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While lot succumb to be pressure, there are few like this….
[h=1]Kerala woman’s forced conversion: She was held captive in Saudi for 80 days, say cops[/h]

The woman was kept captive in an apartment in Jeddah and managed a miraculous escape after her family, settled in Gujarat, sent her an air ticket via mail.

The 24-year-old woman from Kerala, who accused a Muslim man of forcible conversion to Islam, was under house arrest in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for more than 80 days, police officials have informed.

The revelations were made days after the officials arrested two persons from Ernakulam in connection with the case.
Police had started investigating the case after the woman moved the HC alleging forcible conversion in November 2017.

In a petition filed by the woman, she had also alleged that Muhammad Riyas, the key accused in the case, had taken her to Saudi Arabia and had plans to take her to Syria thereafter, to be sold as a sex slave to ISIS. She had also alleged that Riyas forced her to have sexual intercourse with him.

Police said that the woman was kept captive in an apartment after Riyas threatened to release her nude videos to the public.
The woman was also made to do data entry work in the apartment, police said, reports TOI.

The rural SP said, "Gruesome videos, including that of non-believers being stoned to death, were shown to her to instil hate towards other communities. The aim was to develop an affinity towards the activities of the terrorists. However, she refused to get brainwashed”, reports TOI.

Earlier, the woman had claimed that she managed to escape after she contacted her family settled in Gujarat.

Read more at: https://www.thenewsminute.com/artic...was-held-captive-saudi-80-days-say-cops-74673

 

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Wishing him all the best...

Let his desire materialize...


Love India, desire to live thereSC Prize winner Arudpragasam

Sri Lankan writer Anuk Arudpragasam, the winner of this year's DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, loves India and has a desire to live in the country once he is back from the US after completing his PhD.

Just 29 years of age, Arudpragasam bagged the USD 25,000 prize for his debut novel "The Story of a Brief Marriage",
which is set during the civil war in Sri Lanka. The award was presented to him at the Dhaka Lit Fest on November 18.
He is now going back to New York to complete his doctorate in philosophy at Columbia University.

"After that I would move back to South Asia, either India or Sri Lanka. I desire to live in India as I like India a lot," Arudpragasam tells PTI in an interview after his win here.

The fact that he has won a major literature prize for his first book is yet to sink in.

"It's like a bit too early to appreciate but obviously I am very happy. This is the first prize I won, the first real big recognition I got. I think I will feel the positive effects in the coming weeks and months, over a longer period of time. But this prize is a kind of security. You feel you can continue to write," he says.

For the past two years, Arudpragasam has been working on another novel.

"It is a structurally complicated novel, so it has taken more time to write. It is about yearning, about a feeling of incompleteness," he says.

There was more good news for the young writer. He was also named the winner of the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize
2017. The prize carries a cash award of Rs 2 lakh and a trophy.

"The Story of a Brief Marriage" is published by Granta Books and in India by HarperCollins. It is focused on one individual and how the war affected this family, says Arudpragasam.

http://www.ptinews.com/Bookworm/bookworm.aspx?pagenum=2&bid=335723

 

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Passports may no longer serve as an address proof…bcos the last page of the passport will be discontinued, report says.
[h=1]MEA to issue orange passports for unskilled labourers[/h]

India has decided to do away with the last page of the passport that contains the names of the spouse, parents and address of the passport-holder.

India has decided to do away with the last page of the passport that contains the names of the spouse, parents and address of the passport-holder while changing the colour of ECR passports, largely availed of by unskilled workers seeking employment abroad, the External Affairs Ministry said on Friday.

Responding to queries, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said that a three-member committee comprising officials of his ministry and the Ministry of Women and Child Development was constituted to examine various issues pertaining to passport applications where mother or child had insisted that the name of the father should not be mentioned in the passport and also relating to passport issues to children with single parent and to adopted children.

"The report of the committee has been accepted by the ministry," Kumar said.

He said that one of the recommendations of the committee was that the External Affairs Ministry should explore the possibility of doing away with the printing of information contained in the passport such as names of father or legal guardian, mother, spouse, and address contained in the last page of the passport.

