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To draw the maximum number of Indiantourists, the US has introduced a new visaprogramme for certain categories, whichwill allow an applicant to get a visa withoutbeing interviewed in person, the US envoysaid at New Delhi on Friday.

US Department of State hasimplemented a programme that willallow certain applicants to apply for visaswithout being interviewed in person at a USconsular ofce, US Ambassador to India

Nancy J. Powell said at a conference inNew Delhi.

Under the Interview Waiver Programme,it will become easier for Indian citizens tovisit US for business meetings and touristactivities, she hoped.

Those applying for same category

visa as granted earlier or applying at thesame place (Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai andKolkata) where the previous visa wasissued will be eligible for this new visascheme.

Besides, those who have no priorrefusal for the same visa category and

whose previous visa is still vexpired within last four yearsunder this programme.

Speaking at a tourism promhere, Powell expressed happthe fact that over 6.5 lakh IndiUS in 2011.

Travel and tourism to an important way for us to ecultural and commercial ties antrade growth between our counspending by Indians travellingwas $4.6 billion last year, up from the year before, she add

She said that India is expectone million visitor mark by 201into the league of top 10 cotourists to the US.

Powell also said the Baraadministration will continue to

ways to make travel from Indiaas simple as possible.

Good news for Chennaiites. Theil Nadu Generation and Distribution

poration (TANGEDCO) authorities

e decided to set up six sub-stations1,139 distribution transformers in

nnai to help ensure optimum voltage

ls. Although the city is witnessingere voltage uctuation issues, it was

e pronounced during this summer.Protests were held in manyhbourhoods in Chennai, urgingorities to solve the problem.

Aga in st th is ba ck gr ou nd , the

GEDCO authorities have taken steps

'war footing' to set up sub-stationsinstall transformers to tackle the longding voltage issue.

According to sources, in Chennai

alone, the authorities have plannedto set up six additional sub-stations,1,139 distribution transformers and 200capacitor banks. Now, we are looking forsufcient land to set up the new 33 KV

sub-stations in the city, an ofcial said.The additional distribution sub-stationsand transformers for Chennai would becommissioned within two months, headded.

"We are doing our best to improvethe situation. But, we are facing manyproblems in identifying and acquiring theland. We had identied the land for ve

11 KV substations in Chennai.

ay good bye to Low voltage

New interview-less US visa process

or some categories

Reaches 55,00

households every


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ge 2 ALPHA TIMES July

For the week July 01 to 07Aries [ March 21 to April 20 ]

Saturn trine Uranus warns you tostrangers on Tuesday. Your career wupswing. A friend will be helpful. Yo

rewards for the past efforts. Lucky cogrey.

Taurus [ April 21 to May 21 ]

You will be overly concerned abouissue. Revise your professional goal

person gives you good cover. Relaxyour life. Lucky colour: Peach.

Gemini [ May 21 to June 21 ]

You can learn more as a student. Proan excellent week. Guard against on Wednesday. Meditation takes youanother dimension. Lucky colour: Cre

Cancer [ June 22 to July 22 ]

Your dreamy nature brims with iYou may be worried and concerned afamily issues and need to take time toout. Budget goes topsy-turvy. LuYellow.

Leo [ July 23 to Aug 23 ]

Beware of gossip-mongers at wobe in a relaxed mood. Romance will moments; singles will meet someoMoney matters need attention on Tuecolour: Pink.

Virgom [ Aug 24 to Sept 22 ]

Strained relationship with a sibto mend. You take a deep intereliterature and music. Travelling bringon Wednesday. Take care of your hecolour: Earthy brown.

Libra [Sept 23 to Oct 23 ]

Jupiter square Mars will tempt yo

changes in motion. Think twice beforanything you do will have a great impgood news on Friday. Lucky colour: E

Scorpio [Oct 24 to Nov 22 ]

Maintaining a sound relationsdifcult. Do yoga to relax and overco

and to live happily, too. Look around foincome. Lucky colour: Orange.

