Popular Stadiums in Tamil Nadu:

                          There are several stadiums in Chennai where sports like cricket, football are generally held. The people from Tamil Nadu State are sports lover and they prefer to spend most of their leisure time in some kind of outdoor or indoor games. One of the most Popular Stadium in Tamil Nadu is MA Chidambaram Stadium, it is a popular stadium in Chennai. The stadium is named after the ex- President of BCCI and the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association, Mr. M. A. Chidambaram. The stadium is popularly recognized as Madras Cricket Club Ground. The stadium hosted its first match on 10 February 1934. Indian cricket team won their first Test match against England in M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in the year 1952.

                      It was established in the year 1916. It is the oldest Cricket Stadium in India. It is Commonly known as Chepauk Stadium, its first match was played on 10th February 1934. It was Built by the East Coast Constructions and Industries.

                     The Indian cricket team won its first ever Test victory in 1952 against England in MA Chidambarak Stadium, Chennai. Famous Cricketer Sunil Gavaskar notched up his record breaking 30th Test hundred on this ground in 1983-84. The India-Australia encounter in 1986-87 ended in a tie - only the second in the Cricket's long history. The next season, leg spinner Narendra Hirwani claimed the best match analysis by a player on Test debut, finishing with 16 for 136. The Chepauk Stadium crowd is known to be amongst the most appreciative in the whole country. This was proved when those presence gave a standing ovation to Saeed Anwar after his record breaking 194 against India in the Independence Cup match in 1997 and again when Pakistan won a Test match in 1999.  A truly overwhelmed Pakistani team even made a lap of honour in appreciation of the spectators' sporting behavior. It is the home ground of the Tamil Nadu cricket team and also for the Chennai Super Kings which participate in and won the Indian Premier League two times.

                     Secondly, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is famous stadium in Chennai that can easily occupy almost 40,000 people. The stadium got its name from India’s first Prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru. The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is a home to several sports like Foot ball, Volley ball, Basket ball, Table tennis along with other athletic matches. This stadium has large seating arrangements constituting many people. 

Next to Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, there is an Indoor Stadium situated which is also called as Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium. The indoor stadium has a seating capacity of 8000 seats. Audience can easily occupy places to be seated. It hosts volleyball Match, Basket ball Match, Table tennis and other indoor games in the stadium. Here large feasts of movies takes place, There are also entertainment shows and TV shows (such as super singer junior 3) takes place. New film Audio songs release are also conducted frequently in this stadium.

                       Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium, is a well recognized National Hockey Stadium in India, located near Egmore Railway Station in chennai. It was named after Radhakrishnan Pillai, It hosts the Nation Sports of India, Hockey in its stadium. The 1996 Men's Champions Trophy held in this stadium, and this stadium also hosted the tournament again in December 2005. In 2007 edition of Asian Hockey Championship took place in this stadium, in which India triumphed by a thumping margin of 7-2 over South Korea. Also all division matches of the Chennai Hockey Association conducted here  and it is referred as the home ground of the World Series Hockey team Chennai Cheetah. It is one of the famous stadium in Chennai.

                          Raja Ratnam Stadium (Chennai) is also another famous stadium in Chennai located in Marshall’s road in Egmore. The stadium is generally used by the TamilNadu Police Department. It is also much used for sports festivals of schools colleges and the police academy. Madhavi, sports student said, Raja Ratnam Stadium is one of the best and outstanding stadium in Chennai. It has got a large area where thousands of people can be accommodated. Her school sports day used to take place in this stadium, she also included that it is one of her memorable place in Chennai city.

                         SDAT - Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu Tennis Stadium in Chennai is famous as Nungambakkam Tennis Stadium. The Chennai Open ATP Tennis championships are generally hosted every year during the first week of January in this Stadium.  The third round Davis Cup tie in Asia/Oceania Group I, Match between Australia and India took place at the SDAT Tennis Stadium in May 2009.

                      Indian Open tennis tournament takes place annually since 1997 in this Stadium. Legends like Boris Becker and Patrick Rafter took part in Goldflake Open held in this Stadium and In 1998 Patrick Rafter went to win the tournament. The stadium has also witnessed the birth of the celebrated Indian doubles pair of Leader Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, they both have won the first three editions of the Goldflake Open held in this stadium. The complex has five hard courts including the floodlit centre court which has a seating Capacity of about 5800. Davis Cup tie from 17–19 September 2010 also took place here. The Brazil Davis Cup Team was defeated by the Indian Davis Cup team in 2010, IN THE 2010 davis Cup World Group. It plays off to advance to the 2011Davis Cup World Group.

