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Wind power association yet to receive payment

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Indian Wind Power Association (IWPA) has written to chief minister Jayalalithaa seeking her intervention in getting its outstanding payment from Tangedco for the power supplied by it.

“Payment to wi

Find permanent solution to stop attacks, says MK

Condemning the attacks on state fishermen by the Sri Lankan navy, DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Monday charged the Central and state governments with not doing enough to address the continuing attac

Delhi emboldened Lanka: CM

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Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa has urged the Centre to take steps to prevent attacks on Indian fishermen by Sri Lanka, even as she claimed that Centre’s “soft handling” of the issue has “emboldened” L

Illegal stone quarrying rampant in city

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While the government is active in conducting raids against illegal granite quarrying in Madurai and Krishnagiri districts, closer home, illegal stone quarrying and crushers are having their way in Thi

300 kg of ganja seized by NIB

The Narcotics Intelligence Bureau (NIB) of the state police seized 300 kg ganja stuffed in an SUV in Perambur in the city on Monday and arrested two persons for smuggling the narcotics from Naxal-domi

TN police site has no room for woes

Once bitten twice shy. That seems to be the motto of the Tamil Nadu Police department after its official website was hacked few weeks ago by Anonymous India. The site, which is back online, doesn’t ha

Missing Madras' old charm

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Chennai’s winning combination of technology and tradition may be drawing droves of people from across the world, but time has robbed this city of many a quaint pastime, lament old-timers who grew up i

Son prepares to cremate dad's look-alike, while read dad is alive

It is said that for each person in the world, there are six lookalikes. Devaraj of Thadithope near Kancheepuram got jolted out of his wits during the preparations for the cremation of his father that

Willing to return, NE men ring to check TN scene

Many people from the Northeast who had fled TN en masse last week have already started making enquiries with the state police about returning.

Senior officials confirmed that the police helpline laun

Women throng hospitals with mehndi itch

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Over 100 young Muslim women thronged the casualty ward of Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital late on Sunday evening with red, itchy palms after they suffered an allergic reaction to mehndi.

Doctors r

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