"The ministry has examined the recommendation of the Committee in consultation with various stakeholders, examined the guidelines of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) regarding machine-readable travel documents and decided that the last page of the passport and other travel documents issued under the Passports Act, 1967, and Passport Rules, 1980, would no longer be printed," the spokesperson said.

Read more at: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/mea-issue-orange-passports-unskilled-labourers-74736

 

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[h=1]India needs to develop its infrastructure, consolidate and strengthen its position in Indian Ocean, seriously considering China’s growing naval presence…[/h][h=1]Seychelles To Soon Ratify Deal Allowing India To Develop Military Infrastructure On One Of Its Islands[/h]

Seychelles Minister of Foreign Affairs presents a hydrographic cooperation Map to India in presence of PM Modi. (Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times/Getty Images)

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During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Seychelles in 2015, the country had agreed to allow India to built military infrastructure on its strategically located island of Assumption. The project, which was to take off flowing the ratification of the agreement by the country’s parliament, hasn’t made much headway since then. It may, however, move forward now, Seychelles’ leader of opposition Wavel John Charles Ramkalawan, a person of Indian origin, told The Wire in a recent interview.

Ramkalawan, who was in New Delhi to attend a conference Of Indian-origin parliamentarians from around the world organised by the Modi government, told the portal that Seychelles’ former president failed to table the agreement for discussion in the country’s parliament, leading to the delay in its ratification.

With the former president losing power in the 2016 parliamentary elections, the opposition collation now has a majority in the in the 33-member National Assembly. According to Ramkalawan, the new president has agreed to table the agreement in the parliament and has provided a copy of the same to him to facilitate discussions.

In the interview, he noted that the agreement would soon be tabled in the parliament and could be ratified as early as the end of January.

Read more at: https://swarajyamag.com/insta/seych...military-infrastructure-on-one-of-its-islands

 

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[h=1]A welcome development, which should have been done long back…

‘Enemy properties’ worth Rs 1 lakh crore to be auctioned off by government[/h]The Home Ministry is planning to auction off over 9,400 ‘enemy properties’ worth over Rs. 1 lakh crore. These properties belong to those who have left for countries for like Pakistan and China and took the citizenship of these countries. The process of identifying these properties and estates will be started soon, the ministry said.

The move comes after the amendment of Enemy Property Act, which ensured that the heirs of those who migrated to Pakistan and China during Partition and afterwards will have no claim over the properties left behind in India. As per recent meeting held with Home Minister Rajnath Singh, it was informed that the survey of 6,289 enemy properties has been completed and that of the remaining 2,991 properties will be completed in due course.

As per the report in The Economic Times, among the 9,280 properties left behind by Pakistani nationals, the highest 4,991 properties are located in Uttar Pradesh followed by West Bengal which has 2,735 such estates. There are 487 such properties in Delhi. The property left behind by Chinese nationals, the highest of 57 are located in Meghalaya, followed by 29 in West Bengal. Assam has 7 such properties. According to the new Act, ‘enemy property’ refers to any property belonging to, held or managed on behalf of an enemy, an enemy subject or an enemy firm.
[h=1]Read more at: http://www.opindia.com/2018/01/enem...lakh-crore-to-be-auctioned-off-by-government/[/h]

 

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By adding more strength of Para-malitary forces, we can guard our LOC effectively.

Government to raise 15 new battalions for Pakistan, China borders

While the BSF is the country's largest border guarding force with a strength of about 2.5 lakh, the ITBP is about 90,000-personnel strong.
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NEW DELHI: The government is planning to raise 15 new battalions in the country's two important border guarding forces -- the BSF and the ITBP -- to fortify defence along the strategic frontiers with Pakistan, Bangladesh and China.

A senior official in the Union Home Ministry told PTI that it is "actively considering" raising six fresh battalions in the Border Security Force (BSF) and nine in the Indo- Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force.

Each battalion of these forces comprises about 1,000 operational jawans and officers.

