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AP is most talkative on cellphone: Study

People of the state spend the most time talking on their mobile phones among the southern states.
In the first three months of the year, each subscriber in the state (GSM and CDMA) spent 305 minutes a

Mayor denies cholera deaths

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Mayor Saidai S Duraisamy has stoutly denied cholera deaths in Chennai, saying that not a single death occurred due to cholera or ADD (Acute Diarrheal Disease) over the last nine months since he assume

Compassionate Saina may open up sporting floodgates

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It is her compassion that shone through. Her empathy for a fellow athlete lit up the dramatic night on Super Saturday at the Olympics.

Her opponent had just folded, her dream shattered as well as th

Huge Nizam assets block Metro works

Properties of the erstwhile Nizam’s Estate are threatening to delay the progress of the Rs 13,000-crore Hyderabad Metro Rail project. Though some of these properties beca-me state-owned after Hyd-era

TD to abstain from elections for V-P

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The Telugu Desam Parliamentary Party has decided to abstain from the Vice Presidential election to be held on August 7. The party, which has six Lok Sabha and five Rajya Sabha members, has decided to

Civic schools lie in deep neglect

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Students of corporation schools are most vulnerable to water borne and communicable diseases. DC visited several corporation schools in Chennai and found appalling sanitation conditions prevailing in

On fast track mode

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Karting is the sport that gave India its first racing legends — Narain Karthikeyan, Karun Chandhok, Armaan Ebrahim and Aditya Patel.

And, JK Tyres put them on the international racing scene. Now, JK

Panel wants fee cap, raids

The committee of experts studying the implications of the Supreme Court ruling on common fees for engineering colleges will submit its report to the government on Monday. This report will be examined

Parties await Congress move

Almost all the political parties in the state, especially leaders of the ruling Congress, are anxiously awaiting the moves of the party’s Central leadership on the reported changes in the state and a

Hawkers force public to choose road over subways

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Thousands of commuters use subways near Park station and Chennai Central station during peak hours every day. But lack of hygiene, cramped stairs and the invasion of corridors by hawkers, literally pu

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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.

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