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  1. `IPL Opening ceremony obscene’

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    / April 19, 2012 / Leave a comment
    All this while, the consensus was it was terribly boring and a drag. But an advocate in Madurai found the opening ceremony of the IPL’s 5th edition, `indecent and obscene’ and has filed a petition in the Madras High court. The Court has asked Tamilnadu’s police officers to respond to...

  2. Earthquake in Indonesia, tremors felt in India

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    / April 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Update : This is the directivity map released by INCOIS, the tsunami tracking centre in Hyderabad, showing the maximum wave energy direction. Earlier tremors were felt in Chennai, Bangalore, Thiruvananthapuram and several other cities across South India following the 8.6 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia. There were later aftershocks measuring 8.2...

  3. Chennai’s heritage gets a body blow

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    / April 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The Hon’ble Madras High Court has dismissed the petition by INTACH seeking to restrain Chennai Corporation from acquiring a part of P. Orr & Sons building for the Metro Rail project. The Hindu’s report on April 5, 2012 on the court judgement should have saddened heritage activists. “No historical or...

  4. Thirsty Jaya asks Kiran for water

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    / March 25, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Tamilnadu has gently nudged Andhra Pradesh to release 4 TMC feet (four thousand million cubic feet) of water from the Kandaleru reservoir. This is as per the Krishna water agreement under which AP has to release this water between January and April to Chennai. The agreement gives 12 TMC feet...

  5. Dhanush, take a bow

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    / March 12, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Think a guy who has been dumped by a girl. Think Dhanush. As `3′, the `Kolaveri’ film gets set to release next month, the actor seems to have perfected the art of singing songs mourning the loss of his love. No, hold on. Not just singing but writing the lyrics...

  6. Rajini & Aamir Khan in Bhutan !

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    / February 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    “You remember Aamir Khan’s real name in `3 Idiots‘? Wangdu. You can call me by that name.” That was the young reporter of `Business Bhutan’ offering me an easy way out of struggling to pronounce Phuntsho Wangdi. Aamir Khan was Phunsukh Wangdu in `3 Idiots‘. Once again Bollywood had come...

  7. Whistle podu duo now in Ishq

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    / February 18, 2012 / Leave a comment
    They compose music for kings – Chennai Super Kings, to be precise. Come IPL season, `Whistle podu’  is the anthem Marina Beach to Chromepet sways to, cheering Mahi’s yellow shirts. Aravind Murali and Jaishankar Iyer, who composed the catchy number, have now crossed the Tamilnadu-Andhra Pradesh border and are in...

  8. Meter podu in the south

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    / February 17, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Wonder if the notorious autorickshaw drivers will fleece you less but atleast you will be aware they are fleecing you. Meterpodu is a crowdsourcing tool to get approximate auto-rickshaw fares for cities like Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Coimbatore and Mysore. Log on to the site, punch in your details of start and...

  9. TOI turning into a Hindu?

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    / February 14, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Source : AP News Live The pushy Times of India cannot be expected to keep quiet when its cultivated image was called into question by a staid competitor like The Hindu. TOI responded to The Hindu’s brainy teasers with its ‘information is not knowledge’ campaign, which surprisingly is neither witty...

  10. No volcano forms in a day

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    / February 10, 2012 / 2 Comments
    The news of a class IX student in Chennai stabbing his Hindi teacher to death has come as a shock to every one. But no volcano forms in a day. It is pent-up energy in the child in the form of frustration that he has given vent to. Child is...

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