Jaya set to storm Chennai
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Jaya set to storm Chennai
FRONTLINE PRINTERS PRIVATE LTD Complete Printing Facilities under One Roof 3 Penning CEG’s pinnacle 6 ‘Off-field issues distracting us’ 7 Sonia lacks confidence in Rahul, says Jaitley 8 Santhanam is very special, says Shankar M-7, Thiru-Vi-Ka Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai - 600 032. & 2250 0111, 4202 1111 Chennai’s No 1 English evening daily since 1982 www.newstodaynet.com NATIONAL DAILY FOUNDER EDITOR: T.R.R VOL. XXXII NO. 141 H CHENNAI H TUESDAY 15.4.2014 (EVENING) H OTHER STATIONS WEDNESDAY 16.4.2014 (MORNING) H 8 PAGES Rs. 4.00 H Regd. No., TN/CC(S) Dn. / 223 / 12-14, RNI No: 33810 / 82 House burgled at Sembium NT Bureau Chennai, Apr 15: A break-in occurred at a house in Sembium here yesterday. The burglars made away with 15 sovereigns of gold and Rs five lakh cash. Police said, Murali Mohan, a doctor working with Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, returned from work last evening to find his house burgled. The CCTV installed at the building’s entrance has recorded four suspicious men walking into the apartment. According to police sources, the men broke open the front door with a saw blade, and made away with gold and cash. The building is said to have public notices alerting people of ‘wanted criminals’ roaming in the area. Residents have complained that due to the forthcoming elections, police bandobust is not regular in arterial areas as these. A case has been registered with the Sembium police, following Murali Mohan’s complaint. ighting for credibility after being left devastated by a spot-fixing scandal, the glamorous but controversial Indian Premier League will roll out its seventh edition in Abu Dhabi from tomorrow with the promise of putting cricket first while keeping the drama and glitz to a bare minimum. Defending champions Mumbai Indians, captained by Rohit Sharma, will square off against 2012 winners Kolkata Knight Riders, led by veteran opener Gautam Gambhir, in the event-opener at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium. The UAE is hosting the high-profile T20 event’s first leg from 16 to 30 April owing to a clash of dates with the Indian general elections and security concerns emanating from that. The tournament will return to India on 2 May after being assured of security in States where voting would be over by that time. The razzmatazz, which has made IPL a magnet for both the fans and the cricketers world over, is not expected to just vanish because of the unsavoury scandal but the organisers have promised to tone down the glamour bit. To start with, there would not be any opening ceremony this year, replaced by a gala dinner for the teams where Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, co-owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders franchise, is one among the stars who is expected to perform. Jaya set to storm Chennai q Changes made to AIADMK supremo’s TN tour schedule q To campaign at 15 places in city NT Bureau Chennai, Apr 15: AIADMK general secretary and Tamilnadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will carry out her election campaign at 15 places in the city from 19 to 21 April. According to a release from the AIADMK headquarters here, certain changes have been made to the whirlwind tour of Jayalalithaa, who has been visiting various parts of Tamilnadu from 3 March. Earlier, she was scheduled to tour Chennai for two days-- 19 and 21 April. Now she will reach out to the city voters for three days and elaborate details of her campaign have been unveiled. As per the latest schedule, she will address rallies at Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri on 17 April. While the Krishnagiri meeting will take place at Poosaripatti Koot Road and Varattanampalli Main Road, Earlier, she was scheduled to tour Chennai for two days — 19 and 21 April. Now she will reach out to the city voters for three days. the Dharmapuri rally will happen at Dharmapuri Pennagaram Road. Starting 19 April, she will s t o r m v a r i o u s parts of Chennai for three days. On 19 April, she will meet voters in Alandur Assembly constituency, which is facing by-election. She will address voters near MGR Statue at Nanganallur, Alandur Taluk Office and Alandur Court. On the same day, she will also campaign in Central Chennai Lok Sabha constituency. She will meet voters at Razak Garden junction, Choolai post office, Wall Tax Road junction and Triplicane High Road. On 20 April, she will campaign in North Chennai Lok Sabha constitu- Treat transgenders as third sex: SC q ‘They have equal rights to social acceptability’ New Delhi, Apr 15: In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court today has given recognition to transgenders as the third gender. The apex court has asked the Centre and state governments to treat them as socially and ‘economically backward classes’, to enable them to get reservations in jobs and education. The court has also asked govts to grant them all facilities including a voters ID, passport and driving licence.The Centre and States were also directed to take steps for bringing the community into the mainstream by providing adequate healthcare, education and employment. A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and A K Sikri directed the government to take steps for granting recognition to transgenders as a separate third category of gender after male and female. F Stage is set The apex court said that transgenders were respected earlier in the society but situation has changed and they now face discrimination and harassment The bench also said they are the citizens of the country and have equal rights to education, healthcare and employment opportunities like other people belonging to male and female gender. The apex court expressed concern over transgenders being harassed and discriminated in the society and passed a slew of directions for their social welfare. The court said the Centre and states must work to raise awareness on them through social welfare schemes. The apex court said that transgenders were respected earlier in the society but situation has changed and they now face discrimination and harassment. It said that section 377 of IPC is being misused by police and other authorities against them and their social and economic condition is far from satisfactory. The bench clarified that its verdict pertains only to eunuchs and not other sections of society like gay, lesbian and bisexuals who are also considered under the umbrella term ‘transgender’. The bench said they are part and parcel of the society and the government must take steps to bring them in the main stream of society. The apex court passed the order on a PIL filed by National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) urging the court to give separate identity to transgenders by recognising them as third category of gender. Welcoming the Supreme Court decision, Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi, transgender rights activist said, ‘the progress of the country is dependent upon human rights of the people and we are very happy with the judgement as the Supreme Court has given us those rights.’ ency. She will meet people at Thiruvottiyur Theradi, Manali High Road junction, Sathyamurthy Nagar and Peravallur Junction. On 21 April, the last day of her nearly two-month long tour of the State, she will address voters in South Chennai Lok Sabha constituency. She will speak at Kandhanchavadi Kaliamman Koil Bus Stop, Five Lights in K K Nagar, MGR Nagar market and T Nagar bus stand. Jayalalithaa on Sunday spoke at Karur and Perambalur, where she took at both the BJP and the Congress. Slamming Congress, DMK and BJP for their ‘betrayal’ of the State on the vexed river water dispute, she asked the State electorate to give a firm drubbing to the candidates of all three parties, saying they should lose deposit in the 24 April Lok Sabha elections. (complete coverage on page 3). SCs shocker to Kejriwal New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI): The Supreme Court today declined to stay the proceedings in the trial court in a defamation case filed by Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal’s son Amit against former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and AAP leaders Shazia Ilmi, Prashant Bhushan and Manish Sisodia. A bench comprising justices H L Dattu and S A Bobde did not accept the submission of AAP leaders’ counsel Jayant Bhushan that till the disposal of the petition in the apex court, the court proceedings should be stayed. The bench said it can only expedite the hearing of the matter in the apex court and posted it for 22 July. Earlier, on 7 February, the Supreme Court had issued notice to Kejriwal and other AAP leaders. The Delhi High Court had on January 16 had refused to quash defamation proceedings against AAP leaders but had told the trial court to consider their discharge plea. Challenging the order, Amit Sibal had said that the High Court cannot confer the power to discharge on a Magistrate in a triable case instituted on a private complaint. Modi to campaign in TN for 2 days NT Bureau Chennai, Apr 15: BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will hit the campaign trail for two days in different parts of Tamilnadu from tomorrow. Three days after he addressed a public rally in Chennai in support of NDA candidates on Sunday, Modi will come to the State again tomorrow in a private flight. He will proceed straight to Krishnagiri, where he will address a rally. Modi will also take part in a public meeting organised at Salem tomorrow where he will seek votes for DMDK candidate Sudheesh. In the evening, Narendra Modi will take part in a huge public meeting organised by the Narendra Modi BJP at Coimbatore. He will campaign for the BJP candidate C P Radhakrishnan. He will have an overnight stay at Coimbatore. On Thursday, Modi will hit the campaign trail in Erode and later move south to Ramanathapuram. During his two-day tour in Tamilnadu, Modi is expected to meet the leaders of alliance parties including Vijayakanth (DMDK), Vaiko (MDMK) and Anbumani Ramadoss (PMK). Elaborate security arrangements are being made in view of Modi’s visit. At the party level, festoons and banners have been put up at various points to welcome Modi. IPL bandwagon set for Middle-East jaunt C SHYAM SUNDAR go ahead, probably bringing a time for bonding. All the teams der the scanner for non-cricketing will be led by George Bailey. are said to be preparing in right reasons since the middle of last The enigmatic Virender Sehwag, Chennai, Apr 15: s m i l e o n t h e f a c e s o f z i l l i o n s earnest and it should be said they year’s tournament. However, they who has been out of the national A lot of water has flowed under o f fa n s . are evenly matched, on paper. will hope to shrug that off and side for a while now, will look Now that the tourney is set to unfold the bridge since Mumbai Indians Rohit Sharma, who led Mumbai focus on playing winning cricket. to bounce back with a strong won the top prize in the sixth edition in Abu Dhabi tomorrow, focus would Indians to triumph last year, has Led by the astute M S Dhoni and performance and provide impeof Indian Premier League (IPL) in be on on-field action rather than offcome a long way since and is now a coached by Stephen Fleming, the tus to the side that has Mitchell 2013. The high-profile tournament field matters. A mouth-watering clash pivotal part of the national side and ‘Men in Yellow’ boast of a formida- Johnson and a slew of gamehas been embroiled in several between holders Mumbai Indians a man whom the team would look ble squad and will be among the changers. controversies and the court had to and the 2012 champs Kolkata Knight up to for insipiration. The franchise sides to beat. Royal Challenger Bangalore intervene, in an effort to restore the Riders will set the ball rolling as the cricketers gear up for seven weeks of chose to retain five players including The team has seen a rejig of sorts have threatened more often than sport’s glory. Rohit and