Chennai News

Indian Fashion Icons caught at Buzzar.tv

Wendell Rodricks, Mandira Wirk, Satya Paul, Deepika Govind, Rehane, Dig Vijay Singh and many other Indian fashion icons log on to Buzzar.tv9:33 PM on October 29

Pro-LTTE group threatens death to Jayalalitha: AIADMK

A Canada-based Tamil group sympathetic to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers has threatened to assassinate former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayaram Jayalalitha, a party official said Wednesday.9:32 PM on October 29

Sun TV to launch FM stations in Sikkim, Mizoram

The city-based television major Sun TV Network Ltd, through its subsidiary South Asia FM, will launch FM radio stations in Gangtok and Aizawl, the respective capital cities of Sikkim and Mizoram, a company official said.7:33 PM on October 29

India poised to be major player in global satellite manufacturing

India can become a major player in the emerging small satellite manufacturing industry. The country's space agency has estimated a market potential of 50 satellites over the next decade, worth around $1.5 billion, says a space official.1:00 PM on October 29

'Chandrayaan orbit to be raised to 267,000 km Wednesday'

The earth orbit of India's first lunar spacecraft will be raised to 267,000 km Wednesday, an official here said.10:00 PM on October 28

Karur Vysya Bank reports Rs.927.7 mn net profit

Private sector lender Karur Vysya Bank Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs.927.7 million in the first half this fiscal as against Rs.913.6 million in the year-ago period, the bank announced here.7:01 PM on October 28

DMK, Congress playing politics over Lankan Tamils: CPI, BJP

The Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday assailed External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi for allegedly using the plight of the suffering Tamil minority in Sri Lanka for political ends.7:30 PM on October 27

Tamil Nadu government denies arrest claim by Jayalalitha

The Tamil Nadu government Monday denied the claims of opposition leader J. Jayalalitha of her impending arrest by the state police.6:32 PM on October 27

Karunanidhi has asked police to arrest me: Jayalalitha

Leader of the opposition and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary J. Jayalalitha Sunday evening alleged that Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has asked the police officials to arrest her 'under some pretext or other'.12:32 AM on October 27

DMK MPs will not insist on resignation, Karunanidhi assures Mukherjee

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Sunday assured External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee that his party's MPs will not insist on quitting parliament following the talks between New Delhi and Colombo on the civilian suffering in Sri Lanka.9:00 PM on October 26

Chandrayaan spacecraft moved further up in space

India's maiden moon probe spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 has reached nearly half the distance to the lunar orbit, crossing the 150,000-km mark from the earth Sunday morning.7:30 PM on October 26

Karunanidhi will not insist on MPs' resignation: Mukherjee

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Sunday that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had promised that his DMK MPs will not insist on quitting parliament in the wake of the talks between New Delhi and Colombo on the civilian suffering in Sri Lanka.7:30 PM on October 26

Family donates brain-dead man's organs

The family of a man who has been brain-dead after a road accident donated his vital organs, helping seven critically ill patients, hospital officials said here Saturday.1:00 AM on October 26

Tamil MPs ask India to pressure Sri Lanka to end killings

A group of Tamil MPs from Sri Lanka sympathetic to the Tamil Tigers Saturday sought sustained Indian diplomatic pressure to force Colombo to start talking to the guerrillas in a bid to end the ethnic conflict.8:31 PM on October 25

Statue of Rajiv Gandhi vandalised in Chennai

Unidentified people Friday damaged a statue of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in the northern suburbs of this city. In a separate incident, the office of the Janata Party in Madurai was attacked, officials said.12:32 AM on October 25