpagam College of Engineering: Lecture on composite materials, 10 a.m.
Kalaignar Karunanidhi Institute of Technology: Inauguration of mechanical association, 2 p.m.
Nehru Institute of Management Studies: Entrepreneurship awareness camp, 10 a.m.
PPG Business School: Inauguration of MBA course for 2016, 10.30 a.m.
PSG College of Technology, Indian Institute of Metals, and Indian Welding Society: Workshop, conference hall, PSG College of Technology, 9 a.m.
Sri Jayendra Saraswathy Maha Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science: Workshop on “Grooming and Make Over”, 10 a.m.
Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College: MBA induction programme, 9.30 a.m.
Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science for Women: Talk on “Changing Skill Requirement in HR – Campus to Corporate”, 10.30 a.m.; “Marketing to Global Consumers”, 9.15 a.m.; book expo, 10.30 a.m.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan: Talk on renewable energy, 6 p.m.
The Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Coimbatore: Annual general body meeting, Chamber Towers, 6 p.m.
Coimbatore Management Association: Talk on medical tourism, 6.30 p.m. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/engagements-coimbatore/article9044242.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/dced9d8228ae30e10d5664841c6f458637ba252a5528918124d6ef1492b4bcbf.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T18:52:18 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Regional parties show unsolicited concern for regional sentiments in the belief that such actions will fetch them votes and make them retain power forever (“Assembly drops West, renames State as Beng | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2Fcall-it-bengal%2Farticle9051369.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Call it ‘Bengal’ | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Regional parties show unsolicited concern for regional sentiments in the belief that such actions will fetch them votes and make them retain power forever (“Assembly drops West, renames State as Bengal”, Aug. 30). It is not just about renaming States, districts and roads alone. Some governments have even resorted to having the concept of a “State animal”, “State bird” and “State flower”. Such unwanted moves to promote regionalism pose a threat to the national spirit in the long run.
Kshirasagara Balaji Rao, Hyderabad
The term “West” had its own significance, which was added during the partition of Bengal. However, the political fixation with renaming deprives youngsters of a chance to learn about the historical importance of a name. At a time when the enrolment of students in the social sciences is on the decline, it is our duty to pass on an understanding of the importance of the glorious past to them.
Gunasekar T., Chennai | http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/letters/call-it-bengal/article9051369.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/e648e07621c8b641dabc1420398cbd55e0db64cb534af59fb99559e9ffb89dce.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T20:56:41 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | Success should make true leaders more obedient and responsive but repeated victories appear to have made the ruling party in Tamil Nadu arrogant and intolerant towards its opponents (“SC raps Tamil | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2Fchoking-dissent%2Farticle9033065.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Choking dissent | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Success should make true leaders more obedient and responsive but repeated victories appear to have made the ruling party in Tamil Nadu arrogant and intolerant towards its opponents (“SC raps Tamil Nadu govt. for choking dissent”, Aug. 25). The Chief Minister should realise that the only way to silence critics in a democracy is by clarifying their apprehensions and demonstrating good governance; not by filing defamation cases against them. The people’s mandate should not be construed as a licence to do away with the Opposition.
Kshirasagara Balaji Rao,
Hyderabad
As legitimate dissent is a sign of a healthy democracy, it is imperative that a government has to face criticism of its policies from the media, political rivals and critics, and in right earnest, for good governance. Listening to sane voices who can help the government to correct its mistakes is a part and parcel of democracy. The cases filed against political rivals must be withdrawn in order to set a healthy precedent in good governance.
K.R. Srinivasan,
Secunderabad | http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/letters/choking-dissent/article9033065.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/868aa7b07d73880dd0588f8250c2f1e6405abeef0c1ae0e95992117fe4850193.json |
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"Staff Reporter"
] | 2016-08-30T10:57:28 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | A pedestrian was killed after a State Transport Corporation bus hit him on East Coast Road (ECR) in the early hours of Sunday.A senior official of the Chennai City Traffic Police said Arumugam (42) wa | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2Fchennai%2Fpedestrian-run-over-by-bus-on-east-coast-road%2Farticle9044176.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Pedestrian run over by bus on East Coast Road | null | null | www.thehindu.com | A pedestrian was killed after a State Transport Corporation bus hit him on East Coast Road (ECR) in the early hours of Sunday.
A senior official of the Chennai City Traffic Police said Arumugam (42) was collecting plastic waste early on Sunday morning in Kanathur when the bus from Puducherry to the CMBT crossed the median and hit him. The vehicle stopped only after hitting a compound wall.
Arumugam was killed on the spot.
Eight injured passengers are being treated at the Government Royapettah Hospital. Further disasters were averted since it was early in the morning and there was not much traffic. The Adyar police have filed a case and are investigating. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/pedestrian-run-over-by-bus-on-east-coast-road/article9044176.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/ea234f294f93ce7eb61e24134a3870909eb1f5aed2e0f2cd6f692e6d337fa361.json |
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"Shyamhari Chakra"
] | 2016-08-26T22:54:44 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | When New Delhi-based Nepalese Kathak dancer Leena Malakar was conferred the India International Dance Festival Award last year, she said, “I am a devotee of Lord Shiva and the popular dance compositio | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Ffeatures%2Ffriday-review%2Fnepalborn-kathak-dancer-leena-malakar-now-considers-india-her-karmabhoomi%2Farticle9035586.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02987/hyf26kathak_2987115c.jpg | en | null | Nepal-born Kathak dancer Leena Malakar now considers India her ‘karmabhoomi’. | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Nepal-born Kathak dancer Leena Malakar now considers India her ‘karmabhoomi’.
When New Delhi-based Nepalese Kathak dancer Leena Malakar was conferred the India International Dance Festival Award last year, she said, “I am a devotee of Lord Shiva and the popular dance composition Ardhanariswara, based on Him, has always been my favourite. Like the composition that describes the Lord as half-male and half-female, I have been a half-Nepalese and half Indian. Nepal was my janmabhumi and India, my karmabhoomi. But today, I belong to both the lands and cultures as an Indian classical dancer”.
Twenty-three years ago, Leena landed in India as a teenager to learn Kathak, availing a scholarship from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). Little did she imagine then that she will never be back in Nepal. Happily settled in New Delhi as the wife of acclaimed sculptor Gagan Vij and mother to a 13-year-old son, she is an established Kathak dancer and trainer, besides being an ambassador of culture for both the countries.
She recalls, “I came from a family from the business community called Newers. However, I was lucky to have parents who always encouraged me to follow my passion for dance. My mother recollects that I used to watch and imitate the dances being aired on television. Born and brought up in Kathmandu, I had my schooling there. After schooling, when I joined Padma Kanya College, I discovered that the college had a department of dance and music. My older sister insisted that I take up dance as one of my subjects. Thus commenced my training in dance with three styles – Charya classical dance of Nepal, Indian classical dance of Kathak and Nepalese folk dances.”
“My dance professor Honey Shrestha guided me to apply for the ICCR scholarship offered by the Indian Government to learn dance in India. I was fortunate enough to be selected. I was so passionate about Kathak that I left my family and country behind and left for India. I joined Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra in New Delhi to have advance training in Kathak. I have never looked back since then,” says the dancer who specializes in the highly energetic Jaipur gharana of Kathak and emerged as a brilliant soloist under the guidance of her Guru Nandini Singh, the well-known Kathak exponent.
How challenging was it for her to get established in India as an Indian classical dancer? “Neither my Guru and nor my friends in New Delhi ever made me feel that I was a foreigner. Rather, many of them loved Nepal and Nepali people a lot. And that love for Nepal also came to this Nepalese girl. Moreover, India and Nepal are so similar in terms of religion and culture that I could never feel that I didn’t belong to this country. In fact, it was Doordarshan that we used to watch at home in Nepal a lot. This had given me enough exposure and love for Indian dance, music, lifestyle and culture much before I made India my home,” she explains.
Before she thought of returning to Nepal, Leena met her future husband Gagan. “I was always fond of visual art, books, music and nature. Gagan shared similar interests. So, it was our meeting of minds that ended up in our marriage. Our final dream has been to set up an artists’ village somewhere in India,” she revealed.
Leena feels that India’s vibrant culture that never let her return to Nepal. “I feel blessed to live and grow as an artiste and as a human being in India. Here I got the dance I loved as my profession, a great Guru who always lays new hopes and challenges before you as the guide, a life partner who shares and cares for my artistic journey and finally a great culture that teaches you a lot about art and life. The more I understand Indian art and mythology, the more I fall in love with India”, acknowledges the dancer.
Does she not miss Nepal? “Yes I do. I have lots of beautiful childhood memories. Nepal is a small but beautiful county with strong cultural heritage. People are warm and I have my family, friends and relatives there. But Delhi is not that far from Kathmandu. It just takes a flight of 90 minutes to be reunited with them there. And it is time for me to do something for Nepal. I have planned to host a series of cultural events in Nepal that will benefit the artistes while highlighting Indian artistes there”, she signed off. | http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/nepalborn-kathak-dancer-leena-malakar-now-considers-india-her-karmabhoomi/article9035586.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/a54fa5ff4d40bf7bf23f1246b4fdc915270e7029a95d7bf2e5ce5897d9308688.json |
[
"Sidhartha Roy"
] | 2016-08-26T22:56:34 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | The community centres of Delhi Development Authority (DDA), which remain in demand for weddings and other functions because of their prime location and affordable rates, might soon offer competition t | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FDelhi%2Fdda-plans-community-centres-with-banquet-halllike-facilities%2Farticle9034344.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02986/DE-26-MANDAP_GP_DE_2986908c.jpg | en | null | DDA plans community centres with banquet hall-like facilities | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Big Indian wedding:In demand due to their prime location and affordable rates, the Delhi Development Authority's community centres might soon give private banquet halls a run for their money.— File Photo (FOR REPRESENTATION PURPOSE ONLY)
Agency mulls multi-storey community centres on the lines of ‘Kalyan Mandapams’ in southern India
The community centres of Delhi Development Authority (DDA), which remain in demand for weddings and other functions because of their prime location and affordable rates, might soon offer competition to private banquet halls.
“Apart from our existing community centres, we are also in the process of building multi-storey community centres in the city and the facilities would be on a par with what people expect at a banquet hall,” said a senior DDA official.
DDA offers 333 open grounds, 57 community centres and 27 parks for weddings, religious functions and other social activities. The venues vary from small parks to grounds spread over 60,000 square metres. The DDA community centres and grounds are preferred by many due to their prime location and comparatively much lower booking rates.
“Booking a DDA community centre usually costs about Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 30,000 with the maximum booking amount for some venues going up to Rs. 50,000. Compared to private banquet halls, our rates are much lower and we are trying to provide similar quality and amenities at an affordable cost,” the official said.
Feedback
To provide better amenities to its users, the DDA recently started asking for feedback from those who have used the facilities. “The feedback has been received online and all the proposals, suggestions and complaints are being compiled. This would help us understand what people expect from us and then decide what kind of facilities can be provided,” the official said.
Some of the proposals that have been received from a large number of users and are under consideration, according to sources in the DDA, include centralised air conditioning at community centres, use of high quality marble and tiles instead of plain flooring and distemper paint finish. Suggestions have also been received about provisions of libraries and gymnasiums at community centres for residents of nearby areas, so that the community centres can be used by people for more purposes other than weddings and similar functions.
DDA has been trying to come up with multi-storey community centres in the Capital on the lines of ‘Kalyan Mandapams’ that are in vogue in States in southern India. At these multi-storey community centres, DDA will be able to provide sitting area, dining area, space for wedding or religious functions and kitchens at different floors.
According to sources in the DDA, such multi-storey community centres will come up at all DDA zones in the city and the first of these are expected to be built in Rohini. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/dda-plans-community-centres-with-banquet-halllike-facilities/article9034344.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/021419dd0c42fa3634f5e8a4f2d368778159b898796711beb7b07aceb8ee52ca.json |
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"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-30T10:55:14 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | The Transport Department has taken a leaf out of the Railway ticket booking system and plans to implement ‘tatkal’ ticket booking for state transport buses.“In order to meet the demand from people wh | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftamil-nadu%2Ftatkal-tickets-in-stc-buses-soon%2Farticle9046683.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Tatkal tickets in STC buses soon | null | null | www.thehindu.com | An app would also be launched to make ticket bookings on STC buses for long distance travel
The Transport Department has taken a leaf out of the Railway ticket booking system and plans to implement ‘tatkal’ ticket booking for state transport buses.
“In order to meet the demand from people who have to undertake last minute travel, the department plans to introduce ‘tatkal’ ticketing system in long-distance buses in the State. For this purpose, four seats per bus would be reserved,” M.R. Vijayabhaskar, Transport Minister, announced in the Assembly on Monday.
An app would also be launched to enable people to make ticket bookings on state transport buses for long distance travel, he said.
The Tamil Nadu Transport Development Finance Corporation Ltd (TDFC) has proposed to give financial assistance for purchase of 176 new buses to all the State Transport Undertakings and financial assistance for Motor Vehicle Tax bonus and other working capital, the Minister said in the policy note tabled in the Assembly. TDFC’s total deposits were Rs. 2,148.90 crore as of March 31, 2016, the note said.
The department also plans to expand the scheme to issue Smart Card based driving licences and registration certificates to all its RTOs at the earliest, the policy note said. The Smart Card project was introduced on a pilot basis in three RTOs at Chennai (South), Sivaganga and Cuddalore.
However, almost three years after the government announced that autorickshaws plying in Chennai would be fitted with electronic digital fare meters with printer and GPS facility, there has been no progress.
The policy note said ELCOT was evaluating the tender and it would be completed soon. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tatkal-tickets-in-stc-buses-soon/article9046683.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/3371809b91384680f66f60eb4174839094ec5d61f21bb121dee9f5da898e3211.json |
[
"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-30T10:53:52 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Regional Provident Commissioner T. Indira on Monday advised women employees to focus on career development.Speaking at a meeting conducted at Ukkunagaram on the occasion of Formation Day of Women in P | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FVisakhapatnam%2Ffocus-on-career-development-rinl-women-employees-told%2Farticle9048865.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Focus on career development, RINL women employees told | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Regional Provident Commissioner T. Indira on Monday advised women employees to focus on career development.
