Chennai News

Chennai News

By admin • September 2nd, 2009

Chennai, Sep 2(PTI) Former DMK minister N K K P Raja was today granted anticipatory bail by the Madras High Court in an alleged kidnapping case. Justice K N Basha directed Raja to furnish a personal bond of Rs 50,000 with two sureties for the like amount and also asked him not to induce or [...]

CHENNAI: The sole area control VHF radio at Chennai airport, which monitors aircraft movements up to 200 miles, is cracking up in the face of
increasing traffic, putting pilots and controllers under severe stress. Though the air traffic control (ATC) is using a second area control frequency on a trial basis, it is unable to make [...]

CHENNAI: Though she lives far from her native town of Muvattupuzha, Rakhi Deepak has always ensured that her family celebrates Onam, the harvest
festival of Kerala, the traditional way, complete with the ‘onasadya’ (feast). This year too, she plans to have an elaborate spread — the only difference is that she will not have to spend [...]

CHENNAI: Almost six months after the Madras high court witnessed largescale violence involving police and lawyers, a division bench has ordered
fresh notices to the director-general of police, former city police commissioner and former joint commissioner, in their official as well as personal capacity.
The bench comprising Justice FM Ibrahim Kalifulla and Justice R Banumathi issued the [...]

CHENNAI: Parents remained apprehensive on Monday as school students returned to classes after the unscheduled holiday last week. Following the
death of a four-year-old boy of Akshayah Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Velachery and an estimated eight school students testing positive for the H1N1 flu, a few schools had been closed as a precautionary measure.
“We did [...]

CHENNAI: Interpreting complex scientific phenomena at their most basic level, replete with interactive examples to aid understanding, the
travelling exhibit on Measuring Our Planet’ at Birla Planetarium is a treat for science buffs.
Organised in association with the National Council of Science Museums, the exhibition, which opened last Friday, will be on display for a month. [...]

“The Great Driving Challenge” powered by Zigwheels kicked off on Monday. Three couples selected by an eminent panel of judges based on their
initial presentation of themselves online, photography and videography skills, driving skills and evaluation, attitude and congeniality, medical and physical fitness, set out from Atria mall, Mumbai on an all-expense paid drive of 3,000 [...]

CHENNAI: The writ appeal proceedings, involving Podhu Dikshithars of Chidambaram Lord Natarajar Temple and the state government’s take-over of
the temple administration, commenced in the Madras High Court on Monday.
A division bench comprising justice K Raviraja Pandian and justice T Raja also permitted the Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy to file his written submissions in the [...]

CHENNAI: The number of students joining engineering colleges after having completed schooling with Tamil as the medium of instruction has
significantly increased over the past three years since the abolition of the Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examination (TNPCEE) in 2007.
This year 35,434 Tamil medium students have joined undergraduate courses in engineering colleges under the government [...]

CHENNAI: A little rain was not going to stop music lovers from gathering at Gandhi Mandapam. After all, Chennai is the mecca of Carnatic music,
according to Sudha Raghunathan, whom they had all come to see. “I think we’re all aware of what music means to this city,” said Sudha, dazzling the audience with both her [...]

CHENNAI: On Monday morning, a few hours after a young woman was found dead behind her house near Madipakkam and it was thought to be a case of
murder for gain, the suburban police cracked it and arrested the woman’s husband. He was later remanded in judicial custody.
According to the police, Senthil Kumar had tried to [...]

CHENNAI: The move by the railways to accommodate physically challenged persons with only reserved tickets in the special coach next to guard’s
cabin in mail and express trains has not gone down well with passengers.
Earlier, physically challenged persons with general tickets were allowed to travel in the coach, like women are allowed to in the ladies [...]

CHENNAI: The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption on Monday trapped three senior officials in the Fire and Rescue Services in Tiruvallur
district for taking bribe from a person who had approached them for a fire report for claiming insurance on a two-wheeler which had gutted in a fire mishap last month.
The three officials divisional fire officer [...]

CHENNAI: The country’s first walkalator (horizontal escalator) inside an airport opened for passenger use at the international arrival and
departure terminals of Chennai airport on Saturday.
The conveyor belt that transports people to the aircraft will reduce the distance they have to walk inside the terminals.
The two walkalators of 50 metres each were opened in the corridor [...]

CHENNAI: Nine persons were injured after the asbestos roof caved in at the city corporation slaughterhouse in Kannigapuram near Pulianthope. The
building is in a dilapidated state and police suspect that the roof may have caved in due to heavy rain on Saturday night.
The incident occurred at about 5.30am on Saturday when some of the workers [...]

CHENNAI: An order passed by the Tamil Nadu State Women’s Commission will not stand in the way of the Guindy police in investigating a case of
dowry harassment, the Madras high court has ruled.
An interim order to this effect was passed by Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya on a writ petition filed by Swetha Bathu of Kollampalayam in [...]

CHENNAI: A joyous game on a swing for two brothers ended in tragedy on Friday when the elder boy, 10-year-old Kathiresan, died after his head got
entangled in its ropes. Kathiresan was a sixth standard student of the government high school in Anagaputhur.
The freak incident occurred near Sankar Nagar in Tambaram when Kathiresan and his five-year-old [...]

Chennai, May 24 : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president M Karunanidhi is said to have reached a compromise with senior party leaders individually at his residence here on Sunday over Cabinet portfolios.
According to informed party sources, Karunanidhi’s grand nephew Dayanidhi Maran, his eldest son M. Azhagiri and senior leader A. [...]

Chennai, May 24 (IANS) The DMK Sunday decided to join the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the centre and settle for three cabinet berths – setting at rest the wrangling over ministry sharing with the Congress.
“The problem (over ministerial berths) is resolved. We are joining (the UPA government),” a senior DMK leader told [...]

New Delhi/Chennai, May 23 (IANS) The Congress said Saturday that there were no differences with its “pre-poll ally and important partner” DMK despite reports of a rift between the two over allocation of ministerial berths, though DMK chief M. Karunanidhi said around the same time that his party would discuss the matter “further”.
“This is pure [...]