Sagittarius [ Nov 23 to Dec 23

Spirituality beckons and you arend out more about it. You struggle to

temper in check on Monday. This is antime to buy a car. A Taurean will be he

colour: Royal blue.

Capricorn [Dec 24 to Jan 20]

Love ties grow stronger and hottmay be annoyed if they feel restrictehave excellent ideas for changing oryour home. Control your temper oLucky colour: Wine red.

Aquarius [ Jan 21 to Feb 18 ]

The Sun trine Pluto brings new opFriends could get on your nerves oMixing business with pleasure worFocus on gym, yoga and exercise. LuEbony.

Pisces [Feb 19 to March 20 ]

Take big claims with a pinch of sabring satisfaction and you will be pyour progress. Your partner needs y

Cancerian is moody but helpful. LuCrimson.

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y 01, 2012 ALPHA TIMES

agnaraman Lifetime Achievement

ward for Umayalpuram Sivaraman

Mridangam maestro Umayalpuramraman will be conferred with this yearsnaraman Lifetime Achievement Award,

tuted by Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, T.ar, at a valedictory function to be held on8, 6 p.m. to conclude the YagnaramanFest 2012. The Yagnaraman Award

xcellence will be conferred on violinist

ma Shankar and Bharatanatyamcer Janaki Rangarajan.The Yagnaraman July Fest 2012,h is on from June 30 to July 7, at the

has T. Nagar premises, will open one 30, 6.30 p.m., with a Bharatanatyam-hipudi jugalbandi by Uma Murali andmini Vijayakumar.

uly 1, 6.30 p.m., Anil Srinivasan,

asi Prasad, Saashwathi Prabhu,ndhavi and Srilekha Parthasarathypresent Maatru Devo Bhava, a free-eling musical ensemble.uly 2, 6.30 p.m: Musical venture titled

Crossroads will be presented by violinistEmbar Kannan.

July 3 , 6.30 p.m: Sufi Music fromMangniar musician Bheekha Khan andparty

July 4 , 6.30 p.m. Bharatanatyam-Odissi jugalbandi by Janaki Rangarajanand Rahul Acharya

July 5 , 10.30 a.m.Garba, the folk dance

from Gujarat, 6.30 p.m.Veena vidwanRajhesh Vaidhya and sitarist Purbayan

Chatterjee will present a fusion concerttitled Strings Attached.

July 6 , 10.30 a.m., Mask dance fromKarnataka Somana Kunitha, and tat 6.30p.m., the Trichur Brothers will presentAnubuthy where Carnatic notes will meet

global tunes.July 7 , 6.30 p.m., Mohana veena

wizard Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and violin

vidwan Mysore Manjunath will presentNorth meets South.

The Tamil Nadu Generation andribution Corporation has rescheduledone -hour load-shedding for the citysuburbs. The load-shedding will beemented from Sunday July 01 says as release from TANGEDCO

The schedule of power cut is asws:

08.00 am - 09.00 am Entire North

an road0.00 am - 11.00 am Postal Colony int Mambalam and Part of T Nagar, Partorth Usman Road

1.00 am - 12.00 noon G N Chettyd ) Part ) Mahalingapuram Part and

Kamdhar Nagar12.00 noon - 01.00 pm T. Nagar (Part),

Pondy Bazaar, South Usman Road, Partof Annasalai,

01.00 pm - 2.00 pm : Entire

Mahalingapuram, Kamdhar Nagar (part),Nungambakkam (part), Thirumalai PillaiRoad, Dr.Nair Road, T.Nagar (part), WestMambalam, Madley Road, Jubilee Road,Brindavan Street, Part of Ashok Nagar,

4.00 pm - 5.00 pm Lotus Colony,Tower Block, Cenotaph Road, ChamiersRoad, Sadullah Street, part of T. Nagar,CIT Nagar, Mothilal Street, RameswaramRoad, Natesan Road,

