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Awareness Meeting on “Do not use Mobile Phones while Driving Vehicles”
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Departments, Health, Madurai, Mobiles, Public, Transport, accident, government, illegal, meeting, police, programme on March 11th, 2010
Do not mix driving and talking. This was the message conveyed at an awareness meeting on “do not use mobile phones while driving vehicles” conducted by the Regional Transport Authority officials for the motorists in the city on Tuesday.
Speaking on the occasion, RTO (Madurai central) T.G. Thomas said that talking over mobile phones and riding/driving vehicles was more dangerous than drunken driving. Vehicular checks carried out by the authorities (on drivers who were spotted talking over phones) revealed that they (drivers’) were not concentrating on the driving. He underlined the need for self-discipline among the drivers and suggested to stop their vehicles and talk on the phones, if it was very urgent.
Motor Vehicles Inspector Amirtheswaran narrated the mental agony underwent by a family which had lost one of their member’s in a road accident. Investigations revealed that the victim who was talking over the mobile phone was hit by a lorry near the busy Netaji Road intersection.
Inspector of Police (Traffic) A. Balakrishnan appealed to the drivers’ present at the meeting to take a pledge that they would not talk over the mobile phones while driving their vehicles from today onwards. “Everyday, I booked at least 4-5 motorists on charges of speaking over mobile phones under Section 184 of Motor Vehicles Act and imposed a fine of Rs 1,100,” he warned.
Motor Vehicles Inspector J.K. Baskaran said that at least 50 per cent of the road accidents reported was due to careless driving. It had also come to light that the drivers’ talked over their phones.
Rajinikanth from Aravind Eye Hospital said that research by experts suggested less talking over mobile phones as it would affect the ears. Mobile phones produced electro magnetic waves and long conversations over the phone may affect hearing. Persons may use ear phones as an alternative. Wherever there was weak signal, do not use the phones, he advised.
Suresh Kannan proposed vote of thanks. Maxi drivers, auto rickshaw drivers among others attended.
Court granted bail to 85 CPI-M cadres and 14 PMK partymen
A court here today granted bail to 85 CPI-M cadres and 14 PMK partymen, arrested in connection with the last week attacks on the offices of a TV channel and the Marxist party here.
The office of Makkal TV, floated by PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss, was attacked on March 5 allegedly by CPI(M) workers, protesting a report on the recent death of Communist leader W R Varadarajan. In retaliation, the CPI(M) office here was also attacked.
Granting bail to K Balakrishnan, CPI-M state executive member and the other partymen and the 14 PMK cadres, Principal Sessions Judge P Devadoss directed them to furnish personal bonds for Rs 5000 with two sureities for like amounts each
While the CPI-M partymen were ordered to stay at Tiruchirappalli and report daily before the Judicial Magistrate there, The Judge directed the PMK members to stay at Vellore and report before the Judicial Magistrate until further orders.
They have been charged under various IPC sections including section 507 (attempt to murder) and rioting. – Agencies
Former PM Rajiv Gandhi’s killer Nalini Sriharan’s premature release
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Court, Information, Other, government, release on March 11th, 2010
The Madras High Court on Thursday would take up the case of former PM Rajiv Gandhi’s killer Nalini Sriharan’s premature release. The Tamil Nadu government is set to produce the Prison Advisory Board’s recommendations on the convict in court today, reports said.
The Prison Board, which was constituted Nalini’s premature release plea, has submitted its report to the state government. The 43-year old, who is serving a life term, has been in jail for the last 19 years.
Reports said the board has recommended Nalini’s release.
The assasinator had originally been sentenced to death. But that was reduced to a life sentence after Sonia Gandhi intervened and reasonsed that Nalini had a baby daughter.
The state government has indicated that it would consult the Centre before taking any decision on Nalini’s future.
Security at Major Temples in hi-tech Surveillance cameras installed at Meenakshi Temple
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Information, Madurai, Temples, electronic, government, illegal, modification, police, programme on March 10th, 2010
As part of an exercise to upgrade security at major temples in Tamil Nadu, hi-tech surveillance cameras will soon be installed at the world famous Meenakshi Sundareswar Temple in Madurai. Work on installing the 32 cameras began on Monday with technical support from Information Technology major HCL.
