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Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami paid fl oral tributes to the portrait of former Chief Minister K Ka-maraj, kept near his statue at Kamarajar Salai in Chennai, to mark his 115th birth anniversary today. State Ministers, MLAs, Parliament members and senior government offi cials participated.

Seminar oneducation in

Russia tomorrow NT Bureau

Chennai, July 15:EDURUSSIA, the admiss ion

department of Russian Govern-ment Universities in India, is or-ganising a free seminar to spread awareness among students on application procedures to various universities.

According to a press release, the seminar will be conducted in multiple sessions from 10 am to 6 pm tomor-row at Hotel Shelter, Venkatesa Agra-haram Street (Opp Saibaba Temple), Mylapore.

The aim of the seminar is to curb the malice of touts claiming to be agents of Russian universities, collecting fees from parents and students in the name of offering admission.

Manoj Patki of EDURUSSIA said that the department would also provide information regarding tailor-made training programmes for Indian students throughout the duration of the course, to ensure that they are able to clear the licensing test in India upon their return.

Prior registration is must for the seminar. For details, contact: apply@edurussia.in or 98847 01918.

New Delhi, July 15: A section of the Board of Control for

Cricket in India is happy and feels that the Supreme Court?s move to issue notices to former BCCI president N Srinivasan and Niranjan Shah for at-tending the Special General Meeting of the board despite disqualifi cation is a step that will help the board move in the right direction.

According to a BCCI offi cial the news is a welcome sign as the board needs to move forward and work to-wards rebuilding the tarnished image of the BCCI. The notice could fi nally see disqualified members staying away from the functioning of the board and the BCCI making progress in implementing the reforms of the Lodha panel as per the direction of the SC in July 2016. ‘The BCCI needs to get back to working in unison and that is not possible till certain disquali-fi ed members stay away from interfer-ing in the working of the board. The BCCI is trying its best to get the ball rolling, but every time some members try to move things forward, a few members ensure that the process is stalled. Hopefully, this will see the end to this style of functioning.’

The SC issued notices after the Committee of Administrators (CoA) in a scathing status report, described the duo of Srinivasan and Shah as disqualifi ed offi ce bearers with vested interest, who are trying to stall imple-mentation of Lodha reforms. And the basic reason was the way in which the state bodies failed to partially implement the panel?s reforms even after promising the same to the COA on 25 June, a day before the SGM.

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forward: Offi cials

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Ashok Leyland managing director Vinod K Dasari, Namakkal District Educational Offi cer M Selvaraj, Ashok Leyland CFO Gopal Mahadevan and Learning Links Foundation president Nooria Ansari at the launch of ‘Road to School’ project in Namakkal district recently.

Ashok Leyland lends hand to students

� ‘Road to School’ project for45 institutions in Namakkal District

Some key featuresof the programme

� Well qualifi ed teachers (BEd with teaching experience) will be appointed in all schools for a period of three years� Cluster and project managers will be appointed for smooth implementation of the project� Customised Learning Enhancement and Practice (LEAP) content and worksheets for children will be made available to plug grade level / age level learning gaps. The LEAP content is in spirit of current syllabus prescribed in Tamilnadu. � Multiple training programmes for project staff, school teachers and head masters will be held.

NT BureauChennai, July 15:

Ashok Leyland of Hinduja Group has announced the extension of its corporate social responsibility project, ‘Road to School’, for 45 schools in Namakkal district recently.

After Shoolagiri, Anchetty, Minjur and Puzhal towns, Ashok Leyland will help improve the primary and middle school education in govern-ment schools in Namakkal district covering four educational blocks - . Namakkal, Mohanur, Paramathy and Erumapatti. With this addition (4,700

students), the project will positively impact 19,700 students in the current year, a press release said.

Sharing his views, Ashok Leyland managing director Vinod K Dasari said, ‘At Ashok Leyland, we believe

that education is the best social leveler for our society. The least we can do for our future generations is to help them learn and make them well-educated citizens of this country.

Following this belief, about a decade ago we started contribut-ing our bit in the fi eld of education with ‘Road to School’ initiative in Shoolagiri and Anchetty districts. Now, we have added another 45 schools from Namakkal district. We are very happy and humbled that we will be able to make a positive dif-ference for another 4,700 children, in our own small way.’

It was the fourth status report that was submitted to the Supreme Court by the COA. The earlier reports were fi led on 27 February, 17 March and 7 April.

The Supreme Court on Thursday gave the duo of Srinivasan and Shah time till 24 July to respond to the notice. The apex court further said that it will examine if offi ce bearers, otherwise disqualifi ed, can participate in BCCI affairs through other routes. The CoA’s report praised acting sec-retary Amitabh Choudhary for trying to work towards implementation of re-forms but accused treasurer Aniruddh Chaudhary a Srinivasan loyalist of being a mute spectator.

NAOMI NChennai, July 15:

After marriage or the birth of a child, a woman is usually confi ned within the four walls of a house. Her educa-tion and talents remain unexplored.

But Wsquare - India’s fi rst co-work-ing space for women, which provides a platform for women who are looking at getting back to work, conducted a summit where women - barring age, barriers and background - put up stalls exhibiting their creations.

Wsquare is co-founded by Jinal Patel and Vandhana Ramanathan who wanted such events to connect and create a network for like-minded women wanting to pursue something on their own. At the event today, a mobile app - Wconnect - was also launched.

Chief guest, managing director of Savera Group of Hotels, Nina Reddy,

said, ‘Unlike before, more women are working today. Women are educated and career-oriented.’

To ensure that they work without hassles, Nina said, ‘Other things have to evolve around them to make work-

ing more comfortable - like a support system of family, personal safety, staff and organisations.’

