MADRAS Top Stories
With the three-day 117th Annual Floral Carnival (AFC) scheduled to commence at the GovernmentBotanical Garden here on Friday the venue was a beehive of activity on...
KOLKATA/MALDA: For those waiting for their fill of mangoes, this season has been a windfall. The city markets are flooded with the luscious, juicy fruit with Himsagar...
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The Times of India: NEW DELHI: NPCIL has sought to reassure a group of scientists who had raised concerns over the safety of Kudankulam nuclear power project (KNPP), saying all equipment installed there has undergone multi-stage quality checks. Sixty scientists, most of them from...
The Hindu: Conservation of archaeological sites, including those announced in the recent State budget, is likely to be affected with a group of aggrieved candidates protesting their non-selection to vacant posts in the State archaeology department. The aspirants have...
Zeenews: New Delhi: NPCIL has sought to reassure a group of scientists who had raised concerns over the safety of Kudankulam nuclear power project (KNPP), saying all equipment installed there has undergone multi-stage quality checks. Sixty scientists, most of them from...
The Examiner: My makeup brushes and sponges have been so hard to clean. I first used the lemon olive oil and had to use it a few times to get it clean. Next I got the makeup sponge dirty again and used the goat’s milk and cleaned in no time only one wash. Lemon cut the...
The Hindu: The metropolis has been expanded to bring a large number of suburbs into the city limits, but does it mean that the territorial jurisdiction of local courts will also cover these newly included areas? The Madras High Court has ruled that a mere addition of...
The Hindu: Sri Narayana Yatheendra Mahadesikan, 87, 45th Azhagiyasingar of Sri Ahobila Mutt, passed away here shortly after midnight on Saturday night. He had been ailing for some time. The swami, who was in Chennai, developed breathlessness and was brought to Srirangam....
The Hindu: Following the acquisition of a portion of Maharaja’s College ground for the Kochi metro, the district administration has decided to take up with the State government the demand for the relocation of the college’s hockey field and allocation of...
Fancy your face on a postage stamp?2013-05-18
The Times of India: No wishful thinking, this. The 'My Stamp' initiative by the postal department makes this possible Whoever said that you had to be someone great or someone late to feature on a postage stamp? Now the postal department is all set to give you your very own...
‘A really serious playwright’2013-05-18
The Hindu: Late last year, after spending six months on numerous drafts and rewrites, Girish Karnad’s new play in Kannada, Benda Kalu on Toast, was ready. The title is a reference to the founding myth of Bangalore, in which an 11th century king was saved by an old...
The Times of India: BANGALORE: This week, Google faced fresh demands by regulators in two different countries. German regulators wanted the company to clean up its so-called insta-search results after a businessman went to court complaining that the search engine made defamatory...
The Times of India: CHENNAI: On the 100th day of Kamal Haasan's film 'Vishwaroopam', the Madras high court has issued notice to the actor on a petition filed by a film exhibitors' body accusing the actor of submitting forged documents before the...
A Rs 150-cr documentary?2013-05-18
Deccan Chronicle: Director Geethakrishna, who is known for movies like Kokila, Keechurallu and Priyathama, is now all set to direct a Rs 150 crore docu-feature on the country and its “natural resources”. It would be covering all Indian states, with 2 hours alloted to each...
