Students and parents associations plan to approach either the Madras high court or the Supreme Court seeking it to quash the high court verdict allowing 400 private matriculation schools in the state

With several traders closing their shops to observe trade day in the city, the usual buzz and traffic was missing on Saturday and roads leading to Island Grounds suffered traffic snarls.

A majority

DMK on Saturday gave its backing to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as UPA's presidential candidate.

"If he is the candidate of the UPA coalition, the DMK will not hesitate to back his candidature,

Chennai Port Trust (CPT) and Ennore Port Limited (EPL) should work together to find a solution to the pollution issue and the subsequent stoppage of coal and iron ore handling in the city port, said P

Temporary sanitary workers of Palavakkam area, which was recently merged with the Chennai corporation, complain that their salaries were not reaching them on time from the civic body.

Playing a good

K. Dasari Anand, 26, is waiting for a call from an IT company even as he runs a fairly successful furniture business on a busy pavement of Velachery main road.

The engineering graduate from the JNTU

Paediatricians in the city are having their hands full as the soaring mercury levels has brought with it a variety of ailments that mostly impact children.

Doctors are seeing an increasing number of

AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday said her party was yet to decide on the ensuing Presidential polls and nobody had approached her so far on the issue.

"AIADMK has

“We sincerely thank Deccan Chronicle for the e-waste campaign launched in a first of its kind initiative at the Madras University on April 1.

The main aim of this initiative, which is to step up aw

Though many summer camps for children are run almost like extra curricular activities in school and not many run for free, two service organisations seem to be an exception.

They have launched a fre