Sunday, December 22, 2013

chennai news

chennai news


Abandoned by firms, telecom towers mar rural landscape - Times of India

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:57 PM PST


Abandoned by firms, telecom towers mar rural landscape
Times of India
CHENNAI: In 2009, K Alagarsamy signed a ten-year lease deed with a private firm to install a telecom tower on his farmland in Velayuthapuram, Virudhunagar district, for a monthly rent of Rs 3,500. The company paid rent promptly until 2011 and then stopped ...

Eye on 2014, AIADMK names new district secretaries - Times of India

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:44 PM PST


Eye on 2014, AIADMK names new district secretaries
Times of India
CHENNAI: Chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Sunday appointed new district secretaries for AIADMK's Ramanathapuram and Erode units, a few days after the party's general council meeting called on workers to concentrate on the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.

Nemmeli desal unit up at 101 MLD, fix for south Chennai - Times of India

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:44 PM PST


Nemmeli desal unit up at 101 MLD, fix for south Chennai
Times of India
CHENNAI: Residents of South Chennai are likely to soon receive an additional 15 million litres of water a day (MLD), with the Nemmeli desalination plant producing 101MLD for the first time on Saturday. Engineers are confident that they would be able to ...

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Teen mridangist's rhythm keeps family going - Times of India

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:37 PM PST


Teen mridangist's rhythm keeps family going
Times of India
CHENNAI: For seven years since she took up the mridangam, S Aswini has been balancing commerce, concerts and her family with a steady rhythm. The 15-year-old started performing alongside her guru T K Murthy six months after she started mridangam ...

Birds get an open park sans nets at Vandalur zoo - Times of India

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:37 PM PST


Birds get an open park sans nets at Vandalur zoo
Times of India
CHENNAI: There will be more tweets on the Vandalur zoo campus; and we mean the real ones. The zoo on Saturday inaugurated a one-hectare open park for birds. A survey of birds in the zoo put their number at more than 750, belonging to 74 different ...

Public nod in, work on railway over-bridges to start soon - Times of India

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:30 PM PST


Public nod in, work on railway over-bridges to start soon
Times of India
CHENNAI: If all goes well, work on two railway over-bridges proposed on the Manali Road in Thiruvottiyur and at the junction between Ennore Highway and Manali Road in Korukkupettai, will begin in six months. Decks were cleared for the construction of ...

Glass pieces in jam costs multinational firm 40000 - Times of India

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:30 PM PST


Glass pieces in jam costs multinational firm 40000
Times of India
CHENNAI: In 2000, Savithri Anandraman purchased a bottle of Jam for 23. When she was spreading the jam on a slice of bread, she found fragments of glass in it. Thirteen years later, taking note of the serious lapse in quality control, a consumer forum in ...

TV channel editor held on sexual harassment charge - Times of India

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:21 PM PST


TV channel editor held on sexual harassment charge
Times of India
CHENNAI: The chief editor of Tamil channel Captain TV was arrested on Sunday following a sexual harassment complaint from a woman colleague. Dinesh Kumar, 26, was picked up from his house in Vanagaram a little after midnight by a team from ...

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In clean sweep, AAP comes to Chennai and recruits 1K - Times of India

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:21 PM PST


In clean sweep, AAP comes to Chennai and recruits 1K
Times of India
Holding its first ever enrolment drive in the state, in Chennai, on Sunday, the AAP exceeded its own expectations, with at least 1,000 people registering as members and volunteers. Most of the AAP's new recruits were youngsters, under 30. But there were ...

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Tanker runs over biker, mob attacks MTC buses - Times of India

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:21 PM PST


Tanker runs over biker, mob attacks MTC buses
Times of India
CHENNAI: An angry mob attacked a water tanker that ran over a 24-year-old man on a bike in T Nagar at 3.30pm on Sunday. The tanker hit the bike, which was ahead, while turning from G N Chetty Road to Sundar Rao Street. R Veeraraghavan, the rider, fell ...

Box Office: 'Dhoom 3' Early Global Hit, Eyeing $25 Million-Plus Opening

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:28 PM PST

Ex-pats in Indian communities around the globe are flocking to see the film, which scored the top opening of all time in the U.S. for a Bollywood title. read more

Now, Hospira under US FDA's lens

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:10 PM PST

Formal warning to Indian unit of deficiencies noted during inspection at facility near Chennai; firm says will remedy

Nemmeli desal plant generates at full capacity

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 01:25 PM PST

The Nemmeli desalination plant has touched its full capacity generation of 100 million litres a day (MLD) in treating seawater. This has come at a time when the northeast monsoon is in deficit and...

Water lorry rams motorcycle, rider dies

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 01:25 PM PST

Pillion rider escapes; family, friends of victim stage road roko; lorry driver held

Sleeping employees, a French official: the saga of a Tamil opera

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 01:24 PM PST

'Nandan Charithiram' was the second opera to get printed

Remembering Bawa

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 12:15 PM PST

In this article, originally published in Indian Architect & Builder, architect and writer David Robson pens an intimate and personal account of the life and work of Geoffrey Bawa – an incredible architect with an unparalleled legacy in Sri Lanka and south-east India.

Congress, BJP won't be able to form government post 2014 polls: CPI

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 10:21 AM PST

Chennai, Dec 22 (PTI) : Claiming that both Congress and BJP would not be able to form government at the centre after the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, CPI on Sunday said efforts were on to forge a new combination of Left and democratic forces, including regional parties, to provide a viable alternative.

Box Office Results: The Hobbit Holds Ron Burgundy at Bay

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 09:57 AM PST

The big new wide release this weekend was the return of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues , co-starring Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner, Kristen Wiig, Christina Applegate, Meagan Good and many more, but by the weekend, it had lost a bit more business, forcing it to settle for second place with $26.9 million behind last week's #1 movie, Peter Jackson's The ...

Broking route to sell insurance may prove tough for public sector banks

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 08:39 AM PST

There may be implementation challenges as banks will have to invest in training their staff in selling the policies of multiple insurers.

ESIC opens medical college in Kerala

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 08:38 AM PST

Employees State Insurance Corporation will complete all its projects of renovating and constructing modern dispensaries, hospitals and offices in Kerala on a priority basis, Minister of State for...