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Truck stranded on tracks hits train services

The Madurai-bound Vaigai Express and several EMUs on Beach-Tambaram-Beach route were disrupted for half an hour Monday afternoon after a stone-laden truck returning from Trishulam quarry broke down an

City umbrellas to adorn Balaji

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The dazzling umbrellas that had been specially made in the city to be used during the Garudotsavam (fifth day of the annual Brahmotsavam) at Lord Venkateswara temple are being taken in a procession to

Chola coins on display at city museum

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Rajendra Chola I was the son of Raja Raja Chola I and one of the greatest rulers of the Tamil Chola dynasty of India. He succeeded his father in 1014 CE as the Chola emperor.

During his reign, he ex

Doctors pulled up for botched surgery

Gynaecologists from a private hospital in the city have been pulled up, after it was found that they had allegedly left a paper napkin in the uterus of a patient during a cesarean surgery six months a

TN diktat fails to give job relief to visually-impaired

The visually-impared are facing discrimination during appointment at the hands of some officers in the government.

Some unit officers are, despite government orders, allegedly reluctant to appoint in

IB, AGORC move up

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Indian Bank have set up a quarterfinal clash with AGORC in the Aima-TFA Shield all-India football tournament. While the bank team downed President XI 2-0, AGORC scored an authoritative 3-0 win over Pu

People plant crops in slushy road to highlight sorry plight

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With interior streets remaining in bad conditions, residents of Maduravoyal staged a novel protest by planting crops on the slush roads.

Residents complain that without black topping, the roads are m

ISI still active in Sri Lanka

The Ansari episode reiterates what has been long believed: Pakistani ISI is hyper active in Sri Lanka.

In fact, Pakistan had appointed a former ISI officer Colonel Bashir Wali Mohammed as its high c

Udayakumar wants unconditional talks

Even as the anti-nuclear power agitators resorted to an innovative form of protest by burying themselves upto the waist in beach sand, anti-KKNPP struggle committee coordinator, Dr S.P. Udayakumar on

Suresh a star in making

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The marathon and the 50km walk may be the most gruelling events in athletics, but nothing is more taxing technically than the 110m hurdles.

Those who wish to master the event must negotiate 10 hurdl

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