made a few interesting with the think-tank not being able not but faltered when it mattered The spot-fixing/betting scan- hit-and-giggle stuff. The UAE is hosting acquisitions. Kieron Pollard, an to retain some of its core including in previous editions. This time The UAE is hosting the high-profile dal that broke out in the middle the high-profile T20 influential player in the MI line-up, Mike Hussey and M Vijay but Flem- they have a fearsome batting unit of the IPL in 2013 has contin- T20 event’s first leg from 16 to 30 will be expected to play at optimum ing is confident that the new faces led by Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle, event’s first leg from ued to make news with CSK’s April owing to a clash of dates with the following return from injury and will step up. The addition of Yuvraj Singh to now-disowned team principal Indian general elections and security 16 to 30 April owing to level the team’s cause would be helped Rajasthan Royals, the other team the side which also boasts of AB Gurunath Meiyappan and his concerns emanating from that. The a clash of dates with by the inclusion of veteran Aussie which faced the heat in the match- de Villiers makes them that much shenanigans continuing to cast tournament will return to India on 2 Mike Hussey. fixing issue, will be without the more stronger. The bowling may a shadow over the tournament May after being assured of security the Indian general in States where voting would be over The bowling line-up though missing talismanic Rahul Dravid, who has not be as menacing as the batting and the team. elections and security the fiery Mitchell Johnson would be retired from all formats, but boasts but they do possess the skills to T h e r e w a s a n a i r o f u n c e r - by that time. concerns emanating well served by Lasith Malinga and a quality squad, capable of surpris- test the best. The very fact that a part of IPL-7 is tainty over the very conduct the spin duo of Harbhajan Singh and ing the best. Among the others, Delhi Dareof IPL-7 owing to the various being staged in the UAE makes it a from that Pragyan Ojha. Kings XI Punjab seems to have devils and Hyderabad, last year’s issues surrounding it, includ- level playing field with the home adCSK, two-time champs and one gained the most during the auc- surprise package, will be expected ing corruption. However, the vantage factor being negated for the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh, to pack a punch afterEstate, the changes sides. areLtd., entering of the most consistent teams in attion earlierPrinters this year and Ltd., has M-7, put Thiru-Vi-Ka which onRoad), 6 April and Chennai a p e x cby o u K. r t Balakumar s t e p p e d ion n a n d of Published behalf NewsSeveral Today players Media (P) from 85, Mountconcluded Road (GST Guindy, 600 032 and printed by him Frontline Private Industrial Guindy, the roster saw following the4212 auction. the tournament after playing in the the history of IPL, have been untogether a solid combination that this means there wasn’t enough allowed the championship to Chennai 600 032. Ph: 4202 1111. Editor: K. Balakumar. Phone: Editorial/Admn /Advt: 22504000, Fax: 2250 1800 (Editorial)/2250 1200/2250 0101 (Advt/Admn). e-mail: newstodaydaily@gmail.com, Circulation: 4202 1111. Fax: 0000. 7 2 TUESDAY 15 APRIL 2014 CHENNAI Election Just give me one chance to clean the system. I will set up special courts under supervision of the Supreme Court to try all the tainted MPs and MLAs, that too within one year time limit. — BJP Prime Ministerial candidate NARENDRA MODI No one in my family would ever stop me from contesting an election. My brother, mother and husband would wholeheartedly support me if I wanted to contest. — PRIYANKA GANDHI Yes, if the Prime Minister had used his authority behind the reforms proposal, the scam could have been avoided, — Former Coal secretary P C PARAKH 2014 Sharad Yadav’s sudden love for Joshi Patna, Apr 15 (PTI): Former NDA partner JD(U) President Sharad Yadav endorsed remarks of senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi that there was no Modi wave in the country. ‘Joshi is an old friend. MURLI MANOHAR I know that he is one JOSHI person who speaks truth,’ Sharad Yadav told reporters in Gaya while reacting to remarks of the veteran BJP leader. ‘Though I have no personal talk with him over the issue but considering his personality I could say he speaks truth,’ the JD(U) chief said. Sharad , who is contesting Lok Sabha seat from Madhepura, said despite publicity blitzkrieg no ‘Modi wave’ was visible anywhere in Bihar and other parts of the country. But, BJP’s new ally LJP, disagrees with them. LJP President Ramvilas Paswan told reporters at Patna Airport that its true that the wind was blowing in favour of BJP whose representative in the present Parliamentary election was Narendra Modi. Another BJP ally, Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) sought to play safe. ‘Its internal matter of BJP,’ RLSP Chief Upendra Kushwaha said. He, however, said that a change was very much in the 17 and 18. Similarly, Bharat Masala, a spice manufacturing unit has offered 10 percent discount on any purchase from ve stores on polling day. ‘In order to get these discounts, the voters need to carry their electoral photo-identity card to the stores and restaurants as proof of their age and must show the indelible ink mark on their ngers,’ said a press release by the district election ofce. DEO and Cuttack collector Girish air against Congress at the Centre and Nitish Kumar in the state. BJP leaders Sushil Kumar Modi and Giriraj Singh toed the party line and sought to play down the controversy over Joshi’s remarks and asserted that the party was upbeat to make Narendra Modi Prime Minister of the country. New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI): Congress demanded that all expenses incurred on publicity by BJP should be included in the election expenditure of Narendra Modi and not his party. In a memorandum to the Election Commission, Congress said the manner in which the campaign is being managed shows that it's a Modi campaign and not an election campaign of BJP. 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It also said certain organisations are campaigning for BJP candidates and using religion for the purpose. 'No association, organisation, institution, group or any other establishment, other than a registered and recognised political party is competent and authorised to conduct political activities'. 'It has been observed all over the country that such organisations are actively campaigning... they are indulging in political activities without following the norms prescribed by the EC...,' the memorandum added. Gen-next solar plane to y around the world SUDOKU 7 6 5 Daund, Indapur, Baramati, Purandar, Bhor and Khadakwasala. Cong asks EC to look into BJP’s publicity expenses S N said that the Election Commission has approved the measure to encourage young voters to exercise their franchise. ‘Discount offers for young and rst time voters in hotels, restaurants and retail outlets are also provided in other parts of the country as well,’ he said. Around 27,504 new voters in the age group of 18-19 have enrolled in the voters’ list this year for the Cuttack Lok Sabha seat. VIJAY TV Assembly segments Contesting from Madhepura, Sharad said despite publicity blitzkrieg no ‘Modi wave’ was visible anywhere in Bihar and other parts of the country MOVIES ON TV JAYA TV BARAMATI It is one of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra. The sitting MP and daughter of NCP party chief Sharad Pawar, Supriya Sule, is elded for a second time from this LS seat. JD(U) leader describes BJP veteran as ‘old friend’ How officials woo youngsters to vote? Cuttack, Apr 15 (PTI): Reprising Chandigarh, discounts in restaurants and retail outlets are being offered by the district administration as an incentive to get young people to vote in the Lok Sabha elections for the Cuttack seat. Voters in the age group of 18-35 will get 15 per cent discount in bills at Hotel Grand Residency here on polling day, while Reliance Trend, a retail outlet is offering 10 per cent discount on every purchase for April VIP VICINITY MAAN KARATE Albert Abirami Sathyam Devi Inox (Arcot Road) Udhayam Pvr Sri Ganga 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Shows Shows Show Shows Shows Shows Shows Shows A next generation solar-powered plane that will y around the world for ve consecutive days next year without using any fuel has been developed. The solar plane, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, will circumnavigate the world in March 2015. Swiss pilots Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard, who unveiled the futuristic ying machine in a ceremony, hopes to accomplish the rst around-theworld ight in a solar-powered aircraft. Solar Impulse ofcials said the plane will take off from the Gulf region, and will y over the Arabian Sea, China, the Paci c Ocean, the US, the Atlantic Ocean and Southern Europe or North Africa. 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Balakumar on behalf of News Today Media (P) Ltd., from 85, Mount Road (GST Road), by him at Frontline Printers Private Ltd., M-7, Thiru-Vi-Ka Industrial Estate, Guindy, 11:00 PM Best of World Cup T20 2014 Chennai 600 032. Ph: 4202 1111. Editor: K. Balakumar. Phone: Editorial/Admn /Advt: 22504000, Fax: 2250 1800 (Editorial)/2250 1200/2250 0101 (Advt/Admn). e-mail: newstodaydaily@gmail.com, Circulation: 4202 1111. Fax: 4212 0000. Twit Pick TUESDAY 15 APRIL 2014 Mixed Bag CHENNAI Seminar on higher studies in France Penning CEG’s pinnacle NT Bureau Chennai, Apr 15: Galaxy Education Consultants is conducting a free seminar for students in Chennai on 19 April to create awareness on visa process and guidance for them to pursue higher studies in France. According to a press release, the programme will be hosted by Galaxy Education Consultants managing director Srinivas Sambandam. The seminar would focus on student visa process and procedures, various courses available in French universities, students admission process, job opportunities after course completion and scholarship programmes offered by different universities. The seminar will be held at Galaxy Education Consultants, No 106/21, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, 100 Feet Road, Vadapalani, Chennai - 026. For registration and details contact: 2372 1701/ 99622 44333. Young authors throw light on India’s oldest technical institution Coaching classes for TNPSC exams NT Bureau Chennai, Apr 15: Coaching classes for Tamilnadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) exams will be conducted by Periyar Coaching Centre in Vepery. The exam will be held in June.There are 2,342 vacancies in Group IV (Village Administrative Officer) and 2,269 vacancies in Group II (A) services. Classes will begin on 21 April and those interested can call 044-2661 8056 / 2661 8366. RAHUL LAHKAR Chennai. Apr 15: In 1794, astronomer and surveyor Micheael Topping wrote to the East India Company (EIC) requesting to set up a survey school to train surveyors. The EIC gave its nod and the school was established in Fort Saint George, Madras with just 12 students. This was the origin of India’s oldest technical institution, College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), says M V Madhuvanthi, one of the authors of the book, ‘CEG A Journey Through Time (1794 - 2014)’. Speaking to News Today about the book, Madhuvanthi, a final year student of Computer Science Engineering at CEG, says that the attempt was to disseminate CEG’s 220 years of glorious journey. ‘It was a team work to embark on the idea. ‘I had a great opportunity to be a part of CEG Tech Forum’s content team and work together for the written account,’ she says. Madhuvanthi says that the college is now in Guindy but its journey started when East India Company began trade in India. ‘Our attempt is to pen those chronicles of CEG when civil engineering college was started in 1858, mechanical engineering in 1880 and the college was shifted from Chepauk to Guindy in 1920,’ she adds. On the