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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 »

Pay 5L to ragging victim: HC to TTD

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 18:14|0 Comments

  HYDERABAD:   The TTD found itself in an embarrassing situation when the AP high court on Tuesday directed the authorities to pay Rs 5 lakh compensation to a student of TTD's Veda Pathasala at Tirumala in connection... Read Full Story »

IAS officers reshuffled

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 18:13|0 Comments

  HYDERABAD:   The state government on Tuesday posted senior IAS officer Chaya Ratan as special chief secretary, home department, and in her place posted Nilam Sawhney as principal secretary of women and children, disabled... Read Full Story »

City sizzles as temperature shoots up

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 18:12|0 Comments

  HYDERABAD:   The city is already sweating it out. Over the last 12 days, Hyderabad has witnessed a massive seven degree rise in its maximum temperatures. From a bearable 30.4 degrees on February 10, the city's maximum... Read Full Story »

104 workers protest, seek reinstatement

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 18:11|0 Comments

  HYDERABAD:   Around 600 laid-off employees of the state-run 104 health scheme organised a 'Chalo Assembly' rally on Tuesday demanding their jobs back. Several protesters were arrested near Ravindra Bharathi and... Read Full Story »

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