Bikers for rally for organ donation
By Amruta Sabnis
CHENNAI: Forty students of the D. G Vaishnav College in Arumbakkam conducted a bike marathon from in Anna Nagar on Tuesday, to promote organ donation in the city.
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Snooping on your spouse
By Ayeshea Perera
CHENNAI: Uncertainty in the Chennai marriage market is proving booming business for detective agencies in the city with most of our business comingby way of pre-marital and post-marital inquiries.
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Dancing their way to success
By Jessica Irani
CHENNAI: The National Coastal Protection Campaign (NCPC), that espouses the cause of the coastal community, has urged the Centre to scrap the Coastal Zone Management (CZM) notification-2007.
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Making place for aspiring artistes
By Ishtha Vohra
CHENNAI: Coming from the family of renowned musicians, Shashikiran may not be as popular as his father and brother, but this son of legendary chitraveena player Narasimhan, set up Carnatica in 1998 with vocalist S.Sowmya to popularise classical music..
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Pudupet: Gears, grease and glue
By Karthik Krishnaswamy
CHENNAI: The clang of metal on metal and the whiff of engine grease characterise Venkatachala Naicken Street in Pudupet.
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Touching millions across the world
By Lakshmi Kumaraswami
CHENNAI:A tiny plasma television. That’s exactly what an iPod touch looks like at first glance. But unlike a plasma TV, the device with a glossy black face, comes alive when touched.
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Music season spells boom in audio sales
By Narayanan Nambudripad
CHENNAI: Sabhas across the city like Music Academy, Narada Gana Sabha, and Sankara Hall, have stalls set up by different music distribution companies.
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T.Nagar: No space to park
By Neha Raghunath
CHENNAI: Lack of parking spaces, prolonged construction of a flyover at South Usman Road and narrow space for pedestrians have compounded the traffic problems.
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Stalin: The Rising Son?
By Ranjani Rajendra
CHENNAI: The 54-year-old politician, M.K. Stalin, had to wait a long time to reach the stage he is at now; an almost de facto chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
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Appreciating rupee will not affect BPO: RBI
By Sakshi Kundra
CHENNAI: “BPOs already have a 30 percent profit margin and it won’t effect them much if their profit comes down to 20 -25 percent,” said RBI Foreign Exchange Director (Chennai) B.N. Anantha Swamy in response to a query on whether the appreciating rupee would impact the profitability of the ITES sector.
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Hyundai refusal to recognise union irks workers
By Saumya Ancheri
CHENNAI: Treatment of burn injuries at the Government Kilpauk Medical College Hospital run no risk of infection, thanks to the ‘Membrane’ procedure being followed at its Burns Department.
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Gender strikes a discordant note
By Swati Roy
CHENNAI:I want complete anonymity on this issue” was the first condition set by the musicians and experts speaking on the issue of discrimination against women in Carnatic music.
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IT bridges the gap for the disabled
By Vrinda Sharma
CHENNAI: The IT industry in Chennai is coming up with solutions to employ disabled people and ensuring that their performance is on par with the other employees. Using hi-tech software such as JAWS (jobs accessed with speech), for example, go a long way to help the visually challenged.
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