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Wonders of Women – WOW 2010 in chennai
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Culture, Information, Other, competition, programme on March 10th, 2010
Finally, the historic Bill which empowers women politically by giving 33 per cent reservation to them in Parliament has been passed. With that, women received their gift, what if, it is post-Women’s Day.
Continuing with the euphoroia, Virgo Events Management Company hosted ‘Wonders of Women – WOW 2010’, an event, organised to celebrate International Women’s Day in Chennai on Tuesday.
The event showcased women’s talent by conducting some unique competitions. The highlight of WOW 2010 was Miss and Mrs XL (Extra Large), women and girls above 75kg participated and tested their personality, which was followed by a question round.
The other events were Ethnic Woman to revive the art of ‘Poo Thoduthal’, a laughter contest to disprove the myth that women are not humorous; a Well Woman contest; Bingo with Stars, Crowning Glory – A hair- style competition; and Sing a Line, a song to be converted into rap genre. Nina Reddy, executive director of Savera Group of Hotels, made her presence felt as the guest of honour.
142 Blocks out of overexploited with respect to underground water
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Departments, Information, Thanjavur, Water, government, modification on March 10th, 2010
As many as 142 blocks out of 385 in Tamil Nadu are overexploited with respect to underground water, according to N Varadaraj, Regional Director, Central Ground Water Board, Chennai.
Eight blocks were saline and other blocks had been classified as critical and semi-criticial. The Government had taken up a scheme for the maintenance of tanks in the state, he told newspersons yesterday.
To a question, he said a sum of Rs 500 crore had been allotted for artificial recharging of nearly 12 lakh dug wells in the state.
Out of this, Rs 100 crore was released for taking up recharging of 3.5 lakh wells.
TNEB Today Power Shutdowns
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Departments, Shutdown on March 10th, 2010
Power supply will be suspended for maintenance work on Wednesday from 9 am to 5 pm in the following areas
Foreshore Estate: Santhome High Road, Kutchery Road, Papanasam Sivam Salai, Bazaar Road, Appu Street, Muthu Street, Muthu Krishnan Street, Naidu Street, R C Road, Thandavarayan Street, T A Mudali Street, NewStreet, Nochikuppam, Suleevan Street, Abraham Street, Madha Church Road, Leith Castle Street, Periyapalli Street, K M N Street, K P K Street, Pudu Palli Street, L C Road, Arisikaaran Street, Mandaveli Street and Lane, Srinivasapuram, TNHB Quarters, Foreshore Estate, Demonte Street, Dooming Kuppam, Karpagam Avenue, PRO Quarters, 1st to 13th Trust Cross Streets, South Canal Bank Road, T S V Koil Street, Adam Street, East and West Circular Roads and Norton Street.
Sidco Nagar: Agathiyar Nagar, Lakshmi Street Extension, Ponvizha Nagar, Sivasakthi Nagar, Asian Garden, P N Q Block, Ramakrishnapuram, NPL Anjali and parts of C T H Road.
Usman Road: Chari Street, Ramakrishna Street, Vivekananda Street, Habibullah Road, North Usman Road and parts of Mambalam High Road.
Pammal: Pammal, Anakaputhur, Nagalkeni, Pozhichalur and Shankar Nagar. Poonamallee: Abirami Nagar, V G N Nagar, Kaduvetti, Bypass Road, Kumananchavadi, Korimedu, Mangadu, Bathirimedu, Ragunathapuram, Thirumal Nagar and Maran Nagar.
Inauguration of an Outpatient block at Appasamy Hospitals
Both Central and Tamilnadu governments have been implementing various health schemes.
Under the scheme ‘health for all’ that covers rural areas, a sum of Rs 22,300 crore has been earmarked by the Centre and the State government.
Stating this while speaking at the inauguration of an outpatient block at Appasamy Hospitals at Arumbakkam in Chennai yesterday, Union Minister for Shipping G K Vasan said that this hospital has been doing yeoman service for the past 10 years in the form of eye camps, dialysis for the poor patients, etc, etc.
Appasamy Group has been manufacturing cataract lens, slits and equipment and ranks number two in the world in this field, according to its CEO B L Sampath Kumar.
Later briefing the press, director of Appasamy Hospitals Ramamurthy said that taxes in the country were progressive and nowhere in the world manufacturing tax, excise duty and VAT were being levied. Over 60 years, this has been the state of affairs.
Ninety per cent of the medical gadgets were being imported with only 10 per cent locally manufactured. The country can compete with the multinationals if taxes were not progressive, he said.
Leader of Congress Legislature Party D Sudharssanam, Principal Secretary-Health and Family Welfare V K Subburaj, ruling party leader in Corporation of Chennai N Ramalingam, former State Information Commissioner S Ramakrishnan, retired IAS officers A M Swaminathan and R Varadarajulu, managing director of Tamilnadu Civil Supplies Corporation Veerashanmugamani, Additional Director General of Police T Radhakrishnan, Joint director-Agriculture Vasuki, Father of Hand Surgery Dr R Venkatasmy, chairman of Zone 5 of the Corporation S Suresh Babu and Ward 74 member D Ramesh were present.
