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Winds bring temporary relief for TN

Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation has cut unscheduled power cuts by two hours following a sudden rise in wind energy generation in the past couple of days. Corporation officials, howe

Vallur thermal power from April

Chennaittes could heave a sigh of relief from the acute power crisis as the first unit of the 500 MW Vallur thermal power project is all set for commissioning on April 14, coinciding with the Tamil ne

Man of caliber takes his bow

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A man of high intellectual caliber like Rahul Dravid could not possibly have reconciled his inability to cope with anything other than the most exacting standards of excellence in performance even in

HC orders ‘arrest’ of hit-and-run ship

The Madras high court on Friday ordered the arrest of the Singapore-flagged merchant vessel Prabhu Daya now anchored off the Chennai Port, which collided with a fishing vessel off Alappuzha coast lead

AIADMK, DMK to raise anti-Lanka resolution issue in Parliament

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Bitter rivals AIADMK and DMK have found common cause on India's stand over US-backed resolution against Sri Lanka in the UN Human Rights Council meet for alleged war crimes with both parties determine

Kerala cops arrest second accused in ship mishap

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Kerala police on Thursday arrested the second accused, Mayur Virendra Kumar, 25, a seaman with MV Prabhu Daya that was involved in the hit-and-run incident in which five fishermen died off the Alappuz

Krishna assures CM sentiments will be respected

Foreign minister S M Krishna on Thursday assured chief minister Ms Jayalalithaa that her views would be taken into account on the unannounced trips by Sri Lankan VIPs to the state. “We are a federal s

3,000 year old turtle-shaped tomb found in Kancheepuram

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Barely an hour’s drive from Chennai city, archeologists have unearthed what could perhaps be India’s earliest human settlement, dating back to 3,000 years ago.

A massive 24-m-long turtle-shaped tomb

PM's intervention sought for allocation of additional power

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Faced with acute power shortage in the state, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Friday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention for allocating 1000 MW of additional power to t

Vinoth Kumar back in big time

For someone who made his CFA senior division league debut four years ago, N.R. Vinoth Kumar hasn’t been able to capture the imagination of many in the Chennai football fraternity.

However, Vinoth ha

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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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