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Fake pistol theory blows case wide open for investigators

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 18:19|0 Comments

  CHENNAI:   Did the men who pulled off Monday's bank heist at Keelkattalai use fake guns to scare staff and customers? Investigators say the robber who opened fire at the bank could have used a replica pistol, because... Read Full Story »

Same gang behind two bank hold-ups

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 18:18|0 Comments

  The daring robbery at an Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) branch in Keelkattalai on Monday was committed by the same gang that made away with Rs 19 lakh from a bank branch in Perungudi on January 23, investigation officers have confirmed. A... Read Full Story »

Community classes get children to learn native language

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 18:17|0 Comments

  Since last month, Surajit Pal, a professor at the Indian Statistical Institute in Chennai, has been spending one day every month teaching Bengali to children from his community. Pal's daughter, who is in class 8, is one of the... Read Full Story »

Rooting for mother tongue

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 18:16|0 Comments

  SK Sanjana, a Class 5 student of a CBSE school, learns three languages in school. Her mother tongue Tamil is not one of them. Dr Sundarkumar , who chose Hindi as his daughter's second language and Sanskrit as the third, spends his... Read Full Story »

Burglars break into Tirupur shop, steal jewels worth 10cr

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 18:16|0 Comments

  TIRUPUR:   Robbers broke into a jewellery shop in Tirupur late on Monday and escaped with gold and diamond ornaments worth nearly 10 crore. Police suspect the burglary to have been carried out between 10pm on Monday and 5.... Read Full Story »

Stop campus recruitments, HC tells PSUs

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 18:15|0 Comments

  CHENNAI:   The Madras high court has restrained public sector undertakings from holding campus recruitments and asked them to maintain status quo for two weeks.    The first bench comprising Chief... Read Full Story »

University of Madras makes move to check plagiarism

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 18:06|0 Comments

  CHENNAI:   In a bid to prevent growing plagiarism in research papers, the University of Madras has decided to purchase software that checks thesis papers for malpractices. Speaking at an event organized by Quaid-e-Millath... Read Full Story »

Archaeological sites block bus terminus work in Tambaram

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 18:04|0 Comments

  CHENNAI:   The Tambaram municipality's `5.67crore bus terminus project has come to a halt. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has objected to the project citing the presence of sensitive archaeological sites... Read Full Story »

State rings wedding bells for 64 couples

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 18:00|0 Comments

  CHENNAI:   A day after chief minister J Jayalalithaa's former associate Sasikalaa Natarajan deposed in court supporting the AIADMK leader's statements, Jayalalithaa arrived at YMCA grounds in a mellow mood to bless... Read Full Story »

Humpback dolphins set free from nets off Kovalam, 1 dies

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 17:59|0 Comments

  CHENNAI:   In a bittersweet end to a rescue on the Kovalam coast on Sunday, one of two Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins extricated from fishing nets died shortly after it was released. The other dolphin swam out into the bay... Read Full Story »

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