other aspects of the book, the author says that the written account had many memories and suc- The book ‘CEG A Journey Through Time (1794 - 2014)’ has memories and success stories of students, teachers, staff and interviews of alumni CEG students and authors of the book ‘CEG A Journey Through Time (1794 - 2014)’ Sibi Adhithya Kumar and M V Madhuvanthi. cess stories of students, teachers and staff. The book contains interviews of the alumni and each interview is very interesting in sharing what alumni did, what they liked, their favourite professors and their activities as students. Twenty-one-year old Madhuvanthi loves writing. ‘Working for the book was a great learning experience and I would like to take it forward. I love reading and classical dance AIADMK general secretary and Tamilnadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa addressing an election rally in Karur. BJP is no different from Cong: Jaya ‘No mention about Cauvery issue in manifesto’ NT Bureau / PTI Karur / Perambalur, Apr 15: AIADMK supremo and Tamilnadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has said the BJP was no different from Congress on the emotive Cauvery issue. ‘With an eye on Lok Sabha seats in the elections the BJP has not even mentioned the issue in its 2014 poll manifesto,’ she said in back-to-back election rallies in Karur and Perambalur constituencies. Slamming Congress, DMK and BJP for their ‘betrayal’ of the State on the vexed river water dispute, she asked the State electorate to give a firm drubbing to the candidates of all three parties, saying they should lose deposit in the 24 April Lok Sabha elections. Going down memory lane, Jayalalithaa reasoned that she had quit NDA in 1999 on the Cauvery issue, after her pleas for implementation of the interim award of the Cauvery Tribunal by a body of officials with control over Karnataka dams were not heeded to by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Instead, he had constituted Cauvery River Water Author- ity with Prime Minister as its head and four southern state Chief Ministers as members even as DMK was ruling Tamilnadu then. ‘I opposed the Authority as it would be of no use. Since the BJP declined to form an empowered group of officials, and that serving no justice for Tamilnadu, I withdrew AIADMK from the government and party’s support to NDA later,’ she said. The Centre then approached Karunanidhi to get his approval for setting up of the Authority after which DMK aligned with BJP and also participated in the Cabinet, she said. Jayalalithaa’s attack, which came on a day when BJP leader Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a public meeting in Chennai, is the first direct one against the latter as opposition parties including DMK and Congress have questioned her election strategy of sparing BJP from any criticism. While the chances of both Congress and BJP to form government in the upper riparian state of Karnataka were equal, neither could do the same in Tamilnadu and therefore both parties had similar approach towards the Cauvery issue, she alleged. and being a part of this journey has motivated me to continue writing and blogging,’ the younger author says. ‘When I joined the college, I didn’t know much about its background. Later I came to know about the college which introduced engineering in India and many other facts about the institution. We thought why not compile them together in a written account,’ says DMK was defeated in the 2011 Assembly elections for some problems here and there. — DMK president M KARUNANIDHI QQQ (DMK treasurer) Stalin or Karunanidhi have no right to talk about the law and order situation in the State. — State Minister SELLUR RAJU QQQ Companies controlled indirectly by DMK and AIADMK leaders are making massive profi ts through supplying liquor to the Tamilnadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC). — Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader PRASHANT BHUSHAN Sibi Adhithya Kumar, co-author of the book. The 21-year-old final year student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering says that the campus life inspired him. You won’t find too many colleges with heritage buildings amid lush greenery like CEG campus. ‘I feel proud to contribute to the college that gave so much to me,’ he says. Adhithya reads novels, plays cricket and plans to take up civil services in future. The management extended full support for the work. It is a big moment for all of us as six months of hard work has come true, says the young author. The book published by CEG is available for sales in Chennai from next month. ‘We will also put it up for sale online,’ says Adhithya. 3 Emerging trends in hospital admin NT Bureau Chennai, Apr 15: Sankara Nethralaya Academy is organising a two-day national seminar on ‘Emerging Trends in Hospital Administration’ here on 9 May. According to a press release, the seminar would bring together senior level healthcare experts from various regions to share their thoughts, observations and steps taken by them to improve patient flow and enhance safety and work flow processes leading to a great patient experience. The seminar will also focus on successful healthcare strategies, proven patientcare techniques, quality standardisation tips, new hospital management trends and an overall road map to an effective healthcare system. Chief executive officers, managing directors, presidents, general managers, heads of strategic planning from hospitals/ health sectors, risk management professionals, executives in-charge of service quality, managers of operation, facilities management, nursing administrators, students of management programmes and others with an interest in hospital administration can participate. For more details and registration visit www.thesnacademy. ac.in or contact A Mahalingam at 97104 85295. CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat and other senior leaders of the party at a campaign meeting in support of the party’s North Chennai candidate U Vasuki. AIADMK activists issuing pamphlets at Washermenpet in support of the party’s North Chennai candidate T G Venkatesh Babu. Testing time for Dravidian parties: Raja Chennai, Apr 15 (PTI): Describing the BJP-led alliance in Tamilnadu as an ‘alliance of contradictions’, CPI National secretary D Raja wondered how long it would hold together and claimed that the traditional Dravidian parties in the state were facing a testing time. The CPI leader also asked why AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa was aggressive only against Congress and DMK and not against BJP and claimed that it led to several political questions. ‘It (BJP-led alliance) is a combine of contradictory forces. How long they would remain together, it is for time to tell us. They have contradictions and conflict among themselves,’ Raja told reporters here, replying to a query. ‘This has come as a testing time for the Dravidian parties,’ said the leader, whose party has been riding piggyback on the two traditional Dravidian parties - AIADMK and DMK-- in the past. The CPI and CPI (M) parted ways with the AIADMK in the run up to the April 24 Lok Sabha polls over the issue of seat sharing. ‘..the Left is not responsible for whatever happened. It is AIADMK which brought such a position... to press the understanding with the Left parties. Why she did it? Why AIADMK took an about turn? It is for them to explain,’ he said. Modi’s visit, a boost for cadres q ‘NDA is a ray of hope in Tamilnadu’ q Gujarat CM praises L Ganesan NT Bureau regard. Has Siachen been traded or Chenani, Apr 15: surrendered?’ Maintaining an equal distance ‘Shezada’ & poverty I pray by Gods grace whatever from both the Dravidian parties (the Taking a dig at Congress vice AIADMK and DMK), BJP’s Prime he thinks should happen, said president Rahul Gandhi, Modi, said, Ministerial candidate and Gujarat actor Rajnikanth after Modi ‘Shehzada (Rahul Gandhi) was born Chief Minister Narendra Modi, said, visited him at his Poes Garden with a golden spoon and therefore ‘both the parties spend their time in residence on Sunday. can never understand the problems destroying each other and they not Modi drove straight from of the poor or even think of them. interested in solving the problems of Chennai airport to RaRahul wants to exploit the poverty common man’. jnikanth’s residence at Poes in India to promote tourism. Modi Addressing an election rally at AM Garden and was closeted for said he was born in a poor family Jain College Grounds in Meenamand had suffered the pangs of povhalf-an-hour. bakkam on Sunday, Modi said a vote erty and hunger. ‘A new government After the meeting Rajnikanth, said, Modi calling on Rajnikanth at his ‘There is nothing political in our for NDA is a vote for a new ray of hope at the Centre would ensure housing BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi along with leaders residence. in Tamilnadu. with power and water supply for meeting. He met me when I was of the State unit of the party at a rally in Chennai on Suday. every poor family in thecountry.’ He said, ‘NDA has emerged as Everyone knows Modi is a in hospital and I invited him to Time to create jobs an alternative in Tamilnadu and s t r o n g l e a d e r a n d a n a b l e come home and have a cup of tea Attacking the 2009 Congress maniemergence of this strength is BJP alliance candidates in the state an explanation to the nation why Rs administrator. He is my well whenever he is in Chennai and he in the interests of the people of by calling upon people to make them 1,000 crore allocated for Nirbhaya festo which had promised jobs to 10 wisher and I am his well wisher. came today. I’m very happy.’ victorious. Fund for protection of women re- crore youth, he said the UPA had genTamilnadu’. Leaders of NDA in Tamilnadu mained unused. erated jobs for barely 1.5 crore youth, Pat for LG Modi said a new government in Unplug PC including Dr Anbumani Ramadoss Launching a tirade against Union whereas the Vajpayee government Describing South Chennai BJP Is PM under pressure? power would resolve problems of Narendra Modi said there was seri- had secured jobs for 7crore youth in c a n d i d a t e L G a n e s a n a s h i s (PMK) and ten candidates from NDA fishermen in Tamilnadu, Gujarat and Fnance Mnister P Chidambaram, good friend, Modi said, ‘He is alliance from constituencies including Kerala. Fishermen in Kerala had been Modi said, ‘Mister recounting minister ous talk in social media sites that six years, Modi said. a selfless good human being, South Chennai, North Chennai, Cenkilled by Italian marines, while their has run away from contesting the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was All are equal Prime Minister andchief ministers of who has dedicated himself for tral Chennai, Sriperumbudur, Kancounterparts in Gujarat and Tamil elections as he is afraid of people’s about to compromise India’s strategic Nadu were harassed and attacked anger at UPA regime’s misgovern- interests in Siachen under pressure all states should come together to form the development of the society. chipuram, Arani, Vellore, Arakonam, ThiruvallurIndustrial and Alandur Assembly ance of ten years’. himLtd., an opa Team India and work unitedly by for the Published byand K. SriLanka. Balakumar on behalf of News Today Media (P) Ltd., from 85, Mount Roadcountry. (GST Road), Guindy, Chennai 600 032 and printed him atPeople Frontlineshould Printersgive Private M-7, Thiru-Vi-Ka Estate, Guindy, from a foreign ‘Prime Minister by Pakistan attended the meeting. betterment of the country, Modi said. portunity to serve them’. He said the Finance Minister owes has to22504000, tell the truthFax: to the nation in (Editorial)/2250 this Chennai 600 032. Ph: 4202 1111. K. Balakumar. Phone: Editorial/Admn /Advt: 2250 1800 1200/2250 0101 (Advt/Admn). e-mail: newstodaydaily@gmail.com, Circulation: 4202 1111. Fax: 4212 0000. Modi made a special appeal for Editor: all What transpired at Rajni-Modi meet? 4 TUESDAY 15 APRIL 2014 Blend WHAT NEWS TODAY PRINTS IS NEWS THAT COUNTS T Straw man he recent controversy over two memoirs by insiders in the UPA regime has once again confirmed what has been widely known all along. