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கப்பலில் பயிற்சி பெறுவதில் சிக்கல்:நடவடிக்கை எடுப்பாரா புது துணைவேந்தர்? Source: http://www.dinamalar.com/News_Detail.asp?Id=516550 சென்னை: கடல்சார் கல்வியான "நாட்டிகல் சயின்ஸ்' பிரிவில், டி.என்.எஸ்., எனப்படும் பட்டயப்படிப்பு படிக்கும் மாணவர்கள், கப்பலில் 18 மாதங்கள் பயிற்சி பெற வழியில்லாத நிலை ஏற்பட்டுள்ளதால், அவர்களின் எதிர்காலம் கேள்விக்குறியாகி உள்ளது. நாடு முழுவதும், ஆண்டுக்கு, 2,500 மாணவர்கள் இப்படிப்பில் சேரும் நிலையில், வெறும், 300 பேருக்கு மட்டுமே பயிற்சி பெறும் வாய்ப்பு கிட்டுகிறது. இதனால், மீதமிருக்கும் மாணவர்கள், பட்டம் பெற முடியாமலும், வேலை வாய்ப்பு பெற முடியாமலும் திண்டாடி வருகின்றனர். இந்த படிப்பை ரத்து செய்வது ஒன்று தான், இப்பிரச்னைக்கு தீர்வாக அமையும் என, இத்துறை சார்ந்த வல்லுனர்கள் கருத்து தெரிவிக்கின்றனர். இந்த பிரச்னைக்கு, கடல்சார் பல்கலைக்கழக புது துணைவேந்தர் ரகுராம் நடவடிக்கை எடுப்பாரா என்ற எதிர்பார்ப்பு எழுந்துள்ளது. பிரபலம்:நாடு முழுவதும், 85க்கும் மேற்பட்ட கல்வி நிறுவனங்கள், கடல்சார் படிப்புகளை வழங்கி வருகின்றன. இதில், அதிகபட்சமாக தமிழகத்த...

Source:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/burmas-monks-call-for-muslim-community-to-be-shunned-7973317.html Monks who played a vital role in Burma's recent struggle for democracy have been accused of fuelling ethnic tensions in the country by calling on people to shun a Muslim community that has suffered decades of abuse. In a move that has shocked many observers, some monks' organisations have issued pamphlets telling people not to associate with the Rohingya community, and have blocked humanitarian assistance from reaching them. One leaflet described the Rohingya as "cruel by nature" and claimed it had "plans to exterminate" other ethnic groups. The outburst against the Rohingya, often described as one of the world's most oppressed groups, comes after weeks of ethnic violence in the Rakhine state in the west of Burma that has left more than 80 dead and up to 100,000 people living in a situation described as "desperate" ...

Source: http://pd.cpim.org/2012/0722_pd/07222012_17.html Flatgate in Kerala: ‘Whistle Blowers’ Caught Naked N S Sajith MOST of the journalists who are hand in glove with the Congress and other UDF bosses in the current anti-CPI(M) conspiracy boast that they are waging a war against the vices in the communist movement in Kerala. For the last three months they have launched an all out attack on CPI(M) in the name of Chandrashekharan murder investigation. The unholy nexus between media and police was explicitly exposed by  Deshabhimani  by publishing mobile phone call details between some journalists and police officers in the Special Investigation Team formed to investigate the murder. It was revealed that the DySP had made over 3000 phone calls, most of which were to journalists. Now, another new revelation, on the basis of a document received by  Deshabhimani  and  Indian Express  through Right to Information Act, has once again proved th...

Source: http://inahas.blogspot.in/2012/07/when-media-sold-its-conscience-for-trp.html Guwahati  is everywhere today: News Channels, Social Media. I hope that Assam is still the same place which I thought to be, and that a few weeds have grown because of ignorance of the caretakers. Praise showered on the region by mentions on the show of  Satyamev Jayate  looks hollow after this sorry incident. There are two angles to it: People and the Media. As I write about the role of media here, in no way do I support all those involved in this entire incident. The incident around which this post is written occurs when a girl and her friend leave a pub in the city after having a party. A man outside the pub makes some obscene remark and when the girls protest, they are attacked by the men. The victim is manhandled, molested, stripped while her friend manages to escape. What shocks me more than anything is that the two reporters from the news channel recording the entire...