Speaking at a meeting conducted at Ukkunagaram on the occasion of Formation Day of Women in Public Sector (WIPS), she said women employees should work hard to scale greater heights.
She advised the employees to inculcate the habit of discipline and keep abreast with the changing technologies to improve their performance.
Ms. Indira appreciated the corporate social activities of WIPS and the encouragement being provided by RINL management.
RINL CMD P. Madhusudan, said modern women were brining laurels to the country by working hard. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/focus-on-career-development-rinl-women-employees-told/article9048865.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/3646f1c8bbfcef99ed853b297e66949065a2e72ce6afcc4120c20f14ea51a3bc.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T18:50:52 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | Bollywood stars Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar are among the world’s highest paid actors of 2016, raking in as many dollars as Hollywood heavyweights Robert Downey Jr. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fentertainment%2Fsrk-akshay-on-forbes-toppaid-actors-list%2Farticle9037040.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02987/TH-26-STAR-FORBES_2987655c.jpg | en | null | SRK, Akshay on Forbes top-paid actors list | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Bollywood stars Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar are among the world’s highest paid actors of 2016, raking in as many dollars as Hollywood heavyweights Robert Downey Jr. and Brad Pitt, according to a Forbes list topped by wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne Johnson. Shahrukh is ranked 8th on the list of 20 of the ‘World’s Highest Paid Actors 2016’, tied with Iron Man Downey Jr with earnings of $33 million. Akshay is tied with Hollywood heartthrob Pitt for the 10th position with earnings of $31.5 million.
Bajrangi Bhaijaan star Salman is ranked 14th on the list with earnings of $28.5 million, ahead of Oscar-winning actor Leonardo Dicaprio, who is ranked 15th with earnings of $27 million. | http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/srk-akshay-on-forbes-toppaid-actors-list/article9037040.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/e184c349a012491dc81f682876eb9602c8c3718ef28fa2845167ccc9dc43f81b.json |
[
"Nikhil Varma"
] | 2016-08-30T20:56:05 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | In a market overcrowded with models in the sub-Rs.15,000 range, LG is making an attempt to make a mark with the LG X Screen that offers a 1.76-inch secondary screen with a 520x80 resolution. The scree | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Ffeatures%2Fmetroplus%2Flg-x-screen-review%2Farticle9050853.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02992/31bgmreview3_jpg_2992464c.jpg | en | null | LG X Screen review | null | null | www.thehindu.com | A secondary screen and fairly good performance make the LG X Screen stand out from the pack
In a market overcrowded with models in the sub-Rs.15,000 range, LG is making an attempt to make a mark with the LG X Screen that offers a 1.76-inch secondary screen with a 520x80 resolution. The screen is always on, and gives users time, date, Facebook and occasional WhatsApp updates, without waking the phone up. Another thing that makes it stand out is that in a range where displays have been crossing the 5.5-inch barrier, the LG X Screen swims against the current with a 4.9-inch LCD display. The small display works for basic functionality, though if you watch videos or browse social media feeds, it may not be your cup of tea. As far as look and feel goes, unlike the Moto G4, the X Screen uses a glass panel finish, which makes it look very good. The camera panel has a light bump, which may result in scratches in the long run. The display was quite functional, though we felt that it was a little cluttered. The lack of a full HD display panel and a fingerprint scanner, which are utilities available in most phones in the range, are some minor drawbacks as well.
As far as performance goes, the phone does not give much to complain about. It is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410, 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage. We were able to work with multiple apps and did not face any major lags or issues. The 13megapixel camera and an eight megapixel front camera do not disappoint. We felt that the rear camera shot good images in normal lighting, and was equipped with different modes and options. If you are a selfie buff, the front camera is good enough to take multiple selfies, though we felt that the camera performance dipped in a low-light area.
The powerful 2,300 mAh battery lasted a day of heavy usage and was very impressive. The SIM slots and power button are located on the right, while the volume button is situated on the left. The power button also incorporates a panic button.
Coming back to the secondary screen, it offers users the option to select four favourite apps or contacts to easily access, without having to unlock the handset. It is quite unique, but we discovered that we did not use the second screen much. We felt no real need to use the display when the phone was switched on.
The LG user interface is fairly functional, with the standard call, message and Google features available on the home screen, though we felt that a menu bar would make navigation easier. Users also have a choice of installing themes from the LG smart world, a pre-installed application that offers themes, fitness tracking apps and the occasional game.
All things considered, the LG X Screen is a functional phone that delivers most things required of a phone in the price range. | http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/lg-x-screen-review/article9050853.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/4e2a573731f8a2663aaf9433662c54a966ec8ad0a348d2bb80767b02107240f2.json |
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"Staff Reporter"
] | 2016-08-31T10:54:47 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Fourteen-year-old T. Yeswanth, an eighth standard student in a private school at Vissannapet in Krishna district, allegedly fell from the hostel building. He suffered serious injuries and was hospital | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FVijayawada%2Fstudent-critical-after-alleged-fall-from-hostel-building%2Farticle9053420.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Student critical after alleged fall from hostel building | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Fourteen-year-old T. Yeswanth, an eighth standard student in a private school at Vissannapet in Krishna district, allegedly fell from the hostel building. He suffered serious injuries and was hospitalised.
Yeswanth, a native of R.R. Peta in Eluru, is staying in Vikas Techno School-run hostel in Vissannapet. On Tuesday morning, he was found on the ground floor of the hostel building with multiple injuries. The school management shifted the student to a local hospital which referred him to Vijayawada for better treatment, said Nuzvid Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) V. Srinivas.
“About 130 students are staying in the second floor of the hostel building. Yeswanth was found with severe head injuries and is on ventilator. Police are trying to find out how the boy fell from the building,” the DSP said.
Meanwhile, Yeswanth’s parents lodged a complaint with the police suspecting foul play and urged the police to investigate the matter. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/student-critical-after-alleged-fall-from-hostel-building/article9053420.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/ed8deced98a3819e9196ef5a65cac8204e9f41eff3bc79d336f7e3fe44c7f70b.json |
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"Staff Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-29T22:53:25 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Given the low water storage in most reservoirs in the State owing to scanty rain, it is time for farmers to re-contemplate on paddy monoculture and opt for crop rotation and crop diversification pract | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fkarnataka%2Fkagodu-urges-farmers-to-go-in-for-crop-diversification-practices%2Farticle9046619.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02991/29BG_SMG_KAGODU_CA_2991355c.jpg | en | null | Kagodu urges farmers to go in for crop diversification practices | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Given the low water storage in most reservoirs in the State owing to scanty rain, it is time for farmers to re-contemplate on paddy monoculture and opt for crop rotation and crop diversification practices, said Revenue Minister Kagodu Thimmappa on Monday.
He was speaking after inaugurating a workshop for farmers on economic utilisation of water, held by the Bhadra Command Area Development Authority (CADA) and the University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences (UAHS), Shivamogga, at the Suvarna Samskruti Bhavan in the city.
Paddy is cultivated in traditional semi-aquatic and water-intensive methods in the command areas of reservoirs in Karnataka. The State is witnessing water scarcity for the second straight year and the storage in most reservoirs is low. Instead of water-intensive crops, farmers should take up cultivation of pulses and oilseeds, which will bring them more income, the Minister said.
He said as paddy is cultivated by flooding the fields, the problem of soil salinity has been reported in many parts. It is necessary to create awareness among farmers on judicious utilisation of water through water users’ societies. Mr. Thimmappa called upon CADA officials and UAHS scientists to develop demonstration plots on cultivating crops with economic utilisation of water.
Addressing the gathering, C. Vasudevappa, Vice-Chancellor of UAHS, said that a cropping pattern should be worked out for the command areas in a scientific manner after undertaking a survey on water availability, soil quality and climatic conditions. Instead of flooding the paddy fields, it is necessary to popularise System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and other methods under which water is provided for the crops on an ‘on-and-off’ basis. When there is shortage of water in reservoirs, farmers should be directed to cultivate short- and medium-term paddy varieties and less water-intensive crops such as ragi, pulses and oilseeds. He also stressed the need to adopt drip and sprinkler irrigation methods in command areas, and to undertake regular maintenance of the canals to ensure proper utilisation of water.
K.B. Prasanna Kumar, Shivamogga MLA, Sharada Poorya Naik, Shivamogga Rural MLA, R. Prasanna Kumar, MLC, Jyothi Kumar, zilla panchayat president, and others were present. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/kagodu-urges-farmers-to-go-in-for-crop-diversification-practices/article9046619.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/f9e1cbc8bd8ecbfc90655d5a16269877a9faf9f56aff457a4eafbacdaaaec82e.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:54:43 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Lucy, one of the best known ancestors of humans to ever roam the earth, may have died after a fall from a tree, University of Texas researchers have suggested, after studying her 3.18-million-year-ol | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fsci-tech%2Fscience%2Ffall-from-tree-may-have-caused-death-of-lucy-the-hominid%2Farticle9051488.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02992/Lucy_2992718c.jpg | en | null | Fall from tree may have caused death of ‘Lucy’ the hominid | null | null | www.thehindu.com | A fractured humerus indicates she may have stretched her arm to control impact.
Lucy, one of the best known ancestors of humans to ever roam the earth, may have died after a fall from a tree, University of Texas researchers have suggested, after studying her 3.18-million-year-old fossilised remains.
A high resolution X-ray CT (computed tomography) study of Lucy, a female hominid, indicates she suffered fractures to her right humerus, not typically seen in fossils. There were also less severe fractures on the left shoulder and other compressive fractures throughout the skeleton, they said.
The injuries were consistent with those “caused by a fall from considerable height when the conscious victim stretched out an arm in an attempt to break the fall,” according to the research from John Kappelman, a University of Texas anthropology and geological sciences professor, who consulted with Stephen Pearce, an orthopaedic surgeon at Austin Bone and Joint Clinic.
“This compressive fracture results when the hand hits the ground during a fall, impacting the elements of the shoulder against one another to create a unique signature on the humerus,” Mr. Kappelman said in a statement.
Lucy’s skeleton was unearthed in 1974 in Ethiopia and since then researchers around the world have been looking at the fossil of the hominid to find its links to modern humans.
Mr. Kappelman speculated Lucy, who was about 3 feet and 6 inches in height, foraged and sought nightly refuge in trees. Her injuries indicate she fell from a height of about of more than 40 feet.
University of Texas researchers, including Mr. Kappelman, in 2009 completed the first high resolution CT scan of Lucy when the fossil toured the United States. The study resulted in some 35,000 CT electronic slices, which were then studied by university researchers.
“When the extent of Lucy’s multiple injuries first came into focus, her image popped into my mind’s eye, and I felt a jump of empathy across time and space,” Mr. Kappelman said.
“Lucy was no longer simply a box of bones but in death became a real individual: a small, broken body lying helpless at the bottom of a tree.” | http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/fall-from-tree-may-have-caused-death-of-lucy-the-hominid/article9051488.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/232fa562fd45a94837a103ce36cdb6d9bb902f6b9bc43400848dfd31ce90552e.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T00:53:34 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Condemning the recent atrocities on Dalits at Una in Gujarat, the Karnataka State Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (KSDSS) plans to stage a protest in front of the Deputy Commissioners’ offices in all district | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fkarnataka%2Fsamiti-to-protest-against-atrocities-on-dalits%2Farticle9046808.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02991/30BG_KALABURAGI_SA_2991466c.jpg | en | null | Samiti to protest against atrocities on Dalits | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Condemning the recent atrocities on Dalits at Una in Gujarat, the Karnataka State Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (KSDSS) plans to stage a protest in front of the Deputy Commissioners’ offices in all districts across the State on September 1.
State convener of the Samiti D.G. Sagar, addressing presspersons in Kalaburagi on Monday, accused the Union government of maintaining silence on the barbaric incident at Una in Gir-Somnath district in Gujarat, where a group of youth belonging to the Dalit community who were skinning a dead cow were beaten up by cow vigilantes, alleging they had killed the cow.
“The silence of the Union government on the issue only goes to show its support for such criminal activities across the nation against Dalits in the name of protecting cows,” Mr. Sagar alleged, and added that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government and Sangh Parivar were playing a crucial role in carrying out such atrocities against Dalits.
Dr. Ambedkar’s vision for equality and annihilation of the caste system is still a dream,” he said, and added that many make a living skinning carcasses of animals and cleaning human waste.
Dr. Sagar strongly condemned the removal of plaque from a statue of Dr. Ambedkar in Kalaburagi last Tuesday. He urged the government to take measures to protect the statues. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/samiti-to-protest-against-atrocities-on-dalits/article9046808.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/c0a259c88fa73c4f741cb8f68fa6cf9272fd1056358ffbfabd93cad4d7aba7ec.json |
[
"Harsha Vinay"
] | 2016-08-27T10:50:10 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | It was a cold winter afternoon as we drove to Assi Ghat, and I sat in wonder, absorbing my new surroundings. People and cows sat about in idle stupor, chewing, staring, and watching cars go by. As we | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Ffeatures%2Fmagazine%2Fharsha-vinay-on-swiss-artist-alice-boners-sojourn-in-varanasi%2Farticle9036225.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02987/28SM_ABoner_10_jpg_2987332c.jpg | en | null | Harsha Vinay on Swiss artist Alice Boner's sojourn in Varanasi | null | null | www.thehindu.com | From the home in Varanasi where Swiss painter and sculptor Alice Boner lived for 40 years
It was a cold winter afternoon as we drove to Assi Ghat, and I sat in wonder, absorbing my new surroundings. People and cows sat about in idle stupor, chewing, staring, and watching cars go by. As we drove away from the airport, layers of time peeled away, and the feeling of life slowing down became tactile. We were stuck behind a cycle rickshaw, which was itself behind a row of cows. As we approached the ghat, a visible and audible cacophony of chaos welcomed me, and I entered the old house, in awe of my new dwelling.
In January 2016, I moved to Varanasi from Bengaluru, undertaking a project of reviving and running the Alice Boner home as an art residency and cultural space for artistic and academic research. I first came across Alice Boner and her work at university, in a class on temple sculpture and composition. Little did I know then that a few years later, I would live and work in the house she had inhabited over 40 years ago on the banks of the Ganga. Today, the Alice Boner Institute.
