Thanjavur veena, Nachiarkoil villakku (lamp) and Pattamadai pai (mat) — unique products of Tamil Nadu — will shortly get the GI (Geographical Indication) tag from Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), M

A CISF woman sub-inspector’s demand that a woman employee of Airports Authority of India remove her thali (mangalsutra) as part of body check at Chennai airport turned nasty with AAI employees picketi

The 100-ft Road from Kathipara to Koyambedu does not scare motorists any longer. Vehicle movement here is smoother and two-wheeler riders face less peril while manoeuvring between buses and cars on th

A student was killed when he came under the wheels of an MTC bus that hit him and ran amok at Pallavaram on Wednesday evening.

The bus came to a halt only after injuring two women pedestrians. Three

The flow of traffic in the already congested north Chennai areas is now hit by the ongoing stormwater drain work carried out by the city corporation, even as metro rail work and recent traffic diversi

The 1936 Berlin Olympics attained notoriety as German chancellor Adolf Hitler tried to hold up the Games as a symbol of Aryan supremacy.

The four-gold performance of Jesse Owens came as a perfect ri

A policeman in civilian clothes attached to the traffic intelligence section (IS) was allegedly assaulted by a traffic policeman at the busy Nandanam signal while the former was taking video of the la

Eminent agriculture scientist and Rajya Sabha MP, Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, on Wednesday raised concern about droughts and shortage of grain following the abnormal monsoon this year.

The Madras high court has ordered a CB-CID probe into the case of a Class 11 boy going missing since October 15, 2011, after he allegedly developed a friendship with a Class 12 girl in Hosur.

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Individual brilliance lights up an Olympics. The enduring image of the Beijing Games was the otherworldly performance of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt.

But team sports also have their days under the