TN Govt hospitals adopt plan to serve with a smile

Saturday 7 July '07

It isn’t just high-profile hospitals that are adopting smart corporate strategies to improve inter-personal communications and team spirit.

Veerappan cop to go after Maoists

Friday 6 July '07

The Tamil Nadu Government on Thursday roped in Additional Director General of Police K Vijayakumar to track down suspected Maoists, preparing for arms training in forests in Tamil Nadu.

Chennai on edge as alternative water source dries up

Thursday 5 July '07

Veeranam lake in Cuddalore district, about 230 km north of Chennai, which augmented a good one third of the city’s drinking water supply, has virtually gone dry.

MEA issues deportation order for US paedophile

Thursday 5 July '07

The Ministry of External Affairs has issued deportation order for Alan Jay Horowitz, the 60-year-old American paedophile

Nimitz docks off Chennai to ‘build new relations with India’

Tuesday 3 July '07

United States' nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz anchored four nautical miles off Chennai port at about 6.45 am today amid protests by the Left parties and activists.

Pratibha Patil is unmoved: A woman will be President

Monday 2 July '07

In her first response to a slew of charges, especially those of financial irregularities in a bank she founded, UPA-Left presidential candidate Pratibha Patil

Tamil Nadu: Pension plan for canine detectives

Monday 2 July '07

Ponni is the proud recipient of two all-India gold medals, a championship shield and several gold medals for achievements at the state level.

This letter not his last, Govt never cared: Gandhi’s PA

Sunday 1 July '07

Two days left for the hammer to go down on Mahatma Gandhi’s “last” handwritten article on Hindu-Muslim unity, his personal...

High Court notice to Sivaji producers after filmmaker says it’s his story

Friday 29 June '07

After Kamal Haasan’s Dasavatharam, it is the turn of Rajnikant’s Sivaji to face charges of plagiarism. On Wednesday, a Chennai Metropolitan Court issued notices...

EC expects lengthy battle in Jaya affidavit case

Thursday 28 June '07

Says the returning officers of two constituencies have to be traced to get them to file the complaints

Khushboo courts controversy, this time with judiciary

Tuesday 26 June '07

Khushboo is in the limelight yet again. While the acting skills of this Tamil actor seem to draw lesser interest, it is her views that are drawing needless attention of the self-appointed moralists and providing fodder for the local media in Tamil Nadu.

RSS wants ‘atonement pooja’ after MLA’s visit to temple

Tuesday 26 June '07

Hindu religious leaders belonging to the RSS and Hindu Munani and the BJP have demanded that the famous Sri Ramanathasamy temple in the pilgrim town of Rameswaram be “cleansed” following the visit of DMK MLA Hasan Ali.

Doctor parents of ‘minor surgeon’ arrested

Tuesday 26 June '07

The Tiruchirapalli police on Monday evening arrested Dr K Murugesan and his wife Dr Gandhimathi under various sections of the IPC

What Rajni can’t

Sunday 24 June '07

Mush, machismo and make-believe yarns may not be dead and buried. But there’s more to Tamil cinema than mega budgets and the Boss of the box office. Welcome to the brave new world of a bunch of daring Chennai filmmakers who have hit paydirt with a slew of small, starless, slice-of-life tales

Doctor denies his son conducted surgery, says he just watched

Friday 22 June '07

In the eye of a storm following allegations that he had allowed his 15-year-old son to conduct a complicated Caesarian surgery, Dr. K Murugesan today insisted that...

Change of plans, Jayalalithaa fails to keep Delhi date

Thursday 21 June '07

Jayalalithaa, AIADMK chief and a key partner in the newly-constituted United National Progressive Alliance, today cancelled her trip to Delhi

Before crucial Assembly bypoll, tension in Madurai

Thursday 21 June '07

Sporadic incidents of violence and reports of voters being bribed have triggered tension in Madurai even as the district administration gears up for the June 26 byelection to the Madurai West constituency.

Kalam verses set to music, few takers

Wednesday 20 June '07

No doubt President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam has scores of fans across the country. But a 43-year-old music lecturer from Krishna Nagar in Puducherry has displayed a rare kind of devotion.

Bridging the gaps

Tuesday 19 June '07

While the government of India wants to build a navigational channel in the area, the Sangh Parivar’s claim is that the Adam’s Bridge...

Another attack on TN fishermen, one injured

Monday 18 June '07

An unidentified group of Sri Lankan men in a boat threw bombs sinking an Indian fishing vessel north of the Lankan coast...

Cigarette’s out, Boss still smokin’

Sunday 17 June '07

You could have almost mistaken it for a discotheque. But the fever, confetti and hysterical dancing at Kamala Theatre beat even the country’s hippest dance floor.

Kanimozhi’s Delhi baptism with Sonia call

Friday 15 June '07

With relations between UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi getting warmer, the former has expressed a desire to meet...

Stem cell treatment: Chennai institute claims success with paraplegics

Wednesday 13 June '07

Claiming to have made a significant medical breakthrough, the Lifeline Institute of Stem Cell Therapy and Research in collaboration

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Wednesday 13 June '07

On August 14, 2002, at Madurai in Tamil Nadu, as tensed cops encircled the Cinepriya theatre in the heart of the city, a thick crowd streamed in, drunk and excited.

Bihar shows smart card way to cleaner rural job scheme

Tuesday 12 June '07

Devanti Devi, Dilip Shaw and Bisuandayal Manjhi of the Gonpura panchayat in Bihar will soon be sporting smart job cards that also double up as ATM/debit cards.