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Chennaiites ready to pay for parking

A recent study by a private consultant on parking woes in the city has found that 90 per cent of the people were ready to pay for parking provided they were given a better place to park their vehicles

Laxman likely to retire

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A whole new meaning may have been given to what would otherwise have been a low-key Test series between India against a depleted New Zealand. The classy VVS Laxman is likely to call it a day after the

Shutterbug-businessman hunts for rare pictures

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Want to get acquainted with the men and women who made independence possible? Then the bustling Kasi Chetty street in Parry’s Corner is the place to go. No passerby here can miss rare photographs of

Corporation to re-lay 500 roads

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Chennai corporation has planned to re-lay around 500 roads before the onset of northeast monsoon. The corporation has allotted over Rs195 crore for the restoration of roads.

According to a press st

HC stays TNPSC Group IV results

The Madras high court has stayed the publication of the results of the examination held on July 7, 2012, to the Group IV posts conducted by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission.

Justice S. Nagamu

MIT student falls to death from hostel’s fourth floor

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An engineering student died when he mysteriously fell form the fourth floor of the hostel at Madras Institute of Technology in Chromepet on Thursday night.

Ram Prasad, 20, who was studying production

12-year-old aims to be world carrom champ

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Twelve-year-old N. Arun Kumar can hardly afford a carrom board for himself, but is the under-12 state carrom champion.

The family of Arun, who was born and raised in Chintadripet, is not well-to-do.

Lack of doctors mars Kathivakkam hospital

Residents of Kathivakkam are irked that the maternity hospital and primary health centre in their area has had no doctor for more than a year now as doctors have not been appointed to fill the vacanci

School swimming pool sealed

The city police on Friday arrested Sheela Rajendran, 51, dean of the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan school in K.K. Nagar, in connection with the death of a student in the swimming pool on the school premi

English, Tamil practicals soon

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For the first time in the history of higher education, all undergraduate and postgraduate students in universities and colleges in the state will have to take up practical examination in English and T

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

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