1st successful lung transfer in state
Rohit Shedge’s happiness knew no bounds as he thanked the doctors who saved his wife Archana’s life. Archana Shedge became the first patient to undergo a successful lung transplantation surgery in th
Windows 8 Appfest sets Guinness record in city
Sept. 22: Microsoft Windows 8 Appfest made history by setting a new Guinness world record for most participants in a software development marathon at one location here on Saturday.
The Appfest saw pa
Councillor promises clean drinking water
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
Single vaccine may fight TB, leprosy
With the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine losing efficacy against the deadly tuberculosis, Indian scientists now plan to give it a genetic boost by transferring some genes from a soil-living bacterium
Elderly man cheats banks of Rs 2.77 crore
He was swindling banks frequently for over eight years, but the police could catch up with the veteran conman only now. The Yeshwanthpur police arrested the 59-year-old swindler, Krishna Parameshwar B
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
Armed guards, bomb squad deployed in hotels
Security is moving into “high alert” mode as city police prepares to post armed guards at the hotels where guests of the CoP-11 international conference will be accommodated. Quick Reaction Teams of G
Chennai turns city of ‘aging hearts’, says survey
Chennai has become a city of ageing hearts, according to a nationwide survey released on Friday.
Grappling with high levels of ‘bad cholesterol’, the people of Chennai are among the most overweight i
Nagaland youth stabbed, hate attacks back in Bengaluru
A 20-year-old BPO employee in Bengaluru, a native of Nagaland was stabbed by two unidentified bike-borne attackers in Hosur Main Road early Sunday at around 2.30 am.
The victim was getting out of an
Shun hatred towards other faiths: Rajapaksa
While he was attempting to enter Sanchi defying police orders, MDMK leader Vaiko was on Friday arrested along with nearly 750 supporters at Gadchicholi village near the Madhya Pradesh-Maharastra borde