M O H Farook

Kerala Governor and ex Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Pondicherry M O H Farook (75) passed away yesterday night at 9:10 pm at Chennai Apollo Hospital due to kidney failure. He was under dialysis treatment. He was appointed the 19th Governor of Kerala on 25 August 2011 replacing R S Gavai and took charge of office on 8 September 2011. He was the Governor of Jharkand before being appointed as the Governor of Kerala. He was the youngest Chief Minister in the country, when he was elected as the Chief Minister of Pondicherry (now Puducherry) at the age of just 29.

Career Highlights:

• M O H Farook was born in the year 6 September 1937 at Karikal in Pondicherry of India. His parents were M O Hasan Kuthoos Maricar & Seyed Sultangani.
• M O H Farook participated in the struggle for liberation of Pondicherry even as a student in the years 1953 to 1954 at the time when Pondicherry was a French colony.
• He was the youngest Chief Minister in India at the age of 29 when he was elected the Chief Minister of Pondicherry in 1967.
• He was elected thrice as the Chief Minister of Puducherry (1967, 1969, and 1974).
• He was also a Member of Central Haj Committee at Mumbai (1975-2000).
• He also served as the Union Minister of the State for Civil Aviation & Tourism (Jun 1991 – Dec 1992).
• M O H Farook also occupied several positions like joint committee member to enquire the irregularities of securities & banking transaction from 1991-1996.
• He was thrice elected to LokSabha from Pondicherry in the years 1991, 1996 and 1999.
• M O H Farook was the opposition leader in the Pondicherry Legislative Assembly in the year 1990.
• He was also appointed as the Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in the year 2004.
• He was the Governor of Jharkand from 2010 before becoming Kerala Governor.
• He has been the member of consultative committee in the ministry of science & technology and standing committee member on home affairs.
• He has been the Deputy Chief whip on Congress Parliamentary party LokSabha & committee member on members of Parliament local area development scheme.

Kerala Govt. announced holiday to all educational institutions and Govt. institutions today in the state as per the Negotiable Instrument Act. It’s a holiday for all Central Govt. institutions at Trivandrum also. Kerala CM postponed all the official programs for tomorrow. PSC and Kerala University postponed all the exams announced on tomorrow. Kerala government also declared a 7 day statewide mourning as a mark of respect to Governor MOH Farook.

The body has been taken to Puducherry and funeral will be at 4.30pm today at Karikal, Puducherry.

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A new complaint filing scheme has been started by the Chief Minister’s office recently. In the office there have been started a 24 hours complaint cell call centre. The new project is intended to solve the public issues as fast as possible. Taking in to concern the new circumstances of our society this new advancement can be very effective if it is executed effectively.

This 24 hour call centre is an extension of the ‘Sutharya Keralam’ project that the previous UDF government started under the leadership of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. They are aiming to take actions on the complaints that are registered by the facility within 48 hours.

The complaints can be registered from any BSNL number by simply dialling 1076 and explaining your problem. Foe the services other than BSNL, The number to be dialled for the complaint registration is 1800 425 1076. The complaints from outside India will be accepted in the number 0471 1076. The citizens can register the complaints online also by visiting the website www.keralacm.gov.in.

They are aiming at solving the complaints of the people with no time lag and to make use of the facilities provided by the information technology field in the same. The call centre will be working in three shifts.

The authorities explained that the response of the public was terrific for the new call centre. They revealed that just in one hour the complaint cell had around 2300 people calling the toll free numbers to seek a solution for their grieves. The first and foremost complaint received was that from a family who had lost their father who was a state government employee. They were also searching for a job for one of their children.

The Chief Minister replied that their complaint will be treated with all it’s seriousness and the progress in the solution will be informed to them in a time bound manner. It is the first office of any Chief Minister in the whole country to have a 24/7 call centre. 16 employees will be working at the call centre in three shifts. It has the facility to attend seven calls simultaneously. The complaints will be fed into a computer and will be registered in no time. A conformation sms will be sent to the complaint. The authorities explained that as soon as the complaint is registered it will go online to five officials and if they fail to look into the complaint within the time limit, the higher official will be informed with a sms.

Oommen Chandy had announced this call centre after taking over the charge of the Chief Minister as he declared the 100 day programme.

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Dr. Vayala Vasudevan Pillai, who enriched the field of drama with his invaluable contributions passed away yesterday. He was suffering from prolonged illness for the past few months. He was 67 years old and was undergoing the treatment for cancer at a private hospital in Kochi.