She said, ‘A working woman is committed. There is no looking back for her. While her fi nancial needs are met, she is also contributing to family fi nances and it boosts self-worth.’

Nina supports women initiatives through The Duchess Club, 02 Fit-ness Studio and is the president for the National Association of the Blind.

‘When I see these women putting up stalls, it takes me back to my ear-lier days. I was in my 20s and doing exhibitions like this,’ she says after purchasing a merchandise from a newbie entrepreneur.

From 22-year-old Kirthana Raj, a graduate from NIFT, who has displayed designer wear creations - cottons, khadis and jute, innova-tive handmade canvas shoes with

kalamkari work on it and a series of paintings.

Dressed in a knee-length jute dress, which she teamed with a ka-lamkari waist coat, Kirthana labelled her brand as ‘Arodhi’ which means fulfilling life through art. Another entrepreneur, Sangeetha, who is re-defi ning tea with her various fl avours like ginger and matcha (Japanese tea) to Anjula G, who prefers ‘a quiet place for baking’ from where she brings out loud and vibrant custom-designed cakes.

Other stalls had books, organic products and jewellery. ‘Keep doing something, learn new skills, now women are armed with gadgets and can always work from home. Make sure you are always updated. When you do business, you meet new people, life becomes richer,’ Nina concluded.

CLAIMING WORKSPACES FOR WOMEN

� Wsquare offers platform for those looking to work again

TNEA: AU sends call letters to candidates

NT BureauChennai, July 15:

With the Tamilnadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) for the academic year will commence from Monday, Anna University today started to issue

call letters to candidates, who had applied for the counselling.

State Higher Education Minister An-bazhagan on Thursday released the counselling schedule. The counselling which will commence at Anna Univer-sity from 17 July, would take 35 days to complete the process. The classes would begin from 1 September.

There are 2,53,204 seats in 583 col-leges for counselling. Of them,

1,73,643 (including 15,737 seats surrendered under management quota) will come under government

quota. This year, the university has received 1,41,077 applications from the students.

On 17 & 18 July, counselling will be held for vocation stream candidates, on 19 July for persons with disabili-ties, 21 July for sportspersons and on 23 July, academic stream counselling will commence and will go on till

11 August. On 16 August, regis-tration will open for supplementary counselling and it will be held on 17 August. On 18 August, the counselling will be held for SC/ST students.

NT Bureau Chennai, July 15

With the Tamilnadu State Film Awards being announced on Thurs-day, veteran novelist and writer Pat-tukkottai Prabakar today sent a letter to Chief Minister Edppadi K Palaniswami not to confer the award for best fi lm (2011) to fi lmmaker Radhamohan's Payanam.

In his letter, Pattukottai Pra-bakar has stated that the story of the movie is based on his novel 'Ithu Indhiya Padai' and was fi lmed without his knowledge.

'I had also sent a copy of that novel to Radhamohan who in turn accepted

that both the stories have a lot of similarities', Prabakar had written in the letter. He further said that Radhamohan promised him at that time that he would organise a press

conference and would elaborate on that, which he never did. Fol-lowing this, Prabakar himself wrote a brief article about this in a Tamil weekly.

However, now, Payanam being selected as the best fi lm

of 2011, Prabakar has sent a letter to the State government

along with the copy of his novel, the letter he wrote to Radhamohan and a copy of the article published in the magazine.

Writer against TNaward for Payanam

� Alleges plagiarism byfi lmmaker Radha Mohan

Young woman found hanging with injuries

NT BureauChennai, July 15:

A 26-year-old woman was found hanging inside her house at Korattur yesterday. Poornima, was living with her parents and elder brother at Peru-mal Koil Street. Her engagement was held two weeks back and her mar-riage was scheduled on September. Yesterday, her parents had gone to a relative's house in Tiruvallur for invit-ing them to the marriage. On return-ing, they found their daughter hanging dead from a ceiling fan. The police suspect foul play as the deceased bore severe head injuries. The body was taken to Kilpauk Medical College for postmortem. A case has been registered with Korattur police station and further investigations are on.

After 4 months, man held for

murdering sonNT Bureau

Chennai, July 15:A 62-year-old man who was on the

run after killing his son, was arrested by the police near Marina beach. Fakhrudeen, a resident of Neelam Basha Dargah area in Triplicane, had borrowed money for his son, Dasthagir's (28) marriage. The two had frequent quarrels over the repay-ment of the loan.

On 25 March, Dasthagir came home drunk, which irked his father. They once again had an argument which led to Fakhrudeen stabbing his son with a kitchen knife. After murdering Dasthagir, Fakhrudeen remained elusive. A case was registered with Marina police and a search was launched. On Friday, Sudalai, a Sub-Inspector attached to Marina police station nabbed the accused. He was booked under IPC 302.

Kamal should…

the system in the State. There is corruption everywhere'.

He said, Tamilnadu has taken over from Bihar as having the reputation of being the most corrupt State of India. 'Earlier Bihar used to be the media's favourite whipping boy when it came to corruption. Now Tamilnadu has left Bihar leagues behind . Film Industry is one among the many Industries asphyxiated by the prevailing systemic corruption in the State.'

In March this year, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami hit out at Kamal, saying, 'What fault did he find in the present governance? He should not forget the help he received for the release of his fi lm Viswaroopam'.

Former Sri Lankan offi e Mutiah Muralitharan, appointed as mentor of the TNPL team Thiruvalluvar Veerans, posing for the media at a function in Chennai today. Owner of the team V B Chandrasekhar is also present.

A woman having a look at the jewellery items displayed at the exhibition at Savera Hotel in Chennai today.

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