Krishnagiri: Water was released from the Krishnagiri reservoir project (KRP) at Periyamuthur near here on Friday for the first crop. According to Collector Santhosh Babu, water will be released from the left and right main canals from July 4 ...
Krishnagiri: The district administration has asked students to register complaints if the traders selling notebooks were found indulging in unfair trade practices. It was brought to the notice of the administration that a few traders in ...
NAMAKKAL: Collector U. Sagayam directed officials to keep the surroundings of uzhavar santhai in Namakkal town clean. Inspecting the market here on Thursday, the Collector also told the officials to plant more saplings on the market ...
Krishnagiri: The district administration has asked students to register complaints if the traders selling notebooks were found indulging in unfair trade practices. Substandard items It was brought to the ...
How many parents must be praying for a power cut during summer holidays so that their offspring can be away from the television and the computer! A pair of unnerved parents had even called out, “Give the television and the computer some ...
Tutciorin: Minister for Social Welfare P. Geetha Jeevan inaugurated a 55-day skill development training for adolescent girls organised by the district administration under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) project, here on ...
‘Lawyers boycott civil judge’ was a heading of a Chennai report in some Tamil Nadu editions (July 03, 2008). It should have been ‘Lawyers boycott courts’, as it had appeared in other editions. – Readers’ ...
NAMAKKAL: The poultry industry of the Namakkal Egg Zone thanked the Union Government for banning the export of maize till October 15. The industry, for quite some time, has been demanding the ban on maize and soya meal, the major ...
VILLUPURAM: A juvenile escaped from police custody while being escorted from Pudukottai to Egmore on Thursday night. The police said he was involved in in connection with a theft case in Avadi and kept at Pudukottai. He escaped ...
ARIYALUR: State Government has released a subsidy of Rs.3.39 lakh to the dealers in LPG for supply of the fuel to those possessing single cylinder. According to an official press release issued here on Saturday, District Revenue Officer K. ...
KARAIKAL: The Election Commission of India has ordered special revision of electoral rolls on account of delimitation of Assembly constituencies in Karaikal district in the Union Territory of Puducherry enabling fresh inclusion of voters who ...
Launch of ‘Sea of Poppies’ by Amitav Ghosh. The Hindu Editor-in-Chief N. Ram converses with the author at Taj Coromandel, 37, Mahatma Gandhi Rd., Nungambakkam, 7 ...
Textile units should produce items of higher value to improve their competitiveness, J. Thulasidharan, deputy chairman of the Southern India Mills’ Association, said on Friday. – ...
The level in Mettur Dam stood at 84.07 feet on Friday against its full level of 120 feet. The inflow was 905 cusecs and the discharge, 13,960 cusecs. — Special ...
There will be power interruption from July 5 to 12 in a number of areas due to the work that is being carried out in order enhance the capacity of the power transformer located at the Sulur substation, according to a press release issued here ...
2666 Howrah Express, scheduled to leave Kanyakumari on Saturday, and 2665 Kanyakumari Express to leave Howrah on Monday have been cancelled due to breaches and water logging in Karagpur division of South Eastern ...
Punnar Jeevan De-addiction Rehabilitation Hospital set up a helpline for people and their family members suffering alcoholism and drug addiction. The team will answer queries and offer help on call. Helpline number: 24964919/ ...
Nirmal’s Eye Care Centre, Tambaram, will conduct a two-day free diabetic and glaucoma screening camp from Saturday. For registration details, call hospital authorities at 108/5, Ayyasamy Street, West Tambaram. Phone: ...
“The Landmarks of New York” photo exhibition being organised by the US Consulate General, Chennai and The C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation will be open to public on all days till July 13 between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. at The Art ...
With reference to a news item ‘Patronage for suburban trains on an upswing’ published in these columns on Friday, Southern Railway clarifies that figures on the number of passengers mentioned in the news item pertain to only 18 ...
TAMBARAM: The principal of a matriculation school who allegedly caned a boy on Thursday evening was arrested and later released on bail. The Selaiyur police said Rajendran, principal of S.R.N. Matriculation School, was taken into ...
