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Made for each other, not maid for you: Madras High Court

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Madras High Court (HC) has come down heavily on the male chauvinist Indian concept that a woman’s domain is the kitchen and she should not look beyond satiating the husband, rearing his children and d

‘Epilepsy awareness higher than ever’

Chennai doctors have encouraging news on World Epilepsy Day, March 26, this year about the crippling neuro disease.

Awareness about epilepsy is on an upswing among patients’ families, while new-age

4 civic staff suspended

Chennai corporation’s age-old system of evaluating trip sheets of garbage loads brought to its dumping yard came under scanner and the corporation suspended four of its employees including an engineer

Thumbs down to foot over bridges

With the pedestrian overpasses with elevators, proposed during the previous corporation budget, yet to see the light of day.

The public strongly feels that the government should not invest money on

One in three kids are undernourished

According to the Unicef’s 2012 report, ‘State of the world’s children’, one in three newborns in India is of low birth weight, bringing the number of unhealthy, stunted disease-prone infants born ever

Ailing Iraqi detained at airport for 9 hours

An Iraqi national, more importantly a blood cancer patient, who arrived here for treatment, was detained at the international airport for about nine hours by the immigration officials thanks to a fals

Anna Salai diversion throws life out of gear

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Never in the last year-and-a-half had N. Saranya, a 27-year-old IT professional working in an MNC near Kamarajar Hall on Anna Salai, been late to work.

However, her unblemished record was marred on F

Power tops corporates’ state budget wish lists

With most of their representations being met broadly by the chief minister’s vision 2023 document, Tamil Nadu corporates await the finer details of its implementation in the ensuing state budget.

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Pencil gift touches teacher’s heart

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Government school headmaster J. Krishnamurthy of Pudhucherry received greetings from his friends last August.

But they were not the ones who studied or worked with him. They were students who studie

Second wife not eligible for family pension

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The second wife of a deceased government employee is not eligible for family pension if the first spouse is alive, the Madras high court has held.

However, the children of the second wife are entitl

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

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