The heat does not deter them as they have a harsher summer in their States
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Other, Public, cultural, government, tourist on March 8th, 2010
The city’s summer may be driving its residents to cooler tourist destinations but Chennai, during summer, draws tourists from all over the world for a combination of reasons.
Braving the summer, many tourists from other States come on heritage visits, pilgrimages and sightseeing. “Our tourists are predominantly from West Bengal, Rajasthan and Gujarat. The heat does not deter them as they have a harsher summer in their States. We also see a growing foreign inflow from the Middle East and southeast Asian countries,” says A. C. Mohandoss, Managing Director,
The Department of Tourism packages its strong points to lure the tourists. The government-maintained places such as Muttukadu, Mudaliarkuppam and Mamallapuram, which find a place in many tourists’ itinerary, are made tourist-friendly.
For adventure freaks, the Rain Drop Boat House, Mudaliarkuppam, offers a better bet this summer, with its recently introduced parasailing and water-skiing facilities. The water scooters at Muttukadu have been getting their share of patronage throughout the year. It is expected to see a rise this vacation. TTDC Mahabalipuram Beach Resort Complex has opened its bookings for summer and so has the Tourist Department’s Hotel Tamil Nadu located in other major cities.
The ECR destinations are linked by the TTDC Hop-on Hop-off coaches, which was a step towards making tour trips in the city a sophisticated affair.
Private players along the stretch, including VGP Universal Kingdom, Mayajaal, MGM Dizzee World and Dakshinachitra, on their part, pull a good number of tourists. While East Coast Road remains the main attraction, the Tourism Department is promoting lesser-known places in and around Chennai. Many weekend packages from Chennai have been introduced by the department. As a ripple effect, places such as Vellore, Kancheepuram and Puducherry have seen a jump in the tourist inflow, the department officials say.
The choice of many tourists, however, is the good old places in the city. For Rathna Ishwar, a native of Chennai who works in Delhi, visits to Chennai with her friends have always been scheduled for May. “Delhi’s summer is unbearable and we come down almost every other year to Chennai. Shopping has been the major draw for my friends,” she said.
“Shopping malls are picking up in the city like any other metro but what is characteristic of Chennai is its old-time shopping places.”.
Rise in dual epidemic cases
Diabetes and heart attack are dual epidemic non-communicable threats, according to professor Ashok Kumar Das from JIPMER, Puducherry.
He said this during the two-day national conference today and tomorrow on initiatives and interventions for cardiovascular risk reductions in diabetes (iCARDIA) organised by Associates in Clinical Endocrinology Education and Research (ACEER) at Guindy in Chennai yesterday.
Director of ACEER Dr Usha Sriram introduced the international faculty members – professor Michael Davidson and professor Mathew Sorrentino, both from University of Chicago, Illinois, USA; professor Mark Molitch from Northwestern University, Illinois; and professor of Laboratory Medicine of University of Minnesota Medical School Gundu H R Rao.
In India, 50.8 million people suffer from dual diseases and it is feared that the number would reach 87 million in 2030, all for lack of awareness among the masses.
Unless and until people with diabetic suffer kidney failure or cardiac arrest they do not seem to bother or try to prevent by change in lifestyle.
Indians settled abroad also suffer from this. A national policy with authoritative guardian should be formed.
When there are diabetes research institutes in the US and other countries, with one even in Pakistan, India has none, said speakers at the press meet.
Gundu Rao has written to the government of India on the need for setting up an institute. Seventy per cent of the carbohydrate-rich food are consumed by Indians and that was the reason when an African had muscles, Indians had fat.
Ashok Kumar Das said 50 per cent of diabetic patients had some form of heart involvement and 75 per cent of cardiovascular deaths owing to diabetes.
Dr Bashi Tagore, a diabetologist from Ahmedabad, had conducted many meetings in Gujarat calling for an increase in awareness among the public.
International and national dignitaries would speak on subjects like twin epidemics, genes, diabetes and CVD, glycemic control and CVD: making sense of the evidence, post-prandial hyperglycemia: importance in CVD, prediabetes: how aggressive one should be among others during the two-day session.
JETRO Office to be opened in Chennai
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Information, Other, businesses on March 4th, 2010
In order to facilitate smooth trade between India and ASEAN countries, a representative office would be established here,a senior member of the visiting delegation from Japan External Trade Organisation(JETRO) said.
“Despite presence of 627 Japanese companies headquartered in India and 55 per cent of them being present in the southern region, Japan does not have much knowledge about India”, JETRO Senior Vice-President Takezo Yanagita on a four day tour to the city, told reporters after visiting the special economic zone, Sri City at Tada, situated 85 km from here.
