Indian Joint fishing proposal reject by Mannar fishers

Indian academic’s proposal for joint fishing rejected by Mannar fishers
Sunday Times LK

A proposal by an Indian academic for joint fishing by Sri Lankan and Indian fishermen in the Palk Strait, without engaging in bottom trawling, was rejected on Friday by Mannar fishermen.

At least 37 fishermen from Mannar representing Pallimunai, Pesalai, and Talaimannar fishing villages were invited for a discussion with Prof. V. Suryanarayan, a leading specialist in South and Southeast Asian studies at the Navy Naval Command in Talaimannar. He was in town this week for the annual International Maritime Conference “Galle Dialogue”.

“In the first place we don’t know why the Navy had to arrange this meeting at a naval base. Also we have made it clear that we won’t allow Indian fishermen to engage in fishing in Lankan waters at any cost,”Mannar Fisheries Cooperative Union leader N.M. Aalam told the Sunday Times.

The discussion was solely focused on the possibilities of joint fishing by fishermen from both countries while Tamil Nadu fishermen were urged to switch to marine environment friendly fishing methods giving up their practice of bottom trawling.

“In addition to upholding the sovereignty of the country, as northern fishermen still struggling to come out from the economic impact of three decades of war, we can’t allow this to continue,” he said.

At the India-Sri Lanka Joint Working Group of Fisheries meeting held in New Delhi on November 5, India had agreed at policy level that bottom trawling had caused significant damage to marine resources in the Palk Strit and assured remedial steps will be taken to urge Tamil Nadu fishermen to go for deep sea fishing.

According to the joint communique, the working group consisting of ministers will meet in January next year in Colombo to continue their talks on finding a lasting solution to the poaching crisis.

 

Tamil Nadu CM Jeyalalitha Decclared Dead

 

ஜன சமுத்திரம்,பொலிஸ் கடல்,

 

மறைந்த தமிழக முதலமைச்சர் செல்வி.ஜெயலலிதா, எம்.ஜி.ஆர் அருகில் அரசுமரியாதையுடனும்,, ``அம்மா, தாயே``  என்கிற இலட்சோபம் விவசாயிகளின் அலறலின் மத்தியில், அமைதியான இறுதி ஊர்வலத்தின் பின் நல்லடக்கம் செய்யப்பட்டார்.

 

 

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பொதுமக்கள் பார்வைக்காக ராஜாஜி மண்டபத்தில் ஜெயாவின் பூத உடல்

 

 

 

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சென்னை மரீனாக் கடற்கரையை அண்டிய ராஜாஜி மண்டபத்தில் பொதுமக்கள் பார்வைக்கு பூத உடல்.

எம்ஜிஆர் நினைவிட வளாகத்தில் முதலமைச்சர் ஜெயலலிதா உடல் நல்லடக்கம் செய்யப்படும்.

முதலமைச்சர் மறைவுக்கு 7 நாட்கள் அரசுமுறை துக்கம் அனுசரிப்பு
 
முதலமைச்சர் ஜெயலலிதா மறைவு: பள்ளி, கல்லூரிகளுக்கு 3 நாட்கள் விடுமுறை

Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa died at 11.30pm on Monday, according to a statement by Apollo Hospital in Chennai.

Jayalalithaa, who had been hospitalized on 22 September, suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday, following which she was admitted is on ECMO and other life support systems, Apollo said. ECMO, or Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation, is a heart-and-lung machine used to support the body when one’s organs are too sick to do the job.

Despite all efforts, the chief minister’s “underlying conditions rendered her unable to recover”, the hospital said.

Earlier in the day, the faithful had gathered outside Apollo Hospital, as the city, the state of Tamil Nadu, and the entire country held its collective breath on Monday, while the state’s popular chief minister J. Jayalalithaa battled for life inside.
 
The city remained on edge for most of the day as periodic statements from the hospital and a specialist involved in treating the chief minister described her condition as “very critical” and “grave”, a distinct change from the optimistic tone of earlier statements on the health of Jayalalithaa, who has been in hospital since 22 September.

A brief rumour on her death was quickly scotched, but local law enforcement officials, businesses and some of the city’s older citizens who remember the widespread looting that followed the 1987 death of chief minister M.G. Ramachandran, Jayalalithaa’s mentor, remained nervous.
 
Like MGR, as he was and is popularly known, Jayalalithaa, has a cult following in the state, where she is known as Amma (mother) and Puratchi Thalaivi (revolutionary leader). Now in her fourth term as chief minister, Jayalalithaa has evolved her own style—a mix of authoritarianism and paternalism—to run a welfare state. She was first elected to the post in 1991, and also won elections in 2001, 2011 and 2016.
 
However, she has been dogged by allegations of corruption and has had to step down, albeit temporarily, as chief minister twice, for five months in 2001-02, and for eight months in 2014-15. Both times, O. Panneerselvam stood in for her, as he continues to do now.
 
“Despite our best efforts, our beloved CM remains in a grave situation,” Apollo Hospital’s joint managing director Sangita Reddy said in a Twitter post on Monday. An earlier bulletin from the hospital described her condition as “very critical”.

Richard Beale, a London-based doctor who was involved in Jayalalithaa’s treatment, concurred that the situation was “extremely grave”, though he confirmed that “everything possible is being done to give her the best chance” and that a team of doctors has been sent from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, to Chennai to help in Jayalalithaa’s treatment.

On Monday, supporters of the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam pelted the hospital with stones, shoved the barricades around it and threatened to burn it down if anything happened to their beloved leader.

Thousands of policemen have been stationed outside the hospital and roads in the area have been closed to regular traffic. Shops and some offices closed early, and the US Consulate in Chennai, which has temporarily suspended routine appointments, issued an advisory to visiting US citizens, asking them to review their “personal security plans”.

A significant part of India’s auto and auto-components industry is based in and around Chennai, which has in the past decade also emerged as a hub for IT services.