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Tamilnadu News: One of the brave attempts in tamilnadu on yesterday, a woman in Ariyalur spread chilli powder on three robbers face and recovered gold jewels worth Rs 3 lakh stolen from her house. Ambika (28), wife of Saravanan (33), a resident of Minnagar in Ariyalur, was at home along with their two children Pandian (8) and Santhosh (4). Saravanan was in his office at the time of the incident. At around 2am, Ambika came out of the house to take her son Pandian, who wanted to attend nature’s call. All of a sudden, three unidentified robbers in half-trousers pounced on Ambika and snatched her ‘thali‘. Then, they gained entry into the house by pointing a knife at her. They ordered Ambika to open the almirah from which they took 25 sovereigns of gold ornaments and Rs 70,000 in cash.

Not convinced with that, the thieves further threatened her to bring any valuables if kept in the kitchen. Utilizing the opportunity, Ambika went to the kitchen and returned with the chilli powder in her hands. The unsuspecting robbers, who were expecting more bounty, were in for a shock when Ambika sprinkled the chilli powder on the three robbers face.

In the meantime, she recovered about 14 sovereigns of gold from the pockets of one of the robbers and ran out from the house and shouted for help from the neighbors. Aware of the danger, all the three fled the scene with the rest of the valuables. Ambika later lodged a complaint with the Ariyalur police. Based on the information, the police registered a case and are investigating.

Tamilnadu news: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today announced a facelift for the memorials of former Chief Ministers C N Annadurai and M G Ramachandran on the beach front at a cost of Rs ten crore.

The names of Anna and MGR still remain fresh in the minds and hearts of people. It is natural that the memorials of two great leaders are located next to each other. Since thousands of people from across the state visit these memorials, it was imperative that they are clean and maintained in an effective manner.

In line with the announcement made during the budget session of the State Assembly that the memorials would be given a facelift, Ms Jayalalithaa sanctioned Rs 1.20 crore to renovate the Anna memorial.

The release said, a sum of Rs 4.30 crore has been allotted to beautify the memorial of her political mentor, Bharat Ratna MGR, besides changing the frontage and constructing a compound wall at a cost of Rs 3.40 crore.

Tamilnadu News: Concerned over the love of reading books among people, especially students, a Kumbakonam-based bibliophile-cum-entrepreneur has started a four wheeler mobile lending library to reach out to customers in Thanjavur and Chennai districts.

A MBA graduate from Anna University, Vallalar Library has display, selection, delivery and return of books and spares people the trouble of locating books going through narrow spaces between racks and dusty shelves in traditional libraries. Started Vallalar Library four months back to create awareness among people on reading and realized the habit was fast declining. I took to this innovation since I wanted it to look appealing from our first meeting with customers. The Library functions from a hired four wheeler five to six times a month in areas around Kumbakonam. The van is only for visual appeal. Once customers become life members, I give them a list of books we have. As they SMS me the book number.

To attract potential customers, Murugaraj has his mobile library parked near temples, colleges and schools in Kumbakonam. Today his library has 356 books under 17 classifications and 23 members. Anyone from Kumbakonam and Chennai can become a member by paying a life membership of Rs 300, borrow three books at a time and keep them for a week.  I always loved books and wanted to spread the habit of reading. Most of the books people borrow are on self development and health. We have mostly Tamil books and very few books in English and Hindi.

Tamilnadu News: One of the Media leader Sun TV Led by media baron Kalanidhi Maran’s Sun Network, Sun TV has again bagged the honors when it comes to screening the ‘hottest’ movie in the history of Tamil films, this Pongal would be super-special for superstar Rajinikanth’s millions of fans as Sun TV is all set to broadcast the mega-budget and highly successful Enthiran: The Robot on the super Sunday, a day after Pongal.