He earlier worked as the director of the school of drama at Thrissur and was a disciple of G. Sankara Pillai. He contributed to the field as a playwright, scholar and director. He is credited with the title of starting a new spatial concept in modern theatres. Taking into account his great contributions to the Malayalam theatre, he was awarded with the Kendra Sangeet Nataka Akademi Award in 2009.

Pillai did his masters in English literature and a PhD in theatre. Then he headed to complete a post graduate diploma in modern theatre from the university of Rome in 1981. He also attended a training in Japanese theatre in 1996 at Meji university in Tokyo.

He is the author of several well known plays like Agni, Varavelpu, Tulasivanam, Oru Pakshikkunjinte Maranam and Swarnakokkukal. The book, Malayala Nataka Sahitya Charitram is also the work from his pen tip. The book tells the history of Malayalam Theatre.

The first play of vayala Vasudevan Pillai was published in 1975 and it was named Viswa Darshanam. Vasudevan Pillai also floated a theatre troupe at the time while he was in Trivandrum. It was an avant grade troupe and staged a good number of plays. The name of the troupe was Suvarnarekha. The well known film star Jagadish, Sreelata and Alex Kadavil are some of the prominent personalities who worked in the troupe. The directorial attempt of Dr. Vayala Vasudevan Pillai has given around 40 plays to the Malayalam Theatre. These include the plays by Shakesphere, Sophocles, Ibsen, Tagore and Bhasa.

He worked with the scool of drama of Thrissur which is under Calicut University for more than two decades. Pillai retired as the director of the institution in 2005. His professional carrer also carries the name plate of the Professor of English at Mar Ivanios College in Trivandrum.

He is one of the experts on the artistic life and plays of the famous Irish playwright J M Synge. The Italian government respected him with the theatre’s fellowship in 1980- 81. Rangasabha and Yatra are also among the famous works of Dr. Pillai. The cremation is to be held in Cheruthuruthy today.

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The only current I- league football club from Kerala, the Viva Kerala  will now be known as Chirag United Kerala. This new advancement came to being after the merging of the Kerala club and the Kolkata based Chirag United Sports Pvt Ltd.The owner of the Chirag computers, Kaustav Roy told the press that the company now had the majority stake hold in the Kerala outfit.

He also explained that even though the Kolkata company have taken over the club, the home of the team will remain as Kerala. The All India Football Federation do not allow five football teams for a single city and Kolkata already have four teams as its own. The foot ball clubs, the city now have are Mohun Bagan, East Bengal, Prayag United SC and Pailan Indian Arrows.

Subrata Bhattacharya is appointed as the technical director of the club and Unnikrishnan will continue as the coach of the team. Chirag United Kerala is decided to have the base at Kannur. The achievement of the team in 2010-11 was the finish at 10^th in the I – league.

The owners explained that they are keeping the name taking into account the sentiments of the people of Kerala. They are having a two year contract with some 21 players of the earlier Chirag United SC and therefore the core team will be selected from them. They are also planning to bring some foreign players and soon they will be approached with the contract. The management said that they are very much confident about the new team they are building and the team will definitely rise to the expectations of them and the public.

The training of the team for the hand full of upcoming tournaments such as the Federation Cup, IFA Shield and Durand Cup will be conducted in Kolkata. They are about to ask the sports department of the ministry, the permission to have the residential camp at the Kalyani Stadium.

The club will also be affiliated by the Kerala Football Association. The secretary of the Kerala outfit, P.Bhaskaran expressed his extreme joy about the support they received for football at the present society where everything is a bit cricket centric.

For over four seasons Chirag computers have been the sponsors of United SC. The club Viva Kerala was a long time dream of all football lovers of Kerala and when it was realized the club got a great support from the audience. Even though the club will now be known as Chirag United Kerala, our affection towards the team will remain the same we would love to see it coming out victorious.

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Election Commission today announced the Election date 2011 for 5 states including Kerala and Bengal Legislative Assembly.  In Kerala the Election will be in single phase. But in Bengal, its in six phases. The Kerala election will be on April 13 and the results will be announce on May 13. The Election dates of West Bengal are April 18, 23, 27, May 1, 7 and 10.  The election date of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will be on April 13. The election dates of Assam will be in 2 phases and they are April and 11. The results will be announced on May 13 for all these states.

The term of Legislative Assembly of Kerala will be expires on 23-05-2011. The total number of Assembly Constituencies of Kerala are 140, out of them 14 seats are reserved for SC and 2 seats are reserved for ST. The Electoral rolls of all the existing Assembly Constituencies of Kerala are  revised and as per the final rolls, the number of electors are 2,29,40,408.

This is the 1st time that NRI Voters have been enabled to be enrolled as voters and would be able to vote in person.

