Airline firms to fall in line?
With the Airports Authority of India (AAI) gearing up to start the mock trial run in two weeks at the new domestic terminal, the officials expect the airline companies to compromise and move into the
March proves warmer this year
It was a warmer March for Chennai this year. The actual temperature was 1°C above normal and the Met office said westerly winds that blew for about 15 days in March deferred the onset of the cooling s
Army men recall Sam Manekshaw
Do we still have the strong communication network between the army chief, the bureaucrats and the political leadership in our country as in the early 1970s when Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw led the Ind
Gold smugglers think out of the box
Two photo albums spiral bound with golden wires and abacus made of golden rods are the latest innovations tried by smugglers to bring gold into the country to evade duty.
On Thursday, customs officia
Buoy to measure weather data
In a first of its kind initiative, the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) has installed a moored data buoy at Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park in Andaman to measure weather and marine pa
Bravery awards change boys’ lives
Life has changed a lot for two young rural boys who were decorated with the Union government’s Bravery Award for savings people’s lives.
From leading nondescript lives, today the boys make frequent
Tamil Nadu State gears up to face summer blast
The growing urban heat compounded with global climatic change and intra-annual variation may lead to a harsh summer this year.
The state has already seen interior districts crossing 100 degrees Fahr
Security loopholes plague CPT
Operations resumed to full capacity at the containers terminals in Chennai Port Trust (CPT) after trailer drivers called off the strike on Monday evening, but the export-import industry is burdened wi
Flyers get the Midas touch
A smart air passenger can gain more than a lakh of rupees if he or she can sneak in one kg of gold.
With import duty of gold increased from Rs30 per gram to Rs115 per gram in two months, the incenti
Killer ship captain in court
Gordon Charles Pereira, 49, the captain of the merchant vessel Prabhu Daya that collided with a fishing boat Don-I off Alappuzha coast killing five fishermen was produced before the chief metropolitan