Room for recruits: Cement shortage causes construction delay

TN gives nod for Rs 9,757-cr Chennai Metro Rail system

Citibank puts up Chennai property for sale

Auto drivers seek ‘reasonable’ tariff revision

CHENNAI: Autorickshaw drivers affiliated to the CITU-backed union in city are demanding that the Government revise the tariff to a “reasonable extent” as it would be the only way to ensure drivers flagged the meters.

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Campaign for better AIDS treatment access

Chennai, July 13 (IANS) A network of HIV positive people has launched a countrywide campaign to promote access to treatment for patients, saying northern India in particular lags behind in this respect.

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Sify joins hands with Microsoft to bridge digital divide

Chennai, July 12 (IANS) Sify Limited, a leader in consumer internet and enterprise services in India with global delivery capabilities, has announced that it will work with Microsoft India to help bridge the digital divide in the country.

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Chennai's Apollo Hospital offers free surgery

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U.S. Consul-General honours miniature Nimitz maker

CHENNAI: U.S. Consul-General in Chennai David T. Hopper presented Rustom Dastur on Wednesday with a medallion for his almost perfect miniature replica of the USS Nimitz that docked in Chennai recently.

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Special trains

CHENNAI: Southern Railway will run the following special trains on the Chennai Egmore - Nagercoil sector to clear the rush of passengers.

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BSNL strike total in Tamil Nadu: trade union

Chennai, July 11 (IANS) Nearly 40,000 employees of the state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) in Tamil Nadu along with the rest of the country went on a daylong strike Wednesday asking the government to place equipment orders for expansion of its mobile services.

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Academics form 'think tank' for scientific research

Chennai, July 11 (IANS) HCL founder Shiv Nadar, former DRDO chief V.S. Arunachalam and the Bangalore based Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) Wednesday joined hands here to form a non-profit think tank to work for development of scientific research.

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Confident Ghosal eyes top-30 finish

Saurav ghosal is back from Cairo to defend his national title in Chennai. And the highest ranked Indian on the professional squash circuit, who lost to world No. 14 Mohammed Abbas in the first round in a close match, is quietly confident of taking on the world's best after his match at the Heliopolis Rotary Open, a four-star event.

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Integrated mobility system for disabled in railway stations

CHENNAI: An integrated mobility system for the physically challenged and the elderly was demonstrated to railway officials on Wednesday at the Chennai Central Station.

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IT Corridor work hits a roadblock

CHENNAI: A “contractual problem” is holding up work on a 17-km stretch of the Information Technology Corridor on Old Mamallapuram Road (OMR). Not much work has been taken up after the 3-km stretch from Madhya Kailash Temple was completed.

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Poll panel files petitions against Jayalalitha

Chennai, July 9 (IANS) The Election Commission Monday filed two petitions in two Tamil Nadu lower courts against AIADMK chief J. Jayalalitha for filing nominations from more than two constituencies in the 2001 state assembly elections.

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American paedophile deported

Chennai, July 8 (IANS) A 60-year-old American paedophile, arrested in Tamil Nadu on May 22, has been deported to the United States, police said.Alan Jay Horowitz, who was arrested by the Kancheepuram district police in Mahabalipuram near Chennai, was deported after the Ministry of External Affairs issued the deportation orders.

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Tamil Nadu leaders condole Chandra Shekhar's death

Chennai, July 8 (IANS) Political leaders in Tamil Nadu Sunday condoled the death of former prime minister Chandra Shekhar, saying it was a 'mammoth loss to the nation'.

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Jaswant to be emissary to UNPA, but regional chieftains not keen

BJP leader Jaswant Singh will meet AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa and seek her good offices to win over the support of United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) partners for presidential candidate Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.

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Distances itself from DMK-PMK spat

Distancing itself from the row between the DMK and the PMK over the latter's criticism of the women's rally organised by the DMK in Chennai on July 1, the Congress on Thursday said the rally had nothing to do with Pratibha Patil's nomination as UPA presidential nominee.

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Chennai on edge as alternative water source dries up

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. The daily pumping of 180 million litres of water per day was stopped from July 1, signalling trouble for Chennai, which has always faced water crisis during the hot summer months.

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