PUBLIC OPPOSE PROPOSED INCREASE IN POWER TARIFF.
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  Tamilnadu Electricity regulatory commission held first public hearing on Tuesday here on the petition by the Tamilnadu Electricity Board for increase in the power tariff. Rationalizing the increase, C P Singh, Chairman TNEB, said that cost of production and distribution had increased from Rs 4.20 per Unit

Posted On :31/Mar/2010 6:01:52 AM
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BOOK ON SARASWATI RIVER RELEASED.
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  ‘Lost River’ authored by Michel Dannino has been released in a function organized by C P Ram swami Aiyar Foundation.

Posted On :27/Mar/2010 6:45:37 AM
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CHENNAI-BORN SHANKAR BALASUBRAMANIAN HONORED IN LONDON.
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  Shankar Balasubramanian of Cambridge University has been named Innovator of the year by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBSRC].

Posted On :27/Mar/2010 6:09:54 AM
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NUMBER OF SEATS OF PG IN MEDICAL COURSES TO GO UP IN TN.
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  V. K.Subburaj , Health Secretary , Government of Tamilnadu informed that the Government is planning to increase the number of seats of Post Graduate Medical course from the next academic year.

Posted On :27/Mar/2010 5:23:22 AM
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SCHOLARSHIP FOR SOUTH INDIANS TO STUDY IN CAMBRIDGE: AN INITIATIVE BY BELLIAPPA.
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  Premananda Monappa scholarship a long term endowment has been signed with Cambridge Commonwealth trust to grant scholarships to the students from South India to pursue post-graduate studies in the university of Cambridge in British Council, Chennai.

Posted On :26/Mar/2010 2:07:55 AM
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NORTH EAST TRADE EXPO-2010 STARTS ON FRIDAY.
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  North East Trade Expo-2010 aimed to help the crafts in their quest to improve their lives will be conducted in Kamarajar Arangam in Chennai from 26th March,10.

Posted On :26/Mar/2010 1:54:28 AM
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M.S. SWAMINATHAN FELICITATED
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  The Agri scientist Dr M S Swaminathan has been felicitated with Sadhana Award for Excellence by Samudhaaya Foundation

Posted On :26/Mar/2010 1:32:29 AM
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NEW DEVICE TO PREDICT IMMINENT CLIMATE CHANGES
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  Plans are afoot to provide new system by which climate conditions can be predicted for a short period said YEA Raj, Deputy Director General of Meteorological Center here on Tuesday.

Posted On :25/Mar/2010 2:51:54 AM
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Solid Waste processing plant to be set up in Perungudi.
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  Chennai Corporation is embarking on a plan to set up an Integrated Solid waste Processing plant at the Perungudi dump yard

Posted On :25/Mar/2010 2:44:44 AM
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METRO RAIL PROJECT TO BE EXTENDED TO TIRUVOTTIYUR.
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  The Finance Minister, K Anbazagan announced during his budget speech thatRs 600 crores have been provisioned in the budget as the states share towards Metro-rail project which will include extension of the same to Tiruvottiyur,

Posted On :25/Mar/2010 2:28:52 AM
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READING BOOKS IS ESSENTIAL TO DREAMING AND REALIZING IT
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  Seetha Ravi, Editor of Gokulam was addressing students, teachers and parents in the function organized to celebrate the 30th Annual day of Vidyaniketan Matriculation Higher secondary school, Ashok Nagar.

Posted On :25/Mar/2010 2:13:44 AM
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FRONTIER HOSPITAL PERFORMED RARE TWIN HEART TRANSPLANTATION
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  Dr. K.M. Cherian, Chairman, Frontier hospital lead a team of doctors to perform heart transplantation on two patients simultaneously, both hailing from Chennai on Friday last.

Posted On :25/Mar/2010 1:59:46 AM
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GOVERNMENT GETS STRONG ON SELLING OF EXPIRED DRUGS.
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  A racket on selling expired drug s has been busted with the arrest of Meenakshi Sundaram, Managing Director of Meena Health Care Private limited and four other medicine suppliers.

Posted On :24/Mar/2010 2:14:50 AM
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WRD COMES TO THE AID OF CHINNAKUPPAM RESIDENTS.
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  Water Resources is planning a project to protect the Ennore shoreline from erosion. The project is building Groynes near the hamlets of Chinnakuppam on Ennore Express way.

Posted On :24/Mar/2010 2:05:35 AM
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The D R D O develops H1N1 virus detection kit .
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  A kit to detect Swine Flu [HINI Virus] in a span of an hour has been developed by The Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) .

Posted On :24/Mar/2010 1:36:39 AM
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MYLAPORE GET READY FOR PANGUNY FESTIVAL
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  The Annual 10 days Panguni great festival [Panguni Perviza or Aruvathu Muvar Viza] is a big draw with lakhs of people participating. The festival indicates the onset of summer. It is also project as tourist a festival.

Posted On :22/Mar/2010 2:25:11 AM
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EDUCATION GIVEN ITS PLACE IN THE TN BUDGET.
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  It’s very heartening to note that the TN Government has allocated the highest for Education in the budget. More than Rs 10000 Crores has been allocated towards the development of education in the state.

Posted On :22/Mar/2010 2:21:05 AM
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‘ KALAKIRITHI 10’ AN INTERCOLLEGIATE FEST
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  A three day event ‘Kalakirithi 10 an intercollegiate fest organized by the students of Alagappa University held in the University campus.

Posted On :22/Mar/2010 1:35:00 AM
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WARD DEVELOPMENT FUNDS NOT USED TO THE FULL
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  It is noted by the corporation in their record that close 35% of the funds put at the disposal of the councilors as councilor ward fund remain unused

Posted On :22/Mar/2010 1:25:54 AM
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NISSAN PLANT IN CHENNAI INAUGURATED.
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  The chief Minister Karunanidhi inaugurated the Nissan India Car Plant inn Oragadam. It is nice that major US and Japanese carmakers have put up their manufacturing facility in Chennai.

Posted On :19/Mar/2010 1:46:46 AM
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