Feb 19, 2010: Managing director of Kirtilal Kalidas Jewellers T Shanthakumar has been appointed the honorary consul of Malta. He will have jurisdiction over south India and will seek to promote the interests of Malta and Maltese citizens living in India.

Chennai Vision News Team

Feb 19, 2010: Southern Railway will run a special train from Chennai to Nagercoil (No. 0625) which will leave Egmore at 8.20 pm every Thursday between February 25 and March 25. According to a pres release, Train No. 0626, the Nagercoil-Chennai Egmore weekly special, will leave Nagercoil at 1.30 pm on Fridays and reach Egmore [...]

Feb 18, 2010: Superstar Rajinikanth today called on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi at the latter’s Gopalapuram residence in Chennai. He described the meeting as a courtesy call, to thank the octogenarian for attending his daughter’s engagement ceremony in Chennai Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, the top actor said actors should not be [...]

Feb 18, 2010: Chennai Police today claimed to have unearthed a fake currency racket with the arrest five persons from Bihar. They also reportedly seized counterfeit notes worth Rs 2.63 lakh from them. According to the police, a special team from the Flower Bazaar Station raided a lodge near Parry’s corner based on a tip [...]

Feb 18, 2010: Chennai Suburban Police have busted a major murder bid near Madhavaram on Wednesday and arrested a gang which was planning to kill three convicts who were out on bail.
Speaking to reporters today, Suburban Commissioner S R Jangid said, “On a tip-off about the murder plan, we kept an eye on a 15-member [...]

Feb 18, 2010: Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Chancellor G Viswanathan has been nominated as a member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Information Technology (Design and Manufacturing), Kancheepuram.

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has nominated Viswanathan as a member of the board and he would continue for three years, according [...]

Feb 18, 2010: Prince of Arcot Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali has said that Muslims should not depend too much on government for their social and educational uplift. Speaking at a function in Chennai Wednesday, he said that Muslims should not aim for a backward tag or the most backward tag given by the government since [...]

Feb 18, 2010: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Thursday expressed confidence over the progress in the arrangement of the World Classical Tamil Conference scheduled at Coimbatore in June 2010. Speaking to reporters after a two-hour long discussion with senior Ministers, top bureaucrats and Tamil scholars on the arrangements for the conference, Karunanidhi said [...]

Feb 18, 2010: Open India and Ignite, two of the many charitable trusts in Chennai,
are organising a fund- raising programme through a Bharathanatyam-
dance ballet in English in an effort to help poor students pursue
education in college.

Announcing this to presspersons in Chennai, actress-dancer Shobana
said she would perform along with her troupe ‘Kalarpana’ for a
programme ‘Maya Ravan’ [...]

Feb 18, 2010: Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation has introduced platinum and
gold card for tourists which can be used for making hotel bookings
online.

According to a press release, tourists can get their cards issued
online. For details log on to www.tamilnadutourism.org/onlinecard.
Chennai Vision News Team