Tuesday, July 23, 2013

chennai news

chennai news


Technical glitches hit admissions to NITs, IIITs - Times of India

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 02:53 PM PDT


Technical glitches hit admissions to NITs, IIITs
Times of India
CHENNAI: Technical glitches in the Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) website brought the spot counselling process for admission to NITs, IIITs and other CFTIs to a halt on Tuesday. Several students hoping to get a wild card entry into the famed National ...

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Centre rolls out guidelines for acid sale, Tamil Nadu starts working on law to limit ... - Times of India

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 02:53 PM PDT


Centre rolls out guidelines for acid sale, Tamil Nadu starts working on law to limit ...
Times of India
CHENNAI: Less than a week after the Centre laid down new guidelines for acid sale, Tamil Nadu home department officials said they had begun the process of drafting a new stringent act to limit accessibility to the corrosive fluid often used to attack women.

IIT-Madras roped in to find oil leak fix - Times of India

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 02:53 PM PDT


IIT-Madras roped in to find oil leak fix
Times of India
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has enlisted the expertise of experts at IIT-Madras for a detailed study of the oil leak at Tondiarpet and to find a long-term solution for the pollution caused to an aquifer by thousands of litres of fuel ...

GenNext Kiwi cricketers trace roots to Chennai - Times of India

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 02:42 PM PDT


GenNext Kiwi cricketers trace roots to Chennai
Times of India
CHENNAI: After Dipak Patel, Jeetan Patel, Ronnie Hira and Tarun Nethula, there is a new generation of cricketers with sub-continental origins who dream of wearing the black cap for New Zealand. Two of these aspiring youngsters even trace their roots back ...

70s heroine Manjula dies of renal failure - Times of India

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 02:40 PM PDT


70s heroine Manjula dies of renal failure
Times of India
CHENNAI: ManjulaVijayakumar, who acted in more than 100 films in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada, with SivajiGanesan, Gemini Ganesan, M G Ramachandran as well as Kamal Hassan and Rajinikanth, died on Tuesday morning. She was 59. Doctors at Sri ...

Madras university turns down Chennai colleges' bid for 10% extra seats - Times of India

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 02:40 PM PDT


Madras university turns down Chennai colleges' bid for 10% extra seats
Times of India
CHENNAI: Students making a last ditch effort to get a seat in some of the popular city colleges are likely to be turned back as the University of Madras has denied institutions additional seats this year. The university syndicate, which met recently, turned down ...

Courtyard Chennai India Wins Courtyard Community Service Award - SYS-CON Media (press release)

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 02:20 PM PDT


Courtyard Chennai India Wins Courtyard Community Service Award
SYS-CON Media (press release)
CHENNAI, INDIA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/23/13 -- Courtyard Chennai, India was very proud to receive the prestigious 2013 Courtyard Community Service Award, among the CFRST Hotels. In line with Marriott's philosophy to provide food and shelter to people in ...

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Rains unable to fill city's reservoir - The Hindu

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 01:53 PM PDT


The Hindu

Rains unable to fill city's reservoir
The Hindu
The city's reservoirs have been recording steady inflow for the past few days, thanks to intermittent showers and release of Krishna water from Andhra Pradesh. However, the quantity received by the reservoirs is just enough to meet the drinking water needs of ...

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Half of all engineering seats in TN lie vacant - The Hindu

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 01:48 PM PDT


Half of all engineering seats in TN lie vacant
The Hindu
There's barely a week left for engineering admissions to be completed, but nearly half the seats in institutions across the State are still vacant. According to official data on this year's engineering admissions, 46 per cent or 93,982 of the 2,05,268 seats in over ...

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Income Tax searches on two restaurant chains in Chennai - The Hindu

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 01:46 PM PDT


The Hindu

Income Tax searches on two restaurant chains in Chennai
The Hindu
Split into two groups, about 400 persons from the Chennai Investigation wing of Directorate General of Income Tax began search operations at Saravana Bhavan owner's residence in city, farmhouse in Tuticorin, corporate office in Vadapalani, restaurants and ...

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More Calcutta News

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 03:03 PM PDT

Unidentified militants lobbed a grenade at a tax department office in western Meghalaya Tuesday evening, police said. There were no casualties.

State lagging in railway network, says Kharge

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 02:38 PM PDT

Railway Minister M. Mallikarjun Kharge said on Tuesday that Karnataka lagged Bihar, Haryana and Assam as far as development of rail network was concerned. It was not even close to the level in And...

Rains unable to fill city's reservoir

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 02:07 PM PDT

The city's reservoirs have been recording steady inflow for the past few days, thanks to intermittent showers and release of Krishna water from Andhra Pradesh.However, the quantity received...

Half of all engineering seats in TN lie vacant

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 01:53 PM PDT

There's barely a week left for engineering admissions to be completed, but nearly half the seats in institutions across the State are still vacant. According to official data on this year's...

Ramesh murder case: BJP blames intelligence failure

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 01:53 PM PDT

Advani to pay tribute to Ramesh in Salem on August 1

Income Tax searches on two restaurant chains in Chennai

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Income Tax officers on Tuesday carried out search operations simultaneously on two vegetarian restaurant chains – Hotel Saravana Bhavan and Adyar Ananda Bhavan (A2B) Sweets and Snacks – in various...

Warning bells for the Corporation

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 01:40 PM PDT

Recently, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo were outraged against the rise in bus and Metro Rail fares. Istanbul took to the streets when the government tried to take over a public park to build a comm...

SID team continues probe, searches for weapons

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 01:22 PM PDT

On the second day of its probe into the murder of BJP State general secretary V. Ramesh, the Special Investigation Division on Tuesday searched for weapons used in the killing.The areas sea...

Courtyard Chennai India Wins Courtyard Community Service Award

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 01:18 PM PDT

Business Hotel in Chennai Wins Community Service Award

Income Tax searches on two restaurant chains

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 01:08 PM PDT

Income Tax officers on Tuesday carried out search operations simultaneously on two vegetarian restaurant chains – Hotel Saravana Bhavan and Adyar Ananda Bhavan (A2B) Sweets and Snacks – in various...