Chennai: Nearly a year after the previous DMK govt introduced exclusive MTC buses to 25 govt and aided schools to ferry their students from different areas and drop them back tduring peak hour rush, the TVK govt is set to expand the service to another 44 schools located in the city and outskirts by launching…
CHENNAI: Few playback singers have shaped Tamil cinema the way S Janaki did. For nearly six decades, she wasn’t merely a singer lending her voice to heroines, she was the emotional fulcrum of Tamil films. Whether it was romance, sorrow, devotional, folk music or a light comedy, Janaki could alter the texture of her voice…
anna university College of Engineering, Anna University at Guindy in Chennai. Photo. C Suresh Kumar Chennai: In a move to ensure quality in engineering education, Anna University did not give affiliation to any courses in 10 engineering colleges this year as they did not have required faculty members, facilities such as labs and classrooms. These…
Salem/Trichy/Madurai: Ten of the 15 Indian tourists who were killed in a speed boat capsize off Vietnam’s Phu Quoc Island on Saturday hailed from Tamil Nadu. Some of them were businessmen while others were agents of a cellphone company on a sponsored tour.The deceased were Balaji Natesan, Alagurajan Sivasamy and Shaik Abdullah from Trichy, Santhosh…
Indian flag at Kilimanjaro Chennai: A 16-member team of Indian mountaineers carried a massive Indian tricolour to the summit of Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, in Tanzania. The expedition was led by Chennai-based mountaineer N Muthamizhselvi, the first person from Tamil Nadu to scale the highest peaks on all seven continents.The expedition took place from July…
elephant A 40-year-old female wild elephant that was under treatment in the Chadivayal elephant camp in Coimbatore for ‘constipation’ gave birth to a healthy male calf on Monday morning. Forest officials said the elephant was recovering and had started consuming fodder. Story – Komal Photo – J Jackson Chennai: Madras high court flayed Tamil Nadu…
Chennai: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, have developed a virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI)-based system that can identify with reasonable accuracy whether an 11 or 12-year-old child needs academic support, potentially weeks or months before the need would normally become evident through school report cards.Unlike conventional school tests that assess…
Chennai: “A public servant is expected to behave properly both inside and outside the office. This being the expected conduct of public servants, any criminal case registered outside the purview of job is also to be intimated to employer,” Madras high court has said.However, mere registration of criminal cases may not be a ground to…
Chennai: Two motorcyclists, including a 25-year-old woman riding with her boyfriend, were killed in separate road accidents in different parts of Chennai on Friday night. Police arrested the truck drivers involved in the accidents and registered separate cases.In the first incident, Moorthy, 31, a resident of Alamathi-Gnayiru near Chennai, died after falling off his motorcycle…
Chennai: The vacant state chief information commissioner post and three information commissioner posts of the State Information panel are likely to be filled in two months, as the state govt has formed a search committee to shortlist suitable candidates.Retired Madras high court judge R S Ramanathan has been appointed as the chairperson of the search…
