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Tamilnadu News: New train services daily between Chennai Egmore and Mannargudi this date in both directions. Train, the first new large-caliber line between Mannargudi and Nidamangalam, leaves at 2115 hours today Mannargudi. The Chennai Egmore-Mannargudi Mannai express will leave Chennai Egmore at 2200 hrs and arrive in Mannargudi at 0625 hrs the next day.

In its return journey, the Mannargudi-Chennai Egmore Mannai express will leave Mannargudi at 2115 hrs and arrive in Chennai Egmore at 0550 hrs, the next day. A formal inauguration of reservation for this new train commenced at Mannargudi Railway station yesterday in which former Union Minister and chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on Railways T R Baalu, was the first person to purchase a ticket.

Southern Railway has also announced that the Chennai Egmore-Tiruchendur. Expresses will be run daily from today in both directions. This is consequent to the announcement in the Railway Budget 2011-12 that the weekly Chendur Express would be operated daily. The timings of the train will be revised between Tiruchendur and Tirunelveli.

The train will leave Tiruchendur at 1945 hrs instead of 1935 hrs and arrive in Tirunelveli at 2110 hrs. It will leave Tirunelveli at 2115 hrs.

Tamilnadu news: The Chennai City police today conducted surprise checks in leading commercial complexes and shopping malls in the city, where people assemble in large numbers. The security wing of the City Police along with Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad officials, Dog Squads were involved in the search operations.

Police sources said the searches were conducted in shopping malls like Skywalk, Spencer Plaza, Express Avenue, City Center and Alsa Mall.

No significant items were seized during the operation during which the traders in the commercial complexes were sensitized on general issues.

The searches comes in the wake of Wednesday’s bomb blast near the gates of Delhi High Court complex, following which security has been tightened across Tamil Nadu.

Tamilnadu news : Gandhian, one of the Indo-Pak War fighter and now the supporter against corruption, Anna Hazare, who ended his 12-day-long fast in Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi today with the virtually entire nation behind him demanding the government to introduce Jan Lokpal Bill, is being deified in Tamil Nadu.

With one of the most important Hindu festival Ganesh Chathurthi round the corner, falling on the first day of September, idol makers who come with novel ideas giving different looks to Ganesha, the remover of obstancels, have come up with Anna Hazare look-alike Ganesa idols. Each idol is six foot tall, with the elephant God bespectacled, like Anna. The Anna idols are being made in Sowcarpet area of North Chennai where Hindi speaking population is predominant. Idol makers are sure that they can make a fast buck, so to speak, this time, thanks to the Anna wave which has swept the country.

Meanwhile, there is another novelty about Ganesh idols this year following an appeal by Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Borad (TNPCB) to not use colour idols as the chemical-coated images of the elephant God would be immersed in the ocean a week to ten days after Ganesh pooja, traditionally. Eco-friendly idols of Ganesha made from coconut shells are also being manufactured.

The sale of idols in the city will begin from tomorrow in this God fearing metropolis where Pillayar Chathurthi is observed with great reverence.

Tamilnadu News:  One of the Benefits for Tamilnadu People today as our Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha announced the new complex built by the DMK government to house the assembly and the secretariat will be converted into a multi-specialty hospital.

In a statement in the state assembly, Jayalalitha said the hospital would be equivalent to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. She said the hospital will come up in A wing of the complex measuring 97,829 sq. meters.

The government will set up a new Medical College in the buildings coming up in the B block, Jayalalitha said. She reiterated her government’s decision not to shift the assembly and secretariat to the new complex as it was not sufficient enough to house all the Tamil Nadu government departments.

The AIADMK government has decided to function out of Fort St.George and appointed a one-man committee to probe allegations of wasteful expenditure and poor quality construction in the new assembly and secretariat complex.

Tamilnadu News: To reduce Power Cut in Tamil Nadu Our Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today passionate to the people a 400 KV electricity sub-station at Sunguvarchathiram in neighboring Kancheepuram district through video conferencing. The sub-station was built with an investment of Rs 227.35 crore and would help tide over the power crisis in Chennai, Oragadam and Sriperumbudur.

It would also ease the burden of the lone 400 KV sub-station at Sriperumbudur which was at present supplying power to Chennai and its suburban areas.  The new sub-station would supply power generated from North Chennai Thermal Power Station to Sunguvarchatram and its nearby areas and facilitate smooth power supply to nearby industries and residences.

The sub-station has two in-built 400/230 KV transformers and two 200 KV transformers. It would also be linked to 2 x 600 MW North Chennai Thermal Power Staion-2, 400 KV Alamdai sub-station, 400 KV Sriperumbudur station and the 400 KV sub-station at Puducherry.  It said Multi Circuit Transmission Lines were being laid to carry power.