TIRUCHI: Special teams have recovered more electric and ordinary detonators following the confession by eight accused arrested last month on charges of stealing over 17,000 detonators from a private godown in Punnam Chathiram in Karur ...
CHENNAI: Train services to South Eastern Railway are yet to become normal owing to the breaches and water-logging in the Kharagpur division. The Chennai Central-Coromandel Express has been cancelled in both directions. These ...
CHENNAI: Students who have received call letters from the Anna University, Chennai, to attend counselling and seat allotment process for engineering colleges are entitled to 50 per cent concession in bus fare of the government-operated ...
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has dismissed a writ petition seeking a direction to the Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office and Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram to extend the crop loan waiver to all farmers, irrespective of the ...
CHENNAI: Aspire Learning Company, a training centre for competitive examinations, is conducting a merit scholarship test on July 13 for students from standard VI to standard XI. The test will be held at 13 centres across south India ...
CHENNAI: The State government has decided to give immediate effect to the revised minimum support price of paddy. This follows the Union government’s order that the MSP for 2008-2009 would come into force immediately, according to an ...
CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said on Friday that the Sethusamudram ship channel project would be implemented, fulfilling the dreams of leaders such as E.V. Ramasamy, C.N. Annadurai and K. Kamaraj. He also noted that the ...
Coimbatore: Three persons who were working in a coir industry were electrocuted in the small hours of Friday. According to police, the incident occurred when they were feeding the coir on a conveyor belt at a manufacturing unit at ...
CHENNAI: After two weeks of intense practice, Shiva Subramaniam can run 25 metres in 5 seconds. Shiva, a student of Sathya Special School in Puducherry, is among the 400 children participating in the four-day Regional Sports Meet for ...
CHENNAI: Think Gulliver and the image of the ‘tall’ Gulliver being tied down by tiny strings and tens of Lilliputians clambering over him comes to the mind. Sand sculpture artist Ranjan Kumar Ganguli from Orissa has recreated the ...
Chennai: The Chennai Corporation on Thursday removed encroachments on the Elliot’s beach in Besant Nagar and directed hawkers to stay within a designated area. Only a month ago, the civic body had taken up a similar drive on the ...
CHENNAI: After the nation-wide trucker and lorry strike was called off on Friday, about 70 per cent truckers returned to work in the State. As a result, the movement of goods such as vegetables, textiles and other materials, which had been ...
CHENNAI: The Justice P. Shanmugam Commission, which was constituted to inquire into the alleged transcript that appeared in an English daily regarding the overhearing of a telephonic conversation between the Chief Secretary and a senior ...
CHENNAI: K. Balasubramanian, till recently Chief Engineer (Planning) in the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, assumed office as Member (Generation) of the Board on Tuesday following the retirement of K. Govindaraju last month. — Special ...
CHENNAI: In a sting operation, officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation arrested two Enforcement Officers attached to the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation in Cuddalore on Friday. Two contractors who paid the officials for ...
CHENNAI: On the occasion of the Feast of St. Thomas, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi launched the Rs.30-crore project to produce a feature film on the life and ministry of Thomas, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, known as the apostle ...
CHENNAI: India will aim to implement liberalisation in trade with ASEAN countries in over 90 per cent of all sectors within a decade, starting with a free trade agreement (FTA) to be signed in a couple of months, according to a Commerce ...
CHENNAI: You may think you require no training in handling a wheelchair. But ask the person sitting in one and the person who operates it, and you get a different picture. At a time when other countries have introduced battery-operated ...
CHENNAI: Team Ergo will hold its first two-day corporate cultural event ‘Ergo Blitz’, filled with music, dance and fun. The programme will have a dance competition on Saturday and a music competition on Sunday, both starting ...
CHENNAI: It’s been a good year for the Guindy Park. A gradual increase in the number of visitors over the years has seen a simultaneous jump in revenue. In 2005-06, the total collection stood at Rs.26.78 lakh, which rose to ...
CHENNAI: A man in his early thirties caused panic in a women’s compartment of an MRTS train at Velachery on Friday morning. The man gained entry into the compartment through a passage in the wall that separated it from the next ...
