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Giving wings to polio and accident victims

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Born in London and brought up in Calcutta, Meena Dadha settled down in Chennai after her marriage. Soon her life started revolving around her family and kids.

“There was an urge to do something for

Ancient burial sites are defaced

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More than 2,000 years old megalithic burial sites at Siruthavur near Thiruporur are being destroyed by real estate sharks for putting up housing plots.

There were hundreds of these sites till some ye

At dawn, sleepy actor hits cop, autos

Four persons, one of them a police inspector on a bike, were injured after a car driven by actor Suresh alias Sri Ranjan, 25, on Poonamalee high road in Kilpauk on Sunday morning hit them. The actor w

Jaya comes into the reckoning for top job

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BJP senior L.K. Advani’s blog admission that a non-Congress, non-BJP Prime Minister supported by one of them is ‘feasible’ post poll-2014 has caused fresh excitement in AIADMK circles.

Senior leaders

Compassionate Saina may open up sporting floodgates

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It is her compassion that shone through. Her empathy for a fellow athlete lit up the dramatic night on Super Saturday at the Olympics.

Her opponent had just folded, her dream shattered as well as th

IGCAR scouts for more local manufacturers

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The successful handing over of a component to Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) by a city-based company is considered the first step towards achieving the target of producing one-fourth

On fast track mode

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Karting is the sport that gave India its first racing legends — Narain Karthikeyan, Karun Chandhok, Armaan Ebrahim and Aditya Patel.

And, JK Tyres put them on the international racing scene. Now, JK

Ministry nod to set up SEZ thermal plant

The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO) has received the much-needed clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment to set up the Ennore SEZ Supercritical Thermal P

Why Aug. 5 is important in history

Forty-seven years ago, on this day (August 5) the local Kashmiris spotted the infiltration of Pakistanis into India, when about 30,000 of them, dressed as locals, crossed the border and entered Indian

Gandhi statue on Marina to get a facelift

The state government will take up the improvement works on the Mahatma Gandhi’s statue and the area surrounding it on Kamaraj Salai in the city and also the Kamaraj memorial in Kanyakumari at a total

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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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