Ms Jayalalithaa also inaugurated 12 new bridges across the state, constructed at a cost of Rs 41 crore. A new bridge across Coovum River at Aminjikarai to ease traffic congestion with an investment of Rs 6.90 crore was also thrown open to public. Other bridges inaugurated by the Chief Minister were in Vellore, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Tiruvannamalai and Dindigul districts.

Tamilnadu News: After the long Education Struggle ends today and students to start their studies in Tamilnadu by various political parties today hailed the Supreme Court verdict on the Samacheer Kalvi (Uniform Education System) and urged AIADMK supreme and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to implement the UES immediately.

The UES was implemented during the previous DMK regime and the implementation was postponed by the AIADMK government after it came to power in May leading to legal wrangles, before the apex court today dismissed the appeal filed by the state government challenging the Madras High Court order upholding the UES.

DMK president M Karunanidhi, former Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin, CPI Secretary T Pandian, CPI (M) State Secretary G Ramakrishnan, BJP state unit President Pon Radhakrishnan, MDMK General Secretary Vaiko, students organizations and educational experts welcomed the Supreme Court order and said it was on the expected lines.

The Students Federation celebrated the apex court by bursting crackers and distributing sweets. Swiftly reacting to the Supreme Court order, Ms Jayalalithaa told the state Assembly that her government would immediately implement the UES.

Tamilnadu News: Among sweltering heat, people in Chennai City and suburbs have to put up with power cuts as the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) has announced a four hour load shedding on rotation basis for ten days from Jun 21. The four-hour load shedding was being introduced at a time when the people of this teeming metropolis and those living in the city outskirts were facing voltage fluctuation right through the day, compounding the woes of the people, who were already reeling under severe heat wave conditions.

The power cuts would be carried out in spells of one hour after every four hours on rotation, Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO), a subsidiary of TNEB, The load shedding would be in force till June 30 and was being resorted to as the Nellore-Alamathy 400 KV line was being shut down for taking up line connectivity work to the TNEB-NTPC joint venture 3 X 500 MW Thermal Power Plant project at Vallur.

The shutdown of the line would result in a shortage of about 300 MW of power to the city and its suburbs. The existing one hour load shedding in the city would be replaced by the new schedule in areas covered by the four-hour shutdown.

Consumers have been asked to bear with the inconvenience caused and to cooperate with the authorities to enable early commissioning of the new mega power station at Vallur.

Coming Friday on from May 28, compulsory tiring of helmets by two wheeler riders will come into force and the Chennai City Traffic Police have decided to ensure its strict implementation. A police press release here said, stringent legal action would be taken against those not wearing helmet under Section 129 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. The city police decision to make wearing helmets mandatory was aimed at reducing the fatalities in road accidents, which has been on the increase.

The city police said the mandatory helmet rule would be implemented in two stages. In the first phase all two wheeler riders should compulsorily wear it. It would then be extended to the side-seat riders also. A Government Order, making mandatory wearing of helmets, in Chennai and five other Corporation limits, was issued in February 2007. But it was not implemented strictly.

The police had decided to crack down on improper number plates in vehicle. Those number plates which do not comply with the Motor Vehicles Act rules will be dealt with strictly.

One of the most festival in Madurai during chithirai, lakhs of devotees from various parts of the country and abroad congregated at River Vaigai to witness Lord Kallazhagar entering River Vaigai amid chanting of Vedic hymns, here this morning. Considered to a grand event in the Indian sub-continent, it was held as part of the ongoing annual Chithirai Brahmotsavam of the ancient Sri Meenakshi-Sundareswarar Temple in this heritage city.

The richly decorated idol of Lord Sundararaja Perumal, popularly called as Lord Kallazhagar, adorned in green silk and mounted on the newly made Thanga Kuthirai Vahanam (Golden Horse) was taken out in a procession from the Prasanna Venkatachalapathy Perumal Temple at Tallakulam in the city followed by thousands of devotees chanting before entering the Vaigai.

Before the event began, a garland of Tulsi from Sri Andal Temple at Srivilliputhur was placed on him in an expression of affection of Goddess Andal towards Lord Kallazhagar. Later, the deity was taken to Vandiyur area where the devotees will have darshan at the Veeraraghava Perumal Temple, tomorrow.

The district administration in coordination with police and other departments had made elaborate arrangements for the event. A large number of policemen from neighboring districts, apart from Madurai, were deployed along the procession route to regulate the crowd.