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Thorne’s ‘weight’y affair

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It may be sheer coincidence, but Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda won India’s first medal at the ongoing Paralympic Games in London just hours after the International Powerlifting Federation vice-pres

TN lads’ car to burn F1 track

The myth that only students from urban areas develop race cars has been busted. A team of 25 engineering students from Annamalai University in Chidambaram is behind this revolution in their university

TET opens Pandora’s Box

With less than one per cent of teachers in the state clearing the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), questions are now being raised about the quality of teachers and fate of the children in these schools

Wall falls to civic body hammer

Residents of Ragamalika Apartments in Adyar are in a fix as the Chennai corporation has demolished the compound wall of their apartment claiming it to be an encroachment.

While the residents assert

Just 1 consumer at power meet

A public grievance meeting held by TANGEDCO at Valluvar Kottam seems to be a failure as only one consumer turned up for it. Many consumers were not aware of the meeting as the corporation failed to ad

Collectors get transfer orders

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The state government on Monday effected a transfer of IAS officers.

The Kancheepuram district collector Hanish Chhabra was replaced with L. Sitherasenan, additional director of Agriculture. Mr Chabbr

Tanker runs over Plus-2 girl

A plus-two girl student on her way to school on a bicycle was fatally knocked down by a water tanker in Ayapakkam near Avadi on Monday morning.

Following the death of Periyanayaki, 17, under the wh

Polyandra was money spinner for Shahanaz

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With more than half a dozen complaints lodged against the much-married woman Shahanaz Ismail, the city police are thinking of taking her into their custody for a detailed inquiry.

“Every complainant

MTC drivers go on strike over pairing

MTC’s recent decision to allow the same driver and conductor team to work together for more days, as against the system of changing the teams every day, has not gone down well with the bus crews.

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Official kicked out for SL soccer match

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Chief minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday suspended M. Thomas, the stadium officer at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium near the Central Station here, for ‘insulting Tamil sentiments’ by allowing a Sri Lankan

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

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