source:  http://www.pathivu.com/news/21599/57//d,article_full.aspx தமிழனாய் பிறந்த மகிழ்வோடு என் தமிழ் இனத்துக்கு முதல் வணக்கம். அண்மைக்காலமாக எம்முடைய தேசத்தில் நடக்கின்ற அநியாய செயல்பாடுகளினால் ஆத்திரமடைந்து அவசர அவசரமாக என்னுடைய கன்னிக்கட்டுரையினை எழுதுகின்றேன். தமிழ் இனம் காலதிகாலமாக பல்வேறு வழிகளில் போரிட்டு எம் உரிமைகளை மீட்டெடுக்க முயட்சித்தது அதில் பல இடங்களில் வெற்றியையும் பெற்றது. முப்பது வருடமாக் நடைபெற்ற ஆயுத போராட்டம் மவுனமாகி போயுள்ள நிலையில் இங்கு அரங்கேறும் அரசியல் நியாயங்களை தான் இங்கு குறிப்பிட வந்துள்ளேன். 2009 மே 18 பின்னர் நடைபெற்ற ஜனாதிபதி தேர்தலில் கொலையாளி மஹிந்தவே ஆட்சிக்கு வந்தார். இதட்கு கூட எம்முடைய தமிழ் தரப்பு தலைவர்கள் மிகுந்த ஒத்தாசையாக இருந்தனர் இது பற்றி இப்போது தேவையில்லை. இருப்பினும் பின்னர் இடம்பெற்ற பாராளுமன்ற தேர்தலில் எம்முடைய தமிழ் தரப்புகள் (பல கட்சிகளை உள்ளடக்கி தலைவரினால் உருவாக்கப் பட்ட கூட்டமைப்பு) சிதறடிக்கப் பட்டது ஆனால் அதற்கான உண்மைக் காரணத்தினை நாம் அன்று அறிந்திருக்கவில்லை ஆனால் இன்று அதனை மக்கள் நன்றாக உணர்கின்றனர...

Source: http://gcaptain.com/million-worth-sudan-crude-marooned/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Gcaptain+%28gCaptain.com%29 (Bloomberg) — More than 15 miles offshore Singapore a black-and-red hulled tanker has been stranded for about 150 days holding South Sudanese crude worth almost $60 million, a hostage of a two-decade war. South Sudan says its northern neighbor stole the shipment on the ETC Isis and about 2 million barrels more. Sudan says it had the right to sell the oil. The feud over the cargoes, worth more than seven days of the South’s annual economic output, has entangled lawyers in London, shipowners in Cairo, buyers in Japan, dealers in the British Virgin Islands and Trafigura Beheer BV, the world’s third-biggest oil trader. The dispute underscores the difference between the physical commodities market, where prices and identities of buyers and sellers are typically kept private, and the regulated exchanges of Wall Street and L...

Published in Sagar Sandesh Maritime Weekly source:  http://www.sagarsandesh.com/epaper/ The overall confidence levels in the shipping industry increased in the three months ended May 2012, to reach their highest level since February 2011, the latest Shipping Confidence Survey from shipping accountant Moore Stephens has revealed. This is the fourth successive quarter in which there has been an improvement in confidence, leading to an increased expectation of new investment on the part of respondents, despite an anticipated increase in the cost of finance over the next twelve months, the survey further revealed. Confidence levels: In May 2012, the average confidence level expressed by respondents in the markets in which they operate was 5.7 on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high), compared to the figure of 5.5 recorded in the previous survey in February 2012, and to the 5.6 recorded one year previously, in May 2011. The survey was launched in May 2008 with a confidence ...

Published in Sagar Sandesh Maritime Weekly on July 11, 2012 Source: http://www.sagarsandesh.com/epaper/ Showing its human face to the dependents of those deceased employees, the Chennai Port Trust on June 29 announced that financial assistance would be provided them to lead a decent life. Addressing the media during the equity share (in a form of cheque)handing over ceremony to the officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for Chennai Port Connectivity Project at the Chennai Port Trust premises, Union Shipping Minister G K Vasan announced that his Ministry has recently gave its accent to the proposal by the port to distribute financial assistance to the dependents of deceased port employees. Mr Vasan said “ Though there is no rule in the Shipping Ministry that stipulates compulsory financial assistance to the dependents, the Chennai Port Trust, by taking the extra effort, is clearly demonstrating that it understands the agony of those families, who had lost ...

Source: http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2012/07/08/gota-goes-berserk/ Image source:  http://kalaiyadi.org Defence Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa went berserk when contacted by The Sunday Leader to clarify and find out if he was aware that the management at SriLankan Airlines had taken a decision to change a wide bodied A340 scheduled to fly to Zurich on Friday July 13, to a smaller A330. The change was to be made so that a SriLankan Airline pilot, who is dating a niece of President Mahinda Rajapaksa could personally fly the aircraft that would carry a ‘puppy dog’ for Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa from Zurich. The Sunday Leader was told by senior airline pilots that 56 passengers would have had to be off-loaded if the aircraft was changed. The pilot concerned is Capt. Praveen Wijesinghe who currently is dating Flight Officer Madini Chandradasa, the niece of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. When asked, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, while denying that he had any knowledge that CEO ...