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If Lord Maha Vishnu is the superstar of Gods, the sorga vaasal opening on Vaikunta Ekadasi is like the ‘first day, first show’ for his fans (read devotees). Scenes from Sri Rangam (where a mega garland decorated one of the towers), Triplicane Sri Parthasarathy Swamy temple and the TTD Centre at T Nagar. Photos: M K SHAHUL HAMEED, A R JAYAKUMAR & V M SRINIVASAN Staphylococcus epidermidis is an ubiquitous coloniser of healthy Using ML, geneticists human skin, but it is also a noto- STATE CITY rious source of serious infections could successfully with indwelling devices and No merger with AIADMK: TTV surgical procedures such as hip predict the risk of Students arrested in replacements. Ruling out any possibility of merger between A team of microbiologists and developing infection AMMK and AIADMK, R K Nagar MLA T T V Dhi- Anna varsity question paper leak geneticists from the Aalto-Uni- nakaran said 90 per cent of AIADMK cadres are versity and the University of from the genomic on his side. He said there is no chance of both the The Crime Branch-CID police on Wednesday cracked the State-owned Helsinki, Finland, combined parties uniting. Hitting out at the DMK, he said the Anna University Question Paper leak case with the arrest of two private large-scale population genomics features of a bacterial party is in secret ties with the BJP. ‘Stalin announc- engineering college students. CB-CID sources said Dr M Venkatesan, Con- and in vitro measurements of im- ing Congress president Rahul Gandhi as the Prime troller of Examination, Anna University had lodged a complaint December munologically relevant features of isolate Ministerial candidate for the anti-BJP front has put seven, stating the question paper MA6251-Mathematics-II pertaining to these bacteria. Rahul in a spot of bother. Stalin is doing such things to ensure that a the students of Regulations 2013 conducted on December three was leaked Using ML, they could success- strong opposition is not formed against BJP,’ he said. out much earlier than the actual date and schedule. fully predict the risk of develop- tendency to do so when they enter CB-CID registered a case under Sec 420 of IPC and been probing the ing infection from the genomic either the bloodstream or a deep Sonia unveils statue of Karunanidhi case for the past 10 days to solve the mystery behind the question paper features of a bacterial isolate, tissue. leakage. Owing to the incessant efforts, the CB-CID team solved the case according to a study published in But, the new fi nding opens the A eight ft high life size bronze statue of former Chief Minister M Karuna- and arrested two accused--Suresh Kumar and and Harikrishnan. the journal Nature Communica- door for future technology where nidhi, who had also served as Party President for 50 years, was unveiled by tions. high-risk genotypes are identi- UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. Karunanidhi’s statue was installed next Police complaint against Hansika It has not been known whether fi ed proactively when a person is to the statue of his DMK Founder and his political mentor ‘Anna’, which was all members of the S. epidermidis to undergo a surgical procedure, also refurbished and unveiled on the occasion. Sonia Gandhi unveiled the Actress Hansika has landed in trouble for the population colonising the skin which has high potential to re- statue at DMK headquarters ‘Anna Arivalayam’, in the presence of DMK fi rst look poster of her 50th fi lm Maha, that was asymptomatically are capable duce the burden of nosocomial in- president M K Stalin, AICC president Rahul Gandhi, Andhra Pradesh released recently. The poster had Hansika clad of causing such infections, or if fections caused by S. epidermidis, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, Pu- in a sadhu outfi t and smoking ganja along with some of them have a heightened the researchers noted. ducherry CM V Narayanasamy and leaders of various political parties, saints with Kasi. Agitated, a Hindu outfi t fi led including CPI(M), MDMK general secretary Vaiko, D Raja of CPI, Dravidar complaint against her with the police. Kazhagam president K Veeramani, VCK leader Thirumavalavan, TMC Members of Hindu Makkal Munnai fi led the president G K Vasan, besides senior leaders of DMK, including General complaint against the actress for hurting their SCIENCE TODAY Secretary K Anbazhagan, a its ally, the Congress. religious sentiments. In the recent past, actors Vijay and Vishal received fl ak for coming out Earthquake more NATION with fi rst look posters of smoking and