Rajini’s Shankar-directed Endhiran: The Robot has many firsts to its credit. It’s the most expensive Indian film to have ever been made; it’s also the highest grossing Indian film, beating many Bollywood blockbuster movies by several crores. Come this Sunday, viewers across the globe would get to watch the high-profile movie on screen in high-definition picture clarity on Sun TV, which is the leading channel in Tamil Nadu and elsewhere. Enthiran is hailed by many as the best film in terms of technical excellence and expertise and is rated as India’s answer to Hollywood blockbusters like Avatar. It starred Rajini, the highest paid Indian actor who also has the largest number of fan-following in the country, in a never-before seen double role and had former beauty queen Aishwarya Rai as his heroine. This was Aishwarya’s second film with Shankar after her Jeans (1998).

The film released in record number of halls in Chennai city alone: it released in as many as 42 screens in Chennai alone and in more than 3000 halls worldwide. Its grandeur simply stumped movie-goers as no Indian film had ever been attempted of this magnitude which extended outside the realms of possibilities of the imagination of a common man. For some time, Sun Pictures (part of the vast Sun Network empire) was thinking about re-releasing the film but has now decided to screen it on the idiot-box on Pongal eve. Sit glued to your screens from 06:00 p.m. for the next 3-4 hours and enjoy the magic on Sun TV. Reports say that many distributors are apprehensive that the screening of Enthiran on small-screen might take the sheen away from the films which release in big-screen on Pongal eve!

Wish You a Happy Pongal Folks !!!

Tamilnadu News: Huge Book fair in Chennai at the St George’s School grounds, it would be difficult to miss the pavement on the opposite side of Poonamallee High Road. Welcome to the world of the ‘other’ book fair. Bringing the glorious tradition of providing Chennai’s readers with second hand books forward again, close to 20 booksellers from their Mount Road and Moore Market outlets, have spread out their collections outside Pachaiyappa’s College. With the best of the literary world at throwaway prices , as low as Rs 20 for a slightly dog-eared Dan Brown or Sidney Sheldon, this is perhaps a crowded piece of heaven.

The elderly vendor goes on to claim that after a four-year break, he only returned this year. Business isn’t great for him, he reveals, considering his stock of heavy duty ‘imported medical texts’ priced between Rs 250 and 300. Piles and piles of popular titles stretch out like a candy shop for a long stretch of pavement. Sydney Sheldon, Tom Clancy, John Grisham and, for the light readers, Tinkle comics and Panchatantra are heaped on display, as well. It appears that the crowds of people who frequent ‘the other book fair’ come from no particular age group, as students and bespectacled middle-aged women shop side by side. This is a given when one spots JAVA programming textbooks surrounding a section of romance novels.

Almost at the end of the pavement is a waiting surprise – hawking a bevy of books titled Kaadhal 2023 is author V Kasi himself. A first-time struggling writer, whose work has been published after 10 years, he says that with no support for Indie authors, “sales and promotion have to be done this way; we make adjustments to ensure that there are no problems to our arrangement during this time.

Tamilnadu News: Among rising tensions in Mullaiperiyar Dam, the Tamil film industry would observe a day-long fast on January eight to express its solidarity with the Tamil Nadu Government on the raging Mulla Periyar Dam row with Kerala, which has heightened tensions between the two states.

The proposed fast, to be held at a village in Theni District in the close proximity to the contentious dam, comes in the wake of protests by Malayalam film personalities in support of the Kerala Government’s claim that the Mulla Periyar Dam was not safe. According to reports, the fast would be led by Tamil Film Directors Association President Bharathiraaja in which all the members of the association were expected to participate.

Film Industry sources said the Association would arrange vehicles to ferry its members from the city and other parts of the State to the fasting venue.

This is an appropriate time to show our support to the State government on this emotional issue”, the sources said, adding, the support of other associations of the Tamil cinema were solicited.

Tamilnadu News: The Meteorological department of the region has reported a cyclonic storm ‘Thane’ is likely to hit the Chennai region between Cuddalore and Nellore on Friday morning. The feared cyclonic storm was traveling at a wind speed of 85 kilometres per hour and was at around 750 kilometres south-east of the city on Tuesday evening. The cyclonic storm formation is expected to intensify in the Bay of Bengal and move north-west following which it will turn into a severe cyclonic storm.

