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Puzhal prison to get bazaar, bakery

In a bid to take prison reforms forward and make prisoners renounce their criminal background by becoming socially enterprising, the state government on Thursday announced setting up of a bakery uni

Complaint filed against councillor

A man was allegedly assaulted by an AIADMK councillor in Velachery for refusing to execute a sale deed before the stipulated time.

According to the complainant, his sister Karpagam had agreed to sel

40 evening courts to clear backlog

The state government has proposed to establish 40 evening courts soon to clear the cases pending before the judicial magistrate courts, according to C. Ve. Shanmugam, minister for commercial taxes, re

Job seekers interested in learning foreign languages

In today’s competitive world, learning an additional language is always an asset. Students, especially job seekers are showing keen interest in learning foreign languages.

Be it Spanish, French, Ger

Biometric doc attendance still on paper

The government’s plan of introducing ‘biometric’ attendance in government hospitals to keep track of errant doctors who flee for private practice before their duty hours are over, still remains on pap

Why one biscuit, ask passengers

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Passengers of the Shatabdi Express from Mysore to Chennai spent almost two hours on May Day fighting for their ‘rights’ when they found the caterer supplying just one biscuit on an ‘unclean’ tray inst

Students want to make quick money

More number of students aspire to join computer science in class 11 this year as they look at engineering as a better career option than medicine.

They say it would take at least 10 years to earn a

Chennai schools ban SMS lingo

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SMS language is a strict no when it comes to examinations. Schools across the city have made it clear that students who use sentences such as “Gud to hav u hr” and “Pls find ans b-lo” will lose marks.

VC’s ‘surgery’ irks Indian medicine docs

The Indian medicine fraternity has launched a fresh tirade against the vice-chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University — this time for attempting to remove the term ‘surgery’ from Ayush de

Tamil Nadu to set up new textile library

The state government announced a slew of measures for the development of handlooms and textile industry including establishing a textile library for conserving the traditional designs and churning out

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