Indian Institute of Technology - Madras (IIT Madras) is all set to host Shaastra 2020, one of the largest tech festivals in India to be completely run by students. This flagship event will be held between January 3 and 6, 2020 with a host of events. This will be the 20th edition of this annual event.
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DMK president M K Stalin on Tuesday demanded that the Tamil Nadu government move a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register for Citizens (NRC) when the assembly meets on January 6 and get it passed.
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In August next year, Goethe-Institut Chennai will celebrate its 60th year, and in its attempt to make it a memorable celebration, the centre has given film buffs in the city an offer they can't refuse.
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The state election commission is free to declare the results of the elections to rural local bodies as scheduled on January 2. The Madras high court has refused to ban their announcement until elections to urban local bodies are held.
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There has been a significant drop in the number of accidents and fatalities involving the fleet of state transport corporations over the last decade. The number of accidents fell by 48% and fatalities dipped by 29% in the last eight months, compared to the corresponding period in 2011.
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A 17-year-old girl who fell from the third floor of a building in Triplicane while on a call on Wednesday night died of her injuries at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital on Sunday.
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It was while doing his internship with a team of architects, who designed high-rise buildings in the city, that the prototype of compact and temporary houses struck Arun Prabhu N G.
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The area under mangrove forest cover in Tamil Nadu has shrunk by four sq km, while the overall mangrove cover in the country increased by 54sqkm, as per the latest Mangrove Cover Assessment in the India State of Forest Report 2019. Tamil Nadu’s mangrove cover is estimated to be close to 45sqkm, as against 49sqkm assessed in the last report published in 2017.
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Software professionals who work in the upcoming Tidel Park at Pattabiram may relax with a cup of coffee in style in a garden that would offer a bird’s eye view of the sprawling western parts of the city. The IT park will have lush green environment not on the ground floor or on the terrace, but in the middle of the multi-storey building, which would be one of the tallest structures on Chennai-Tirupati high road.
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Rapper Divine discusses his entrepreneurial venture for new artistes, and explains why hiphop will always live on despite the shadow of film industry music across India
Grab your umbrella or raincoat if you are staying out post-midnight to celebrate New Year on Wednesday. Weathermen have forecast light rain in some areas of the city.
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DMK on Monday alleged that the Centre rewarded the Tamil Nadu government by giving it a top slot in the governance index after the ruling AIADMK had voted in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in Parliament.
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While nine new medical colleges have been announced for Tamil Nadu, the government’s move in ‘restructuring’ the posts of doctors could potentially have a huge impact on patient care
Artificial intelligence is proving a godsend for medicine. Man versus machine is now man and machine.When oncologists at Apollo Cancer Centre tested a machine for its ability to diagnose cancer by feeding symptoms and scan reports of several patients into a professional desktop computer, the machine scored an A+.
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Polling in the second phase of election to rural local bodies in Tamil Nadu got under way on Monday morning to elect village panchayat presidents, village panchayat ward members, union ward members and district panchayat ward members in 27 districts.
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The simple kolam (rangoli) seems to be becoming the symbol of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register for Citizens in Tamil Nadu.
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Openly displaying his angst, AIADMK minority wing secretary and former MP Anwhar Raajhaa said the AIADMK has lost its minority vote base to the opposition after striking an alliance with the BJP, endorsing the passage of Triple Talaq Bill, and maintaining silence on the possible pan-India implementation of National Register of Citizens.
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Eight people who attempted to express their opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) through ‘kolam’ in the city on Sunday found themselves on the wrong side of the law.
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The ecological restoration of Cooum River got a fillip on Sunday as the Greater Chennai Corporation, along with Chennai River Restoration Trust (CRRT) and Public Works Department (PWD), began rehabilitation of slum dwellers from the riverbank at Sathyavani Muthu Nagar, opposite Island grounds.
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A 30-year-old businessman, who runs a logistics firm in Ambattur, approached the Maduravoyal police in the early hours of Sunday complaining that a three-member gang led by rowdy Dhil Pandian had kidnapped him in his car demanding Rs 30 lakh.
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DMK president M K Stalin on Sunday said he felt honoured to be present at the swearing-in ceremony of Hemant Soren as the chief minister of Jharkhand. He said unity and coordination among secular parties were essential to oppose the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR).
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The Rotary Club of Madras has built a higher secondary school for children in families that were relocated to Perumbakkam tenements after the 2015 Chennai floods.
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Two men died and eight others suffered injuries when a truck collided with a sport utility vehicle (SUV) near Musiri in Trichy district of Tamil Nadu in the early morning hours of Sunday.
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Complex grammar and more letters make Tamil language difficult to learn in its present form. However, a school in Karur district has decided not to stop with teaching Tamil language, but to encourage students to learn the original Tamil script, Tamili, which is over 2,000 years old.
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The city police arrested one more accused in the gang rape case reported at Seeranaickenpalayam on November 26. Police identified the arrested as P Manikandan alias Auto Manikandan, 29, from New Thillai Nagar in Vadavalli.
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A day after the district mahila court ordered an inquiry into the death of a seven-year-old Thudiyalur resident who was found raped and murdered nine months ago, the rural police are getting ready to collect blood samples from her relatives and neighbours to conduct DNA test.
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Repolling has been ordered on December 30 for two wards in Thanjavur district and one ward and 13 booths of another ward in Pudukottai district. The re-election in wards 8 and 9 of Semmangudi panchayats in Thanjavur district was declared since election officials issued wrong ballot sheets to the voters.
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As protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) continue in the state, a team of Union ministers, MPs and senior BJP leaders will begin arriving in Tamil Nadu from the first week of January to carry out campaigns to counter the DMK-led opposition's "misinformation" campaign against the Act.
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Director of a defaulting company has to now vacate his directorship in other companies while retaining his position only in the defaulting company. Legality of this rule introduced by the Centre recently has been upheld by the Madras high court.
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Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Saturday hit out at the DMK on what he called its doublespeak on NPR and said DMK did not oppose NPR when it was in alliance with BJP in 2003. “Though the BJP government brought in some changes in NPR, the DMK did not oppose it then,” the CM said. It was implemented in 2010 when the Congress-DMK government was in office in Delhi and the DMK was administering the state, he said.
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Police on Friday detained a 23-year-old man, who discontinued an engineering course in Singapore, for attempting to steal a bike parked in front of a Tasmac outlet and bar at Mannady, allegedly because he didn't have money to buy liquor.
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It’s the middle of the half-yearly holidays and a bunch of school students in white coats and gloves are busy measuring the pH value of a solution. Another group the total dissolved solids (TDS) in water. All of them were attending a beginners course in chemistry at a lab in Virugambakkam for a practical understanding about the everyday use of chemistry.
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According to police, the protesters had informed them that they wanted to draw ‘kolams’ with anti-CAA and anti-NRC messages near the Besant Nagar bus terminus but the police had not granted them permission
Two days ahead of New Year’s eve, the city police have framed guidelines and issued a directive to regulate merrymaking. Commissioner A K Viswanathan has told all police personnel to conduct a district-level meeting with owners of hotels, resorts and all other places where parties are being organised.
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