Tag: Tamil Nadu

The Hindu was once the trusted Newspaper of  Tamilians.

There were people who will feel restless if they did not get a  copy of The Hindu in the morning.

Such was the objectivity and trust that people used to refer to the Hindu for confirmation in it even for Gazette Notification.

People use to quip that if one were to check the Obituary, The Hindu would take 10 Days to confirm the News, coinciding with the Tenth Day Ceremony of the departed, while The Indian Express and The Daily Thanthi will publish Obituary anticipating one’s Death!

So thorough was The Hindu’s verification of a News Story and the commitment to Facts and Truth.

‘ The Hindu’ is no more.

Unverified News items are flashed,though couched in jugglery of words to escape Legal proceedings.

Take for instance the news item on Nakkeran‘s scurrilous article on Jayalalithaa, The chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on her eating habits.

Nakkeran’s standard of writing is known to every one,a magazine of sheer yellow Journalism bordering on porn.
It has been enjoying immunity  under the guise of protecting ‘the Tamils’,especially when Karunanidhi is in power.
Nakkearn’s Editor  Gopal played a dubious role in the abduction and release of the Kannada Matinee Idol Dr.Rajkumar by the forest brigand Veerappan.The story of ‘missing millions of the ransom’ is yet to be solved.

Nor Gopal’s credentials as one who is in cahoots with Tamil separatists/terrorists is disproved.

Such is the fame of the Nakkeran.

The Hindu, not only published the story of Nakkeran in its front page, but to help those who might have missed the Tamil piece,provided a Translation!

Nakkeran has apologise unconditionally for the Story.

Now, look at the news item in The Hindu covering the Legal Notice slapped on The Hindu for this article by Jayalalithaa.-tucked away in the eighth page corner!

Gone are the days when The Hindu used  flash international News on the front page, quoting Reuters,New York Times and the like.

On reporting a number of cases decided against the Government of Tamil Nadu  by the Courts, The Hindu reports in such a way as to create the impression that the Government was wrong and was strictured.

Note the reporting on the High Court’s order on the propose conversion of The Oil Tanker of a Secretariat built by Karunanidhi,which was ‘declared open’ when civil works were on and the function was held in ‘set” erected by a Film Art Director!

The Court has merely observed that the Government must obtain Fresh NOC from Pollution board and other Agencies before converting the building it into a Hospital as the Old NOCs were not sufficient.

This news is presented in The Hindu in such a way as to convey the impression that the Court has quashed the Tamil Nadu Governments move and that it is illegal.

Similar reporting on all the Court Judgements involving Jayalalitha head Tamil Nadu is being published in The Hindu.

Probably it is more to with N.Ram’s familial relation with KarunanidhI.

Our The Hindu is no more.

R.I.P.

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In a setback to the AIADMK government, the Madras High Court on Friday granted an interim injunction restraining authorities from making any structural alterations to the new Legislative Assembly-cum-Secretariat complex at the Omandurar Government Estate on Anna Salai here until a writ petition challenging the decision to convert it into a multi-specialty hospital is disposed of.

A Division Bench comprising Justices D.Murugesan and P.P.S.Janarthana Raja passed the interim order on a writ petition by R.Veeramani, a city advocate. It directed the authorities to file their counter by February 10. The case has been posted for February 13.

The petitioner said the present government took a policy decision on August 19 last year to convert the new building into a multi-specialty hospital. This decision was irrational, “tainted with mala fides and is against public interest.”

The petitioner’s senior counsel, P.Wilson, contended that environmental clearance given for the Assembly/ Secretariat complex could not be taken as clearance for conversion and housing a multi-specialty hospital.

The Bench noted that the PWD had issued the tender notice in two dailies for carrying out civil and electrical works.

Admittedly, as on date, no environmental clearance was obtained for the proposed modification in the new building. It was not in dispute that for a project exceeding 15,000 sq.metres, environmental clearance should be obtained from the Centre’s Environment Impact Assessment Authority.

Though such clearance had been obtained before constructing the building, the fact remained that it was not obtained for the modification, the Bench said.

The court said the authorities’ only contention was that the government was taking necessary action to get clearance before the building was put into use. The question as to whether the clearance was necessary prior to any modification/alteration or not should be gone into at the time of final disposal of the petition.

For the present, it was of the prima facie opinion that the environmental clearance given for constructing the building would not include clearance for any modification. If that be so, the structure constructed at a cost of Rs.551.80 crore could not be altered and any money spent on such modification would cause huge loss to the exchequer if the writ petitioner succeeds. In that view of the matter, it said the authorities should be restrained from altering or modifying or in any manner changing the structure till the petition was disposed of.

The Judges said their order would not stand in the way of the government obtaining environmental clearance and also taking other steps as per the policy decision.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article2817739.ece

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