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AIMA-TFAa shield: David’s strike does it for ICF in final

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ICF are back with a bang. The powerhouse of Chennai football, who have seen their stocks plummet in recent years, proved their pedigree by winning the Aima-TFA Shield all-India football tournament on

Dengue, malaria cases rise in Chennai

Cases of malaria, dengue and leptospirosis are on the rise in the city with the monsoon bringing with it a spate of fevers and infections, say city doctors.

The monsoon is also the busiest time of t

Pink umbrella to promote female condoms

The Tamil Nadu AIDS Control Society has begun promoting a ‘Pink Umbrella’ campaign to popularise the use of female condoms and is offering it at a subsidised rate of Rs 5 per piece to give women the p

OSR lands hardly used for public

Most of the open space reserve (OSR) lands acquired from IT firms, posh hotels and malls by the city corporation are still controlled by the private firms and the public complain that they are not all

Councillor promises clean drinking water

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Harrowed residents in certain pockets of Royapuram were pleasantly surprised when metro water staff and corporation officials descended on their localities to inspect the quality of the piped water re

Rs 15,000 penalty for wasting HC time

The Madras high court has imposed a cost of Rs 15,000 on a litigant for wasting the time of the court by making a false complaint and for suppressing facts.

Justice S. Nagamuthu dismissed with cost t

Widow wins 7-year battle with power board for family pension

A widow has won a seven-year battle with the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) with the Madras high court directing the board to pay family pension to her within eight weeks with arrears from April

For Hindi movies, the house is full in Chennai

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Chennai cinema crowd seems to have gone multi-lingual. Thanks to the spurt in multiplexes across the city, access to non-Tamil films like Eega (Telugu) and Barfi (Hindi), are easier and being receive

Get a lorry of water in a jiffy

Chennaiites, particularly hotels and restaurants, no longer have to obey the diktat of water mafia.

They don’t have to wait painstakingly to get ‘untreated’ groundwater from private suppliers who ex

Kerala Police-ICF showdown promises fireworks

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In the days gone by, Integral Coach Factory (ICF) enjoyed a stranglehold on the TFA Shield — one of the prominent fixtures in the Chennai football calendar of yesteryear until the tournament was put o

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