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Anna to meet Sonia tomorrow 2

Railways blame TN for MRTS delay 2

Review on TV Serials 4

Sharapova reaches Wimbledon final

No Lights at High Court!

CHENNAI: Generator in the High court also failed to function, advocates were seen arguing to judges who listening to them in darkness. The outages outrage the litigant pub lic and the advocates. The judges were visibly irked. The grid distur bance in the north Chennai had paralyzed power supply. But why didnt the Tamilnadu electricity board TNEB immediately restore power after the tripping CHENNAI: Rajinikant in generating units and who was admitted to the Mount Elizabeth Medi cal Centre in Singapore was discharged and is recuperating in Sing apore. The actor will not be leaving for India im mediately, he will be transmission network there a few more days for that disrupted the grid. further check-ups. In the The TNEB had shut meantime, Tamil news down four key power papers in Singapore and transmission feeders Malaysia have reported (each200mw capacity) that one of his daughters That brings power to had donated a kidney for Chennai to carry on work trans plantation. The for the vallur thermal operation was success, power station. and super star Rajini will Authorities were depen be available completion dent fully on manali subs of his recently started tation as a temporary film, Ranaa. Rajini fell ill back up facility to bring power to the city. When the series of trippings took place, the back up power supply failed and the seeders too could not CHENNAI: Popular TV anchor and journalist A. be operated. Williams Rabi Bernard Car theft in has been nominated as AIADMK candidate for High Court the July 22 Rajya Sabhha CHENNAI: Lady advo by-elections to fill up the cate Jayalakshmi from lone RS seat, which fell Madras High court, vacant following the lodged a complaint with resignation of AIADMK the Esplanade police that member K.V. Ramali her car which was park ngam. ed on the premises of the Mr Ramalingam had High court is missing. contested the Assembly Stated in her elections and became the complaint that she had Public Works depart parked her car on the High court campus on ment minister. Wednesday morning, when she returned after the work in the evening, she found the car, A Maruthi 800 missing, The police observed the number of vehicles that arrived at the High court between 8am to 5pm. There were 2000 vehi cles belonging to advoc ates and others on the court campus, they said.

Daughter gives birth to Rajinikanth

Spore media spills out
during the muhurat of the film, RANNA on April 29 . when he complained of exhaustion. Since then, he has been in and out of different hospitals. He travelled to Singapore on May 28 where he was admitted to the Mount Elizabeth Hospital. one of the three lead heroines. The shooting is expected to get over in 220 days. Rana. He wants to entertain his fans. We are indebted to fans. The family is deeply tou ched, he added. The film has six songs and music maestro Ar rahman has helmed the music of Ranaa. Rajinikanths daughter Soundarya is the coproducer of the film and Meanwhile, director she is looking into the K.S. Ravikumar is busy technical aspects of the finalizing the cast on the movie. film. The director is also The superstars planning to leave lfor Singapore for discussion son-in-law and actor with the super star, it is Dhanush, told: Rajini said. In the movie, Rajini kanth has recovered. He will be seen in three is relaxed. He is waiting avatars and Deepika is to start his next movie,

Rabi Bernard AIADMK candidate for Rajya Sabha seat

council at her Poes Garden residence here on Wednesday. Mr Bernard had wide TV experience even before he joined the Jaya TV in which he has been anchoring several prog rammes. Bernard work ed in Tamil daily Dina mani for a short period. He had also worked as the progra mme execu tive with Philippines Radio for its Tamil prog ramme.

His candidature was announced by chief minister and AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa after she chaired a mee ting of her partys newlyconstituted governing

2 City Councillors to get Rs. 15 lakh as ward funds

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Two defamation cases against jaya withdrawn

Sessions Judge (PSJ) here on yesterday. The PSJ, P. Devadoss, allowed the City Public Prosecutor to withdraw the cases which were filed against her during the DMK rule for defaming the then Chief Minister, M. Karuna nidhi. A few days ago, two other cases which were pending against her were withdrawn by prosecution.

