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Depression killed Tamil Nadu cricketer?

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The police on Monday indicated that cricketer P.K. Dharma, who committed suicide on Sunday, could have decided to take the extreme step because of depression over losing the match he was playing on Sa

Disabled quota plea dismissed

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The Madras high court has dismissed a petition that sought a direction to the state government to provide 3 per cent reservation for disabled persons in promotions in state services.

The South Arcot

IIT-M guard found dead in pond

A guard working at IIT-Madras was on Monday found dead in a pond with his hands and legs tied.
The body was highly decomposed and the police has said that the guard, a native of Assam, could have died

Cops slammed for poor probe into death

The Madras high court on Monday slammed the police for its poor investigation into the mysterious death of a student of a private engineering college at Surapet near Ambattur on October 30, 2011.

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Residents protest against power cuts

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Residents of Alwarthiru Nagar picketed Tangedco office at Velan Nagar on Monday in protest against the frequent power outage and voltage fluctuation in their locality.

Around 30 residents of the loca

Parents protest exorbitant fees

More than 200 parents of students of St. George Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School, Aminjikarai, on Monday protested against the school management for collecting exorbitant fees.About 10 parents wer

Runway repair works to commence soon

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will be refurbishing the runway at the city airport. “We have decided to carry out milling (rubber removal) for a minimum of six hours every day for 10 days from

Child labour increases every year

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You can find them in posh apartments, slaughterhouses, teashops, dump yards, construction sites and at rail and bus stations and the number of children working in metros and smaller towns is increasin

Restore allotment of kerosene, CM urges PM

CM J. Jayalalithaa wrote to PM Monday reiterating her demand to restore kerosene quota of TN, which she said had been downsized by the Centre “without reason or logic”.

“The sudden drastic reduction

Project helps rehabilitation of child ragpickers

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Thanks to the “night shelter project” started by the Chennai Corporation in 2009 near the Kodungaiyur dump yard, many child ragpickers had been rehabilitated.

In fact, many of them have taken up the

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