A perceptive artist, scholar, art historian, passionate photographer, collector and meticulous record-keeper through diary entries of almost every day and every experience, Alice Boner studied painting and sculpture in Brussels and Basel. Born in Italy in 1889 to Swiss parents, she began working as an independent sculptor and painter. At the age of 27 she was invited to exhibit her work at Zurich’s prestigious Kunsthaus, a museum of fine arts.
In her diaries, Boner records her arrival and discovery of this house on Assi Ghat in 1936. “It was late night. The streets were empty, only cows were sleeping everywhere… The stars array and harmony constitutes itself gradually… This house is remarkably soothing and exciting at the same time. In it I feel I have returned to myself, to my home, my domicile. It is so familiar, so welcoming, so warm… I feel fulfilled, happy, settled and supported, like on a gentle stream.”
Waking up to screaming voices, I ran out to the balcony to see what was happening. The sun was just rising through the morning mist. Suddenly, an ear-splitting growl, a pause, a chorus of growls, pause, and then manic laughter, and again in chorus. What was going on?
A little distance away was a large gathering of people, stretched out on multi-coloured mats, being guided by their teacher, who sat on a stage, to growl while he growled into a microphone. ‘Lion Yoga’ I was later told. A large banner not too far away read ‘Subah-e-Banaras: Vedic Chanting, Ganga Aarti, Morning Raga, Yoga: Every day before sunrise, District Cultural Committee, Varanasi ’.
Assi Ghat, 2016, I thought.
Boner’s fascination for dance brought her to India with Uday Shankar, where she encountered classical dance and drama traditions like Kerala’s Kathakali. Writing on her first encounter with Kathakali, she remarks, “It would take volumes to describe the impression of a single night with the Kathakalis… so completely were we fascinated and so subjugated by the intense life which emanated from the multifarious presentations of human, divine, and devilish beings and from all these strange, pathetic, fabulous, cruel, tender, humorous events.”
Her training in arts practice and exposure to performance traditions led her to see the temple sculptures in Ellora, Mahabalipuram, and Badami in a new light. In her diary entry on Ellora she writes: “Back from Ellora after a stay of almost three months… In order to approach the images I started drawing them… I started analyzing them in their geometrical scheme and to build up the diagrams in terms of lines of energy… all of a sudden, a revealing light broke forth.”
She made detailed sketches of the large relief sculptures, like the Siva Nataraja in Ellora and Mahisasuramardhini in Mahabalipuram, using a grid diagram to understand their compositions. In 1962, Boner published her seminal book Principles of Composition in Hindu Sculpture, which remains to this day a pioneering work of art historical scholarship. For her exhaustive research and work, Boner was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zurich in 1969 and the Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 1974.
“Has Kal Bhairavji tested you?” asked a stranger on my third day in Varanasi. I was at Harmony Bookshop, my neighbour and soon-to-be-favourite haunt, flipping through Diana Eck’s Benaras: City of Light. “What test? You mean Kal Bhairav, the deity?” “Yes! All outsiders to Varanasi will be tested by Bhairavji,” he replied, emphasising the ‘ji’ that I had missed, “only if you pass his test, will you be truly accepted into this holy city!”
Boner appears to have passed Kal Bhairavji’s test and accepted into Varanasi. In the four decades that Boner made India her home (1936-78), she immersed herself in a range of disciplines, meeting numerous personalities like musician Ali Akbar Alauddin Khan, philosopher Sri Bhagwan Das, German Buddhist Lama Anagarika Govinda, musicologist Alain Danielou, poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore, dancer Shanta Rao, art historian Stella Kramrich, Tibetologist Guiseppe Tucci, and psychologist Carl Gustav Jung to name just a few. Many of these people were guests at her home in Assi Ghat.
It rained the whole of last night, as it did many times over these last few weeks, and today Gangaji is at our doorstep. Alice’s close friend, Alfred Wuerfel’s words ring in my ear: “The Ganga herself would come to visit Alice.”
On View: ‘Alice from Switzerland:
A Visionary Artist and Scholar
Across Two Continents’ ,
National Museum,
New Delhi,
September 1 - October 30
Harsha Vinay is the director of Alice Boner Institute, Varanasi. | http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/harsha-vinay-on-swiss-artist-alice-boners-sojourn-in-varanasi/article9036225.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/ff4a8f471b31bf57c12c715077b3198d95397203ef21855f7ca7339441eefb66.json |
[
"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-28T08:50:55 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | Officials of the Mangaluru City Corporation raided several shops in the city market complex building at the Central Market area here on Saturday and sealed 28 shops for doing business without licence. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FMangalore%2Fmcc-officials-seal-28-shops-in-central-market-area%2Farticle9042177.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02989/27mn_mnrav_shop_28_2989339c.jpg | en | null | MCC officials seal 28 shops in Central Market area | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Officials of the Mangaluru City Corporation raided several shops in the city market complex building at the Central Market area here on Saturday and sealed 28 shops for doing business without licence.
Kavita Sanil, chairperson, Standing Committee for Public Health, Education and Social Health, accompanied the officials.
On seeing officials, many shopkeepers who did not have licence, pulled down the shutters on their own.
But the officials made them to open and when they did not have licence sealed them one by one.
A corporation official said that the shops would be allowed to re-open only after obtaining licence by following due procedure. The random checking of shops would continue, the official said. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/mcc-officials-seal-28-shops-in-central-market-area/article9042177.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/ba2becc0981d16e03b58d64ddef26bae83eb93038f944bf44186cbe727cd7259.json |
[
"Staff Reporter"
] | 2016-08-30T06:52:10 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Monday sought the farmers not to panic over the dismal situation on the rain front and said that the government would stand by them at all times to salvage their | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fandhra-pradesh%2Fnaidu-tells-farmers-not-to-panic-over-lack-of-rain%2Farticle9047783.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02991/29ch10330HI-W04_30_2991789c.jpg | en | null | Naidu tells farmers not to panic over lack of rain | null | null | www.thehindu.com | CM undertakes whirlwind tour of Madanapalle revenue division
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Monday sought the farmers not to panic over the dismal situation on the rain front and said that the government would stand by them at all times to salvage their crops.
Mr. Naidu had a whirlwind visit of villages in Gudupalle, Shantipuram, Punganur and Kurabalakota mandals of Madanapalle revenue division, interacting with farmers and instructing agriculture and irrigation officials to monitor the use of rain guns in the fields round the clock. He inspected the groundnut crops and the ‘Panta Sanjivani’ sites in the villages.
Addressing people at Kuravapalle village of Aredigunta panchayat of Punganur mandal, Mr. Naidu said that in order to protect the crops from deficit rains, the government had already purchased over 15,000 rain guns and deployed them in vulnerable villages. He maintained that it was for the first time in the country that a State had initiated a massive effort to use technology for protection of crops.
He told the farmers that Group I and IAS officers would be drafted at the mandal and constituency levels to monitor the rain gun exercises. Mr. Naidu blamed the Congress party for the dismal scenario on the agriculture front during the last one decade. He said that in view of the welfare schemes launched the farmers should not resort to extreme steps such as committing suicide.
The Chief Minister said that the problems faced by the tomato farmers had become perennial. After interacting with farmers at Mudivedu village of Kurabalakota mandal near Madanapalle, Mr. Naidu said that he would study the possibility of introducing schemes to provide remunerative prices to tomato farmers. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/naidu-tells-farmers-not-to-panic-over-lack-of-rain/article9047783.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/cf764937e6ecbdc33a2e42f301202d84d6d9406ee983238785231f8cabd41766.json |
[
"Tishani Doshi"
] | 2016-08-30T20:55:52 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fthread%2Farts-culture-society%2Farticle9050239.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02992/Title_2992309c.jpg | en | null | The nude and the prude | null | null | www.thehindu.com | David Sedaris, the American humourist, once described Australia as “Canada in a thong”. This was before Justin Trudeau came along and made Canada the sexiest nation on the planet. I was thinking of this imagery while flying to Australia recently, along with that other piece of controversial bathing attire, the burkini.
Much has already been written about the burkini ban that has since been suspended in France. Clearly it’s a bit hypocritical to claim you are the torchbearers of liberty, equality, fraternity, and then force a woman to strip on a beach because her outfit threatens you. I tried to look at it from the non-liberal perspective — of how agitated we in India get if people come into our temples wearing shoes or tank-tops. Maybe for the French, the Côte d’Azur is their temple, and they have their own ritual codes? On both sides of the debate, though, there was just one word that rankled, or — if we want to stick with Sedaris’s swimwear metaphor — sat about as comfortably as a G-string. And that word was modesty.
Aheda Zanetti, the creator of the burkini, said she wanted to give Muslim women greater freedom, not to take it away. “It’s just a garment to suit a modest person, or someone who has skin cancer, or a new mother who doesn’t want to wear a bikini, it’s not symbolising Islam.” Fine. But as other people have pointed out, what does that make Muslim women who choose not to wear the burkini? Immodest? People with a better sense of humour remarked that if we were going to get our pants tangled up about the issue of modesty, perhaps a review of the fat white man in his itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie Speedo should also be policed.
Modesty seems like such a moderate, inoffensive word, but for anyone who has ever been accused of immodesty, they’ll know exactly how shaming it can be. When I was in eleventh standard in Madras I was reprimanded by a teacher for the length of my skirt. “Too short, too short,” she spat, through her gritted teeth, and then walked away as though the sight of my legs would cripple her. I was enraged because the skirt sat at my knee, hardly scandalous, but I went to my tailor anyway and made new school uniforms — sans darts, sans shape, and at a matronly midi-length. I inhabited these tents for a year, my sticky-stick figure completely subsumed in unnecessary cloth, and while I told myself that the teacher was merely a frustrated housewife venting, it did not alleviate the sting of her accusation.
Where does it come from? These orders to close your legs, button your shirt, cover your head? And why does the onus of modesty lie solely with women?
When it comes to our bodies and bathing suits, dignity is an important factor. You want to have the freedom to wear what you feel comfortable in, and you don’t want to be fined for your choices. Judgement of course, remains another issue entirely.
I’d like to make an argument for the benefits of immodesty, to go so far as to say that the happiest I’ve ever been is when I was sitting in a hot-tub with a bunch of naked Korean women in the basement of a hotel in Gwangju. No germ-ridden swimsuits allowed here. Part of my delight was that I knew I’d never see any of them again, but the crux of it was that looking around (and you do look around), you realise that you all have variations of the same bits and pieces. It is simply anatomy. There is nothing mysterious or unexpected about breasts, belly, vagina, bottoms. And when you see naked women of all ages getting slapped about on massage tables, women showering before they clamber into baths, women sitting naked on stools and gossiping in a circle, a kind of innocence falls over the whole picture. You begin to think they are me, I am them, we are one.
Granted, I probably wouldn’t be comfortable doing that in a unisex bath in Austria because I have some social conditioning to get over, but if the history of eastern and western art could celebrate the nude, where has all the covering up come from, and why?
Some years ago, after a literary festival in Kerala, a group of writers gathered on the beach after the closing party and decided to go swimming. The first person in was a middle-aged English academic in boxer shorts, who went whooping and hollering into the waves. He was followed by a tattooed beauty in bright blue briefs. I can’t remember at which point in the pecking order I went, but I know I ran (after considering what underwear I’d put on that evening, and making sure a towel would be waiting for me when I emerged). Was that ghost of a schoolteacher spitting at me as I dropped my clothes to the ground? Sure. Did I tell myself that my chances of being judged as a serious writer were going to be eroded by the people who stood on the shore and watched? Yes. Were those moments of buoyancy in the ocean — with moonlight lapping around us before the police blew their whistles and forced us out — worth it? Absolutely.
When it comes to our bodies and bathing suits, dignity is an important factor. You want to have the freedom to wear what you feel comfortable in, and you don’t want to be fined for your choices. Judgement of course, remains another issue entirely. You may well find other people’s decisions distasteful, as I did when the bunch of fellow-Gujjus at the Goa resort I was staying at decided to hog the Jacuzzi fully-clothed, clapping their hands, singing ‘jalebi ghatia’. The glare I gave them was the same glare I received when I drifted onto a stretch of beach on the Gold Coast, affectionately called “bobber’s beach,” not realising it was a beach exclusively for naked men.
We may be offended by how other people present their bodies, but the real immodesty is not in the bodies themselves but in our judgement of them. | http://www.thehindu.com/thread/arts-culture-society/article9050239.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/9c0fd21e536741d5f6c0b976a9bfb0a2dff903f24fab596a5f22ed9d65049624.json |
[
"K.M. Dayashankar"
] | 2016-08-29T08:54:46 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | Municipal Corporation of Karimnagar (MCK) formally launched the collection of public opinion on the Smart City programme, but it remains a million dollar question whether the town will be included in | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftelangana%2Fcan-karimnagar-get-into-smart-city-list%2Farticle9044912.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Can Karimnagar get into Smart City list? | null | null | www.thehindu.com | There is no proper segregation of the garbage for its disposal
Municipal Corporation of Karimnagar (MCK) formally launched the collection of public opinion on the Smart City programme, but it remains a million dollar question whether the town will be included in the list without the completion of underground drainage and solid waste management systems.
The prerequisite norms of Smart City are to have a Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) with the underground drainage (UGD) system and reuse of the water. Ironically, the UGD work taken up in March 2008 at a cost of Rs. 76.50 crore is progressing at a snail’s pace. The executing agency has only laid horizontal lines for the UGD and has to construct inspection chambers for linkage from the houses.
The STP constructed as part of the UGD remains incomplete and unused. Sources said that the completion of the UGD by laying vertical lines from houses connecting to main horizontal lines would require additional Rs. 50 crore. Besides, the badly damaged roads would get further deteriorated in the process.
On the other hand, the other norm of solid waste management in the MCK remains very poor to secure Smart City status. A decade ago the town was declared Clean City and given award for its prompt disposal of garbage from all generating points. Now, it has turned the other way round.
The town is generating around 190 metric tonnes of garbage everyday. But, there is no proper segregation of the garbage for its disposal.
The MCK had taken up construction of Vermi compost pits for the segregation of garbage, but it remains a non-starter.
It had also decided to segregate garbage at the generating points by distributing two dust-bins to each household, which also was not practised properly.
Incidentally, the town does not have any footpaths or adequate parking lots for the vehicles.
