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A paper VVPAT can be read by the human eye and voters can directly interpret their vote. (Representational image)

Experts: Injustice to democracy

Why was Chennai indifferent to voting?

18 May 2016 6:41 AM IST

Rank holders among the visually challenged students R.Sandhya and R.Saranya with their parents and teachers in LFC higher secondary school for blind in Chennai.(Photo: DC)

Thoothukudi retains 5th place in plus-2 exam for the third consecutive...

Of the 8,898 boys and 11,090 girls, who appeared for the exam this year from Thoothukudi district, 8,216 boys and...

18 May 2016 6:39 AM IST

Madurai district toppers Shripriya, Shreenidhi Karthika and Naga Nandhini (from left to right) rejoice at the district collectorate on Tuesday. (Photo: DC)

Southern districts secure more than 90 per cent pass

District that had held the first place for 28 consecutive years before being pushed to third place in 2013-14, managed...

18 May 2016 6:37 AM IST

State rank holder among the hearing impaired candidates P. Gayathri with her classmates and teachers in LFC higher secondary school for deaf and dumb. (Photo: DC)

Chennai: Visually challenged students want to become IAS officers

Sandhya scored 1,140 out of 1,200 and got state second rank among the visually challenged candidates.

18 May 2016 6:35 AM IST

Class 12 students of Corporation higher secondary schools, who secured the top three ranks pose for pictures in the Ripon Buildings. Commissioner Dr B Chandra Mohan congratulated the toppers and promised rewards to the best performers. (Photo: DC)

Bundar Garden school leaps in pass ratio

Of the 5967 Class 12 students, 5,859 wrote the final examination, down from 6,202 in 2015.

18 May 2016 6:33 AM IST

Bhuvaneswari, along with mother Kalyani, her grandmother and her school headmistress Chinna Vella Thayi. (Photo: DC)

Chennai: Single moms bring out best in their kids

For Geetha, mother of C. Sanjana, the third ranker among corporation schools, cleaning dishes was not something she was...

18 May 2016 6:30 AM IST

A total of 702 flying squads and 712 surveillance teams are operating in the state for curbing the use of black money at the hustings, according to the latest data. (Photo: Representational Image)

Cash and gold seized from Tamil Nadu topper school

Election officials and income tax department sleuths raided the school premises.

18 May 2016 6:28 AM IST

Only 79.62 per cent of the total girl students could clear the exams this year compared to 86.34 per cent of boys. (Representational Image)

Tamil Nadu toppers in plus-2 exam worried over medical seats

No time for celebration.

18 May 2016 6:26 AM IST

Of the total of 4,73,803 students who appeared for the examination, 4,57,654 cleared with various grades. (Photo: DC File)

HSC exam results: First 3 ranks from western Tamil Nadu

Erode district scores the highest pass percentage with impressive 96.92 per cent of students clearing plus-2 exams.

18 May 2016 6:23 AM IST

Following heavy rains on Tuesday the pedestrians are forced to display acrobatic skills to avoid the protruding electtric cable on inner ring road near Koyambedu on Tuesday. (Photo: DC)

Chennai rains awaken memories of December flood

The intermittent showers, some heavy, for the second consecutive day threw normal life out of gear in Chennai and in the...

18 May 2016 6:17 AM IST

The three containers from which Rs 570 crore was seized. (Photo: Twitter/ANI)

Cash vans back in Kovai

SBI claimed that the whopping Rs 570 crore was its legitimate cash being transported from its Coimbatore branch to...

18 May 2016 6:14 AM IST

Chennai: Top 3 Plus-2 ranks go to students from districts

Compared to last year (90.6%), there has been a slight improvement of 0.8% in the pass percentage this year.

18 May 2016 6:00 AM IST