Sun Microsystems India has announced the expansion of its sales operations in Chennai. Sun will expand its operations in the city with a sales and marketing team to take care of the burgeoning IT demand in Chennai and its surrounding areas. This expansion forms part of Sun’s plans to gear up for the next phase [...]

                               Soundarya Rajnikanth, managing director of Ocher Studios with Mandep Singh Malik, senior vice- president, Teja industries, at a case study presentation organised by FICCI in Chennai When the toon avatar of Rajnikanth hits the silver screen next year, look out for the “Superstar” on gaming consoles as well. “The best way to sell [...]

A women’s college in Chennai has been organising a carnival that gives a taste of entrepreneurship, motivating young girls to turn job providers than being just job seekers. The college provides the funds but the students have to come up with viable business plans. The idea is to make them enterprising and help them dream [...]

Away from his busy schedule visiting Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi and his wife offered Sunday mass at a little historic church on St Thomas Mount in Chennai. The church was built in memory of St Thomas, one of the apostles who it is believed came to India and became a martyr in 72 AD. [...]

There is no let-up in the hardships faced by motorists and residents at Krishna Nagar and nearby streets (ward-7) falling under Maduravoyal third grade Municipality. After the havoc caused by monsoon last year, most of the streets are yet to relaid, but it seems road works may not be taken up for different reason now.      [...]

Local Administration Minister MK Stalin today said that the allegations of AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa about the suicide of a district official were ‘utter lies and an expression of her imagination.’ In an official release here today, Stalin said Jayalalithaa’s statement on the suicide death of a Dharmapuri district official was motivated by ulterior [...]

India’s national selectors announced that the same 15 players who formed the squad for the Rajkot one-dayer against Sri Lanka would travel to the West Indies for the forthcoming World Cup. The selectors stuck to a conservative approach and pulled no major surprises. “Most of the squad selected themselves, based on merit and their performance,” [...]

The Shriram Group of companies is celebrating the 125th birth anniversary of poet Subramania Bharathi on February 10 at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore.Speaking to mediapersons, G. Sundaresan, chairman of the Shriram Bharathi Kalai Ilakkiya Kazhagam, said that the celebrations were being held for the 20th year in succession. Oratorical competitions were conducted for school [...]

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited plans to erect an additional 300 communication towers across Chennai as part of the roadmap for ringing in 3G or third-generation wireless technology in mobile telephony.Widely tipped to revolutionise lifestyle, 3G technology has features such as enhanced multimedia (voice, data and video), high speed browsing, email and video-conferencing. There are already [...]

An adopted son is eligible to claim the job of his father on compassionate grounds and authorities concerned must take proper care to scrutinise such claims, the Madras High Court has said.A Division Bench, comprising Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice N. Paul Vasanthakumar, passed the order on a writ appeal filed by A. Sudhakar, who [...]

The curtain was down for the love between Nayantara and Simbu. Both of them are even going to the extent by saying that nothing was there between them. Some said that the love drama is only for the promotion of ‘Vallavan’ but nothing more. But just look at these snaps those have come out from [...]

Recently, rumours were floating around the city that the ultimate star Ajith met with an accident and admitted to the hospital. Ajith did not met with any accident at the shooting spot in Visakappatinam. His wife Shalini announced that He used to go for medical check-up once in three months from the day when he [...]