5.00 pm - 6,00 pm West Mambalam( Part) Ashok Nagar ( Part )

ew load-sheddding schedule

om July 01 2012 Sri Sai Guru Poornimacelebrations at Sri Sai SamajShri Shirdi Sai Seva Samaj at Jaishankar

Street, West Mambalam, will be celebratingthirtieth Guru Poornima Celebations onJuly 3 from 5.15 am onwards with Kakad

Aarath i followed by Ganapathi Homamat 6.30 am Abhishekam Sahasranamam,Bhajans from 7.30 am to 11.45 am.10.00am Annadhanam at Various places andhomes. 6.00 pm Dhoop Aarthi 6.30 pmVishnu Shasranama Paarayanam, 7.00 pmVedha Paarayanam7.30 pm Bhajabs byMambalam Chandrasekhar Bhagavatharand 9.15 pm Shej Aarthi

All are welcome

***

Guru Poornima celebrations in the neighbou

Sri Sanjeevini PeetaWest Mambalam

Guru Poornima will be celeb10 a.m to 11 a.m on Tuesday, JSri Sanjeevini Peetam West M

On this Day the Sage Veda

born and ti is celebrated as Gurusaid Mathaji of the Peetam.

There will be special pooja foVeda Vyasa, Guru Sthothram

chalisa, Bhagavath Gita paaraydiscourse by Mathaji.

Sanjeevini Peetam is locateBRP 1st Street, West Mamb

details call 98403 64567 and 90or log on to www.sanjeevini p

Prajapita Brahma Kumaris IshwariyaVishwa Vidyalaya, a spiritual organisation,

will organise its platinum jubilee celebrationsat TRS Thirumana Mandapam in Tiruvalluron July 1. The main programme of theplatinum jubilee celebrations is titled OneGod, One World Family.

A march and meditation for world peace

are some of the events that will mark thecelebrations.

Principal District Judge C Raghavan,Tiruvallur MP P Venugopal and State

Minister for Environment B V Ramanan

will participate in the function.Some of the dignitaries will share

their experiences on their associationwith the Brahmakumaris and also speakabout the benets of meditation, said B

K Jayalakshmi, centre-in-charge of theBrahmakumaris, Tiruvallur.

Various other programmes will be

organised throughout the day for thebenet of the public. Some of them include,

a session on health tips for senior citizensby doctors and the Arunachala Ishwar

Southern Railway would introduce12 new trains for Tamil Nadu, includinga state-of-the-art double decker air-conditioned express between Chennaiand Bangalore.

In the latest time table uploaded onits website, it said the 13-coach dailydouble decker train between Chennaiand Bangalore would have stoppages atPerambur (Up direction only), Arakkonam,

Katpadi, Ambur, Jolarpet, Bangarapet,

Krishnarajapuram and BangaloreCantonment. It would depart from ChennaiCentral at 7.25 am.

Consequent to the introduction of theabove AC double decker express, the

timings of Train No. 12639/12640 ChennaiCentral-Bangalore City Brindavan (Daily)Express would be revised with effect from

July 1, with the train departing from ChennaiCentral at 7.50 am instead of the previous7.15 am and reaching Bangalore City at 2pm. Other Express trains introduced include

Bikaner-Coimbatore (Weekly) Superfast AC

Express, Yesvantpur-Kochuveli (Weekly)

AC Express (Via Erode), Shalimar-Chennai

Central (Weekly) Superfast

Visakhapatnam-Chennai Centr

Superfast Express, Asanso

Central (Weekly) Superfast

Chennai Central-Puri (WeeklyExpress, Tiruchchirappalli-Tirun

time) Intercity (Daily) Superfast

Tirunelveli-Dadar (Weekly) Express, Kacheguda-Madura

Express and Tirupati-Manna

weekly) Express.

The Southern Railway alsotwo passenger trains, oneVillupuram and Mayiladuthur

second between Villupuram a

(Daily).While the timings of the train

put up on the Southern Railwathe release said the date of intrthese trains would be notied l

There had also been extentrains to newer stations and cthe timings of some of the trains from Chennai Central anEgmore. For more info v

sr.indianrailways.gov.in.