Anna Hazare to meet Sonia tomorrow

DELHI: In a bid to garner more support for the lokpal bill, social activist Anna Hazare will meet Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Satur day at her 10 Janpath

Health
Racing thoughts are symptom of stress
CHENNAI: Many time looking for
people come and say my thoughts race constantly everyday. As my thoughts race, I cant organize myself. I am always trying to hold a thought, but I keep forgetting; then the thought is replaced by other racing thoughts. I cant concentrate on any thing. I find these symp toms very distre ssing. Racing thoughts are not just thinking fast. They are thoughts that just wont be quiet; they can be in the background of other thoughts or take over a persons consciousness. A negative/ scary thought, worrying and racing thoughts is the one symptom that can bother people the most. They do not understand how they can have such thought that seems so scary and come with such impact. People say that they have awful thoughts and feel that they are going mad and that they cannot control these disturbing thoughts. They seem to come without them even thinking them. One seem to have his attention on himself all day and it feels like there are many thoughts running through mind is twofold. It is all the confusion about how you feel. Your mind spends all day answers and trying to find a way out of this hell. Some people may even stay up all ni ght, refle cting on the whole day and try ing to fig ure every thing out. Eventually, thinking just becomes automatic, it becomes a habit. All day, everyday, these thoughts seem to enter your head before you even think them can stick around all day. Then some scary thoughts always come across the mind. No one can cure me? My old self is lost forever? I have to live like this for the rest of my life? Its just me that feels like this? Ill never be able to enjoy the things I used to? I cannot be the person I used to be ? Dr. Rishi think people suffering from this kind of problems can be well treated by Trance-Therapy. Its a treatment without medicine through the power of subconscious mind. Contact: Global stress Management and Research centre, 27, Montieth Road, Egmore,Chennai - 600008 Ph:04428586154, 28413965, 09884020013.

CHENNAI:The Chennai city sitting councillors under the Ward Councillors Deve lopment Fund, as their term gets over in Octo ber.Corporation Commissioner D.Karthikeyan said will get only Rs.15 lakhs funds will be allocated proportionately. Some councillors have already submitted proposals for utilising the funds. We have proper guidelines based on which funds would be released,he said.

Wa r d C o u n c i l l o r s Development Fund was increased in phases from Rs.10 lakh in 2006-07 to the present Rs.30 lakh.

Around 85 per cent of the councillors had enough area and projects to utilise the funds in their wards. Some coun cillors wanted to know if their funds could be spent for other wards, but that was not possible. We hope that the proposed ward reorga nisation during expan sion of the city limits would result in In 2010-11, councillors bigger ward,said Mayor spent only Rs.25 crore of M.Subr amaniam the Rs.38.75 crore Leader of Oppo allotted to them. Some wards, especially those sition in the Council in north Chennai, are Saidai P. Ravi said that very small and the coun for councillors to spend cillors had unspent their funds until funds.Ward 77 October, estimates must councillor Dravidanadu have been drawn up in Munusamy, said that in March itself.Very few the last two years he was counci llors have unable to spend the submitted proposals for entire amount as the area this year. We have just was very small. He said four months to spend there is no land belon Rs.15 lakh. Our term ging to the government gets over by October 21. or the corporation in the Due to elections and ward. There is no major increase in cost of road either. I was able to construction material, spend the smaller amou works which had been nts allocated in the first awarded to contractors three years. The are yet to be taken up, he said.
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CHENNAI: Two more cases of criminal defam ation against Chief Mini ster Jayalalithaa were withdrawn from the court of the Principal

is canvassing support for the lokpal bill, told IANS. The meeting had earlier been scheduled for June 30. He will try to persuade Sonia Gandhi to include the post of Prime Minister in the lokpal when he meets her on Saturday, asking her why there is a problem in doing so when an honest person like Manmohan Singh suggests such a measure. His team members also suggested that the Prime Minister should show his commitment in this regard as he did on the issue of nuclear deal with the US.

