MK greets PM, Sonia
Chief Minister M Karuna nidhi on Tuesday congratulated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gan dhi for their efforts in getting the Women's Reservation Bill passed in th |
JAYA OPPOSES MK'S PORTRAIT IN HOUSE
AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday took strong exception to the State cabinet's "unilateral decision" to unveil portraits of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi in the old and new Assembly ha |
Woman's handbag snatched
A woman's handbag was snatched from her when she was travelling through Mint Junction on a two-wheeler with her husband. Vasanta Devi had gone to the Jain temple in Sowcarpet and was re- turning ho |
Woman robbed
Lakshmi, hailing from Kovur, got a rude shock when she got off a bus at Vadapalani to find that her handbag had been ripped open and its contents stolen. Lakshmi was carrying Rs 50,000 in |
Assembly complex gets green certification
The new Secretariat complex (pic) lit up ahead of its inauguration on March 13
Block A of the new Assembly complex received the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certificatio |
Two bodies found in tank
Fire and Rescue Service personnel retrieved the bodies of two young boys from the tank of the Damodaran Temple in Villi- vakkam. Santosh and Aravind had been reported missing on Monday. Police foun |
Physiotherapists' demand
Physiotherapists from the State staged an agitation at Memo rial Hall on Tuesday demanding that they be allowed to use the prefix `Dr' before their names ENS
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CM distributes assistance
Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Tuesday distributed Rs 3.2 lakh to 32 underprivileged persons as assistance for medical and educational purposes, a release issued by the DMK said. The money came |
Correction
The report headlined 'Varadarajan died due to drowning: Autopsy' pub- lished in these columns on March 9, inadvertently carried the wrong photo. We apologise to former CPM State secretary N Varadaraja |
Students seek transfer of principal
THE students of Government College of Fine Arts, Egmore, are demanding the transfer of their principal for wrongly im- plicating students in a police case and also not being recep- tive to their acade |
Man sells mortgaged house, absconds
AN official of the Nanganallur Cooperative Society filed a com- plaint at the suburban police Com- missionerate on Tuesday against a man who had mortgaged his house with the co-op society but was alle |
7 Bangladeshi women stuck in Puzhal jail
SEVEN Bangladeshi women, who were res- cued by the police during a drive against flesh trade in Chennai and its suburbs in 2008, are now languishing in Puzhal prison as the Ban- gladesh government is |
CRIME FILE
Old couple cheated of 14 sovereigns gold
A middle-aged man cheated an elderly couple of 14 sover- eigns of gold jewellery on the prextext of performing black magic at their house in Seven Wells. Govindan (70) and his wife Sivagami (65) we |
TN hotel wins national heritage award
INDeco Hotels in Swamimalai has won a National Tourism Award in the 'Heritage Classic' category for 2009. Vice Pres- ident Hamid Ansari presented the award to hotel founder Steve Borgia at New Delhi l |
Bus driver beaten up
An MTC bus driver was beaten up for
parking his bus close to a share auto in Tambaram on Monday. The police say Chinnadurai usually drove 21G to and from Tambaram. On Monday, the driver parked his v |
Robber found driving mini-van
A missing mini van was recovered and
the robber apprehended during a vehicle inspection in Avadi on Tuesday. The police say Baktavatchalam of Nandavanamettur had rented out his mini van to Govindar |
Traffic diversion at Porur junction
Traffic will be diverted from March 12 at
the Porur junction following the commencement of the construction of a flyover. All private and government buses going to the Koyembedu Moffusil bus terminu |
Bike robbers arrested
The suburban police arrested four me
including two brothers, at Shankar Nagar on Tuesday for stealing a two-wheeler. The police say Kumar of Anagaputhur filed a complaint with the Shankar Nagar po |
Police recover baby girl
The suburban police recovered a baby
from a garbage bin at Maduravoyal on Tuesday. They said residents of Ponniamman Street, Alla- pakkam, heard the wails of a baby from a gar- bage dump behind |
Burglars convicted
wo burglars were sentenced to one
year imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine for a house break-in at the Madhavaram Milk Colony and fleeing with silver articles, on Monday. Kumar and Kannan of Man |
Journalism students of SC/ST get sponsorship
OPENING the doors for stu- dents from downtrodden com- munities in professional jour- nalism courses, the Tamil Nadu Adi Dravidar Housing Development Corporation (TAHDCO), a Public Sector Undertaking |
Sholinganallur Park to be ready in April
THE Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (Elcot)-promoted 237-acre Information Technology park at Sholinganallur will be formally inaugurated by Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin in the third |
Tirupur pays Rs 174 cr to government's kitty
DESPITE a slowdown in the garment export sec- tor, Tirupur region has witnessed a significant growth with the I-T department receiving Rs 174 crore as income tax for the financial year 2009-10 as agai |
INDIAN COMPILING SINHLISH WORDS
Express News Service
JOYBRATA Mukherjee, a professor of Indian ori- gin at the Giessen University in Germany, is col- lecting a million words of English as it is spoken and written in Sri Lanka, The |
Ensure fair poll, PMK urges CEO
The Pattali Makkal Katchi's advo
cates' wing, led by K Babu, gave a representation to Chief Electoral Officer Naresh Gupta, complaining that the police and administrative authorities of the State gov |
Chola era temple excavated off Jaffna
THE History and Archeology Department of Jaffna Uni- versity has excavated a tem- ple of the Chola era in Ne- dunthivu or Delft Island, off the Jaffna coast. The leader of the team, Prof P Pushpara |
CIA warns India, Brazil of al Qaeda threat
THE Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has warned India and Brazil of an "emerging threat" from al Qaeda, which it otherwise reckons as being on the run because of the US's relentless offensive in the |
Pravinchandra Gandhi passes away
: Pravin
chandra V Gandhi, former chairman of Dena Bank and a leading figure in the
print media industry, passed away here on Tuesday after prolonged illness. Gandhi, 87, was chairman of the Sauras |
Saying it with chappals
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DINAKARAN ROW
Justice DVS writes to brother judges
JUSTICE DV Shylendra Ku- mar of the High Court (HC) is again in the news, hitting out against Chief Justice P D Dinakaran. On Tuesday, he wrote to all judges of the HC requesting them to meet on Wedne |
Rahul Mahajan allowed to go abroad
A city court on
Tuesday allowed Rahul Mahajan to leave the country on a honeymoon with his newly wedded wife but imposed a condition that the trip will not be telecasted on any reality show PTI
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Maoists free school teacher
: A
school teacher abducted by the Maoists on March 4 from Bankura district was released unharmed on Tuesday as his family `met the condition' of the Naxals. "Ranjit Duley was released at a remote p |
CBI TO QUESTION AP COPS
SOHRABUDDIN CASE
SOHRABUDDIN Sheikh, allegedly killed in a fake encounter by the Gujarat and Rajasthan Police in November 2005, has come back to haunt the Andhra Pradesh Police. A CBI team is in the city to investi |
PM thanks MPs for passing Women's Bill
OVERCOMING the 14-year opposi- tion to the Women's Reservation Bill, the Upper House not only passed it but also discussed it in a manner suitable to the largest de- mocracy in the world. Rounding |
GM crops hit, thanks to pests
strains in India has begun to stutter and sputter in the last month, from triumphal to tentative. First came the government's decision against introducing Bt Brinjal. That was a blow, but behemoths li |
Stranded in Afghanistan
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ational security adviser Shiv Shankar Menon went to Af- ghanistan a week after the ter- ror attack on a small hotel housing mainly Indians, os- tensibly to beef up security arrangements. While this |
Court sees red over Raj's politics
and, indeed, of virtually everyone in public life to break out of provincial confines and ac- quire a nationwide image, Raj Thackeray should be happy with the latest turn of events. Apart from the 73 |
THE HURT LOCKER Reality is far from reel
IS there anything more irresistible and more frustrating than seeing yo u r j o b p o r t r aye d o n s c re e n ?
Whether a ruthless lawyer, saintly schoolteacher or cantankerous cop, most fiction |
FEMALE EQUALITY
Liberate women, male decency will soon follow
IN Cameroon, some mothers 'iron' their daughters' breasts to delay or prevent them from having sex. The procedure often involves grinding a very hot roc |
New Dawn
DECONSTRUCTING THE WOMEN'S BILL
Origin: The bill green lighted by the Rajya Sabha to create legislative history was first introduced in the Lok Sabha by the Deve Gowda government on September 12, 1996
Article 332(A): The bill seek |
time out
ENCOUNTER WITH A GHOST AT MIDNIGHT
IN my college days, I had a fear for all `categories of ghosts' as described by elders. However, such stories could not blow out the flame of my eagerness to carry out my nocturnal trips on a few occa |
Torment for mother as British child killer `re-offends'
THE mother of a toddler killed by two boys in one of Britain's most notorious murders told of her torment amid re- ports one of the freed killers was back in custody over alleged child pornogra- phy c |
DISCOVERY OF `PAIN GENE' COULD LEAD TO LESS SUFFERING
THE reason some people can feel more pain than others may have been ex- plained by scientists. Doctors have struggled to explain why some people are more sensitive to and less able to tolerate pain |
Quake moved Chilean city 10ft west
THE massive magnitude 8.8 earth- quake that struck the west coast of Chile last month moved the entire city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west, research has found. The power of the earthqua |
Revealed: US-Japan pacts from Cold War
JAPAN'S new centre-left gov- ernment criticised its conser- vative predecessors on Tues- day for keeping secret nuclear and military deals made with the United States during the Cold War. A panel o |
`SOME OZ COLLEGES VISA FACTORIES'
SOME Australian colleges catering to foreigners oper- ated more as visa factories than education providers, the author of a government re- view of the 15.5 billion US dol- lar industry said on Tuesday |
Israel, Syria eye nuke power plants
ISRAEL and Syria on Tuesday each an- nounced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear activities. The co |
E x p o s e
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Genie in a bottle
NZ woman sells two ghosts for $2,000
THE rare spirits that went under the gavel at a recent online auction in New Zealand weren't aged bran- dies or hard-to-find liqueurs. Instead, two glass vials purport- edly containing the ghosts o |
STORK'S BEST WORK YET - Woman gives birth three hours after finding she was pregnant
A hairdresser gave birth to a baby girl - just three hours after being told she was pregnant by doctors. Belinda Waite, 21, had been to her local hospi- tal several times during the past nine months a |
READY, AIM, FIRE - Woman charged for assault after squirting breast milk at officer
An American woman has been charged with third-degree assault after she squirted breast milk in the face of a fe- male police officer. Toni Tramel, from Kentucky, had been arrested for public intoxicat |
CHINESE SPACE TRICK - Two astronauts told to become mothers before joining team
Two women and five men have been picked as part of China's new genera- tion of astronauts, but the women had an extra hurdle to overcome be- fore they were accepted. Both had to become wives and mothe |
Interpol issues new arrest notices for Dubai killing
Interpol has issued an
alert for 16 more suspects in connec tion with the assassination of a Ha mas commander in a Dubai hotel room, bringing the total number of notices to 27. The F |
Ex-wife accuses Mandela of letting down blacks
Winnie Mandela has
accused her former husband of letting down black people living in South Af rica. In a strongly-worded attack she claimed that Nelson Mandela had failed to help the |
Barcelona hit with heaviest snowfall in 25 years
Schools were closed, roads
were blocked and power was knocked as Barcelona was hit with its heaviest snowfall in 25 years. Snowfalls of up to 50 cm were forecast for the worst affected areas of t |
PM Maliki emerges as front-runner after Iraq vote
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, ite who helped ease sectarian
a Shiite who helped ease sectarian strife, has emerged as the front-runner in Iraq's parliamentary election but could yet face a tou |
New Afghan leader was jailed for attempted murder
Abdul Zahir, the Afghan tribal
Kabul: Abdul Zahir, the Afghan tribal leader chosen to bring law and order to the area cleared by the joint US and British troops, has previously been jailed for attem |
UNEARTHED
CYPRUS EX-PREZ'S STOLEN BODY FOUND
EX-PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopou- los's body was found in another cemetery three months after a grave robbery from his family plot, Cyprus police said on Tuesday, after a tip-off call in "broken Greek." |
50-year-old woman faces terrorism charges
A 50-year-old woman sus
pected of being the mastermind of a terror cell is among nine people who have gone on trial for terrorism charg es in Belgium. The key suspect is Bel gian national Malika |
Bali bomb mastermind killed by security forces: Police
Indonesian counter-terrorism
Jakarta: Indonesian counter-terrorism forces on Tuesday killed a man believed to have been one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings, during a raid in the capital |
Myanmar junta to hand-pick election body
Myanmar's ruling junta will
appoint the body overseeing the coun try's first elections in two decades, state media said on Tuesday, sparking anger from rights groups at new laws for this y |
Israelis, Palestinians to begin indirect talks
ISRAEL and the Palestinians agreed to begin indirect, US-bro- kered talks - ending a 14-month deadlock in peacemaking. The announcement came just hours after Israel enraged Pales- tinians by announ |
Argentina set up clash with India
BRUISED and whipped, dead horses Argentina and Canada were ready to be flogged, and played as dispiritedly, except the final 10 minutes, as any bottom-rung team would. With little fuss Argentina edged |
MAN MARKING Knowles' aura goes beyond the astro-turf
YOU certainly can't miss Mark Knowles. Not for his brooding physique but for his vigi- lance, comparable to a steadfast tax-collector who detains any prickly errant. And occasion- ally, he descends fr |
AFTERMATCH We are ready to face any team, says Muller
THE Germans didn't obviously like prolonging their semifinal march. So the triumphant win over New Zealand furnished them, primarily , with the tempo ahead of the semifinal. Germany skipper Max Mu |
JUST 1 GOAL
AFTER all the Dutch are humans, vulnerable
to the bondage of circumstances as they were against Korea, losing 1-2 to a side that is evolving as a bogey . However, the one-goal margin ensured that |
PAK PARLIAMENT TO QUESTION HOCKEY BOSSES, PLAYERS
The National As
sembly (NA) Sports Standing Committee will grill Paki stan Hockey Federation (PHF) officials and national players following the team's disastrous showing in the Hockey WC |
PAK CAPTAIN ASHRAF OFFERS TO RETIRE
Pakistan's hockey captain Zeeshan Ashraf Tuesday of- fered to retire from interna- tional hockey following his team's poor performance in the World Cup. Four times champions Pakistan, with just one wi |
ENGLAND WILL WAKE UP TO HOCKEY: JACKSON
The rising star of English hockey, Ashley Jackson hopes the team's semi-final appearance in the World Cup here will do a world of good to popularise the sport back home where football is an ob- sessio |
Only unbeaten team
Sandip G | ENS
GERMANY with a clinical performance thumped New Zealand 5-2 in their conclud- ing Pool A match to storm into the semifi- nals of the World Cup Germany's game plan was lucid yet not |
money-spinners
CITING enormous fund-raising opportunities in solid waste disposal through carbon credits under clean development mechanism of Kyoto
Protocol, Suneetha Kacker, head of Water and Sanitation Project |
ROAD MISHAP TRIGGERS VIOLENCE
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Mumbai experiment
Stinking hole Garbage was dumped at a plot adjoining Gorai creek since 1972.
t received 2,200 tonnes of refuse a day that stacked up to 32 m
To tackle the problem, the municipal cor |
SLEAZEGATE
PIL filed against airing obscene images on TV
A PUBLIC interest litigation was filed in the High Court on Tuesday seeking directions to private television chan- nels not to air the images of Swami Nithyananda in a compromising posi- tion with an |
The Nithyananda I knew
Aquest for spiritual enlightenment took Rajasekaran through the portals of several monastic estab- lishments over the years that pre- ceded his becoming Swami Nithyananda Paramahamsa. It was during hi |
Man files complaint against son's lover for `kidnap'
A MAN filed a complaint in suburban Adambakkam here on Monday against his son's paramour and her uncle, alleg- ing that they kidnapped his son. The police say Shantha (35) o f U t h i r a m e r u r |
EMPOWERING THE FAIRER SEX Provisions of the Women's Bill
IN order to empower women, the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Constitution (One Hundred and Eighth Amendment) Bill, commonly known as Women's Reser- vation Bill. The Bill, which was originally i |
RAJIV AWAS YOJANA Independent panel to examine draft guidelines
AFTER the increased fund allocation for the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) in Budget 2010, the Government has con- stituted an eight-member committee to examine the scheme's draft guide- lines. The indepe |
Tripura gives women 50% quota in panchayat
The Tripura Assembly late Tuesday unani
Agartala: The Tripura Assembly late Tuesday unani- mously passed two Bills enhancing reservation for wom- en in three-tier panchayats (village councils) and |
SC fiat on fire safety in schools
The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted four
more weeks to the states and Union Territories (UTs) to file compliance reports on the fire safety measures for school buildings failing which it said t |
Couple held for killing, robbing woman
A debt-ridden young couple planned to earn
New Delhi: A debt-ridden young couple planned to earn quick money by robbing an elderly woman living alone here ended up killing her, police said. Mor |
CEC's wife pens book on Raja Ravi Varma
RUPIKA Chawla, wife of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Navin Chawla, has penned a book on the well-known artist from Kerala Raja Ravi Varma.
The lavishly illustrated book, `Raja Ravi Varma: Paint |
Terror alert for Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore
The Home Ministry on
Monday issued an alert for Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore, saying the cities could be targeted by terrorists. The alert was issued based on the interrogati |
SLOPPY UPA LOSES PLOT, DAY
Government left holding bleeding nose
INDIAN Parliament on Monday failed to keep its date with history. On the centenary of
its date with history. On the centenary of International Women's Day, the 33 per cent women's reservation bi |
BIGELOW WINS BIG ON INTL WOMEN'S DAY
Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker blew away box office king Avatar to take six Oscars, with Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman to win the best director award on a historic Hollywood night.
