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Lady bike rider, bystander killed in robbery near Marina

A robbery bid by a motorcycle-borne youth left two persons dead and another injured at Foreshore Estate.

6 July 2016 7:19 AM IST

Madras High Court

It will soon be Chennai, Mumbai High Court

The Union Cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval to introduce The High Courts (Alteration of Names) Bill, 2016.

6 July 2016 7:15 AM IST

Madras High Court

Write on, High Court bench tells Perumal Murugan

The bench said, Let the author be resurrected to what he is best at. Write .

6 July 2016 7:12 AM IST

The Madras High Court directed the state to form an expert body to deal with such matters of conflicts of views. (Photo: File)

HC relief for Tamil writer Perumal Murugan, court pulls up state govt

There was no binding force arising from the settlement arrived at a peace committee meeting, the court ruled.

5 July 2016 7:34 PM IST

Sudarshan had thrown the helpless dog off the roof on the building. It fell into a mass of trees and shrubs but did not survive the impact. (Photo: Facebook)

Chennai man who threw dog off a rooftop identified on social media

The culprit is Gautman Sudarshan, a medical student at Kundrathur in Kancheepuram district.

5 July 2016 5:22 PM IST

Preliminary enquiries revealed that the shopkeeper was a native of Bihar and had been bringing narco-chocolates through his relatives and was selling the same to local kids over the past few months.

Narco chocolates openly sold in Chennai, kids take bites

Sample chocolates have been sent to a corporation lab and a team from central food safety department had also collected...

5 July 2016 9:54 AM IST

The victim, a class 2 student, was on her way home from a shop when she was allegedly lured by the teenager. (Photo: Twitter)

Tamil Nadu: 6-year-old raped, strangled and stuffed in a vessel

The accused had threatened the child before strangling her and stuffing her body in a large aluminum vessel.

5 July 2016 9:35 AM IST

Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani. (Photo: PTI)

Consultation needed on new education policy: Prince Gajendrababu

Prince Gajendrababu, general secretary, SPCSS requested translation of the document.

5 July 2016 8:20 AM IST

In a first of its kind, a group of biotechnology students at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) have designed a model to purify water rejected from domestic Reverse Osmosis (RO) water purifiers. (Representational image)

Biotech students design model to desalinate RO-reject water

May help save millions of litres of precious water.

5 July 2016 8:19 AM IST

Two books in Tamil, dealing with the Nayak period history of Thanjavur and freedom struggle of India from 1857 to 1947 were released at a function held at Thiruvaiyaru.

Thanjavur's multiple past chronicled in a new book

Two books in Tamil, dealing with the Nayak period history of Thanjavur and freedom struggle of India from 1857 to 1947...

5 July 2016 8:00 AM IST

Annakili (47), who had gone to Saudi Arabia as a maid, but was harassed by her employers.

Maid harassed in Saudi Arabia

On March 4, 2016 she spoke to her husband over phone and said that she was locked up in a room and harassed.

5 July 2016 7:57 AM IST

Officials conduct operations to remove the injured makhna elephant.

Government bus hits makhna elephant, jumbo critical

A bus, which came speeding down the national highways, knocked the 10-year-old jumbo down.

5 July 2016 7:54 AM IST