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XXXIII NO. 103 H CHENNAI H FRIDAY 20.3.2015 (EVENING) H OTHER STATIONS SATURDAY 21.3.2015 (MORNING) H 8 PAGES Rs. 4.00 H Regd. No., TN/CC(S) DN/223/15-17, RNI No: 33810 / 82 is certainly special for the Mumbaibatsman. Udangudi Rajya Sabha project will start passes Mines soon: Minister Cong pot boils hot and Minerals Bill NT Bureau New Delhi, Mar 20: Chennai, Mar 20: q On the last day of the fi rst leg of State Electricity Minister Natham Chidambaram’s meeting triggers fresh furore Parliament session, the govern- R Viswanathan today said work on ment successfully got the Mines and Udangudi power project wlll com- q Kushboo expected to get plum post Minerals Bill passed in Rajya Sabha mence soon. Refuting DMK president on Friday. Rejecting the demand of M Karunanidhi’s charges that the the Opposition parties, Rajya Sabha NT Bureau position in the party in Tamilnadu. refused to allow the motion to send project was dropped with ulterior mo- ‘I have no information. Usually, Chennai, Mar 20: It is learnt that Elangovan has the Mines Bill to the select committee. tives, he said it was only the former Congress and chaos are like two TNCC chief will be informed. I will complained to the party high com- The Bill will now be sent to the Lok Chief Minister who cheated Tamil- sides of the same coin, and it’s doubly mand about the meet and sought Sabha for consideration. nadu on various fronts. have to see what it is’ was Elangovan’s so in Tamilnadu. The latest is due to a its attention towards it, as it is being Trinamool Congress, All India Anna In a detailed rejoinder to a recent meeting to be presided over by senior reaction, when asked about conducted without his knowledge. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), statement by Karunanidhi, the Minister leader P Chidambaram in Karaikudi the meeting’ Meanwhile, actress Kushboo, who Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi said tender bids for a port to handle lig- tomorrow, arrangements for which enrolled herself in the Congress Party (SP), Biju Janata Dal (BJD) voted nite for Udangudi project were opened are being made ‘without the knowl- recently, is expected to be made the for Mines Bill in the upper House of on 19 March and work will start soon. edge of EVKS Elangovan’, the State son Karti P Chidambaram, the enfant question him, since he was a member State women’s wing chief of the party. Parliament. Only the Congress and Left ‘Bids will soon be invited for Udangudi Congress president. terrible of the party. of the AICC. According to sourcess, the tenure of opposed the passage of the Bill. Stage-1 and fi nalised,’ he said. ‘I have no information. Usually, In fact, it all started with a ‘support- And now, the office of Chidambar- the present women’s wing president The Opposition had on Thursday Stating that just 206 MW electricity TNCC chief will be informed. I will ers meeting’ convened by Karti (but am has sent out invitations (among Sailakshmi will expire soon and she forced deferment of consideration of the contentious Mines and Minerals Bill capacity was added to the State grid have to see what it is’ was Elango- he termed it as a friends gathering) other leaders, the invitation fea- is expected tol be replaced by the in Rajya Sabha arguing that mineral- during the fi ve year regime of the van’s reaction, when asked about the and his comments there, which drew tured a picture of Elangovan too) actress-turned-politician, who earlier bearing states had not been consulted. DMK, Viswanathan said AIADMK meeting. criticism from Elangovan and a notice to the Sivaganga Parliamentary served the DMK. ‘Kushboo has been general secretary J Jayalalithaa took from TNCC. constituency representatives’ con- The House saw four adjournments of All is already not well between working hard to expand the support brief spells in quick succession after steps to get 4,640 MW power. What followed were charges and ference to be held on 21 March. Elangovan and Chidambaram camps base of Congress in Tamilnadu. So members from Congress and Left, ‘Only because of the efforts of The event, it is perceived, signals after a recent war of words between counter-charges, with Karti stating she will be rewarded with the post,’ opposing taking up of discussion on Jayalalithaa, there is no power cut the TNCC president and the latter’s that the TNCC did not have powers to the assertion of Chidambaram’s sources said. Mines and Minerals Bill, created uproar. for households in the State,’ he said. Reliance to take EYE FOR AN EYE over Sun TV? Lingaa distributors Chennai, Mar 20: The buzz in the corporate/media withdraw protest circles is that Sun TV may be taken over by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance NT Bureau to TFPC president Kalaipuli Thanu Group. What lends credence to the Chennai, Mar 20: and reportedly handed over the market rumours is that the Marans, It is all over. amount This has brought to end who own the Sun TV group, are down Within 24 hours of announcing a the 100-day bitter battle that has in the dumps thanks to the Aircel-Maxis begging bowl protest outside Ra- been going on ever since Lingaa and 2G scandals. Kalanidhi Maran jinikanth’s Poes Garden residence, was released. also faced another setback in January distributors of Lingaa have agreed ‘There was some discussion on how when the board of directors of SpiceJet to share the money, but we fi nally transferred control of the airline to Ajay managed to reach an agreement. Singh, the founder of SpiceJet, after a He (Thanu) showed us the cheque string of loss-making quarters. and assured us that the promised On the other hand, Mukesh Am- amount had been given. Since we bani has very keen interest in media have lost a lot of time and money --- backed by its US based partner already, we agreed to the offer and Viacom Inc, his group not long ago have withdrawn the protest,’ Singar- took over Network 18 group, Mukesh avelan, who distributed the movie in Ambani also has a controlling stake Tirunelveli, said. in Eenadu TV media group (ETV). After Lingaa was declared a loss Though the deal is far from being in late December, distributors and sealed, Tehelka in its online publication producers have been agitating and has reported top offi cials of the RIL are demanding compensation for their in the city and are holding discussions to the ‘compensation package’ of losses. Part of the delay over ac- to work out the modalities of the deal. Rs.10 crore offered by the the fi lm’s cepting the offered compensation It is also claimed that the two groups producer Rockline Venkatesh. was due to the fact theatre-owners have been in talks since early January. Apparently satisfi ed at the settle- and distributors had been fi ghting Fire at Sivakasi ment, brought out in the presence of about how much share each of Tamil Film Producers (TFPC) yester- them will get. Finally, it has been match factory day, the hitherto miffed distributors, decided that Rs 6.5 crore will go to Sivakasi, Mar 20 (PTI): who were led by Marina Pictures’ the theatre-owners and Rs 3.5 crore Four persons were today injured in Singaravelan, today announced will be given to the distributors, say a fi re that broke out at a match factory withdrawal of all forms of protests sources. against Lingaa. A press note from TFPC late last at Tayilpatti near here, police said. Today being the new-moon day (Amavasai), pumpkins were smashed on the road by shop owners to night announced all issues were Police said the cause of the fi re, which According to sources, after the keep evil eyes at bay.