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[h=1]Recommended provision for enforcing penalty to parents who don’t send their children to school..[/h]
[h=1]Parents Should Be Punished If Kids Don’t Go to School, Says Government Panel[/h]

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[h=3]While the RTE Act makes education a fundamental right for every child between six and 14 years of age, it does not include any penal provisions in case parents or teachers do not adhere to its provisions.[/h]New Delhi: A sub-committee of the highest advisory body on education has reportedly recommended that parents should be punished if they do not send their children to school.

According to the Telegraph, this suggestion was part of a draft report submitted to the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) on Monday, saying that the Right to Education Act needed to be looked at again. “The provisions of the RTE Act 2009 need to be re-looked as there is no penal provision for parents who do not send their children to school,” the report said, talking about the extension of the Act to pre-school and secondary education.

While the RTE Act makes education a fundamental right for every child between six and 14 years of age, it does not include any penal provisions in case parents or teachers do not adhere to its provisions.

Read more at: https://thewire.in/214191/parents-s...kids-dont-go-to-school-says-government-panel/

 

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[h=1]Modi Government taking tough decisions is not new..[/h][h=1]Centre Ends Haj Subsidy, Says Will Use Funds for Education of Minorities[/h][h=2]The union minister said the government would save Rs 700 crore by stopping the subsidy.[/h]

New Delhi: The central government has withdrawn the subsidy given to Haj pilgrims. Minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the decision is in line with the government’s agenda to empower miniorities without appeasement.

Naqvi said that for the first time in independent India, 1.75 lakh pilgrims will go to Haj without a subsidy, a rise from the 1.25 lakh that went for the annual pilgrimage last year.

Read more at: http://www.news18.com/news/india/ce...s-decision-to-empower-minorities-1633729.html

 

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[h=1]India to purchase spike, an Israeli fourth generation anti-tank quidded missiles, developed and designed by Israel company Rafael Advance Defence Systems[/h][h=1]It is good that the deal clicked..[/h][h=1]Scrapped $500 million Israel-India missile deal back on track: Netanyahu[/h]

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The deal was cancelled a few weeks ahead of Netanyahu’s visit to India and its renewal is considered to be a “major strategic achievement”, the Jerusalem Post reported[/h]India will buy Israel’s Spike anti-tank guided missiles, Israeli media on Wednesday quoted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying, weeks after New Delhi scrapped the $500 million lucrative defence deal.

The deal was cancelled a few weeks ahead of Netanyahu’s visit to India and its renewal is considered to be a “major strategic achievement”, the Jerusalem Post reported.

“India will buy Israel’s anti-tank spike missiles,” the paper quoted Prime Minister Netanyahu as saying after spending the day with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.

Read more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...k-netanyahu/story-ZnPrOWpaCBd1isexXyT3zL.html

 

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[h=1]May be a glaring inefficiency on security point of view at P.M’sconstituency, Varanasi..[/h][h=1]Secret underground 'mini city' discovered in PM Narendra Modi'sconstituency Varanasi

[/h][h=1]A shocked captain lambasted the local police and asked them to prepare areport on the entire area immediately. | Photo Credit: BCCL[/h][h=1]------------------------------------------------------------[/h]Varanasi: In a shocking incident, a 'mini city'has been discovered under the ground not far away from famous KashiVishwanath temple on Monday.
The underground settlementwas discovered in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency by SSP RKBharadwaj while he was on patrol after midnight.
A shocked captain lambastedthe local police and asked them to prepare a report on the entire areaimmediately.
Read lmore at: http://www.timesnownews.com/india/a...-city-varanasi-kashi-vishwanath-temple/189756

 

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She says world has a different image of her country..
[h=1]Actress Saba Qamar breaks down on TV; says having Pakistani passport is humiliating[/h]

[h=1]Pakistani actress Saba Qamar, who made her Bollywood debut with superhit movie Hindi Medium, was in tears during a chat show on a Pakistani TV channel. Saba Qamar opened up about how humiliating it was for her when she was stopped at the international airport during the security check and properly investigated when she was visiting Tbilisi in Georgia to shoot a song while the Indian crew went ahead.[/h]
Read more at: https://www.newsx.com/world/actress...says-having-pakistani-passport-is-humiliating

 

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Great innovative devices…more helpful to the society
[h=1]Coconut tree climbing machine and 4 more innovative products from Kerala startups[/h]

Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) supports innovative technology ideas that can help solve social or environmental issues while also having business potential.