The n |
SP, RJD threaten to withdraw support
IN a bid to mount pressure on the government, Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu
nday Prasad on Monday ld said they would
withdraw sup- |
BJP, Left corner Govt for failure to pass bill
THE entire Opposition, including BJP-led NDA and the Left parties, had the last laugh on Monday, when despite their assurance in getting the Women's Reservation bill passed in the midst of adjour nmen |
M F Husain surrenders his passport in Doha
Legendary painter M F Husain,
who was recently granted Qatari citizenship surrendered his Indian passport to the country's mission in Doha, a media report said on Monday. Husain, 95, has b |
India to open consulate in Jaffna: Rao
: India plans to open a na town, an important
consulate in Jaffna town, an important step to spur New Delhi's efforts in the reconstruction of Sri Lanka's war ravaged north, the governme |
Sixth century BC Way before Euro, India led with common currency of silver coins
CENTURIES before the launch of the Euro -- the common currency of the European Union, 16 princely states in ancient India had a common currency in the sixth century BC, historians say. Displaying 3 |
POST FACELIFT
This crematorium doesn't look like one
LUSH greenery, landscaped lawns, paved pathways and new buildings sport artis- tic features with modern lighting. In short, the place does not look like a trad |
SLEAZE TAPE
Godman no-show tied to security issues, claims ashram
IN what is a new turn to the Swami Nithyananda ashram sleazegate, the spokesperson of his Bidadi ashram said on Monday that the godman wants to break his silence but was not making a public appearance |
3 special teams to trace Nithyananda
City police commissioner T Rajendran on Monday said
that three special police teams have been formed to trace Swami Nithyananda. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a medical camp for women co |
Case adjourned till March 17
A civil court in the city has adjourned till March 17, further
hearing on the petition from Swamy Nithyananda Paramahamsar, praying for a direction to the SUN TV and two other newspapers and a magaz |
Natraj loses fight against Saran
THE Tamil Nadu Bench of the Cen- tral Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has rejected a plea from R Natraj, Di- rector, Fire and Rescue Services, to set aside the ap- pointment of Latika Saran as the Direc |
Criminal arrested for murdering priest
Chennai: City police arrested a rogue for allegedly murdering a temple priest at Villivakkam here on Monday. According to the police, Angappan of Guduvancherry, an auto-driver, alleg- edly assaulte |
Gang arrested for cheating man
THE city police arrested a gang for alleg- edly cheating a man by promising him to give loans at low interest rates and deliver- ing a box full of black slips and old news- papers, at Kodungaiyur on M |
Real estate broker held
Chennai: Officials of the Central Crime Branch arrested a real estate broker for allegedly making fake documents to acquire the ownership of a piece of land worth Rs 50 lakh, at Kodungaiyur o |
Woman robbed of cash
Chennai: A two-wheeler robber snatched a bag from a woman, which had Rs 1.5 lakh in it at Nolambur here on Monday evening. According to police, Udya Kumari of Nolambur was returning home |
Stalin chairs SSC meet
Stalin chaired the State Select Committee discussion on the draft police bill here on Monday. The select committee members including senior AIADMK leader O Pannersel vam, CLP leader and Congress MLA |
Vigilance and monitoring panel
Chennai: Samuel Diraviam and P B Sugumar have been named as non-official and NGO representatives respectively in the state-level vigilance and monitoring committee for the State, made by the |
Delhi betters Chennai in liveability
Chennai is the third-best city in the country, according to the Liveability Index 2010 prepared jointly by CII and the Institute for Competitiveness
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15 Kashmiris interrogated
A group of itinerant shawl mer- chants from Kashmir had to prove their antecedents to the Chennai police after they were picked up from a lodge in Trip- licane, close to the new State Assembly complex |
Varadarajan died due to drowning: Autopsy
VETERAN CPM leader WR Varadarajan died due to drowning, according to the post-mortem report. The death was shrouded in mystery ever since a TV channel
claimed that there was more than met the eye in |
CHICAGO-BASED DOCTOR SETS EXAMPLE IN ORGAN DONATION
Express News Service
DISPROVING the beliefs that only the close ones, family members and relatives can give away their kidneys, professor Susan Hou, an internation- ally renowned renal expert from C |
Pregnancy and renal disorders
DR Susan Hou, international expert on renal disorders in pregnancy from Chicago, spoke about renal disorders in pregnant women at a CME programme held by the Madras Medical Mission and the Tamilnadu K |
Boy hangs self, lover tries to end life
A 19-YEAR-OLD boy Siva, committed suicide on Monday by hanging him- self as his mother scolded him when she spotted him with his lover here on Sunday. Hearing about his death, Siva's lover Mahalakshmi |
Day later, cops return laptop to journalist
THE mysterious 'seizure' of a laptop and cell phone from a senior journalist at a city hospital on Sunday morning took an intriguing turn on Monday when the items were returned to him by three po- lic |
TTK Hospital founder awarded
Chennai: Shanthi Ranganathan, the founder of the TTK Hospital - a cen tre for rehabilitating substance abusers in the country - was con ferred the Chennaionline Golden Lotus Award `10 on the |
PROUD TO BE PART OF SHG MOVEMENT, SAYS STALIN
M K Stalin went an extra mile in showing his commitment to the SHG movement in the State by personally handing over funds to all the 656 SHGs in a function or- ganised to mark the Internation- al Wome |
Women lawyers urge CJ to open more family courts
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the All India Federation of Women Lawyers (AIFWL) appealed to Chief Justice H L Gokhale of the Madras High Court to increase the number of the family cour |
Madras University felicitates contributors to society
The University of Madras ex- tended its gratitude to those women who had made a significant contribution to so- ciety on Monday. Dr V Shanta, chairperson of Adayar Cancer Institue, and Y G Parthas |
`Women from Kerala, NE states trafficked for marriages'
Women from Kerala and North Eastern states are being trafficked to states like Punjab and Haryana as these northern states have poor gender ratio, according to additional director general of police Ar |
Hear, hear
Men vow to fight violence against women
Men from different walks of life vowed never to commit violence against wom- en, never to excuse violence against women and never to remain silent about violence against women during a White Ribbon Ca |
Films portray us badly: Transgenders
A welfare board set up by the Tamil Nadu Government might have helped transgen- ders in the State to establish their identity. But that has not put an end to discrimina- tion they face in society. |
`Disabled women face double discrimination'
MEMBERS of the Vidya Sagar M and Aid et Action took out a rally the city to underline the plight of in th
disabled women and demanded equal disab f them. A total of 150 people, sta |
When lines of hierarchy are blurred
WOMEN cadre of the AIADMK, right from officebearers to the ordinary ones, occupied centre stage as the party celebrated the 100th International Wom en's Day on Monday. Some of |
Budget proposal
GRANT TO POLLUTING UNITS IN TIRUPUR OPPOSED
THE Vellore Citizens' Welfare Forum (VCWF) has opposed the Union Govern- ment's budget allocation of a one-time grant of Rs 200 crore to Tirupur dyeing units to overcome the pollution problem. A resol |
Sketching women power on Kovai canvas
CREATING a record of sorts, over 10,000 women gave a touch of their cre- ativity through paintings and poems eulogising women on a 5km long white canvas at the Avinashilingam Univer- sity, here on Mon |
Two file papers for Pennagaram bypoll
TWO persons filed their nomi- nations for contesting the Pen- nagaram by-election here on Monday. While K Samikannu (62), candidate of the CPI (Marxist Leninist) and a native of Pen- nagaram, filed |
Chennai Corporate Club's kitchen sealed
Chennai Corporate Club's
on Monday by the Chennai Corporation's Health department under Schedule 279 of MCMC Act for unhygienic conditions and for stocking expired food products. Around 50 packets o |
5 die of mystery fever near Aruppukkottai
Five residents of Kaly
Aruppukkottai: Five residents of Kaly- anasundarapuram village of R Kallum- adam panchayat, near Aruppukkottai in Virudhunagar district, died during the last few days reportedl |
Dal prices refixed
Following decline in prices
of pulses in the open market because of `cost-sale' by the cooperative stores, the Civil Supplies department has refixed the rates of pulses being sold in cooperative a |
Stalin gives away prizes
Deputy Chief Minister MK
Stalin on Monday gave away cash prizes and certificates to 10 persons for supply of maximum milk to the Primary Milk Producers' Cooperative unions ENS
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CPI-ML files paper
KK Samikannu, the CPI-ML
candidate on Monday filed his nomination to contest for the Pennagaram assembly constituency ENS
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Missing fishermen in Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan fishermen
rescued Kalanjiam, a fisherman of Servaiakaran Valasai village, near Nagatchi, who was reported missing on Saturday PTI
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Thiruvalluvar statue bound for US
A scholar from Tamil Nadu is making all efforts to bring the statue of the greatest poet and saint in the history of the Tamil language, Thiruvalluvar, to the US as a representative of the rich and gl |
Suicide prevention programme for students
Now you dial 100 to call
Chennai: Now you dial 100 to call the police and 108 for ambulance. Soon, you may dail 106 to inform about someone having a mental problem that needs immediate atten- tio |
Temple priests in TN to get free bicycles
THE State government would give 10,000 bicycles to temple priests who work in rural areas especially to those who work in temples were a 'Oru Kala Pooja (one time prayer)' alone was be- ing performed, |
Fall in export
Punch coins mark an era of commonality
THE concept of common coins was very much in currency in ancient In- dia, according to historians. Coins that belong to the fourth century BC, ap- pear in different shapes - circular, rectangular, squ |
RTI papers reveals dilution in remediation standards
ENVIRONMENTAL organisations and activists have called for an inquiry into the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and the National En- vironmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), based |
CPM man shot dead by Maoists in Bengal
A CPM worker
was shot dead by Maoists in West Midnapore district, police said. The incident occurred on Sunday night at Golbandhi area in the district when the man and two others were on their way h |
CJI OFFICE UNDER RTI
Supreme Court challenges Delhi High Court verdict
THE Supreme Court on Mon- day filed an appeal before it- self challenging the judgment of Delhi High Court holding that the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) came under the ambit of the RTI A |
T h e y o u n g s u p p o r t e r s
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Army jawan abducted in Chhattisgarh
Unidentified persons
abducted an Army jawan from a Naxal-infested village in restive Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh on Monday morning. The jawan has been identified as Vivek Singh, a native of K |
Two Assam Rifles men killed in ambush
Two Assam Rifles per
sonnel were killed and another was critically injured in an am
bush by insurgents on a convoy in Manipur's Thoubal district on Monday, official sources said. The insurgents f |
Dead toddler's parents thank Oz police
PA R E N T S o f G u r s h a n Singh Channa, the Indian toddler who died here in mysterious circumstances, have thanked the Victorian police and the people who supported them during the ordeal. H a |
Robbers take Indian merchant hostage
The attack took place in the northern city of Antwerp, Belgium
ROBBERS held an Indian diamond merchant hostage for 18 hours in Belgium before freeing him in return for millions of euros worth |
CISF FOR FULL-BODY SCANNERS
THE Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), that guards 57 airports in the country, has asked for full body scan
ners to be introduced in Indian airports. "The CISF wants it. But it is the governme |
Rail link to Sikkim in five years
The picturesque hilly state is poised for a direct rail link
of Sikkim is poised for a direct rail link with the rest of the country within the next five years, with railways terming the project |
SC ASKS CENTRE TO PUT REPORTS ONLINE
THE Supreme Court (SC) on Monday directed the Centre to put on the internet the recommendations of the Tandon committee and the task force on the basis of which the government
had decided to de-reco |
POLICE RECRUITMENT One killed in stampede
Mumbai,
ONE person was killed and 11 were injured in a stampede at the Kalina Ground here on Monday during a police recruitment drive. According to police, the deceased Ramesh Amer, 22, hailed fr |
Women organise protest rally against Meghalaya Dy CM
MIFFED over Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister B M Lanong's alleged deroga- tory remark, women's organisations on Monday abstained from participating in the official International Women's Day celebration |
Anti-intrusion system to be installed in IGI airport
IN a bid to ensure enhanced se- curity for the Indira Gandhi In- ternational airport here, a new hi-tech anti-intrusion system will be installed soon. "The mechanism known as the Perimeter Intrusio |
Court to rule on Rahul Mahajan's petition today
A CITY court on Monday adjourned the hear- ing for a day on Rahul Mahajan's application for release of his passport to enable him to go on a honeymoon with his newly-wed wife. Rahul appeared in the |
Women's Day
`Indian parties don't have will to embrace gender equality'
WHILE major political parties in the country toiled to legalise reservation for women in legislatures, a United Nations report found that political parties in India appear to embrace gender equality w |
CBI sets one year target for case investigations
To boost its efficiency, the t itself a target of one year
CBI has set itself a target of one year to complete investigations and two years for trials to be finalised. The tar get was set follo |
Imrana for strict action against rapists
As the country raised
a toast to women empowerment, Im rana, who hit headlines when she dared to come out against a panchay at diktat after being raped by her fa ther-in-law, on Monday s |
Later, they apologise to Ansari
SEVERAL Union Ministers and leaders of various political par- ties on Monday apologised to Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari for the disrespect shown to him by some members and their unruly behaviour |
Women's Day JET AIRWAYS ANNOUNCES SPECIAL PACKAGES
JET Airways announced special fares for all its women guests to celebrate the International Women's Day. These Jet Air- ways' special fares would be available till the end of March 2010 to every group |
22 Air India flights have all-woman crew
THE Air India on Monday created a history of sorts by handing over the cockpit of 22 domestic and inter- national flights, including a direct one from Mumbai to New York, to women on the International |
CASTE PANCHAYAT ASKS COUPLE TO BREAKUP MARRIAGE
A KANGAROO court here has nullified the marriage of a couple saying it was solem- nised in violation of social norms. A meeting of the 'khap' (caste) panchayat chaired by former Haryana chief minis |
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Fire in slum kills one, injures four
A 30-year-old man
was charred to death and four others were injured when a fire broke out in a congested slum cluster in North Delhi in the wee hours of Monday. Around 350 huts were gutted |
Five held for burgling Hema Malini's house
: Five people were arrestonday for burglary in Bol
Mumbai: Five people were arrest- ed on Monday for burglary in Bol- lywood actor Hema Malini's house and decamping with valuables worth Rs 80 lakh on |
COMMONWEALTH GAMES
Centre to deploy 4,000 CISF men
IN order to nullify terror threat perception to the Com- monwealth Games, the gov- ernment has decided to de- ploy 4,000 security personnel of the elite Central Indus- trial Security Force (CISF) alon |
WOMEN'S BILL
Congress takes a determined stand
EVEN as the Left and the BJP accused the UPA Government of not doing "any homework" before bringing the Women's Reservation Bill to the Rajya Sabha, the Congress issued a fresh whip to its MPs to be p |
I t ' s j u s t a n o t h e r d a y
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A case for better aviation safety
The aerobatic prowess of the armed forces is a double-edged sword. These displays of daredevilry during air shows give an adrenaline boost that organisers hope will either be like a pitch for the |
Opinion
Threat to Indian interests
The killing of Indians in an attack in Kabul on February 26 high- lights the mounting dangers for India in Afghanistan. As the West prepares to exit from there and strike a deal with the Taliban, the |
Strong earthquake kills 57 in Turkey
A powerful quake in eastern Turkey on Monday buried vil lagers as they slept in mud-brick houses, killing at least 57 and injuring dozens more, officials said. It meas ured 6.0 on the Richter sc |
Lessons for Shashi Tharoor
White House tweeting spreads President's message
IF you're PressSec - White House press secretary Robert Gibbs' username on Twit- ter - you join the powerful social media platform and push your message across the Internet, 140 characters at a time. |
Women, kids among 500 massacred in Nigeria
NIGERIA'S government sent in troops to the flashpoint northern Jos region on Monday after at- tacks by machete-wielding gangs on Christian villages that officials say killed at least 500 people. Un |
Pak Taliban suicide car bomb kills 13 in Lahore
A suicide car bomber devas tated offices used to interrogate suspected militants in Lahore on Monday, killing up to 13 people and wounding 65. Pakistan's Taliban faction claimed responsibility for |
Pakistan holds US Al-Qaeda suspect: Officials
A US man with suspected ties to Al-Qaeda has been arrested in Pakistan, security officials said on Monday, but ruled out initial reports that he was America's most-wanted Al-Qaeda spokesman. "Ou |
Afghan Taliban seize villages from other militants
The Taliban gained control of several villages in northeastern Afghanistan on Monday after two days of gun-battles with another Islamist group, which left at least 50 dead from both sides a |
Israel okays new settler homes despite moratorium
Israel has given the green light for the building of 112 new homes in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank despite a partial moratori um on such construction. The expansion was revealed |
Myanmar enacts election laws, paving way for polls
Myanmar announced the en actment of long awaited laws on Mon day that set the stage for the country's first election in 20 years to be held sometime this year. The laws will set out mecha |
US eases Cuba, Iran sanctions to allow Web services
The US Treasury Depart ment eased sanctions on Cuba, Iran and Sudan on Monday to allow exports of Internet communications services such as instant messaging, email and social networks. The Tre |
Muslim women challenge mosque gender separation
: A group of Muslim wom en risked arrest on Sunday as they sought to pray in the main area of the Islamic Center of Washington -- an area ordinarily reserved exclusively for men. "Wooden |
British army faces Afghan gag for election
The British Ministry of Defence has been accused of ordering a `truth blackout' over the war in Afghanistan amid warnings it is attempting to `bury bad news' during the election campaign |
CROWD PULLER Virgin Mary icon `crying tears of oil' in France
An image of the Virgin Mary has been crying tears of oil, its owner has claimed, in a story that has drawn hundreds of visitors to the man's home in France. Esat Altindagoglu has been inundated with m |
PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH Huge island of rubbish floating off California
Oceanographers have found that a vast floating island of rubbish in the Pacific has doubled over a decade and is now nearly six times the size of Britain. The giant waste collection, known as the 'Gre |
HARD LINE Judge sacked for painting graffiti artist's buttocks
A Mexican judge was sacked for at- tempting to spray paint the buttocks of a teenage graffiti artist as punish- ment for tagging on public buildings, it was claimed. Fernando Perez Hurta- do, a civili |
BETWEEN THE LINES Handwriting of top three British politicians analysed
Analysis of the handwriting of the leaders of the three main political parties on Monday found that Gordon Brown 'won't be told what to do, David Cameron is 'skilled at talking his way in and out of t |
Mexican cops put on diet as 75 pc overweight
MEXICO City's police depart- ment has introduced a new low- er-calorie menu in cafeterias af- ter finding out that almost three- quarters of officers are over- weight. Hungry members of the 70,000- |
IRAQ VOTE: PM MALIKI EMERGES FRONT-RUNNER
PRIME Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Shiite who helped ease Iraq's sectarian strife, emerged Monday as a front-runner in a parliamen- tary election but could yet face a tough battle to cling to power. |
OBAMA TO PULL OUT TROOPS BY AUGUST-END
HAILING Sunday's elections in Iraq as a "milestone" with people turning out in large numbers despite acts of vio- lence, President Barack Obama has let it be known that the United States is on course |
Attn women: A tipple a day keeps obesity at bay, says study
WOMEN who drink a couple of glasses of red wine, beer or spirits a day are better at keeping the pounds off than women who do not drink at all, according to a study pub- lished Monday. Researchers |
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Great escape
THE India vs South Africa contest in the FIH World Cup on Monday was the battle of equals, and an equivocal verdict of 3-3 between two countries with the most contrasting legacy in this sport. The mat |
We scored 4 goals, not 3, says Brasa
JOSE Brasa has this uncanny knack of infusing lightness into a press con- ference without really missing the point he wants to stress. On Monday, while maintaining the handiness of referral system, he |
CLOSE CALL: POOL
IT'S STILL A NECK AND NECK RACE FOR SEMI SPOTS
SPORTS isn't predictable because it isn't sci- ence, hence there are more postulations and less theories. So hypothetically speaking the Dutch and Germans are through to the semi- finals, but theoreti |
Oz survive Pak scare
THERE is an irony pertaining to Pakistani sport that continues to baffle us. They suc- cumb to the worst of teams and raise their bar against the best of teams. Not just in hockey, in every other spor |
England stopped
THERE were as many as three variants of the
THERE were as many as three variants of the Spanish flag. The common and official red-yellow-red strip with the coat of arms, the Osborne-bull embed |
"INDIA'S HOCKEY FUTURE LINKED TO TEAM'S SUCCESS"
Dutch hockey legend Roelant Oltmans is pained to see Hockey WC being played in a big stadium with small crowds.Oltmans, who is here as a part of a delegation of the Netherlands Olympic Committee, feel |
ABBAS HAS NO PLANS TO RETIRE SOON
World's highest goal scorer and Pakistan's famed drag flicker Sohail Abbas says he has no plans to retire soon, his lacklustre showing in the Hockey World Cup here not- wtihstanding.