The Meenakshi Te
mple was among the vital installations in the State that faced threat from Lashkar-e-Taiba a few months ago, following which security was enhanced. The project to install cameras being executed at a cost of Rs.48.5 lakh envisages provision of a security blanket to the temple complex and its vicinity, official sources told The Hindu here on Monday.
The number of cameras could also be increased on the advice of the security agencies. Apart from advanced Internet protocol-operated dome cameras, electronic alarms, sensors and control room apparatus would also be installed.
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The installation work is expected to be completed in two months.
Technical personnel from HCL will be working on the project for one year to provide maintenance and other services. Two control rooms are being established, with one to be monitored by security agencies and temple staff. The surveillance cameras to be installed at vantage points would cover the entire temple premises and four Adi streets surrounding the temple, besides some portions of the Chithirai streets.
Most of the cameras will be kept at concealed locations. Due care would be taken to ensure that devotees are not affected by the installation work, a temple official said.
Once the project is completed, it would significantly enhance the security of the temple and provide the police personnel with vital inputs in protecting the complex, he added.
Installation of surveillance cameras at major temples follows recommendations made by the State intelligence at a security audit meeting held recently. “We have suggested that closed circuit television network be established at major temples and iconic buildings,” Inspector General of Police (Intelligence) M.S. Jaffar Sait said.
Additional Director General of Police (Economic Offences Wing) G. Thilakavathi said it had been suggested to open icon centres for safe custody of antique idols.
Baby elephant fell in tank local people removed it taking the mother elephant
A female elephant and its calf strayed from the forest and entered into a banana field near a private engineering college near Kovaipudur outskirts of the city late last night.
Forest officials told UNI today that the baby elephant fell into a small tank in the field.
Forest officials and local people removed it from the tank after taking the mother elephant away to some distance. Later, both the mother and the baby were guided back into the Madhukkari forests,
Trichy Press Club condemned the alleged police attack on photo journalist
Tiruchirapalli District Press Club today strongly condemned the alleged police attack on Mr Moorthy, photo journalist of The Hindu, during police lathicharge at the agitators at suburb Ariyamangalam-Kattur on the busy Tiruchirapalli-Thanjavur National Highway here.
In a statement here, Tiruchirapalli District Press Club Secretary L Shawnawazkhan said local residents of Ariyamangalam- Kattur had resorted to a ‘road roko’agitaion agaist an accident in which three school children were seriously injured.
A police party arrived at the spot and chased away the agitators.
Later, they resorted to lathicharge, in which Mr Moorthy, who went to the spot to cover the incident, was injured, he said and urged Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi to order a detailed enquiry over the incident and punish the erring police personnel.
President of Trichirapalli District Unit of Tamil Nadu Union of Journalist A J Bhaskaran also condemned the incident.
Explosive materials seized two persons arrested in madurai
Posted by ganesh in Smugglings, Theft, Transport, Virudhunagar, arrested, illegal, police on March 9th, 2010
Explosive materials, including 100 gelatine sticks and 1,300 detonators, have been seized and two persons arrested in this connection in Virudhunagar district, police said here on Tuesday.
Police found the explosives in a van during a routine check Monday night.
Ten spark plugs and 800 kg of ammonium nitrate were also seized from the vehicle after the driver could not account for the explosives and the purpose for which they were being transported, they said.
Besides the driver, another person in the van was also arrested.
DGP Nataraj’s application dismissed
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Court, Departments, Other, government, police on March 9th, 2010
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has rejected a petition by DGP (Director of Fire and Rescue Services) R Nataraj, challenging the appointment of Letika Saran as Director General of Tamil Nadu Police.
Dismissing Nataraj’s application, the Madras Bench of CAT, comprising K Elango and R Satapathy, held that Nataraj had not established any arbitrariness. Besides, he had not pointed out any specific violation of rules in appointment of Saran as DGP.