A robot that cleans manholes. A machine that climbs coconut trees. A device that helps fishermen communicate even when they are miles away from land with no cellular range. Sounds unbelievable? Believe us, these are actual products developed by a few pioneering Kerala startups.

The Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM), which aims to create and sustain a startup ecosystem in the state, has been supporting innovative technology ideas that can help solve social or environmental issues while also having business potential.

"We believe that currently most of the startups work on problems which may not have large business potential. But many of our social problems have both business potential and can also have a social impact," says Saji Gopinath, the CEO of KSUM.

Read more at: https://www.thenewsminute.com/artic...ore-innovative-products-kerala-startups-74951

 

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It adds another feather in the cap of DRDO
[h=1]India successfully test fires nuclear-capable Agni-V ballistic missile[/h]

The test took place at the Abdul Kalam Island facility off the Odisha coast.

India on Thursday successfully test fired its indigenously developed intercontinental surface-to-surface nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-V -- the most potent and with the longest range in the Agni series - that can reach targets as far as Beijing.

The test took place at the Abdul Kalam Island facility off the Odisha coast. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted about its success, congratulating its makers DRDO, the armed forces and the defence industry.

She said the successful test of the 5,000-km-range missile that can carry a one-tonne warhead, was "a major boost to the defence capabilities of our country".

"The Made in India canistered missile, having three stages of propulsion, was successfully test fired," she tweeted.

Read more at: https://www.thenewsminute.com/artic...uclear-capable-agni-v-ballistic-missile-74942

 

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வடக்கு வளர்கிறது, தெற்கு தேய்கிறது
[h=1]Indian population is growing much faster in the north – and the south is paying the price[/h][h=2]The disparity in the rate of population growth could reshape the country politically, economically and culturally.[/h]
That India has a population problem is a truism every schoolchild learns. It was the first country in the world to adopt family planning, back in 1952. Yet, the problem persists: India is expected to surpass China as the most populous country on the planet by 2024, an incredible overtake given that in 1950, China’s population was one and a half times more than India’s.

This overarching narrative of India’s population explosion, however, becomes complicated as one zooms in. West Bengal’s fertility rate – the average number of children a woman would have in a given population – is lower than that of Norway, a nation worried about its social welfare system being stretched by an ageing population. Japan’s fertility rate of 1.5 is so low that the country is facing a socio-economic crisis. Yet, according to data released by the Union government last week, Kerala’s fertility rate is nearly the same – 1.56.

Clearly, then, it makes little sense to talk of India’s population problem without discussing the vast disparities that characterise how the population is growing across states. Have a look at this map:


Read more at: https://scroll.in/article/865569/in...n-the-north-and-the-south-is-paying-the-price

 

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[h=1]The world's attraction towards India is growing because government of India is doing good internally in every field. From 142nd place to 100th place in 'Ease of Doing Business' is a huge achievement in itself and the world acknowledges it[/h]Ease of doing business: Government targets 90 reforms to climb rank in World Bank's report

NEW DELHI: With four months left to implement reforms to make doing business easier, India is targeting 90 measures including quicker construction permits, simpler registration of new companies and Aadhaar-based identification of directors to achieve a higher ranking in the World Bank's annual listing.

This time, India has one month less to implement the steps because the World Bank has advanced the deadline for submission to May 1 for the next set of rankings, usually announced in October.

During a review by the Prime Minister's Office and the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, which is the nodal agency for ease of doing business ranks, several new reforms have been suggested by the finance, urban development and corporate affairs ministries, among others.

The Department of Financial Services will consider doing away with the requirement of providing a company seal to open open a bank account. It has been proposed that cash refunds on import of capital equipment should be given within a year instead of the current system of claiming input tax credit to improve ease of paying taxes.

India jumped a record 30 places to the 100th spot in the World Bank Doing Business rankings benchmarked to June 2017. It aims to be in the top 50.

