Union ministry of environment and forest Jayanthi Natarajan on Saturday said her ministry had given “environment clearance” for the 1200 MW North Chennai Thermal Power Project Stage – II treating it

Ismail Ssenyange of Uganda won the Wipro Chennai Marathon 2012, which saw over 5500 persons participating in the 42-km run today.

Ssenyange, clocked 2 hours, 36 minutes and 22 seconds to cross the di

Saturday was a day of joy for the faculty and students of IIT Madras as six final-year B.Tech (computer science) students - Aparna Krishnan, Pradeep Kumar, Madhavi Y, Sujith Gokul, Saheel Ram and Niti

Stern action will be taken against laboratories that subject animals to cruelty, Union minister Jayanthi Natarajan said here on Friday. After visiting the animal quarantine and certification station a

Recruiting companies are offering students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras startlingly high salaries this year.

Samsung Electronics has topped with a salary offer of $1.5 lakh (a

Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Friday said the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly had been graced by stalwarts who steered the course of history.

Speaking at the historic diamond jubilee celebrations

With just a month left for the monsoon season to end, the city could be heading for an acute water crisis in summer next year, if the rain plays truant and fails to make up for the existing deficit in

The hopes are receding for a positive northeast monsoon this year, as the weathermen are sceptical about rains in December turning saviour for the state.

Tamil Nadu has recorded one of the poorest a

The police on Friday retrieved the body of a seven-year-old boy who we­nt missing from his residence at Suragapuram hamlet, in Tiruv­allur.

Police said a villager spotted the body of a kid afloat in

If a sharp knock on the door is heard, as if a woodpecker is at it, it will be Ganapathi paying his annual visit to our home to ‘do’ the sabhas in December. This worthy, hailing from Thanjavur, is dom