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
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
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