When contacted, Mayor S. Ravinder Singh said that they would complete the UGD work by constructing the inspection chambers and utilize the STP. He added that they were also planning distribution of two dust-bins for the segregation of garbage at the generating points as part of solid waste management. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/can-karimnagar-get-into-smart-city-list/article9044912.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/46135f5b4df9b88a4a44ac305d272f0148839879f5b3244b828d5a4dda5bb1c3.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T18:50:31 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | : Left-back Danny Rose’s 72nd-minute equaliser earned Tottenham Hotspur a 1-1 draw with Liverpool in a hard-fought Premier League encounter at White Hart Lane on Saturday.
James Milner gave Liverpo | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Frose-equaliser-denies-liverpool-victory-at-spurs%2Farticle9040820.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02988/TH29EPL_2988919c.jpg | en | null | Rose equaliser denies Liverpool victory at Spurs | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The Reds show a much sharper cutting edge than in last weekend’s 2-0 defeat at Burnley
: Left-back Danny Rose’s 72nd-minute equaliser earned Tottenham Hotspur a 1-1 draw with Liverpool in a hard-fought Premier League encounter at White Hart Lane on Saturday.
James Milner gave Liverpool a deserved lead with a penalty shortly before half-time, but Spurs got their reward for a spell of sustained second-half pressure when Rose drilled home the equaliser.
The England full-back’s strike means he has already matched his tally from last season and it preserved Spurs’ unbeaten record following their draw at Everton and victory over Crystal Palace.
“I’m very pleased,” said Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino.
“It was a very competitive game. Both teams played with passion, which is very important. It was a fantastic game for the neutral.”
It was a frustrating outcome for visiting manager Jurgen Klopp on his return to the scene of his first game at the Liverpool helm last October, which ended in a 0-0 draw.
His side showed a much sharper cutting edge than in last weekend’s 2-0 defeat at Burnley, but its inability to close the game out enabled Spurs to rescue a point.
“When you take a point at Tottenham, for 99 per cent of teams it would be a good thing,” Klopp told the BBC.
‘Not a fair result’
“We played a very good away game against a very strong side. It was our first real mistake and it was a goal, so that is not really fair.”
It was a contest between two teams who like to press high up the pitch and in the first half it was Tottenham which had the greatest difficulty playing the ball out from the back.
Deputising in goal for Spurs again in place of the injured Hugo Lloris, Michel Vorm was frequently called into action.
The Dutchman produced a stunning fourth-minute stop to thwart Philippe Coutinho from Roberto Firmino’s square pass and twice raced from his line to expertly tackle Sadio Mane.
Coutinho had overcome a stiff hamstring to start and he continually found space in threatening positions, with one shot deflected over and another comfortably parried by Vorm at his near post.
Aside from a Christian Eriksen free-kick that Simon Mignolet fisted away, Spurs posed little threat at the other end, although Vincent Janssen could have won a penalty after being blocked by Joel Matip.
Mane, meanwhile, was fortunate to avoid a red card after clattering Rose two minutes after being booked for a late one on Dele Alli.
Janssen had replaced Kyle Walker after the Spurs full-back succumbed to illness, prompting a reshuffle that saw Eric Dier move to right-back and Alli drop into central midfield.
It left the host with an unfamiliar configuration on the right flank and Liverpool exploited its uncertainty when Firmino was clipped by Erik Lamela after darting in behind him.
Milner, Liverpool’s left-back again, confidently steered the penalty into the bottom-left corner.
The team in red continued to enjoy the upper hand in the second half, with Matip heading over, Nathaniel Clyne working Vorm and Mane seeing a volley chalked off for offside against Adam Lallana. But as the intensity of the visitor’s pressing began to fade, so Spurs started to assert themselves.
Eriksen side-footed over from Dier’s cut-back and Mignolet produced smart saves to thwart Lamela and Toby Alderweireld before Spurs drew level with 18 minutes to go.
Released by Alderweireld on the right, Dier cut inside onto his left foot and crossed, Lamela flicked the ball on and Rose brought it down at the back post before skewering a shot past Mignolet.
The results: Tottenham 1 (Rose 72) drew with Liverpool 1 (Milner 43-pen); Chelsea 3 (Hazard 9, Willian 41, Moses 89) bt Burnley 0; Crystal Palace 1 (Dann 90+3) drew with Bournemouth 1 (King 11); Everton 1 (Given 51-og) bt Stoke 0; Leicester 2 (Vardy 32, Morgan 52) bt Swansea 1 (Fer 80); Southampton 1 (Rodriguez 85) drew with Sunderland 1 (Defoe 80-pen); Watford 1 (Pereyra 57) lost to Arsenal 3 (Cazorla 9-pen, Sanchez 40, Ozil 45+1). | http://www.thehindu.com/sport/football/rose-equaliser-denies-liverpool-victory-at-spurs/article9040820.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/15b2a136e095edcb6df430301fe5da7950e872d7001497cfb3a4aaf3bfedc54c.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T04:56:06 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | A. Sreenidhi, a Class X student of Paramita IIT Academy in Mankammathota in Karimnagar town, bagged champion’s award at the State-level memory championship competitions held in Warangal on Sunday. Sre | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftelangana%2Fclass-x-student-bags-champions-award%2Farticle9053342.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Class X student bags champion’s award | null | null | www.thehindu.com | A. Sreenidhi, a Class X student of Paramita IIT Academy in Mankammathota in Karimnagar town, bagged champion’s award at the State-level memory championship competitions held in Warangal on Sunday. Sreenidhi bagged a gold medal, two silver medals, and a gold cup, and emerged champion, said Paramita Educational Institutions chairman E Prasada Rao in a press note here on Tuesday. - Special Correspondent
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] | 2016-08-30T00:51:54 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | The BJP has said that the LDF government, which is set to complete 100 days in office on September 1, is raking up inconsequential issues to divert the attention of the public from the core issue of | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fkerala%2Fldf-raising-irrelevant-issues-kummanam%2Farticle9046493.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | LDF raising irrelevant issues: Kummanam | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The BJP has said that the LDF government, which is set to complete 100 days in office on September 1, is raking up inconsequential issues to divert the attention of the public from the core issue of misgovernance.
Instead of carrying out programmes that would accelerate the State’s progress, the Ministers are creating a fuss over lighting lamps at public functions, invocation of gods at such events, making pookkalam for Onam, conducting Ashtami Rohini procession, and now, the conduct of RSS sakhas on temple premises, said BJP State president Kummanam Rajasekharan.
“Theirs is politics of negativity. This is cultural fascism,” said Mr. Rajasekharan.
He said that the stance against the traditional lamp only showed that the party was afraid of light. Velicham Dukhamanunnee; Thamassallo Sukhapradam, he quoted Akkitham to say that the CPI(M) finds darkness comfortable.
Castigating the government for also raising a public debate on the traditional practices of Sabarimala temple, he said temples had learned priests to decide on these issues. Mr. Rajasekharan criticised the government for the delay in the supply of school textbooks. “On September 1, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha will hold demonstrations against the misrule,” he said. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/ldf-raising-irrelevant-issues-kummanam/article9046493.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/185a6baa98e4a042ee4b93c8b4e0784110f25ea383bc3bbe7129f03b0517ed28.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T12:54:29 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Continuing to back dope-tainted wrestler Narsingh Yadav, a top Wrestling Federation of India official today claimed the 74-kg freestyle wrestler would have clinched the silver medal had he taken part | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fsport%2Fother-sports%2Fnarsingh-would-have-won-at-least-a-silver-wfi-official%2Farticle9037063.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02987/TH27NARSINGH_2987668c.jpg | en | null | Narsingh would have won at least a silver: WFI official | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Continuing to back dope-tainted wrestler Narsingh Yadav, a top Wrestling Federation of India official today claimed the 74-kg freestyle wrestler would have clinched the silver medal had he taken part in the Rio Olympics instead of being banned for four years by the CAS.
“Narsingh would have won at least a silver medal, I can assure you that,” said WFI secretary V.N. Prasood here on the sidelines of a press conference to announce a world level prize money event.
Explaining the chronology of events leading to his ban Prasood said, “On August 18 Narsingh gave a medical at noon and had his weigh-in at 1.30 p.m.
“His name was even there in the fixtures. At 8.30 p.m. in the night CAS released their judgement.
“CAS told him, ‘give your weight, don’t worry about anything in the afternoon, we’ll give a result at night.’ So why should we have been thinking about it (ban),” asked Prasood when reporters questioned him on the matter.
“That’s when we actually thought that after 21st they will take any action, (that) if they want to punish they will take away the medal if Narsingh had won any medal,” he said.
“The judgment was unexpected. If only they had given this verdict earlier, we could have sent Praveen Rana,” he said.
Prasood defended WFI by saying Narsingh had been cleared to take part by the Indian Olympic Association, International Olympic Committee and United World Wrestling, wrestling’s governing body, before he was sent on the flight to Rio.
“UWW gave its nod for Narsingh’s participation, IOC gave its approval. After getting these two approvals, how could we have stopped Narsingh from going to Rio?
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"Chitra Narayan"
] | 2016-08-30T18:51:55 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | The Cabinet has approved the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016, which will soon be introduced in Parliament. Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have impacted lives for some time now. However, d | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fopinion%2Fop-ed%2Fignoring-best-practices%2Farticle9051191.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02992/31TH_SURROGACY_2992551c.jpg | en | null | Ignoring best practices | null | null | www.thehindu.com | A Bill proposed in 2014 was meant to cover various issues arising from all assisted reproductive technologies. Limiting the 2016 Bill to surrogacy alone is myopic
The Cabinet has approved the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016, which will soon be introduced in Parliament. Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have impacted lives for some time now. However, due to a regulatory vacuum, and existing laws conflicting with situations created by ART, or laws not contemplating these situations, the rights and interests of adults and children in ART are in disarray. There was an ART (Regulation) Bill proposed in 2014 that was meant to cover similar issues arising from all ART. Limiting the 2016 Bill to the regulation of surrogacy alone is myopic.
ART, as the name indicates, covers a range of technologies that helps persons become parents (“commissioning parents”). Surrogacy is only one such process. In surrogacy, the commissioning parents may seek donors for sperms or ova or both, which are fertilised in ART clinics. Either the commissioning mother or a surrogate mother carries the resulting embryo in her body till delivery.
The question of parentage
Important questions arise here. The child could have as many as four sets of claimants to parenthood — the commissioning parents, each of the donors, and the surrogate mother. Who are the parents then? What rights do the children have against each of them? What is the matrix of the rights of these adults?
Until now, contracts and consents between the commissioning parents and the donors/surrogates tried to resolve these questions. However, the answers to these issues aren’t straightforward. Take, for instance, the rights of the children born through surrogacy. Personal and property laws categorise children and their rights in terms of legitimate, illegitimate and adopted children. The rights of children born through surrogacy, if not addressed, are likely to fall outside these categories, or at best be treated as illegitimate children. The Indian Evidence Act, 1872, assumes that children are legitimate only if they are born within 280 days of the divorce of the parents, or the death of the father. ART includes usage of frozen sperm, and will not meet traditional gestation periods for conception and pregnancy that this law contemplates. This must be acknowledged and the problem tackled.
Parentage is an important issue for its own sake; it also impacts the rights of the children to maintenance, to inherit family property, and so on. There are different approaches to the question of parentage. The ART Bill had provided for parentage to be with the commissioning parents. Laws in some other countries give the surrogate mother parentage over the child. Commissioning parents become parents through parentage/adoption orders passed by the court. With the latter approach, the law accommodates the rights of the surrogate mother to retain her parentage. In either case, the law will override the expectations of one set of adults and lend certainty to the parentage of the child.
Identity of the child
A related issue is the right of identity of the child. Children born through surrogacy are entitled to know their personal history at an appropriate age. With this knowledge comes the question of the children wanting to know their genetic parents.
This need has conflicted with the right of the donors and surrogates to anonymity. National guidelines issued by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) in 2005 for ART clinics direct them to keep two records of the donors/surrogates — information on their personal identity and their medical history. Medical history records are accessible to the child (on majority) and to her parents, in case of a medical emergency involving the child. However, personal identity is to be kept confidential at all times, unless directed by a court. Children born through surrogacy may sense a gap in their identity, and if they wish to know who their genetic parents are, the policy should support this need.
Additional safeguards are important from the child and the surrogate mother’s point of view — medical insurance for issues that could arise in the pregnancy or later, and insurance to cover the child’s upbringing, if she is abandoned by the legal parent.
Some of these issues have come up, with the courts issuing orders on the rights of children and the participating adults, but they are not always in harmony. For instance, the Delhi and Madras High Courts have said that a commissioning mother is entitled to maternity leave after the child’s birth, while the Kerala High Court has disagreed.
The regulation of ART clinics and banks (which register and store donor information/sperms and ova) are critical. The ICMR guidelines of 2005, besides lacking enforceability, are not comprehensive. For instance, they do not set out accountability parameters within these agencies, or adequately address the serious issues of sex selection through ART, or have any obligations to provide legal and psychological counselling. The Bill should cover the layered aspects of these rights and take into account the spectrum of laws and prejudices that will come into play, including the rampant sex selection that is practised in India against girl children.
Lessons to learn
The Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act, 2008, in Victoria, Australia, is regarded as a progressive law for ART. It recognises the identity rights of the child, overriding the confidentiality right of the donor. Parentage is with the surrogate mother. The commissioning parents are required to get a parentage order from the court with the consent of the surrogate. The law sets out extensive obligations for the authority administering the Act, including psychological and legal counselling for the adults and the child. The authorities should verify that the adults seeking ART and the proposed surrogates have not been convicted for violent or sexual offences, or had children taken out of their care. Importantly, single persons, unmarried and same-sex couples can be parents through surrogacy.
Chitra Narayan is a lawyer and mediator practising in Chennai. | http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/ignoring-best-practices/article9051191.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/885a12a1d3a51db35f3afd7eed50bcc347b7daeb91d9d04c3f92f268425a8946.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T20:51:58 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) on Saturday received permission from its special court here to further investigate the controversial bar licence renewal bribery case. The developme | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fkerala%2Fvigilance-court-nod-for-probe-into-bar-bribery-case%2Farticle9040652.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02962/Mani_2962847c.jpg | en | null | Vigilance court nod for probe into bar bribery case | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The development is fraught with political and legal implications for the Kerala Congress (M) leader and former Finance Minister K.M. Mani, the prime accused in the case.