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FAMILY AFFAIRS
March 8
ARGENTINA camp has an air of congeni- ality. The reason being there are as many as three pairs of brothers in the side and another pair of siblings in the support staff. Let's follow the |
Chennai student gets Rs 1.4 cr job offer in US-based firm
TWENTYFOUR-YEAR-OLD R Shivaraman from Chennai has been offered the designa- tion of a ' Associate Scientist' at the US-based Seagate Technologies for an annual package of USD 2,80,000 (Rs 1.4 crore). |
Not in favour of dam panel: TN tells SC
IN a fresh twist to the Mul- laiperiyar dam row, Tamil Nadu on Monday told the Supreme Court that it was not interested in adjudicat- ing the dispute with Kerala before the special empow- ered committ |
Fonseka continues fast
Gen Sarath Fonseka,
who is under military custody for `treason' would continue his fast unto death till he was allowed to use his wife Anoma's mobile phone to talk to his two daugh- ters studying |
Nutritive food fest for kids with special needs
A DAY-LONG programme to educate parents of children with special needs on effective nutrition took place at the Madhuram Narayanan Centre for Exceptional Children on Monday. The programme, title `Nutr |
`Will address Tamil issue after polls'
SRI Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has told visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao that he will spend time on solv- ing the Tamil political question after the April 8 parliamentary electio |
IN THE HIGH COURT
Issue of contempt notice to lawyers sought
THE lawyers should also face contempt proceedings in connection with the last year's police-lawyers clashes, former Chennai City Police Commissioner K Radhakrishnan submitted in his coun- ter-affidavi |
Order bringing DVAC under RTI Act quashed
A division bench of the Madras High Court has stayed the operation of the orders of a single judge holding that the Di- rectorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) will also come under the purvi |
CRIME FILE
Man held for child trafficking
A SPECIAL team of officials from the Anti Trafficking Cell wing, attached to the CB-CID, arrested a man at Andhra Pradesh for sending eight boys, includ- ing four minors, to be employed in a sweat-sho |
TIRUVANNAMALAI:
FIVE DEAD, 42 INJURED AS BUSES COLLIDE AT KEELPENATHUR
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PROFILE
WOMAN DADAS ON PROWL
White-collar crime on the rise
PART from Sarulatha of Virugambakkam, who posed as an IPS officer and took wannabe policemen for a ride, there are several other educated women from the mid- dle |
Lorry falls on hut, 3 workers killed
THREE migrant workers from Bihar were crushed to death when a lorry capsized and fell on the hut in which they were sleeping at Kovilampakkam in suburban Pallikaranai on Sun- day morning. T he lor |
Now, eye in the sky to track Sumitha
OVER 150 people stood by at a beach and cheered as Sumitha crawled across the sand into the Bay of Bengal ahead of dawn on Sunday. Sumitha, an adult Olive Ridley turtle, became the first of her kind i |
MYSTERY SHROUDS SEIZURE OF JOURNO'S LAPTOP
MYSTERY shrouds the 'sei- zure' of a laptop and cell- phone of a senior journalist, T S V Hari, reportedly by three officials of the Q Branch of the state police around 2.15 am on Sunday even as he wa |
MK rubbishes protests by opposition
CHIEF Minister M Karu- nanidhi on Sunday termed the protests by opposition parties as meaningless. Speaking at the inaugura- tion of the Villupuram Gov- ernment Medical College, he said that the pr |
Molestation bid drives girl to self-immolation
A 14-YEAR-OLD girl immo- lated self after a youth at- tempted to molest her at Pulithevanpatti near here on Saturday and she suc- cumbed to burn injuries at GRH here on Sunday. According to police |
Man stabs father-in-law to death
A DOMESTIC dispute took a murderous tur n, when a 25-year-old youth stabbed his father-in-law to death at Thiruvottriyur on Satur- day. S Kiran, a container lorry driver, married Uma Ma- heswari (2 |
INDIAN NEUTRINO LABORATORY
Prototype detector ready
A PROTOTYPE neutrino de- tector for the India-based neutrino observatory (INO) has been set up in Kolkata at the Variable Energy Cyclo- tron Centre (VECC) by vari- ous collaborating research instituti |
WILL THE MOUNTAIN CRUMBLE ?
ILL the huge mountain near Pottiupuram in Theni district crumble and flatten the whole region if it was drilled to carve out caves to house the India based Neu- trino observatory (INO)? Don't be stunn |
MMK protests for liquor-free TN
Police chasing away the activists of Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK) who attempted to stage a demonstration in front of a TASMAC shop, in the city on Sunday
Similar demonstrations were organised at |
Friends die in mishap
Two youngsters, who
were on their way to Kovalam beach, died after a car hit their two-wheeler at Kelambakkam, on Sunday. Police Baskar (24) of Muttukadu, a preist in a temple in the same area, and |
Woman ends life
A 29-year-old woma
allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a well at Avadi on Friday. Police said Renuka Devi
of Thiruporur was married to a carpenter Raja and they had two kids, Keerthana and |
Jewellery stolen
The police are investi
gating into the theft of 25 sovereigns of gold jewellery and Rs 30,000 in cash from a house of one Praveen Gandhi in Washermenpet on Saturday ENS
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Cop dies in mishap
A 32-year-old police
Chennai: A 32-year-old police constable succumbed to his in- juries, sustained when his two- wheeler rammed into a central median near Fort on Saturday. Senthil Kumar was at |
SHOW CAUSE NOTICE TO CONGRESS MLA
THE Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) on Sunday sent a show cause notice to its Colachel MLA S Jayapal asking why action should not be taken against him for indulging in anti-party activities. I |
Dinakaran row: Moily, CJI tight-lipped on panel report
LAW Minister M Veerappa Moily and Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Sunday refused to comment on the reported findings of the Survey of India that the family of Karnataka High Court Chief Jus |
`Lack of parental support behind copying in exams'
OVER the years, Villupuram dis- trict has achieved the dubious dis- tinction of reporting the maximum number of cases of malpractice during public examinations. Al- though the education department say |
Express impact - Approval for minority college teachers' appointments cleared
OVER 150 teachers in minor- ity colleges, whose appoint- ments were not approved by the Regional Joint Director- ate of Higher Education for four months after a court or- der granting provisional ap- |
`Postpone Pennagaram bypoll'
The Makkal Sakthi Katchi has called for postpone
ment of the Pennagaram by-election, saying the polling will clash with the Class X and XII examinations. The group has filed a PIL to this effect in t |
Patrolling intensified
Personnel at
tached to the marine police force, Rameswaram, have intensified their patrolling owing to the visit of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Chennai on Mar |
`Govt not interested in Sethusamudram project'
Neither the Central gov
ernment nor the State government is concerned about completing the Sethusamudram project, BJP State president Pon Radhakrishnan said here on Saturday. Speaking to reporters, R |
BJP's take on price hike
The district wing of the
BJP staged a massive agitation to protest against skyrocketing prices of essential commodities and petroleum products at Myladi near here on Sunday. The protesters said the |
Demands for renaming of Coimbatore
Mandram urged the State government to rename Coimbatore as Kovanputhur in view of World Classical Tamil Conference. The mandram also appealed to the government to erect memorial statue of Tamil expert |
Election observer arrives
Pennagaram Assembly Constituency Election Ob- server Sanjay Bhoosreddy arrived here on Saturday. Bhoosreddy is a judicial member of the Board of Revenue, government of Uttar Pradesh. He will be her |
PMK cadre block road after clash with DMK men
CADRE of Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) resorted to a road blockade at Manneri vil- lage on the Dharmapuri-Pap- parappatti road in the Pen- nagaram Assembly constitu- ency on Sunday following the disappe |
5 dead, 42 hurt as buses collide at Keelpenathur
FIVE women were killed when two State buses collided at Keelpenathur near Tiruvannamalai on Sunday morning. Police sources said the accident took place around 10.20 am at the bend near the Kadambai |
Climate institute to be set up in Tirupati
A WORLD class institute to study climate and environmental changes will be set up by the Centre in this temple town. Four Central Government depart- ments - Ministry of Forest and En-
vironme |
MAOISTS FREE TO DREAM, SAYS PILLAI
THE Centre on Sunday r ub- b i s h e d t h e cl a i m s o f a Maoist leader to overthrow t h e I n d i a n s t at e b e fo re 2 0 5 0 s ay i n g they are free to "dream" and asserted that talks can ha |
R e a l s h o w
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PMO still not clear about Girl Child Day ad mix-up
A MIX-up had resulted in an ad- vertisement on the National Girl Child Day with a picture of for- mer Pakistan Air Chief along with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh being published but it is still not cl |
Apex court to appeal before itself on RTI row
THE Supreme Court (SC) would file an appeal before itself in the next few days challenging the judgment of the Delhi High Court holding that the of- fice of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) came under |
CID directed to probe girl's death in Gadkari's car
The Nagpur Bench of the Bom
CID to investigate the death of a sevenyear-old girl, who was found dead in BJP president Nitin Gadkari's car in May 2009. The Bench issued the directive on Friday on a |
`Edn revamp to make India a knowledge power by 2020'
Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal
on Sunday said the entire education system of the country was being revamped to make India a knowledge power by 2020. Addressing the 92nd convocation of the Banaras Hi |
Not just about disaster relief
politicians on the subject of public welfare, the care of the poor and the need to succour ru- ral folk. It is a pity, then, that there has been so little of sustained coverage of the plight, five mon |
A green budget by Kerala's Left
Kerala the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Fund is planning to do precisely that. The state budget for 2010-'11 presented by finance minister Thom- as Isaac in the state assembly last Friday gave a clear h |
Opinion
Corporatising agriculture
hile north India celebrated Holi and Parliament wit- nessed much turmoil on account of the price rise of essential food items, two things happened quietly with most of the Indians not really gripping |
time out
RADHA PADMANABHAN
I LOVE EVERY MOMENT OF BEING 80
IT looks as though it was only the other day that I turned 80. For a decade I was in the seventies and suddenly on my birthday I became 80. And suddenly I found that my whole world had changed.
My |
LAW OF DOWER - Misused anti-dowry laws in subcontinent
WHENEVER a law is made too stringent under the pressure of emotionally sur- charged social reactions, there is the danger of its misuse" once observed a learned Supreme Court judge speaking on the ant |
DELHI DIARY
Three women versus three Yadavs on reservation bill
IT is three women versus three Ya- davs, when it comes to the passing of Women's Reservation Bill in Parlia- ment. The women are - Sonia Gan- dhi, Brinda Karat and Sushma Swaraj. They are pitted again |
OSCAR DREAM
Ajami is tuned in to see action at Kodak Theater
THE gym is packed with dozens of children, all dressed up for the Jewish holiday of Purim: Spider-Men, Bat- men, fairies, Aladdins and princesses. Mothers sit on the side in bubbly chatter, some we |
VIEW FROM THE VALLEY
Broader talks to attain peace
AFTER the Mumbai attack, Pakistan had adopted a conciliatory attitude. Pakistan was emphasising on dia- logue; militants were laying low, vio- lence dipped to the levels not wit- nessed since the i |
T h e i r d a y
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Philippine rebels rake in millions from extortion
Maoist guerrillas in the Philippines are set to rake in millions of dollars from extortion this year, boosted by protection money forked out by politicians contesting the May elections, the military s |
Female condoms for free
Washington DC is going to become the first city in the US to distribute female condoms free in a bid to control the district's spiralling epidemic of HIV and AIDS. According to city officials, th |
MACHO STYLE Putin inspired by legendary Hollywood star John Wayne?
He may not be a fan of John Wayne, but it seems that Russian Prime Minis- ter Vladimir Putin's love for being snapped in macho poses is somewhat influenced by the legendary Holly- wood actor who epito |
Afghan army to recruit former Islamic militants
Islamic militants are being
Islamic militants are being brought back into the Afghan National Army through a back door recruiting scheme where they are offered salaries double the national average i |
60 militants dead as rival groups clash in Baghlan
): Up to 60
militants and 19 civilians may have been killed in bloody clashes between rival Islamist militant groups in northern Afghanistan, a police official said on Sunday. The fighti |
Oceanography chief sacked for tsunami warning failure
that it removed Commander Mariano Rojas over the lack of tsunami warnings after the country's huge earthquake. Commander Mariano Ro jas, thehead of the Navy's oceano graphic service, was |
IRAQIS DEFY AL-QAEDA, QUEUE UP TO VOTE
MILLIONS of Iraqis braved waves of deadly rocket, mortar and bomb attacks that killed 38 to vote on Sunday in a general election seen as a test of the war-shattered nation's young democracy. "We do |
China talks tough on Dalai Lama succession
CHINA indicated on Sunday it would take a hard line on the selection of a successor to the ageing Tibetan spiri- tual leader the Dalai Lama in rare com- ments on the sensitive issue. The final deci |
PEEVED OVER WAR EXERCISE, N KOREA BACK TO HAWKISH STANCE ON NUCLEAR ARMS
NORTH Korea said on Sunday it was abandoning efforts towards nuclear disarmament in response to US-South Korean military exer- cises and would be free to build up its nuclear forces. The announceme |
Fighting Somali pirates
A market of inventions beckons Gulf of Aden seafarers
SOMALI pirates raked in an estimated 60 million dollars in 2009 but the In- dian Ocean's ransom hunters have also spurred a much larger industry of ship protection devices. As the 36,000 ships that |
International Women's Da
Women on the edge
For Flight Lieutenant Ambreen Gul (pic), sky is the limit. She is one of the first female fighter pilots in Pakistan. But on Monday, she would slip into a new role as the wife of an Islamabad based en |
US double-speak on turning the screws on Tehran
WHILE discouraging other countrie to invest in Iran, the US
government itself in the last decade has awarded more than USD 107 billion in contract payments, grants and other benefits to foreign an |
LIVING ON Daughter's tribute to dying mother is YouTube sensation
A 16-year-old daughter's emotional tribute to her dying mother on video- sharing website YouTube is said to have become an internet sensation. The YouTube clip of Sarah Phillips shows her singing p |
BETWEEN THE LINES `Robin Hood not a selfless helper, but a loan shark'
A new book has claimed that Robin Hood was not as selfless as he is often depicted, suggesting he stole from the rich and lent money to the poor as an early kind of loan shark. By steal- ing from the |
We wanted goals: You
NEEDING to belt as many goals as possi- ble, Korea are relatively happy with their haul of nine. But they rue conceding two goals. "We went there with the mindset of scoring as many goals as possible. |
HOCKEY IN INDIA IS STRICKEN BY CANCER: HORST WEIN
Horst Wein is known in the world of hockey as much as he is in football, a rare multi- faceted character. The leg- endary coach has a piece of advice for Indian players: Fo- cus more on the mental as- |
Target reset
RAJPAL Singh spilling a last-minute deflection that would have squared the match against Eng- land serves as a central imagery of India's cam- paign-a tale of spilled chances. The goal could have spli |
DELHI WC HEADING TOWARDS BECOMING MOST HIGH SCORING
Thanks to some attacking hockey by the 12 participat- ing countries, the ongoing World Cup is heading to- wards becoming the most high-scoring one with a whopping 117 goals scored so far at the halfwa |
KOREA WALLOP CANADA
THERE'S always an en- shrouding laziness for the day's first match at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium, and the Canada-Korea match, which Korea won 9-2, didn't get off this slumber either. Maybe, the hos |
COMING OF AGE
SA hockey has moved beyond quota system
ARGUING the racial makeup of a team should not matter, but it matters in South Af- rica. Call it what you will, quota have been the means by which South African sport bodies have tried to re-balance d |
Drawmatic
THE showpiece face-off in pool A reposed its billing, as both Germany and the Nether- lands fully unleashed the European flavour of hockey in a riveting contest, the intensity of which seldom flickere |
India to finish season as No 2 ODI team
Indian
cricket team will finish the season as number two ranked side in one-day cricket, behind Australia, and will receive $75,000 for this achievement, the ICC confirmed on Sunday. India's po |
KIWIS UPSET
OVERTLY defensive hockey can make your heads droop and the eyes sore. The game lost its intrinsic beau- ty, as when the Kiwis and the Argen- tines were locked in a game that sel- dom rose above the le |
AFTER MATCH
We're Happy to deliver finally: Vila
HITHERTO, Argentina has only threatened to deliver. But on Sunday , they finally busted this jinx, earning a hard-fought win over New Zealand. While the win may not have completely turned around the |
ST JOSEPH'S TRIUMPH IN CHESS
St Joseph's (16 points) won the chess title on the sec- ond day of the JETS-Wom- en here on Sunday. St Jo- seph's (Chennai), MOP (Chennai), AVS (Salem) and Annamalai University (Chidambaram) entered t |
courses your parents never studied Is it science or law?