As per the press note of the Election Commission of India, the schedule for holding General Election to the Legislative Assembly of Kerala are,

Issue of Notification                                                                      – 19.03.2011 (Saturday)
Last date of making nominations                                             – 26.03.2011 (Saturday)
Scrutiny of Nominations                                                             – 28.03.2011 (Monday)
Last date for withdrawal of candidature                               – 30.03.2011 (Wednesday)
Date of Poll                                                                                        – 13.04.2011 (Wednesday)
Counting of Votes                                                                           – 13.05.2011 (Friday)
Date before which Election process shall be completed – 18.05.2011 (Wednesday)

Kerala Exit Poll Results 2011

Kerala Election Results 2011

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As per the initial report, a jeep driver in which the pilgrims were traveling lost its control and entered into the crowd, leading to the stampede. Pilgrims are from different states and mainly from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

This incident announced as  National Disaster.

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International Computer giants IBM and Oracle are coming to Trivandrum Technopark. They are having plans of establishing a unit in the IT centre of Kerala. Both of these companies had discussions with Kerala IT department regarding the plans and possibilities. The arrival of these well reputed companies can create great effects in industrial sector of Kerala. Technopark of Trivandrum was established in late 90’s and now there are about 185 companies running there. About 30000 people are working in this IT Park. These 2 companies are capable of creating about 4000 job opportunities in Technopark. The interests shown by multinational companies in Trivandrum Technopark is an added advantage for the mission of making Kerala the fastest growing IT destination of the country.

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The other Felicitations in the ceremony are

Shri. S. Sharma, Minister for Fisheries & Registration,

 H.E.  Mohamed Sulan Abdalla Al Qwais UAE Ambassador to India

 Shri. Dominic Presentation, MLA

Shri. A.M Yousuf, MLA

Shri .K. Babu, MLA

Shri.V.K. Ibrahim Kunju, MLA

Smt. Mercy Williams, Mayor of Cochin Corporation

Smt.V.M. Arifa, Chairperson of Kalamassery Muncipality

Dr.M. Beena IAS, District Collector of Ernakulum

Smt. Henny Baby, Opposition Leader of Kalamassery Muncipality

Shri. K.M. Abdulla, President of Kerala Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The presentation of memento will be done by Shri. M.K.Abdulla who is the chairman of EMKE group. Shri. Ashraf Ali M.A who is the Executive Director of EMKE group& Lulu International shopping mall will deliver the vote of thanks.

Lulu Shopping mall will turn out into the final destination of the shoppers all over Kerala. The estimated date of completion of this project is by June 2011. Lulu mall provides 25 lac. Sq.ft of shopping, leisure and entertainment. The project gives direct employment for 8000 and indirect employment for more than 20,000 people. The mall will have special area for promoting Kerala products. It will have a car parking space for more than 3000 cars. There will Family amusement center and 5 star luxury hotel by Marriott.

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The major investors other than Rondevu Sports World Ltd are Parini developers, Film Wavees and Anchor Earth.

The IPL auction was held at Hotel Park Sheraton in Adayar. The Kerala Cricket association secretary T.C Mathew and the representatives of the companies were present in the function. The chief coordinator of the Kerala IPL team Shasi Tharoor was not present in the auction. The ownership of the team is for 10 years. The new teams will hit the ground by the year 2011. The total number of IPL teams has now become 10. There will 94 matches a year. The auction of the players to various teams will be held on September. The 2 cities were selected from the list of cities including Cochin, Pune, Ahmadabad, Kanpur, Nagpur, Dharmashala, Vishakapatanam, Cuttack, Rajkot, Baroda, Indore and Gwalior.

The highest bid was from Sahara and the second highest was from Rondevu Sports World Ltd. Sahara was able to select the city of their choice, and they selected Pune. Now Maharashtra has got 2 teams.

All the South Indian states have now got IPL teams. Kerala now has Cochin team, Bangalore Royal Challengers for Karnataka, Hyderabad Deccan Chargers for Andhra Pradesh and Chennai super kings for Tamil Nadu.

The IPL team of Cochin brings great hope to Kerala. It can provide a very good and respectable International branding for Cochin and Kerala. The players from Kerala can get the opportunity to play with International players. The IPL can generate more new players from Kerala. The funds and benefits for Kerala Cricket association from BCCI will increase. This can result in the construction of more stadiums and improvement of the existing ones.

Kerala will host 9 IPL matches a year. The people of Kerala can get easy opportunity for watching these matches. People from different places will come to Kerala for seeing the match. This will increase the revenue of the state. IPL will a great boon for tourism and business in Kerala.

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