Friday, November 1, 2013

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Parliamentary panel against privatisation of airports: Yechury

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 02:37 PM PDT

Stating that it makes "neither economic sense nor common sense to hand over public property for private profit-making," Sitaram Yechury, chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transpo...

Heritage building housing govt. press in Chennai gutted

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 02:36 PM PDT

A major fire broke out in the Government Press on Mint Street in the early hours of Friday. The single-storeyed heritage structure, housing the printing and binding unit, collapsed in the fire tha...

Chennai: 2-century-old govt press damaged in blaze

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 01:32 PM PDT

A major fire broke out inside the two-century-old government printing press on Mint Street damaging goods worth 5 crore in the early hours of Friday.        

War crime video throws shadow over Commonwealth summit in Lanka

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 01:26 PM PDT

A video clipping that purportedly exposes the killing of a Sri Lankan Tamil actor and television anchor by the army has queered the pitch for the Rajapaksa regime in the run-up to the Commonwealth summit, to be held later this month in Colombo.        

FIR against Srinivasan and Gurunath

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 12:56 PM PDT

JAIPUR: Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi's legal counsel Mahmood Abdi on Friday lodged an FIR against BCCI president N Srinivasan and his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan at a local police station charging them of fixing an IPL 6 match between CSK and Rajasthan Royals held on May 12. Abdi, who is also the president of Sriganganagar District Cricket Association, lodged an FIR at the Jyoti Nagar ...

National Nuggets

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 12:24 PM PDT

Prince to visit Kochi from Nov 11 Kochi: Royal couple Prince Charles and his wife Camilla Parker Bowles will be on a four-day visit to Kochi from November 11 during their India tour. Police are making elaborate arrangements for the security of the Royal couple. Charles and Camilla will arrive in Kochi on November 11 and would visit the Kerala Folklore Museum and Theatre. They would be taken on a ...

Don't hand over airports to private players: Yechury

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 11:50 AM PDT

Kolkata, Nov 1 (IANS): A parliamentary panel has adopted a report that opposes privatisation of airports "as it does not make any economic sense", its chairman Sitaram Yechury said here Friday.

The Real Face of the Common Indian Male

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 11:05 AM PDT

Earlier this month, responding to the wave of news about Indian men fatally gang-raping a 23-year-old student, of Indian children being lured with chocolate and then sexually assaulted, and of Western women in study-abroad programs suffering post-traumatic stress disorder after repeatedly being groped and harassed by Indian men, Lavanya Sankaran published an essay in The New York Times titled ...

Thierry Henry, Robert Pires and Hernan Crespo lined up for India tournament

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 11:02 AM PDT

Former football superstars Thierry Henry, Robert Pires and Hernan Crespo are being lined up to play in a new Indian tournament aimed at cashing in on growing domestic interest in the sport, organisers said on Monday.        

FIR registered against BCCI president in Jaipur

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 10:48 AM PDT

Jaipur, Nov 1 : An FIR was registered Friday in Jaipur's Jyotinagar police station to investigate the match fixing allegations by BCCI president N. Srinivasan and his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan for conspiring and executing the fixing of an IPL match played May 12 between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the city's Sawai Man Singh Stadium.

Documents worth lakhs destroyed in press fire - The Hindu

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 02:41 PM PDT


Documents worth lakhs destroyed in press fire
The Hindu
The Government Printing Press, established in 1888 on Mint Street, was completely damaged in Friday's fire though there were no casualties. The building was categorised as a Grade I heritage building by the Justice E. Padmanabhan Committee that was ...

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Heritage building housing govt. press in Chennai gutted - The Hindu

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 02:29 PM PDT


The Hindu
Heritage building housing govt. press in Chennai gutted
The Hindu
A major fire broke out in the Government Press on Mint Street in the early hours of Friday. The single-storeyed heritage structure, housing the printing and binding unit, collapsed in the fire that lasted nearly eight hours. Whatever was left standing was ...

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FIR filed against Srinivasan and Gurunath - Gulf Today

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 01:41 PM PDT


FIR filed against Srinivasan and Gurunath
Gulf Today
The allegations are conspiring and executing the fixing of an IPL match played May 12 at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium here between Chennai Super Kings and hosts Rajasthan Royals. The match was won by Rajasthan Royals by five wickets. In response to ...

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Big shave: Purity tweaked, Chennai jewellers make a killing - Times of India

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 01:40 PM PDT


Big shave: Purity tweaked, Chennai jewellers make a killing
Times of India
For jewellers in Chennai, business peaks in the festive season. But for a large number, it is also the best time to con customers, officials of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and the department of legal metrology warned after inspections in shops across ...

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Two-century-old govt press damaged in blaze - Times of India

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 01:40 PM PDT


Two-century-old govt press damaged in blaze
Times of India
CHENNAI: A major fire broke out inside the two-century-old government printing press on Mint Street damaging goods worth 5 crore in the early hours of Friday. This is the second fire in less than five months. Goods worth 15 lakh were gutted in a similar ...

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Directorate of Revenue Intelligence nets gold worth Rs 9.5 crore in 2 weeks - Times of India

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 01:40 PM PDT


Directorate of Revenue Intelligence nets gold worth Rs 9.5 crore in 2 weeks
Times of India
CHENNAI: It's raining gold for the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence in the state; only that it's the smuggled stuff. The intelligence agency has seized more than 20kg of gold worth 9.5 crore from Chennai and other parts of Tamil Nadu in the past fortnight.

Game of thrones with world chess champion Viswanathan Anand - Financial Times

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 01:38 PM PDT


Game of thrones with world chess champion Viswanathan Anand
Financial Times
Sitting in his modest home in the southern Indian city of Chennai, Viswanathan Anand – five times world chess champion – is describing the psychological pressure that bears down on top-level chess players. "What happens to you at the board begins to feel ...

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FIR registered, cops to probe RR-CSK match - Times of India

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 12:38 PM PDT


FIR registered, cops to probe RR-CSK match
Times of India
JAIPUR: The Jyotinagar Police Station here in Jaipur, under the directions of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Satish Chandra Godara, has registered an FIR to investigate the IPL match between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings played this ...

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16 Lankan fishermen arrested for fishing in Indian waters - Zee News

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 12:09 PM PDT


16 Lankan fishermen arrested for fishing in Indian waters
Zee News
Chennai: Sixteen Sri Lankan fishermen were on Friday arrested by Indian Coast Guard off Krishnapatnam coast in Andhra Pradesh for allegedly fishing in Indian waters. The arrest comes with a month after 20 Sri Lankan fishermen were arrested near ...

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Tamil politicians remain firm on their stand as CHOGM date approaches - IBNLive

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PDT


Tamil politicians remain firm on their stand as CHOGM date approaches
IBNLive
Chennai: India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's proposed trip to Sri Lanka for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is due in two weeks. With government sources telling CNN-IBN about the arrangements that are in place for the visit, Tamil ...

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