The dual degree in law pro grammes permit students to undertake multi-skilling, and offer diverse career paths providing high marketability in multiple areas of expertise. The LLB provides |
About birds and bees
Hear the birdsong
Kansas university Long-term research by the college has addressed the effects of different grazing and fire treatments on popula tion and community dynamics of the flora and fauna o |
AIADMK committed to Women's Bill: Jaya
Chennai: AIADMK general secretary J Jayalaliathaa on Sunday pledged her party's support to the passage of the Women's Bill in Parliament. In her message on the International Women's Day centenary cele |
Free health check-up
The KMC Hospital will conduct a week-long free health check up for all women and ado
lescent girls as part of the Women's Day celebrations ENS
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Reclaim Panchami land'
Chennai
Steps should be taken to
reclaim Panchami land belonging to the Dalit people and hand it back to them, the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee's (TNCC) SC/ ST wing has urged the State government |
International Women's Day
SAILING INTO MALE BASTION
NEEDLESS to say that fisherwomen are among the most hardworking and the most vulnerable section but the fisherwomen from the coastal village in Thoothukudi deserve a special mention on International W |
Fonseka on hunger strike
Sarath Fonseka, former Sri Lankan army commander, who is being detained in a navy facility, has begun a hunger strike to pro- test lack of access to a telephone, his wife Ano- ma announced on Sunday. |
Held for bribery
A conservancy inspector of Chennai Corporation was caught accepting a bribe of Rs 2,000 from a municipal worker at Rajamangalam on Sunday ENS
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Walkathon at Marina
A walkathon to stress the importance of reducing salt intake in one's food was organised at Marina on Sunday ENS
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From homemaker to successful entrepreneur
WHO said living lonely is a curse and boresome? Here, a homemaker, whose husband and son are working abroad while her daughter married to a software pro- fessional in Singapore, had made use of her fr |
No light at end of tunnel
For about a hundred women of the "people of darkness" aka Irulas, the 100th Interna- tional Women's Day is any- thing but enlightening. Their plea is just for a sheet of community certificate that |
All-woman crew to operate AI flight
Air India (AI) is celee International
brating the International Women's Day by operating a
slew of all-woman flights to various destinations ENS
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TN pioneer in women development schemes
Tamil Nadu is a pioneer in the development of women, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi said in his message to mark the International Women's Day. In a statement here, he said, based on the ideologies of Pe |
PU students join mission to save Chinese babies
A CANADIAN Nobel Prize 2009 nominee's novel at- tempts through Facebook to save the lives of children in China has found resonance from the students of Pondi- cherry University (PU), who started an ca |
1,404 graduate from Loyola College
ABOUT 1,404 graduates from the Loyola College received their degree certificates at the 82nd graduation ceremony of the college held here on Saturday. The graduates included 12 visually-challenged stu |
CM trying to hoodwink people: HM
THE Hindu Munnani (HM) on Saturday said that the appeal of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi not to air the sleaze tapes regarding Swami Nithyananda was made only to hoodwink the people as it had come afte |
SWAMI SEX SCAM
CoP move may weaken case
THE Chennai police's move to transfer the Swami Nithyananda video CD case to Karnataka, on noting that a complaint on this claimed the godman's controversial bedroom scenes were shot in Bangalore, has |
`No compromise on quality of Secretariat'
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Cash missing
The police are investigating
a complaint of Rs 3 lakh missing from a private hospital in Anna Nagar. The cash was kept in a drawer in the reception, sources said. On Saturday morning, the lock was f |
1 dead in stove explosion
A 35-year-old woman died
Chennai: A 35-year-old woman died of burns in a stove explosion at her house in Ramapuram on Friday. R Bhuvaneswari was trying to light the stove in her kitchen, when it bur |
3 held in bid to cheat bank
The Central Crime Branch ar
rested three persons for allegedly trying to defraud a bank of Rs 50 crore. B Rajendran, a cashier in a nationalised bank, in connivance with a couple, B Kartikeyan and K |
11 cheated in job racket
Two advocates in the city
have alleged that six persons belonging to the same family at Triplicane cheated 11 persons promising jobs in the Madras High Court. Each victim had paid Rs 2 lakh to them |
CPM clarifies attack on Makkal TV
The CPM's State committee
in a press statement has clarified that violence that followed the protest outside Makkal TV office, against telecast of a news item on late CPM leader W R Varadarajan, was |
CFTUI launched in TN
The Confederation of Free
Trade Unions of India (CFTUI), an umbrella organisation of trade unions and social organisations sans political affiliations, was launched in the State on Saturday. Trivedi |
Murderers land in police net in 12 hrs
HIGHLIGHTING the grow- ing trend of elderly women in isolated houses being done to death by persons known to them, Suburban Police Commissioner S R Jangid announced the arrest of three youth involved |
Residents' plea
Member of the legisla
tive assembly of Villivakkam Constituency B Ranganathan visited the Nolambur Neighbourhood Scheme Phase I and discussed matters relating to the development schemes in the area a |
Four for Tycoons 2010 regional finals
Four students - Arjun
Vijay (RMD Engineering College), Irston Johnny (St Joseph's Engineering College), Aitrek Wribhu (Sathyabama University) and Zaheer (St Joseph's Engineering College) emerged win |
AIADMK meeting
AIADMK would hold its
office-bearers meeting at the party headquarters here on Sunday. The meeting, headed
by senior leader Thambidurai, is expected to brief various functionaries in the Pennagara |
EB staff hold demo
Employees of the
TNEB, affiliated to the TNPEO (Tamil Nadu Power Engineers Organisation) and the COTEE (Central Organisation of Tamil Nadu Electricity Employees) on Saturday held a demonstration her |
NMDP projects to be ready by 2012: Vasan
VARIOUS projects of the National Maritime Develop- ment Programme (NMDP), aimed at improving the quality of port infrastruc- ture to significantly improve country's competitive ad- vantage to shipping |
REC pact for funding thermal plant at Vallur
THE Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) Limited has extended its rupee term loan (RTL) to the second phase of the NTPC Tamil Nadu Energy Company Lim- ited's (NTECL) ther mal power plant coming up |
PENNAGARAM BYPOLL
PMK to move court against DMK
THE Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) is planning to move the court against the ruling DMK government's malpractices ahead of the March 27 by-election to the Pennagaram Assembly constituency. It has also ap |
3 women officials to take care of bypoll
Three women officials -- Dharmapuri district
Election Office-cum-Collector P Amudha, Pennagaram Assembly constituency returning officer-cum-district revenue officer Maheswari Ravikumar and Pennagara |
AIADMK workers protest hike in petrol, diesel prices
HUNDREDS of AIADMK workers staged demonstrations across the State in pro- test against the recent increase in prices of petrol and diesel and urged the Union government to rollback. Party presidium |
India envoy to visit Lanka for talks on `reconciliation'
India's foreign secretary Nirupama Rao
Colombo: India's foreign secretary Nirupama Rao will hold talks with Sri Lanka's President on resolv- ing the grievances of the island's Tamil minority this we |
AIR INDIA HANDS OVER THE COCKPIT TO WOMEN
WHILE the Government cele- brates International Women's Day on Monday with the Wom- en's Reservation Bill, national carrier Air India is set for spe- cial flights; deploying all-wom- en crews. The |
Centre not to sanction fresh reserve battalion
Police recruitment driv
IN an effort to bring down the gap in police vacancies, the Centre had decided to halt the sanctioning of any fresh India Reserve Battalion (IRB) unless the states push up their recruitment drive. The |
`Pirate attack' on Maltese ship repulsed
RAISING concerns over the safety of vessels operating in Indian wa- ters, a Maltese merchant vessel - MV Melina I - reportedly came under pirate attack about 200 nau- tical miles west off Lakshadweep |
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Shrinking Tibetan glaciers could affect Indian rivers
The fragile ecological balance
of the Tibetan plateau has been dis turbed by shrinking glaciers, reduced snow fall and desertification, all of which could affect water levels in In dian river |
Industrialist G P Birla passes away
ndustrialist G P Birla, 86, Friday after a prolonged
died late on Friday after a prolonged illness, a source close to the family said here on Saturday. "He breathed his last at his Kolkata r |
PM confident of women's quota Bill passage
WITH the much-awaited Wom- en's Reservation Bill scheduled to be tabled in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday sounded optimistic that the Bill would be cleared, and s |
TDP thugs set upon Telangana lawyers
GOONS of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) attacked members of the Te- langana Lawyers Joint Action Com- mittee at Indira Park on Sunday af- ternoon, taking everybody by sur- prise and drawing widespread c |
Maharashtra Governor in the thick of `Mumbai for all' row
MAHARAHSTRA Governor and former Finance Minister of Kerala K Sankara- narayanan is in the centre of a contro- versy over the 'Mumbai for all' remark he made while interacting with senior journalists a |
NEW MARJAH CHIEF HAS CRIMINAL RECORD?
The man chosen to be the
fresh face of good Afghan governance in a town just seized from the Taliban has a violent criminal record in Germany, but Western officials said on Saturday they |
Brown makes surprise visit, troops to get new vehicles
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Car bomb hits Iraq city on election eve
A car bomb targeting
Iranian pilgrims killed three people in Iraq's holiest city on Saturday on the eve of the war-shattered nation's general election which al-Qaeda has threatened to |
`Taliban commander killed'
Pakistan said on Saturday
that a key Taliban commander in the Swat valley and at least 20 suspected militants had been killed in an airstrike. Fateh Mohammad and the suspected militants were |
Iran rocket launch site points to N Korean collaboration
Iran is building a new rocket
launch site a short distance from an existing complex and seems to be working with North Korea, informa tion group IHS Jane's said on Friday.Construction vi |
Magazine offers apology
A Malaysian Muslim
magazine has issued an apology after two of its journalists joined a Catholic service and allegedly desecrated the communion wafer. The Al Islam maga zine published an |
THUMBS UP - Premature baby weighing just half-a-pound leaves for home
German doctors have revealed photo- graphs of the smallest premature baby boy to have survived against incredible odds after being born at 25 weeks weighing just over half-a-pound. The baby, who docto |
BULLY TACTICS - Chinese granny buried alive by greedy property developers
A 70-year-old Chinese grandmother in the central province of Hubei was beaten and buried alive by property developers eager to get their hands on her land. Wang Cuyun was attempting to prevent a de |
SPENDING SPREE - Azerbaijan president's 12-yr-old son buys �30m Dubai mansions
The 12-year-old son of the Azerbaijan president has gone on a multi-million pound property spending spree, buying up a series of luxury Dubai waterfront mansions. Heydar Aliyev, the son of Il- ham Ali |
SISTER CONCERN - 6-year-old Philippine girl saves baby brother from fire
A six-year-old girl rescued her baby brother from a fire in the central Philip- pines despite suffering serious burns herself. Virginia Rojo carried her four- month-old brother Joren out of their shac |
Genuine vs fake
Strength of smile has a direct connection to length of life
A grin costs nothing. And if you want to live to a ripe old age, then smile like you mean it, say scientists. A new study has found that players in the 1950s who genuinely beamed in their official pho |
Afghan Parliament member survives Taliban attack
A member of the Afghan Parliament says
she escaped injury when her convoy was attacked by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan.
