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The Hindu
30-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Penalise shops without Tamil nameboards, says Puducherry BJP leader
The former president of the Puducherry unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) V. Saminathan has urged the Puducherry government to impose penalties on shops and business establishments that have failed to display their nameboards in Tamil. In a statement, he said the government had directed the mandatory display of Tamil nameboards in front of shops and establishments across the city. However, the authorities had failed to enforce the rule effectively, and a number of shops continued to carry English nameboards. Mr. Saminathan said the authorities are duty-bound to implement the directive. The officials must ensure 100% compliance in all hotels, commercial establishments, and institutions, failing which penalty should be imposed on them.
The Hindu
26-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Former Puducherry BJP president criticises CM Rangasamy for skipping NITI Aayog meeting
Former president of the Puducherry unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) V. Saminathan has criticised Chief Minister N. Rangasamy for abstaining from the recently held Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog in New Delhi. In a statement on Monday (May 26, 2025), he said that the Chief Minister had missed an important opportunity to raise the Union Territory's demands. He added that it was not prudent to abstain from the meeting, despite being in an alliance with the BJP. 'Even Chief Ministers of Opposition-ruled States attended the meeting. There was no point in the Chief Minister speaking about Statehood and other issues faced by the UT by sitting in Puducherry. He should speak about them at the appropriate forum. The NITI Aayog meeting was an opportunity for him to raise important subjects,' Mr. Saminathan said. The territory was lagging in several development initiatives because of the policies of the previous Congress government, he said, adding it was very important for the government to continuously engage with the Centre for the progress of the UT. Mr. Saminathan also criticised the Chief Minister for his statement asking educated youth to take up dairy farming. 'There is no farm land available for cattle rearing because of the conversion of agriculture land for real estate business,' he added.
The Hindu
23-05-2025
- Health
- The Hindu
TNAU makes progress in developing parameters to determine desired character in offspring of worker bees
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), under the aegis of All India Coordinated Research Project on Honeybees and Pollinators, has made progress in developing parameters to arrive at desired character in off-springs of worker bees. Over the last two years, researchers in the Department of Agricultural Entomology have standardised the age in the lifespan of worker bee when the semen production is high. Research in artificial/instrumental insemination was currently progress, the success of which would pave the way for honey-producers to be assured of desired character of off-springs, said V.R. Saminathan, Professor of Entomology and Principal Investigator for All India Coordinated Research Project for Honey Bees and Pollinators. The project also covered molecular identification to address the Thai sacbrood virus (TSBV), which posed a major threat to honey bee colonies in South India, and research on strain variation in honey bees, Prof. Saminathan said. During December, 2024, the TNAU conducted a State-level training offered by the National Bee Board on various essential aspects of Bee keeping: Identification of bee species and social organisation of bees; Rearing Indian bees in boxes, general and seasonal management; Bee forage, yield increase of crops through cross pollination; Honey extraction; and Enemies and diseases of bees and their management. The TNAU Agritech portal states that the production of apiary honey in the country has reached 10,000 tons, valued at ₹300 million. In Tamil Nadu, raw honey is mostly procured from Janunamarudhur in Tiruvannamalai district and Marthandam in Kanyakumar district. The government provides financial support by supplying bee-hives to the tribals on hill areas, SC/ST under Western Ghats Development programme and Integrated Tribal Development Programme. The Central Government had, during November 2020, initiated the Honey FPO programme of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED). The TNAU, on its part, had been reaching out to farmers through monthly-training programmes to initiate them into producing bee wax, propolis, royal jelly, and bee venom. So far, at least 8000 farmers in Tamil Nadu had undergone training in bee keeping at TNAU, Prof. Saminathan said. On May 20, the TNAU celebrated the World Bee Day on the theme: 'Bee inspired by nature to nourish us all', highlighting the critical roles bees and other pollinators play in agrifood systems.