The agency’s abrupt reversal of its position on the case came on August 23 when R. Sukeshan, Investigating Officer (IO), filed a confidential report in the court.
The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) on Saturday received permission from its special court here to further investigate the controversial bar licence renewal bribery case.
The development is fraught with political and legal implications for the Kerala Congress (M) leader and former Finance Minister K.M. Mani, the prime accused in the case.
It has also denoted a remarkable turnaround in the agency’s declared stance that there was no evidence to prosecute Mr. Mani. (The court had twice turned down its inquiry reports absolving Mr. Mani of all guilt in the case).
The agency’s abrupt reversal of its position on the case came on August 23 when R. Sukeshan, Investigating Officer (IO), filed a confidential report in the court. Mr. Sukeshan said a further investigation was necessary in the case to unearth the “incriminating evidence which were purposefully concealed or distorted by some material witnesses”. The “new facts touching the allegations involved in this case, which were not considered by the IO earlier, is forthcoming”.
He could not “obtain expert scientific analysis of the materials collected during the investigation” to form an opinion due to “imposition of an outer time frame” by the court. Mr. Sukeshan’s report remained classified. However, the conjectures about its particulars were many and varied.
One version aired by television channels said the report detailed a conspiracy at the top level in the Vigilance to sabotage the case. The surmise apparently spurred prominent ruling front leaders, notably V.S. Achuthanandan, to demand prosecution of the “suspect officials”.
Elaborately quoting several judgments, A. Badharudeen, Inquiry Commissioner and Special Judge, Vigilance, ruled that further investigation was permissible if an IO obtained further documentary or oral evidence even after he filed the final report in the case in court. The report on such an additional inquiry could be termed a “supplementary report”. The court has not stipulated any deadline for the Vigilance to file its report. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/vigilance-court-nod-for-probe-into-bar-bribery-case/article9040652.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/599041711417b767fec88c82660865f1f43528c76eae952d9a0bf3fb0e0b6af9.json |
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"Varghese K George"
] | 2016-08-27T12:50:28 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | The coming week will witness some intense diplomatic activities between India and the U.S, as Secretary of State John Kerry and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker travel to New Delhi for the second St | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Finternational%2Fus-secretary-of-state-john-kerry-to-visit-india-defence-minister-manohar-parrikar-to-visit-washington-next-week%2Farticle9040433.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02988/Kerry-Parrikar_2988714c.jpg | en | null | US Secretary of State John Kerry to visit India; Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar to visit Washington next week | null | null | www.thehindu.com | India and the U.S started the annual strategic dialogue in 2009 and the commercial track was added last year.
The coming week will witness some intense diplomatic activities between India and the U.S, as Secretary of State John Kerry and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker travel to New Delhi for the second Strategic and Commercial (S&C) dialogue and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar arrives in Washington. Senior officials from 12 different U.S. agencies will be part of the S&C dialogue that will be co-chaired by the U.S Secretaries and their Indian counterparts External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
The signing of the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) is likely to top the agenda of Mr. Parrikar in the U.S capital. While the U.S is keen to have the LEMOA signed, India is pushing for forward movement on high technology trade. With the induction into the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) earlier this year, India is now eligible for higher technology purchases. Ratification of the Paris climate treaty by India and its admission into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) will be on the agenda for the S&C dialogue.
India and the U.S started the annual strategic dialogue in 2009 and the commercial track was added last year, recognising that both aspects are often intertwined.
“The two governments are also likely to continue discussing strategic topics ranging from climate change cooperation, national security and counter-terrorism, priorities in the Indian Ocean region as well as top economic priorities such as positioning U.S. companies for success at the sub-national level. In particular, the commercial track of the dialogue will continue to see heightened focus on ease of doing business, the U.S.-India partnership on tourism, developing a digital infrastructure, and roundtables on infrastructure and clean energy,” said Mukesh Aghi, president, USIBC (US India Business Council).
There is an increasing sense among the U.S policy makers that while the Modi government is open to investment, it is as reticent as previous governments on trade. “I think on the investment climate, there would be more positive views than negative. The Modi government has lifted FDI caps at a record pace, personally courted investors, and the FDI inflows are among the highest of any country. But on the trade side, there is disappointment. We'll likely end the Obama tenure without any progress on neither a Bilateral Investment Treaty nor a common vision or approach to key issues at the World Trade Organization,’ said Richard M. Rossow, Wadhwani Chair in the U.S. India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Both countries may finalise and announce a framework for cooperation on cyber security, said Mr. Rossow. “Setting the rules of coordination in this space is critical, and will mark real progress. Otherwise, this will be mostly about wrapping up smaller issues and setting plans for engagement in the next U.S. administration,” he said.
During Mr. Parrikar’s visit, India’s request for unmanned aircraft Predator for maritime domain awareness will be on the agenda. Membership of the MTCR makes India eligible for purchasing them from the private sector manufacturer General Atomics and the proposal is under the active consideration of the U.S government.
Dr Vivek Lall, Chief Executive, US and International Strategic Development at General Atomics — a former NASA scientist and Boeing official who has steered major defence deals between the two countries — declined to comment. “It is a government to government discussion. General Atomics will be opening an office in India this year.”
The U.S State Department's assessment of global investment climates recently was critical of India, but “overall, U.S. industry continues to be very bullish on the economic opportunities in India,” said Mr. Aghi. “…while industry is often anxious to see reforms passed quickly, industry also recognizes and respects the fact that India is a robust democracy where any reform most be a consensus-driven process. American industry is buoyed by the passage of the GST, a bankruptcy and arbitration code, and the real estate bill. Issues that were earlier insurmountable are now back on the table and being tackled through consistent dialogues,” Mr. Aghi said. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-secretary-of-state-john-kerry-to-visit-india-defence-minister-manohar-parrikar-to-visit-washington-next-week/article9040433.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/55de03b7f670680808593bb7c52fd74a059e8c1fc43da976587d384c2250b1c7.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T06:55:52 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | The city police have nabbed five persons, including a former assistant of a Kannada film actor and a small-time movie actor, on charges of abducting a 19-year old engineering student from Yelahanka | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2Fbangalore%2Ffive-held-moviestyle-for-abducting-teenager%2Farticle9046218.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Five held, movie-style, for abducting teenager | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The city police have nabbed five persons, including a former assistant of a Kannada film actor and a small-time movie actor, on charges of abducting a 19-year old engineering student from Yelahanka New Town.
The arrested were identified as are Muniyappa alias Eshwar (29), Hasan Dhongri (26), Jagadish (32), Jagannatha (19) and Manoj alias Kencha (19).
Ishaan Bapat (19) was abducted by a gang on August 23. Though the gang demanded a ransom, it allegedly released him the next day after police intensified their search.
However, the gang demanded ransom from the teenager’s girlfriend soon after releasing him. “After the girl informed us, a policeman posing as an autorickshaw driver took her to the spot where the gang was waiting. Other policemen were in the locality in the guise of call-taxi drivers,” said N.S. Megharik, Police Commissioner.
The girl acted as if she was arguing with the autorickshaw driver and called accused Hassan Dongri with a request to settle the issue. “When he came, the police team nabbed him and based on the information provided by him, the other four were arrested,” said P.S. Harsha, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Bengaluru North-East).
During interrogation it was found that Muniyappa had acted in a Kannada movie called “Challenger” and during this period, he came in contact with Dongri, assistant of an actor. Muniyappa wanted to produce a movie but since he did not have sufficient money, he started chain snatching and eventually hatched the plan to abduct the 19-year-old, the police officials said. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/five-held-moviestyle-for-abducting-teenager/article9046218.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/93a186f13a0927f46fbb62f555d4c884a95a88fde3e4b1a566cf380217c294dd.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T08:52:11 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Heavy rains on Wednesday morning caused waterlogging in many areas and massive traffic jams in New Delhi, leading to people getting stuck on the roads. Hyderabad too witnessed heavy downpour reach | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Frains-lash-delhi-gurgaon-and-hyderabad%2Farticle9054331.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02993/Delhi_rain_2993296c.jpg | en | null | Heavy rains in Delhi, Gurgaon and Hyderabad | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Knee-deep water in many areas in the Capital as rains began on early Wednesday morning. Photo: Sushil Kumar Varma
A car is half-submerged as water level rises in Padma colony at Shankar Mutt, Hyderabad. Photo: M. Rajeev
Parts of Gurgaon and Delhi come to a standstill due to waterlogging, traffic jam.
Heavy rains on Wednesday morning caused waterlogging in many areas and massive traffic jams in New Delhi, leading to people getting stuck on the roads.
Hyderabad too witnessed heavy downpour reaching upto 95.75mm in two hours.
Rains also choke roads in Gurgaon due to water-logging in major roads. The weather office has forecast thunderstorm with rain through the day
National Capital comes to a standstill
Traffic helpline officials told that they were flooded with calls of traffic jams and waterlogging across the national capital.
“Reports of heavy traffic congestion and vehicles being stuck on roads are coming from different parts of the city since morning. We have till now received more than 100 calls of traffic jams and waterlogging,” an official of the traffic helpline said.
The meteorological department said the city received 3.9 mm rain till 8.30 a.m.
The minimum temperature on Wednesday morning was recorded at 26 degree Celsius, one notch below the season’s average.
“The sky will be generally cloudy throughout the day,” an official of the India Meteorological Department said.
The maximum temperature is likely to hover around 32 degree Celsius.
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Traffic snarls at Uppal rotary following heavy rains @HydConnect pic.twitter.com/BWn8dS4ODZ — MARRI RAMU (@MARRIRAMU) August 31, 2016
12: 38 pm:
Gurugram: Traffic crawls as heavy rains causes severe water logging in several parts (Visuals from Hero Honda Chowk) pic.twitter.com/OQdYAB1NTU — ANI (@ANI_news) August 31, 2016
12:26 pm: A scene at a neighbourhood in Hyderabad where municipal workers are unclogging the drains. It's been raining incessantly in Hyderabad since Wednesday morning.
Ghmc worker clearing water at Ranigunj pic.twitter.com/SvvE6Sy6br — Hyderabad Connect (@HydConnect) August 31, 2016
12:07 pm: Heavy rains claim seven lives in Hyderabad. Four from a family in Ramanthapur at Uppal and three of another family at Bholakpur in Musheerabad. More on Hyderabad rains
11:46 am: An official at the Delhi airport said there has been a slight delay in departure of flights on account of heavy rains. A Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Delhi was diverted to Jaipur due to “bad weather” in the morning at around 0900 hours, the official said. (PTI)
11:39 am: 62.7 mm rainfall recorded in Delhi till 11.30 am, our correspondent Sidhartha Roy reports. Visibility at Delhi's IGI Airport went down to 500 metres earlier in the day due to rain. Visibility is at 2 km right now.
11:35 am: Three of a family, critically injured in building collapse due to heavy rains, died in hospital at Bholakpur in Musheerabad area of Hyderabad, say police.
11:26 am: More than 1,000 police personnel out on the roads to manage traffic in Gurgaon, reports Ashok Kumar.
11: 20 am US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposed visit to three religious sites in the city was cancelled today as heavy rains lashed the national capital since morning.Kerry was scheduled to visit the Gauri Shankar temple, Jama Masjid and Gurdwara Sisganj Sahib in the old Delhi area around 11 AM today.“ On Tuesday, Mr. Kerry was caught in a traffic jam in Delhi.
11:10 am: Scenes at Gurgaon where water levels are rising. Many roads are clogged and schoolchildren and officer-goers are delayed due to waterlogged roads. The worst affected were Cyber City, Udyog Vihar, Old Delhi Road, Sector 46, Sector 50, Sector 14, Sector 15, Ardee City, Sushant Lok Phase-I, South City-I, Sohna Road and Sheetla Mata Road.
Delhi's IGI Airport recorded 53.2 mm rainfall till 8.30 am today @DelhiConnect — Sidhartha Roy (@Sidhartha80) August 31, 2016
11:00 am: Indian Meteorological Department's Doppler radar image in Hyderabad shows the intensity of the downpour at 5.12 am.
10:45 am:
Santos Nagar _ Midhani road pic.twitter.com/lF5I5DZVyD — Hyderabad Connect (@HydConnect) August 31, 2016
10:30 am:
Rains result in slow moving traffic on arterial roads of Delhi NCR @DelhiConnect pic.twitter.com/cBxckXrt7Q — Sidhartha Roy (@Sidhartha80) August 31, 2016
With inputs from Agencies and Bureaus | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rains-lash-delhi-gurgaon-and-hyderabad/article9054331.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/2f3ba28d94da059dab4ee68e70fb4cd92e9c206c07beaa4bd45ae302bfd1fd7b.json |
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"Shiv Sunny"
] | 2016-08-27T10:52:02 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Even when their parents were by their side, the abandoned sisters were surrounded by domestic abuse and frequent violent quarrels. Most of the fights ended with the sisters getting thrashed from eithe | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FDelhi%2Fbunty-would-hit-rosy-lock-her-out-of-home-at-night%2Farticle9038576.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02988/26-ndssy04-Pare_DE_2988255c.jpg | en | null | ‘Bunty would hit Rosy, lock her out of home at night’ | null | null | www.thehindu.com | House of horror:Rosy and Bunty, along with their three children, rented a single room nearly two years ago in Outer Delhi’s Samaypur Badli.— Photo: Shiv Sunny
Most fights stemmed from the fact that Bunty suspected Rosy of cheating on him with other men
Even when their parents were by their side, the abandoned sisters were surrounded by domestic abuse and frequent violent quarrels. Most of the fights ended with the sisters getting thrashed from either or both parents, said their neighbours in Outer Delhi’s Samaypur Badli.
Most fights stemmed from the fact that Bunty suspecting Rosy of having extramarital affairs, said Sanjay Kumar, their landlord.
Before she allegedly abandoned her daughters and left with her two-year-old son around three months ago, Rosy worked at a garments store in North Delhi’s Sabzi Mandi. Often inebriated, Bunty allegedly suspected her of being involved with someone at work and would question her if she ever returned home a little later than her usual time.
“Accusing her of being with a male friend, Bunty would often not allow Rosy to enter the house when she returned from work. She would spend hours, sometimes the entire night, loitering around outside her home on such days,” alleged the landlord.