Fauzia Khofi, who represents the far northern province of Bada |
IN THE LINE OF FIRE
Pentagon to review Blackwater's war zone work
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is concerned about possi- ble misconduct in Afghanistan by the private security firm, for- merly known as Blackwater, and has promised to review the is- sue, the Pent |
Brown makes surprise visit, troops to get new vehicles
Britain's military force in Afghanistan is to
be given 200 new patrol vehicles to replace the much-criticised Snatch Land Rovers, it was revealed as Gordon Brown made a surprise visit to the count |
US PResident vows cut on N-weapons
US President Barack Obama has pledged to reduce the number of nuclear weapons and curtail their role in his country's national security strategy, even while maintaining a safe, secure and effective nu |
MICROCHIPS TO KEEP A WATCH ON TRASH TOSSERS
Microchips have been placed in garbage bins in Britain to monitor how much people throw away. A pro-privacy group warns in a new report that more than 2.6 million of the chips have been surreptitiousl |
No lifeline left in Pool of Death
WITH victory being the only lifeline in the Pool of Death, Indian hopes of entering the semifi- nals of the FIH World Cup, battered and bruised by defeat in successive matches against Australia and Sp |
AFTER MATCH
I will go with a big smile: Brasa
HREE loses in as many matches, India coach Jose Brasa's head is on the scaf- fold. But the Spaniard retorts to the query with his quintessential wit. "I'll go with a big smile on my face, for the team |
STING OPERATION AT STADIUM: COPS' CHIEF VOWS ACTION
A day after a sting operation purportedly showed a security lapse at the World Cup Hockey stadium here, Delhi Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal to- day said appropriate action will be taken after a probe |
PUNISH COP FOR ILLEGAL TICKET SALES, SAYS KALMADI
Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi Sat- urday sought action against a policeman caught on camera selling Hockey World Cup tickets in the black market. "The incident outside the sta |
DOUBLE IMPACT Sandip G | ENS four vice-captain theory for the World take turns. Hockey is a hect
LEADERSHIP signifies different things to different sports. In cricket, it con- notes to tactical acumen, but in sports like hockey and football captain's arm- band is more a sign of recognition than a |
Holiday turns tragedy Indian child found dead in Oz; police clueless as autopsy inconclusive
A TEAM of homicide de- tectives are searching for clues a day after a three- year-old Indian boy was found dead near Mel- bourne airport following his sudden disappearance from a house 20 km awa |
INTENSE BATTLE:
Germany's Cristoph Menke (R), vies for the
ball with Argentina's Manuel Brunet in their Hockey World Cup
match in New Delhi on Friday. Germany won 4-3
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`NO US DURESS' Talks with Pak a calculated move: PM
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday refuted the Opposition's charge that top diplomats from India and Pakistan had met in New Delhi last month under pressure from the United States. Rejecting the |
No let up in heat on black money: Manmohan
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday assured both Houses of Parliament that his government would do its utmost to bring back the ill-gotten `black money' stashed away in tax havens around the world |
CPM men attack Makkal TV office over WRV `murder' report; PMK retaliates
SPECULATION over the controversial death of the CPM's W R Varadarajan took a violent turn on Friday, when his party workers attacked the office of PMK mouthpiece, Makkal TV TV, for airing a report al |
Cong, BJP issue whips to ensure passage for Women's Bill
HECTIC behind-the-scene preparations were on to get the much-fought-for 33 per cent Women's Reservation Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha, 14 long years after it was first introduced. If passed, it would |
Menon discusses security of Indians with Karzai
Amid concerns over safety of In
dians in Afghanistan after last week's attack, National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon, who is on a two-day visit to Kabul, met President Hamid Karzai on Friday t |
Holbrooke regrets remark on Kabul attack
US Special Representative on
Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke on Friday, expressed regret over a recent remark which had seemed to reject Delhi's view that the February 26 terror attack in |
Girl who alleged rape by Maoists, shot at
A teenage girl was shot by Mao
ist rebels in Jharkhand's Latehar district for slapping rape charges on a Maoist leader, police said on Friday. The victim is in critical condition in a hospital here.< |
No funds for stampede victims, says Mayawati
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Mayawati on Friday said her state was facing an "acute financial crisis" and could not give compensation to the 63 people who died and the 64 injured in a stampede on Th |
AUTO STRIKE PARTIAL IN THE CITY
THE day-long auto rickshaw strike called by major trade unions to protest against petrol and diesel price hike rang in partial response in the city with less than 50 per cent of three wheelers being o |
Forest officials raid Tiruvannamalai ashram
A three-member
team of forest officials held a raid at the Tiruvannamalai ashram of the swami on Friday. Conservator of forests, Vellore, A V Venkatachalam ordered the raid to check if skins of any |
GSLV Mark III
ISRO conducts static test on
aunch vehicle engine
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Go for thorium-based reactors: Kalam
INDIA has to go for nuclear power gen- eration in a big way using thorium- based reactors, former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam said. After inaugurating the Common- wealth Science and Technology A |
Sleazegate
Swami Nithyananda attending Kumbh Mela; to return on March 18
EVEN as speculation continues over t h e w h e r e a b o u t s o f S w a m i Nithyananda, who is at the centre of a controversy now, his lawyer on Fri- day claimed that the godman had not absconded bu |
MAN SEEKS POLICE HELP TO `RESCUE' SON
A man from Manali New Town has sought police help in `rescuing' his 24year-old son, who has been living in the ashram of Swami Nithyananda near Bengaluru since 2007. Though |
Buckingham Canal for water storage mooted
A PANEL of water experts who gath- ered for a seminar on managing wa- terways in the city have made a set of recommendations aimed at enhancing the quality of environment and in- creasing water supply |
Phishing bait traps private firm official
"DEAR customer, we are making security updates for safe inter net transactions... Please, support us by furnishing your password..." Shankar, a commercial officer in a multinational biscuit compan |
Anti-price rise stir: One lakh trade unionists arrested
Activists of various trade unions staging a demon stration (pic) in the city as part of their nation-wide stir on Friday They were protesting against the spiralling pric es of essential commoditi |
CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES Satellite tagging of turtle set to kick off tomorrow
A PROJECT taking conservation of endangered Olive Ridle turtles one step ahead would be launched on the Injambakkam coast in the wee hours of Sunday with the release of a female turtle, tagged with a |
Woman killed, jewellery missing
A 60-year-old woman was found murdered at Shankar Nagar
on Friday and six sovereigns of gold jewellery that she had been wearing were missing. The police said Rajammal (70) was staying at her daught |
Advocate robbed of Rs 2.25 lakh
sovereigns of gold jewellery at Anna Nagar on Thursday. Shanmuganathan (55), a resident of Anna Nagar, had withdrawn the cash from a bank on 13th Main Road and was walking along the road, when two men |
Two held for assaulting cops
The suburban police arrested two youth for allegedly assault
ing a cop during a vehicle inspection at Porur on Thursday. The police said Sulaiman and Muthalif were on a two-wheeler when the suburba |
DMK ward secy hacked by gang
AN unknown gang hacked a ruling party ward secretary to death at Ambattur Estate on Thursday. Police said they suspect that enmity in his business could have led to the murder. Police say Johnson |
`CONSTITUTE TEAM OF OPHTHALMOLOGISTS'
The Madras High Court has directed the health secretary to constitute a team of ophthalmologists and other medical profes- sionals for conducting cata- ract removal surgery in the other eye of the vic |
For each tree felled, 10 saplings to be planted, says govt
For each tree felled, 10 saplings will be planted along the Vandalur-Wala- jabad and Singaperumal Koil-Sriperumbu- dur roads, the First Bench comprising Chief Justice HL Gokhale and Justice V Dhanapal |
Van catches fir
Firleak from its LPG cylinder at Chrompet on Friday. The police said an Omni van belonging to a private company was parked at Durga Nagar, Selliamman Koil Street, Chrompet when it suddenly caught fire |
MMK to picket wine shops
Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK) will picket wine shops in the state and Puducherry on March 7 as part of its agitation demanding total prohibition ENS
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Plus 2 student dies in mishap
A Plus Two student met with an accident at Avadi on Friday while he was on his way home from a special class. The police said Rahul of Avadi Tank Factory was travelling with a friend, Vasanth, on a tw |
Power shutdown
Power supply will be suspended in the following areas - Padi , Korathur, Pondeswaram, Veerapuram, Koduvelli - on Sunday from 9 am to 5 pm due to maintenance work ENS
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New Income Tax chief
Prasanta Kumar Sarangi is the new director general of Income-Tax which was previously held by Prema Malini Vasan. Sarangi is from 1977 IRS batch and held various senior postions in Chennai ENS
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MFIs a bane for self-help groups, say NGOs
Slamming the microfinance institutions (MFIs)for charging high lending rates, NGO representatives claimed that over lending and hidden additions to lending rates have indebted many of the SHG workers |
300 DALIT CHRISTIANS ARRESTED
OVER 300 Dalit Christians including Chengalpet Bish- op and chairman of Na- tional Council of Dalit Christians (NCDC) were ar- rested after they allegedly took part in a protest with- out police permi |
Apollo women's day offer
As part of the Women's Day celebrations, Apollo Hospitals is offering discounts for women for various check-ups from March 6 to March 21. The Well Women check costs Rs 650, and the heart check-up Rs 3 |
Slogan writing contest for gold
Fortune Sun Lite has announced `Ramya Varuvanga. Thangam Tharuvanga' slogan�writing contest in Chennai. The winners of this contest will receive gold from actress Ramya Krishnan. For more details call |
IN THE HIGH COURT
Use of machineries to quarry sand permitted
MODIFYING its earlier order, a division bench of the Madras High Court on Friday permitted the contractors of the State PWD department to use machineries for quarrying sand from Palar river in Kanchee |
`Lazar can't substitute late CPM candidate'
Madurai district CPM secretary A Lazar can- not substitute deceased CPM candidate P Mohan in the petition challenging the election of MK Alagiri from the Madurai Lok Sabha con- stituency, Alagiri said |
Six suspected LTTE fund raisers arrested
: German authorities said
on Friday that police have arres- ted six people suspected of rais- ing funds for the Sri Lankan sep- aratist group the Tamil Tigers. The German and Lankan nation- als a |
Child marriage
Following the RDO in
quiry into the child marriage reported on Thursday at Talaivasal Pudur, the police booked cases against four persons including the bridegroom Venkatesh, 19. Attur Tahsildar T S |
TNCC chief's car attacked
Stones were pelt
ed at Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K V Thangkabalu's car when he was returning after attending a public meeting to gather support for DMK candidate P N P Inbasekaran at |
Prisoner hangs sel
Raja (40) from Sukham
- patti, a prisoner in the Salem Central Jail hanged himself to death on Thursday night. Raja was arrested by Dharmapuri po- lice, in connection with the kid- nap and murder of |
Ragging case?
: In a suspected
case of ragging a group of third-year law students beat up their juniors at Marudamalai here on Thursday night. Some first-year law students had gone for tea when their seniors trie |
C orders constant video trail of ministers
In an unprecedented move, the Election Commisiday directed that videographers would constantly
trail all ministers and other important political functionaries during their visit to Dharmapuri distri |
Forest ranger caught accepting bribe
A forest ranger
from Srivilliputhur was arrested by DVAC officials for accepting a bribe of Rs 4,000 from a man who had sought permission to cut the teak trees he had grown in his farm. Thangavel (7 |
UPSC coaching
Strategy IAS Academy
March 13 for the UPSC aspirants who have cleared the mains as hey prepare for the interview.
Registration starts from March 7 o March 12. For more details call: 9787802927 |
World Tamil Meet
Complete works before April, Stalin tells officials
DEPUTY Chief Minister M K Stalin instructed the officials to complete the development works relating to the World Classical Tamil Conference be- fore April end. Stalin, who conducted a review meeti |
Better infrastructure for over 4,000 State schools
As many as 200 middle schools to be upgraded into high schools; to become functional in the coming academic year
THE Department of School Education has electronically transferred funds of over Rs 20 |
Eight get 7-yr RI for assaulting woman
The Mahila Court on Fri
day sentenced chairman of Narasingapuram Municipality (a third grade municipality near Attur) Andavar (53) and seven others to seven years of rigorous imprisonment in a land d |
B S Abdur Rahman Univ pact with Altera
An MoU was signed
between B S Abdur Rahman University and Altera Corporation on March 1 at the university campus in Vandalur. A state-ofthe-art laboratory in VLSI and embedded systems at the departm |
Cycle rally
Adventure Club of
Combat Vehicle Research & Development Establishment organised a cycle rally from Naval Detachment Centre, Kalpakkam and back to create awareness among the public about DRDO & CVRDE |
GOVT URGED TO CRACK DOWN ON `PAID NEWS'
EXPRESSING serious concern over the menace of 'paid news', the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha on Friday asked the gov- ernment to take stringent ac- tion against any media house or politician indulging |
TODDLER MISTAKENLY BOOKED FOR POWER THEFT IN KANPUR
IN a goof-up, the Kanpur Electricity Supply Company and police booked a toddler, who was visiting his grandmother, here for power theft. An FIR was re gistered against two-and-a-half-yearold Shahna |
HONEYMOON TRIP - Rahul Mahajan moves court for getting passport
New Delhi,
final touches to his plans to get married on a reality show. On Friday, he moved a court to get his passport back for his honeymoon getaway to Maldives and Ireland next week. Rahul, s |
Holbrooke says sorry
US envoy regrets remark on Kabul terror attack
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Collateral damage
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Concern in Lok Sabha over female foeticide
THE government's confidence in getting the women's reservation Bill passed got a boost on Friday when members cutting across par- ty lines joined hands in the Lok Sabha to voice concern over female fo |
Girl set ablaze for resistingr apea ttempt
A teenaged girl was
set ablaze by four youths when she resisted their rape attempt in Hama village, police said on Fri day. Following the incident on Thursday, the 17-year-old was ad mitted to |
300 vasectomies failed in 2009
Over 300 out of 2.89
lakh cases of vasectomy proce dure, a permanent method of birth control, have gone wrong in 2009. According to the Minister of State for Health Dinesh Trivedi, Madhya P |
Sachin is already a Bharat Ratna: Shiv Sena
Sachin Tendulkar's
record one-day double hundred has clean bowled Shiv Sena lead er Bal Thackeray, who had taken on the batting maestro over his Mumbai for all remark not long ago. Thackeray s |
Seniority not a fundamental right: CAT
THE Central Administra- tive Tribunal has refused to set aside an order by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) revising the seniority list of its junior stenographers, saying that it cannot be cl |
Arunachal opposes parting with territory
GREATER NAGALAND
WITH the Centre-NSCN (IM) talks underway in New Del- hi, the Arunachal Pradesh Government on Friday ex- pressed opposition to any move to include part of its territory for creation of greater Nagaland |
`Pak should act against Hafiz'
INDIA has reiterated the demand for Pakistan to act against JuD chief Hafiz Mu- hammad Saeed so that the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack could be dealt with in a 'proper manner.' Pakistan had refuse |
Cong MLA, supporters attacked
Congress MLA Panchilal Meda and his supporters were allegedly assaulted by toll tax
collectors in Dhar district, police said on Friday. "Besides Meda, his driver and an assistant were also |
HP allows hunting of Neel Gai
The Himachal Pradesh Government has allowed hunt
ing of Neel Gai (blue bull) following complaints by farm ers that the animal was destroying crops. The government has already permitted killing o |
ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP
US envoy to visit India in April
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will be visiting India in April, to formally launch the new US-India Eco- nomic and Financial Partnership, along with Finance Min- ister Pranab Mukherjee. The |
India's groundwater depletion alarming: WB
A WORLD Bank report on Friday called for immediate action to save India's groundwater resourc- es - the largest user of ground water in the world - and said that 60 percent of the aquifers will be in |
Justice Srikrishna clarifies Chidambaram's statement
JUSTICE B N Srikrishna on Fri- day clarified that carving out a new state out of Andhra Pradesh would not be possible without ad- dressing the broader issues in- volved and felt that Union Home Minist |
TELANGANA ISSUE
Optimal solution not possible in a hurry: PM
SPEAKING out on the ongoing Telangana statehood issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday told the Rajya Sabha that optimal solution to the current crisis could not be found in a hurry. Relyin |
Lady with a mission
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MLA forcibly removed to hospital
Local MLA Vivek Pan- dit, who has been on a hunger strike at Vasai in neighbouring Thane district for the last four days to demand exclusion of 53 villages from Vasai-Virar Munic- ipal Corporation, wa |
Huge haul of explosives in Bengal
Nearly 250 kg of ex
-plosives were recovered on Fri day from a Maoist den in West Bengal's West Midnapore dis trict, police said. "Acting on a tip-off, we recovered about 250 kg of ex |
Shiv Sena leader told to pay for damages
In a ruling that can serve as a deterrent for violent protesters, the Bombay High Court on Friday ordered a former Shiv Sena legislator to cough up Rs 5 lakh towards the damage |
Potato price turns too hot for the govt
THE falling prices of potatoes generated much heat in the Rajya Sabha on Friday with the Opposition saying not enough was being done to protect the interests of farmers and the Centre saying it was re |
30 hurt as HJC rally turns violent
: Over 30 people, including five po
licemen, were injured when a rally of Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) turned violent on Friday after police stopped them from marching towards the assembly in pro |
Rooting for a star
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Edn records of public servants can be disclosed
THE disclosure of educational records of public servants under the RTI Act cannot be treated as invasion of their privacy, the Central Information Commission has held. Chief Information Commissione |
Sachin is already a Bharat Ratna: Bal Thackeray
SACHIN Tendulkar's record one-day double hun- dred has clean bowled Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray, who had taken on the batting maestro over his Mumbai for all remark not long ago. Thackeray said 37- |
`No provision to sue Indian Govt for misconduct'
SALMAN Khurshid, Union Minister of State for Corporate Affairs, on F r i d ay e x p r e s s e d h i s
doubts about suing the government for misconduct. "I'm not sure whether we've misconduct by gove |
Two former Rly staff get RI in bribery case
Two former employees of northern
Railway have been sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment each in a bribery case by a special CBI court. The special CBI Judge of Patiala also slap |
Delhi High Court defines dowry
: The Delhi High Court has held that
demands which are not made by the groom's family in connection with marriage will not come under the definition of dowry. The court gave the |
Will women get their due?
ahead with the women's reservations bill underline the political value of the measure in its eyes rather than the possibility of enactment. Although the Congress, the BJP and the Left have lined up |
eductio ad absurdum
See you at the movies!
