Monday, November 4, 2013

chennai news

chennai news


Court orders son to pay 5000 a month for mom's maintenance - Times of India

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:47 PM PST


Court orders son to pay 5000 a month for mom's maintenance
Times of India
CHENNAI: A septuagenarian is all set to receive a monthly maintenance of Rs5,000 from her unwilling son, thanks to an order of a family court here. Rosemary Angelina alias Lilly had moved the family court here saying her only son had been harassing and ...

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Chennai racket smuggling 'Viagra' busted - Times of India

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:41 PM PST


Chennai racket smuggling 'Viagra' busted
Times of India
SITAPATHICHENNAI: Central drug control authorities raided a Mylapore-based pharma agency and seized sildenafil citrate (sold in the market also as Viagra) meant for smuggling abroad. The drug distributor had been sending the drug through courier to the ...

Child monks rescued in Chennai - The Hindu

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:21 PM PST


The Hindu

Child monks rescued in Chennai
The Hindu
Tenzin, 10, and Norubu Sherpa, 7, are not wandering monks, but they are newly-inducted monks indeed, and have wandered far from their home in West Bengal. These children were found roaming around in the Chennai Central railway station before ...

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US navy missile destroyer berths off Chennai port ahead of 2013 sea exercise - Times of India

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:19 PM PST


US navy missile destroyer berths off Chennai port ahead of 2013 sea exercise
Times of India
CHENNAI: USS McCampbell, a US Navy guided-missile destroyer which spearheads anti-piracy and anti-terrorism operations in the Pacific, berthed at Chennai port ahead of the Malabar 2013 sea exercise that begins on Thursday. The Arleigh Burke Class ...

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Woman jumps into lake with kids, 4-year-old daughter dies - Times of India

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:13 PM PST


Woman jumps into lake with kids, 4-year-old daughter dies
Times of India
CHENNAI: A woman, who was upset with her husband squandering money and drinking, jumped into Chembarambakkam Lake on Monday with her two daughters. Passersby who saw her jump rushed to the lake and managed to save her and one of the ...

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Teen beaten to death after spat over cricket - Times of India

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:13 PM PST


Teen beaten to death after spat over cricket
Times of India
CHENNAI: A 19-year-old teen was beaten to death by three of his friends during a game of cricket in Villivakkam on Sunday. The trio, including a college student, took him to a government hospital and fled. Police said Sathish, a lathe shop employee, went to ...

Man found dead at Wellington Plaza - Times of India

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:13 PM PST


Man found dead at Wellington Plaza
Times of India
CHENNAI: A 25-year-old unidentified man was found dead at Wellington Plaza in Triplicane on Monday. Police suspect that he fell from the three-storey building. Two security guards who reported for duty at 8.30am on Monday found the man dead behind the ...

Cops probe why drunk student not stopped in checks - Times of India

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:13 PM PST


Cops probe why drunk student not stopped in checks
Times of India
CHENNAI: Police personnel who were on duty on Anna Salai, Radhakrishnan Salai and Kamarajar Salai will have to explain why they did not stop the car with a drunk driver at the wheel, which killed three pedestrians on Saturday morning. A report had been ...

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Govt staffer suspended, reinstated within hours - Times of India

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:12 PM PST


Govt staffer suspended, reinstated within hours
Times of India
CHENNAI: An employee in the office of the Director-General of Police was placed under suspension after she lost a file relating to tainted IPS officer Pramod Kumar. However, the suspension was revoked within hours and she was transferred to the Tamil ...

Chennai to celebrate Muharram with banners, fast and prayers - Times of India

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:12 PM PST


Chennai to celebrate Muharram with banners, fast and prayers
Times of India
CHENNAI: Fast and make a prayer to the Prophet during Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar and the chances are that it will be answered. There are peaceful spiritual retreats in homes, community halls and mosques across Chennai, far removed ...

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Pressure mounts on Indian PM to boycott Commonwealth meet

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:46 PM PST

Manmohan Singh — under pressure to boycott meet in Sri Lanka. (Reuters) NEW DELHI: A senior Indian minister Monday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to boycott a Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka over human rights abuses, joining opposition in government ranks to the trip.

Company gets notice over CCTV in rest rooms

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:35 PM PST

Employees of a Velachery-based company have moved the Madras high court against the management's alleged move to install closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras at workers' rest room.        

The big cut: Doctors remove 5kg tumour from woman’s liver

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:34 PM PST

When all non-invasive efforts failed to treat a 30-year-old woman with a 5kg tumour in her liver, surgeons at Government General Hospital decided they would have to take the scalpel to the huge growth and excise it before it could cause life-threatening complications.        

US navy missile destroyer berths off Chennai port ahead of 2013 sea exercise

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:26 PM PST

USS McCampbell, a US Navy guided-missile destroyer which spearheads anti-piracy and anti-terrorism operations in the Pacific, berthed at Chennai port ahead of the Malabar 2013 sea exercise that begins on Thursday.        

Child monks rescued in Chennai

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:21 PM PST

Tenzin, 10, and Norubu Sherpa, 7, are not wandering monks, but they are newly-inducted monks indeed, and have wandered far from their home in West Bengal. These children were found roaming...

Teen beaten to death after spat over cricket

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:17 PM PST

A 19-year-old teen was beaten to death by three of his friends during a game of cricket in Villivakkam on Sunday.        

Woman jumps into lake with kids, 4-year-old daughter dies

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:17 PM PST

A woman, who was upset with her husband squandering money and drinking, jumped into Chembarambakkam Lake on Monday with her two daughters. Passersby who saw her jump rushed to the lake and managed to save her and one of the children, but her elder daughter died.        

India blasts off for Mars

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:40 PM PST

At 2.38 Tuesday afternoon, local time, India will go to Mars.

No Indian visa for Sri Lanka war documentary maker

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:28 PM PST

India has denied a visa to Callum Macrae, the director of a documentary that exposed war crimes in Sri Lanka.        

Yet another glass panel cracks at Chennai airport

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:53 PM PST

This is the third such incident since May. No one was injured, officials said