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Police to probe hotel staffer death

More than a decade after P. Rajagopal, the owner of Saravana Bhavan chain of vegetarian restaurants was arrested for murder, his family members are again put under scanner by the Chennai police in con

Steps taken to tackle rain woes: Minister

The state government had taken preventive measures to tackle the rain-related woes even before the onset of monsoon, said loc­al administration mi­n­­i­ster K.P. Munus­amy.

After inspecting the rain-

Chennai is in for more rain

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With weather models showing low-pressure area moving towards northeast and northwest, there could be some respite from continuous rain in Tamil Nadu starting Thursday.

While heavy rains are expected

People panic as cop drops severed head on road

The last thing that anybody expects to see on a road is a severed human head. Seeing a head lying on busy Wall Tax road in Chennai on Saturday, locals and passers-by were petrified. While most people

Monsoon eases Tamil Nadu-Karnataka tension

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The monsoon is flooding the Chennai roads and thr­owing life out of gear but on the ex­plosive political canvas, the heavy showers have cooled down the tempers — albeit temporarily — for the warring n

2-hr power cut in city

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Load-shedding in Chennai has now been doubled to two hours a day so as to divert the power thus saved to mitigate, even if in a small way, the misery of the districts.

Tangedco’s decision to reimpose

Pakistan recalls Ansari's handler

Pakistan has been worried about India's secret nuclear submarine project codenamed `Project Varsha' since work began in 2009.

Embarrassed by ISI link to a spy in Tamil Nadu getting exposed, Pakistan

Why no check on buildings violating rules, ask activists

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While commenting about Wednesday’s fatal building collapse in Triplicane and unauthorised constructions, former IAS official and member of the monitoring committee that decides on unauthorised constru

Tree bank concept gains root in Chennai

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The concept of establishing tree banks is fast catching up in Chennai.

Concerned over environmental degradation, the Indian Telugu Association (ITA), Chennai, has decided to observe Gandhi Jayanthi

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

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