n Monday morning (our time), the Americans will present awards to their movie industry. However, since we are immersed in Advaita Vedanta, to us the world is like a movie. Or rather, the world is l |
No common engg/med entrance test
THERE is 'no proposal' before the government to introduce a common national examination for admission to engineering and medical courses, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Friday. To a question on wh |
Frankly speaking Yes, - we failed on the sugar front: PM
WITH the Opposition breathing down his neck on fuel price hike and food inflation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday that in the current global economic situation the choice was between inf |
Scheme for minority schools losing steam
K P Sai Kiran | ENS
AN ambitious scheme, launched by the Centre for the infrastructure development in minority schools is on the verge of collapse owing to the lack of funds earmarked for its implem |
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Over 2 lakh women victims of sexual crimes
New Delhi
OVER two lakh women were victims of sexual crimes in the country during the period 2006- 2008. On an average, about 191 women every day were either victims of rape, sexual harass- ment |
Holbrooke says sorry
UNITED States Special Representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke on Friday expressed regret for a recent remark which had seemed to reject Delhi's view that the terror at- tack in Ka |
SHIVSHANKAR MENON ARRIVES IN KABUL, REVIEWS SECURITY
NATIONAL Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon arrived in the Afghan capital to review the security of around 4,000 Indians working in that country. Menon met Indian Ambassador Jayant Prasad in Kabul |
PM pledges $ 5 million for quake relief in Chile
Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh on Friday condoled the loss of lives in the earthquake in Chile and pledged $5 million support for relief and rehabilita tion work. "Our thoughts and prayers are |
Murder accused throws slipper at MCOCA judge
: A murder accused on Friday
hurled a footwear at a special MCOCA judge here accusing him of delaying his case. The incident occurred when the accused Ganesh Angore, who was arrested in 2007 in a |
BARC scientist's suicide not clear, say police
A woman scientist of Bhabha
Atomic Research Centre, found hanging at the institution's quarters in high-security Anushakti Nagar, wanted transfer to Kolk ata which was approved but the reason for |
Avatar, most-talked-about film on internet
After breaking all box-office
records and bagging nine Oscar nominations, James Cameron's Avatar has beaten off competition from the other nominees to become the most-talked-about film on the inter |
Fake encounter case: Cop in judicial custody
: Senior Inspector Pradeep Surya
vanshi, arrested in connection with the al leged fake encounter of Ramnarayan Gupta, a suspected aide of gangster Chhota Rajan, was on Friday remanded in judicia |
UP STAMPEDE
Rahul visits kin of victims
CONGRESS general secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday visited Mangarh where 63 persons died on Thursday in a stampede at the ashram of Sant Ram Kripalu Maharaj, and met families of the victi |
State will compensate if Centre fails: Maya
: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday said
if the kin of the victims of the stampede in Pratapgarh did not get financial assistance from the Centre at the earliest, the state government |
Criminal case against ashram management
A CRIMINAL negligence case was registered by the police on Friday against the management of the ashram where 63 women and children were killed in a stampede while its head Kripaluji Maharaj remained u |
KIWIS FLY PAST KOREA
NEW ZEALAND 2 vs KOREA 1
AN Asian side's inadequacy to optimise chances surfaced again, as Korea slumped to New Zealand 1-2, reducing the former's semifinal hopes. It was such an uncharac- teristic display that Korean fizz fi |
EX PLAYERS CRITICISE PAK FLOPSHOW
Some blamed it on over-dependence on Sohail Abbas, others felt they didn't look spirited enough as for- mer players castigated Paki- stan's hockey team for the crushing defeats to India and England in |
Expect intense contest against Germany: Teun
WITH three straight wins, all comprehensive, the Dutch are braced for their Sunday night clash against defending cham- pions Germany. "Bring them on," beamed Dutch player Tuen Rohof. His skipper Teun |
English exam for India
SCHEDULED to face opposition ranked 6th in the world and qualified by the title of European champion, India enters the battlefield against England at the Dhyan Chand National Stadium on Saturday with |
AFTER MATCH
Defence made the difference: Ryan
An up- set win over South Korea, and New Zealand are right in contention for the semifinals. But they wouldn't have withstood the Ko- rean rampage but for their steely de- fence. Seasoned midfielder R |
STORY SO FAR: GROUP B
England and Oz favourites
WRITE nothing off in the realm of sports, expect the unexpected, the meek shall come into power; the World Cup has defied these age-old dictums. Other than England smack- ing Australia on the opening |
Netherlands cane Canada
NETHERLANDS 6 vs CANADA 0
THE Dutch, in the first half, resembled their more glitzy cousins who played football in the 90s, those exquisitely gifted profession- als who conjured skullduggery with their twinkle feet, but won no |
Block `genocide' bill or risk ties, Turkey tells US
TURKEY on Friday slammed furiously a US Congress pan- el's resolution calling the Ottoman-era massacre of Ar- menians "genocide", warn- ing of damage to bilateral ties and peace efforts with Armenia. |
S KOREA COUPLE LOVED VIRTUAL GIRL, FORGOT OWN BABY
A South Korean couple left their baby daughter to starve to death at home while playing an Internet game which simulated child-rearing, police said on Friday. The 41-year-old man and his 25-year-ol |
EXORCISED GHOSTS PUT ON SALE ON AUCTION WEBSITE IN NEW ZEALAND
It may appear bizarre, but a
man in New Zealand has put on sale what he claims are actually two troublesome exorcised ghosts on an auction website. In the advertisement posted on the website, tradem |
Baby trafficking case
China on Friday put 23 people on trial on suspicion of involvement in the sale of nearly 50 babies, in what state media described as one of the country's biggest-ever child trafficking cases
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SMOKE AND FURY IN WHITE HOUSE
KICKING THE BUTT IS A PAINFUL PROCESS. THE LATEST CELEBRITY STRUGGLER BEING NONE OTHER THAN US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA. HERE IS A PEEK INTO THAT SPECIAL RELATIONS |
Shooting outside Pentagon injures two police officers
A man who opened fire
at police outside the Pentagon died af ter being shot by officers, police said on Friday, insisting that there was no terrorism link. "There is no indication at this po |
Pilot shot between eyes by Taliban flies 20 to safety
An RAF helicopter pilot who
was shot between the eyes by a Taliban bullet still managed to fly all 20 passengers to safety. The Chinook flown by Flight Lieutenant Ian Fortune, 28, |
`Racist' teachers choose OJ, Rodman as role models
Three white school teach
ers who picked OJ Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul as role models for Black History Month at their school have been removed from their class rooms amid accusations |
Suicide bomb kills 12 in Pak
A suicide bomber rammed
a car full of explosives into a convoy of Shiites in a Peshawar market on Friday, killing 12 people including women and children in Pakistan's la |
Apple iPad in US on April 3
Apple announced on
Friday that its new iPad tablet com puter would go on sale in US stores on April 3 and in other countries in late April. The availability date is slightly later than that |
NOT FOOD, JUST BUDDIES- Tigers chase zookeepers into pool, in playful mood
At first glance, it appears as if a group of swimmers are about to become a tiger's lunch. But despite appearances, pictures taken by a wildflife photographer actually shows the animal playing with zo |
SUNNY FLAKES - Yellow snow falls in Russia's far eastern region
Russia's far eastern Amur region has re- ceived yellow-coloured snowfall. High winds in Mongolia mixed clouds with dust winds in Mongolia mixed clouds with dust and sand, crossed northern China and du |
NOW, KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN - YouTube turns on captions on millions of videos
YouTube is adding captions to millions of Internet videos. The feature unveiled on Thursday expands upon speech-rec- ognition technology that YouTube began ognition technology that YouTube began using |
China for rapid expansion, economic equity
CHINA on Friday predictn f ed another year of rapid y expansion in 2010 but - pledged to ensure the beno efits of economic growth - are shared more evenly, as e concer n mounts over a e wide |
SETTING AN EXAMPLE
China has spent 10 mil
lion yuan (1.5 million dollars) on computers for thousands of members of an advisory body attending the annual parliamen tary session -- in an effort to reduce pap |
Cyber terror is a growing threat: FBI
TERRORISTS, crooks and nation states are ramping up cyber-assaults that are eating away at data, cash and security in the United States, the head of the FBI warned. "The risks are right at our door |
Love entwined
Was mix-up in bed a comedy of errors?
A Canadian court is considering whether to accord a new trial for a man convicted of sexual assault for allegedly duping his identical twin brother's lover into having sex with him, local media said r |
VGN FERNDALE to make history
VGN Developers Private Limited, one of Chennai's leading real estate developers, is working on Ferndale, a unique 2 BHK project at Mogappair East, well within the city. Contemporarily designed, the |
Finance Ministry rules out rollback of service tax
THE Ministry of Finance has ruled out rolling back of service tax on real estate developers at the time of construction, a move which the industry says will jack up housing and commercial property pri |
Property tax: Chennai Corp goes hi-tech
THE Chennai Corporation became the first in the country to provide hand-held billing equipment for property tax collection. Launching the facility recently, Chennai Mayor M Subramaniam said, "The |
Brown insists Iraq war was right step
BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended his role in the 2003 Iraq war Fri- day, telling a public inquiry it was "the right decision" and rejecting claims he witheld funding from the armed forces. |
WHITE HOUSE LEANS TOWARD MILITARY TRIALS FOR 9/11 TERROR SUSPECTS
IN a U-turn, White House aides are poised to recommend holding military tribunals for the alleged co-plotters of the September 11 at- tacks, the Washington Post said on Washington Post said on Washing |
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Varun crowned champion
Varun Kumar of MCC routed club- mate Harpreet Singh 8-0 in the final of the TNBSA 6 Red Snooker State Ranking Tour- nament.
Results: Final: (Best of 15 frames): Varun Kumar (MCC) bt Harpreet Singh |
TUC SCORE
A Tamil Arasan and S Praba karan took four wickets eac to ensure a thrilling one-ru win for TUC over YMA in Fourth Division `B' Zon league match of the TNCA.
Brief scores: IV Division `B': Sir Ashl |
PATTABIRAM SCORE
NA Vaidyanathan's 49 paved the way for Pattabiram CA to beat Lucas TVS RC by just eight runs in a Fourth Divi- sion league match of the TNCA-Tiruvallur DCA league.
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CUSTOMS EXCEL
Riding on goals by Ramesh (20), David (52) and Sathish (78) Chennai Customs blanked Arrows FC 3-0 in the St Jo- seph's-CFA Senior Division league match. |
ONGC, OIL IN FINAL
The defending champion OIL and the runner-up ONGC, have entered the finals of the PSPB inter-unit football tourna- ment, at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadi- um on Thursday. In the first semi- final, ONGC beat |
VEL'S SRINIVASA WIN
Vel's Srinivasa College emerged winners in the state- level fives ball badminton tourna- ment conducted by Youngsters Sports Club, Kodungaiyur. St Joseph's Engineering College fin- ished second follow |
TECHNIQUE CRUCIAL FOR YOUNGSTERS: SOBERS
Cricket legend Gary So- bers on Thursday emphasised that youngsters should learn proper de- fence techniques to be better batsmen. "What is technique? When the choice is between hitting the ball and h |
EASY FOR BAGAN
Mohun Bagan rode on its striker Jose Barreto's sparkling hat-trick and Chidi's double strikes to blank city rivals Chirag United 5-1 in their first outing of the second stage of the ONGC I- league her |
CWG ARCHERY MEET
Archers from ten Commonwealth countries would be seen in action in the invitational Commonwealth Games (CWG) ar- chery meet to be held at the Ya- muna sports complex in Delhi from March 8. |
The problem beyond Volvo
The other day, our Tamil Nadu editions carried a news item about passenger dissatisfaction with the new Volvo buses used for long- distance travel by the Tamil Nadu State Trans- port Corporation (TNST |
Govt to take stern action
KARNATAKA government on Thursday said it would take strict action against the absconding self-styled godman whose contro- versial video footage was telecast on a Tamil television channel al- legedly s |
3 CASES REGISTERED
Three cases were registered here in connection with the Swami Nithyananda episode on Thursday. Police officials said that no case had been reg- istered against the godman -- who is said to be in Harid |
Left agrees not all is well
Given the CPI (M)'s penchant for denying anything which is ideologically disagreeable -- the party had refused to accept for a long time that Khrushchev ever made his anti-Stalin speech in 1956 -- it |
Tiruvannamalai limps back to normalcy
THE tension that prevailed in Tiru- vannammalai, the hometown of Swami Nithyananda, subsidised on Thursday with the pilgrim centre limping back to normalcy. Local residents have chosen not to discuss |
UTHAPURAM TEMPLE TAKEOVER - High Court dismisses plea
THE Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday rejected a plea to direct the Hindu Religious and Char- itable Endowments (HR and CE) to take over the Muthalamman temple at Uthapuram to end the |
Random Abstract - Shashi Tharoor's assets
I t S h would be a pity if our delightful minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor continues to hog the headlines for the wrong reasons and were made to leave the job for being too gaffe- |
Kanchi college's first graduates this year
The first batch of graduates would walk out of the S S K V College of Arts & Sci- ence for Women at Kizhambi, Kancheepuram, this academic year, said principal Dr Rajagopa- lan here on Thursday. The ne |
Collector treks 6 km to sanction houses, school
THE district collector M Ra- jendran sanctioned six con- crete houses to the residents of Neerthumbi village in the Javadhi hills on Thursday.
He held a special grievance camp at the hill village a |
INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION - Pollution board charts out strategies for zero discharge of waste into Chenna
TANNERIES in and around Chennai are dumping about 3,000 kilolitres of waste per day into the city's water- ways and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board is working out strate- gies to make the units |
Unorganised workers to take out rally in Chennai on March 15
A RALLY by a collective of unor- ganised sector workers' welfare as- sociations, originally slated for March 9, has been rescheduled to March 15.They sought 3 per cent for their welfare in State an |
Musical evening by singer Raghab
he Bengal Association, T Nagar, would be organising a grand musical evening with re- nowned singer, Raghab Chatter- jee, on Sunday, March 7, at 7.30 pm at the Karnataka Sangha Hall, Habibullah Road, T |
Power shutdown
Power supply will be suspended in parts of Cooks Road, Balaji Nagar, Velachery, Pallikaranai, Sembium, Kodun- gaiyur, Palavakkam, Nanganal- lur, Red Hills and Puzhal be- tween 9 am and 5 pm on Satur- |
TTDC's Women's Day discount on March 8
he Tamil Nadu Tourism ent Corporation (TTDC) has announced a discount for women on March 8 to mark the World Women's Day. Women can avail of a 10 percent discount on all one-day tours on that day. Als |
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SKEW IN STUDENT RATIO IN GOVT MEDICAL COLLEGES
IN yet another case in favour of the Common School System -- which favours equal access to education and a uniform school syllabus -- it was found that only 2 per cent of the students in four governme |
Over 200 from TN clear UPSC exam
: Over 200 people from Tamil Nadu are estimated to have cleared the UPSC exams out of 900 who attempted, according to coach- ing institutes. The UPSC exam results were declared on Thursday. Around 4,6 |
Play area in maternity hospital opened
: Mayor M Subramaniam inaugurated on Thursday a play area for children receiving treat- ment in the Corporation Maternity Hospital in Perumalpet, Purasaiw- alkam. The area was renovated at Rs 5 lakh, |
Retd woman officer jailed for a yr after court martial
For the first time in the Indian Army's history, a retired woman officer, Major Dimple Singla, has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment after an army court held her guilty of corruption, indiscip |
Another BARC scientist -- a woman -- found dead
i: The scientific community in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre was in for a shock as another of their colleagues was found dead in suspi- cious circumstances. The body of the woman scientist, Titas |
Stone quarrying: Collector's order upheld
THE Madras High Court has upheld the orders of the Kancheepuram District Col- lector refusing renewal of contracts for quarrying blue metal from Tiruneermalai village. A division bench compris- ing |
PENNAGARAM BYPOLL - AIADMK candidate files papers
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Ka- zhagam (AIDMK candidate for Pennaga- ram Assemlby bypoll T R Anbazhagan filed his nomination with the assistant returning officer-cum-Pennagaram tahsil- dar D Ponra |
US, Canada to import more Nilgiri tea
CONCLUDING its four-day intensive tour of Nilgiri tea areas on Thursday, a team of leading importers from the US and Canada has indicated the pos- sibility of increased purchases of Nil- giri tea in c |
Move to set up ETP at Cuddalore opposed
RESIDENTS here have opposed the setting up of an effluent treatment plant at Cudda- lore to discharge effluents from Tirupur- Erode textile units. As per the plan, the ef- fluents would be pumped thro |
Bus rams into two-wheeler, kills 2
Two persons were killed and another was injured when their bike collided with a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) bus here on Thursday. Traffic Intelligence Wing police registered a case |
Stalin to visit Cuddalore tomorrow
Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin will visit Cuddalore district on Saturday. Stalin, who will be arriving at Neyveli on Friday evening, will participate at a party function at Vadalur and inaugurate a |
Natyanjali at Natarajar temple
The five-day Natyanjali Dance Festival with participation of artistes from across the country will begin at Chidambaram Natarajar Temple on March 13 ENS |
Vel Tech exams
The Vel Tech Technical University on Chennai: The Vel Tech Technical University on Thursday issued a clarification on media reports that stated that students from the University were on strike. In a p |
Bangaru Adigalar b'day
The 70th birthday celebration of Bangaru Adigalar was held at Melmaravathur on Thursday.