drinking. likely to occur in Gadkari rules out being 2019 PM face BUSINESS ‘No there is no chance. I am happy where I am right now,’ said Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari while responding to a BSE adopts Cloudera tech Himalayas: Study question on the probability of him becoming the Prime Ministerial candi- Machine learning and analytics platform Cloudera Inc., has announced date face in the 2019 elections, replacing Prime Minister Narendra Modi. that Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), has said it has implemented its big According to media reports, the head of a government organisation in data lake on Cloudera Enterprise. Centralizing enterprise-wide structured Maharashtra has written to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and unstructured data, Cloudera Enterprise gives BSE real-time analytics, demanding Gadkari be allowed to lead the Bharatiya Janata Party if it while improving data governance and maintaining compliance with the wants to win the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. latest industry Service-Level Agreements (SLAs), said a release. In an exclusive interview to ANI Gadkari said, ‘No there is no chance. Faced with data growing on an average rate of 400GB a day, BSE needed I am happy where I am right now. I have to complete Ganga work fi rst, a robust and scalable data repository that consolidates data from multiple building of Express Highway Access Control in 13-14 countries and I also sources to shorten the time taken for analysis and reporting, it said. want to make roads for Chaar Dhams and other works. I am happy doing these works and want to complete it.’ Oman Air bullish about India operations Mamata differs on Stalin’s views Oman Air, national carrier for the Sultan- ate of Oman, is celebrating completion of 25 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on years of service to India. A release stated that Monday dismissed DMK chief MK Stalin’s claim to Oman Air remains robust and buoyant about put forth Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s name bilateral trade and investment between as the prime ministerial candidate as premature. A India and Oman, as trade rose 67 per cent day after Stalin batted for Gandhi’s name as the op- this year. CEO, Oman Air, Eng Abdulaziz Growing warnings by scientists Khola) in the central Himalayas position’s PM candidate for Lok Sabha elections 2019, Al Raisi, said, ‘We are bullish on India, as of an impending high-magnitude with an average slip (or displace- several leaders expressed the need to deliberate and it is a signifi cant destination for Oman Air both in terms of increasing earthquake in the Himalayas ment) of 15 metres.’ reconsider such a decision. tourism traffi c and in promoting vital trade agreements between the two have got further credence from The present study underlines Sources from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) said that party supremo countries. Since the commencement of operations to India, the network yet another study by Indian re- the fact after this massive earth- Mamata Banerjee disagreed with Stalin’s views. The decision on opposi- has grown from strength to strength.’ The airlines stated that the current searchers. quake, the frontal thrust in the tion’s PM candidate will only be revealed once the election results are year saw Oman AirÂ’s seat factor touch the 80 per cent mark, the pas- The new study, led by seis- central Himalayas (covering out in 2019, TMC sources said. Previously, CPI leader D Raja had also senger in premium cabin growing 25 per cent in an overall double digit mologist CP Rajendran of the parts of India and eastern Nepal) expressed his doubts over Stalin’s declaration. growth vis-a-vis last year. Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for has remained seismically quiet Advanced Scientifi c Research in for 600 to 700 years, implying WORLD Bengaluru, says the enormous enormous build-up of strain in SPORTS stacking up of strain in the region the region. portends at least one earthquake An earthquake of magnitude 8.5 US troops returns after defeating ISIS: Trump India loses Perth Test of magnitude 8.5 or more in one or more is overdue in this part of US President Donald Trump on Saturday said of the overlapping segments of India crumbled in the face of Australia’s remarkable metamorphosis and the Himalayas, given the long- American troops from Syria are coming back home the central Himalayas anytime crashed to a 146-run defeat in the second Test in Perth Tuesday, surren- elapsed time. Considering this after defeating