Unit put up near Kandhal to produce organic manure is in a state of neglect

To ensure speedy disposal of records

Some unidentified persons stole Rs.3.24 lakh which was kept in a motorcycle in Konganapuram near Salem on Tuesday. A complaint has been registered. ...

VILLUPURAM: Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy will receive petitions from people during a special session to be held at Villupuram Municipal office on July 27. Collector R. Palanisamy and other officials will also be present. ...

VILLUPURAM: A crack on the railway track at Kandamanadi here delayed trains on this section on Wednesday. Kumar, a gatekeeper, who noticed the crack, alerted railway authorities. A clamp was inserted to hold the track and enable ...

RAJAPALAYAM: A special meeting of the Rajapalayam municipal council was held under the supervision of Virudhunagar Principal District and Sessions Judge V. Balasundarakumar to discuss a show cause notice issued by the government seeking ...

PUDUKOTTAI: Three youths, including a Sri Lankan, who attempted to smuggle five engines to Sri Lanka, were arrested on Tuesday. V. Kumaragurubaran (28) of Chennai, A. Rakesh (37) of Ramanathapuram and M. Mahadevan (28) of Sri Lanka tried ...

TIRUCHI: Bharathidasan University has invited applications from interested postgraduate students of affiliated colleges in the district for the elective course (carrying three credits each) offered on inter-collegiate basis by its various ...

VIRUDHUNAGAR: A local holiday has been declared for educational institutions and government organisations in Virudhunagar district on August 4, in view of the Adi Pooram car festival at Natchiar Temple, Srivilliputtur. According to a press ...

KARUR: Axis Bank is striving to ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction and has dovetailed technology with expertise to sustain its growth. Through our extensive branch and ATM network, we are able to reach out to a large ...

ARIYALUR: A total of 25,759 farmers had benefited under the debt relief scheme announced by the Central Government, and the banks in the district have written off loans to the tune of Rs.51.26 crore, the Collector, R. Sudalaikannan, ...

PUDUKOTTAI: The ‘Padmabushan Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddi Statue Committee’ here has urged the government to sanction permission to the committee to set up a statue of the late Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddi on the premises of the District ...

PALANI: Pandemonium reigned in the Palani Municipal Council Hall as the revision of property tax was read out. After heated arguments, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam councillors walked out of the hall to protest against the revision ...

Udhagamanmdalam: An effective waste management plan is yet to be put in place in this popular holiday destination, lamented the Public Awareness Association of Udhagamandalam. In a memorandum sent to Nilgiris Collector Anandrao V.Patil, ...

Wood gas-fired crematoriums have several advantages

Indo-American Chamber of Commerce hosts farewell dinner

Special focus will be on 21 uninhabited islands

CHENNAI: The School Education Department entered into an agreement with the American India Foundation (AIF) Trust here on Wednesday. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) facilitates a partnership between the Department and the Trust ...

The water level in the Mettur dam on Wednesday stood at 61.87 feet on Wednesday against its full level of 120 feet. The inflow was 930 cusecs and the discharge, 13,047 ...

Members of the Tamil Nadu Treasuries and Accounts Service Association (TASA) staged a dharna here on Wednesday. Their demands included filling of vacant posts in Treasuries and Accounts Department, creation of higher posts from Additional ...

Due to breaches and water logging in Gorakhpur division of South Eastern Railway, 2666 Kanyakumari-Howrah Express will be cancelled on Saturday, according to a Southern Railway press ...

For folk artistes, the formula that drives their life is ‘smile now, cry later.’ Whatever the situation and however much they are stricken by poverty, these practitioners of traditional arts entertain others. Now, with rising prices, ...

NAMAKKAL: The Namakkal district administration has initiated a massive exercise of digitising the field measurement sketches of the survey department as a part of the e-governance programme. The objective of the exercise is to ensure ...

Ramayanam: Damal Ramakrishnan, Kodandaramar temple, West Tambaram, 7-15 p.m. Gita: Pavitra Chaitanya, Siva Vishnu Temple, Karthikeyan Salai, Periyar Nagar, 6-45 p.m.

CHENNAI: The State Bank of India on Monday launched ‘Parivarthan II’, a mass communication programme aimed at equipping its staff to meet the growing competition and focus on improving the customer service. SBI’s chief ...

CHENNAI: “Gujarat is now focussing on attracting more domestic tourists,” according to P.D.Vaghela, Managing Director of Tourism Corporation of Gujarat. The Corporation is all set to promote the State’s major festivals ...

CHENNAI: An unidentified man died after he allegedly slipped from a moving bus in Thiruvanmiyur here on Monday night. Police said he was travelling on the footboard when he fell under the wheels of a lorry which was following the bus. ...

Many households are making enquiries about inverters, generator sets

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation will establish a common facility in the Guindy Industrial Estate for micro, small and medium enterprises to display their products, for a specific period, at an affordable cost. ...

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered notice on a habeas corpus petition filed by J. Gurunathan alias Guru, president of the Vanniar Sangam, challenging his detention under the NSA and seeking a direction to authorities to set ...

CHENNAI: The first stainless steel body wagon was flagged off from the Carriage and Wagon Works, Perambur, on Wednesday. The unit is the first workshop of Indian Railways to upgrade an open wagon into stainless steel body wagon. This ...

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation will establish a common facility in the Guindy Industrial Estate for micro, small and medium enterprises to display their products, for a specific period, at an affordable cost. ...