                  Velachery Aquatic Complex Stadium in Chennai can accommodate about 4,000 people. It hosts several water sports. It is an ideal venue for the 1995 South Asian Games.  Guindy Race Course, Chemplast Cricket Ground, Kari Motor Speedway, Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium, Nehru Stadium(Coimbatore), Giundy Race Course, Sreeperamabtur Race Stadium, Madhurai Race Course, Trichy Stadium are the other popular stadiums in Tamil Nadu State.

                      A new state of the art cricket stadium has been established at Karunkuzhipallam almost about 25 km from Chennai on August 26, 2008. The stadium accommodate about 50,000 to 60,000 spectators at one go. Most of the people who are basically sports lover travel to this city to get immense opportunities as far as sporting are concerned. 

Facebook buys WhatsApp at 19 billion dollars:

On February 19, Facebook (FB) announced its purchase of the WhatsApp, mobile messaging service for $19 billion in cash and stock. The deal is a big bet for Facebook, which has not been able to convince investors of its strategy for mobile. Facebook has bought messaging app WhatsApp in a deal at a total of $19bn (£11.4bn) in cash and shares.

A lot of people wondered why facebook paid so much money for whatsapp. WhatsApp is 100% social. It is the social networking giant's biggest acquisition to date. WhatsApp has more than 450 million monthly users and is popular with people looking to avoid text messaging charges.Facebook offers a login box to drop your phone number at any website or online service. You will be able to simply login with your Facebook account and give the website permission to send you a message on WhatsApp. You can also define, how many messages and within what timeframe and even what type of messages you would like to receive.In a statement announcing the deal, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg described WhatsApp's services as "incredibly valuable". WhatsApp allows users to send messages over internet connections, avoiding text messaging fees. The company claims it is currently registering one million new users a day. It makes money by charging users a subscription fee of $1 per year, although it offers a free model as well.

The deal to buy WhatsApp includes $4billion in cash and approximately $12billionn worth of Facebook shares, plus an additional $3bn in stock to WhatsApp's founders and employees at a later date.On a conference call to discuss the deal, WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum said he planned to operate the firm "independently and autonomously". He will also become a member of Facebook's board of directors."We are excited and honoured to partner with Mark and Facebook as we continue to bring our product to more people around the world," Mr Koum added in a statement. Mr. Zuckerberg said the prospect of a deal was first floated just 11 days ago.

WhatsApp does give Mark Zuckerberg inroads into international markets and, as importantly, to a younger demographic. But what is less clear is whether the finances will add up in the long term.

The Facebook founder said he believed WhatsApp was on track to have a billion users, but insisted he had no plans to place advertising on WhatsApp's interface, saying he did not think advertisements were the best way to make money from messaging systems.“I find this news disappointing that facebook has bought whatsapp. Whatsapp is a handy little app that saves me money in the long term. I was disappointed by the way Facebook, Google and to some extent Apple have integrating stuff. Google plus is not easy to use. I think Whatsapp will also do the same thing. I deactivated Facebook account because I was fed up with Facebook trying to control my life, I am now going to do the same with WhatsApp” said a whatsapp user who was disappointed with this deal.

Migration affects the economic welfare of the people.

Most of the people migrate from one place to another in search of employment, business and education. The other reasons for migration are family movements, marriage, and calamity. Despite of lower birth rate in Chennai there has been an increase in the number of people in the working age group. Temporary migra­tions may be annual, seasonal or even of a shorter duration, like daily. Commutation is used for daily movement of people between city and its surrounding towns or villages.

According to 1991 Census about 30-40 per cent of migration is due to economic reasons, especially for seeking employment. Migra­tion is the net result of the combined effects of push factors of the area from where people migrate and the pull effect of the area to which they migrate.

In India the rural areas suffering from poverty, unem­ployment and excessive population-growth produce push effects from where rural youths, in large number, migrate to mega cities and industrial towns which have pulling effects due to more employment oppor­tunities, greater prosperity and better conditions for sustenance

“People come to India in search of good job, and we offer them job, they are loyal and put up their best efforts in whichever job we give them accordingly” said a social worker.

Most of the international migrants to India are coming from Asian countries, followed by Europe­ans, Africans, etc. The neighbouring countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Russia have contributed large number of migrants to India. Since there is no restriction large number of Nepali people comes to India for seeking employment, education, business etc.

