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.State School Education Minister Thangam Thennarasu today said that the Plus Two board examination results would be announced on 14 May at 9 am..In an official statement here, the Minister said students who had appeared for the exams can get their results at their respective schools. Also, they can get the details through internet / SMS/ telephone numbers provided by the Directorate of Government Examination.
Meanwhile, the State Public Libraries Department has made arrangements to view the Plus Two results in all District Libraries and download the mark list free of cost. The Department has issued instructions to all the librarians in this regard. The results could be viewed at www.pallikalvi.in.
Around 6.89 lakh students appeared for the board exams which commenced on 1 March and concluded on 22 March.  About 3,22,381 boys and 3,67,306 girls appeared for the exams ——  a total of 42,000 more compared to last year.
This year, the Department of Government Examinations provided one hour extra time at the exams for differently- abled students, visually challenged, deaf, disabled and students with dyslexia disorder. Also, the authorities roped in officials from Anna University to conduct exams.
It may also be noted that re-exams were conducted for 262 students whose Physics papers were found missing. Counselling for professional courses:
Application forms for the Tamilnadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2010) are being issued from 3 May and will continue till 29 May.
Students should submit the filled-in applications by 31 May.
Anna University-Chennai has printed over 1.8 lakh applications for the coming academic year. Counselling under single window for BE/BTech programmes for government quota would be held from 28 June to 25 July. The random numbers, used to assess seniority in merit list in case of a tie, would be assigned on 15 June. The rank list will be released on 18 June.
‘As on date, 1,08,025 BE / B Tech seats area available under the government quota for filling up through the single window counselling. Of this, 5,920 seats would be available in the Anna Universities and its 16 constituent colleges, 2,825 seats in government engineering colleges and 1,544 seats in government-aided engineering colleges,’ according to Anna University officials. This year, it is expected that there would be an increase of 12,000 engineering seats through new colleges, the officials said.
Applications for undergraduate medical and dental courses will be on sale from 17 May. The applications would be available at all government medical colleges until 27 May. The last date for submission of filled-in forms has been fixed for the same date. The random number will be generated on 7 June and rank list released on 11 June.
Counselling is scheduled to begin on 21 June and the last date for the first phase of counselling is 7 July.
A total of 1,483 MBBS seats in 15 government medical colleges are available for candidates in Tamilnadu, after surrendering seats to the All India Quota. As many as 262 seats have been allocated in the government colleges to those entering through the Central quota. A further 348 seats are available under the State quota from five self-financing medical colleges. While 85 BDS seats are available at the Government Dental College, a further 778 under the State quota are there in self-financing dental colleges.
For paramedical degree courses, applications will be sold from 7 June to 15 June. Application forms must be submitted by 15 June. The random number will be generated on 21 June and rank list will be released on 25 June. Counselling will commence on 5 July for these courses.

Last week, even if Maoists had killed over 2000 and left them on any main street in New Delhi including in front of Parliament House or if T Rajendhar had won both the Oscars and the Grammy for lifetime achievement or if Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden were revealed to be gay partners, we would not have had even a clue about them from the various sections of the Indian media. You know they (the media) had no time for them as they were fully immersed in giving us the most inside of info and up-close details on the IPL shenanigans.

The coverage of the IPL has been so comprehensive that even a man in the street can tell you now with authority as to what brand of inner-wear Lalit Modi sport inside his bespoke suits or whether Sunanda Pushkar and Shashi Tharoor use…well, forget it, this is getting too intimate.
The point is we are all so well fed on the IPL that we know everything about it, except the part that is shady —- that is to say all parts of it. The round-the-clock frenzy on television over the murky sideshow in the IPL must go down in history as those moments that were accompanied by round-the-clock frenzy. Beyond this, nothing is clear.

Here is what happened on three main English news channels. What you are going to read may sound silly and stupid. But understand, satire has its limitations. The reality was far worse.

Times Now


Arnab Goswami: We can now confirm to the viewers that this channel is the first one to break the news this afternoon after breaking news in the morning and also breaking news last night in the continuing saga of rapidly unfolding events of fast breaking news for the benefit of viewers of this channel.
We now have on the phone line our chief political editor who has been constantly tracking all that is happening on the cricketing arena for the last 20 years or so (To the correspondent on the phone line) Okay, tell us what breaking news do you have for the viewers of this channel that has been breaking news in breaking news?
Correspondent: Arnab, our sources in the Home Ministry, which has been probing cricket events, have just confirmed to us to that the latest developments that we have been breaking to the viewers of this channel are indeed confirmed. We can also tell the viewers of this channel that we break only confirmed news. Back to you, Arnab
Arnab Goswami: Indeed it is a very damning piece of information. It has been a momentous period and the time has come to ask the question that every cricket fan in every corner of this country who has been watching this channel is dying to ask in the light of what has been unfolding before us in the last week ever since we first reported the first-ever reported ….. and as I am speaking to you, we have more breaking news coming in from our chief cricket correspondent who has been keeping track of politics for the last 20 years…

