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Aug 18, 2010: Chennai-based MIOT Hospitals on Wednesday launched the MIOT Academy of Allied Health Sciences (MAAHS) that would generate para professionals for employment in the hospital industry.
Affiliated to the Dr MGR University, the academy was launched by the Hindu editor-in-chief N Ram in the presence of MIOT Hospital’s founder and managing director, Dr P [...]
Aug 19, 2010: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday slammed the Opposition parties for announcing agitation against the proposed greenfield airport near Chennai and said such actions would only affect the airport expansion plans and the growth of the State.
In a statement, he said only soil samples have been taken from 64 places [...]
Aug 19, 2010: Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) general secretary J Jayalalithaa hosted an ‘Iftar’ party in Chennai on Wednesday.
n her brief address, after opening Iftar, marking the breaking of dawn to dusk fast observed by Muslims during the holy month of Ramalan, she said by oberving [...]
Aug 19, 2010: Chennai and its suburbs received heavy showers since Tuesday night, inundating low lying areas, uprooting roadside trees and bringing copious inflows into the reservoirs.
The incessant showers since 2 am disrupted the morning peak hour traffic, much to the discomfort of the office and school-goers. Nungambakkam received 77 mm of rainfall in the [...]
Aug 19, 2010: Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M Karunanidhi on Wednesday wrote to Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, urging her to make the Nagapattinam-Velankanni line operational at the earliest.
Karunanidhi said the work on the section had been completed and it was ready for inauguration. The annual festival of the Shrine of Basilica of Our Lady [...]
Aug 18, 2010: Paying heed to one of the long time demands of State-owned TASMAC liquor outlets’ staff, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Tuesday announced pay hike and other benefits for them, which is aimed at benefitting over 30,000 workers.
An official release said that the salary of supervisors has been increased from Rs 4,000 to [...]
Aug 18, 2010: The Indian Coast Guard is planning to station two hovercraft in Chennai for security purposes. This was revealed by Coast Guard Commandant Venu Madhav in Chennai on Tuesday who said that they were examining the feasibility of basing two hovercraft in Chennai for law enforcment duties at sea.
“The Coast Guard is likely [...]
Aug 18, 2010: The AIADMK and the PMK have announced separate protests against the Tamil Nadu government’s reported decision to acquire agriculture lands to set up a greenfield airport.
In a statement on Tuesday, AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa said that her party will stage a demonstration on Wednesday near Tahsildar office on Sriperumbudur – Tiruvallur [...]
Aug 18, 2010: Former Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa has filed a petition in the Madras High Court seeking to quash the ‘gifts case’ against her.
The case related to the receipt of gifts by Jayalalithaa on her birthday in 1992 in her capacity as a public servant. She said in view of [...]
Aug 18, 2010: Chennai Corporation Mayor M Subramanian on Tuesday said that the flyover being built at Rangarajupuram will be ready by November this year.
Inspecting work on the facility, he said coordination meetings would be organised with railway officials to ensure speedy completion and optimum utilisation of the project, being implemented jointly by the civic [...]