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a puppet in the hands of the Congress boss Sonia Gandhi and others, including leaders of various constituents of the UPA. What it says about Manmohan himself is of relatively less significance than what it has actually done to the institutional integrity and dignity of the constitutional office of the Prime Minister. The latter stands duly diminished. Thanks to the unseemly urge of Manmohan to stick to the prime ministerial chair, come what may, even if it meant humiliating himself and undermining grossly the majesty of that office, we have had a grotesque arrangement, where an extra-constitutional authority has openly usurped the powers of the highest executive office in the land. Sanjay Gandhi was widely pilloried for being the extra-constitutional authority in Indira Gandhi’s Emergency. But our collective sense and sensibilities have so dulled that when Sonia Gandhi and her son act as the extra-constitutional authorities, there is little protest. We have come to accept the illicit arrangement under which the formal holder of the Prime Minister’s office is fully subservient to the head of the ruling party and her son. After nearly ten years of this flagrant abuse of the constitutional system, it is hoped the system of government will revert to its original order after the 16 May electoral verdict. Manmohans former media advisor, Sanjay Baru’s book, The Accidental Prime Minister documents how the real authority of the Prime Minister vested with Sonia Gandhi, how ministers took him for granted, feeling accountable to the Congress boss, or, in the case of those belonging to the allies, to their respective party leaders, how Manmohan took the path of least resistance, content in sticking to the high office while being wholly unmindful of its constitutional demands. In other words, the nominated Prime Minister failed to protect his high office. Here was a Prime Minister who was not even allowed the minimum courtesy of choosing his own key aides, with Sonia Gandhi nominating her own favourites in vital positions in the PMO. Small wonder, then, as Baru has recorded in his book, crucial files were lugged to 10 Janpath for decisions by the de facto Prime Minister, a charge denied pro forma by the PMO, though there are few takers for that denial. There is a plethora of other evidence to buttress the view that Manmohan took the path of least resistance while ministers in his government ran riot, plundering the exchequer for private greed. Even on the rare occasion a weak and wavering Manmohan sought to prevent this broad daylight larceny of the public purse he was overruled -- and he was happy merrily sticking to the kursi, instead of putting an end to this loot. A weak man who would stick to the Prime Minister’s post, rather than prevent the abuse of the government for private greed, Manmoahn clearly had no strong principles. As Baru says, the PM himself was clean but did not mind if his colleagues dipped into the national till. But what use is a king who does not raid the treasury himself, but looks on passively when his ‘courtiers’ do? This is the worst form of greed which probably has inflicted far more damage on the constitutional system than even an A Raja or a Pawan Kumar Bansal have. The conclusion from Baru’s book is inescapable. It is unwise to separate political authority from constitutional authority. The original diarchy, as practiced in the British India, had a historical and administrative context. In free India, its revival has proved dangerous for the health of the polity. Sonia Gandhi wanted to have her cake and eat it too ---- appropriate credit for any or all good work it may have done while shifting all discredit for scams and mismanagement to others. Indeed, the second memoir in a week, of former Coal Secretary P C Parakh too endorses the broad picture of the government depicted in Baru’s book. There were ‘limitations in which the PM functioned’, as he was unable to counter vested interests in his own government and party. Parakh suggests that the loss of Rs. 1.76 lakh crores estimated by the CAG in the coal scam was ‘conservative’, that is, the actual loss could be much higher, from the willful allocation of hundreds of coal blocks and mines to hand-picked parties by the Prime Minister when he himself was his own Coal Minister. Tellingly, Parakh wonders why Manmohan himself was not listed as an accused in the case in which he and the noted industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla figured as accused. These stinging exposures of the workings of the UPA Government by two insiders on the eve of Manmohan’s certain retirement should serve as a warning to the voters against electing another weak and unstable government. After the 16 May verdict, a strong prime minister who is a leader in his own right must tenant 7 Race Course Road for the next five years. That is absolutely necessary for India to be able to not only clear the enormous mess being left behind by the UPA but to return the country on the path of high economic growth. M CHENNAI You folks, chill! ankind has always been the travelling kind. The early men kept seeking out newer places despite obvious difficulties like inhospitable terrain, lack of convenient transportation, dearth of proper places to stay and, more importantly, no internet and Facebook to put pictures and show off and annoy the hell out of friends and relatives. It is the indomitable spirit to look out for newer horizons that pushed Christopher Columbus to set sail to an unknown distant land. His was an important discovery because the thousands of natives who were living there all along didn’t have a clue that it was America till Columbus arrived on their shores and pointed to them the fact. And then there was Ibn Battuta. The Moroccan, who visited India during Tuglaq regime, was a famed voyager despite the fact that he never was able to follow the tourist dictum of travelling light. He was born with a huge baggage: His name: Which was: Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Abdullah ---- no, don’t stop. There is still a bit left --- Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta. Good that there were no customs and immigration system in place there. Had there been one… Officer: Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta…hmmm seems to be a pretty big entourage. Are you guys on an official junket? Swedish man’s shortest obituary ‘I am dead’ LONDON: In what may be the shortest obituary ever, the news of a 92-year-old Swedish man’s death was published in three simple words in a national newspaper: ‘I am dead’. Stig Kernell had instructed his local funeral home in Tranas, southern Sweden to publish the advert on his death including the simple message, his name, place and date of death. He felt that was all that needed to be said, his son Lars-Ake Kernell told the Swedish paper Expressen. The aerospace historian and transport technician died on 6 April. The unusual obituary was published on Saturday in Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet. The modest message did not pass unnoticed however and several newspapers carried the story of the obituary over the weekend, ‘The Local’ reported. Kernell had a pilot’s licence and had previously featured in the Guinness Book of World Records for his expansive collection of aviation literature. Kernell’s two sons then posted a lengthier obituary to tell the story of their father’s life in a more traditional form. Batutta: (Looking around) Er, I am think science, after having inexplivoyaging single. cably missed it all these years, has Officer: (Picking up the walkie) Se- finally caught up with hill stations. curity, send some reinforcements to I mean being at heights the sun Terminal-3. We have rounded up a should, logically speaking, arrive man trying to smuggle out some rare here earlier than anywhere else, right? And that is what it is happenarchaeological names. The point is the itch for travel and adven- ing at hill stations. The last time we went to Shimla, ture is deep inside all of us, and it comes out as a raging rash during summer time the sun was out in its blazing glory amidst all the surrounding heat and dust. much before seven in the morning Now, as the temperature soars and and the place was sweltering as if the sweat pours, if you intend to take it had apprenticed all night under, I don’t know, Jaipur. But a break and run away to hardy tourists that we some loftily-perched cool were, we just ignored hill spot, we have one the minor inconvenimportant travel recomK BALAKUMAR ience and continued mendation for you: Don’t. with the essential purAs the misty, moist morning unfolds leisurely, dew-kissed pose of our travel, which was to pose breeze lazily slithers into your plush for pictures in fetching sweaters so room like a surreptitious snake and that we could convey to our friends reach you under the blanket and wake that we indeed had a swell time in you with its icy lick, while you, half-awake chilly clime. ‘You know the temperaand half-asleep, are sprawled, like a ture? It was in single digits. We could satisfied lover, under the naughty tease barely move the fingers to operate of a coquettish nature. This is the image the camera,’ we would say much the mind conjures when you talk of hill later when back home while showstations and that is because it has been ing the pictures to our friends, who conditioned all these years by travel bro- naturally go, ‘wow! That’s awesome, chures, written by people who otherwise man’. Which of course has to be an spend most of their life in stuffy cubicles. even bigger lie. It is not normal to be Travel brochures are what blurbs are to happy seeing other people having books: You cannot hope to read even a fun. Basically, all those ‘likes’ to your vacation photos on FB are so fake. single word of truth there. Another thing that all hill spots have Hill stations, in reality, are getting worse than your every-day cities. I --- our founding fathers had the fore- sight to mandate it under Article 73 (A) of the Constitution ---- is a lake. Boating or rowing on the placid waters on a cool day is --- let us admit it --- seriously exciting for exactly two minutes. After which you start attacking the hot corn or the peanut in your hand. Hill stations also contain a large chunk of nature, which are huge outdoor spaces of breathtaking beauty containing barely walkable terrain. In general, when you visit hill spots, you will be basically going around in your cars, honking at other vehicles, dissing the overall traffic, getting down at chosen spots look around and go ‘look ma, what beauty’ and get back to the vehicle and zip to the next spot and repeat the routine. We have made these sweeping generalisations in the larger hope that you will be convinced that it is futile to travel to a hill station any more. Quite frankly, we don’t think there is anything interesting for you at hill spots. Just cancel your booking. But don’t thank us. We are only carrying out our duty. We needed to discourage a lot of you as getting hotel reservations for us at hill spots was proving mighty difficult. But don’t hold this against us. We hope you will ‘like’ the photos that we will doubtless post on our FB page. e-mail the writer at balakumarkb@gmail.com (Courtesy: Talk Media) India voices concern over China-Pak ties q Opposes plans to build Economic Corridor through POK BEIJING: India voiced its concern to China over its plan to build a multi-billion dollar Economic Corridor to Pakistan through POK, even as it assured Beijing of its commitment to consolidate strategic bilateral ties. ‘We have raised this issue and raised our concerns not (only) this time, we have made them known earlier. They have noted our concerns,’ Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh told reporters here after holding the sixth round of Strategic Dialogue with her Chinese counterpart Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin. The talks were held as the longrunning Lok Sabha elections, hailed as the world’s biggest democratic exercise, got underway in India that will form a new government at the Centre. Asked whether the issue figured in the talks today, she said it was raised this time too. The Corridor connecting China’s Xinjiang with Pakistan’s Gwadar Port with rail and road links raised concerns in India as it is being built through Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. China argues that it would help redress the The Corridor connecting China’s Xinjiang with Pakistan’s Gwadar Port with rail and road links raised concerns in India as it is being built through Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. China argues that it would help redress the backwardness of the region backwardness of the region. The two sides held most cordial discussions enhancing the scope of the relations which in recent years showed steadfast increase. On the border dispute, Singh said it figured but at the same elaborated that the issue is being discussed in detail by the Special Representatives who have held 17 rounds of talks. Singh, in her opening remarks, said: ‘My visit here is to reiterate to the government of China that the government of India attaches the highest priority to India’s relations with China. We are committed to consolidating our strategic and cooperative partnership for peace and prosperity. The core of our vision is of a good neighbourly relationship based on mutual trust and understanding and where we are sensitive to each other’s concerns and aspiration.’ ‘As our Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) articulated on several occasions, there is sufficient space in the world for both India and China to meet their developmental aspirations within our respective processes of economic and social development there is great scope for bilateral cooperation,’ Singh said. Stating that the annual Strategic Dialogue is being held in less than a year, she told Liu that ‘it is symbolic of the fact that our interactions are increasing’. Eco-friendly diapers made from jellyfish JERUSALEM: An Israeli start-up is developing a line of eco-friendly super-absorbing nappies made from jellyfish. Cine’al Ltd is turning the much-disdained sea creature suitable for use in diapers, tampons, and medical sponges. Hydromash, the dry, flexible, strong material is made from jellyfish and is several times more absorbent than the ‘quicker picker-upper’ paper towels, the ‘Times of Israel’ reported. ‘Right now, these items are made of synthetics, which take hundreds and thousands of years to break down,’ said Ofer Du-Nour, chairman and president of Cine’al. Researchers at the Tel Aviv University turned to jellyfish, as the creatures are composed of 90 per cent Pakistani brothers return to cannibalism water, live constantly in water and have bodies that can absorb and hold high volume of liquids without disintegrating or dissolving. They developed a method that uses nanomaterials to convert the jellyfish into Hydromash, which absorbs high volumes of water and blood in seconds. The process also adds nano-particles which allow for the addition of anti-bacterial and tissue-healing attributes, flexibility, colours, scents and more, the report said. The resulting product absorbs several times its volume and bio-degrades in less than 30 days, Du-Nour said. Du-Nour said the material is perfectly safe and offers a potential to clear up landfills and cleanse the oceans of the endless swarms of jellyfish. Man buried alive at home in search of gold ISLAMABAD: In a shocking case, two brothers in Pakistan’s Punjab province, who were found guilty of cannibalism in 2011, have been caught with the head of a young boy, a media report here said. LAHORE: said that a Sikh family before leaving for India during Arif and Farman, who are from the partition in 1947 had hidden the gold after digging it Sir, A young Pakistani man, in search of gold that a soothsmall town of Darya Khan in Bhakkar up,’ he said. ‘Believing the words of peer, we carefully sayer told him a Sikh family had hidden during partition, While the amount of freshwater on the planet has remained fairly constant district, were first arrested in April s t a r t e d the digging about four years ago. Our efforts was buried alive in a 30-feet deep well dug over time continually recycled through the atmosphere and back into our 2011 after they were found eating couldn’t bear the fruit despite digby him in his house. cups the population has exploded. This means that every year competition corpses that they stole from a local ging 15-feet till a year ago. Zeefor a clean, copious supply of water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and After a 36-hour operation, the rescue graveyard. They had reportedly dug shan again visited the peer who sustaining life intensifies. agencies found the body of Zeeshan up and devoured from up to 150 boddirected him to continue digging,’ Qureshi, 22, from his small house In much of the developing world, clean water is either hard to come by or ies before they were finally caught. Mustafa said. in Delhi Gate, the old city of Multan a commodity that requires laborious work or significant currency to obtain. The police conducted a raid at their For the last three months, Zeeshan district of Punjab, some 350 kilometres Wherever they are, people need water to survive. house and recovered the head of a had been engaged in the digging day and from here. The challenge we face now is how to effectively conserve, manage, and young boy. According to DPO Bhakkar night and managed to dig 30-feet, he said. ‘On Saturday, Zeeshan was living along with his parents and two distribute the water we have. Ameer Abdullah, Arif has been arrested he entered the well but did not return,’ Mustafa said. younger sisters in a two-room house. Zeeshan’s father CHANDRIKA, By email and he admitted to eating human Salman Sher, a neighbour, said: ‘We had informed the Muhammad Mustafa told police that his son was jobless flesh while his brother Farman is still ADDRESS YOUR LETTERS TO : police about the mysterious digging by Zeeshan and his and the family was hardly making both ends meet. on the loose, the Express News refather but no attention was paid to our complaint.’ Police ‘Some four years ago, a peer (soothsayer) told my son The Editor, News Today, 85, Mount Road, Guindy, Chennai 600 032. Published by by K. K. 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Phone: Editorial/Admn /Advt: 22504000, Fax: 2250 1800 (Editorial)/2250 1200/2250 0101 (Advt/Admn). e-mail: newstodaydaily@gmail.com, Circulation: 4202 1111. Fax: 4212 0000. Voice Mail Water woes Enterprises CHENNAI TUESDAY 15 APRIL 2014 5 Good show by Infosys q Net profit up 25% q Employees to get pay hike q 7 to 9% growth predicted NT Bureau / PTI Mumbai, Apr 15 (PTI): Infosys today reported 25 per cent increase in net profit for the quarter ended 31 March 2014. The software giant reported net profit at Rs 2,992 crore, a 25 per cent jump as compared to Rs 2,394 crore in the same period last fiscal. The company’s revenue for the reported quarter was up 23.2 per cent to Rs 12,875 crore from Rs 10,454 crore in the year-ago period. The Bangalore-based firm, which is on a revival path following the return of its co-founder N R Narayana Murthy at the helm of affairs, has forecast a conservative outlook of 7 to 9 per cent revenue growth in dollar terms for the financial year 2014-15. Infosys has guided a revenue growth of 7-9 per cent (in dollar terms) next year and remains firmly focused on building the growth momentum by making all the necessary investments in its business, he added. Meanwhile, buying was also seen at other IT counters, where TCS was trading 1.49 per cent higher, Wipro rose by 1.17 per cent and HCL Tech was up 0.98 per cent. Tracking gains in these stocks, the BSE IT index was trading 1.91 per cent higher at 9,003.90 and was the top gainer among the 13 sectoral indices. Money matters In US dollar terms, Infosys’ profit grew 9.7 per cent to $487 million in January-March quarter of 2013-14 fiscal, while revenue rose by 7.9 per cent to $2.09 billion. What’s new with MapR? Chennai, Apr 15: MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop, has announced a strategic partnership with Databricks and the addition of the complete Apache Spark technology stack to the MapR Distribution. The Spark in-memory processing framework provides speed, programming ease and real-time processing advantages. ‘It has become clear that Apache Spark offers a combination of high-performance in-memory data processing and multiple computation models that is well suited to serving as the basis of next-generation data processing platforms,’ commented Many organisations research director, dataplatforms and are currently analytics, 451 Research, Matt Aslett. running Spark in ‘MapR’s support for the complete Spark stack, combined with its partnership with production in their Databricks, should give Hadoop users MapR environments. the confidence to start developing apTheir Spark-based plications to take advantage of Spark’s applications benefit performance and flexibility.’ Organisations are looking for easier and from the enterprisefaster ways to derive value from big data. grade dependability Spark improves both performance and and performance developer productivity: Spark provides a general-purpose execution framework with of the MapR in-memory pipelining to speed up end-toDistribution and from end application performance. For many applications, this results in a 5-100x perform- the ability to process ance improvement. real-time operational Spark jobs can require as little as 1/5th the data thanks to number of lines of code. Spark provides a simple programming abstraction allowing MapR’s Direct Access developers to design applications as operaNFS interface. tions on data collections (known as RDDs, or Resilient Distributed Dataset). Developers can build these applications in multiple programming languages, including Java, Scala and Python and the same code can be reused across batch, interactive and streaming applications. How much is increment? Infosys has raised salaries of its employees in the country by 6-7 per cent and by 1-2 per cent for onsite workers, effective 1 April. ‘We have increased salaries. We have given salary hikes of 6-7 per cent for offshore and 1-2 per cent onsite employees, effective 1 April 1’, Rajiv Bansal said. The increase in salaries and promotions that have been rolled out and the investment in new visas is likely to impact the first quarter margins by about 3 per cent, he added. Infosys added 10,997 employees (gross) in the last quarter of FY’14 and 39,985 during the fiscal to take its total headcount to 1,60,405 people. ‘This is the second time we are giving compensation increase over the last nine months. Nine months back, we had given a compensation increase of 6-8 per cent offshore’, Infosys CEO and MD S D Shibulal said. For FY 2014, net profit grew 1.5 per cent to $1.75 billion, while revenue was up 11.5 per cent to $8.2 billion over 2012-13 financial year. Sequentially, Infosys’s net profit was up 4.1 per cent from Rs 2,875 crore in the OctoberDecember, 2013 quarter, while revenue was lower by 1.2 per cent from Rs 13,026 crore. For FY 2014, the net profit was up 13 per cent at Rs 10,648 crore and revenue grew 24.2 per cent to Rs 50,133 crore. North America accounted for 59.8 per cent of the revenues, Europe (25.2 per cent), India (2.6 per cent) and Rest of the World (12.4 per cent) Infosys added 10,997 employees (gross) in the last quarter of FY 2014 and 39,985 employees during the entire fiscal to take the total headcount to 1,60,405. Infosys and its subsidiaries added 50 clients during the quarter and 238 during the year, the company said. Its liquid assets including cash and cash equivalents, available-for-sale financial assets, certificates of deposits and government bonds stood at Rs 30,251 crore in Q4 FY’14. VRS trend to pick up further: Experts New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI): Faced with rapid fluctuations in business cycle and looking to optimise costs, Indian companies are likely to press further with the Voluntary Retirement Schemes in the coming