Massive urns, beautiful vases, miniature bowls, potsherds with twisted rope impressions, imitated amphorae (wine jars) and so on from different parts of south India are on display at Fort Museum, Fort St. George, Chennai. The exhibition  “The Ceramic Heritage of South India”  has been organised by the Fort Museum of the Archaeological Survey [...]
The Special Crimes Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation is to investigate the case relating to the May 9 attack on Dinakaran and “Sun TV” office premises in Madurai in which three persons died. The notification has been issued and the central agency will re-register the case, registered initially by the local police, and [...]
The United States could be well on its way to following the global trend by adopting an immigration system that gives priority to the skilled and educated. An agreement reached by key Republican and Democrat senators on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill includes a bargain that will for the first time in US history give [...]
All new constructions will have to comply with earthquake resistant building codes and the modified techno-legal regime from June 30 onwards, according to the earthquake guidelines released by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) here on Wednesday. The new building codes include the revised town planning by-laws, land use zoning, Development Control Regulations (DCRs) and [...]
Hyderabad-based Global Hospitals has recently acquired a Chennai hospital, Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Sankara Hospital. The Madras High Court permitted the Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam charitable trust to encash the earnest money deposit of Global Hospitals for Rs 257 crore and complete the sale of the hospital at Permbakam in terms of the advertisement. At the [...]
Sivaji Got ‘U’ Certificate
Police have arrested a gang, comprising of 3 members, who were involved in making pirated VCDs of the movie Sivaji. The owner of the press Joseph Selvin fled from the clutches of the police. However, his brother Sahayarajan, designer Thamizharasan and printer Johnson have been arrested. Kaja and Faisal, both traders at the Burma Bazaar, [...]
Windows Update for IE7 Doesn’t Work for Some PCs After installing this month’s six-bug patch, some users aren’t able to use the IE7 browser, Microsoft said. Some users aren’t able to use Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) after installing this month’s six-bug patch, the Microsoft Corp. security team acknowledged late Wednesday as it published a work-around [...]
Nucleus Software Exports Limited, a global provider of next generation software products for banking and financial sector, announced that L&T Finance Limited (LTF), a non- banking finance company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited, a technology and engineering major has selected Nucleus Software’s flagship solution FinnOne TM Customer Acquisition System, lending and [...]
Motorola, a global wireless communication provider and makers of handsets, opened its first Motostore in Chennai yesterday. Sudhir Agarwal, director, Motorola inaugurated the new outlet in the presence of Pawan Kapur, CEO of Bharti Teletech. Motostore, set up on franchisee-model offers sales and services under one roof for the customers. Besides, it offers users an [...]
Royal Sundaram Alliance Insurance Company Limited, which announced its annual results for 2006-07, registered a 168 per cent growth in Profit Before Tax for the financial year ended March 2007. This performance, based on a 30 per cent growth in revenues, results in a 16 per cent post tax return on equity during 2006/2007. The [...]
The spectre of human trafficking looms large over Chennai now after reports of such trafficking in the North captured headlines. With a view to curbing it, Central Intelligence has decided to maintain strict surveillance at all major airports to monitor MPs’ foreign visits and to list out those accompanying them. This was decided at a [...]