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I’m losing confidence, says Asha

“I lose confidence as the deadline is drawing to a close,” an anguished Asha Alex, wife of the abducted Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon, said on Monday night.

Asha, fighting for the release

Centre against me, neglecting TN: Jayalalithaa

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Frustrated by the continued cold treatment by the Centre to her several requests for help in various fields, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa charged the UPA government on Tuesday for neglecting Tamil N

Poor sales on Akshaya Tritiya; traders upset

Bullion traders were upset because of ‘poor business’ despite the maddening rush at the jewellery retail stores in the city on Akshaya Tritiya day on Tuesday.

“Last year, I sold 58 kg of gold on Aksh

Indian rocket being fuelled for Risat-1 launch

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With 5.47 a.m. on Thursday set for the blast-off of the Indian rocket carrying a remote sensing/earth observation satellite - Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) - into space, the Indian space agency is

Smart ration cards for Pudukottai

In a bid to eliminate bogus ration cards, food minister R. Kamaraj on Monday announced that smart family cards would be issued in Pudukottai district on a pilot basis at the cost of Rs 21.69 crore.

Techie fights chain snatcher

A 23-year-old woman software engineer put up brave fight to ward off a chain snatcher at a bus stop at Tambaram early on Monday morning.

The youth could, however, save only the pendant with the miscr

Modernisation of 100 coop banks for Rs 15cr

In the wake of recent bank robberies in the city, cooperation minister Sellur K. Raju on Monday announced that surveillance cameras would be installed in Tamil Nadu State Apex Cooperative Bank (TNSACB

HC rejects plea to issue warrant against VK Singh

The Madras high court has rejected the plea to issue quo warranto against General Vijay Kumar Singh, questioning under what authority he was holding the post of Chief of Army Staff.

Imposing a cost

HC reserves orders on govt writ

The Madras High Court on Monday reserved orders on a writ petition filed by Tamil Nadu government challenging the verdict of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) that ruled in favor of senior IAS

TN gives data on temples

The Tamil Nadu government on Monday informed the Madras high court that it had collected data relating to temple properties in eight districts and the data of two districts had been forwarded to the H

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