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Governor suggests special cell to check ragging

With an aim to make campuses ragging free in the state, Governor K. Rosaiah, on Monday suggested that state police create a special cell to handle ragging-related complaints.

Mr Rosaiah, who is also

Aravindh wants to emulate world no 1 Carlsen

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Cricket continues to be the first love for this Fide Master Vr. Aravindh Chidambaram, who gets more inspiration from Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni rather than world chess champion Viswan

Tamil Nadu will not suffer water shortage

It has been a bad southwest monsoon for Tamil Nadu. The state received 24 per cent deficient rainfall.

However, the state’s mainstay is northeast monsoon (October-December), which has been behaving

Tragic end for airhostess at a theme park

An airhostess of Kingfisher Airlines died after she was flung out of an octopus ride and fell crashing through the metal frames of the merry go round at a theme park on the Chennai–Bengaluru highway,

Mobile school drives in to pick up dropouts in North Chennai

On Monday, a ‘mobile school’ was out looking for street children who had discontinued studies in Vyasarpadi and Royapuram.

For NGOs focusing on child welfare and primary education, labour-dominated

Domestic tourism goes up in spite of inflation

Rupee depreciation as well as escalating airfares and hotel room rents are not deterring the Indian travellers from holidaying.

Domestic travel trips have gone up by nearly 84 per cent over the firs

Locals pay price for development

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Reputed automobile manufacturers might have put Chennai suburb Sriperumbudur, known until recently only as a Vaishnavite pilgrim town, on the global map, but the residents bear the brunt of the fast-p

Ennore port to get LNG terminal

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The pre-project activities are going on at full steam at the Ennore port for construction of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) regasification terminal that would help ease the energy problem in the state. W

Ministers nervous after Speaker resigns

The inglorious exit of senior party colleague D. Jayakumar from the Speaker’s chair has rattled many ministers in the AIADMK government even as the secretariat corridors are agog with reports that som

DMK not for Cabinet berths

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UPA’s major ally the DMK with 18 MPs on Sunday made it clear that it will not nominate any party representatives to the Union Ministry to fill vacancies in case of a Cabinet reshuffle.

“If there are

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