Says Deepika, “I haven’t been approached for Chennai Express. Having said that, I’ve watched all of Rohit’s films, he’s a fabulous filmmaker and I would love to work with him someday.”

“Chennai will be the first city in the country to have two international airports,” AAI chairman V.P. Agrawal said.

“A Court of Inquiry has been ordered to find out the reasons for the crash”, a Defence Ministry release said.

After sometime one of them went near the branch manager while two others stood pointing weapons at the seven staff members and around 15 customers present in the branch.

D Shanthavel’s brother Ponvel on Monday submitted a complaint at the Kilpauk police station claiming that his brother died of burn injuries after a tea shop owner in Pamba poured boiling water on him.

What was to be nice boat ride at Pulicat Lake turned horribly wrong when the overload boat of two families capsized. 25 people had got on to a fishing boat that could take only ten. So far only three seem to have survived the accident.

Even as rescue and search operations are still on, the police have arrested the boatman who has came of it alive. The incident has once again highlighted glaring violations as the boat was unlicensed and was in an area not meant for boating.

The accident is a grim reminder of the severe lack of safety measures being followed by people during pleasure trips.

Despite several tragic instances in the past, no lessons seem to have been learnt and precious lives continue to be lost.

In 2011, Raonic also became the first Canadian to win an ATP World Tour title at SAP Open in 16 years and climbed from 156 to a career-high 25 in the rankings.

This home grown film directed by Leena Manimekalai, which earlier survived the scissors of the censor board, depicts the gory tale of the families of Tamil fishermen killed by the Lankan Army in the high seas but is yet to open for audience in Tamil Nadu.

Chennai Film Festival which begins on Dec 14 to 22 has exempted Sengadal while all the other Panorama Films are programmed as a special section. The organisers had approached the director of the film for the film screening a few weeks ago and as a follow-up took the producer’s endorsement for screening the film.

“This last minute exclusion� has raised questions if the festival has censored the film for political reasons,” said Leena Manimekalai.

The director,disappointed at the lack of space for her artistic expression in her home state, said, “It is really disappointing that Sengadal is exempted from screening at the Chennai Film Festival. Earlier when we had to fight the censor board, we had an institutionalised channel to fight, now I do not know who to fight here. I feel that, because of this disguised censorship, the real story of the fishermen gunned down by the Lankan Army is not reaching out to the people of the state.”

Sengadal started with a bumpy ride: earlier it was shot down by the Regional Censor Board� on grounds that it contained ‘political reference in a� denigrating way on the functioning of Indian and Sri Lankan governments. Thanks to the feisty fight put up by its director, the film after a seven-month legal tussle was cleared with A-certificate without any cuts by the CBFC. After that it went on to become the only Tamil film chosen for Indian Panorama 2011 by the government. It was later presented at IFFI, Goa (Nov 23 to Dec 3), and will be traveling to all prestigious film festivals across the world as Indian Panorama Package.

The film� has participated in the competition sections of 32nd Durban International Film Festival and 35th World Montreal Film festival and 13th International Mumbai Film Festival, MAMI. And it has won NAWFF Award at Tokyo for the Best Asian Film.

Addressing a workshop on municipal solid waste organised here on Monday by Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, Environment Minister B.V. Ramana said that the civic body would soon invite expression of interest for the project at Kodungaiyur.

Through such projects, the government intends to reduce the load of the dump yards, particularly the one in Perungudi, which is on the Pallikaranai marsh.

The 17th edition of the tournament will be held at the SDAT Nungambakkam Tennis Stadium from January 2 to 8 and will see in action an impressive line-up of Indian and international players including world number nine Janko Tipsarevic and world number 10 Nicolas Almagro, defending champion Stanislas Wawrinka and former champion Xavier Malisse.