Vijay to do 'Ek Tha Tiger' tamil remake!

The massive success of Ek Tha Tiger has created a huge demand for its remake rights. We hear that some of the well-known names of South are in the race to bag the remake rights and superstar Vijay is the first choice of the Tamil filmmakers for the Kollywood version. Rumours are rife that several filmmaker including Jayam Raja, who is known for making remake films, is keen on remaking it in Tamil and he is in talks for the rights with Yash...

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Govt issues guidelines for its departments for using social media

New Delhi: The government today issued guidelines for its departments using social media networks asking them not to post confidential information and "unverified" facts. With 40 million Facebook and 16 million twitter users in India, social media has emerged as a powerful platform for forming an opinion as well as generating mass support, the Information Technology Ministry said in its 38-page guidelines issued today."Great care must...

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Laptop thief lands in police dragnet

Laptops are his passion. However, he is no software whizkid but an ace robber who has stolen over 300 laptops over the past year from residential areas on the IT corridor and in Adyar. A Semmenchery police team, on Tuesday evening, intercepted a youth who had robbed a man of his laptop on Rajiv Gandhi Salai in Sholinganallur at knifepoint and attempted to flee. The suspected was identified as Balaji (25), a resident of Burma Nagar, Ernavoor.  “On...

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Draft of transport rules for school children ready: Tamil Nadu government tells High Court

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday told the Madras High Court that the draft of the rules pertaining to regulate transport of school children in the state was ready and would be tabled before the Cabinet in a few days.Chief Justice MY Eqbal and Justice A Arumugasamy are looking into the matter.Taking a serious look at the incident in the suburbs of the city on July 25, when a Class 2 student was run over by her school bus...

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Cops hunt for Woman who married Many

A marriage is said to be a bond of a lifetime. Not for Shahanaz, who has overnight become the woman most wanted by Chennai police for having married more than a dozen men and disappearing with their money in the past few months. “We do not know the actual number of persons cheated by her. So far we have received five complaints. It is possible that some victims do not want it known that they were cheated. We expect more people to lodge...

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ATMs crowded as 7,000 bank branches strike work

Serpentine queues in most ATM locations marked the start of the two-day nationwide strike by the banking community. Banking services were hit in the state on Wednesday with over 70,000 employees from 7,000 public sector bank branches participating in the two-day nationwide strike against reforms in the banking sector and outsourcing of non-core activities. Expecting another tough day on Thursday, most folks were hurriedly withdrawing cash...

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TN girl speaks her way to London MBA

City college girl Sruthi Vijayachandran has won the “Best Young Speaker from Asia” award at an international competition hosted by the University of Cambridge. She has bagged an MBA scholarship at the London School of Business and Finance—but the youngster has decided to put off the MBA, to first pursue a career in communications. Shruthi holds a Masters Degree in Public Relations from Stella Maris College in the city, and had also taken...

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M Tech student ends life in IIT Madras

A First Year M.Tech (Chemical Engineering) student at IIT Madras committed suicide in her hostel room on Tuesday afternoon. S. Merugu Manasa, 22, from Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh was reportedly married and had arrived in the city only on Tuesday morning . Police are yet to find the reason behind her suicide.According to cops, Manasa, who had joined the institute on August 1, attended the lecture session in the morning on Tuesday and later...

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Presidency College witnesses protest over arrest of students

Parents of 32 students of the prestigious Presidency College staged a protest in the college campus seeking the release of their sons who were arrested by police three days ago. Police arrested the students after they started recieving complaints that the group of students were roaming menacingly and being a nuisance to public on Pallavan Salai. The students were produced in court and lodged in prison. Seeking the release of the students,...

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Japanese Food Festival at The Oriental Blossom,Chennai

The Oriental Blossom at Radha Regent  is all set to  bring the exotic flavours of Japan to Chennai  with a Japanese Food Festival. Japanese Food Festival will feature specially designed A la carte menu.  And  will feature  special dishes like sushi, sashimi, udon, yakitori and much more.  “The Sushi remains the most popular Japanese food, there’s much more to explore in this Far Eastern cuisine,”...

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300 kg of ganja seized by NIB

The Narcotics Intelligence Bureau (NIB) of the state police seized 300 kg ganja stuffed in an SUV in Perambur in the city on Monday and arrested two persons for smuggling the narcotics from Naxal-dominated hill area in Padagiri in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. NIB officials here said that the value of the seized narcotics and the Toyota Innova was around `45 lakh. The police said that Sekar of Uslampatti and Rajapandi of Madurai had packed...

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TN police site has no room for woes

Once bitten twice shy. That seems to be the motto of the Tamil Nadu Police department after its official website was hacked few weeks ago by Anonymous India. The site, which is back online, doesn’t have a complaint section for grievances of the public, like ragging and land grabbing, any longer. The top brass of the department had decided to close down the website immediately after it was hacked one and half months back. And now though...

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Autopsy rpt: Geetika was subjected to unnatural sex

New Delhi, Aug 20: With former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda, main accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, surrendering after evading arrest for close to 11 days, the drama with regard to the case seems to be far from over. The autopsy report of the former airhostess Geetika has revealed that she died from hanging. The report also says that Geetika was subjected to unnatural sex which could also be one of the reasons the ambitious woman chose...

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Devotees protest work at Parthasarathy temple

Devotees of one of Chennai’s oldest temples, the Sri Parthasarathy Swamy Temple, are up in arms against construction by the Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) department inside the temple prakara. The department laid new granite stones and built a shed. Residents have planned a series of protests including group-chanting of the Vishnu Sahasranamam. They say that the shed was preventing them from having darshan of the Anandha...

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Assam fallout: Govt blocks 80 internet pages, user accounts

New Delhi, Aug 19: Government is learnt to have ordered blocking of 80 more Internet pages and user-accounts on social networking sites including Facebook, Google and Twitter to avoid panic among people of northeastern region living across India. All these sites were found hosting inflammatory and hateful content, spreading rumours and inciting violence targeting the people from north-east, government sources said. Yesterday, the government...

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Madras Week begins with promise of unlimited fun

If there is a loving memory of Chennai and a story behind it, now would be the time to dust the old photographs or if there is a recipe that has been handed over for generations in your family, it’s time to whip up something good at the cooking competition, for Madras Week is here! The city is turning 373 this year and celebrations have already started with a bang. Various programmes for the week began on August 19 and will conclude on August...

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Barack Obama wishes 'Eid Mubarak'

Washington, Aug 19: US President Barack Obama wished Muslims around the world "Eid Mubarak" for the festival marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. "Michelle and I extend our warmest wishes to Muslim communities in the United States and around the world as they celebrate Eid al-Fitr," Obama said in a statement released by the White House. "For Muslims, Ramadan has been a time of fasting, prayer and spiritual renewal. These past four...

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