1. Yamaha Workers, Families Organise Human Chain
Workers from India Yamaha Motor Private Limited, joined by their families, organised a human chain on Gandhi Road in Kancheepuram on Sunday.
The workers are protesting the company’s anti-trade union policies. Their immediate demand was reinstatement of the workers who have been terminated. The workers from Myoung Shin Automotive India (MSI), a vendor/supplier of Hyundai Motor India, too joined the protest.
Giving a voice to the workers, a union was formed recently to highlight the issues of the workers in the manufacturing plant. The company terminated the services of two workers — Rajamanikandan and Prakash. Rajamanikandan serves as the treasurer of the union that is affiliated to Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), and Prakash serves as one of the secretaries of the union.
(Source: The HIndu)
2. Star Tortoise Smuggler Gang Busted
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has busted an inter-State gang involved in smuggling of an endangered species under Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), after arresting two persons from Triplicane here.
Acting on a tip-off, sleuths intercepted the two and seized 584 Indian Star Tortoises kept in six bags.
“The bags were in tightly packed condition and were brought from South Andhra Pradesh to Chennai for further illegal transportation out of India through southern coast of Tamil Nadu,” DRI sources said.
(Source: The New Indian Express)
3. ‘Bypolls Put off As AIADMK Is Wary of Facing People’
DMK president MK Stalin on Sunday said the decision of the Election Commission not to hold by-elections to the Tirupparankundram and Tiruvarur Assembly constituencies has cast doubts in the minds of the people whether its action was motivated.
In a statement in Chennai, he alleged that the by-elections in the state had been postponed since the ground-level situation in the two constituencies was totally against the ruling AIADMK. Stalin said the ruling party lacked the confidence to conduct the bypolls and if it faced the people, the chief minister and his Cabinet colleagues would be subjected to great embarrassment.
“To avoid such repercussions, the government has succeeded in postponing the bypolls through Chief Secretary Girija Vaidyanathan, who, contrary to the good name earned during her career, has become a propaganda secretary of the ruling party,” he alleged.
(Source: The Hindu)
4. Plea Against Sand Mining in Cauvery Bed
A PIL plea has been filed in the high court to quash the permission granted to quarry sand from Cauvery riverbed in Sarkar Manapalli village in Namakkal district.
A division bench of Justices S Manikumar and PT Asha before which the petition from P Arjunan came up on Friday, issued notices to Namakkal Collector and State Level Impact Assessment Authority, returnable in three weeks.
Petitioner said apart from use in agricultural activities, the river is the only source of drinking water for people living in and around the village. While so, the PWD Executive Engineer had proposed to conduct mining activity in the riverbed in 12 hectares and it was approved by the Collector and other departments. However, no environmental clearance was obtained from the authority concerned on the ground there was no forest land within 500 metres from the riverbed. In fact, forest land is situated within 60 metres.
(Source: The New Indian Express)
5. Woman Arrested on Charge of Killing 18-Month-Old Child
Venganna’s house plunged into sorrow on Sunday after the police found that his wife had murdered their child.
Uma, 27, the mother of the one-and-a-half-month-old child, was arrested by the Velachery police, produced before the judicial magistrate and remanded in prison.
Venganna had a love marriage with Uma two years ago and the couple were living in Draupadi Amman Koil Street in Velachery, the police said. A child was born to the couple on 30 August and they had named the child Charvik.
The mother suffered severe pain whenever she breastfed the baby. Upset over not being able to feed her child, Uma threw the baby into the Velachery lake, the police said. When her husband enquired about the child on Friday, she feigned ignorance and said someone had abducted the child as the door was found to be open.
(Source: The Hindu)
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