the Islamic State jihadists and in the future’. dering a rare hard-earned ascendancy in a series Down Under. potentially high seismic risk, this local countries like Turkey should now be able According to the study, pub- will be particularly catastrophic The hosts levelled the four-match series 1-1 after India were bowled out to take care of the situation in the war-ravaged for 140 runs in 56 overs in their second innings on the fi fth and fi nal day. lished in Geological Journal, the for a region marked by an ever- nation. researchers critically evaluated growing population and unhin- India had won the opening game by 31 runs to go in front. Starting from Trump on Wednesday announced the with- existing databases along with dered expansion of the built-up overnight 112 for fi ve, India lost their last fi ve wickets for 28 runs and it drawal of 2,000 US troops from Syria, bringing the data from two newly explored environment, to be contrasted was all over within 65 minutes of play. This was Australia’ s fi rst Test win an abrupt end to a military campaign that largely vanquished the ISIS locales -- Mohana Khola in far with poor preparedness to meet since the ball-tampering scandal broke out in South Africa earlier this year. but ceding a strategically vital country to Russia and Iran. His declared western Nepal and Chorgalia, this contingency, Rajendran said. Mitchell Starc (3-46) and Nathan Lyon (3-39) fi nished with three wick- victory over the IS contradicted assessments by his own experts, with which falls within the Indian bor- ets apiece, while Josh Hazlewood (2-24) and Pat Cummins (2-25) took a Roger Bilham, a US geophysicist many lawmakers calling his decision rash and dangerous. ‘On Syria, we der, to determine the timing of the brace each. at the University of Colorado were originally going to be there for three months, and that was seven last faulting event on the frontal Hanuma Vihari (28) and Rishabh Pant (30) had continued their overnight whose years of work laid the basis years ago - we never left. When I became President, ISIS was going wild,’ thrust of the central Himalayas. partnership, and batted out only six overs before the fi rst wicket fell on for the current knowledge about Trump tweeted. The researchers followed the earthquakes in the Himalayan this day. Overall, they added 21 runs for the sixth wicket. Now ISIS is largely defeated and other local countries, including Turkey, local geology and structural map region, fully supports the Indian should be able to easily take care of whatever remains. We’re coming published by the Geological Sur- researchers` fi ndings. home! he added. Varun makes merry in IPL Auction vey of India, besides using Google They are undeniably correct in Earth and imagery from Indian concluding that should an earth- Varun Chakravarthy, the spin sensation from space agency ISRO`s Cartosat-1 quake occur now, its magnitude Ranil sworn in as Lankan PM again Tamilnadu has who grabbed a few eyeballs in Tamil Nadu Premiere League(TNPL) has been one of the satellite. could equal 8.5, Bilham told this United National Party’s ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe The analysis, the researchers correspondent in an email. hot buys in the IPL auction this year. Chakravarthy, was sworn in once again last week, days after the Supreme Court scrapped who had a base price of Rs20 lakh, fi nally got an say, ‘compels us to conclude a ‘My own evaluation of the avail- rival Mahinda Rajapaksa’s appointment to the position. President Maithri- great earthquake of magnitude able evidence suggests their esti- amount of Rs 8.40 crore and was bagged by Kings pala Sirisena sacked Wickremesinghe on 26 October and appointed Ra- XI Punjab. 8.5 or more that occurred between mate is conservative, and should japaksa in his place in a controversial move that plunged the island nation Delhi Capitals, Chennai Super Kings and Rajas- 1315 and 1440 had unzipped the rupture zone extend from east into a constitutional crisis. Rajapaksa resigned after two crucial Supreme than Royals had an intense round of bidding for the a stretch of about 600 km (the of Almora to west of Pockara (Ne- Court decisions made his efforts to cling to premiership untenable, paving mystery spinner before he went to KXIP. Chakravarthy, the 27-year-old length of central seismic gap pal) the earthquake will exceed the way for the return of 69-year-old Wickremesinghe who had refused to gave up a career as freelance architect to pursue his dream of playing from Bhatpur to beyond Mohana 8.7,’ he added. step down asserting that his sacking was illegal. cricket.