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
Tamil Nadu congress to feel pulse of voters in districts
Chennai: The Congress party has perhaps swung into poll mode pretty early.
A week after its national vice president Rahul Gandhi held a national-level brainstorming session, diktats have been se
51 water firms resume operation
Chennai: Officials of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India are on ‘water mission’. They have begun testing water samples from packaged wate
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