He presided over reduction in waiting time for non-immigrant visa interviews for travellers from the south

CHENNAI: Governor Surjit Singh Barnala launched ‘The first human bomb’, a book authored by forensic scientist P. Chandra Sekharan here on Tuesday. The book, published by the Forensic Science Society of India and ALT Publications, ...

‘Ashwas’ aims to cover at least five patients daily

TTDC distributes pamphlets on various tour packages

CHENNAI: Cognizant will hold an inter-school quiz competition and an interactive session on “Higher education options” as part of its “High-Q” initiative here on August 2 at the IMAGE Auditorium in MRC Nagar. The ...

“It will help younger generation to face challenges better”

National Innovation Foundation organises IGNITE 2008

Chennai: Playback singers S.P. Balasubrahmanyam and S.P. Sailaja sang several numbers, both melodious and peppy, at a light music show at The Music Academy recently. The show – organised by Educomp, a firm that develops smart ...

It has effectively resulted in only five working days, says entrepreneur

Its proximity to Anna Nagar, Mogappair a reason for popularity

CHENNAI: A traffic police constable who intercepted speeding motorcyclists on the East Coast Road on Tuesday night was allegedly beaten up. Police said Eugin, attached to the Neelangarai Traffic Unit, was engaged in routine vehicle ...

CHENNAI: The city police on Wednesday arrested two brothers who were evading arrest for about 12 years after being sentenced to life imprisonment in a murder case. According to police sources, Krishnamurthy (42) and Karunakaran (40) of ...

CHENNAI: Interrogation of two suspects involved in a robbery case led to the detection of 11 theft cases in the city on Wednesday. The police said P. Krishnamurthy (35) of T.P Chathiram, working in the Fire and Rescue Services, had ...

CHENNAI: The Chennai Sikh Youth Federation organised a procession of the Guru ‘Gaddi’ in the city to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Guru Granth Sahib on Wednesday. Thousands of Sikhs from the city and other States ...

Chennai: A group of town panchayat leaders and officials from Kancheepuram district participated in a training programme in solid waste management here on Tuesday. The Commissionerate of Town Panchayats had organised the workshop in ...

Chennai: The makeshift stalls put up by hawkers on NSC Bose Road were cleared by the Chennai Corporation on Wednesday. The Corporation had issued a notice to the hawkers asking them to shift to the alternative space allotted for them in ...

Work on first phase likely to begin in three months

CHENNAI: Campaigns to popularise science should be taken to the children from the underprivileged families, M. Anandakrishnan, chairman of the executive committee of Science City, said on Wednesday. Speaking after releasing a souvenir ...

CHENNAI: A two-day international conference on mathematics and computer science will be organised by the Department of Mathematics, Loyola College, from Friday. College principal A. Albert Muthumalai said that about 200 mathematicians, ...

CHENNAI: Hundreds of children from Sevalaya, a charitable trust at Kasuva, and neighbouring schools in Thiruninravur, on Monday visited ‘Window’ - an art exhibition that featured selected paintings of artist Mari Anand. ...

CHENNAI: Two huts were destroyed in a fire that broke in Perambur on Wednesday evening. No casualty was reported. According to Fire and Rescue Services officials, the fire started at 7.20 p.m. and four fire tenders from Vyasarpadi, ...

CHENNAI: Nearly 1.57 lakh families across the State, who were affected by the tsunami, have been provided medical and accident insurance by the United India Insurance Company. Of this, about 6,500 families are in the city. Addressing ...

No question of rescuing them as it is difficult to prove that they are hired

Mandatory for retaining their place in IIT research park

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has dismissed with costs a petition filed by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited seeking a writ calling for the records of the Central Government Labour Court cum Industrial Tribunal (CGIT) relating to an ...

Rachel Karr and Gillian Griev are volunteering at Kalaiselvi Karunalaya

CHENNAI: The Tamil theatre has a new addition in ‘Re(a)el Estate,’ a play written and directed by ‘Vedham Puthithu’ Kannan. The play deals with the aspirations of the middle class to own a house. It also ...

Shri Kamakshi Ambal Temple: Kumbhabhishekam, Cultural programme, temple premises, T.V. Swamy Road, R.S. Puram, 6.30 p.m. Sri Aurobindo Devotees Prayer Group: Writing of Savithiri Episode, Sri Annai ...

COIMBATORE: Balashree awards will be distributed to children in the age group of nine to 16. A release from P. Hemanathan, Assistant Director of Maiyam, Salem, said the government was conferring the awards on children who have excelled ...

They have been roaming the streets of Kerala

COIMBATORE: Revenue and Housing Minister I. Periyasamy on Wednesday appreciated the efforts of a college near the city to create environmental awareness among students. Addressing a function organised to mark the opening of the academic ...

COIMBATORE: Reckless driving and also crossing of roads by pedestrians are a major cause of accidents on city roads. And, many of these have been fatal, according to City Police Commissioner K.C. Mahali. The highest number of ...

Coimbatore: A mock disaster scene was enacted at the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) refilling plant of the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) at Coimbatore on Wednesday. This was part of the efforts of the National Disaster ...

COIMBATORE: Good governance should ensure peace and prosperity, Prasanna Venkatachariar Chaturvedi, Managing Trustee of Sri Ramanuja Mission Trust, said. Speaking at a seminar on “Good Governance” organised by the Forum of ...

COIMBATORE: The Southern India Mills’ Association has deplored what it calls the unilateral announcement of 60 hours of scheduled stoppage by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board. This is in addition to the “unscheduled ...

COIMBATORE: As part of its Diamond Jubilee celebrations, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is set to kick off several new technical initiatives to give a fillip to its image and brand building exercise, its Central Council ...