A large number of devotees, VIPs and officials participated. A special souvenir was released by Bangaru Adig |
AI pilots threaten to pull out of Kabul operations
Citing safety reasons, Air India pilots have threatened not to operate to Kabul if the national carrier does not give clear guidelines for flying to the trouble-torn country, even as the airline chief |
Rs 330 crore for C'wealth Games security
To ensure foolproof security during the commonwealth games, the government has sanctioned Rs 330 crore for high-tech weapons and de- vices to counter any possible nuclear and biological attacks |
Too little, too late - Stop airing sleaze tape: CM to media
TWO days after the Sun News television channel began airing video clips of Swami Nithyananda with a woman in his bed- room, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Thursday urged the media to refrain from tel |
63 women, kids die in temple stampede
37 CHILDREN Majority of the dead were children. As a massive crowd pushed in, the gate gave way, and the children who were in the front, were trampled upon 28 CRITICAL Over 100 persons were injured, 2 |
AP SPAIN PAIN VIRTUALLY CRIPPLES INDIA
AFTER a few days of collec- tive optimism and an attack of ambition, India will wake up this morning with fertile ground for those seeking to prophesy doom for hockey in this country. India's 2-5 loss |
MEET TO SAVE MEDICINAL PLANTS
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PLOT TO DEFAME HIM: SWAMI'S UNCLE
THE controversial video clippings showing Swami Nithyananda in the company of a Tamil film actress were part of an "international conspiracy" aimed at tarnishing the image of "an up and coming young s |
Hunt for video clipping starts
The hunt for `downloaded' visuals of Swami Nithyananda and film actress Ranjita has begun in Chennai with DVD shops in plac- es like Ritchie Street, Burma Bazzar and Pondy Bazzar reporting inquir- ies |
TAMILNADU - SWAMI BOOKED FOR CHEATING
The Central Crime Branch on Thursday filed a case against Swami Nithyananda for cheating, based on a complaint filed by a group of Madras High Court advo- cates on Wednesday. The lawyers sought crimin |
MK portrait to be displayed in old and new Assembly halls
CHIEF Minister M Karu- nanidhi's portrait will be displayed the old Assembly hall at the Fort St George and the new Assembly hall to be inaugurated at Govern- ment Es- tate. A resolu- tion to this |
Most-wanted UP criminal nabbed
IN a sensational case, a north Indian small- scale industrialist settled in suburban Red Hills for the last 10 years has turned out to be a dreaded and most wanted criminal car- rying a reward of Rs 5 |
STRUGGLE FOR RIGHTS - Govt cannot afford to alienate Maoists
I LIKE to imagine that when Union home minister Chidambaram called Maoist leader Kishenji over his offer of a ceasefire, he was confronted with an outrageous caller tune. I'd like to use my imaginatio |
time out - SCHOOL DAYS ALWAYS WORTH REMEMBERING
WHEN I see today's school children, in- cluding my own grandchildren, going to their so-called `elite' schools, dressed in smart uniforms, socks and shoes with their bags full of books, lunch boxes an |
Sustainability of SHGs is a concern, say experts
DESPITE the tremendous growth in the SHG move- ment in the country, sustain- ability of the SHGs contin- ues to be a major concern and this was discussed at a national conference on Sus- t a i n abl e |
REMEMBERING MICHAEL FOOT - Footie was a good man, a great parliamentarian
HE may go down in history as La- bour's worst-ever leader but Michael Foot was a huge success as a princi- pled politician and a giant as a par- liamentarian. And even that descrip- tion, earned after |
HARASSMENT IN PAK - Some hope for hijra now
WEARING a red knit bonnet, match- ing lipstick and a shawl over her large shoulders and muscular fore- arms, Nanni gently sought to clear up some confusion as the call to prayer sounded from a nearby |
NSA to visit Kabul today
In the wake of last week's Kabul attack, National Security Advisor (NSA) Shiv- shankar Menon will travel there on Friday to discuss the security of Indians working on developmental projects across Afg |
National Tourism Award for Humayun Tomb
Humayun Tomb in the city has been selected for the National Tourism Award in the category of best maintained tourist-friendly monument. The award was received by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) o |
Sonia backs FM on fuel price hike
AFTER the Prime Minister, it was Congress president Sonia Gandhi's turn to back the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.But she did it without uttering a single word on the issue of the mo- ment, fue |
BJP for JPC probe into sugar scam
MAINTAINING that the UPA Gov- ably f ernment had `miserably failed' to check price rise, BJP on Thursday demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into `scams' in the import-export of food |
ARMY PENSION - Advani sharpens attack on PM
A day after the verbal duel, BJP parliamentary party chair man L K Advani on Thursday sharpened his at- tack against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh."The more bewildered the Prime Minister is when th |
Cabinet discusses dam row
CHIEF Minister M Karu- n a n i d h i o n T h u r s d ay chaired the 44th meeting of the State Cabinet at the Sec- retariat. The meeting lasted for around two hours. Appointment of a retired judge t |
AIADMK rebels say they can't be disqualified
TWO AIADMK rebel MLAs -- L Radhakrishnan and K Ra- jendran -- on Thursday called on Assembly Speaker R Avudaiappan and asserted that the demand for their dis- qualification was wrong.Both confirmed |
Ceramic knee replacement surgery
THE Apollo Hospital, Tey- nampet on Thursday said it had performed a first of its kind knee replacement sur- gery in South India. Called Ceramic Coated Knee, the procedure was performed on a patient s |
`AD-HOCISM MUST END IN INDIA, PAK'
Ad-hocism must end in India and Pakistan if hockey has to progress at the interna- tional level, says Tayyab Ikram, the International Hockey Federation's (FIH) di- rector of coaching. Ikram, a Pakista |
MANTELL RULED OUT OF WORLD CUP
England hockey team suf- fered a big jolt as their key defender Richard Mantell was ruled out of the ongoing World Cup due to injury . |
DUTCH TAEKE CENTRESTAGE
NOT often does a hockey player find global brands queuing for endorsements bids. You have to be someone astonishingly genius. You have to be a Taeke Taekema. The Dutch drag-flicker has under his go |
Indian-origin Black Sticks player big hit
PRIYESH Bhana is a New Zealander but his Indian roots and his sizzling runs have made him a crowd favourite in the ongoing Hockey World Cup. The diminutive Bhana is among a number of players of Ind |
AFTER MATCH - Brasa: Lack of experience undid India
JOSE Brasa reckoned that India were undone by their lack of experience. "We have just four or five players who have played in major tour- naments, while Spain had many . On the field, we were more or |
TTD Kalyana Utsavam
: The Tirupathi Tirumala Devasthanam (TTD) in association with the Sri Malaiappa Swamy Seva Trust is organising Kalyana Utsavam of the presiding deity Srinivasa Swamy on March 13 on the Vellore Fort G |
Call to include Dalit Christians, Muslims in SC list
NATIONAL Council of Dalit Christians (NCDC) would be forced to launch a nationwide struggle and political stand in the future rejecting parties not doing justice to them by not implementing the Justic |
Ex-cricketer's house raided for Fonseka's son-in-law
INVESTIGATORS have raid- ed the house of an ex-Sri Lankan cricket captain to nab Dhanuna Tillakaratne, son-in-law of former army commander Sarath Fonseka.
Dhanuna has been abscond- ing after an arr |
GENERAL'S DETENTION ILLEGAL: EX-CJ OF LANKA
FORMER Sri Lankan Chief Justice Sarath Silva has flayed as illegal the detention of ex-ar my commander Sarath Fonseka, prompting the government to express dismay over his comments. Silva, who serve |
SIDDHA RESEARCH COUNCIL Centre okays proposal for HQ in State
THE Centre on Thursday de- cided to establish separate Central Council for Research in `Siddha' with its headquar- ters in Chennai. In order to provide more attention to the development of this sys |
37 TALIBAN KILLED IN CLASH WITH MILITARY, AIR STRIKE
Pakistan's military killed 30 Taliban fighters who tried to storm a security post near Peshawar on Thursday, while an air strike else- where in the northwest left seven insurgents dead, officials said |
IT'S TIME TO VOTE, SAYS OBAMA
IN the face of Republican stonewalling of his $1 tril- lion health care plan for months, President Barack Obama has thrown down the gauntlet, asking Demo- crats to push ahead with an "up-or-down" vote |
Private diary of Communist sets many eyes rolling
THE private diary of a Chinese Communist Party official, detailing a daily schedule of sex, drinking binges and bribe-taking, has gripped the country's imagination after it was leaked onto the interne |
`One in 3 killed by US drones in Pak is a civilian'
ONE in three "mili- tants" killed in US Pred- ator Drone attacks in Pakistan's remote tribal areas is in fact a civil- ian, according to a re- port by an American think tank.The report, by the Wash |
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12 YEAR-OLDS IN SWITZERLAND IN HOT PURSUIT AS EXTRA-SMALL CONDOMS HIT MARKETS
Extra-small condoms for boys as young as 12 are going on sale in Switzerland. Called the Hotshot, the condom has been produced after government research showed 12 to 14- year-olds did not use sufficie |
WARM RELATIONS - Raising puppies is a `winged' affair at Tate family's house
A hen has astonished its owners by taking a litter of puppies under its wing. The one-year-old, called Mabel, took a shine to the pups at a farm in Shrewsbury and now keeps them warm by roosting on to |
BAD OMEN? - `Sea God's messenger' raises earthquake concerns in Japan
Japan is bracing itself after dozens of rare giant oarfish, traditionally the harbinger of a powerful earthquake, have been washed ashore or caught in fishermen's nets. The appearance of the fish foll |
DIVULGING TOO MUCH - Raid called off as Israeli soldier posts details on Facebook
The Israeli military called off a raid in Palestinian territory after a soldier posted details, including the time and place, on social networking website Fa- cebook. Israel's Army Radio reported that |
Drag-flicker's biggest menace: The newly-laid pitch
USUALLY, fiasco over pitches is confined to cricket. But the new- ly-laid Poligrass turf at the May- or Dhyan Chand Stadium has been the talking point for all the wrong reasons. None have been feeling |
RECORDS DON'T MATTER TO ME: CHARLESWORTH
After Australia's record 12-0 victory over South Africa on Thursday , coach Ric Charles- worth said records don't mat- ter to him. "I was not aware of the record. But records don't matter to me. Howev |
Four get jail term for Germany's `Sept 11' plot
: A German court on Thursday jailed four Islamic militants who dreamed of "mounting a second September 11" for a thwarted plot to attack US soldiers and civilians in Germany. Sentencing the four, who |
Khamenei for Sunni-Shiite unity against Israel
ran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for Sunni and Shiite countries to close ranks against the "cancerous tumour of Israel," state television reported on Thursday. "Islamic government |
BSP wants Pawar out
Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) staged a demonstration in city on Thursday protesting the hike in prices of essential commodities. They demanded the resignation of the Un- ion Agriculture Minister Shara |
Four teenagers arrested for robberies
Four teenagers, allegedly involved in over 25 cases - including looting an ATM and car theft, were arrested from Gur- gaon, police said on Thursday.
Two minors were among the arrested. The other tw |
ICF TUs protest privatisation
Workers belonging to four trade unions -- BRMS, AIRF, NFIR and CITU -- staged a demonstration in front of the general manager's office at Integral Coach Factory (ICF) on Thursday demanding that the IC |
Concern at American arms aid to Pak
THE decision by the United States to deliver a thousand laser guided bomb kits to Pakistan along with brand new F-16 fighter jets to fight Al-Qaeda and the Taliban evoked serious concern in India as D |
NO RESERVATION ON WOMEN'S BILL
THE BJP is all set to join hands with the Left parties in the Rajya Sabha in ensuring the smooth passage of the Women's Reservation Bill being brought by the Congress-led UPA Gov- ernment in the cente |
Be vigilant, Home Minister tells border districts
AS India prepares to undertake the humongous task of identifying over a billion people, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday asked border districts to be extra vigilant of citizens of neighbo |
MAOIST MENACE - Chidambaram blames CPM, JD(U)
IN a separately called in camera meeting of District Magistrates of 33 Naxal af- fected districts, Union Home Minister P Chidamba- ram on Thursday blamed the CPM and Janata Dal (United) for being ambi |
LOOSE CANNON - Maoist leadership irked by Kishenji's media antics
IT is not just Union Home Minister P Chidambaram who finds Maoist leader Kishenji's statements bi- zarre. The CPI-Maoist leadership also seems perturbed by the state- ments made by its politburo mem- |
Yechury slams Mamata's support for Maoists
CPM MP Sitaram Yechury criticised Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for what he called her tacit support to the Mao- ists in Left-ruled West Bengal. Taking part in the Motion of Thanks to the |
Yemen arrests 11 suspects
Yemeni security forces arrested 11 men in the capital Sanaa on suspi- cion of plotting attacks for al-Qaeda, killing one man during the operation, a security source said on Thursday.
"The 11 men ar |
Honour kills 5,000 a year: UN
SOME 5,000 women are murdered in honour kill- ings every year, the UN's top human rights official said Thursday, calling it an "extreme symptom of discrimination" against women."It has been estimat |
SCIENTISTS FIND DINOSAUR COUSIN
SCIENTISTS have uncovered the bones of a dino- saur-like creature that roamed Earth at least 10 mil- lion years earlier than the oldest known dinosaur, according to a study published on Thursday. D |
Cash-strapped Greece told to sell its islands
GREECE should sell some of its uninhabited islands to raise cash, two allies of Chancellor An- gela Merkel were quoted as saying on Thursday. "The Greek state must sell stakes in companies and also |
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Tsunami alert rattles earthquake-hit Chile
POWERFUL aftershocks sent terrified people scram- bling for the hills in tsuna- mi-prone coastal areas in Chile as aid began to pour into towns after the army managed to quell looting. Four days af |
PREZ-ELECT UNVEILS RECONSTRUCTION PLANS
: Chile's president-elect Sebastian Pinera vowed on Thursday his government would focus on reconstruction after the huge earthquake and tsunami waves that battered his nation.
"We will not be the g |
ENGLISH RULE
PAKISTAN'S survival hopes in the World Cup dealt a massive blow as they slumped to a 2-5 de- feat against England. England, meanwhile, are only a point away from securing their semifinal spot. Ashley |
Thunder from Down Under
SOME matches only concern the quiz masters, like the one between Australia and South Africa. Who else should be con- cerned of Australia hammering South Africa 12-0, the biggest victory margin and the |
WE ARE GETTING BETTER: KNOWLES
: Even as Australia buckled another clinical victory, they put paid their captaincy rotating rou- tine. After Jamie Dwyer and Mark Knowles, it was Liam de Young turn to skipper the side, and it worked |
`WE WILL BE THE BEST ENGLAND SIDE EVER'
Three wins in as many matches, England's semifinal trail is on course. They have shed their dark- horse tag and can be bracketed among the contenders of the tour- nament, so much so that experts recko |
DELHI INITIATES CAMPAIGN TO CHECK DENGUE
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Wednesday initi- ated a campaign to check mosquito- borne diseases like dengue, chikun- guniya and malaria in time for the Games. Delhi Mayor Kanwar Sain said |
No security concerns from countries: Govt
THE sports ministry on Thursday as- serted that participating countries in this year's Commonwealth Games have not raised any security concerns about travelling to India and "elabo- rate arrangements" |
HALF-A-MN CIGARETTES IN SEVEN DECADES KEEP 100-YR-OLD `YOUNG'
A woman who toasted her 100th birthday with a cigarette and a tot of whisky said she would also be raising a glass to 70 years as a committed smoker and drinker. Lorna Gobey smoked her first cigare |
Violence mars Iraq voting, 14 dead in suicide attack
Early voting in Iraq's general election was overshadowed on Thursday by two suicide bombings at polling stations that killed seven soldiers and a mortar attack that claimed the lives of seven civilian |
Japanese scientist develop painless vaccine needle
A Japanese scientist has developed a new injection system that can deliver drug into human skin without causing any pain. The system, a round vaccine chip measuring 1.5 cm in diameter that contains as |
Dalai Lama on Twitter
The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has joined mi- cro-blogging service Twitter, attracting over 100,000 followers in two weeks. The Dalai Lama's Twitter feed was launched after he met in L |
Oscar presenter dropped
In another controversy surrounding this year's Oscar awards, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has been dropped as a presenter over fears that he may offend Avatar director James Cameron with his antics. The |
Taliban sympathy runs high in ISI factions
FORMER Pakistani Army officers are continuing to train Taliban fighters and have helped the militant outfit to stage a remarkable comeback since 2006, the New York Times reported.The army trainers |
Release of hardcore militants snowballing?
A man freed from Guantanamo more than two years ago after he claimed he only wanted to go home and help his family is now a senior commander running Taliban resistance to the US-led offen- sive in sou |
CHENNAI OPEN SQUASH - Saurav wins; Joshna, Dipika bow out
On a forgettable day for India, barring Saurav Ghosal all the other top players including Ritwik, Siddharth, Joshna Chi- nappa and Dipika Palikal had to bite the dust in the first-round matches of the |
Canada hit for six
GERMAN skipper Max Muller rated Florian Fuchs the brightest youngster on the horizon. Against Canada, he reposed his skipper's faith with a canny performance that defined Ger- many's 6-0 wallop of Can |
ADITYA TO TAKE PART IN SCIROCCO CUP
RACING sensation Aditya Patel, son of former noted racer Kamlesh Patel will be participating in the VW Sci- rocco Cup to be held at Germany from the month of April. Aditya will be the first Indian to |
IMRAN ADVANCES
Imran Ganj of MRC scored a credit- able 5-1 win over state champion SA Saleem of MCC in the quarterfinals of TNBSA 6 Red Snooker State Rank- ing Tournament 2010.
Results: Quarterfinals: (Best of 9 |
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Tamil Nadu State Volleyball Association will organise the 5th Uninor- State Beach Volleyball Champion- ship from March 4 to 6 at Jawaharlal Nehru and Multipurpose stadium.
About 55 men's teams and |
JONATHAN SCORES HAT-TRICK
ONGC beat CPCL 5-0 to enter the semifinals of the PSPB interunit Football Tournament at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Wednesday. For ONGC, Jonathan Lalswan Zwala scored a hatrick (10th, 13th and 14th mi |
KUBENDRAN SCALPS SEVEN
K Kubendran's 7 for 43 enabled State Bank Recreation Club to defeat Sounder CC by seven wickets in a Fourth Division C Zone match of the TNCA.
