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Netizens welcome central cyber plan

The home ministry’s decision to set up a central cyber surveillance agency has ruffled a few feathers in the country that already boasts of a host of intelligence cells.

The idea has been broadly ter

Cop’s son arrested for making fake Ids

Three persons, including a son of a retired policeman, were arrested for making fake documents, including voter’s identity cards, in Chennai to procure loan from finance companies.

The arrested were

Protesters throw traffic out of gear

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On Monday traffic in the city was thrown out of gear at two vital points, Anna Salai and SC Bose Road near the High Court, because of protests.

While the protests by Muslims at the US consulate near

Truck stranded on tracks hits train services

The Madurai-bound Vaigai Express and several EMUs on Beach-Tambaram-Beach route were disrupted for half an hour Monday afternoon after a stone-laden truck returning from Trishulam quarry broke down an

City umbrellas to adorn Balaji

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The dazzling umbrellas that had been specially made in the city to be used during the Garudotsavam (fifth day of the annual Brahmotsavam) at Lord Venkateswara temple are being taken in a procession to

Chola coins on display at city museum

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Rajendra Chola I was the son of Raja Raja Chola I and one of the greatest rulers of the Tamil Chola dynasty of India. He succeeded his father in 1014 CE as the Chola emperor.

During his reign, he ex

Doctors pulled up for botched surgery

Gynaecologists from a private hospital in the city have been pulled up, after it was found that they had allegedly left a paper napkin in the uterus of a patient during a cesarean surgery six months a

TN diktat fails to give job relief to visually-impaired

The visually-impared are facing discrimination during appointment at the hands of some officers in the government.

Some unit officers are, despite government orders, allegedly reluctant to appoint in

Board queen keen to conquer the world

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It is an unlikely setting in which to find a chess champion. An asbestos-sheeted single-room house in a slum at Erukkancheri with the family struggling to make ends meet.

However, the tough condition

Goals galore on day three

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The Sunday holiday crowd were ‘treated’ to a couple of mundane encounters on the third day of the Aima-TFA Shield all-India football tournament here at the Nehru Stadium.

In the lop-sided matches, K

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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.