He said after the global economic meltdown, the Indian industry has been showing lot of potential for growth.
“Last decade,Japanese companies invested in ASEAN countries.
Now, we have to look into new emerging markets like the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and need to tell about opportunity available in India to Tokyo”, he said.
He said with the presence of Chennai in the Eastern region, setting up an office would facilitate trade between Japan, India and the ASEAN countries.
Some areas, Japan is looking to invest in India include infrastructure, manufacturing, Information Technology,Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and food processing industry, JETRO Chief Director General Naoyoshi Noguchi later said.
He said exports from India to Japan accounted only 4 per cent while from the US it constituted 25 per cent.
The 60-member-delegates on their final day tomorrow are slated to visit Mahindra World City SEZ, Ennore Port, manufacturing facilities of Nissan Renault and Toshiba JSW,
Woman allegedly carrying a fake credit card tried to dupe a jewellery
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Information, Other, cheating on March 3rd, 2010
A woman allegedly carrying a fake credit card tried to dupe a jewellery shop at T Nagar, Chennai, police said.
Manjula (34) of Kundrathur went to the shop yesterday, bought a gold chain weighing three sovereigns and gave a credit card. On suspicion, the employees in the shop informed the bank officials who confirmed it to be fake card and alerted the police.
On interrogation, Manjula told police that one Manoj had given her that card to buy jewels for which she was promised a commission. Police are on the lookout for the man.
Electricity bill payment paid at select post offices launched
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Departments, Information, Public, modification, post office, programme, tamilnadu on March 3rd, 2010
Electricity bills can now be paid at select post offices too in the city. On Monday, the service was launched at the Anna Nagar post office.
Consumers residing in any part of the city can make the payment by producing the electricity meter reading card at the post offices.
They will be issued receipts. A service charge of Rs.5 per bill would be collected by the Department of Posts for the online payment facility.
Finance secretary K. Gnanadesikan, who launched the service, lauded the efforts of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board and the Department of Posts for introducing a system under which the bill payment process would be quicker.
TNEB Chairman C. P. Singh said that to start with, the Anna Nagar post office and Anna Road Head Post Office would accept payments towards electricity bills.
Depending on the response, the facility would be offered at other post offices across the State.
Highlighting the other bill payment facilities such as the Any Time Payment machines and net banking, he said that about 40,000 consumers make use of the online payment mechanisms every month in the city.
M.S.Ramanujan, Postmaster General, Chennai City Region, said that of the 250 post offices in Chennai, 150 had been computerised. The TNEB bill payment facility would be extended to all post offices that have been computerised in the city within a month.
The service would be available at the remaining post offices in Chennai in three months.
T.Murthy, Postmaster General (Business Development), Tamil Nadu Circle, said the Department of Posts is in discussion with other government agencies such as Chennai Corporation and Chennai Metrowater to collect payment of property tax and water and sewerage tax.
Pointing out that post offices have become a hub for sales of various retail products, he said there has been an increase in revenue through the sales of several products such as gold coins, applications for Civil Services examinations of the Union Public Service Commission, postal identity cards and railway ticket booking.
For instance, the revenue through sales of gold coins across 100 post offices in the State has increased from Rs.18 lakh in 2008-09 to Rs.1.06 crore till January this fiscal, the officials said.
The officials expect nearly 200 consumers of the TNEB to make use of the new facility every day.
Two-day photo exhibition on ancient inscriptions from all over India began
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Education, Information, Other, Public, exicipition, government, programme, student on February 27th, 2010
K. Karuppiah, Assistant Superintending Epigraphist, briefing students and visitors about photos on display at the exhibition in Pallavaram on Friday.
A two-day photo exhibition on ancient inscriptions from all over India began at the Pallavaram Municipal Primary School on Friday.
The Cultural Awareness Epigraphy Photo Exhibition is being organised by the Archaeological Survey of India, Epigraphy Branch, Chennai Division in connection with the birth centenary celebrations of former Chief Minister C.N.Annadurai. It was inaugurated by Pallavaram Municipal Chairman E.Karunanidhi.
The Assistant Superintending Epigraphist, ASI, Chennai, K.Karuppiah, said 62 photographs of rare and ancient inscriptions from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and other States were on display.
The photographs were of some important inscriptions, including those in Brahmi script and in Prakrit and Tamil languages. A photograph of the earliest inscription found in Tamil Nadu {ndash} that of Pandian Nedunchezhian found in Madurai in 5th century AD, another of Veera Rajendra Cholan dating back to 12th century AD and found in Tirumukkoodal near Wallajahbad in Kancheepuram district, which spoke about cure for several ailments, including heart attack, are on display.
Mr. Karuppiah said the response to the exhibition, which was held recently in Puducherry, Thanjavur and Vellore, was overwhelming and it was clear that a large section among the people, especially students, were eager to know about inscriptions. P.Rani, Kancheepuram District Elementary Education Officer, spoke.
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