Rajinikanth set to launch TV channel

CHENNAI: Superstar Rajinikanth set the ball rolling to launch his own television channel on Friday, in a move being seen as a corollary to his intention to float a political party. Officials of Rajini Makkal Mandram, which is the forerunner of his yet-to-belaunched political party, have approached the Registrar of Trademarks to secure trademarks for three possible names for the TV channel – Rajini TV, Superstar TV and Thalaivar TV.

The actual selection of the channel’s name will be done later, the officials said.

courses. The DU admission panel was working out the details of the entrance-based system and the issue was to be discussed in the next meeting of the panel. “For 2019-20 there will be no entrance test in DU and admissions will be conducted on basis of class 12 marks,” Javadekar told reporters.

Two former IAS officers appointed Gehlot’s advisers

NEW DELHI: Two retired IAS officers were on Friday appointed advisers to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. Arvind Mayaram was appointed as the Economic Advisor to CM while Govind Sharma was appointed as Advisor to CM. Mayaram is 1978batch officer and retired as finance secretary, Government of India, and Sharma is 1984-batch officer and retired as chief election officer, Rajasthan.

Panel set up to implement cash transfer in lieu of ration

NEW DELHI: The ministry of women and child development Friday announced that a pilot on Conditional Cash Transfer will be carried out in few blocks of two districts each in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. The decision comes following the directions of the National Council on India’s Nutrition Challenges. The National Council, during a meeting held on 14 November, by Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog had decided to do the pilot for Conditional Cash Transfer in lieu of Take Home Ration.