Rs. 15 lakh given to 265 students under champions development fund

With a view to encouraging sports the Government has disbursed over Rs. 15 lakh to 265 students across the State under champions development fund, said Sports, Youth Welfare and Environment Minister T.P.M. Mohideen Khan, here on Monday.

The Minister was here to distribute champions development fund to 45 students from Krishnagiri, Salem, Dharmapuri, Vellore, Villupuram and Cuddalore districts at a function held here at the District Sports Stadium.

The Minister distributed scholarships to 45 students and said the Government was taking various measures to improve the talented youth. These scholarships were given to those who are participating at the national, state, and Inter-University sports meets at all India level every year.

The State Government was also helping national champions to improve their performance with the special scholarships.

The Minister said the Government was spending Rs. 3.63 lakh to 87 persons to undergo special training abroad. To those taking part in international events, the State Government was extending Rs. 30,000 as air fare.

Satyabrata Sahoo, Member-Secretary, SDAT, said the State Government was giving utmost importance for the development of sports in the rural areas. Collector V.K. Shanmugam presided over the function.

T. Senguttuvan, MLA, spoke.

Theador, Senior Regional Manager, SDAT, Coimbatore welcomed the gathering.

child marriages stopped

In Krishnagiri district, on information by Village Administrative Officer Aasaithambi, Uthangarai Tahsildhar Subramaniyam instructed officials to enquire about the marriage arranged for the daughter of Palaniammal in Padapalli on Thursday.

Uthangarai Sub-Inspector Gnanasekaran and Zonal Deputy Tahsildhar Govindaraj held talks with Palaniammal following which the marriage was stopped.

CB-CID seizes 7 master CDs of Jaggubhai in Hosur

In a raid at Hosur in Krishnagiri district on Wednesday, sleuths of the video piracy cell attached to the CB-CID seized seven master DVDs of the yet-to-be-released Sarath Kumar-starrer Jaggubhai and arrested two men.The movie, which is slated for a Pongal release, was purportedly downloaded from a web portal on which it was uploaded last week.The arrests came within a few days after Chennai city police arrested the web portal owner here for allegedly uploading the film on his website, and seized 4,000 pirated CDs of the film in different raids in Chennai. Acting on a tip-off on Wednesday, police arrested two persons J K alias J Krishnan (32) of Bangalore and Subhash (38) of Hosur for making pirated DVDs of Jaggubhai after downloading the film from the web portal. Following the raid, 24 teams headed by IG Ramesh C Kudawla have been formed to conduct raids across the state. “The film might have been stolen from the lab during post-production work and uploaded on the portal. When the two men had taken the help of other persons to make copies from the master copy taken from the web portal, we got information and nabbed them,” DSP Rajendran of the Video Piracy Cell told ‘Express’.Police said they also seized 3,000 CD wrappers of the film besides 2,000 other pirated CDs and DVDs, including those of new films Vettaikaran, Avatar, Naan Avan Illai, Aadhavan, Kandha Kottai and Rudhran (2012) and 20,000 wrappers of other films. Six computers and 54 CD/DVD writers were also seized. The two accused were held under the Copyright act, 1957 and have been remanded in judicial custody, the DSP said.