On other occasions, the couple would hit each other outside their home. These fights would continue late into nights too.
“We have a right to sleep in peace. The couple would disturb our sleep because of their loud fights,” said Vijender, their neighbour.
The fights had left Rosy bleeding from the head on at least two occasions in the past but the police were never called to settle the issue, said neighbours. “We believe she abandoned her family because of the constant abuse,” added Vijender.
No one in the Nepali Colony of Samaypur Badli appeared to know where the family hails from. The couple, along with their three children, had taken a single room on a monthly rent of Rs.1,600 around two years ago.
Most of the fights ended with the sisters getting thrashed from either or both parents | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/bunty-would-hit-rosy-lock-her-out-of-home-at-night/article9038576.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/02fe42c784d43f3f26b8666cf1007b7bc4d2e2e13054845b950c9aa3de56588a.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T16:55:08 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftamil-nadu%2Fexpert-speaks%2Farticle9044254.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02990/CB29_BOOK_FESTI_CB_2990508c.jpg | en | null | Expert speaks | null | null | www.thehindu.com | D. Balasundaram (centre), chairman, Coimbatore Capital Ltd., speaking at the valedictory of book festival organised by Coimbatore District Small Industries Association jointly with the Book Sellers and Publishers Association of South India in the city on Sunday.— Photo: M. Periasamy
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"R. Ravikanth Reddy"
] | 2016-08-31T10:53:16 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Diploma holders who have the potential for employment on a par with engineers are being ignored by the industry for various reasons even as the non-metro diploma holders and girl candidates further f | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FHyderabad%2Fdiploma-holders-lose-out-on-opportunities%2Farticle9051490.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Diploma holders lose out on opportunities | null | null | www.thehindu.com | They have the potential for employment on a par with engineers, but are ignored by the industry for various reasons
Diploma holders who have the potential for employment on a par with engineers are being ignored by the industry for various reasons even as the non-metro diploma holders and girl candidates further face rejection compared to candidates from metro cities and boys.
The National Employability Report 2016 of the Aspiring Minds, a job skills credentialing company, reveals that an entire pool of eight lakh engineering diploma holders are missed by the knowledge industry despite a huge number possessing employable skills on a par with engineering graduates.
They carry the perception of being cousins of engineering graduates, and lose out on opportunities.
“A significant chunk of them are employable for knowledge economy jobs. Among the 8 lakh that graduate every year consist about 8,000 employable programmers, 21,000 employable software testers and 80,000 employable sales and marketing executives,” says Varun Aggarwal, CTO and Co-Founder, Aspiring Minds. “It is time new age corporates start seeing diploma courses in the same light as mainstream graduation courses.”
His views are corroborated by B.V. Ramana Prasad, Section Head, Government Polytechnic, Kothagudem. “Corporates should consider these candidates who are technically stronger in core subjects and importantly hardworking,” he says agreeing that companies tend to ignore them for various reasons including the perception.
The study has further found that enrolment of females in diploma courses is poor but they are equally good at skills. A drastically high male-to-female ratio of 4:1 is observed in polytechnic diploma courses. This is in contrast to the male-female ratio of 1.96:1 for engineering graduates. Even in diploma courses like the engineering stream females prefer Computer Science and IT. The report says 47.4 percent of girls prefer IT while Mechanical is the lowest at just 3.6 percent. Among the different courses, computer science and IT accounts for the highest proportion of females at 47.4 percent, while lowest is for mechanical courses at 3.6 percent. The non-metro candidates also lose out to their peers in metro cities as the report finds that 14 per cent employability is seen among candidates in colleges in metro cities compared to 9.2 per cent in non-metro cities. Mr. Ramana Prasad says the social and economic compilation of students in non-metro colleges could be one of the reasons.
On the positive side, these diploma holders when they finish their engineering degree through lateral entry end up with far better skills than the regular engineering graduates. “They study 60 per cent of engineering subjects in the Diploma itself and have that additional advantage,” Mr. Ramana Prasad says. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/diploma-holders-lose-out-on-opportunities/article9051490.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/068e29969d8fe06b85a4ea7b06f0d01c9f5285f92fc6dbe65a51d09cd022c728.json |
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"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-26T18:51:14 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | Nine days before her canonisation, and on her 106th birth anniversary, a life-size bronze statue of Mother Teresa was unveiled on the lawns of the Archbishop House here on Friday.
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Nine days before her canonisation, and on her 106th birth anniversary, a life-size bronze statue of Mother Teresa was unveiled on the lawns of the Archbishop House here on Friday.
Standing next to the statue of Pope John Paul, now Saint John Paul, the 5 feet 2 inches tall statue of Mother Teresa shows her bowing slightly with clasped palms, in the traditional gesture of greeting people.
“It was to this Archbishop House that Mother Teresa came in 1946 as a sister of the Loreto Convent,” Archbishop of Kolkata Thomas D’Souza said at the event. “She met Archbishop Ferdinand Périer, then head of the Calcutta Archdiocese, and sought his blessing to set up the Missionaries of Charity. During his visit to Kolkata, Pope John Paul has stayed at this historic house in February 1986.”
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who unveiled the statue, commended the “bold and historic decision that the Archbishop House has a statue of Mother Teresa before her canonisation.” Ms. Banerjee said that she had accepted an invitation from the Missionaries of Charity to visit Rome during Mother Teresa’s canonisation on the very day on which results of the last Assembly elections were declared.
“I am not going with the official Government of India delegation but as a guest of the Missionaries of Charity,” she said, telling the small audience gathered at Archbishop House that she will wear a sari in colours similar to those worn by the nuns of the Missionaries of Charity.
The Chief Minister recounted her meetings with Mother Teresa, sharing anecdotes about how Mother Teresa went about serving the poor and downtrodden in most difficult circumstances. “Mother Teresa made it clear that there is no substitute for good work, work for the downtrodden and work for humanity,” Ms Banerjee said, describing Mother Teresa as the ‘Pride of Kolkata’. Mother Teresa will be declared a saint on September 4. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/lifesize-statue-of-mother-teresa-unveiled/article9037038.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/f3bdf1b836a188e7d10955b0016c334044910841a6ba6c73458e275bf78c1d70.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:52:12 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | Striking informal miners in Bolivia kidnapped and beat to death the country’s deputy interior minister on Thursday after he traveled to the area to mediate in the bitter conflict over mining laws, of | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Finternational%2Fstriking-informal-miners-killed-deputy-interior-minister-rodolfo-illanes-in-bolivia-says-official%2Farticle9035533.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02987/BOLIVIA-MINISTER_2987098c.jpg | en | null | Striking informal miners killed Deputy Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes in Bolivia, says official | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Illanes was "savagely beaten" to death by the striking miners, Defence Minister Reymi Ferreira told Red Uno television, his voice breaking.
Striking informal miners in Bolivia kidnapped and beat to death the country’s deputy interior minister on Thursday after he traveled to the area to mediate in the bitter conflict over mining laws, officials said.
Government Minister Carlos Romero called it a “cowardly and brutal killing” and asked that the miners turn over the body of his deputy, Rodolfo Illanes, who holds the formal title of vice minister of the interior regime.
Mr. Illanes was “savagely beaten” to death by the striking miners, Defence Minister Reymi Ferreira told Red Uno television, his voice breaking.
Earlier, Mr. Romero had said that Mr. Illanes had been kidnapped and possibly tortured, but that he could not confirm local media reports that he had been killed by the striking miners, who are demanding more rights, including the right to associate with private companies.
The fatal beating follows the killings of two protesters in clashes with police, deaths that likely escalated tensions in the strike.
Mr. Illanes had gone to Panduro, where the strikers have blockaded a highway since Monday, to open a dialogue. Thousands of passengers and vehicles are stranded on roads blocked by the strikers.
At midday Thursday, Mr. Illanes said on his Twitter account, “My health is fine, my family can be calm.” There are reports the Mr. Illanes had heart problems.
Bolivia’s informal or artisan miners number about 100,000 and work in self-managed cooperatives. They want to be able to associate with private companies, which are prohibited. The government argues that if they associate with multinational companies they would cease to be cooperatives.
The National Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Bolivia, once strong allies of President Evo Morales, went on an indefinite protest after negotiations over the mining legislation failed. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/striking-informal-miners-killed-deputy-interior-minister-rodolfo-illanes-in-bolivia-says-official/article9035533.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/0bbecdf8cf203c9823520715d128da8fffad6b8138fe44642d332aaadd037aa1.json |
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"Staff Reporter"
] | 2016-08-27T22:51:03 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | K. Irudayaraj (name changed), a hotel employee from Tallakulam, recently approached the Dental Surgery department of Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) for a root canal treatment as he could not afford | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FMadurai%2Fdeficiency-in-service-alleged-at-grh%2Farticle9040731.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02989/28MA-CITY-DENTAL_2_2989027c.jpg | en | null | Deficiency in service alleged at GRH | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Expensive and complex dental procedures are not done despite availability of infrastructure
K. Irudayaraj (name changed), a hotel employee from Tallakulam, recently approached the Dental Surgery department of Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) for a root canal treatment as he could not afford it at private hospitals, which estimated the procedure to cost around Rs. 5,000.
However, staff at the department allegedly informed him that root canal procedures were done only in Tamil Nadu Government Dental College in Chennai.
Mr. Irudayaraj’s case was not an isolated incident as many patients have claimed that most of the expensive and complex dental procedures are not done at GRH, despite availability of adequate infrastructure.
The Dental Surgery department has two professors, a periodontist, a pediodontist, an oral pathologist and a dental technician. The strength is relatively higher compared to the crucial yet short-staffed departments like cardiology and vascular surgery. According to one of the staff members, an average of about 100 patients visit the outpatient ward of the department daily. It also has a 12-bedded inpatient ward, where persons incurring serious injuries in their gums and teeth in accidents are treated.
Though M.R. Vairamuthu Raju, Dean of GRH, said that all the procedures were done at the department as required, a source at the department acknowledged that procedures like fitting of ‘crown’ or ‘cap’, root canal and tooth replacements with dental implants were not done. A nursing staff said that the treatment provided mainly included removal of tooth, cavity filling and fitting of dental braces.
Condemning the non-availability of treatment, C. Anandaraj, a health rights activist from Madurai, accused the doctors of prioritising their private practice. “Even those who cannot afford treatment at private hospitals are forced to go there,” he said.
A senior doctor from GRH pointed out that non-inclusion of dental procedures in the Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme (CMCHIS) was a disincentive for the doctors.
“Number of surgeries performed in various departments has considerably increased since the doctors and the respective departments receive a percentage of the CMCHIS money for every surgery performed. Since that is not available for dental procedures, barring a few, doctors do not show much interest,” he said.
J. Kanna Peruman, Director of Nala Dental Hospital here, said that it was high time that a few necessary dental procedures were covered in insurance schemes. “There is a general opinion that everything related to dentistry is cosmetic. But it is also about oral care like tooth decay, which may even lead to oral cancer,” he said.
“Similar to western countries, procedures like root canal treatment should be included in insurance schemes so that more people can afford them,” he added. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/deficiency-in-service-alleged-at-grh/article9040731.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/6b4d9ba33cfc42750176987a9af33cf41025c50e4268ba464bd5a6dc249c656b.json |
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"R. Ravikanth Reddy"
] | 2016-08-31T10:53:30 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Diploma holders who have the potential for employment on a par with engineers are being ignored by the industry for various reasons even as the non-metro diploma holders and girl candidates further fa | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FHyderabad%2Fdiploma-holders-lose-out-on-opportunities%2Farticle9052891.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Diploma holders lose out on opportunities | null | null | www.thehindu.com | They have the potential for employment on a par with engineers, but are ignored by the industry for various reasons
Diploma holders who have the potential for employment on a par with engineers are being ignored by the industry for various reasons even as the non-metro diploma holders and girl candidates further face rejection compared to candidates from metro cities and boys.
The National Employability Report 2016 of the Aspiring Minds, a job skills credentialing company, reveals that an entire pool of eight lakh engineering diploma holders are missed by the knowledge industry despite a huge number possessing employable skills on a par with engineering graduates.
They carry the perception of being cousins of engineering graduates, and lose out on opportunities.
“A significant chunk of them are employable for knowledge economy jobs. Among the 8 lakh that graduate every year consist about 8,000 employable programmers, 21,000 employable software testers and 80,000 employable sales and marketing executives,” says Varun Aggarwal, CTO and Co-Founder, Aspiring Minds. “It is time new age corporates start seeing diploma courses in the same light as mainstream graduation courses.”
His views are corroborated by B.V. Ramana Prasad, Section Head, Government Polytechnic, Kothagudem. “Corporates should consider these candidates who are technically stronger in core subjects and importantly hardworking,” he says agreeing that companies tend to ignore them for various reasons including the perception.
High ratio
The study has further found that enrolment of females in diploma courses is poor but they are equally good at skills. A drastically high male-to-female ratio of 4:1 is observed in polytechnic diploma courses. This is in contrast to the male-female ratio of 1.96:1 for engineering graduates. Even in diploma courses like the engineering stream females prefer Computer Science and IT. The report says 47.4 percent of girls prefer IT while Mechanical is the lowest at just 3.6 percent. Among the different courses, computer science and IT accounts for the highest proportion of females at 47.4 percent, while lowest is for mechanical courses at 3.6 percent. The non-metro candidates also lose out to their peers in metro cities as the report finds that 14 per cent employability is seen among candidates in colleges in metro cities compared to 9.2 per cent in non-metro cities. Mr. Ramana Prasad says the social and economic compilation of students in non-metro colleges could be one of the reasons.
Positive side
On the positive side, these diploma holders when they finish their engineering degree through lateral entry end up with far better skills than the regular engineering graduates. “They study 60 per cent of engineering subjects in the Diploma itself and have that additional advantage,” Mr. Ramana Prasad says. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/diploma-holders-lose-out-on-opportunities/article9052891.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/f6016930877ddc918711d35287fca4583c468fcfb29b79405e9af0e552508e78.json |
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"Staff Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-26T14:51:46 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | Chikkamagaluru police, on Thursday, arrested two persons in connection with the robbery of Rs. 71,000 in cash reported on Monday. The arrested have been identified as Dayanand (28), working in a priv | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fkarnataka%2Fchikkamagaluru-police-arrest-two-in-robbery-case%2Farticle9036207.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Chikkamagaluru police arrest two in robbery case | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Chikkamagaluru police, on Thursday, arrested two persons in connection with the robbery of Rs. 71,000 in cash reported on Monday. The arrested have been identified as Dayanand (28), working in a private finance firm in Chikkamagalur and Prasad (32), a ginger merchant from Hassan. The police recovered Rs.68, 400 in cash and a motorbike from them.