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Instead the Govt. could have considered revising the prices of Alcohol, IMFL,etc
[h=1]Bus fares hiked across the board in Tamil Nadu[/h][h=1]

[/h]CHENNAI, JAN 19:

The Tamil Nadu government has revised public and private bus transport fares with effect from Saturday, according to an official release. The rates have been revised for all services, including intercity and town and metro services across the State.
The fare hike follows a recent week-long strike by public transport workers that crippled transport services across the State.

Indexing method

The release said a committee will be constituted to revise fares in the future. The revision will be based on an indexing method that will take into account fuel prices, operation and maintenance costs, and wage hike.

It has also introduced fees to provide for accident compensation and toll charges as part of the fare.

The public transport corporations operate 22,509 buses and employ 1.40 lakh persons. Over 2 crore passengers use the services with buses travelling a total of 88.64 lakh km daily.

Running on loss

While operation and maintenance costs, fuel prices and wages have been going up, fares have not been revised since November 2011. Government-owned transport corporations are losing ₹9 crore daily and 75 per cent of the buses are more than six years old. The State government has compensated these corporations ₹ 12,059 crore in subsidy but they are burdened with accumulated losses of over ₹20,488 crore.

The government has pointed out in the release that the Madras High Court in an interim order on November 24, 2017, had said that fare revision is inevitable, given the economic factors.
[h=1]Read more at: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com...ate-buses-after-six-years/article10042469.ece[/h]

 

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[h=1]A significant development…[/h][h=1]Lockheed Martin proposes making custom-built fighter jets in India[/h]

American aerospace and defence major Lockheed Martin has proposed to manufacture custom-built F-35 fighter jets in India, which its officials say will give Indian industry a unique opportunity to become part of the world's largest fighter aircraft ecosystem.

"We plan to introduce two new words into the lexicon of international fighter aircraft manufacturing: 'India' and 'exclusive'," Vivek Lall, vice president, strategy and business development, at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics told PTI in an interview.

"India-specific state-of-the-art fighter production in India will be exclusive, something that has never before been presented by any other fighter aircraft manufacturer, past or present. There will also be a significant export market available for Indian-made fighters," he said.

Lall, an Indian American who last year was instrumental in the decision of the Trump administration to sell top-of- the-line unarmed drones from General Atomics, in his previous capacity.


Read more at: http://www.businesstoday.in/current...built-fighter-jets-in-india/story/268482.html

 

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Modi's amended enemy property law gives jitters to China

China fears India can confiscate assets of its companies, such as Xiaomi and Lenovo, if the two countries enter a military conflict.

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The amendment of the 49-year-old Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Act after which the Narendra Modi government plans to auction more than 9,400 properties of those who took citizenship of China has made China jittery.


Chinese investment in India has grown rapidly in the past few years. China fears India can confiscate assets of its companies, such as Xiaomi and Lenovo, if the two countries enter a military conflict. Last year, Indian and China faced off for months over construction by Chinese troops in the Doklam region. Though the conflict was resolved, tension persists in India-China relations.

"If China and India become involved in a military conflict, the assets of Chinese companies doing business in India may be confiscated by the Indian government," said an article in state-run Chinese news outlet Global Times.

It says economic reforms introduced by PM Modi have made India an attractive investment destination but the amended law can scare away Chinese investors.



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[h=1]Indian Railways is gearing up..[/h][h=1]Indian Railways to Introduce World Class High-speed Trains Soon, to Replace Rajdhani, Shatabdi[/h]

New Delhi, Jan 19: While Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream project – Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train – is a few years away, the Indian Railways is all geared up to introduce a couple of high-speed trains. The two trains – Train 18, Train 20 – would replace Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains.

The world-class trains, which would be fastest in India when introduced, are being developed at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai. According to reports, Railways is planning to roll out two ‘Train 18’ by August this year.

Rajdhani, Shatabdi to be Phased Out

Sudhansu Mani, GM – ICF, said that while ‘Train 18’ would replace Shatabdi trains, ‘Train 20’ will take place of Rajdhani trains in a phase-wise manner. Train 20 is likely to be rolled out on tracks by 2020.

