Cops hunt for smuggler
A team from Kochi CBI is in the city hunting for their most-wanted smuggling kingpin who had smuggled electronic goods worth Rs 30 crore from Singapore to Chennai and Kochi in just two months in 2011.
Rs2 crore antlers seized by police
The police has seized antlers worth Rs2 crore illegally kept in the godown of an export firm in neighbouring Tiruvallur on Friday.
The police also arrested Subramani, 44, who owns Bagyarekha Exports,
Dalit woman president seeks police protection
A dalit woman panchayat president in Theni has approached the DGP seeking protection from the vice-president and other subordinates, who belong to the dominant caste.
R. Selvi, 40, who has been admit
Lankan airmen leave Chennai
Yielding to pressure from chief minister J Jayalalithaa and several other political leaders, the Centre on Friday moved the nine Sri Lankan airmen from the IAF station at Tambaram to Bengaluru for con
Chennai link to Olympic torch
Two of the 8,000 perforations in the 2012 London Olympic torch have a Chennai connection! The prestigious torch has the handprints of two Chennaiites among the 8,000-odd folks who are carrying it from
B.E. colleges hike fees by Rs7,500
The permanent fee fixation committee for self-financing engineering colleges in the state has hiked fees by Rs7,500 for government and management quota seats.
Students joining private engineering col
Antique gold jewellery finds favour with brides
Aishwarya Prashanth, 24, does not have a weakness for gold. However, when it came to her wedding trousseau she preferred to go in for antique jewellery for that traditional look.
Many young brides li
Mishaps continue to haunt MTC
A spate of misfortunes have been haunting the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) for the past two weeks.
On Friday morning, an MTC bus on route No. 17 climbed a pavement in Kodambakkam after it
Raja wants to grill CAG chief in court
Former Telecom Minister A. Raja, accused in the 2G spectrum scam, on Saturday said he would seek the permission of the court to grill Vinod Rai, the head of CAG, which pegged at Rs 1.76 lakh crore as
Novel device to treat heart patients in time
Now, there is a ray of hope for more than 3.5 million heart attack patients every year in India. A group of cardiologists on Friday announced the launch of a pioneering technology-powered hand-held de