Chennai: 5 suspects in bank robbery shot dead

Chennai: Five people were killed in an encounter with the police when they allegedly attempted to rob a bank. Two policemen were also injured in the incident that took place at 1 am on Wednesday night. Acting on a tip-off, a police team surrounded a house in Vandikaran Street in Velachery around 1 am and asked the suspects to come out, a police officer said. The accused opened fire at...

Expect three-hour power cuts in Chennai

CHENNAI: The city and its suburbs are likely to witness a power cut of three hours everyday. A proposal in this regard was submitted by the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO) to the State government authorities late on Monday. According to sources, a two-hour power cut in Chennai will be imposed between 8 am and 6 pm. Another hour of power cut will be imposed between 10...

Chennai: Dolphin caught in fish net near Kovalam dies

CHENNAI: A three-year-old dolphin that got caught in a fishing net near Kovalam beach later died on the shore on Sunday. Forest department officials said they received information from fisherfolk and members of the Tree Foundations Sea Turtle Protection Force in the afternoon that two Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins, largely found along the Indian Ocean coast, were being brought to the Kovalam fishing village beach. The mammals were male, grey in...

Tamil Review: Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal

Chennai: Film: 'Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal'; Cast: Atharva Murali, Amala Paul, Nasser, Anupama, Jayaprakash and Santhanam; Producer-Dierctor: Elred Kumar; Composer; G.V. Prakash Kumar; Cinematographer: Sakthi; Editor: Antony C. Ruban; Rating: ** 1/2 Pre-release Elred Kumar's 'Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal' (MUK) was marketed as a romantic thriller. Unfortunately it has turned out to be neither romantic nor thrilling. The movie opens with an unbelievable action sequence before going into the mode of a...

Chennai: demand for residential properties go up

CHENNAI: The stability in Information Technology (IT) and Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) and the dip in inflation are expected to spur the demand for residential properties in Chennai, according to a real estate research firm. Siva Krishnan, Head of residential services (Chennai), Jones Lang LaSalle India, told City Express on Friday that Chennais residential real estate market this year looked quite rosy. The increased job security in the sector...

Chennai: 3 held for Korattur kidnap

CHENNAI: City police, who rescued an abducted 12-year-old boy within hours on Wednesday, arrested three persons on Thursday and were on the lookout for three more persons, including the main accused. Police said they arrested two persons, Balasubramaniam and Peter, when they rescued the boy Logeshwaran from a bus on ECR near Uthandi on Wednesday. They also arrested Anbumani alias Kumaravelu (30) in Kumbakonam on Thursday, as four teams had...

Chennai-B'lore bullet train: Long way to go

CHENNAI: Bullet train between Chennai and Bangalore could become a reality only after a feasibility study clears it, according to Shinya Fuji, director general of Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO). Fuji told reporters here on Tuesday on the sidelines of seminar on Innovative Technologies in Environment and Clean Energy that both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka governments had approached Japan for a bullet train project between Chennai and Bangalore. The project...

Chennai: rare feat at Apollo Hospital

CHENNAI: Apollo Transplant Institutes have become the busiest solid organ transplant programmes in the world, having conducted 929 liver, kidney and heart transplants during 2011. Addressing the media on this occasion, Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group said, Our aim at the Apollo Transplant Institutes is to be the best centre for transplantation in the world. Dr Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director, Apollo Hospitals Group and Senior Consultant,...

Chennai: MTC buses from Airport to ply on new route

CHENNAI: The air-conditioned mini-bus services being operated between the Chennai Airport and the city for the past few months will henceforth ply on a new route. The reason - poor patronage. The sad state of affairs has resulted in the buses running virtually empty. Come March, the four skyblue painted buses of the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) will be operated on only one stretch, which is towards Tiruvanmiyur in south...

3 women held for Chennai SHG worker's murder

CHENNAI: In a major breakthrough, three women self-help group members and four men, including two home guards, were arrested in connection with SHG coordinator R Ambikas murder in suburban Gerugambakkam on January 24. The arrests also brought to light irregularities committed by a cooperative bank in sanctioning of loans to SHG members. The body of Ambika (38) was found with the throat slit by her husband Ravi, who works as...

Chennai: Student stabs teacher to death in school

Reports say the student was upset with the teacher for pulling him up for poor performance in his studies. ...

Chennai murder: What message do such incidents send out?

A 15-year-old Chennai school boy allegedly stabbed his teacher to death inside the classroom. ...

Psychiatrist speaks on Chennai school murder

Cosultant Psychiatrist Dr Sandeep Vohra speaks on how to deal with rage and aggression in students. ...

Chennai: Student kills teacher inside school

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...

Not schooling, reading refined me more: Rajini

Chennai: Anyone who saw the posters for a felicitation to writer S Ramakrishnan would have definitely been puzzled by the mention of one person among the writer guests " Rajinikanth. The Superstar, who graces only the choicest of events, not only attended the event, but also delivered one of his most elaborate speeches in recent times, for nearly 20 minutes. Ramakrishnan was honoured by Uyirmei Publications for having won the...