“I was born and brought up in Nepal, because of the condition of my family I didn’t finish my schooling and I have been sent here to Chennai for employment. Now I work here as a driver and I earn pretty well that I send some money to my family in Nepal also” said Mr. Madan Singh, a migrant from Nepal.

In India there is massive rural to urban migra­tion towards metropolitan cities like Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai etc to seek employment and better their economic prospects. Majority of these mi­grants are illiterate or semi-literate and unskilled peasants and labourers who are compelled to leave their village home due to poverty and unemploy­ment. Since some of these migrants have little skill or training. They are mostly absorbed in some activities, indigenous transport, petty trade, or low-grade services. Very few are in administrative, professional or technical services. Condi­tion of women migrants are more precarious, greater proportion of them are illiterate or semi-literate and are compelled to take up lower jobs like as domestic maid servants, hawkers or vendors.

Poor condition of Roads in Chennai:

India is one of the fastest developing countries in the world. There are several poor conditioned roads in India, although India is already developed in the field of education, fashion and industrialization there is still certain areas where the country is lagging behind. India has a gigantic road network but it is a home to several bad roads. There is a constant demand for good quality of road network, transportation, and services. It is extremely essential that the roads are well laid and strong enough as it contributes for the economic growth and development of the country. India is a big country with huge population but the problem of road development has still not been addressed properly.The major challenges faced by the roads in India are poor quality of roads and highways, rural areas has bad condition of roads, urban areas has huge roads but not maintained properly, no proper signals in the roads, people tend to break traffic rules. And one of the major reasons for the damage of roads in India is overloading. It is proven that about 70 percept of funds meant to be spent for the maintenance of roads actually goes behind paying laborers. Although building concrete roads is a little expensive but it is beneficial for the country in the long run.Efforts are being taken by the government to develop the road ways and to improve the conditions of the roads. Since India is doing exceptionally good in every field, condition of the road has to be given importance as it is one of the striking underlying facts in the country. Whether it is metropolitans, the cities or any village in India, the poor condition of roads are no new to the country. “Traffic is one of the most common problems in most of the metropolitans today. Cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata are extremely congested during office hours. This is mainly because of industrialization and the sudden rise in vehicle ownership over the last few years. If India wants to be in tandem with the growing traffic, the government will need to construct around 15,000 km expressways in the next ten years” said a traffic controller in teynampet, Chennai.Some roads were built to link the major highways and some bridges were built for making the travel easy. Government has built huge highways by expanding the width of existing roads which made people convenient to travel from one state to another.Roads near Koyambedu market in Chennai are expected to be re-laid after this monsoon. Already a portion of the road, which provides a shortcut for mofussil buses plying to various destinations from Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus, has been re-laid and opened to traffic bound for Poonamallee high road.India has 53 national highways which connects all the states with each other, but there are still 25% of the village has poor roads is the underlying fact. India has a total of about 2 million kilometers of roads out of which 1 million kilometers of roads in India have poorly constructed. The other problems faced by the Indian roads are the bad riding quality, poor geometrics, and insufficient pavement thickness.The central and state government of India is responsible for the road building and maintenance of roads. The administration of the national highway system is vested with the Ministry of State for Surface transport in India and other state roads are preserved by the state public works departments. As far as the minor roads in the country are concerned they are up kept by the various districts, municipalities, and villages. Although India is home to over fifty national highways the sad state of affairs is that most national highways are just two lanes or even lesser. Apart from being narrow they are also highly congested since a large part of India's freight is carried on these highways. The design of the highways is a matter of great importance since only properly designed highways can withstand the pressure created by heavy vehicles. And as India is a home to large population as well most of the rural areas in India do not have access to all roads during the changing monsoon season. This problem prevails mostly in the Kashmir and other northern part of the country. The government in its 11th five year plan has allotted Rs 100,000 crore for the construction and maintenance of roads in villages. “I think the roads are damaged and the congestion in the roads prevails due to lack of traffic control in the city.  Roads have to be maintained properly and the traffic has to be controlled properly for the development of roadways in India” said a social worker. Currently India's annual expenditure on the road sector is around Rs 20,000 to 30,000 crore. One of the major reasons behind this huge expenditure on maintaining roads is due to the problems of overloading and poor maintenance. 

