D.P. Selvam lighted up when reminded that the Government of Tamil Nadu would be the chief sponsor of the laser coastal National sailing championship beginning here on Friday. The defending champion in the Laser Standard class — an Olympic category — said, “this is wonderful, the Government backing us in such a manner. It would […]

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi declared that he would fight for setting up of a Parliamentary Committee for welfare of Backward Classes (BCs). Addressing a social justice conference here, he said only a Parliamentary Committee would protect the interests of the BCs in the coming years. He said besides writing to the Centre in […]

Chief Minister M Karunanidhi will be conferred with ‘Umara Pulavar Award’ during the three-day international Islamic Tamil Literary convention which begins in Chennai from 25 May. Speaking to reporters here yesterday, Idhayathullah, general secretary, Islamic Ilakiya Kazhagam said the award is given to the Chief Minister for his contribution to Tamil literature. The award to […]

The Australian Trade Commission- Australian Government’s international trade promotion and export facilitation agency is organizing a Indian Buyers Mission to Singapore to participate at a luxury lifestyle event involving high end products and services from Western Australia. The two-day event titled ‘MasterCard Indulgence in the City of Western Australia’ will commence tomorrow in Singapore. Over […]

A set of proposals to encourage industry oriented technical education and training to improve and upgrade skills of students to make them employable was presented to State government by Tamilnadu Council of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). The proposals stressed on the need for industry – academic linkages and outlined a […]

State Higher Education Minister K Ponmudy today announced that the counselling fee for engineering admission had been waived to benefit students. Speaking to reporters at the Secretariat, the Minister said the government had earlier announced the slashing of counselling fee from Rs 300 to Rs 200. Now, Chief Minister, considering students from far off places, […]

The AC Muthiah group flagship company Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd (Spic) has landed itself between a rock and a hard place as its working capital lenders are refusing to open fresh letters of credit (LCs) making it difficult for the company to resume production after its annual maintenance shut down. A couple of months […]

ReadyTestGo (RTG), the software testing arm of Cybernet-SlashSupport (CSS) Group, on Wednesday said it will hire more than 200 professionals here over the next one year to expand its operations. During this period, the company also expected to add 25 new customers in India, in addition to expanding its engagement with existing customers, CSS chief […]

Mumbai-based IT solutions and services provider 3i Infotech has opened a new global development centre in Chennai to focus on the enhancement and development of company’s flagship insurance solution Premia and the Kastle line of banking solution as also to support company’s organic growth in these areas. Spread over 2 lakh sft, it will have […]

Students from the CBSE stream are likely to give their State board counterparts tough competition during admission to professional courses. In the Standard XII examination results for Chennai and Ajmer regions, released on Wednesday, many CBSE students are almost on a par with State Board students when it comes to the critical cut-off marks. The […]

The uncertainty over Chennai’s new airport has finally ended. The aviation ministry has received the resolution passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly which says the Airports Authority of India (AAI) should modernise the existing airport and also build a greenfield one near the city. The new airport could be built in a 5,000-acre area near […]

Officials of the Chennai Corporation will soon be able to keep an eye on the movement of garbage trucks in the city without having to move from their seats in the Ripon Building, the civic body’s headquarters. The Corporation plans to use the global positioning system (GPS) technology to monitor if garbage trucks, fogging machines, […]