Fake visa passenger arrested

CHENNAI: An Indian national who attempted to board a flight from Chennai to Heathrow with a fake visa was arrested fortnight ago. airline counter the alert staff questioned him and referred to the UK Border Agency in Chennai. During checks, it was found that no visa An official release had been issued to from the UK Border someone of that name or Agency said when the holding that passport passenger came to the number.

TN Govt blamed for MRTS Delay

residence. On Friday met senior BJP leader LK Advani and Hazare and team also met Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday. Kumar had criticised the Centre for spreading confusion on the lokpal bill. The meeting bet ween team Anna and Sonia Gandhi is confirm ed for tomorrow (July 2), Aswathi Murali dharan, a member of the NGO Parivartan which

4 crushed to death, 7 injured as goods train hits 2 vehicles

CHENNAI: Four people were crushed to death and seven including the Assistant Loco Pilot, were injured in a freak mishap when a goods trains hit two vehicles at a railway crossing between Mavalip alayam' and Sankagiri stations in Salem division of the South ern Railway today

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CHENNAI: The delay in completion of mass Rapid Transit System line between Velacherry and St.thomas mount. The project has been delayed by the change alignment and the acquisition of land by the state government the Southern Railway Gene ral manger Deepak Krish na said, The South ern Railway blamed the State government for the delay in completion of the MRTS work.
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In a press confer ence on Thursday, Krishna said the change in alignment had affe cted the dwelling units, thus resulting in litiga tions that, therefore delayed work The align ments has been changed due to technical reasons. we dont want the dwelling units to be affected and want the state government to take pragmatic approach in this regard, he said, adding that the issue was expected to be sorted out at the earliest. To a query on whether the metro rail would affect the subur ban rail services, Krish na said the fare for MRTS per kms was 12.5 when compared to Rs.5 of metro rail, giving it an advantage over the later. He also said that the Angamali Azhutha sabari rail project in Kerala was affected as the state government refused to acquire land for the project. He explained that there were proposals to build about 20 to 30 roads over bridges and man unman ned level crossings.

Dayanidhi Maran meeting PM raises speculation

DELHI: Amid questions over his continuance in the Union Council of Ministers, Textiles Minister and DMK nominee, Daya nidhi Maran, on Thursday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. It was not clear as to what transpired during the meeting which came ahead of the expected reshuffle of the Union Council of Ministers. Maran sought to dismiss the meeting as a routine one. "It is nothing. I am a minister," he underlined and contended that the meeting was related to official work. Maran has recently come under scrutiny over his role in the 2G spectrum issue. He was the Telecom Minister in UPA-1 when the 2G licences were allocated. Ahead of the promised reshuffle, Prime Minister Man mohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi are engaged in a careful exercise to assess the performance of ministers, their suitability in current portfolios, and gaps in caste and regional representation. With clear vacancies in the Raj Bhavans of Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and some incumbents keen on a shift - including back into active politics the reshuffle exercise is likely to involve governors too, party and government sources said. The PM kept the suspense over the timing of reshuffle even while meeting some Editors. Crucial Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab are due next year. The talk is that lateral shifts among the top four Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Home Minister P. Chida mbaram, Defence Minister A.K. Antony and External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna are possible. Some Congress leaders feel Krishna might be headed for a gubernatorial assignment again. The counter argument, however, is that Dr. Singh has a good working relationship with Krishna on foreign policy and may not want a new minister to disturb the line of control between the PMO and MEA. Cabinet ministers considered vulnerable by party sources include Sports Minister M.S. Gill, Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge, Tribal Affairs Minister Kantilal Bhuria and Corporate Affairs Minister Murli Deora. In Bhuria's case, party leaders are keen that he concentrate on his recent appointment as Madhya Pradesh Congress chief elections to that State, where the Congress has lost two consecutive elections, are due in 2013. As for Deora, party sources said, he could be dropped if his son, Milind, is made Mumbai Pradesh Congress chief. As for the allies, Mukul Roy of the Trinamool Congress, now MoS Railways, could be upgraded to the Cabinet in the same job, following the shift of Mamata Banerjee as Chief Minister of West Bengal. Banerjee has made it clear she wants her party to retain the railways portfolio. Meanwhile, Punjab Governor Shivraj Patil is keen on returning to fulltime politics and is said to be eyeing the Rajya Sabha seat vacated by Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. If the party does agree to give him the seat, he could well be back in the Cabinet. But the party leadership is not keen on having him back-- he was axed as Home Minister after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.

