Rare surgery on little boy
Chennai: Doctors at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) have successfully conducted a rare urology surgery on a one-and-a-half-year-old child, Muhammad of Pattabiram, using the lithot
Cops to parents: Try carpooling for wards
Chennai: With a view to reduce the number of vehicles on road once the schools re-open on Monday, the Chennai traffic police has asked parents to try car pooling to send their wards to school.
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Hackgate ‘wakes up’ CICSE
Chennai: Even as the Council for Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (CICSE) launched a detailed probe as to how their results were cracked by a student, parents are a worried lot.
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IITians seek debate on ‘business’ of higher education
Chennai: A section of B.Tech and Ph.D students at IIT Madras took out a rally inside the institute on Thursday to protest fees hike and privatisation of education in the country.
Initially students g
Land for special school encroached
Chennai: The land allotted by the state government in 1994 to build a special school for deaf students at Alapakkam in Maduravoyal has been encroached by miscreants.
A hotel and houses have been
Aerial surveillance for big cities likely
New Delhi: Mega cities like Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Ahmedabad may soon be covered by aerial surveillance as the Union ministry of home affairs formalises a “safe city“ proje
Cyclone Mahasen may prove damp squib
Chennai: Chennaiites might experience warm weather for a few days more. Relief is not in sight yet as the movement of the year’s first cyclone Mahasen is still unclear.
While Mahasen has followed the
Man falls off his SUV from Chennai flyover, dies
Chennai: In a freak accident, a man driving a Tata Sumo on the flyover on TTK Road in Alwarpet, lost control of it and was thrown from the vehicle on to a parked car beneath on Tuesday and died on th
Two dead, 50 injured in rail derailment near Arakkonam
Chennai: Two passengers were killed and fifty others injured when a train derailed at Sitheri near Arakkonam this morning, railway sources said. Nine coaches of the Muzaffarpur-Yesvantpur Express bou
Red-faced UPA stops CBI raids on Stalin
New Delhi/Chennai: Hours after the CBI raided the residence of DMK chief M Karunanidhi’s son M K Stalin on Thursday in connection with a case on illegally importing cars, an embarrassed Centre ordere