Students of Tamil Nadu have sailed through the Class XII Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination easily, with the State recording a pass percentage of 97.11 – the highest among the four southern States. In the Chennai region, which More >

On Thursday night two big ‘paid premiers’- Kites and Iron Man 2 took place in Chennai simultaneously at rival multiplexes.

Paid premieres has become a craze all over Metro cities in India including Chennai.

The Hrithik Roshan Kites paid premiere was held at Sathyam Cinemas, big screen which saw Kollywood celebs like Bharath, Vikranth, Vishnu, Premji, Vaibhav, Rohini, directors – Vishnu Vardhan, Venkat Prabhu, Vijay, Editor Antony, Producers Hansraj Saxena, Ram Kumar, designer Sidney Sladen, and Trisha’s mom Uma Krishnan.

R Karuppan, former president of the Madras High Court Advocates Association and Member of the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu, has moved the apex court seeking directions to send a special plane to Colombo for Parvathy Ammal, mother of slain LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran in order to bring her to Chennai for urgent medical treatment.

The petition was filed and numbered on Thursday and is coming up for hearing on Friday. Karuppan contended that sending back the 86-year-old Parvathy Ammal to Malaysia after she had a valid visa issued by the Indian High Commission was a bizarre act. Now she had gone back to Lanka.

Expansion and modernisation of Chennai airport would be completed by next year and the government was also taking ‘necessary action’ to establish a greenfield airport, the state Assembly was informed today.

The policy note of transport department, tabled in the assembly by minister K N Nehru, said the government acknowledged the fact that the southern metropolis was fast becoming an investment destination and, therefore, the present modernisation effort.

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Chennai Super Kings defeat Royal Challengers Bangalore: The Chennai Super Kings have defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore here by 5 wickets.

With this win the Super Kings have kept alive their semifinal hopes in the Indian Premier League season three.

The match was played at Chidambaram Stadium here. The visitors maintained a good run rate thanks to a quick 42-run second-wicket partnership between Kallis and Robin Uthappa, despite the early blow.

The Madras High Court has been moved to direct the state government to conduct a time bound inquiry into alleged irregularities in purchase of life saving drugs and equipment by Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation (TNMSC).

In a PIL,a resident of Gobichettipalayam in Erode district, M R Govindraj also sought a direction to the corporation to strictly adhere to statutory rules and regulations in the purchase of drugs and equipment for government hospitals state and to submit a report to the court.

Chennai, Mar 17: Former Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshiro Mori, today called on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi at his Gopalapuram residence on a courtsesy call.

Talking to reporters after his meeting with Karunanidhi, Mori, also the head of the Japan-India Association, lauded the business environment in the state, saying it had good infrastructure for business.

Chennai, Mar 17: Managing Director of Coimbatore-based Chandra Group, engaged in textiles and apparels, R Nandini was today elected chairperson of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Tamil Nadu State council.

Nandini succeeds C K Raghunathan, MD of Cavin Kare C K Ranganathan, a CII release here said.