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Sports
Saina slips to world No.6 in ranking
in the first round of Indian Open Super Series and then to world number 18 Inthanon Ratcha nok of Thailand in Sudir man Cup have brought to the fore the inadequacies in her game. In Thailand Open last week, Saina lost to world number 16 Xuerui Li of China in the quarterfinals and then was knocked out in the second round in the Singapore open. Though the Indian shrugged off the disappointment by reaching the finals of the Indonesian Open, it was not enough to save her from slumping in her ranking. Saina had won three Super Series title last year Singapore Open, Indonesian Open and the Hong Kong Open to end the season on a high. The girl from Hyder abad had reached her career-best international ranking of world number two in July last year.

Maria Sharapova reaches second Wimbledon final

L O N D O N : M a r i a set. "It's amazing to be go 3-0 up and soon had Sharapova outgunned back in the final at Sharapova struggling in big-hitting German Wimbledon, it's been a the next game.

New Delhi: A series of inconsistent performance has taken a toll on Saina Nehwal's ranking as the Indian badminton ace on Thursday slipped to number six from four in the latest rankings. Saina, who failed to defend her Singapore and Indonesia Super Series title this month, currently has 63246.5778 points in her kitty. Half-way through the year, The 21-year-old has just one title Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold and two runner - up finish to her name. In the last six months, Saina has tasted success but her defeats against lower-ranked players such as Japanese Ai Goto

youngster Sabine Lisicki in straight sets on Thursday to power into her first Wimbledon final for seven years. The Russian fifth seed - the winner in 2004 - overcame a slow start to overwhelm wildcard Lisicki 6-4, 6-3 to advance to a final against Czech eighth seed Petra Kvitova on Saturday. World number 62 Lisicki, who had stunned second seeded French Open champion Li Na during a fairytale run to the last four, was always in trouble after her powerful serve deserted her midway through the first

while," a delighted Sharapova said afterwards. "I'm really happy even though I didn't play my best tennis today," added Sharapova, who totted up 13 double-faults during a patchy display. "To be in the final is a great achievement for me but I still feel like I've got more to do." Sharapova got off to a horrendous start, double-faulting twice in her opening service game as Lisicki surged into a 2-0 lead. Lisicki, regularly clocking serves timed at 120mph, coolly held to you can't win." "Unfortunately we did not win the battles that it took today." Delie should again have scored early in the second half when she broke free only to see her shot smothered by keeper Erin McLeod. Thiney, courtesy of yet another defensive error, quickly made amends with a powerful drive that flew in off the post. Canada captain Christine Sinclair, wearing a head mask after breaking her nose and playing on against Germany, did her best to lift her side but Avily made it 3-0 when she drilled in a Sandrine Soubeyrand corner in the 67th minute.

TheRussian favourite saved a crucial break point which would have put Lisicki 4-0 up before eventually holding to remain in touch at 3-1. With her service game misfiring, Shara pova turned to her booming groundstrokes to try and find a way into the match, attacking Lisi cki's suspect second serve to break back in the fifth game. Sharapova held to level at 3-3 but Lisicki was soon back into her rhythm, holding comfortably to go 4-3 up. Lisicki's serve unrave lled in the eighth Tomis then showed off her pace, beating two defenders and rounding McLeod for France's fourth goal.

game however, and with Shara pova punishing her second serve mercilessly, the German suffered another break. Sharapova wrapped up the first set with her first ace of the match, letting out a roar of delight as Lisicki trudged back to her chair. Lisicki's problems deepened in the opening game of the second set as she double-faulted twice to gift Sharapova yet another break. With Lisicki in disarray, the 21-year-old appealed to the umpire as specks of rain began to fall on Centre Court in her next service game at 0-30 down. Play continued however and Sharapova secured another break to go 3-0 up and from there the result was never in doubt. Lisicki was given a glimmer of hope when she broke in the fourth, but Sharapova broke back immediately to regain the initiative before holding for 5-1. Lisicki secured a break in the eighth game to delay the inevitable, but Shara pova broke again to claim the win. "We were outstanding. It is all about the team and everything went right for us," Thiney said.

