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AIADMK to be part of Modi fast
Times of India
CHENNAI: In an indication of a growing AIADMK-BJP bonhomie, party supremo and Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has directed MPs V Maitreyan and M Thambidurai to join Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in his three-day fast for peace and unity ...
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AIADMK announces candidates for all 10 Mayors posts, allies upset
Times of India
CHENNAI: The forthcoming civic elections in Tamil Nadu have caused upheavals in the main political fronts in the state. In a decision that is likely to cause some unpleasant ripples within the AIADMK-led front, the ruling party on Friday announced ...
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Driver was talking on phone before collision
The Hindu
The Chennai Beach-Vellore Cantonment MEMU rammed the rear of the Arakkonam-Katpadi passenger train, resulting in the death of ten passengers and injuries to several others. Police investigation has revealed that driver A. Rajkumar was speaking on his ...
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3 new passport centres to handle 1400 applications
Times of India
CHENNAI: The three new passport seva kendras launched in the city on Friday will handle 1400 applications daily. Launching the swank kendra on Bhanumathi Ramakrishna Road in Saligramam, chief passport officer, Muktesh Kumar Pardesi said it would handle ...
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Central's pre-paid auto stand run by mafia: Passengers
Times of India
CHENNAI: Commuters at the pre-paid autorickshaw counter at the Chennai Central Railway Station, already struggling with high rates, have a new headache. The self-styled 'don' or thalaivar, who runs the counter, decides which driver will go to which ...
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City's highways turn deathtraps
Times of India
CHENNAI: The highways continue to be the number one killer in the city's suburbs. According to figures available with the police, between January and August this year there were 76 fatal accidents in which 85 persons died on the 20-km ...
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Fuel price hike hits hard
Times of India
CHENNAI: Everyday, S Thangavel of Old Pallavaram, takes an autorickshaw to a bus stop on the other side of the railway station on GST Road. He pays around Rs 120 for the 4-km ride. During the monsoon, the rate can go up to Rs 200. ...
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Corrupt officials use tobacco rule to harass street vendors, says study
Times of India
CHENNAI: Most of the 50 lakh street vendors in the state say that they pay Rs 200 as bribes to local authorities every week, a study says. This bribe is because of the misuse of a '100 yard rule' that says that no tobacco product can be sold within a ...
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AR Rahman is a gadget freak
Times of India
Imtiaz, during one of his visits to Rahman's studios in Chennai, got into a casual conversation with the music director about travelling and discovering new places. He complained to Rahman about all the tourists who travel to exotic locations and then ...
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Ascott plans to open 1400 serviced homes in India
Hindu Business Line
The company announced the opening of about 300 units across two properties in Bangalore and Chennai. "Currently we have five other properties with over 1100 apartment units under development in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad," said Mr ...
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Nokia's Chennai workers get poor salaries: Finnwatch
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Mobile handset manufacturer Nokia has come in for adverse notice, with an independent research report saying employees at its manufacturing plant in Chennai are being paid low salaries, a contention rejected by the Finnish major. ...
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Train accident in Tamil Nadu; 10 killed, 70 injured
NewsX
At least 9 persons were killed and more than 70 injured when a passenger train from Chennai rammed into a stationary train near Sitheri railway station close to Arakkonam.
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AIADMK announces list of Mayoral candidates
Times of India
PTI | Sep 16, 2011, 04.26PM IST CHENNAI: Setting the ball rolling for the local body polls due next month in Tamil Nadu, AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa on Friday announced the party's Mayoral candidates for 10 Corporations in the state, fielding six women ...
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Life in a Metro — In pursuit of parking
The Hindu
I have been living in Chennai for 10 years now – I had arrived just in time to watch the city transform. Had I come a few years earlier, I would have been too old-time a resident to notice the changes; had I come a few years later, I would have landed ...
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Vehicle-users to be sensitised to parking norms
The Hindu
The Chennai Traffic Police in association with the Institute for Transport and Development Policy and Chennai City Connect Foundation has planned to celebrate Park(ing) Day on Friday and launch a month-long community outreach programme thereafter to ...
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'Graft during YSR rule was above norm in India'
IBNLive.com
PTI Hyderabad: A leaked diplomatic cable dispatched by the US Consul General in Chennai in 2007 had nailed the then Congress government headed by YS Rajasekhara Reddy in Andhra Pradesh for 'widespread corruption that was beyond the pale' even for India ...
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Train accident: Probe to commence tomorrow
Economic Times
CHENNAI: Probe into the train accident near Arakkonam on Tuesday night will commence here tomorrow with officials scheduled to question the driver of the MEMU train which rammed into a stationary passenger train, killing 10 persons. ...
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Close battles likely in JK Races
Times of India
CHENNAI: The battle for titles in the JK Tyre National Racing Championship has narrowed down to a handful of drivers who will be looking to consolidate their positions over the weekend when the fourth round of the series would be held. ...
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Item girl Sona wants producer at her Charan
IBNLive.com
CHENNAI: Kollywood item girl Sona dropped a bombshell on Thursday by alleging that actor, producer and director SP Charan had 'molested' and 'misbehaved' with her at a party on Wednesday night. She demanded a public apology from him within 10 days, ...
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Plea to shift Rajiv killers' case out of Chennai
Daily News & Analysis
By Rakesh Bhatnagar | Place: New Delhi | Agency: DNA The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government on a petition seeking transfer of lawsuits filed in the Madras high court by three Rajiv Gandhi assassins asking ...
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