They had robbed Jagadish, manager of Bharat Finance in Chikkamagaluru. They had snatched the cash bag from Jagadish after throwing chilli powder at his face, while he was returning to his office in his two-wheeler after disbursing loan to his clients near Mallanduru.
Jagadish had filed the complaint with Mallanduru police. The arrested have been remanded to judicial custody. Chikkamagaluru SP K.Annamalai congratulated the police officers for cracking the case. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/chikkamagaluru-police-arrest-two-in-robbery-case/article9036207.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/b64aeed888898e4972954e511f07b6306454e587937dbb5425ac62ed4bd1c6af.json |
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"Staff Reporter"
] | 2016-08-31T10:54:24 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | A one-day seminar for life skill trainees and practitioners was conducted by CONCERN Charitable Trust at its LEAD (Lifeskill Education And Development) Training Centre, Seethammadhara, on Tuesday.Arou | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FVisakhapatnam%2Fseminar-for-life-skill-trainees-practitioners%2Farticle9053446.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Seminar for life skill trainees, practitioners | null | null | www.thehindu.com | A one-day seminar for life skill trainees and practitioners was conducted by CONCERN Charitable Trust at its LEAD (Lifeskill Education And Development) Training Centre, Seethammadhara, on Tuesday.
Around 125 people participated in the programme.
Executives from Singer Company India gave a demonstration of the latest technology in tailoring and embroidery arena. B.V.M. Rani took classes in various income generating programmes. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/seminar-for-life-skill-trainees-practitioners/article9053446.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/d0ff3ccfc180645587a27d7ae727cbf9dd37cbaef873518c689826bd7dc349ea.json |
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"Mini Krishnan"
] | 2016-08-27T14:50:52 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | That literary phenomenon Salman Rushdie, a genius who successfully “translated” himself, said, “I would not be this writer if I had never left India; and I could not be this writer if I hadn’t come fr | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fbooks%2Fliterary-review%2Fmini-krishnan-on-the-lack-of-recognition-for-translated-masterpieces%2Farticle9036047.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02987/28SM_Buddhadeb_Bos_2987279c.jpg | en | null | Mini Krishnan on the lack of recognition for translated masterpieces | null | null | www.thehindu.com | That literary phenomenon Salman Rushdie, a genius who successfully “translated” himself, said, “I would not be this writer if I had never left India; and I could not be this writer if I hadn’t come from there”. Well, August, in India, is a good month to remember that the vocabulary and psyche of this “translated man” (his own words) were shaped by what happened a hundred years before he was born.
Let’s go back a blip in time. Six months after The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize in the 50th year of India’s independence, the Times Higher Education ran a full-page review of the (extinct) Macmillan India translations and titled it ‘Vernacular Spectacular’ (Feb 6, 1998). The reviewer compared The God of Small Things to a Malayalam work in the Macmillan series by Matampu Kunjukuttan, Brushte (trs Vasanthi Sankaranarayanan), and after using words like “stupendous” and “hypnotic” to describe the novel, said, “How sad that such a book, despite this fine English translation, is doomed to be known only in India while Roy’s book is widely accepted in the West as the novel set in Kerala. This is like comparing an elephant with an ant.”
Twenty years later, and despite a hundred outstanding translations from Indian publishing houses, how much has changed? Some time ago, when I sent information about novellas by some extremely well-known Indian women, all translated to English, to the Indian editor of a U.K.-based website, her enthusiastic response was, “Great, send me copies and I will arrange a discussion and interviews in London.” She didn’t even know where they were.
But all is not lost. A ghostly game is in progress. Could some of the success of Indians writers in English come from soaking up India through translations and carom-shooting with dazzling skill what they lack in direct experience? Think how profitable fishing in Adivasi or Dalit waters would be.
Like a black column rearing out of the earth, like a pillar left over from the Iron Age, stood a lone palmyra tree, a testimony to three generations of prayer… Was the tree alive or dead? The truth was a secret as long and dark as the tree itself. Above ground, its life-force had been extinguished. But under the ground… like a vast network of roots, its aatma had spread everywhere. (Beychi Tree, (Tamil) Thenmozhi/ trs Malini Seshadri.)
An Indian who writes in English and who doesn’t know Sanskrit has already parachuted a Sanskrit scholar into his novel. Place it against Ekti Jibon by Buddhadev Bose, which every Indian should read in his or her own language or at least in English. A Life is about an impoverished teacher of Sanskrit setting out to prepare a dictionary of Bengali.
The light grew dim, the silence of a provincial evening thickened in the room. He forgot to sit down, he forgot his hunger… He woke up at five to write for two hours, drank his share of milk, went out to take private tuitions, bought the day’s provisions, and returned… On the day before Kali Puja, he wrote the first letter of the Bengali alphabet, “AW” in a bold hand. (trs Arunava Sinha.)
Likewise, not many can transpose her India like Sarah Joseph, as the excerpt below shows. But despite her huge corpus of work, she will never make it to the pages of Time magazine.
“Da, aren’t you the son of that Theredya?” The Vicar asked Manikyan when he was in the seventh standard.
“My mother’s name is Thresia.”
“Pha! You upstart! Thresia? Since when has a convert started calling herself Thresia?”
The Vicar believed it was not for converts to use the names of upper-caste Christians. Not Thresia, but Theredya. Not Ousep, but Athuppu. Not Devassi, but Dehathi.
As Manikyan was about to climb the flight of steps with the other children for their first communion, the Vicar stopped him.
“You just wait there. Don’t come up and pollute the place.”
That day Manikyan, son of Theredya, decided that one day he would dash up those very steps, join the seminary, study theology and become a priest. (Othappu, trs Valson Thampu.)
Prizes like the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature pit translations in English against fiction written originally in English. Apples and mangoes? Thus do we watch Bharathipura (Kannada) losing to Chinaman (2012); The Mirror of Beauty (Urdu) knocked back by The Lowland (2015); and Hangwoman (Malayalam) pipped by Sleeping on Jupiter (2016). Around the time of the Times Higher Education review, Nayantara Sahgal, speaking about literary tradition and how non-Europe is driven by cultural markers and norms unrelated to its ethos, said, “It seems to me that I’ve always lived in a world according to elsewhere.”
When can we hope to see a prize exclusively for translations from South Asia?
Mini Krishnan is Consultant, Publishing, Oxford University Press, India. | http://www.thehindu.com/books/literary-review/mini-krishnan-on-the-lack-of-recognition-for-translated-masterpieces/article9036047.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/e1a16ae5e389489ed8fe7efe8f7e1c18b868a878d43a689ac87f04e6a04c2a71.json |
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"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-28T22:51:40 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | Activist and Bhumata Ranragini Brigade chief Trupti Desai on Sunday visited Haji Ali dargah and offered prayers. She also spoke to the trustee of the Haji Ali Dargah Trust and requested him to not m | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2Fmumbai%2Fafter-haji-ali-activist-to-take-up-issue-of-womens-entry-in-sabarimala%2Farticle9043224.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02990/Desai_2990079c.jpg | en | null | After Haji Ali, activist to take up issue of women’s entry in Sabarimala | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Bhumata Ranragini Brigade chief visits Haji Ali
Activist and Bhumata Ranragini Brigade chief Trupti Desai on Sunday visited Haji Ali dargah and offered prayers. She also spoke to the trustee of the Haji Ali Dargah Trust and requested him to not move the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court order allowing women’s entry.
Ms. Desai has set her sights now on Sabarimala temple, the famous pilgrimage centre in Kerala, and said she has written to the trustees there to lift its restriction on the entry of women in the 10-50 age group.
“We appeal to them to go by the Bombay High Court order and allow women inside. If they don’t respond in the next 15 days, we will be going there,” she said.
The Bombay High Court had on Friday ruled that women be allowed inside the sanctum of the Haji Ali Dargah.
It had noted in its verdict that the ban imposed by the Haji Ali Dargah Trust violated fundamental rights as granted by the Constitution.
Ms. Desai had last visited the dargah on May 12 to demand women’s entry inside the sanctum sanctorum.
Speaking to The Hindu on Sunday, she said: “I had prayed for women’s entry the last time I came here. Our prayer was heard and our wish fulfilled so I came here to offer my gratitude.”
Ms. Desai was accompanied by 20 other members of the Bhumata Ranragini Brigade on Sunday when she visited Haji Ali and apart from offering prayers, they also offered a ‘chadar.’
She said she met a trustee of the dargah who was present when she visited the shrine. “I requested them not to move the SC against the HC verdict and also requested him to allow women’s entry into the shrine immediately,” she said, adding that the trustee told them that the trust would be taking a collective decision on this.
The HC has granted a six-week stay on the order on a request by the Haji Ali Dargah Trust to enable it to go on appeal before the apex court. The court was hearing a public interest litigation petition filed by Dr. Noorjehan Safia Niaz and Zakia Soman, co-founders of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, in November 2014. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/after-haji-ali-activist-to-take-up-issue-of-womens-entry-in-sabarimala/article9043224.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/0c68361e60a48f80020c462e7fd2d87c177862c8e9464df0e0b4f09edaa13f73.json |
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"Staff Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-31T06:57:59 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | The decision of a 24-year-old man to embrace Islam has created controversy in Mandekolu village in Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada. A former gram panchayat president has called for a protest on Wedn | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fcities%2FMangalore%2Fvillagers-worried-as-man-embraces-islam%2Farticle9051453.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Villagers worried as man embraces Islam | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The cause of their worry: the 24-year-old man could have been influenced by radical Islamists
The decision of a 24-year-old man to embrace Islam has created controversy in Mandekolu village in Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada.
A former gram panchayat president has called for a protest on Wednesday seeking action against those who influenced him to embrace Islam, as the villagers are worried that the man, Sathish M., could have been influenced by radical Islamists.
The villagers came to know that Sathish M. had embraced Islam following a message on WhatsApp that showed the image of a discharge certificate issued by the Therbiyathul Islam Sabha of Kozhikode in Kerala.
The certificate issued on April 15, 2015 said that Sathish has changed his name to Muhammed Mustakim following his four-month stay at the sabha.
A member of Sathish’s family said that they were unaware of this change till they saw the image of the certificate on their mobile phones.
Though Sathish denied his conversion initially, the family member said, he admitted to voluntarily embracing Islam.
He said that Sathish was yet to formally approach the gram panchayat for change of name.
Now, Sathish’s family members and those in the neighbourhood are concerned that he [Sathish] could have been influenced by radicals to adopt radical Islam.
“There have been conversions earlier too. But this conversion comes at a time when youths from Kerala have left their villages to join the IS. We are worried,” said the former Mandekolu Gram Panchayat president Suresh Kanemaradka, who is also Sathish’s neighbour.
Superintendent of Police Bhushan Gulabrao Borase said that an individual has the choice to practice a religion of his choice.
The police will take adequate precautions to prevent any breach of law and order in the region, Mr. Borase added. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/villagers-worried-as-man-embraces-islam/article9051453.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/2e433e4ccc77ec651079f2f5885a701986152dfad14f386746f797c7bbe0976d.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T10:50:50 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | A policeman has been shot dead in volatile Pulwama in south Kashmir on Saturday morning.
Preliminary reports suggest the policeman,Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, was killed in Quil area when he was heading | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fpoliceman-killed-in-jks-pulwama-district%2Farticle9039376.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Policeman killed by suspected militant in J&K’s Pulwama district | null | null | www.thehindu.com | The policeman was killed in Quil area when he was heading for duties. He was posted with the policelines in Pulwama.
A policeman has been shot dead in volatile Pulwama in south Kashmir on Saturday morning.
Preliminary reports suggest the policeman,Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, was killed in Quil area when he was heading for duties. He was posted with the policelines in Pulwama.
Sources said unidentified militants opened fire from a close range.
Pulwama has been on the boil for 50 days now. At least 69 civilians have died in civilian unrest in Kashmir Valley. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/policeman-killed-in-jks-pulwama-district/article9039376.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/342f1adbe3009bfc7c6fc647001383e936aae92877f5efc43d9a265e6566a92a.json |
[
"Vijay Lokapally"
] | 2016-08-26T18:50:47 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Some sighted the ball well. Some did not. In the end the team that adapted better won the honours. In this case, it was India Red, which had the bowlers to slice through India Green. The winning marg | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fsport%2Fcricket%2Fred-thumps-green-takes-a-step-towards-final%2Farticle9037059.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02987/TH27DULEEP_2987667c.jpg | en | null | Red thumps Green, takes a step towards final | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Suresh Raina falls at 90; Kuldeep Yadav finishes with nine wickets in the match
Some sighted the ball well. Some did not. In the end the team that adapted better won the honours. In this case, it was India Red, which had the bowlers to slice through India Green.
The winning margin was 219 runs and that told the story of the difference between the teams in the Duleep Trophy league match at the Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex here on Friday. The victory fetched India Red six points.
India Red’s win was a foregone conclusion when India Green resumed its chase for an improbable target of 499.
Suresh Raina walked out with Ashoke Dinda knowing well it was a matter of time before the contest ended.
It took India Red 10.2 overs in which the losing team added 60 runs — Raina accounted for 48 before he fell 10 runs short of a century.
For India Red, the star was left-arm chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav, who finished with nine wickets in the match.
The players had come here with an open mind and returned with mixed feelings.
Abhinav Mukund, the Man-of-the-Match with knocks of 77 and 169, had no issues in sighting the ball.
“I think a lot of people had issues sighting the ball, but I didn’t have any issues with visibility.”
Another centurion, Gurkeerat Mann, said, “For me initially it was. You could see most of the batsmen except (Abhinav) Mukund struggled in the first innings. “Slowly we were able to sight the ball. It is about getting used to the ball.
“If we give it sometime and practice a bit more with pink ball and at night also then maybe sighting won’t be a problem.”
India Green wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel shared his experience of the pink-ball game. “It was good. We all came with pre-conceived notion that there will be a lot of movement around but it didn’t move as much as we thought.