Tevez lines up with Messi in Argentina's Copa opener

Carlos Tevez will line up alongside Lionel Messi in Argentina's attack when the hosts open the Copa America agai nst Bolivia in La Plata on Friday (0045 GMT Saturday), coach Sergio Batista said. He said the decision was part of the tactics he had devised for Messi to have a brilliant tournament and inspire Tevez, denied he had bowed to popular demand and media pressure to include the Manchester City captain. "I don't go by popular clamour. If I say Tevez must play it's because that's best for the national team. He has earned his place on his own," Batista said. Batista said he had alternative tactics if

Womens World Cup: France crush Canada to eye QF

Bochum: France crushed Canada 4-0 with two goals from Gaetane Thiney to move to the brink of a quarter-final place at the women's World Cup in Germany. The 25-year-old Thiney headed in from close range after 24 minutes and added another with a thundering 20metre strike before goals from Camille Abily and Elodie Tomis condemned Canada to a second successive defeat in the tournament. France have six points from two Group A games and will qualify for the last eight along with Germany if the hosts beat Nigeria later on Thursday. "That was a fantastic performance," France coach Bruno Bini told reporters. "It was difficult at the start but we recovered well." "The whole team played brilliantly. We raised the level when we needed to and were were very strong technically." Canada began brig htly and created an opening on 13 minutes when Sophie Schmidt slipped a pass into the run of Diana Matheson but her poor first touch allowed keeper Berangere Sapo wicz to smother. France, 1-0 winners over Nigeria in their opening game, gradually took control and with the Canadian defence looking out of sorts, struck after 24 minutes with Thiney heading in from 10 metres after Elise Bussaglia's cross was deflected and Canada twice failed to clear. With Canada's defence in tatters, France were unlucky not to add another in the first half as forward Marie-Laure Delie dominated in the box, going close on three occasions. "We made too many individual mistakes," said Canada's Matheson. "If you don't score then

Argentina to clinch the South American title they last won in 1993. Less than a month ago, Tevez appeared out of the running for a place in Argentina's squad but he and Batista cleared the air over issues that had kept the striker out of the reckoning and he has impressed the coach in training. "Carlos will play because he can link much more with Lionel and the idea is not to have players of such speed as we would have if (Angel) Di Maria and (Ezequiel) Lavezzi played (either side of Messi) ... With Carlos we have more play," he told reporters on Thursday. Batista, who has dropped Di Maria to the bench to make way for

Messi were suffocated by Bolivian marking. "We discussed Messi getting man to man marking and we have a plan B, someone (else) who will take control of the team and the ball," he said. "Lionel must enjoy what he's doing, he's a great player, the world's best, and we'll take maximum advantage of that. We built a team for him and let's hope it's his Copa America." Argentina team (4-3-3): Sergio Romero; Javier Zanetti, Nicolas Burdisso, Gabriel Milito, Marcos Rojo; Ever Banega, Javier Masch erano, Esteban Cambi asso; Ezequiel Lavezzi, Lionel Messi, Carlos Tevez.

Ishant Sharma scalps 100th Test wicket

Sharma, who also became the fifth youngest bowler to pick up 100 Test wickets, restricted the West Indies to 190 in reply to Indias 201. Only compatriot Kapil Dev, New Zealands Daniel Vettori, Pakis tans Waqar Younis and person said that at a time when the investigation is going on, the disappearance or destruction of the documents that would have thrown light on why the State machine was culpable or otherwise, clearly points out that the State government was involved in the cover-up.Criminal negligence. Gujarat Congress chief Arjun Modhvadia said, the records were destroyed to hide the truth regarding involvement of Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet colleagues. I demand that an inquiry be constituted under the supervision of the Supreme Court in the matter, he said. teammate H a r bhajan Singh were younger t h a n Sharma when they took their 100th Test wicket.

