1. EPS Thanks OPS, Ministers, for One Year in Office
Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, who completed one year in office last month, on Friday thanked Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, Ministers and MLAs for having supported his government all through the tumultuous year and called upon them to remain united.
Listing various schemes being implemented by the AIADMK government, such as the Amma two-wheeler scheme, Palaniswami said they were announced by former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, but could not be implemented till she was alive.
(Source: The Hindu)
2. Jaya Refused to be Flown Abroad: Sasikala’s Niece
Former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa refused a suggestion to be flown abroad for treatment, according to her close aide VK Sasikala’s niece J Krishnapriya, who grew up in Veda Nilayam in Poes Garden and lived there until her marriage in 2000.
Sources privy to Krishnapriya’s deposition made on 2 January before the Justice Arumughaswamy Commission of Inquiry, where she was summoned, said she claimed that Sasikala had thought of taking Jayalalithaa abroad for better treatment sometime in October 2016 when she was in Apollo Hospitals. But the proposal was turned down by Jayalalithaa.
(Source: The Hindu)
3.Rath Should Have Been Seized: Kanimozhi
DMK Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi on Friday questioned how the ‘Ram Rajya Rath Yatra’ was allowed to enter Tamil Nadu, saying the rath was modified in violation of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, and wondered whether or not the rule of law was being followed in the State.
In a Facebook post, Kanimozhi referred to The Hindu’s report titled ‘Yatra breached rules: officials’, and said the rath should have been seized the moment it entered Tamil Nadu.
(Source: The Hindu)
4. Three Pose as Policemen, Rob Women of Jewels
The Kundrathur police arrested three persons, who posed as policemen and robbed a woman working in a beauty parlour after threatening to upload her pictures online.
The victim, a resident of Kundrathur, was working at a beauty parlour in Anna Nagar. Jegan, 28, of Kodambakkam, who was a frequent customer, befriended her and took pictures of her.
Posing as policemen, Jegan and his two friends came to her house in Kundrathur and demanded sexual favours.
As she refused, they demanded Rs 3 lakh from her and threatened that her pictures would be uploaded on social media. However, after robbing her gold chain and ear-rings, they left.
(Source: The Hindu)
5. 9kg Tumor Removed From Patient at Government Hospital
Doctors at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (GH) recently removed a mass weighing 9 kg that had developed in a man’s right kidney over the course of some 15 years.
The patient, Mohan Raj, 38, works in an orphanage in the city and has spinal cord problems. He had visited several hospitals, both private and government, but was not operated on as he had been told the surgery was very risky, said Ajay Chandrasekar at GH’s surgical oncology department. The tumour was so large, Dr Chandrasekar explained, that it occupied the entire abdomen, displacing Raj’s bowels and making the entire abdomen distended.
(Source: The Hindu)
6. Plea on Tamil Thai Vazhthu Rejected
The Madras High Court on Friday dismissed a public interest litigation petition that sought a direction to the State government to issue an executive order stating that only the unedited version of Tamil Thai Vazhthu, penned by Manonmaniam P Sundarampillai, should be sung as the State song before commencing government functions.
A Division Bench of Justices S Manikumar and V Bhavani Subbaroyan said the plea of T. Ramaboopathy, 52, of Pulianthope here, was not acceptable as it did not find any reason whatsoever to interfere with the adoption of the edited version of the poem as the State song since 1967.
(Source: The Hindu)
7. Jewellery Company Allegedly Cheats SBI for Rs 250 Crore
The State Bank of India informed the bourses on Friday about a fraud allegedly committed by the Chennai-headquartered Nathella Sampath Jewellery Private Limited (NSJPL) worth over Rs 250 crore.
In a filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange, the SBI said, “NSJPL, a jewellery manufacturing company, was incorporated in 2007. An aggregate limit of Rs 250 crore sanctioned by the SBI in a consortium arrangement had been classified by the bank as ‘fraud’ on December 22, 2017 for having misrepresented the financial statements from 2010 and liquidated primary security.”
(Source: The Hindu)
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