“It was good to be playing the first pink-ball game and be part of history.
“The conditions were really good. It was an ideal four-day pitch where it would turn a bit, swing and was good to bat on.
“I think a lot of people had issues sighting the ball, but I didn’t have any issues with visibility.”
In the next match, starting on August 29, India Red will meet India Blue.
The scores:
India Red — 1st innings: 161
India Green — 1st innings: 151
India Red — 2nd innings: 486
India Green — 2nd innings: Robin Uthappa c Yuvraj b Kuldeep Yadav 72 (66b, 10x4, 1x6), Jalaj Saxena b Ishwar Pandey 26 (26b, 6x4), Parthiv Patel lbw b Kuldeep Yadav 21 (66b, 4x4), Rajat Paliwal lbw b Kuldeep Yadav 0 (2b), Suresh Raina c Nathu Singh b Kuldeep Yadav 90 (101b, 11x4, 3x6),
Saurabh Tiwary lbw b Kuldeep Yadav 31 (51b, 4x4), Shreyas Gopal c Bharat b Anureet Singh 3 (12b), Sandeep Sharma b Kuldeep Yadav 0 (1b),
Ashoke Dinda c Pandey b Nathu Singh 10 (8b, 2x4), Pragyan Ojha c Abhinav Mukund b Wakhare 7 (13b, 1x4), Ankit Rajpoot (not out) 0; Extras (lb-9, nb-8): 17; Total (in 56.2 overs): 277.
Fall of wickets: 1-66, 2-122, 3-122, 4- 131, 5-185, 6-198, 7-199, 8-239, 9-275.
India Red bowling: Anureet Singh 10-2-46-1, Nathu Singh 10-1-64-1, Akshay Wakhare 7.2-0-30-1, Ishwar Pandey 10-2-34-1, Kuldeep Yadav 18-1-88-6, Gurkeerat Mann 1-0-6-0. | http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/red-thumps-green-takes-a-step-towards-final/article9037059.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/554fca1165837b4a46927a4bd3fdedf4a6d639be6d9e84206b0c911a9f4d54e5.json |
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"Special Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-31T12:55:38 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | The bandh call given by the Opposition parties opposing Hanamkonda district evoked mixed response from the public.Shops and establishments were closed for half day while educational institutions decla | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftelangana%2Fhanamkonda-bandh-evokes-partial-response%2Farticle9053338.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02993/6016HI-W036_G68CN7_2993171c.jpg | en | null | Hanamkonda bandh evokes partial response | null | null | www.thehindu.com | ‘Government taking unilateral decisions, much against the wishes of people’
The bandh call given by the Opposition parties opposing Hanamkonda district evoked mixed response from the public.
Shops and establishments were closed for half day while educational institutions declared a holiday. Earlier in the day, the police arrested N. Rajender Reddy and others of the Congress, and M. Dharma Rao of the BJP. Scores of CPI workers led by district secretary T Srinivasa Rao took out a bike rally in the town enforcing bandh. Similar rally was taken out by TDP cadre led by district president G. Satyanarayana Rao.
Meanwhile, former Union Minister Sarve Satyanarayana and DCC president N. Rajender Reddy lashed out at the State Government. They found fault with Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for taking the decision to create Hanamkonda district by dividing the historic Warangal city. They said that the people of Telangana are regretting having voted the TRS to power. People are waiting to teach a lesson to the TRS for taking unilateral decisions, much against the wishes of people, they said.
When people are demanding district status for Jangaon, the government ignored their struggle, but decided to create Hanamkonda district where there was no demand from any quarter, they said.
“The government did not tell people the criteria adopted for creation of new districts. It did not take people or Opposition parties into confidence while take such an important decision,” the Congress leaders pointed out.
They said they would intensify the agitation opposing the move.
Karimnagar Special Correspondent writes: Residents and JAC leaders of Korutla town observed bandh on Tuesday demanding the constitution of Korutla as revenue division in new Jagtial district.
Since the issuance of draft notification for the formation of Jagtial as new district with Metpally as revenue division, people of Korutla mandal raised a banner of revolt demanding the formation of Korutla as revenue division as it is the headquarter for Korutla Assembly segment.
The protesters observed three days of bandh from August 23 to 25, and again observed bandh on Tuesday. All shops, business establishments and educational institutions remained closed.
In the meantime, the relay hunger strike opposing the merger of Husnabad and Koheda mandals with the new Siddipet district continued even on Tuesday.
The local residents demand the two mandals remain in Karimnagar district only.
CPI State secretary Chada Venkat Reddy visited the camp and extended solidarity to the agitation.
Similarly, the residents of Kataram mandal headquarters also raised a banner of revolt demanding formation of Kataram as revenue division in the new Bhupalapalli district. The protesters formed a JAC and decided to launch agitational programmes demanding formation of Kataram mandal as revenue division headquarters with Mahadevpur, Mahamutharam, Malhar Rao and Kataram mandals. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/hanamkonda-bandh-evokes-partial-response/article9053338.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/73cbbb558e6113316c20b34d0aea1e5e329193307136bac7fcdd1213373f12d6.json |
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"Staff Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-29T22:53:24 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | There were many complaints of delay in disbursement of welfare scheme benefits during Animal Husbandry and Sericulture Minister A. Manju’s interaction with people in Hassan on Monday. The ‘Jana Mana’ | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fkarnataka%2Fhassan-residents-complain-of-delays-in-benefit-distribution%2Farticle9046614.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02991/29BG_HSN_MANJU2_2991353c.jpg | en | null | Hassan residents complain of delays in benefit distribution | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Minister for Sericulture and Animal Husbandry A.Manju interacted with beneficiaries of Ksheerabhagya scheme in Hassan on Monday. Photo by Prakash Hassan
There were many complaints of delay in disbursement of welfare scheme benefits during Animal Husbandry and Sericulture Minister A. Manju’s interaction with people in Hassan on Monday.
The ‘Jana Mana’ programme was organised by the Department of Information and Public Relations. Many beneficiaries also demanded enhancement of the amount earmarked for them.
Beneficiaries of the Shaadi Bhagya scheme, under which girls from minority communities get Rs. 50,000 towards their marriage, were thankful for the scheme but complained to the Minister that they never get the amount in time. One of them said, “The cash reached me only after we had a child. The beneficiaries are made to wait for years to get the amount.”
An officer of the Backward Classes and Minorities Department brought to the notice of the Minister that ever since the scheme was launched in 2013, as many as 458 people had applied for its benefits in the district. However, among them, 258 are yet to get the amount.
The district administration had brought 10-12 beneficiaries of schemes such as Anna Bhagya, Pashu Bhagya, Ksheera Bhagya, Shaadi Bhagya, and Krishi Bhagya for the interaction. Anganwadi children, who benefit from Ksheera Bhagya, thanked the State for providing them milk three days a week. They also demanded that the number be raised to five days.
Mr. Manju said his department was contemplating the introduction of flavoured milk in tetra packs. “We are thinking of giving flavoured milk to children in tetra packs. This will lessen the burden on school authorities,” he said.
Beneficiaries of Anna Bhagya said they were being provided with insufficient amounts of foodgrain. Dharani Gowda of Shantigrama in Hassan taluk said the quantity should be increased to at least five kg a unit.
Similarly, beneficiaries of the Manasvini scheme said that the Rs.500 per month being provided to them was insufficient. The farmers benefiting from Krishi Bhagya said that the government should make efforts to provide them scientific prices for their products.
Hassan Zilla Panchayat president Shwetha Devaraj and Deputy Commissioner V. Chaithra were present. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/hassan-residents-complain-of-delays-in-benefit-distribution/article9046614.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/1fe70595dbcaa4a71707d2e67e0f5d0b880116914e0ac6567b9405e6313c78d6.json |
[
"B. Muralidhar Reddy"
] | 2016-08-26T22:52:44 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | In a measure that would benefit thousands of Central government employees, the Modi government on Friday extended the benefit of retirement and death gratuity to all, irrespective of the date on whic | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fcentre-extends-retirement-benefits-to-all-central-staff%2Farticle9037564.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | Centre extends retirement benefits to all Central staff | null | null | www.thehindu.com | In a measure that would benefit thousands of Central government employees, the Modi government on Friday extended the benefit of retirement and death gratuity to all, irrespective of the date on which they had entered government service.
Under the existing system the pension of the Government servants appointed on or after January 1, 2004 is regulated by the new Defined Contribution Pension System (known as National Pension System) whereas those who were in service earlier were covered under the Central Service (Pension) Rules, 1972.
According to a notification by the Department of Personnel, the issue of grant of gratuity in respect of government employees covered by the National Pension System has been under consideration and it has now been decided that they shall be eligible for benefit of ‘Retirement gratuity and Death gratuity’ on the same terms and conditions, as are applicable to other employees covered by the Central Service (Pension) Rules, 1972.
It said these orders will be applicable to those Central Civil Government employees ‘who joined Government service on or after January 1,2004 and are covered by the National Pension System and will take effect from the same date.’ | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/centre-extends-retirement-benefits-to-all-central-staff/article9037564.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/07b8c2a8bf9b3c92417d3214e0d43dc786804a507e890603793cc666f820bd1c.json |
[
"Kallol Bhattacherjee"
] | 2016-08-29T04:55:55 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | India is planning a major diplomatic outreach ahead of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly in order to push through the ‘Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism’ (CCIT | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Findia-plans-antiterror-drive-at-nam%2Farticle9043112.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | India plans anti-terror drive at NAM | null | null | www.thehindu.com | India is planning a major diplomatic outreach ahead of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly in order to push through the ‘Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism’ (CCIT) that addresses, among other things, the issue of Pakistan’s alleged support for cross-border terrorism in south Asia.
A highly placed diplomatic source told The Hindu that India will brief visiting Peter Thomson, President-elect of UN General Assembly, on CCIT, and launch the campaign during the September 13-18 Non Aligned Movement summit in Venezuela.
“Global mood on the Comprehensive Convention against International Terrorism [CCIT] will be tested in NAM summit in Venezuela, which is just prior to United Nations General Assembly [UNGA] and following India’s interactions at the NAM, the tactics for the CCIT will be fine tuned for UNGA,” said the official.
The run-up to the UNGA session has been tense after the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) expressed “deep concern” over the situation in Jammu and Kashmir after Pakistan reached out to the OIC over the issue.
India, the official said, was aware of growing interest of UN in the global convention against terrorism and added: “Given the number of terror attacks globally, terrorism has moved up UN’s agenda and many states are restless and desire UN to take a more active role.” Interactions with Mr. Thomson, MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup said on Friday, would be used to brief him on India’s “priorities” in the UN.
A source indicated that India’s strategy for the CCIT is independent of its strategy to counter Pakistan on Kashmir as it is a bilateral issue. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-plans-antiterror-drive-at-nam/article9043112.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/ae15cde320e73e234bfdfd29d6368a6957853acdfb1ce640054aae7a2b1f688c.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T02:57:01 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | Top-seeded Richard Gasquet defeated French compatriot Stephane Robert in straight sets 6-1, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals of the ATP Tour’s Winston-Salem Open on Wednesday.Gasquet saved seven of eig | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fsport%2Ftennis%2Fatp-tours-winstonsalem-open%2Farticle9032618.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | ATP Tour’s Winston-Salem Open | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Top-seeded Richard Gasquet defeated French compatriot Stephane Robert in straight sets 6-1, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals of the ATP Tour’s Winston-Salem Open on Wednesday.
Gasquet saved seven of eight break points and broke the unseeded Robert’s serve five times in the hardcourt tournament in North Carolina.
“I’ve known Stephane for a long time now, so I know how dangerous he can be,” Gasquet said.
Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsun advanced to his fourth straight Winston-Salem quarterfinal with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman.
“Fortunately I played really well on game points and on break points,” Lu said.
“My serve was there when I needed it, and that helped me a lot today.”
The results:
ATP Winston-Salem tournament: Third round: Richard Gasquet bt Stephane Robert 6-1, 6-3; John Millman bt Bjorn Fratangelo 5-7, 6-0, 6-3; Lu Yen-Hsun bt Diego Schwartzman 6-4, 6-0; Roberto Bautista Agut bt Marcos Baghdatis 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; Fernando Verdasco bt Steve Johnson 6-4, 7-6(7); Viktor Troicki bt Sam Querrey 6-2, 7-6(5); Andrey Kuznetsov bt Jiri Vesely 5-5 retd.
WTA Connecticut Open: Second round: Kirsten Flipkens bt Caroline Garcia 7-6(3), 7-5; Johanna Larsson bt Shelby Rogers 7-6(1), 6-4; Roberta Vinci bt Ana Konjuh 6-2, 6-2; Petra Kvitova bt Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-2. | http://www.thehindu.com/sport/tennis/atp-tours-winstonsalem-open/article9032618.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/9c3347b5c5a57d1db3dcae01d119133fca8b6466e65813d95dd67dc29379a54d.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T20:52:57 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Kerameri Sub-Inspector of Police Kashameni Sridhar (27) committed suicide on Tuesday by shooting himself with his service revolver. The maid servant of the unmarried officer heard the gun shot being | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ftelangana%2Fsi-shoots-himself-in-adilabad%2Farticle9051797.ece%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3DRSS_Syndication.json | http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/oghindunew1.jpg | en | null | SI shoots himself in Adilabad | null | null | www.thehindu.com | Kerameri Sub-Inspector of Police Kashameni Sridhar (27) committed suicide on Tuesday by shooting himself with his service revolver. The maid servant of the unmarried officer heard the gun shot being fired and found him collapsed in a pool of blood at his residential quarters on the police station campus.
The young police officer becomes the fourth Sub-Inspector in Telangana to have committed suicide in the recent weeks. And like others, the reason for the latest suicide is being rumoured to be harassment by a superior officer.
Sridhar was the second SI in Adilabad district to have committed suicide, the first incident having happened on December 1, 2011 when Mudhole SI Md. Tajuddin (26) had shot himself dead with his service revolver.
While Tajuddin had completed only five days of his tenure as SI, Sridhar had taken charge just three days ago.
A suicide note left behind by the deceased said he was taking the extreme step owing to depression. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/si-shoots-himself-in-adilabad/article9051797.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.thehindu.com/7f4260a1abf7df6a75636ed22610bbe8d597573b01cdc65293cc68c98e213461.json |
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