A live website for Kerala CM Communal riots: Gujarat CM flayed for destroying records to ensure transparency
THIRUVANANTHA PURAM: In a novel move to ensure transpar ency in administration, a 24hour live webcasting facility from the official chamber of Kerala chief minister Ommen Chan dy at the state secretariat was inaugu rated on Friday. Chandy also inaugurated a toll-free number that would shortly become functio nal in his office to make it operational round the clock. A website www. kerala cm.gov.in dedi cated to the chief minister was also inaugurated, with facility for citizens to lodge petitions and tracking petitions to Chandy. The people can watch live meetings, press conferences and cabinet briefings by logging on to www. kerala cm.gov.in Speaking to repor ters, Chandy said the live webcast was part of government policy to ensure transparency in the administration. The scheme was one of the items included in Chief Minister s 100-day action plan. NEWDELH: Narendra Modi came under fire from the Congress and lawyers of 2002 postGodhra riots victims on Thursday for destroying vital State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) records pertaining to the clashes, calling the action a c r i m i n a l conspiracy.Alleging there was an attempt to hide the truth regarding the alleged involvement of Narendra Modi and his Cabinet colleagues, they demanded an independent inquiry under the supervision of the Supreme Court into the BJP governments action.This is nothing short of a criminal conspiracy to see that the truth does not emerge. It clearly points out that the State government is trying to cover up the entire matter, Congress spokespersonManish Tewari said Tewari found it a complete travesty that documents pertaining to a massacre and carnage, which is under investigation of the highest court of the land and in which the needle of suspicion is directly at the Chief Minister of Gujarat, gets destroyed in this manner. The Congress spokes

onal Pahalgam route as more than 5,000 pilgrims set on the two day-trek. The yatra from Baltal route has been stopped temporarily due to inclement weather. A decision on allowing the pilgrims to proceed further will be taken The annual pilgri only after the track is mage to the cave shrine of Amarnath in south declared safe, an Kashmir Himala yas official at the yatra was tempor arily suspe control room said. The nded on Friday from the yatra, which began on Baltal route following June 29, was suspended rains in the area. on Friday morning due However, the pilgri to overnight rainfall mage was going on resulting in slippery smoothly on the traditi track at many places

along the 13-km route Inclement weather to the holy cave shrine, suspends Amarnath yatra he said.More than 35,000 pilgrims performed darshan of the naturally formed ice-lingam inside the 3,880-metre high cave shrine till last evening. Earlier in the day the fourth batch of 2,303 pilgrims left the Jammu base camp for the Amarnath yatra. Over 2.50 lakh pilgrims have registered for the annual yatra this year but the number is expected to cross four lakh by the end of the pilgrimage on August 13 as many pilgrims have not registered them selves.

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Review on three serials

Athipukkal is an usually long serial
and is nearing 1000
CHENNAI: Sandhiya whose name is Karpa kam is the surro gate mother of the child of the couple Manoharan and Padma. Manoharan is the soft gentleman who remains very helpful to Karpa gam. This is viewed Sumathi Durai of Mogapair in Annanagar episodes. says Karpagam scarifies haran. While Padma tries would definite unite to get unite them with all Manoharan and Padma. her good nature and 2.Thirumathi purity. Banu, a friend of Selvam Karpakam is unnecess arily impri soned and Archana wife of torched for helping Karpagam to unite Selvam delivers a dead Manoharan and Padma. baby and is saved up by a baby replaced by her sister. Soon Archana comes to know of this and immediately returns the child; she is a soft and good natured lady and therefore is able to withstand all the suf feri

ngs she underwent due to her mother-in-law. Selvam and Archana have good understanding and they both face all the ups and downs of their business of running the car mechanic shed. The serial background filming session was visited by Abi, Anitha, Sindu of Kumabakonam and they were all praise for the Sethu AbithaArchana and Selvam and others. Abhi, plus one student felt that her mother and father who watched the serial one now more loving and peaceful. The calm and blissful couple characterized in Archana and Selvam had made the difference.

