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Maran business empire under threat

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On a day when the Sensex soared over 348 points to close above the 19,000-mark, shares of Sun TV Network owned by the Maran family tumbled in a rising market on Thursday after reports emerged that tex

Complaints about land grabbing flood TN police

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The Jayalalithaa Government in Tamil Nadu has launched a crackdown on land grabbing with special police cells set up across the state being flooded with complaints.

In the past few weeks, over 55

Police zero in on suspect in boy's killing

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Six days after the death of a 13-year old boy due to gun shot wounds in an Army premises here, Tamil Nadu CB-CID police is 'zeroing' in on the prime suspect in the mysterious incident.

The police ha

India has highest rabies death in Asia

Almost 20,000 people die every year of rabies in India, making it the country with highest rabies fatalities in Asia and the second highest in the world, according to Association for Prevention and Co

Maran's resignation long overdue, says Jaya

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Describing Dayanidhi Maran's resignation as Union Textile Minister as 'long overdue', Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa today said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should have made him quit lo

Nithyananda ashram files complaint against Kalanidhi Maran

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The Nithyananda ashram today filed a police complaint accusing Sun Network owner Kalanidhi Maran and its top executive of morphing and telecasting visuals showing the controversial spiritual guru in

Sun TV COO sent to jail; One more cheating complaint filed

One more criminal complaint was lodged with police against Sun Pictures Chief Operating Officer Hansraj Saxena as a court remanded him to judicial custody on expiry of two-days police custody in a che

Petrified Sun Pictures CEO Saxena to be quizzed

CEO Hansraj Saxena of Sun Pictures, arrested on Sunday following a complaint of cheating and extortion from a movie distributor here, was given into police custody for two days by a metropolitan magis

Karuna's wife misses flight due to late arrival

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DMK chief M Karunanidhi's wife Rajathi and party Rajya Sabha MP Vasanthy Stanely today missed their flight to New Delhi.

Airport sources said the two were scheduled to take an Air India Chennai-Ne

Survivor shudders at gunshot memory

Eleven-year-old Sanjay shudders recalling the gunshot that felled his friend Dilshan inside the Army officers’ quarters near the Island Ground on Sunday. His version, explained to this newspaper even as his father Rajesekar, a coolie, kept comforting him against breaking down, left no doubt that it was indeed a bullet that killed the boy,

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