Heavy downpour in certain regions including Andaman & Nicobar Islands, North coast of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and South coast of Andhra Pradesh is also expected. Along with this, gusty winds of 45-55 kilometer per hour might also prevail in the regions from Thursday. On Monday night, high tidal waves damaged over 200 boats and swept away 50 of them which were anchored on the coast of Visakhapatnam and West Godavari.

Also, some villages in Nellore, Prakasam and Srikakulam districts have almost flood like conditions. Death of two fishermen in the sea close to the coast at Malkipuram in East Godavari district was also reported. On the other hand, owing to the destruction of the embankment the road connecting Uppada and Kakinada in the same district was blocked on Wednesday.

However, the alerts have been sent to various agencies concerned. The Vishakhapatnam Cyclone Warning Centre officials have issued warnings and the fishermen in the area have been told to remain away from the sea.

Tamilnadu News: As an honor to Mathematical genius S. Ramanujan, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh declared 2012 New Year as a National Mathematical Year Inaugurating the 125th birth anniversary celebrations of Ramanujan at the University of Madras, Dr. Singh Announced Today. As a tribute to the great mathematician, our government has decided to declare his birthday, that is December 22, as the National Mathematics Day and the year 2012 as a whole as the National Mathematical Year.

India has a long and glorious tradition of mathematics that we need to encourage and nurture. I hope these steps will help in providing the additional impetus to the study of mathematics in our country, apart from making our people more aware of the work of Ramanujan, he further said that the mathematical community has a duty to find out ways and means to address the shortage of top quality mathematicians in our country.

It must reach out to the public particularly in the modern context where mathematics has tremendous influence on every kind of human behavior. In many ways, mathematics can be regarded as the mother science. The Natural Sciences have had a long symbiotic relationship with mathematics. Life Sciences did not seem to have much use for mathematics till about a hundred years ago, but lately mathematical interventions have had a tremendous impact on Biology. Dr. Singh said the Ramanujan story illustrates the inadequacy of the university evaluation system in the early decades of the last century while at the same time it shows that the system displayed enough flexibility to take care of mavericks like Ramanujan.

There have been many reforms since those days but there would still be talent which would elude proper evaluation. Our institutions of higher learning, therefore, must be sensitive to this problem. A genius like Ramanujan would shine bright even in the most adverse of circumstances, but we should be geared to encourage and nurture good talent which may not be of the same caliber as that of Ramanujan.

Tamilnadu News: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa barred her close associate Sasikala Natarajan and her husband M Natarajan from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). She also removed Ten other people from the party’s primary membership.

Natarajan is one of the key accused in the Rs 66-crore disproportionate assets case that involves Jayalalithaa.

Jayalalithaa has already appeared several times before the Bangalore trial court in connection to the disproportionate assets case which dates back to 1991-1996.

Natarajan had accompanied the AIADMK leader during hearings at the trail court.

Tamilnadu News : Ajith has always been something of a speed sprite with an affinity for fast cars and bikes but now he has proved that he is also a daredevil. Ajith is now busy in shooting of Billa-2, his next project. Ajith in his latest ongoing movie Billa 2 is trying to give mind-blowing stunts. The director and the entire crew are making sure that they don’t miss blogging the special acts of Thala Ajith Kumar.

Chakri Toleti had mentioned that Thala is working extraordinarily on the stunts taken in European Countries. He says that Ajith Kumar isn’t using any body double and is performing the stunts himself. Billa 2 would focus on how David an ordinary man from Tuticorin of South Tamil Nadu, becomes Billa, a dreaded underworld don.

The shooting is close on the heels of completion and is expected to hit screens by mid of April-May 2012.

The film is jointly produced by IN Entertainment (India) Limited (INE) and Wide Angle Creations of Suresh Balaji and George Pius.