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
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
High Court permits to file petition against DGP
Chennai: The Madras high court on Thursday permitted the office-bearers of Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and other leaders of advocates associations to file a petition against state DGP K Ramanujam aft
Jayalalithaa writes to PM for Tamil Nadu fishermen
Chennai: Expressing concern over Centre’s apathy on the continuing “menacing and predatory acts” of Sri Lankan Navy against Tamil fishermen, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Thursday wrote a lette
Rain, wind energy stave off power crisis
Chennai: Thanks to southwest monsoon and wind power generation, Tamil Nadu remains a power surplus state at times.
Due to sporadic rains across the state and downward spiral of mercury level, the
Green building norms to help save electricity
Chennai: Proper implementation of green building concepts and use of energy efficient electrical systems in multi-storey buildings will help save power, according to CMDA officials.
With the state re