Education for girls is a must:

Girls have the equal rights as boys to get education. Education is the major human rights for all. Evidence shows that countries with greater gender equality are more likely to have higher economic growth. India is a developing country and it has a great impact on girl’s education and women’s rights. As country is developing the thoughts of the people in the nation is also developing. Education has made compulsory for all and girls education has also been made compulsory in most of the sates in the country. But the World Bank’s 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development drew attention to the fact that there are still 31 million girls who are out of school and nearly 4 million “missing” women annually. There is also a multiplier effect to educating girls and women. Education for women with handicaps has also improved.
Many countries will not meet the education Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.But we will have to make it possible with proper providing of education to girls. More educated women tend to be healthier, earn more income, have fewer children, and provide better health care and education to their children. It eventually improves the well being of all individuals and can lift households out of poverty. These benefits also transmit across generations, as well as to communities at large. Remarkable progress has been made towards achieving gender equality in education. Enrollment of girls in education should be risen. Over the past three decades the ratio of girls to boys enrolled in school has risen at all levels. There are only 48 districts out of 600 districts in India prevails with a gender gap.
Improving girls educational levels has been demonstrated to have clear impacts on the health and economic future of young women, which in turn improves the prospects of their entire community. In the poorest countries of the world, 50% of girls do not attend secondary school. Yet, research shows that every extra year of school for girls increases their lifetime income by 15%.
“Improving female education, and thus the earning potential of women, improves the standard of living for their own children, as women invest more of their income in their families than men do. Yet, many barriers to education for girls remain” said Ms. Nasima Farook former principal of Darusalaam matriculation school.
Higher attendance rates of high schools and university education among women, particularly in developing countries, have helped them make inroads to professional careers with better-paying salaries and wages.
According to Mr. Mahmud Sherif, retired principal of Law College “education should be must to every single girl in the country, from education comes great knowledge, and from great knowledge comes wisdom. Our government and NGOs has taken great effort to educate girls, and it should be continued throughout unless all girls in the country gets a chance to educate themselves”
Our freedom fighters realized the importance of girls education and had put it as a prime agenda for national development. Education administrators gave high priority on reducing the infrastructure deficiency. Today 98 per cent of India’s rural population has access to primary schools within a kilometer of the habitation. And unrural and developed cities have more easier and comfortable access to primary and high schools.
Greater access to schooling is however not enough. Special measures are called for to help girls join the schools. These include setting up of girl’s toilets and providing separate girls schools at upper primary level to counter community resistance to girls studying in co-educational schools.
“Compulsory education for girls makes everyone to send their daughters to schools and get education at secondary level atleast. Not only girls in cities but also girls from villages and towns should also get the maximum benefits of getting education at school. There are some villages in the country where there is no school, girls have to travel so much to reach school and parents in that village does not finds it safer for their daughters to go so far for education and hence it ends up in not sending their daughters to school. This issue has to be taken seriously by the government.” Said Ms, Buraitha sibnas, a college student.
   The Constitution of India in Article 15(1) on right to equality provides the basic policy framework that enshrines the vision of girl’s education and the spirit in which their education is to be provided. Until 1976, education was a State subject. Since its transfer to the Concurrent List by the 42^nd Constitutional Amendment in 1976, the Central Government has played a more proactive role in the sector through several centrally sponsored schemes that had a distinct. Female education is indeed receiving a great impetus and the advance made by our country in this direction during the last decade is considerable. Even co-education has received considerable support from the public, and although orthodox parents still view the system of co-education with suspicion, a large number of families send their daughters to co- educational institutions. During the last four decades since independence, much is being done to emancipate women. Education of girls is one of the basic features of the plan. Many schools and colleges are founded for girls. 

Tamil Nadu government has introduced 50 new small buses in the city:

The chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms. Jayalalitha has introduced 50 new small buses in Chennai city. To improve the roads connectivity is the main aim of introducing these buses in the city. The small buses will help the people to travel conveniently from interior area to the nearest bus stop and nearest railway stations. The buses will ply on 20 new routes covering the southern and western areas in the city and suburbs. While the first set of small buses which was introduced in October 2013 rolled out focused mainly on southern suburbs. There are few buses in north Chennai also.The new Routes would cover areas like Adyar, Besant Nagar, Guindy, Korarttur, Mandeveli, Pallavaram, Thiruvanmiyur, Tambaram, Villivakkam, Valasarvakkam. The total expenditure in the process of introducing the small buses came around Rs, 7.60 Crores.The other routes in the city are from thiruvanmiyur to Madhya Kailash, Adyar signal to Madeveli, vadapalini to Loyola college and from Ashok Pillar to Valsarvakkam. The number of buses allotted to each of the new route ranges from one to three. MTC (Metropolitian Transport Corporation) officials are happy about the success of the fifty small busses rolled out in 2013. The MTC officials earn approximately Rs, 5000/= on one route.“The small buses introduced by the Tamil Nadu government have helped so many people in the state who travels by buses everyday to office, schools and colleges. The small buses have become an easy mode of transport now a day as it is compact and gets its way in any area” Said a passenger who travels from small buses every day.Apart from these small buses, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu Ms. Jayalalithaa has also flagged 185 new buses. Out of this 51 buses are for Villupuram transport corporation, 51 buses are for Kumbakonam district, 33 buses for Madurai, 17 for Coimbatore district, 16 buses for Salem Transport Corporation, 9 buses are for Tirunelveli and 8 buses are for the MTC (Metropolitan Transport Corporation).  And recently she has also rolled out 109 buses repaired at a cost of Rs, 8.2 Crore.There were 7 new bus depots inaugurated by the chief minister of Tamil Nadu recently. The 7 bus depots are inaugurated in Chennai, Villupuram, Kumbakonam and in Madurai. It includes 1 depot at Besant Nagar and 1 at Adambakkam in Chennai and the other depots are at Neyveli and Orillai in Villipuram District and at Alankudi and Aravukurichi in Kumbakonam and at Sivagangai in Madurai district respectively.  It costs a total of Rs, 5.57 Crore. This will ensure that the buses will be maintained and run in a better process.“The new small buses are very useful, it has made our life easy as we were very disturbed with the increasing traffics, apart from these buses the introduction of new bus depots also made us easy to get our buses on time in a definite place of bus depots. Now we get into bus depots with willable distance” said a college student who travels by bus to college every day.Some places had only terminus before, but now many bus depots have been introduced where people can find more buses operating. The number of bus depots has gone up to 27 depots in the city. The localities will have better and maintained buses with more frequency and connectivity. After the introduction of depots, commuters will not have to wait for buses from nearby depots as there are many depots inaugurated in the city.“These small buses have brought a drastic change in day to day travelling, we go through the same routes everyday but with small buses we reach our destination before 20 minutes approx as these small buses occupy small space. we also earn good amount through small buses” said Mr. Satish, MTC official.
Pallavaram, Chrompet Velachery, Medhavaram, Ambattur, Porur, were the regions in the city which got the facilities of travelling in small buses when they were first introduced in October 2013. But now it has reached many new places in the city. The introduction of small buses has showed a good response by the public. And still it is appreciated by the public as it has helped a lot of people to travel from interior areas to reach the nearest bus stops and other spots. 

Apple TV is ready to get launched:

This year, Apple will launch a refreshing Apple TV, and Time Warner Cable (TWC) will make it onto set-top box. The Time Warner Cable TV app brings live channels and famous videos to devices like the Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon and Roku which are the main competitors of Apple products. This time Apple is in talks with Time Warner Cable and others for a new version of its set-top box. Apple is planning for a new Apple TV Box as early as April and is working with Time Warner Cable and other possible partners.

Now it’s up to the customers if they will prefer to buy Apple TV this season where as Samsung is consecutively launching TVs and other products at affordable rates for its customers. People’s preference and approach to Apple TV will give result in the marketing profits of Apple. Most of the people prefer to go with the brand name, no matter what the costs would be. But the cost matters for the middle class customers. All Apple customers are eagerly waiting for the launch of the Apple TV. It is expected that Apple would launch its New Product “Apple TV” this summer.

“I have been using apple products from many years, I use apple iphone, and ipad tablet and now we are eagerly waiting to get apple tv” said the apple customer.

The long delay between the introduction of the new Apple TV box and its public launch would be unusual for Apple, which prefers to announce and release products in a short time period. The iPhone debuted six months before it's public launch owing to the unique FCC permitting process for new cell phones, and the iPad was presented more than two months before it first went on sale. The new Mac Pro was previewed six months before its final release as well. It's possible that Apple will introduce a new App Store platform for the Apple TV, with the delay giving developers time to build new apps for the device.

A Time Warner Cable spokeswoman didn't have a comment. An Apple spokesman declined to comment. The upgraded Apple TV will have a faster processor, and other online content. Apple is aiming to have the device available for sale by the Christmas holidays, though the release date could change.