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"Booming Chennai has a lot to do with port"
The Hindu
Little do residents of the city know that even up to 1910, Chennai's future was quite bleak. But everything changed once the Chennai Port came up. "Trade just boomed after that. That was the making of the city. It was also the only operational port in ...
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40 spotted deer relocated for Chennai Metro Rail
IBNLive.com
CHENNAI: In a major step taken as part of the ongoing Metro Rail construction in the city, the Forest Department had translocated 40 spotted deer or chital from the Poultry Research Station at Nandanam, claiming it to be the first successful change of ...
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Set for greater makeover in a few years' time
The Hindu
Chennai city will change beyond recognition in a few years. Thirty arterial roads have been selected for upgradation, grade separators are coming up, the Outer Ring Road is under formation, public transport systems are set to improve and Monorail is ...
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Check-in: Chennai International Airport (Chennai), Jet Airways Premiere Lounge
USA Today (blog)
I looked for alternatives and I found that I could perhaps hop to Chennai (MAA) and get into Colombo (CMB) and back on the same kind of money (for 2 people!) and keep the miles with me. So, that was going to be my new routing, a short mileage run for ...
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Live in Chennai, talk like American
Times of India
CHENNAI: 'Awesome', 'Gimme five' , and 'Cut it out' were not part of the vocabulary of the Raja household a few years ago, but the words have started trickling in. Complete with an American accent. And Anna Nagar-based businessman R Raja is happy with ...
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City is land grabbers' paradise
Times of India
Of this, only 37 acres of land and a one-lakh-sq-ft building are in Greater Chennai Police limits. But in terms of value, Greater Chennai accounts for more than 50% of the properties worth 450 recovered from the mafia. "Though this highlights the value ...
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Not enough lakes for Ganesha
Times of India
"There were a number of tanks and after the Vinayaka Chaturthi festival, we would immerse the clay idol in the water, symbolically letting it return to the earth," said the retired Chennai airport director who lives in T Nagar. ...
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5-yr-old seeks help for liver transplant
Times of India
CHENNAI: Doctors have recommended a liver transplant for five year-old Sharanya who has been diagnosed with end-stage liver failure at Apollo Children's Hospital. The liver transplant team is raising 15 lakh for the transplant expenses as the family is ...
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Alliances face coordination problems before local bodies polls
Times of India
CHENNAI : Major alliances in Tamil Nadu are handicapped by communication gaps as they head into the elections for local bodies in the state in October. Almost all the major parties have invited applications from the aspirants. ...
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Team Anna to go to villages for expand volunteer base
Times of India
CHENNAI: Team Anna Hazare in Chennai plans to expand its volunteer base across the state. Coordinators and volunteers of India Against Corruption (IAC) discussed their plans at a meeting in Kodambakkam on Sunday. About 25000 volunteers registered ...
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Avadi villagers threaten stir against IAF plans to block road
Times of India
CHENNAI: Around 20000 people from over 20 villagers in Avadi are threatening to go on a massive agitation if the Air Force Station there gets its way. In late July, wing commander (administration) K Ravinder wrote to the Tiruvallur collector saying ...
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City from the sea
Times of India
CHENNAI: Long before the city's port was built, the Dutch and Portuguese landed on the Chennai coast for trade. On Sunday, Chennaiites on 'The Old Sea Dog Sail' got a chance to see the city from the sea, just as the traders did. ...
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DMK chief says no democracy in assembly
Times of India
CHENNAI : DMK MLAs who had twice boycotted the assembly session, will be attending the House from Monday. Interestingly, the MLAs will be in the assembly without their floor leader MK Stalin as he left for the UK with his family on Sunday. ...
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Doctors discuss toy stories, adult version
Times of India
CHENNAI: As they shop for toothpaste and sunscreen many people are picking up sex toys from retail outlets as well. For years, people bought vibrators discreetly in the city's grey market or ordered them online. But lately, many take them off the ...
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Residents want govt to sort out flyover deadlock with Air Force, highways dept
Times of India
CHENNAI: Anakaputhur residents are hoping the state government will step in to break the deadlock between the highways department and the air force so that they get a flyover that they have been awaiting. Work on a flyover across the Adyar river at ...
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IIT fest to focus on environment, rural aid, empowering rural folk
Times of India
CHENNAI: This year, Shaastra, the annual technical festival of the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, will be all about saving the environment and empowering people in rural areas to do the same. It will be held from September 28 to October 2. ...
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Idols find Bay home in peace
Deccan Chronicle
DC As many as 1341 idols of Vinyaka were immersed at various sea-shore points in Bay of Bengal in and around Chennai on Sunday. "The procession and immersion, mainly organised by Hindu Munnani and Hindu Makkal Katchi passed off peacefully," said Mr JK ...
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Many suitors for mayor post
Deccan Chronicle
The DMK and Congress hold the mayors' post in Chennai, Tirunelveli and Madurai Corporations besides dominating several municipalities. With the Jayalalithaa government all set to launch the free mixie/grinder scheme in mid-September, the party banks on ...
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DMK looking forward to civic polls for staging a comeback
Times of India
PTI | Sep 4, 2011, 01.16PM IST CHENNAI: After having suffered humiliation at the hands of AIADMK-led coalition in the April 13 Tamil Nadu assembly polls, DMK's fortunes will be put to litmus test in the form of next month's local body polls, ...
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