daughter s husbands sister so that it will create a better relationship in This is a serial by the family. Mettivoli director Thiru murugan. The Director Rekha a Resident of himself acts as Gobi-a Karakudi where the character after who serial is being taken many maidens wander. appreciated the way Malar (Sruthika) an EB things taking shape. She Engineer leaves her was critical about the husband gogul who is a dialogues and the noises bad character and falls in the character seemed to love with Gobi who create bad light. renders her luke res ponse. Maha is also in love with Gobi but Gobis brother Pandi loves Maha in his turn. Gobis sister is married and her husbands sister loves Gopi too. While Gobis father wants Maha for his son, the mother of gopi is for her

3.Nathaswaram

Sumathi Durai with Karpagam suspiciously by his wife Karpakam now pos Padma who is supported es as a married lady with in all her jealousies by Tali bestowed on her by her friends Anjali, her mother to help Panchali confirm that she has Karpakam is a good nothing to do with natured girl who with Manoharan except being stands all the torchersl a rental lady for his child. and tries her best to The serial is well taken exonerate herself from for its clear handling of all the blames of her how relationship can be relationship with Mano disruptive.

From the left Archana , Abi, Anitha, Sindu & Selvam

Who is the richest Balaji or Padmanabha?

CHENNAI: With the conclusion of the Supr eme Court-appointed expert panels five-day treasure hunt, Keralas the Padmanabhaswamy temple-given promi at Rs. 50,000 crores, sources said.The temple has six vaults and two of them had not been opened for the past oneand-a-half century. A major chunk of the coins, jewels, diamond studded plates, rubies The temple has six vaults and two of them had not been opened for the past one and a half century. A major chunk of the estimated treasure belonged to the cellar, coded as A and B. The inventory thus far included gold coins, thousands of gold chains, precious stones including emerald, gems, diamonds, crowns and royal ornaments. Besid es, coins and objects of antique and historical value have been un earthed from the temple. The new findings today include Kashi peral necklace, gold coins, jewels, diamond studded plates, rubies and emer alds in five sacks. Gold coins of different eras and different sizes of metal lamps were also found. gold coins. A necklace was of 18 feet long. According to noted historian Dr M G S.Nara yanan, Padmanabha swamy is one of the Vaishnava temples in the country and dates back to 9th Century. Hence, the vaults contain several centuries old precious objects. The wealth at the tem ple has opened a debate over government control over the property. Prominent Hindu organi sation Nair Service Society said the treasure found at the temple should remain with the temple. Atheist leader U Kala nadan said the property was stashed in the temple cellars by the erstwhile kings. Hence, it could not be claimed as Hindu property. The government should take over the temple wealth for public use, he said. Meanwhile, the gove rnment has decided to beef up the security at the temple. Modern security system would be put in place for the temple and the police have comple ted a security audit in this regard, said states DGP Jacob Punnose.

nence by the Trava n core royal family in the 16th Century - has turned out to be one of the richest shrines in the country. Now the million dollar question is who is the richest Lord-Tirupati Balaji or T r i v a n d r u m Padmanabha.

estimated treasure belonged to the cellar, coded as A and B. The inventory thus far included gold coins, thousands of gold chains, precious stones including emerald, gems, diamonds, crowns and royal ornaments. Besides, coins and When the second objects of antique and secret chamber opened historical value have today after 136 years, the been unearthed from the Fridays inventory seven member panel temple. found valuables worth The new findings yielded 536 kgs of 18th Rs. 15,000 crore. Now today include Kashi century gold coins and the total recovery stands peral necklace, gold about 20 kgs of British

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