Double deck AC train to Bangal

Brahmakumaris to celebrateplatinum jubilee on July 1

Jyothir Lingam Divine Darshwill be inaugurated by Dr V B

Vengathur town.Prajapita Brahma Kumaris

Vishwa Vidyalaya is a spiritual o

with its international head quaAbu, Rajasthan. The organis

founded in 1936.With 75 years of service, i

across 137 countries and has 85The organisation is promotingpeace and brotherhood.

The spiritual organisation isof seven UN Peace Messenger aholds consultative status with

and UNICEF.


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M S - The Mathematics Soundararajan

The news papers carried headliness school - The Ahobila Mutt Oriental

Sec. School - when his students

ered state ranks in the Plus 2 boardmination making his school one of theght after.A strict and loveable teacher Mr T

oundararajan ( fondly called by hiseagues and students as TMS) has

been with the school for over 3 decadesand has been toiling day and night tomake his students best in Mathematicsthe subject he is very fond of which is anightmare fvor many students.

Talking to My Times TMS said thatMathematics is an interesting subject andonce you learn by practice it would catapultyou to a good career. Maths help a studentto get high scores in examinations.

As rtightly said practice and repetition

alone can boost your knowledge inMathematics. students need to practicemathematics on a day to day basis.

With high tech breaking the barriersand makes learning world wide TMS haslaunched a TMS has launched TMS Maths

Academy an academy to churn out the

best brains in Mathematics through onlinelearning.

All you have to do is just log on to

the website and there it is the lessons foryou. Whether student belongs to the StateBoard or Central Board Class X or ClassXII the lessons are ready. It's virtual classroom where a student can have acess ofthe subject any time any where. As TMS is

known for his teaching methodologies thesubject becomes very easy to learn as itis coupled with real life situations teaching

the principle of Mathematics, in a series ofvideo lessons teaching the concepts againand again.

The Master TMS says that teachingthe concepts repeatedly help the studentsrewind and go through the concepts whichis not grasped one and all at the rst looks

and repetition helps in etching the topicsin mind.

In an emotional way TMS says the

teaching of Maths is my passion and thishas lead the Department of Education callhim for teaching Mathematics in variousschhols across the State. He was also the

author of Mathematics book for Class XI.inaddition to being appointed Key ResourcePerson in Mathematics by the Governmentof Tamil Nadu for a Training-OrientationSession for Mathematics Teachers of TamilNadu.

A philanthropic teacher, TMS has been

offering free teaching of Mathematics to adozern EWS students every year. Many

have been benetted from this.

TMS aim is Maths should be madeeasy to learn and that is my motto andwith this in mind TMS Maths Academy is

launched and Mathematics learning willbe easy even after my life time

- S. Raghunathan

RM students score over IIT in

n international competition

Three teams of SRM University whichparticipated in the CanSat Competitionhave emerged winners.

Talking to reporters at an interaction,Chancellor Dr T R Pachamuthu said fourteams of students from India, of whichthree were from various streams of the

SRM University and one from IndianInstitute of Technology, Delhi participatedin the CanSat Competition.

The competitionwas organized by the

American Astronaut ical Society (AAS),

American Inst itute of Aeronaut ics and

Astronautics (AIAA) and sponsored by

the National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA) and Naval Research

Laboratory (NRL). USA.

The annual student design-build-launch competition for space-related topics

conducted by the American Astronautical

Society (AAS) and American Institute of

Aeronautics and Ast ronaut ics (AIAA)

wherein over 36 teams from various top

international universities have participated.From India IIT Delhi and three teams fromSRM University participated.

The team - Team WelkinSat

(VaikunthSat Abhiyan) - com

Sidhant Dhall, Pradip Gupta a

Agarwal - bagged the second

competition.10 students - Vivek Ran

Richesh,Mohit Saxena,Gaur

Triyambak Tripathy, Cheerudee, Mihir Shah, including the winnwere involved in the project undguidance of team guide A. Rath

all present during the interactio

This was the rst time SRMwas participating in a compCanSat. The students baggedand an award of USD 150success.

