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Tangedco to post consultant July end

Even as consumers are yet to recover from the steep power tariff hike, the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation.

(Tangedco) has initiated the process for appointing a consultant to give

Woman takes on cops via RTI

The RTI, it appears, has come to the aid of a poor woman in Theni district to substantiate her charge that policemen in Kadalmalaikundu station raped and assaulted her.

P Vasanthi, 27, was picked up

Monorail panel finalises request for proposal docu

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The stage for the final phase of Chennai monorail scheme tendering process was set on Wednesday after the empowered committee finalised the crucial RFP (request for proposal) document. Based on this,

Rs4.8 cr for Marina facelift

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The city corporation council on Wednesday gave its nod for regularising shops along the Marina beach and announced Rs4.8 crore for the beautification of the beach. Under the project, the civic body wo

TN yet to honour its hockey hero

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Hockey star V.J. Peter won a complete set of medals at the Olympics — silver at Rome, 1960, gold in the next edition and bronze in 1968. He was an Asian Games gold medallist in 1966.

Peter was the f

Court rejects student's plea for return of fees

The Madras high court has rejected the plea of a girl for refund of fees from an engineering college in the city that she left to join one in Pudukkottai as she was unable to attend class on all Satur

Cops stop suicide attempt at commissioner’s office

Police personnel prevented a suicide attempt at the city police commissioner’s office in Egmore by a man who alleged that the cops had failed to trace his missing wife.

Arulnathan, 32, of Pantruti in

School vehicles flout norms

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The bizarre accident that claimed the life of a seven-year old girl in Tambaram has brought to the fore the lack of safety in vehicles used by educational institution.

Most of the schools, especially

Student’s death sparks tension

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The death of a schoolboy on Tuesday night in a hospital after he fell from the staircase last week in a government-aided school sparked tension in Choolai as relatives of the boy argued with the schoo

Bridge work delay irks North Chennai residents

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While South Chennai witnesses infrastructure development, the situation in congested North Chennai remains grim. The interior roads and bottlenecks continue to be neglected as is evident from the work

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.