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  • The lost souls of Madras

       (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 13:25)

    Janane Venkatraman unearths details about the oldest British tombstone in India

  • Road to adventure

       (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 13:19)

    Over 300 lives are lost on the Death Road in Bolivia every year. However, three teams of truckers decide to take that route. Catch their journey on “IRT Deadliest Roads”

  • Tangles of colour

       (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 13:16)

    ART Colours coalesce in a fiery courtship on A. Viswam's canvas

  • Winged roadster

       (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 13:12)

    TESTDRIVE How well does a 690bhp Lamborghini Aventador work in India? Ouseph Chacko finds out over two days of driving the supercar through Maharashtra

  • City for scandal

       (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 13:06)

    EVENT Film historian Randor Guy engaged the audience at Namma Chennai with some sensational stories of old Madras

  • Petpals

       (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 13:02)

    Cat myths bustedCats are mysterious, affectionate beings that are sometimes misunderstood. Three people who adopted kittens and cats bust some common myths about them. Charu Shah sets...

  • Staging Shakespeare

       (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 12:56)

    THEATRE The three plays comprising Prakriti Foundation's ‘Hamara Shakespeare' presented the Bard with a strongly Indian and contemporary flavour

  • “Zambia high on radar of Indian investment explorations”

       (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 06:30)

    Zambian Government keen on increasing trade ties manifold

  • Registration department nets Rs.141-cr. from Samadhan Scheme

       (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 06:29)

    The Registration Department has collected additional revenue of about Rs.141 crore through the fifth edition of Samadhan Scheme that ended on January 31.Talking to The Hindu, a depar...

  • Sankararaman case: nod for judge's transfer awaited

       (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 06:26)

    A Division Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday reserved orders on a writ petition seeking a statutory investigation on a complaint that tapes allegedly containing telephonic conversation among...

  • World's first mobile emission testing vehicle in rail sector commissioned

       (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 05:22)

    Indian Railways, on Monday, took the first stride towards framing emission standards for long-haul diesel locomotives and diesel power cars plying along suburban routes on its system with the comm...

  • A lesson in making learning lively, lyrical

       (Monday, 06 February 2012 22:36)

    American author for encouraging students to ask questions through poetry, song and movement

  • 3 arterial roads in Chennai to be upgraded

       (Monday, 06 February 2012 22:32)

    Rampant encroachments, struggling pedestrians and mismanagement of space in the carriageway – problems besetting the city's arterial roads, but the authorities are now looking to address these iss...

  • Traffic diversion in Mylapore

       (Monday, 06 February 2012 22:01)

    Police have announced certain traffic diversions in Mylapore in view of the Thaipoosam float festival of Kapaleeswarar temple from February 7 to 9 between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.According to a re...

  • Recruitments resume at TNPSC

       (Monday, 06 February 2012 21:39)

    For the first time, it has adopted a new method for counselling

  • “Free software from legal control”

       (Monday, 06 February 2012 21:35)

    Stallman lays stress on right to learn and sharing with others

  • Bus knocks down septuagenarian

       (Monday, 06 February 2012 21:33)

    A septuagenarian was killed when a college bus ran into a roadside bus shelter at A.S. Nagar on Ennore Express Road here on Monday.According to police sources, the bus of a private engineeri...

  • Drive against anti-social elements

       (Monday, 06 February 2012 21:32)

    About 500 persons were taken into preventive custody as part of an intensive drive against anti-social elements here on Sunday.According to Joint Commissioner of Police (West Zone) K. Shanka...

  • Industries turn eco-friendly

       (Monday, 06 February 2012 21:29)

    Many industrial estates in the city are setting up sewage and effluent treatment plants in an effort to promote eco-friendly practices and reduce burden on civic agencies.The industrial esta...

  • Mastering the science of lyric engineering

       (Monday, 06 February 2012 21:27)

    Jalin Gladis and Ganga Kameswaran, both students of computer science at College of Engineering, Guindy, have been avid fans of Tamil film music for as long as they can remember. Over the last thre...