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) and Madras Christian Council for Social Service (MCCSS) organised a programme, ‘ Virundhinar Porthuthum; Virundhinar Porthuthum ’, to sensitise ...
CHENNAI: Students who have passed their Standard X or XII examinations and are interested to take up three-month short term industrial training in various courses can apply to the Chennai Corporation’s Community Colleges at Triplicane ...
CHENNAI: An order under Section 41 of the Tamil Nadu City Police Act, 1888, was promulgated regulating processions, demonstrations, fasts, meetings, assemblies etc. within the Chennai police limits for a period of 15 days from July 4, 2008. ...
CHENNAI: A suspected thief who allegedly stole the wallet of a bus passenger was arrested by the Teynampet police here on Friday. Police said Gnani (24) of Ayanavaram was proceeding to T. Nagar from Mint in a Metropolitan Transport ...
CHENNAI: Health Secretary V.K. Subburaj on Friday said that the State’s second Drug Information Centre will be opened in Chennai in a couple of days. Speaking at the inauguration of a public awareness programme on safe use of ...
CHENNAI: State Home Secretary S. Malathi appeared before a Division Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday in connection with writ petitions filed by two part-time Masalchis (temporary peons) in courts seeking a direction to the Tamil Nadu ...
Raj Vidya Kender: Truth Video Show, Ardra Conference Hall, 6 p.m.; satsang, 6 p.m. Sri Aurobindo Devotees Prayer Group: Writing of Savithri, Sri Annai Meditation Centre, West Power House, Tatabad, 10 ...
COIMBATORE: Executive Recruiters’ Association, a non-profit organisation that represents executive recruitment consulting firms in the country, will open its Coimbatore chapter on July 5. According to a release from the ...
COIMBATORE: District Sports and Games Welfare Association will organise cultural competitions in the first week of August. Entries can be sent along with two self-addressed envelopes with a Rs.4 stamp affixed to O.Shanmugasundaram, General ...
COIMBATORE: CBM College, affiliated to Bharathiar University, began admissions for first year courses on July 2. There was much furore over the college failing to start the courses in spite of others beginning courses on June ...
COIMBATORE: A two day training on ‘Processed Products from Fruits’ will be held at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University on July 7 and 8. Those interested can send in a fee of Rs. 1,000 by demand draft drawn in favour of Dean ...
COIMBATORE: Short-term training programmes will be held at the Government Industrial Training Institute free of cost for the unemployed. A release from the institute said those who have studied up to class V and aged between 14 and 40 ...
COIMBATORE: The UGC-Academic Staff College of Bharathiar University will organise a workshop on “Effective Implementation of Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS)” at the university on July 17. According to a university release, ...
Coimbatore: The Tamilaga Vivasayigal Sangham has asked the Centre and State Governments to ensure a minimum procurement price of Rs. 1,500 a quintal for paddy, Rs. 1,500 a tonne for sugarcane and Rs. 20 a litre for milk. ...
Coimbatore: The personal banking branch of Lakshmi Vilas Bank will be converted into general banking branch and shifted to new premises at Koundampalayam on July 7 at 9.30 ...
Coimbatore: Coimbatore City Round Table 31 has constructed two classrooms at Puthur under the SSA scheme. The outlay of the project was 8.75 lakhs. Another two classrooms constructed at Pacchapalayam will be inaugurated on July ...
CUDDALORE: The arrival of vegetables at the ‘uzhavar sandhai’ here remained unaffected on Friday. Collector Rajendra Ratnoo inspected the sandhai on Friday and told the reporters that the arrivals had in fact gone up in ...
CUDDALORE: Students and faculty (owing allegiance to the Association of University Teachers) of Kandasamy Naidu Women’s College took out a procession from the college to the Collectorate here on Friday seeking better amenities and the ...
DINDIGUL: Even as state government insists on use of Tamil language in all places, Tamil language, its tradition, culture and literary values have been popularised in a perfect manner among young generation in European Union, particularly ...
DINDIGUL: A 17-member Public Undertaking Committee, led by its Chairman, K. Arumugam, will visit Dindigul on July 8 and 9 and conduct a review in Kodaikanal, Palani and Dindigul, according to Collector R. Vasuki. In a release here on ...