Mani said that during trial runs the two trains clocked 176 km per hour speed. However, they will run at a maximum speed of 170 km per hour when commercial operations start. Gatiman Express, the current fastest train in the country, has a maximum speed of 160 km per hour.

The Design and Features

The upcoming high-speed trains will be equipped with world-class features. ICF’s Chief Engineer (Design) Sree Nivas said that the trains will be propelled by six motor coaches which would help in faster acceleration.


Read more at: https://in.news.yahoo.com/indian-railways-introduce-world-class-055433125.html

 

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Now will the Election Commission move Supreme Court against Delhi High Court order.....??
[h=1]Delhi HC orders EC not to announce bypolls to disqualified MLAs' seats[/h]

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to stay the Centre's notification on the disqualification of 20 MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi.

The court, however, restrained the Election Commission from announcing any bypolls to the 20 constituencies till after its next hearing on January 29.

Justice Vibhu Bakhru, who was responding to a plea filed by eight of the MLAs, issued notices to the EC and the Centre over the disqualification of the MLAs on the issue of holding offices of profit.

The High Court summoned the entire records connected with EC proceedings leading to the recommendation of disqualification.

Read more at: http://www.theweek.in/news/india/de...ounce-bypolls-to-disqualified-mlas-seats.html

 

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[h=1]Illegal hoardings should be banned all over..[/h][h=1]உரிமம் இல்லாமல் விளம்பரப் பலகை வைத்தால் 3 ஆண்டு சிறை: சென்னை மாநகராட்சி எச்சரிக்கை[/h]

ரிப்பன் மாளிகை, பேனர்கள் - கோப்புப் படம்

உரிமம் இல்லாமல் விளம்பரப் பலகைகள் வைக்கும் தனியார், விளம்பர நிறுவனங்கள் மீது மூன்று ஆண்டுகள் சிறை தண்டனை அல்லது ஒரு விளம்பர பலகைகக்கு ரூபாய். பத்தாயிரம் வீதம் அபாரதம் என பெருநகர சென்னை மாநகராட்சி அறிவித்துள்ளது.

இது குறித்து சென்னை மாநகராட்சி இன்று வெளியிட்ட செய்திக்குறிப்பில், ''பெருநகர சென்னை மாநகராட்சி எல்லைக்குட்பட்ட பகுதிகளில் மண்டலம் 1 முதல் 15 வரை (வார்டு எண். 1 முதல் 200 வரை) அனுமதியில்லாமல் விளம்பரப் பலகைகள், டிஜிட்டல் பேனர்கள், பதாகைகள் மற்றும் சுவர் விளம்பரங்கள் மேற்கொள்ளும் தனியர்கள் மீது அல்லது தனியார் விளம்பர நிறுவனங்கள் மீது சென்னை மாநகராட்சி முனிசிபல் சட்டம் விதி எண். 326-ன்படி அத்தனியர் அல்லது தனியார் விளம்பர நிறுவனத்தின் மீது நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும்.

அவ்வாறு விளம்பரபடுத்தியது தெரியவந்தால் காவல் நிலையத்தில் புகார் தெரிவித்து முதல் தகவல் அறிக்கை பதிவு செய்து அதன் பொருட்டு மூன்று ஆண்டுகள் சிறை தண்டனை அல்லது அனுமதியில்லாமல் வைக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு விளம்பரப் பலகைகக்கு ரூபாய். பத்தாயிரம் வீதம் (ரூ.10,000/-) தண்ட தொகையாகவே அல்லது இரண்டும் சேர்ந்தோ நடவடிக்கை மேற்கொள்ளப்படும்.

Read more at: http://tamil.thehindu.com/tamilnadu/article22513085.ece

 

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[h=1]May be a good solution to solve pollution.[/h][h=1][/h][h=1]Electric Vehicle Push: Chinese Electric Bus Manufacturers Look To Set Up Base In India[/h]

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With an eye on India’s planned transition to using only electric vehicles by 2030, several Chinese bus manufacturers have evinced interest to start operations in India, reports Mint. At least five manufacturers including BYD and Changsha Sunda New Energy Vehicles Technologies have had discussions with the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association (ACMA) and the Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) said the report.

