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Ahobila mutt comes under scanner

Even as sex scandals and complaints of financial impropriety have been flying across the various mutts in the country, thereby eroding faith in such institutions and the godmen controlling their enorm

Disabled students await free laptops

While the world celebrated Helen Keller’s birthday Wednesday, several visually challenged and hearing impaired students in the city are dejected as the free laptops promised by the government for plus

Slash fertiliser price: Jayalalithaa to PM

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Hitting out at the Centre for the increase in fertiliser prices following the introduction of nutrient-based subsidy (NBS) policy, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to

3 months deadline for drain work

The state public works department (PWD) has been given three months to complete all drain works and prevent flooding and inundation in the city during the northeast monsoon.

A high-level meeting chai

Provoked act not murder: HC

The Madras high court has held that if an offence was committed when the offender has lost his power of selfcontrol because of grave and sudden provocation, it will not be a murder but culpable homici

Gramaphones find many buyers in Chennai

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Mohammed Ali, 48, visits Chennai at least three times in a year to sell gramaphones and phones.

A pavement near Rajaji Bhavan, Besant Nagar, is his favourite spot and he brings at least 10 gramaphon

Why encroach wildlife terrain, asks official

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While revealing that there have been many as 67 encounters with wildlife in Tamil Nadu, conservator of forests, Ashutosh Samant Singhar, on Wednesday blamed increasing human presence in wildlife corri

Don’t make preventive arrests: DMK to police

DMK on Wednesday petitioned the state police demanding that no preventive arrests be made in line with a court judgement ahead of its July 4 jail bharo agitation against the ruling AIADMK over alleged

Chennai bus hurtles down 15 ft

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The city police is probing all angles, including the possibility of the driver talking on a mobile phone while negotiating the curve on the Anna flyover that resulted in the MTC bus falling from the b

Jaya signs Sangma’s nomination papers

Asserting her solid support for P.A. Sangma in the Presidential election, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday proposed the former Speaker’s name.

According to AIADMK sources, Ms Jayalalithaa

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