Chennai Mar 26 PTI In a friendly T20 tie between the Judges of High Courts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu here on Saturday the latter romped home comfortably while chasing down a modest target of 105 runs with seven wickets to spare The Madras High Court Judges team emerged victorious on the back of an all-round show by Justice Abdul Quddhose who picked up four wickets for 20 runs and also contributed 25 runs with the bat during the successful run chase He remained not out Justice S Vaidyanathan scored 27 off 26 balls The Madras HC team scored 106 runs to win with about four overs to spare at the match held at the IIT Chemplast cricket ground here For the Kerala team Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan top scored with 30 off 24 balls PTI CORR SA SS SS

Madurai Oct 26 PTI The Madras High Court has ordered suspensionpostponement of the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana KVPY aptitude test after a PIL was filed saying it was being held only in English and Hindi and not other regional languages KVPY is an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology DST Government of India aimed at encouraging students to take up a research career in Science Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice M Duraiswamy issued the order on Monday following the PIL petition which objected to the national programme of fellowship in basic sciences being held only in English and Hindi on November 7 Rejecting the Centres submission about the lack of enough examiners to assess the answers in various Indian languages and that there would be problem in assessing the technical scientific words and terminology the court pointed out it was not the case with countries like Japan or Germany where the learning was in the mother tongue but they had made rapid progress in technical subjects The judges asked the Centre to file a counter on what steps were being taken to draft adequate manpower for holding the examination in various Indian languages No aspirant should be disqualified because he did not know Hindi or English The objective of the programme was to recognise young talent the bench said G Tirumurgan the petitioner had filed the PIL complaining that the aptitude test was being held only in Hindi and English Directing the Centre to file its counter in two weeks the court transferred the case for further hearing to the Chennai bench PTI SSN SA SS SS