Reports say the student was upset with the teacher for pulling him up for poor performance in his studies. ...
09:53 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Chennai: A Class 9 student has allegedly killed a teacher inside the classroom of St Mary's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai on Thursday. There was disbelief and dismay at the private school in Chennai, after the student allegedly stabbed his teacher. Thirty-one year old Uma Maheshwari, herself a mother of two, was teaching science and Hindi at the school for the past 10 years. The 15-year-old boy reportedly...
03:17 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Port Blair: In a shocker from Andaman, a video showing women from the protected Jarawa tribe being made to dance for food and for tourists has exposed the dark side of the tourism. While the Andaman administration is downplaying this exploitation of the tribe that number just about 400 saying the video is an old one, tour operators have confirmed that human safaris do happen although they refused to say...
08:40 AM, Jan 13, 2012
The local administration in the Andamans has denied any violation in the Jarawa tribal reserve, but CNN-IBN found a different story. ...
10:30 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Chennai: Cyclone Thane dumped heavy rain and sent wind gusts up to 140 kmph after it hit the Tamil Nadu coast on Friday killing at least 33 persons and left a trail of destruction and threw life out of gear in Cuddalore district and adjacent Union Territory of Puducherry. The storm has now weakened and many people have been shifted to relief camps. The cyclonic storm however left the southern...
07:24 AM, Dec 31, 2011
The Indian Meteorology Department reported on Friday morning that Cyclone Thane had moved westwards, inching close to the southeast of Puducherry. The cyclone is said to packing a wind speed of 140 kmph and is likely to weaken to a deep depression by evening. ...
08:41 AM, Dec 30, 2011
Chennai: Christmas turned catastrophic in Chennai after 14 people died when a boat capsized in the Pulicat Lake. Eight others are still missing, while only three people survived the accident. 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...
08:15 AM, Dec 26, 2011
In a surprise move, Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa expelled long-time aide Sasikala and her 12 relatives from the AIADMK. ...
09:55 PM, Dec 19, 2011
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has expelled long-time aide Sasikala from the AIADMK party after several alleged complaints of interfernce. Sasikala's 12 relatives have also been expelled. She was a close confidante of Jayalalithaa for several years but her high profile lifestyle and the lavish wedding of her son were perceived to have alienated voters in the mid 90s. After Jayalalithaa's defeat in 1996, she disowned Sasikala, who...
08:31 PM, Dec 19, 2011
Chennai: It has been a rough week for Home Minister P Chidambaram for more reasons than one. He was forced to withdraw his controversial remarks on the Mullaperiyar Dam that raised temperatures in Kerala. On Saturday, the Home Minister had termed the Kerala government's apprehension over the safety of the Mullaperiyar Dam as "unnecessary" and claimed it was borne out of "bypoll fear". The remark by the Home Minister has...
09:29 AM, Dec 19, 2011
Offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin talks about his nine-wicket haul against West Indies during the Delhi Test. ...
05:22 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Chennai: The unique e-challan system has been a success in Chennai. What is even better is that the new initiative is keeping corruption at bay. The Chennai traffic police's new initiative has turned a trickle into a flood. Four months after they launched the e-challan system, traffic policemen have begun booking 10000 to 12000 cases per day from the earlier 3500 cases. Not just that, there are other advantages too....
09:48 AM, Nov 09, 2011
Chennai: Five months after Kanimozhi was arrested as an accused in the 2G scam, will she finally get bail? That's the question the Special CBI court will answer on Thursday as it delivers its order on the bail pleas of DMK Rajya Sabha MP and DMK President M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi along with four other 2G accused. Kanimozhi's last statement before she was sent to judicial custody in the 2G...
06:56 AM, Nov 03, 2011
Chennai: In a major crackdown on credit card fraudsters, the Central Crime Branch of the Chennai Police has arrested a four member gang in Chennai. In the last one month three such gangs have already been nabbed for using various methods to commit frauds with both credit and debit cards. Additional Commissioner, Crime Abhay Kumar Singh said, "Before the credit cards come to the customer, they are intercepting by some...
09:28 PM, Oct 31, 2011
Chennai: In a major crackdown on credit card fraudsters, the Central Crime Branch of the Chennai Police has arrested a four-member gang in Chennai. In the last one month three such gangs have already been nabbed for using various methods to commit frauds with both credit and debit cards. Additional Commissioner, Crime Abhay Kumar Singh said, "Before the credit cards come to the customer, they are intercepting by some mechanical...
06:37 AM, Oct 31, 2011
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