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Water mafia drains city lakes dry

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Rows of tanker lorries roar in and out of the lake round the clock. Accustomed to the jarring horns, hapless locals move to the edge of the road and make way for these trucks. A stone’s throw away, au

Noisy MRTS can cause deafness

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Passengers who travel by MRTS trains between Chennai Beach and Velachery may get affected by noise-induced loss of hearing and giddiness. Surprised? The jarring sound that arises when the brakes are a

Better regulation for health care industry needed: IRDA chief

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Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (IRDA) chairman J. Harinarayan on Saturday pitched for an effective system of regulation and management of the medical care industry.

"The other area which

TVS to launch new product every three months

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Aiming to increase its market share by three per cent, two and three-wheeler manufacturer TVS Motor Company on Friday said it would launch a new product every three months.

The first in this initiat

Top cop to pen thriller on Veerappan

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India’s top cop K. Vijay Kumar, all set to retire as director general of Central Reserve Police Force, will turn into a thriller writer in the coming months. “After retirement, I am planning to write

Metro water’s doublespeak exposed

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It may not be an overstatement to say that assistant engineer Venkataraman and conservancy worker D. Sankar were killed by a failed system and the pressure it exerted rather than asphyxiation.

Also,

Sudden rain, thunder squall in Chennai

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The sudden increase in wind speed and rain in Chennai claimed two lives on Wednesday.

Babu, 35, a worker, digging a 10-feet hole for metro water met with a watery grave on Erukkencherry high road in

Order on campus interviews vacated

In a major relief to candidates selected through campus interviews by public sector undertakings (PSUs), the Madras HC on Wednesday vacated its earlier interim order, which directed PSUs conducting ca

IITians foray into newer domains of cinema

Not all movie-goers know that filmmaker, Madhura Sreedhar, of Snehagitam and It’s My Love Story fame, is an IIT- Madras alumnus who spent 13 years working for reputed IT companies before following hi

TN on right track

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The process of separating the wheat from the chaff has entered the home stretch at the Hockey India senior national championship in Bengaluru. The real competition of the tournament begins from the qu

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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.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.