Selva Vinayagar Temple: Discourse by G. R. Subramanian, Railway Colony, 7.30 p.m. Koodal Alagar Temple: Discourse by R. Rangarajan, 6.30 p.m. Tiruppugazh Sabha: Discourse by S. ...
MADURAI: The Madras High Court Bench here has reprimanded the Samayapuram police in Tiruchi district for displaying the photographs of an innocent mother-son duo on a board warning people of habitual thieves outside the Samayapuram Temple ...
MADURAI: The 2666 Kanyakumari-Howrah Express, scheduled to leave Kanyakumari on Saturday, and 2665 Howrah-Kanyakumari Express to leave Howrah on Monday have been cancelled due to breaches and water logging in Karagpur division of South Eastern ...
MADURAI: The Valliammal Institution will conduct a two-month part-time certificate course in basic counselling skills from July 12 to August 31. Classes will be held between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturdays and between 2.30 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. on ...
MADURAI: Aspire Learning Company will conduct its merit scholarship test on July13 for students of classes VIII to XI across South India at 13 centres. A press release said that these examinations were aimed at equipping students for ...
MADURAI: Group discussion and interview for admission to Madurai Kamaraj University’s MBA degree course for 2008-09 will be held on July, 11, 12 and 13. A release from Registrar I. Singaram said individual call letters had been ...
MADURAI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has demanded the State government to ensure that there was uninterrupted power supply in Madurai and its peripheries. Presiding over a meeting here, Madurai MP P.Mohan urged the government ...
MADURAI: Banks in the district are in the process of implementing the Union Government’s Rs. 71,000-crore Agriculture Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme 2008. A public sector bank, Union Bank of India said that loans amounting to ...
MADURAI: The Madurai Aavin on Wednesday launched two new products, ‘Aavin Jamun’ and ‘1.5 per cent fat milk.’ The fat content of normal milk sold by Aavin is 4.5 per cent. The new 1.5 per cent fat content ...
MADURAI: The temperature in the late hours of Thursday soared higher than usual as models set the ramp on fire. The fashion show, organised here as a precursor to the third edition of The Hindu Metroplus Lifestyle Show that would open ...
MADURAI: Group discussion and interview for admission to Madurai Kamaraj University’s MBA degree course for 2008-09 will be held on July, 11, 12 and 13. Individual call letters had been despatched and those who did not receive ...
MADURAI: The All India Naadalum Makkal Katchi (AINMK) would strike an alliance with like-minded parties at the appropriate time when elections were announced, said its president M. Kartik here on Friday. He was addressing cadres after hoisting ...
MADURAI: Water level in the Periyar dam stood at 130.50 feet (full level 136 feet) with an inflow of 148 cusecs and a discharge of 1,501 cusecs. The level in the Vaigai dam was 58.69 feet (71 feet) with an inflow of 756 cusecs and a discharge ...
NAGAPATTINAM: Three fishermen – Kaliyaperumal, Vaithialingam and Ramiah of Akkaraipettai coastal hamlet here who were missing while fishing in the sea since June 27 have not been traced yet. A group of fishermen who ventured in ...
NAGAPATTINAM: The Coast Guard has stepped up its vigil on the 188-km stretch coast in Nagapattinam to prevent intrusion of anti-social elements and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam . The security on the coast has been beefed up after ...
PERAMBALUR: As many as 183 road works have been executed by the State Highways Department in Perambalur district at a cost of about Rs.50.96 crore during the past two years, Collector Anil Meshram has said. Stating that infrastructure ...
PERAMBALUR: Students from nine States would participate in a National Integration Camp to be held at the Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Arts and Science for Women here from July 7 to 13. A communal harmony rally would also be ...
SALEM: Periyar University will publish the results of examinations held during April/May 2008 for all the undergraduate arts and science courses on July 5. Websites According to a release, students can ...
SALEM: A team of officials from the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DV and AC) and experts collected samples of bitumen and blue metal from the roads in Salem city on Friday following allegations that the roads were of poor ...