India.com
16-05-2025
- Business
- India.com
Keeping the Cloud Steady: How Muthuraman Saminathan Masters the Art of Site Reliability Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering, or SRE, started at Google back in 2003. Not many people talked about it at the time it was kind of under the radar. Things changed when cloud computing took off. Suddenly, every company needed their systems to stay online all the time. Now, even a small issue, like one misstep in the setup or a delay no one sees, can cause major problems and cost a lot of money. SRE folks deal with that kind of stuff. It's not just about writing code, it's also about keeping things from breaking in the real world. With how things are today so many services, different cloud platforms, and rules to follow, the job's only gotten tougher. That's why having someone like Muthuraman Saminathan, who's seen and handled a lot, really helps. An Engineer at the Heart of Reliability Muthuraman Saminathan's route to SRE authority began in data-intensive financial services, moved through high-performance computing at global energy technology platforms. A master's degree in engineering gave him the algorithmic grounding; a career that hops confidently between Java, Go, Kubernetes, and three hyperscale clouds provided the battlefield testing. At Equifax, he migrated high-throughput pipelines to Google Cloud, trimming ingestion times by 15 percent while threading every request through GDPR and CCPA guardrails. 'When you own an employment-data feed measured in terabytes, there's no boutique outage there's only a headline outage,' he observes. Today, at a leading energy-technology provider with clusters on Azure and GCP, Saminathan leads a 24×7 follow-the-sun SRE team. He designed the multitenant control plane for the firm's HPC platform, monitors hundreds of Kubernetes nodes, and publishes monthly cost-consumption dossiers that have already shaved five percent from the global bill. 'I view every dashboard as an executive résumé of the system. It must speak plainly about saturation, error budgets, and spend even to someone who has never written a line of code,' he says. His breadth Kafka to JanusGraph, Spring Boot to Spark, means he can trace a performance glitch from API gateway down to storage IOPS, then automate the remedy in Terraform. Lessons from the Front Line Saminathan's approach rests on a trio of principles. First, observability before optimization: 'You cannot improve what you cannot see; I refuse to patch performance until I have end-to-end traces, logs, and metrics proving the real culprit,' he explains. This rigor paid dividends when he uncovered idle rules burning compute credits overnight, a quiet leak masked by normal weekday traffic patterns. Second, automation with empathy. His team scripts every repeatable fix, yet he insists on post-incident reviews that surface human factors handover gaps, alert fatigue, and ambiguous runbooks. 'The pipeline isn't just YAML and Bash; it's people interpreting symptoms at 2 a.m. Empathy tightens the feedback loop faster than any cron job,' he cautions. Third, cloud-agnostic design. Having deployed on AWS, GCP and Azure, he sees vendor APIs as interchangeable adapters, not permanent dependencies. During his Equifax tenure he abstracted authentication layers across OAuth2, IAM roles and service principals, enabling seamless failover between regions and providers. The same pattern now underpins his multicloud HPC fabric, where workloads shift toward the cheapest GPU hour without breaking compliance attestations or audit trails. Colleagues point to his knack for translating reliability math into business value. A redesigned ingestion pipeline might sound esoteric, but when it lifts data freshness guarantees from six hours to near real-time, it unlocks new credit-scoring products and faster investigative fraud workflows. Likewise, a five-percent infrastructure saving funds the next round of feature experiments. This product-centric mindset stems from an MBA-style certificate in Product Strategy at Kellogg, an unusual credential among SREs that nudges him to present error-budget policy in the language of revenue protection. India's Moment in Global Reliability SRE has always been that field where for engineers in India, what you know means more than how many people work in the team. Cloud consumption had always been on a steep rise throughout the country, yet experienced SREs were still few and far between. The journey of Muthuraman Saminathan clearly signifies: get the foundations in backend systems down; take the hardest challenges, in highly regulated industries; then get comfortable with multi-cloud. What you get in return is influence that can cut development and operations and is highly portable, sought after from Bengaluru fintech start-ups to Fortune 100 giants. As he puts it, 'India's technologists already run some of the world's largest payment rails; honing SRE discipline will let them run the world's most reliable ones.' When outages go to primetime and regulators start talking about uptime mandates, SRE stops being an afterthought and truly becomes the nervous system of digital business. This makes it so thatengineers like Muthuraman Saminathan become the neurosurgeons working in the background, ensuring every heartbeat reaches the clouds louder and is returned in a thunderous form.
The Hindu
09-05-2025
- General
- The Hindu
Three-day Spices Show begins in Gudalur
The 11th Spices Show was inaugurated at the Morning Star Higher Secondary School in Gudalur here on Friday. The show was inaugurated in the presence of Tamil Nadu Minister of Information and Publicity M.P. Saminathan, Chief Whip of the Tamil Nadu government and Coonoor MLA K. Ramachandran, Nilgiris Collector Lakshmi Bhavya Tannneeru, and Nilgiris District Superintendent of Police, Hundreds of kilograms of various spices, produced locally and from across the State were used in the creation of exhibits that resembled the Coonoor Railway Station, butterflies, a map of India and of jallikattu. The Nilgiris district administration said that the show-piece feature at the Spices Show was an exhibit resembling the Coonoor Railway Station, which was 13-feet-long, 5-feet in height and 4-feet in width. It is estimated to weigh around 274 kg. The administration also stated that stalls featuring spices and produce from 36 private enterprises and 16 government departments were on show during the show. They added that the Spices Show was organised to spread awareness among farmers and the public about the spices that can be produced and traded in the region. The Spices Show will be held till May 11 (Sunday). Meanwhile, the Ooty Rose Show, one of the main attractions of the summer festival season, will be inaugurated on May 10 (Saturday).
