It was Friday the 13th in May last year - the day the whole of Tamil Nadu had been waiting for with hope and expecting ...
11:18 AM, May 15, 2012
Chennai: Defence Minister on Sunday met DMK Chief M Karunanidhi as part of consultation process among UPA allies on the Presidential election to arrive at a consensus leader to succeed incumbent Pratibha Patil, who is retiring on July 25. After more than an hour-long meeting, Antony told reporters that he would convey the DMK leader's views on the issue to Congress President Sonia Gandhi. After meeting Karunanidhi, Antony said, "I...
11:26 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: Days after its first Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Agni-V was test fired successfully, India on Thursday launched its own spy satellite RISAT-1 from Sriharikota. RISAT-1 is capable of delivering crystal clear pictures in all weather conditions. The indigenous RISAT-1, which stands for Radar Imaging Satellite, has a lifespan of five years and will be used for disaster prediction and agriculture forestry. RISAT's high resolution pictures and microwave imaging...
06:05 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Chennai: Retired Lt Col Kandasamy Ramraj has been sentenced to life for killing 13-year-old Dilson. He was shot in the head after he strayed into a defence residential area to pluck fruit in July 2011. Dilson's mother's tears and prayers have finally been answered. Kalaivani has got justice for the murder of her son nine months ago. "Justice has been done. I hope this punishment serves as a lesson for...
07:12 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: Acute power crisis is threatening to cripple Tamil Nadu's leather exports. Hundreds of companies in Tamil Nadu's leather belt have been hit by power shortages, leading to as much as a 25 per cent increase in production costs. Enco Shoes is a medium sized leather unit in a state that is India's leader in leather exports. K Najmul Hasan, MD, Enco Shoes, says, "There are just about 50-60...
07:59 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking the Centre to clarify in court that Ram Sethu will be declared a national monument. This action would mean that Ram Sethu will be protected and the government will have to seek a new alignment for the Sethu Samudram Shipping Channel as there is a controversy over the existing one. The project would also considerably...
06:52 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Kudankulam: It is been over a week since a group of anti-nuclear activists began an indefinite hunger strike demanding the scrapping of the Kudankulam nuclear plant. Over the last several months the Kudankulam nuclear plant has been in news for all the wrong reasons with massive protests demanding the closure of the plant. CNN-IBN visits the Kudankulam nuclear plant to try and find answers for some of the concerns raised...
06:39 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Chennai: It is day six of renewed protests against the Kudankulam nuclear plant project, and villagers are now being threatened with police action. Over 100 protesters have already been detained within this week itself. The feeling of anger and resentment on the ground in Idinthakarai can be felt in each of the several thousand protesters. 48-year-old Xavierammal is fasting in protest against the Kudankulam plant for the fourth time. She...
06:24 AM, Mar 24, 2012
Chennai: As the renewed protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant enter the fifth day on Friday, statistics show that the government is losing close to Rs 10 lakh a day due to the protests on the project that cost over Rs 13,000 crore to set up. Work at the Indo-Russian project, which was at a standstill following eight month-long protests by locals spearheaded by People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy...
08:13 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Chennai: A day after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's u-turn on the shutdown of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, residents and NGOs in the region on Tuesday stepped up their fight. For activists protesting the Kudankulam nuclear plant, it is the biggest blow yet. After months of keeping the 930 MW plant on hold, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's decision to give the plant the green signal has dimmed...
09:58 PM, Mar 20, 2012
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
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