Out of the 35 teams from 10Team WELKINSAT from SRM

comprising 11 students nish

internationally and placed fcountry ahead of IIT Delhi awarded a cash prize of 1500

The other two teams fUniversity SRM CANSAT and A

finished 7th and 11 respectivinternational level, the release

Officials from the Univefaculties were present on the o

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The Brahmothsavam ofthe Satya Narayana Templeended. All day festivals

were well attended andespecially Garuda Sevaiand Chariot festival drewlarge crowds.

Satyanarayana

Temple

Brahmothsavam

ends

MoU signed to impart employability skillsThe city-based IT finishing Schoolerati today signed an MoU with the Mdak Group of Educational Institutions

mpart Essential Employability Skills to

engineering students.The MoU covers all engineeringeges of Md Sathak Group atzhakarai in Tirunelveli district and atseri.More than 10,500 students would beed every year under the agreement.

Digiterati Founder C A Ravikumar told

rters here that Engineering graduatesrural areas in particular and also city-

based students were at a disadvantage in the jobmarket because of their poor choice of courses andcareer paths, matching their aptitude.

Many surveys have highlighted the fact that 80per cent of engineering graduates who pass outneed to be trained before they become productivefor any company, IT or non-IT.

Digiterati has a track record of training andcertifying students in career-specic advanced IT

skills which were in great demand.He said companies have found that rural

candidates with IT skills better t with less attrition

and their language prociency was not a deterrentfor job prospects.


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WHEN you take an insurance policy

over your jewellery and some otherables against theft, loss or damage, onee policy conditions is that you shouldall 'reasonable steps' to safeguard thered property against loss or damage.rance companies however sometimeso ridiculous extent to interpret thisdition, in order to repudiate the claime policy holder.

Here is one such case where the

sumer had to seek the interventione consumer court to get the insuredunt. The chain of events leading up

he claim and the grounds on whichinsurer denied the claim, tells yout about the attitude of insurancepanies. The whole story begins withconsumer, Sachin Bhardwaj, buyingpolicies in September 2004 - a

seholders Policy and a Vyavasayi/

kari Suraksha Kavach Policy, covering

ousehold goods, including jewelleryother valuables. After due inspection,

nsurance company issued the policies

cover for jewellery and other valuablesled Rs 2,68,000

Two months hence, when Sachin, adent of Noida, was returning with hisand child, from a wedding in Aligarh,

ar stalled. Sachin then decided to putwife and child in a bus so that theyd go home without delay. Since theye carrying valuables such as jewellery,o camera and a digital camera, Sachinked these in a suitcase, put it in the car

eware of breach of policy

onsumer Rights Different Strokes

and locked it before getting into a bus thatwas passing by to reach the nearest busstop from where his wife and child couldleave for Noida.

On his return, he found that the car,which had stalled due to overheating of theengine, started without much trouble But akilometer ahead, an ambassador jammedinto his car from behind. . Even as he got

out of the car to check the damage and talkto the driver, some men got out of it, got intohis car and drove away. The ambassadortoo disappeared. Sachin then took a ride insomeone else's car and went to the policestation to lodge a complaint. Subsequently,the car was found abandoned somewhere,but the suitcase had disappeared. WhenSachin asked the insurer to indemnify hisloss, a surveyor was rst appointed to

assess the loss. After a detailed survey,

he came up with the gure of Rs.1,49,342,

but observed that the claim need not bepaid as the insured had not taken adequatecare in safeguarding the valuables. Morethan a year later, the insurance company

rejected his claim, citing breach of policycondition number 3, holding that the policyholder should not have left the suitcase inthe car while boarding the bus. "Moreover,you have failed to spell out the reasons fornot carrying the bag while leaving the car",the insurance company said.