quarters, say experts. The implementation of VRS has been most noticed among the electronics, drugs and pharmaceuticals, pesticides and chemicals as well steel and textiles industry, according to research by MANCER Consulting. The VRS has been mostly offered to cut costs in wake of economic slowdown, the experts said. Over the last few months, Ashok Leyland, Nokia, Tata Motors are among the firms that have offered VRS to its employees. ‘Companies in sectors that are vulnerable to business fluctuations are investing in VRS as a part of their restructuring strategy and as an alternative to pay cuts and mass layoffs, to reduce the operating expenses in their businesses’, Randstad India CEO Moorthy K Uppaluri said. ‘We observe that, compared to a decade ago, VRS have gained momentum today due to frequent business cycle fluctuations and subsequent operational measures to optimise costs’, Uppaluri said, adding that the trend would continue to pick up ‘till the business growth stabilises over the next few quarters’. Executive search firm Lighthouse Partners managing partner Rajiv Burman said: ‘The trend will indeed pick up in the future’, and that mostly mid-level executives will be targeted. ‘Flexible work breeds innovation’ New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI): More and more businesses are realising the importance of nurturing some of their employees as entrepreneurs to help drive growth and believe that flexible working is a key to inspire such a practice, says a study. The latest research by Regus, a flexible workspace provider, showed that 48 per cent of business people surveyed in country consider flexible working can breed innovation among employees. The survey canvassed the views of over 19,000 senior business people and owners in 98 countries. ‘With small businesses accounting for over 90 per cent of businesses and over three fifths of employment in most economies, it is evident why entrepreneurship should be fostered and nurtured’, Regus India chief operating officer Sahil Verma said. The respondents said entrepreneurship among employees can be nurtured through various measures like updating programmes, mixing staff from different functions and access to senior management. The survey noted that 90 per cent of respondents think entrepreneurship has increased in the past five years in their sector. About 14 per cent said that female entrepreneurship and 11 per cent that serial entrepreneurship (people who set up a series of new businesses, one after the other) is on the rise. ‘Businesses have cottoned on to the powerful innovative drive of entrepreneurs too and are looking to foster entrepreneurship among their own employees’, Verma said. Digital universe to touch 44 trillion GB New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI): With growing Internet penetration and data usage, digital universe is poised to touch 44 trillion gigabytes by 2020, against 4.4 trillion gigabytes in 2013, and emerging markets would account for 60 per cent of that, says a report. Strong adoption of wireless technologies coupled with the growth in Internet consumption, migration to digital TV and increasing ‘sensors’ based machine to machine communication are playing a central role in explosive growth in the digital universe, the report by tech giant EMC and research firm IDC said. Also, the digital universe is India is nearly doubling in size every two years will multiply nine-fold between 2013 Published by K. and Balakumar on behalf of News Today Media (P) Ltd., from 85, Mount Road (GST Road), Guindy, Chennai 600 032 and printed by him at Frontline Printers Private Ltd., M-7, Thiru-Vi-Ka Industrial Estate, Guindy, and 2020600 – from to 2.8 zetabytes. Chennai 032.326 Ph:exabytes 4202 1111. Editor: K. Balakumar. Phone: Editorial/Admn /Advt: 22504000, Fax: 2250 1800 (Editorial)/2250 1200/2250 0101 (Advt/Admn). e-mail: newstodaydaily@gmail.com, Circulation: 4202 1111. Fax: 4212 0000. 6 TUESDAY 15 APRIL 2014 Sports CHENNAI ‘Off-field issues distracting us’ q Hussey will be missed: CSK coach q Backs McCullum to do well Dubai, Apr 15: Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming conceded to experiencing off-field ‘distractions’ going into the IPL 7 season because of the controversies surrounding the team but hoped that his side would settle down once the tournament begins on Wednesday. ‘There’s a lot going on, I won’t lie. There are a lot of distractions (leading up to the tournament). I think we were all uncertain about how it was going to play out,’ Fleming said at a press conference. ‘We were desperate to get back into the fold of the team. It has only been six years but a lot has happened. It’s nice to get back into a team environment, where you’re somewhat cocooned, and get a bit more info. All we can do is try and be consistent again but yes, it (controversy) is there, we acknowledge it.’ Fleming said getting together as a team could act as a balm for the players’ nerves. ‘Getting back into the team environment is the most important thing. We’ll touch on the controversies (in team talks), if we think it’s an issue. But I think most players are pretty relieved to be back and playing together.’ Speaking about the changes in the team this season, Fleming said, ‘I think there are some pretty powerful additions to the side. Some new tools to play around with this season. There has been a shift in that we’ve lost a great player in Michael Hussey, but we’ve gone for some power players that on their day can win games. We’ve learnt a lot in the last six years. ‘The players we’ve picked have quality and experience, these guys have done it before. Smith, in particular, has done it before for Mumbai. McCullum’s the same - he didn’t have much of a go at KKR, but we’re looking to get him an opportunity. Team gets UST backing UST Global, a California-based IT CSK coach Stephen Fleming is hopeful that the new recruits will rise to the occasion in IPL-7. services and solutions company has announced a sponsorship deal with Chennai Super Kings. The three year deal beginning in April 2014 with the two-time Indian Premier League champions adds to UST’s growing portfolio of sport sponsorship globally. The agreement will see the UST Global logo appear on the leading arm of the playing shirt, and on the back of the team’s helmets and caps. CSK will begin their IPL 7 campaign against the Kings XI Punjab at the KP ready to test fitness in warm-up New Delhi, Apr 15: Delhi Daredevils captain Kevin Pietersen will get a chance to test the injured little finger of his right hand tomorrow when the team plays a practice match to get ready for their opening IPL encounter against RCB on 17 April. Although his finger has been strapped for the past one week, Pietersen has batted in the nets and also faced throwdowns during the three-day session at the Airforce ground in Palam before boarding the Dubaibound flight. Team’s CEO Hemant Dua said that there is no such information with him that Pietersen won`t be available for the first match, contrary to reports in some quarters Kevin Pietersen Phelps ends retirement; eyes Rio Olympics Lee Yong-dae BWF reverses Olympic champ’s ban Seoul, Apr 15: South Korea’s Olympic badminton gold medallist Lee Yong-dae has had his one-year ban for missing dope tests reversed, the Badminton World Federation announced on Tuesday, leaving him free to compete at this year’s Asian Games. The 25-year-old won mixed doubles gold at the 2008 Games in Beijing and a bronze medal in the men’s doubles in London four years later. Another Korean player, Kim Ki-jung, was also banned for one year. The BWF had given the players one-year suspensions in January for ‘violating the requirements relating to filing whereabouts information and resulting missed tests under the BWF Anti-Doping Regulations.’ Both players appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). LOCAL SPORTS Easy win for Hindustan NT Bureau Michael Phelps Anti-Doping Agency’s drug testing programme last November offering the first hint that he was considering a return to the pool in a bid for more Olympic gold. World swimming governing body FINA requires athletes to be tested for a minimum of nine months before competing in sanctioned events. Phelps was tested twice in the quarter ended 30 September, according to data released by USADA. ‘He went through the nine-month probation period from FINA on the drug testing to get back into the competitive pool, so he is that serious about (a comeback),’ said Bowman. ‘But honestly we don’t have any expectations, we don’t know where he is, we’ll find out a lot more after Mesa and then we Karachi, Apr 15: Former captain Wasim Akram believes that the time is right for Pakistani players to be allowed back into the Indian Premier League as it would help the event connect with more fans in not just the subcontinent but all over the world. Pakistani players have been barred from participating in the IPL since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. They only took part in the first edition of the event but since than have been kept out for different reasons one of them being the political uncertainty between the two countries. ‘Whenever India and Pakistan players have played either against each other or together, they have attracted lot of crowds and you get plenty of support, especially in this part of the world. I hope in near future Pakistani players will be able to participate because we have great talent,” Wasim said in an interview to a Pakistan-based cricket website. Wasim, who is also the bowling coach of Kolkata Knight Riders, said Pakistani players can add value to any top T20 event. IPL-7 Schedule ‘I have not received any information as yet that KP won`t be playing the first match. I will get to know better once I reach there tomorrow. We have a practice match tomorrow,’ Dua told PTI yesterday. While there is a chance that Pietersen might not field, there is a chance he might just bat to see how his little finger is holding up. In case the doctor tells him to rest, he might just directly play the first match on Thursday. During team’s jersey launch at a city hotel, Pietersen was asked about the protective padding and he seemed dismissive about the state of the injury. ‘I sustained it in England but just trying to protect it and not shaking hands with anyone. But it’s not a big problem,’ he answered a query. New York, Apr 15: Michael Phelps, the most decorated swimmer of all time, will come out of retirement next week, the clearest signal yet that he is getting ready to make an Olympic comeback at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. The American, who has not competed since the 2012 London Games, will headline an 24-26 April meet in Mesa, Arizona, with fellow Olympians Ryan Lochte and Katie Ledecky, USA Swimming said in a statement on Monday. Phelps’s return to the pool touched off a wave of excitement on social media that added more fuel to speculation that the 28-year-old is planning to compete in Brazil, but his longtime coach did little to fan the flames. ‘I don’t think anybody knows,’ Bob Bowman told Reuters in a phone interview when asked if Phelps’s return to competitive swimming was a step toward swimming at the 2016 Olympics. ‘Certainly he has done some training and gotten into decent physical condition and thought it would be fun to try some racing and we will find out next week how that goes. ‘I don’t think we can really call it a comeback yet. We’ll see how next week goes and take it from there. But (Rio) is a possibility since he decided to consistently train.’ Already the most decorated Olympian of all time, Phelps rejoined the US Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on 18 April. Sajan Pillai, CEO of UST Global, said: ‘I am delighted to be announcing this partnership with the Chennai Super Kings on the eve of the seventh edition of the IPL, Chennai Super Kings are innovators and pioneers of what has become one of the most valuable sports leagues in the world, and an ideal partner for our expanding business. Rakesh Singh, president of Marketing at India Cements, owners of the Chennai Super Kings franchise, said: ‘We are proud to be associated with and happy to welcome UST Global as one of our principal sponsors. Time Pak players are in IPL: Akram can really think about what might happen after that or won’t happen after that. Phelps retired from competitive swimming after winning four gold and two silver medals at the 2012 London Olympics to take his career tally to 22, 18 of which were gold. ’Great for swimming’ He had repeatedly said before the London Games he would not contemplate a comeback and consider a return to compete at what would be his fifth Olympics in Rio. Retired US swimmer Dara Torres, who has won 12 medals in five Olympics, was not surprised by news Phelps was returning to competitive swimming, saying it was something she expected since the day he retired. UAE LEG: April 16 Abu Dhabi: Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders, 8 p.m April 17 Sharjah: Delhi Daredevils v Royal Challengers Bangalore, 8 p.m April 18 Abu Dhabi: CSK v Kings XI Punjab, 4 p.m April 18 Abu Dhabi: Hyderabad v Rajasthan Royals, 8 p.m April 19 Dubai: Royal Challangers Bangalore v Mumbai Indians 4 p.m April 19 Dubai: Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Daredevils 8 p.m April 20 Sharjah: Rajasthan Royals v Kings XI Punjab, 8 p.m April 21 Abu Dhabi: Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils, 8 p.m April 22 Sharjah: Kings XI Punjab v Hyderabad, 8 p.m April 23 Dubai: Rajasthan Royals v CSK, 8 pm April 24 Sharjah: RCB v Kolkata Knight Riders, 8 pm April 25 Dubai: Hyderabad v Delhi Daredevils, 4 pm April 25 Dubai: CSK v Mumbai Indians 8 p.m April 26 Abu Dhabi: RR v RCB 4 pm April 26 Abu Dhabi: Kings XI Punjab v KKR, 8 pm April 27 Sharjah: Daredevils v Mumbai Indians, 4 pm April 27 Sharjah: Hyderabad v CSK, 8 pm April 28 Dubai: RCB v Kings XI Punjab, 8 pm April 29 Abu Dhabi: KKR v Rajasthan Royals, 8 pm April 30: Dubai: Mumbai Indians v Hyderabad. 8 pm INDIA LEG May 2 Ranchi: CSK vs KKR, 8 pm May 3 Mumbai: Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab, 8 pm May 3 Delhi: Delhi Daredevils v Rajasthan Royals, 8 pm May 4 Bengaluru: RCB v Hyderabad, 8 pm May 5 Ahmadabad: RR v KKR, 4 pm May 5 Delhi: Delhi Daredevils v CSK, 8 pm May 6 Mumbai: Mumbai Indians v RCB, 8 pm May 7 Delhi: Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders, 4 pm May 7 Cuttack: Kings XI Punjab v CSK, 8 pm May 8 Ahmadabad: Rajasthan Royals v Hyderabad. 8 pm May 9 Bengaluru: RCB v Kings XI Punjab, 8 pm May 10 Delhi: Daredevils v Hyderabad, 4 pm May 10 Mumbai: Mumbai Indians v CSK 8 pm May 11 Cuttack: Kings XI Punjab v KKR, 4 pm May 11 Bengaluru: RCB v RR, 8 pm May 12 Hyderabad: Hyderabad v Mumbai Indians, 8 pm May 13 Ranchi: CSK v Royals 4 pm May 13 Bengaluru: RCB v Daredevils, 8 pm May 14 Hyderabad: Hyderabad v Kings XI Punjab, 4 pm May 14 Kolkata: KKR v Mumbai Indians, 8 pm May 15 Ahmadabad: Rajasthan Royals v Daredevils, 8 pm May 18 Chennai: CSK v RCB, 4 pm May 18 Hyderabad: Hyderabad v KKR, 8 pm May 19 Ahmadabad: RR v Mumbai Indians, 4 pm May 19 Delhi: Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab, 8 pm May 20 Hyderabad: Hyderabad v RCB, 4 pm May 20 Kolkata: KKR v CSK, 8 pm May 21 Mohali: Kings XI Punjab v Mumbai Indians, 8 pm May 22 Kolkata: KKR v RCB, 4 pm May 22 Chennai: CSK v Hyderabad, 8 pm May 23 Mumbai: Mumbai Indians v Daredevils, 4 pm May 23 Mohali: Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals, 8 pm May 24 Bengaluru: RCB v CSK, 4 pm May 24 Kolkata: KKR v Hyderabad, 8 pm May 25 Mohali: Kings XI Punjab v Delhi Daredevils, 4 pm May 25 Mumbai: Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals, 8 pm May 27 Chennai: Qualifier 1, 8 pm May 28 Chennai: Eliminator, 8 pm May 30 Mumbai: Qualifier 2, 8 pm June 1 Mumbai: FINAL, 8 pm (Note: All times in IST) Opposition to Beckham’s Miami arena plan Miami, Apr 15: Line’s head of govabout $200 million and concepts that have been discussed.’ Chennai, Apr 15: include shops, hotels An alliance of shipping interests and a ernmental affairs, inYet a growing list of opponents say Hindustan Jammers thrashed SSBC 57 in a men’s preliminary league and offices connected a stadium would jeopardize Miami’s billionaire car dealer launched a news- cludes two chapters match of the Rising Star BC State-level basketball tournament on Monday. to the mainland by a aspiration of becoming a more attracpaper ad on Monday protesting retired of the International Results: Men: Shalom BC bt Korattur BC 45-25; Hindustan Jammers 57 pedestrian bridge. English soccer star David Beckham’s Longshoremen’s Astive choice for global shippers looking (Paul 28) bt SSBC 13 (Vijayakumar 13); Ragavendra BC 48 (Sridhar 10 bt plans for a soccer arena at the port of sociation and two ste‘This is one of four to distribute goods to the U.S. market. ICF Institute 28 (Muthupandi 10); Ambattur BC 43 (Manivannan 10) bt PAKP Miami, saying it threatens the city’s vedore companies, sites under consid‘There are plenty of other places for BC 25 (K. Balamurugar 10); Shalom BC 45 (N. Karthick 12) bt Korattur BC plans to capitalize on the expansion whose workers load eration, there’s noth- the stadium to be,’ Braman said in a 25 (Vimal 10); Egmore BC 40 bt NMBC 14. and unload ships, of the Panama Canal. ing concrete, there’s telephone interview. TNSJA office-bearers no recommendation ‘We cannot jeopardize well-paying along with car dealer Miami officials hope the port’s short The following were elected office-bearers of the Tamilnadu Sports’ Journalpending,’ Miami-Dade distance from the Panama Canal, as jobs, like crane operators, longshore Norman Braman, the David Beckham ists’ Association at its annual general body meeting held here on Sunday: Mayor Carlos Gimenez well as $2 billion of planned infraworkers, and mechanics, for low-pay- one-time owner of President: T N Raghu (Deccan Chronicle); Secretary: K Keerthivasan said on Monday. ing stadium jobs, such as concession Philadelphia Eagles. structure upgrades, including cranes (The Hindu); Joint Secretary: R Narayanan (The Hindu); Vice-Presidents: Beckham last month unveiled desales,’ the Miami Seaport Alliance said ‘The plan doesn’t interfere with port to unload the ships and a $1 billion Ashok Venugopal (New Indian Express); K Muthu (Ulaga Champion News); in a full-page ad that ran in the Miami tailed plans for a 25,000-seat water- operations,’ said Neisen Kasdin, an tunnel connecting the port to major Treasurer: Girish Narayanan (The Hindu); Executive Committee Members: Herald and its sister Spanish-language front stadium on the island port with attorney for Akerman Senterfitt and highways, will increase its appeal. R Venkatnarayan (The Hindu), C Santhosh Kumar (Deccan Chronicle), sweeping views of downtown Miami. paper, El Nuevo Herald.Road), Guindy, Chennai for Printers the Beckham ‘It Thiru-Vi-Ka Neither Braman nor Fox would say Published by K. Balakumar on behalf of News Today Media (P) Ltd., from 85, Mount Road (GST 600 032 and printed by him atadviser Frontline Privategroup. Ltd., M-7, Industrial Estate, Guindy, Krishna Kanta Chakraborty (Times of India), Indraneel Das (New Indian Development of the 36-acre will likely generate more revenue for who paid for the two ads in Monday’s The group, led by John Fox, who Chennai 600 032. Ph: 4202 1111. Editor: K. Balakumar. Phone: Editorial/Admn /Advt: 22504000, Fax: 2250 1800 (Editorial)/2250 1200/2250 0101 (Advt/Admn). e-mail: newstodaydaily@gmail.com, Circulation: 4202 1111. Fax: 4212 0000. Express); VM Gurusamy (Vilaiyattulagam); A Perumal (The Hindu, Tamil). has retired as Royal Caribbean Cruise (14.5-hectare) space would cost the port in the shorter term than other paper, worth nearly $25,000. Mixed bag CHENNAI Civic issues to the fore V PADMASINI Chennai, Apr 15: Demand for cleaning the city’s waterways, removing encroachments on its banks, upgrading Royapuram railway station and complaints on corrupt practices followed by some Councillors were some of the issues highlighted at an interactive session between candidates for the South Chennai Parliamentary constituency and voters held at Mylapore recently. The meeting was organised by Rajaji Centre for Public Affairs. Recalling how useful the Buckingham Canal had been, residents grilled the candidates on what measures they were going to take to prevent it from being used to dump sewage. BJP candidate L Ganesan said that the plans and expert committee opinions regarding the cleaning of the canal were in place and if enforced strongly the canal could be restored. His promises to the electorate included solving water problem, fisherman’s issues and establishment of a medical structure similar to the AIIMS at the State level. DMK candidate TKS Elangovan said that DMK had introduced the Chennai Waterways Scheme wherein it had proposed to let in treated water into the canal. This scheme was shelved when the DMK lost power. This method if practised would relieve mosquito problems, he said. Elangovan said he proposed to extend the MRTS line from Tiruvanmiyur to Mahabalipuram if elected. He also said that he was against fielding persons with criminal background in elections. AAP candidate Zakir Hussain narrated how he practised garbage segregation and composting at his home and factory and how it helped to reduce the amount of garbage generated and thrown in public places. If this was practised by people it would help to keep waterways clean, he said. He also said that whatever schemes the AAP would introduced would be done after discussion with the voters. ‘Our governance will be transparent and corruption free,’ he promised. AIADMK candidate J Jayavardan did not attend the meeting. A large number of devotees carried milk pots as part of Tamil New Year and Chitra Pournami festivity at Sri Nagathamman temple located at Anna University Staff Quarters, Kotturpuram in Chennai yesterday. TUESDAY 15 APRIL 2014 7 Sonia lacks confidence in Rahul, says Jaitley q ‘Congress general secretary’s speeches are not working’ New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI): BJP leader Arun Jaitley today took potshots at Congress over the televised messages of Sonia Gandhi, saying that the party had been forced to change its principal communicator since Rahul Gandhi’s speeches to the people were ‘not working’. Taking a jibe in a post on his website, he said the new slogan of Congress is ‘Mein Nahin Mom’ (Not me, Mom) and claimed that last minute attempts to change electoral agenda through paid television time would not click. Jaitley said that an opinion poll by a leading channel had shown that NDA may get absolute majority and ‘as the Congress shrinks further, its Modi hits back at Rahul for ‘toffee’ comment Hazaribagh, Apr 15 (PTI): Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi for dubbing Gujarat development model as a ‘toffee model’, Narendra Modi today compared the Congress Vice President with children and said the word ‘toffee’ has caught his fancy after he repeatedly spoke about ‘balloon’. Addressing a rally here, Modi said he thought serious issues would be discussed in this election and the galaxy of BJP leaders including L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Yashwant Sinha, Arun Jaitley and Murli Manohar Joshi were speaking on various subjects. ‘But on the other side, there is a player whose mind doesn’t move away from childishness. Such an important election about the country’s future but for ten days, a word that gripped him was ‘balloon’. For ten days he kept repeating it. However, children don’t stick to a toy for too long and now he has caught the word ‘toffee’. MI,KKR gear up for high-voltage opener Dubai, Apr 15: KKR gained heavily from this auction, as they managed to grab some good The most awaited tournament of the Indian players like Yusuf Pathan, Robin country’s cricket calender - Indian Premier League (IPL) is here. With the Uthappa, Umesh Yadav, Piyush Chawla initial part of the event being shifted and Vinay Kumar, something that they owing to the ongoing general elections. missed dearly in the last season. the focus has shifted to the middle-east Having won the last season of the IPL where matches will be held beginning and the Champions League, Mumbai tomorrow till 30 April. Indians come into