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Gramaphones find many buyers in Chennai

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Mohammed Ali, 48, visits Chennai at least three times in a year to sell gramaphones and phones.

A pavement near Rajaji Bhavan, Besant Nagar, is his favourite spot and he brings at least 10 gramaphon

Why encroach wildlife terrain, asks official

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While revealing that there have been many as 67 encounters with wildlife in Tamil Nadu, conservator of forests, Ashutosh Samant Singhar, on Wednesday blamed increasing human presence in wildlife corri

Don’t make preventive arrests: DMK to police

DMK on Wednesday petitioned the state police demanding that no preventive arrests be made in line with a court judgement ahead of its July 4 jail bharo agitation against the ruling AIADMK over alleged

Chennai bus hurtles down 15 ft

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The city police is probing all angles, including the possibility of the driver talking on a mobile phone while negotiating the curve on the Anna flyover that resulted in the MTC bus falling from the b

Jaya signs Sangma’s nomination papers

Asserting her solid support for P.A. Sangma in the Presidential election, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday proposed the former Speaker’s name.

According to AIADMK sources, Ms Jayalalithaa

To hell with male chauvinism

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Sania Mirza’s accusation that All India Tennis Association’s handling of the Olympics selection reeked of male chauvinism has rekindled the debate of gender discrimination in sports.

Even the founder

Minor fire breaks out in brake van of train; none injured

A minor fire broke out in the brake van in the Chennai-Alapuzha Express as soon as it left a station in Tamil Nadu early on Thursday but no one was injured, railway officials said.

They said the stat

Srinath back with a bang

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Chess ace N. Srinath is back in news. The Chennai lad, who stole the limelight by winning the world under-12 boys title in 2005, caught the attention of pundits when he bagged the International Master

Common IT test hits roadblock

The National Association of Software and Service Companies’ (Nasscom) proposal for a common test for recruitment to IT firms seems to have hit a major road-block.

Most professional colleges and deeme

Officials seize plastic from shops

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Tension prevailed at the Broadway bus terminus on Wednesday after a few shop owners gheraoed the corporation health officials who inspected the establishments to confiscate plastic items that did not

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