The District Consumer DisputesRedressal Forum directed the insurancecompany to pay the complainant s 2,48,500towards his claim, along with interest at 9per cent per anum. The highest consumercourt, the National Consumer DisputesRedressal Commission, in response to therevision petition of the insurance company,pointed out that in the circumstances, the

steps taken by Sachin were reasonableenough to protect the insured property.Besides, the suitcase was not stolen whenthe insured had locked the car and goneto drop his wife and child at the bus stop.It happened much later when the insuredwas also in the car. The Commission alsodisagreed with the insurance company thatSachin should not have got off the car toexamine the damage and talk to the driverof the car that had rammed into his car,leaving the ignition key in the socket. Itis impractical to contend that the insuredshould have rst secured the windows,

locked the car and then gone ahead totalk to the driver or inspect the damage,the Commission said. (In any case, evenif he had done it, the miscreants whooutnumbered him could well have snatchedthe key from him)

It however differed with the lowerconsumer courts on the valuation of theloss and said Rs 1,79,400 along with 9 percent interest would meet the ends of justice.It also awarded costs of Rs 10,000.

So whenever you buy insurance, readthe policy conditions and the exclusionclauses carefully and ensure that you do notgive any scope to the insurance companyto repudiate your claim on grounds ofbreach of policy conditions. If however,the insurer is found to be unreasonable,as in this case, then the consumer courts

are there to protect your interest.- Pushpa G - TNS

Actions speakYou must have heard people say that

actions speak louder than words, well theysay it right! Apart from what you speak

through words, you also continuouslytalk through your physical appearance,that is your body language. Around half

of your conversation is done by yourbody. Your body language includes your

hand movements, your eye movements,your posture, your face expressions, etc.Even when youre not speaking, you may

unintentionally be depicting your thoughtsthrough your body language. So, its veryimportant that we learn how to control ourbody language and also to learn how tounderstand the body language of others.

Reading body language is almost thesame as reading minds and to know whatothers are thinking. Here are some of the

explanations of the tiny gestures we comeacross almost every day:

If youre travelling in the bus, observe

the people who are sitting if you want toknow when exactly they will get up to leave.The moment they stiffen their bodies, pick

up their bags and start looking out withconcentration, it means that the momenthas arrived when he/she will get up, leavingthe standing ones to ght for the seat.

In the bus, the standing ones who

are desperate to sit will keep their eyes onevery person sitting. As soon as they get

the slightest hint of someone getting up,they will start preparing themselves to gethold of their seat. Their level of desperationcan be easily judged through their bodylanguage. Mind it, if the desperation is toomuch, you better not come in their way.

When youll talk to somebody about

something that they love most, be it anidea, a person or a thing, youll see their

iris grow slightly in size with a pleasanttwinkle in them.

People who are extremely nervous

or who lack condence will continuously

touch and settle their hair while speaking inpublic. Girls may do this with their dupattasas well.

People who secretly admfeel nervous when youre talkiand will make less eye contpeople avoid eye contact whupset with the person theyreand sometimes also when thabout something.

Some movements of the can be generalised to a certainwell. Different postures, moveactions of various body parts convey different messages founderstand.

Here are some of these:

Eyes: Your eyes speak mo

other part of your body. If youabout something, your iris will sin size and produce a pleasanyour eyes. If youre annoyed, youwill move a little downwards tomiddle, making a frown. Peopleeye contact and blink unnecessthey are lying. However, pe

blink too much can also be lacondence or might as well be

or distrustful.Hands: Your hand mov

equally important. Crossing yoplacing them in your pockets w

to somebody can be termeddefensive or unethical. Movingway too much can also look wof the time. Clasping your hanthem together or touching your continuously can depict nervou

Feet: Sitting in a chair crousually depicts arrogance, whilunnecessary movement of thedepict lack of condence. Tap

is also an indication of impatienpeople.

Even though many moveme

generalised, not all can conveymessage every time. Body usually varies from people to pe

single person has his/her owzone and habits related to hisSo while judging the body lanperson, always remember to kepersonality in the context too.

- S. R


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