Shenzen-based BYD had earlier supplied buses to the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) in 2014 and currently offers buses in India through its partnership with Hyderabad-based Goldstone group. This partnership has already supplied buses that are used in Mumbai and Himachal Pradesh.

Persons aware of the development said that Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers see a huge potential in India with the government’s plans to go completely electric by 2030 and also said that battery-operated buses were slowly seeing less traction in China.

They also said that since many of these manufacturers had the capacity to build 10,000 buses per year, it would help Indian suppliers who could tie-up with them.

Read more at: https://swarajyamag.com/insta/elect...us-manufacturers-look-to-set-up-base-in-india

 

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It appears that MTC has no option except to hike its fare for its survival

[h=1]TN bus-fare hike: Why MTC has the potential to become India’s best transport service [/h]

It already runs one of the most efficient transport services in India, despite an old fleet and unrevised rates. With the fare hike, things are looking even better.

For the first time in its history, the Tamil Nadu government decided to separate political ambitions from bus fares. Last week, not only did it increase fares after six years, it also announced that the fares will now be decided on an “indexing methodology”, a phrase that was buried deep in its own press release.

What it means is that fares will now depend on fuel and lubricant costs, as well as establishment costs. “We are borrowing heavily from how Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh fix their fares. The hikes will be minimal - from 50p to Re 1. It won’t happen every year. Whenever there is a necessity, we will review our expenditure and fix the fares accordingly,” said Additional Chief Secretary to the TN Government (Transport), PWC Davidar.

The fare was last hiked in November 2011. This was done after a gap of 15 years – the hike before that was in 2001. Prices of commodities like transport, milk and electricity were always dependent on the current political scenario of the state. Even so, Chief Minister E Palanisamy was quoted to have said that he has allowed it with a “heavy heart”.

Read more at: https://www.thenewsminute.com/artic...l-become-india-s-best-transport-service-75328

 

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Most deserving... adds another feather in his cap....
[h=1]Ilaiyaraaja gets Padma Vibhushan: Full list of 2018 Padma awardees[/h]

'Grandmother of the jungle' to 'Medical Messiah': See the full list here.

Music director Isaignani Ilaiyaraja will be awarded the Padma Vibhushan award at the Republic Day celebrations on Friday by the President of India.

President Ramanath Kovind will award the Padma awards this Republic Day to a host of distinguished personalities including 98-year-old social worker Sudhanshu Biswas, and 'father of palliative care in India' MR Rajagopal.

Renowned scientist toymaker Arvind Gupta, painter Bhajju Shyam, herbal medicine expert known as 'grandmother of medicine' - Lakshmikutty are among the ‘Unsung Heroes’ awarded Padma Sri this year.

There are many women in the Padma awards list this year, including Tamil folk art exponent Vijayalakshmi. The other recipients include a housemaid who built a hospital for the poor Subhasini Mistry, midwife Sulagatti Narasamma, and more.


Read more at: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/ilaiyaraja-gets-padma-vibhushan-full-list-padma-awardees-75376

 

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Tunneling work being carried out at the under ground stretch of the Chennai Metro....

[h=1]Chennai’s Anna Salai caves in again, this time near DMS[/h]

There's a 10-foot crater in the arterial road, right next to a metro construction.

Chennai's arterial road, Anna Salai, has caved in once again. There's a 10-foot crater in the road near the DMS junction, right next to the spot of a Metro construction. While no injuries have been reported, this is the third time that a section of Anna Salai has caved-in in recent months.

The Metro Rail MD, the police and other authorities are at the spot to investigate the cave-in and to fix the issue.

The road reportedly caved-in around 3pm on Friday. Heavy traffic was reported earlier in the day owing to the long weekend on account of Republic Day. The Metro Rail Managing Director as well as other authorities have reportedly rushed to the spot. The roughly 10 feet cave occurred near the pavement.

Chennai Metro Rail Managing Director has stated that the cause of the cave in can be determined only after examination.
Anna Salai, formerly known as Mount Road, an arterial road in Chennai has witnessed multiple cave-ins.

Read more at: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/chennai-s-anna-salai-caves-again-time-near-dms-75427