CNN IBN

Rajdeep Sardesai: As the clamour for the nationalisation of the IPL gets louder and louder, CNN-IBN has learnt from extremely reliable sources in the External Affairs Ministry, which takes care of cricket played across the globe, that the government has decided to completely internationalise the IPL and bring it under the ambit of the UN. For the latest on this development, we are joined in by our sports editor who is in charge of foreign affairs.
Correspondent: Rajdeep, indeed sources close to the development aver that the government has moved close to the idea of internationalising the IPL in the face of mounting concerns in Parliament. With heavyweights like Lalu Prasad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav, who are neither allies nor rivals but wouldn’t mind if Ministerial posts are offered to them, making it clear that they want to do something to the IPL including banning it, the government has veered down to the view of internationalising cricket and pushing it to the UN.
Rajdeep: To get a true perspective on this new turn, we have now with us, okay he never gets anywhere out of the studio, Suhel Seth, who is an expert in being an expert on all matters whenever a mike is proferred near him.
Suhel Seth: This is backdoor cronyism. The government seems to have bowed to the pressures of the lobby that wanted the IPL banned.
Rajdeep: How does IPL being taken to the UN amount to it being banned?
Suhel: (Shaking his head and dishevelling his already dishevelled hair further), Rajdeep, who heads the UN? It’s Ban. So taking IPL to UN is prima facie, not to speak ipso facto, banning it.
Anyway, the way out of this mess is more clarity. The need of the hour is transparency, especially since Shilpa Shety and Priety Zinta are involved in this. As far as Sunanda Pushkar goes, let Shashi Tharoor bother about transparency. But any way, her case is a see-through.

NDTV

Barkha Dutt: According to reports just in, the Congress has made it clear that the IPL mess has to be cleaned at the earliest. In fact Congress sources are telling us that Sonia is discontented with the developments that has brought disrepute to the game and also seen several thousand crores of rupees flow to the NCP. It is also learnt that Rahul Gandhi is unhappy with the state of affairs. (Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, for his part, continued to maintain a facial expression that means to mirror Sonia’s anguish. Of course, Barkha did not say this).
We have in our studios, Shashank Manohar, the president of the BCCI, which is supposed to run the affairs of cricket in this country.
Barkha: Mr Manohar, Hasn’t IPL done more harm to cricket than develop it?
Shashank: The game of cricket is…
Barkha (interjecting): So you mean to say cricket is just a game; if so how do you explain the crores and crores of rupees flowing to the game that has caused anguish to Sonia, Rahul, and perhaps others?
Shashank: Money and market forces….
Barkha (interjecting): You are suggesting that the market is forcing things upon your organisation? Are these forces inimical to the nation’s secularism and Sonia Gandhi (and Rahul Gandhi)?
Shashank: Modi is….
Barkha (naturally interjecting): Ok, without needing to put any words into his mouth, Shashank has eloquently stated that Modi’s presence is detrimental to the country’s secular fabric and leather.
(clang, cling, bang …sound of TV screens being smashed to smithereens in many households).

Source: NT

Serious allegations that matches were fixed during the second season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) add to concerns that Indian cricket is skidding towards an apocalypse now.

Sources confirm to NDTV that 27 cricketers are being investigated for match-fixing during IPL2. In a report submitted to the Finance Ministry, income tax officials discuss allegations of betting involving IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi.

The owners of different IPL teams have expressed their unhappiness with reports of match-fixing; they want clarifications as soon as possible.

The IPL, earlier celebrated as an infusion of cricket, fans, and Bollywood has been passing through its darkest hour, ever since IPL Chairman unloaded on twitter revelations that forced Shashi Tharoor to resign as minister, PUT Modi’s own job on the line, and forced Parliament to confront the very real possibility of senior politicians holding dangerously vested interest in a sport that is bursting at the seams with crores (the Indian cricket board is the richest in the world).

The government has ordered a wide inquiry involving the Income Tax Department and the Enforcement Directorate. Among the charges are foreign exchange violations, tax evasions, proxy ownership of different teams, and sweet deals for relatives and friends of politicians and cricket organizers and administrators.

In an interview to NDTV, IPL Governing Council member Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi said that of the many problems that the IPL is riddled with, it’s the prospect of match-fixing that worries him the most

In line with the global launch, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 in India.In a press release, the company also announced that Silverlight 4 will release to Web (RTW) later in the week. Together, these technologies simplify the entire development process, enabling developers to target new platforms and build high-quality applications, the press release said.

Developers will be able to download Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 in conjunction with Microsoft Tech.Ed 2010, which commenced in Bangalore.‘Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4 brings a powerful combination of functionality to create an unparalleled developer experience, and deliver unmatched value to the software ecosystem across the world and in India,’ according to S Somasegar, senior vice president, Microsoft Corporation.

Software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has recorded an operating profit of Rs 8,018 crore for the year ended March 2010, a growth of 22 per cent from that of previous year.Net profit stood at Rs 7,001 crore for the fiscal 2010, a growth of 33 per cent from the previous year. For the fourth quarter ended March 2010, operating profit touched Rs 2,165 crore, a growth of 29 per cent from the same quarter of the previous year.
Net profit for the Q4 touched Rs 2,001 crore, a growth of 50 per cent from the same period of the last year.
Commenting on the results, TCS CEO and managing director N Chandrasekaran said, ‘our ability to react to growth opportunities and execute efficiently has helped the company deliver a superior performance for the fourth successive quarter. Our volumes have grown and margins are at near historic highs.’ On the performance in the last year, he said a strong volume growth of 17 per cent during the year has rounded off an exceptional year for TCS. ‘Our sales and execution machine is primed and we have laid a solid platform for growth.

There is significant traction for our strategy of full services which together with global engagement model that helped us achieve rapid growth.According to TCS chief financial officer S Mahalingam, ‘in the fourth quarter, our focus on superior project execution and efficient utilisation of professionals had helped deliver a superior gross margin in performance despite strong currency headwinds. Sustained cost efficiency and treasury management have also improved operating margins and net margins sequentially.’

While fiscal 2010 was a challenging year, the company had used this time to improve efficiency and generate better returns by boosting margins. ‘Our cost base has remained constant and we have leveraged this to support higher business growth. Looking ahead, we will continue our focus on managing costs and efficiency while ensuring that investments are aligned to capture growth opportunities that emerge across the spectrum,’ said Mahalingam.