In its order, the Tribunal said though the applicant claimed he had been empanelled by the Union Government in the panel of DGP as per a May 2009 memo, a perusal of the same showed the panel was not drawn up to fill up the DGP post.
Subsequent to the memo, the Centre had equated the post Nataraj held in the DGP cadre to enable him to draw a higher pay and allowances. In as much as Nataraj had also been posted in the cadre of DGP, he could not have any grievance in the matter of appointment of Saran, it said.
The main relief claimed in the application, to quash the appointment of Saran and consequently to direct authorities to follow the rule of law in filling up the vacancy to the post of DGP was an omnibus prayer, which was not maintainable in the absence of any specific violation of rules in filling up the vacancy in the DGP’s post, the bench pointed out.
Nataraj, in his petition said Saran was junior to him and others and that she ought not to have been appointed as DGP. The process of selection and appointment was not followed by constituting the screening committee as per the rules, he said.
Saran was posted as DGP after K P Jain proceeded on leave.
Ranjitha, Lenin Karuppa attempted to blackmail together to trap Swami Nithyananda
Ranjitha, who recently got alleged with Swami Nithyananda in a sex scandal, is said to have attempted for a suicide. The scandal video was aired by the popular Tamil channel Sun TV on March 2. No news of either of the two was known thereafter. People were so angry and desperate that they attacked the ashrams of Swamiji.
Ranjitha was a devotee to Swamiji. She was a divorcee to an army man and visited Nithyananda after suffering from depression due to the marriage failure. Later she became too close to Nithyananda that she made her presence all the time in the ashram. Buzz is also that the video was created by Ranjitha herself to blackmail Nithyananda. She wanted a married life with Nithyananda and is said that this possessiveness made her to trap Nithyananda.
Ranjitha was introduced to him three years back by actress K R Vijaya’s niece Sudha, a full-time devotee. Later on Swami’s charm made her fall for him and she even decided to shift base from Chennai to Bangalore. After getting intimate with Swami, she is said to have asked him to marry her and even got a positive response. Later he was worried about the property worth several hundred crore rupees that he would have to give up. Lenin Karuppa also attempted to blackmail Swamiji but he failed. So it is said that both have planned together to trap Swami Nithyananda.
By the time Nithyananda’s lawyer confirmed that Nithyananda is in Varanasi attending Kumbha Mela with his 4000 devotees. He is to return back on March 18. He also claimed that the woman in the video has covered her neck and that Nithyananda’s face is a morphed one.
5 women killed, 42 hurt as buses collide accident at Keelpenathur
Five women were killed when two State buses collided at Keelpenathur near Tiruvannamalai on Sunday morning.
Police sources said the accident took place around 10.20 am at the bend near the Kadambai Junction on the Puducherry-Bangalore National Highway. A bus travelling from Chennai to Tiruvannamalai ran into another bus going from Tiruvannamalai to Chennai.
Vellayan, inspector in-charge of the the Keelpenathur police station, who visited the site of the accident, told Express that Udayakumar (43) of Arani, who was driving the Chennai- Tiruvannamalai bus, was talking on his mobile phone while driving and lost control of the vehicle when it neared a curve in the road near Kadambai Junction. The bus then collided with the other bus that came from the opposite direction.
The inspector said the front portion of the bus from Chennai was badly damaged in the accident. He added that several pasengers had been gravely injured and the mangled limbs of a few lay on the road and in the bus.
He said 42 passengers had been injured in the accident and six were in a critical condition.
While two women died on the spot, three more died after they were taken to the Tiruvannamalai Government Hospital for treatment. The deceased were identified as M Lakshmidevi (45) of Chetpet, K Nandeeshwari (41) of Chrompet and R Vijayalakshmi of East Tambaram near Chennai, S Meenakshi (52) of Vengikal near Tiruvannamalai and an unidentified woman, aged about 47 years.
The victims were initially rushed to the Tiruvannamalai GH after which some of the more critically injured were referred to government hospitals in Vellore, Chennai and Puducherry, and to the Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) at Vellore.
Tiruvannamalai Collector Dr M Rajendran visited the victims at the government hospital.
Police sources said Udayakumar had escaped after receiving first aid from the government hospital.
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