this tournament high With a host of international and doon confidence. mestic players, consisting of current and Despite their star player Sachin TenGautham Gambhir retired players, the 7th season of IPL dulkar not being a part of the side any promises high octane action. longer, they still have the experience The first match of this season is to be and the ammunition in their batting in played between reigning champions the form of Hussey and Rohit Sharma to Mumbai Indians and 2012 winners, more than make up for this loss. Zaheer Kolkata Knight Riders, at the Sheikh Khan’s return to the bowling line-up, Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. after a gap of three years, provides Having made it to the playoffs for four them the much-needed Indian seamer successive season, Mumbai Indians, over the last six to partner Lasith Malinga, something they have missed seasons of the IPL, have been one of the most consist- since the third season. ent sides. They lost two of their most consistent players -- Dinesh Karthik and Dwayne Smith - during this year’s auction but managed to grab the new sensation Corey Anderson apart from Josh Hazlewood, Ben Dunk and Aussie veteran Mike Hussey. Kolkata Knight Riders, on the other hand, have been the most talked about side in the IPL, owing to all the controversies the owners, management and the players get themselves into both on and off the field. Owned by Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, it is one of the most followed and loved franchise in the IPL. Arun Jaitley campaign has resulted in a naught’ as it is ‘too abstract and confused’. ‘The Congress Party changed track yesterday. Rahul Gandhi-led campaign and the accompanying advertisements were given a backseat. The Congress president Sonia Gandhi herself decided to lead from the front. She addressed the country by booking television time on all channels,’ he said. Claiming that the desperation in Congress was clear, Jaitley said that speeches, interviews and press conferences of political leaders are always covered by the media and Sonia Gandhi does not have to buy television time in order to reach to the people. ‘The idea was to change the principle communicator of the party from the son to the mother,’ he said. The BJP leader, who is contesting the Lok Sabha polls from Amritsar, said the act of bring Sonia messages on TV was an expression of ‘lack of confidence in Rahul Gandhi, in as much as his speeches to the people were not working.’ ‘Messages on paid television time cannot last minute change the electoral agenda. Price rise, mismanagement of the economy, corruption, dilution of the office of Prime Minister cannot be a part of either ‘Bhartiyata’ or ‘Hindustaniat’. This message will not click,’ Jaitley said. He claimed the only message yesterday’s speech of Sonia Gandhi telecast on ‘paid television time’ is that Congress party’s new slogan now is ‘Mein Nahin Mom’. ‘Every vote counts, makes a difference’ NT Bureau Chennai, Apr 15: At a time where number of voters have increased, together with the increase in number of political parties, every citizen should exercise his/her voting right, said former Chief Election Commissioner of India T S Krishnamurthy. Participating at the ‘Weight of your vote’, an awareness programme on citizens voting roles and responsibilities organised Former Chief Election Commissioner of India T S Krishnamurthy by Samriddhi Foundation and T and dignitaries at the ‘Weight of your vote’ programme organised by Nagar Exnora here recently, he Samriddhi Foundation and T Nagar Exnora in Chennai recently. said every single vote counts and can make a difference in making or breaking a political party. He bilities. The facility of NOTA would exercise their rights judiciously, said that vote is an important in- let the candidate know the citizens especially the youth. Chairman of Forum for Electoral strument in hands of the citizens. views, he said. Madras High Court advocate N L Integrity M G Devasahayam said Consumer Forum of India chairman R Desikan also emphasised Rajah said that voting is an impor- every voter must educate himself that every citizen must exercise tant right of a citizen and a respon- about the contestants in his/her his/ her vote for the right person. sibility which should not be avoided. constituency. Every details of the He also spoke of the availability candidates are available at a click In case he/ she is unhappy, NOTA can be opted and not shy away of information in the web and sug- of a button and one must be aware from his or her voting responsi- gested that the citizens should of the contestants, he said. I, SUNILKUMAR SRICHAND AHUJA, Son of Srichand Kherajmal Ahuja, born on 19th October 1971 (native place: Chennai, Tamilnadu), residing at Flat 3A, Coromandel Towers, 304, Poonamallee High Road, Chennai, shall henceforth be known as SUNIL SRICHAND AHUJA. I, MUTHURAJA USHARANI, residing at No.2/7, Lakshmi Colony N o r t h Crescent Street, G.N. Chetty Road, T.Nagar, Chennai-600 017, shall henceforth be known as SETHURAMAN USHARANI. MUTHURAJA USHARANI. SUNILKUMAR SRICHAND AHUJA. Murder accused killed in Madurai Madurai, Apr 15 (PTI): A five-member gang today hacked to death an accused in Dalit leader Pasupathi Pandian murder case. Police said Muthupandian (37) along with three associates were going to Alagarkovil in a car, when the gang deliberately rammed their car into their vehicle, forcing it to stop. Muthupandian tried to flee, but the gang members chased and hacked him to death, police said. One of Muthupandian’s associates suffered head injuries in the attack, and has been admitted to hospital in a serious condition. Devendra Kula Vellalar Federation founder Pasupathi Pandian was murdered in Dindigul on 10 January, 2012 by an unidentifi gang. on behalf of News Today Media (P) Ltd., from 85, Mount Road (GST Road), Guindy, Chennai 600 032 and printed by him at Frontline Printers Private Ltd., M-7, Thiru-Vi-Ka Industrial Estate, Guindy, Published by K. ed Balakumar Chennai 600 032. Ph: 4202 1111. Editor: K. Balakumar. Phone: Editorial/Admn /Advt: 22504000, Fax: 2250 1800 (Editorial)/2250 1200/2250 0101 (Advt/Admn). e-mail: newstodaydaily@gmail.com, Circulation: 4202 1111. Fax: 4212 0000. , CHENNAI 8 TUESDAY 15 APRIL 2014 Licensed to post without prepayment under WPP. No. TN / PMG / (CCR) / 470 / 12-14 Santhanam is very special, says Shankar D irector Shankar heaped laurels on actor Santhanam at the audio launch of the movie Vallavanukku Pullum Ayudham (VPA) in Chennai on Monday. The music of VPA, was launched at a gala event at a multiplex in Chennai. Film-makers Shankar and SS Rajamouli took part in the audio launch function. It must be noted that VPA is remake of Rajamouli’s Telugu blockbuster Maryada Ramanna. Directed by Sreenath and produced by PVP Cinemas, the movie stars Ashna Zaveri as heroine. Music is by Siddharth Vipin. There is a lot of hype about the movie and Santhanam’s role in it as he is said to have shed weight and featured in some dance moves. Shankar recalled his association working with Santhanam in Endhiran and to-be released Ai. On his part, Rajamouli described him as a ‘dedicated and friendly’ actor. On his part, Sreenath, said,’ We have made enough changes in the script to suit Tamil audience’. Plans are on to release the movie on 9 May. Producer UTV Dhananjayan, actor-producer VTV Ganesh and stunt master Jaguar Thangam were also present on the occasion. —NT Bureau Santhanam and Ashna Zaveri in Vallavanukku Pullum Ayudham Get, set, go for Suriya, Venkat Prabhu F ilmmakers Bharathiraja, K Balachander, Ameer, A R Murugadoss and actor Gautham Karthik were among those who attended the audio launch of Arima Nambi on Sunday. The movie stars Vikram Prabhu and Priya Anand in the lead roles which has music by Drums Sivamani. Veteran playback singer S P Balasubramaniyam, music director M S Viswanathan were also present. Speaking on the occasion, Vikram’s father Prabhu in his speech said that ‘Both Ajith and Vijay called Vikram Prabhu and wished him for the success of Arima Nambi. A clipping of Rajnikanth, Ilayaraja, AR Rahman, Zakir Hussain, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle wishing Sivamani and the film all the best was also screened. Arima Nambi is directed by Anand Shankar, a former assistant of AR Murugadoss. —NT Bureau J ayam Ravi and Hansika are coming together after Engeyum Kadhal for a venture titled Romeo Juliet, the shoot for which has started. Sources have it that the hero’s We hear that while Jayam Ravi’s character is old school when it came to romance, while Hansika’s is totally opposite. It is said it would be a blend of two opposites and the movie is a romantic-fantasy. Rome Juliet is directed by debutant Lakshman and music is by Imman and cinematography by Soundarrajan. Apart from this, Jayam Ravi is waiting for the release of Boologam and working in his brother Raja’s project. — NT Bureau Actor Suriya with filmmakers Venkat Prabhu and Bala. A world around children Jayam Ravi and Hansika in Romeo Juliet A film for women UGLY DUCKLING P A nthony, a journalist-turnedproducer, is upbeat about his maiden production venture Azhagu Kutty Chellam. Directed by Charles, the film stars Kalloori fame Akhil, Karunaas, Thambi Ramiah, Adukalam Naren, John Vijay, Suresh, Vinodhini, Rithvika among others in the lead roles. The photography is by Vijay Armstrong and music by Ved Shankar Sugavanam. N Muthukumar has penned the lyrics and editing by Pravin Baskar. Speaking about the film, Charles, says, ‘It dwells on a social theme. We live a life for our children. The movie revolves around three couples and how their life change because of their children’. An emotional tale with right commercial elements, the movie is apt for today’s society’. Anthony on behalf off his Mercury Networks has produced several hundred episodes of the talk show Neeya Naana in a Tamil channel. He says, ‘ Azhagu Kutty Chellam is my maiden venture as producer on big screen. I want to do quality movies.’ The movie has come good and plans are on to release the same this summer. —NT Bureau Arima Nambi audio is out Ravi, Hansika at it again! A fter Singam 2, Suriya is shooting for director Lingusamy’s Anjaan. The movie features Samantha opposite him and shooting is on in Mumbai. After completing Anjaan, Suriya will be working inn director Venkat Prabhu’s next. It will be a big-budgeted film produced by Studio Green. Remember Venkat Prabhu gave hits like Mangatha and Briyani before. On Tamil New Year’s day, the Suriya - Venkat Prabhu venture kickstarted. Everyone from the Tamil film industry conveyed their best wishes for this untitled film. The movie would have music by Yuvan Shankar Raja. It is learnt that Venkat’s team had approached Shruti and she seemed to have liked her character. —NT Bureau Veteran filmmakers K Balachander, Bharathiraja and actress Priya Anand at the audio launch of Arima Nambi in Chennai. Our lensman A R Jayakumar spotted a bunch of ducks paddling at a lake in Sholinganallur. ongadi Neengalum Unga Kadhalum is written and directed by M A Ramakrishnan and produced by K R Kannan. The movie will be releasd Reach Media on 25 April. While the director and Athmiya play the lead roles, the others in the cast are Karunya, Jayaprakash, Nagendiran, Sendrayan, Jayamoorthy and Murali. The music is scored by Kannan, the cinematography is by M V Panneerselvam and the lyrics are by Annamalai. The story of Pongadi Neengalum Unga Kadhalum is about the trust women have in men and how it sometimes proves to be a disadvantage. Speaking about the film, Ramakrishnan, says, ‘I started as an assistant to director K Balachander and later worked with director Cheran. I wanted to become a director, but changed my mind when S P Charan asked me to play the lead in Kunguma Poovum Konjum Puravum. I followed it up with Gorippalayam. As a director, I’ve conveyed a message through Pongadi..., but in an entertaining manner.’ Ramakrishnan said, ‘The film will be an interesting one especiallly for youngsters’. —NT Bureau A still from Pongadi Neengalum Unga Kadhalum Published by K. 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