Brief scores: IV Division `C': Sounder CC 89 in 29.1 o |
Give copy of remand application to godman, police told
A court here on Wednesday asked the police to provide a copy of their application seeking to quiz self-styled godman in custody for alleged running of a multi-crore sex racket here. Metropolitan Magis |
AUTONOMY REPORT - Govt awaits J&K's response
THE Central Government is awaiting a response from Jammu and Kashmir Government on the issue of autono- my for the state as suggested by the Justice Saghir Ahmed Committee, a working group set up by P |
St. Stephen's prof jumps to death
A 63-year-old professor of St. Stephen's College on Wednesday jumped to death from his south Delhi residence, police said. Mahesh Chander Jain, a teacher in chem- istry department, was found dead in t |
PM may meet Pak leaders in Washington
WITH last week's foreign- secretary level talks end- ing in a stalemate, the leaders of India and Paki- stan are expected to meet on the sidelines of a global security summit on nucle- ar security in |
NASA `reluctant' to tie up with ISRO
DESPITE a "shoestring" budget, that is hardly 3 per cent of that of the US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Ad- ministration (NASA), In- dian space program has made many countries jeal- ous |
Jackson is vital to England's cause
IN robust athleticism and inher- ent creative acumen, Ashley Jackson can be likened to Eng- land midfielder Joe Cole, with a similarly cropped hair and stocky build. He was what Cole was in his early |
GURGAON RESIDENTS TO REPAIR ROAD ON THEIR OWN
TIRED of not getting a response from the au- thorities, residents of Wazirpur village in Hary- ana's Gurgaon district have decided to take mat- ters into their own hands. They have decided to contr |
India's secret weapon: Brasa
A middle-aged man equipped with an en- dearing accent and a need-based desire to learn Hindi will be po- sitioned beyond the white lines on the astro- turf at the Dhyan Chand National Stadium when Ind |
Police, CRPF join hands to fight Maoists
IN an effort to better coordinate anti-Naxal operations, the gov- ernment has set up combined Special Operation Groups of state police and CRPF to take on the Left wing extremists.The SOG teams, co |
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CBSE exams begin
: The CBSE examinations for classes XII and X began on Wednes- day. The first paper for class XII, Phys- ics, went on fine with some students finding it lengthy, while class X stu- dents appeared for |
AIADMK agitations against fuel price hike on March 6
AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa announced on Wednesday that the party would organise demonstra- tions across the State on March 6 demanding rollback of the fuel price hike an- nounced by the Uni |
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Jewellery, cash stolen from ex-Anna Univ staff's house
BURGLARS decamped with 38 sov- ereigns of gold jewellery and Rs 25,000 in cash from the house of a recently retired official of Anna Uni- versity on Tuesday.According to Kottupuram police, Dr Elvin |
IN THE HIGH COURT - SC/STs can't claim quota in promotion
MEMBERS of scheduled castes and sched- uled tribes cannot claim reservation in pro- motion as a matter of right, the Madras High Court has held. Article 16(4) of the Constitution provid- ing for re |
Exhumation of Muslim woman's body challenged
S ABOOBAKER of Andal Nagar Annexe in Porur has challenged the action of author- ities concerned in exhuming the body of his mother on February 15 from the site at- tached to the Sheik Maniam burial gr |
TV channels restrained from defaming pvt firm
THE Madras High Court has restrained Mahaa TV and TV 9, both based in Hyderabad, from defaming the Prajit Foundations Private Limited in Thou- sand Lights, Chennai.In his suit, Prajit Foundation di |
Hurt Locker co-producer barred from Oscars 2010
A producer of the Iraq war story The Hurt Locker will not be al- lowed to attend the Academy Awards ceremony because of e-mails he sent urging academy members to vote for his movie. Chartier sent an e |
PENNAGARAM BYPOLL - VANNIYAR OFFICIALS BEING TRANSFERRED: PMK TO CEO
PMK LEADER Anbumani Rama- doss and party MLA Velmurugan met Chief Electoral Officer Na- resh Gupta and gave a representa- tion alleging that Vanniyar offi- cials had been transferred outside the distr |
80 dead, 400 missing in Uganda landslide
At least 80 people died and 400 were missing after a landslide triggered by torrential rain swept away entire villages in eastern Ugan- da, the Ugandan Red Cross said AFP |
Muslim woman barred from flight after refusing body scan
: A Muslim woman is thought to have become the first pas- senger to be stopped from boarding a flight for refusing to go through a full body scanner because of religious rea- sons. The passenger was a |
Warrant against Muqtada al-Sadr for 2003 murder
IN a surprise move ahead of weekend elections, Iraq's highest judicial body has renewed an arrest warrant against anti-US Shiite leader Muqta- da al-Sadr for the murder of a moder- ate cleric nearly s |
SCIENTISTS FIND MATHEMATICAL FORMULA FOR THE PERFECT WIFE
A bride should be five years younger than her groom, should come from the same cultural background, and be the more intelligent of the pair if couples are to have a successful marriage, scientists hav |
Hamas leader's son says he spied for Israel
Mosab Yousef, the son of a founder of the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, says he was a spy for Israel's Shin Bet for a decade as he felt that the spy agency had more morality than his own people. |
Oppn flays Pawar on price rise
THE united Opposition once again flexed its muscle both outside and inside Parlia- ment. They took Union Agri- culture Minister Sharad Pawar to task in the Upper House on the spirally prices of food i |
FUEL PRICE HIKE - PRANAB MOLLIFIES DMK, TRINAMOOL
AMID the furore in both the Houses of Parliament, Fi- nance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday held a series of meetings with the key UPA allies -- the DMK and Trinamool Congress (TC) -- as well a |
BSF commandant withdraws bail plea
A senior BSF official, who was suspended in connec- tion with the killing of a 16- year-old boy, on Wednesday withdrew his anticipatory bail plea as Jammu and Kashmir Po- lice began the procedure of s |
Palestinian homes to be demolished for tourist centre
: Jerusalem's mayor unveiled a plan on Tuesday to demolish dozens of Palestinian homes to make room for a tourist centre in one of the disputed city's most volatile neigh- bourhoods, drawing criticism |
Peers vote for homosexuals' marriage in church
Homosexuals may be allowed to hold civil partnership ceremonies in churches after the House of Lords vot- ed in favour of scrapping a ban on same-sex religious unions. Peers voted overwhelmingly in fa |
BRACED FOR POLLS - Suicide blasts kill 33 ahead of Iraq elections
THREE suicide bombings, including one carried out by an attacker who rode in an ambulance to hospital before blowing himself up, killed 33 people in central Iraq on Wednesday, just days before nationw |
UAE races using child camel jockeys
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BRAZIL MAYOR BANS `SEX BRACELETS' FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS
: A Brazilian mayor has banned so-called `sex bracelets' worn by children to flaunt their sexual preferences from all public schools, saying they lead to inappropriate discussions. Navegantes Mayor Ro |
BSP-CONG CONFRONTATION OVER BRIDGE INAUGURATION
IN a new confrontation between the Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) and the Congress over credit for develop- ment issues, the Mayawati-led gov- ernment in the state not only pre- vented the Union Minister of |
Uddhav flays Raj for silence on `Mumbai for Indians' comment
THE browbeating between the two estranged cousins espous- ing the Marthi manoos cause continued to hit the headlines in Maharashtra with their bit- ter succession battle being fought in the people's c |
Tariff regime will end by 2018: Expert
ABOUT 85 to 90 per cent of Indian products will have zero duty by 2018, as tariffs across the world will be slow- ly eliminated, according to T S Vishwanath, principal ad- visor, trade policy, CII. |
Jaya case: CBI court summons 42 witnesses
THE CBI special court on Thursday has decided to re- commence the trial on March 18 against J Jayayla- lithaa, former chief minis- ter of Tamil Nadu, in the dispropor tionate assets case. The CBI s |
Osmania varsity students respond to AP Govt's plea
FOUR students of Osmania University, the respondents in the Special Leave Petition filed by Andhra Pradesh, told the apex court that the demand for Telangana was more than 55 years old. In the coun |
Honour killing: Govt to amend IPC
: The Union Government on Wednesday said that a proposal to amend the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to deal with honour killings was under consideration. The gov- ernment, however, did not give any time fra |
Hand-written passports not banned: Govt
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has is- sued guidelines for issue of Ma- chine Readable Passports (MRPs)by April this year but there would be no ban on the travel of those hold |
`All facts considered for giving Bharat Ratna'
: With the BJP demanding a Bharat Ratna for Sachin Ten- dulkar for his cricketing feats, the Congress on Wednesday said that in giving the Padma awards or the Bharat Ratna, the Government keeps all fa |
Home Ministry to digitalise files, records
:The Union Home Ministry will digitalise about 12 lakh files and records relating to claims and compensation for displaced per- sons. The digitalisation will make the written files available online an |
ATTACK ON INDIANS - Blot on our image, admits Australia
PARTLY on a damage-control mis- sion, Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith admitted on Wednes- day that attacks against Indian stu- dents in Australia had dented his country's reputation in India |
Bid to link Kashmir with Afghanistan assailed
US special envoy Richard Hol- brooke has scoffed at propo- nents of American mediation on Kashmir as part of a larger strategy to stabilise Afghani- stan. "People who have advo- cated that are making |
HYDRAULIC FAILURE CAUSED CRASH
A HYDRAULIC failure in the Kiran MK-II plane in the last min- ute appears to be the possible cause, which led to the crash of the aircraft here on Wednesday.Surprisingly, though the Kiran MK-IIs ar |
Air show disaster - Use of vintage aircraft risks safety of pilots
THE crash of the Navy's basic jet trainer, Kiran-Mk II, while per forming aerobatics in Hyderabad has thrown up fresh questions on fielding old aircraft in air shows jeopardizing the safety of specta |
S Asian women's film fete from Monday
An Afghan story about the Bamyan Buddhas, a love ballad from Bangladesh and an anti-war musical from Pakistan are among the 14 plays that will be staged at Leela, the first South Asian Women's Film Fe |
Two top Hizbul ultras lay down arms in J&K
Two top militants of pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen on Wednesday surrendered be- fore security forces while an- other was arrested in the Jam- mu region, the police said. Ab- dul Lateef Bali alias Abd |
Taliban, not drugs, focus of US-Afghan offensive
EVEN by Afghan standards, it was a startling find: An opium packaging workshop, buried under donkey dung and old hay in a stable that U.S. Ma- rines turned into a patrol base in south- ern Afghanistan |
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ARRESTED MAOIST LEADER INTERROGATED
ONE of the top Maoist leaders of the country, Ven- kateswar Reddy alias Telegu Deepak, who was arrested on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday night, was in- terrogated by West Bengal Director Genera |
Plea to close Shopian case rejected
THE Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) High Court has re- jected the CBI's plea to close the Shopian case involv- ing the death of two women in controversial circum- stances and directed it to file an affidavit |
Opinion - Zardari's master stroke
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's Valentine Day's gift to the nation came in the shape of his ignoring Justice Saqib Nisar's nomination by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for a vacan- cy |
Top defence trade union
: The All India Defence Employees Federation (AIDEF), an inde- pendent body, emerged as the major federation of the defence employees, in trade union membership verification by the Ministry of Defence |
Stand on Lanka
India has stressed to the Sr Lankan government the necessity of reaching a political settlement ac- ceptable to all the communities there including the Tamils ENS |
Seminar on budget
: Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes S S N Moorthy will in- augurate a one-day seminar on Union Budget 2010 at Hotel Savera on Saturday organised by Southern India Re- gional Council of the Ins |
Process patent granted
IIT-Madras Professor S Sankararaman and Dr Rajan Ravichandran of Madras Institute of Nephrology were granted process patent for a life-saving drug used in dialysis patients with chronic kidney disease |
Microsoft to go local
: Microsoft India has set its focus on the local market in the coun- try by launching a host of applica- tions, which are customisable in local languages ENS |
TUs road roko tomorrow
: The activists of various trade unions will resort to road rokos in various parts of the State on March 5 to protest against rise in petroleum prices. CITU State general secretary A Soundararajan tol |
`Tax tobacco products'
Direct or of Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Dr Elango on Wednesday urged NGOs to move government to tax tobacco products to curb its consumption ENS |
Bail pleas transferred to Thanjavur court
THE Madras High Court has ordered the transfer to the sessions court in Thanjavur of the bail and anticipatory bail applications of those charged with assaulting AIADMK MP O S Manian.Manian said he |
AIADMK petitions to disqualify 2 MLAs
AIADMK MLAs led by O Paneerselvam and D Jayaku- mar on Wednesday submit- ted two separate affidavits to Tamil Nadu Legislative As- sembly secretary M Selvaraj, seeking disqualification of two party ML |
Forum to look for solutions to improve Chennai waterways
EXPERTS from across the country will examine ways to provide solutions to im- prove the waterways in Chennai during a two-day seminar on waterways in the city from Thursday. The seminar, which will |
SHADOW AGRI BUDGET - Farm sector neglect behind price rise: PMK
PRESENTING his party's shadow budget for agricul- ture for 2010-11 here on Wednesday, PMK founder leader Dr S Ramadoss said neglect of agriculture had contributed to the sharp increase in the prices o |
12 PDK members held
Police on Wednesday arrested 12 members of the Periyar Dravida Kalazham (PDK) for staging a demonstration in Gan- dhipuram protesting against Swami Nithy- ananda. The PDK men gathered near the Tamil N |
Photographs burnt
A group of youth burnt photographs of Swami Nithyananda near Crown Theatre here on Wednesday morning following a telecast of a video, portraying him having an affair with cine artiste Ranjitha. On Tue |
Public protest in Salem
anners and posters of discredited Swami Nithyananda were set on godman Swami Nithyananda were set on fire in many places here. Tension erupted in the vicinity of the godman's ashram here when a group |
Three huts in Bangalore ashram catch fire
Forest department sleuths raided the ashram premises and seized around 25 kg sandalwood pieces. In a related development, three huts in the ashram used as storerooms caught fire (pic). Fire engines do |
HYUN SEALS LAST-GASP WIN FOR KOREA
EVEN as the pros and cons of refer- rals are debated, Korea benefited from the system as it furnished them with a last-minute penalty corner, which they duly converted, to edge Argentina 2-1 in the Po |
AFTER MATCH - We have to get better: Wiese
PERFECTIONISTS as the Germans are, even a 6-0 win against Canada brought no smile on coach Markus Weise. He was still pensive after the match. "We should have won by a bigger mar- gin. We had the chan |
`We were confident of scoring'
CONVERTING a penalty cor- ner in the final minute calls for steely nerves, which Kore- ans showed they have. But Korean midfielder Hyo Sik You maintained that they were fully confident of scor- ing th |
2 out of 2 for Netherlands
THERE were two moments worth recall value in the New Zealand-Netherlands encounter in the World Cup, which the latter won 3-1.
One was when the Kiwis raced to a lead in the first minute, the next w |
SWAMI MOVES COURT TO RESTRAIN MEDIA
SWAMI Nithyananda moved a civil court in the city on Wednesday to restrain the Sun TV from telecasting any video clip- pings and newspapers from publishing any article or photograph about him.The X |
GROUP WIDE OPEN
COMPETITIVE as pool B is, all sides, even lowly South Africans, stand a mathematical shot at the semifinals, easily making it the more competitive of the two groups in the World Cup. Going by the natu |
Naxals directed to ensure ceasefire for 72 hours
: A day after Home Minister P Chidamabaram termed Maoist leader Kishenji's truce offer as bizarre, the government extend- ed an olive branch to the left wing extremists asking them to ensure ceasefire |
NO BURQA, NO PROBLEM: BANGLA COURT TO POLICE
BANGLADESH'S High Court has ordered police in the Muslim- majority country to stop harass- ing women who choose not to wear the full-face veil, l a w y e r s s a i d o n Wednesday. The order was in |
DEAD MAN'S TALES - Smoker has `Smoking Killed Me' signs placed on hearse
A life-long smoker had his dying wish honoured on Wednesday when he had the words `Smoking Killed Me' placed on signs in his hearse. Albert Whittamore died last month aged 85 after suffering for years |
WHAT'S IN A NAME - World War II veteran discovers `arthritis' was German bullet
A war veteran who thought he had ar- thritis only to discover his discomfort had actually been caused by a German bullet which had been lodged in his hip for the last 66 years. Fred Gough was told by |
TOYING WITH IDEAS - New Zealand inventor creates flying hovercraft
The ultimate in big boys' toys -- a hov- ercraft that flies -- has been put up for sale on an internet auction website by its New Zealand inventor. Rudy Hee- man, who lives in the South Island city of |
LOOK WHO SHOWED UP! - Killer caught after driving into police station car park
A fugitive killer who went on the run after being sentenced to death 22 years ago has finally been caught after mis- takenly driving into a police station car park. Jean-Claude Demey, 51, spent eight |
Peon arrested for robbery
The police arrested a man in con- ith a theft in a Pollution Control nection with a theft in a Pollution Control Board official's house. As per the complaint filed by Rajeswari, 18 sovereigns of jewel |
Pillion rider dies in accident
A 19-year-old student died on Wednesday after a motorbike in which he was travelling collided with a bicycle on Munroe Street on the previous day. B Hari- hara Sudhakar, a resident of West Mam- balam |
FIH NOT BIASED, SAYS NEGRE
International Hockey Federa- tion president Leandro Negre on Wednesday dismissed alle- gations that the two-match suspension of Indian striker Shivendra Singh was a reflec- tion of FIH's bias against |
SEHWAG WISHES GOOD LUCK TO INDIAN TEAM
Recuperating from a sore back, Virender Sehwag has been spending the time away from cricket to root for the In- dian hockey team in the World Cup and the opener wished good luck to Rajpal Singh and hi |
MUSHTAQUE ALI PASSES AWAY
Olympian and famous nation- al hockey player Syed Mush- taque Ali alias Farzan Chacha, passed away here last night af- ter a prolonged illness. He was 57. Ali, who was suffering from stomach cancer, w |
GLOBAL WARMING - Carbon credit not a licence to pollute
CLIMATE change and emission reduc- tions have become permanent fixtures in the news. With all the brouhaha over Copenhagen and concomitant diplo- matic muscle-flexing by nations, many believe the Kyot |
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THE STOLEN GENERATION - American Indians, Australian Aborigines travel a similar path
THERE is a colonisation connec- tion the indigenous people of Aus- tralia and America share. Both were driven to the brink of annihilation by invaders. Both had their children ripped from their arm |
ECONOMY IN DOLDRUMS - Venezuela on verge of collapse
HUGO Chavez, Venezuela's president, now should be the object of pity. He has boxed him- self in, trapped by his own hubris. His country is falling apart. How, for example, did Venezu- ela find itself |
Five held for murder attempt
special team of the suburban police arrested five men who had allegedly conspired to murder a man at Peerkankarani on Tuesday.
To carry out their plan, they robbed another man as well. According to |
Students stage protest
tudents of a private college at Kicharayapuram staged a protest on Wednesday demanding an explaination from the authori- ties on the steps they had taken to retain the deemed university status. Earlie |
Mentally ill man kills mother
i: A 27-year-old mentally ill man, who stabbed his mother to death, was ar- rested at Guduvancherry on Tuesday. Accord- ing to the police, Suresh (27) of Easwaran Koil, Urapakkam, had a mental disorde |
Pregnant woman's body found
A pregnant women, who was reportedly missing from Selaiyur since Tues- day, was found dead at Potheri. According to the police, Bhuvaneshwari's half-naked body was found among the bushes on Wednesday. |
MULLAIPERIYAR PANEL - Ex-SC judge to represent Kerala
JUSTICE (retired) K T Thomas, a for- mer Supreme Court judge, has been appointed as Kerala's representative to the Supreme Court-appointed five- member empowered committee, which will look into the Mu |
N-E TROUPE TO PERFORM IN KANCHI
AT least 30 artistes belong- ing to the North East Music Concert Troupe will perform here on March 8 and 9 as part of the Knit India Yuva Yatra Programme. The event, to be held near the Kancheepuram m |
Time will test India-Saudi ties
The long overdue visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Saudi Arabia marked a paradigm shift in bilateral relations. From the bilateral point of view it was a highly successful visit as both sides |
Jumping the gun
It is symptomatic of Indian sport that public reactions to both victories and defeats go way over the top. The perfect example was the fallout of the Indian hockey team's splendid 4-1 win over Pakista |
