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Min: TN not given due share of power

State electricity minister Natham R. Viswanathan on Tuesday said the state was facing power shortage as it had been deprived of its due share of power from the central generating station.

According

Apply your mind: HC to TNPCB

The Madras high court on Tuesday pulled up the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) for not applying its mind while passing a consent order prescribing the tolerance limit of trade effluent of K

4 injured in private bus accident

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Rash driving by the driver of a private bus resulted in an accident in suburban Kundrathur on Tuesday, injuring four passengers.

Eyewitnesses and passengers blamed the driver for negligence, thrashed

Fire breaks out in MLA’s house

A fire broke out in Pallavaram MLA Dhansingh’s residence early on Tuesday morning, damaging electronic equipment worth Rs 3 lakh, including a TV and computers.

The fire is said to have been caused by

M Tech student ends life

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A First Year M.Tech (Chemical Engineering) student at IIT Madras committed suicide in her hostel room on Tuesday afternoon.

S. Merugu Manasa, 22, from Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh was reportedly ma

Presidency College witnesses protest over arrest of students

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Parents of 32 students of the prestigious Presidency College staged a protest in the college campus seeking the release of their sons who were arrested by police three days ago.

Police arrested the

MDMK pickets camp for Sri Lankan tamils

MDMK general secretary Vaiko and 500 of his supporters were arrested on Tuesday when they tried to picket at the Poonamallee Special Camp for Sri Lankan Tamils demanding release of the inmates.

Vaiko

Chennai’s uber cool love thayir sadam, vathal

It’s past 1 am on a Saturday night, and a long line of youngsters, boys sporting spiked hair and tight jeans, and girls in skirts and sequined tops queue up at the lobby, shifting their weight from on

Stick to tradition, cry Parthasarathy temple devotees

A section of devotees of the ancient Sri Parthasarathy Swamy temple has decided to undertake a pradakshina around the temple, not for fulfilling personal vows, but to ask the Lord Himself to advise th

Unfinished drain work raises accident scare

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Residents of Shanti Nagar in Perambur (ward 67) dread to venture into their street at night due to the unfinished stormwater drain (SWD) work.

As this is a school zone, parents of students are on te

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