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A Rainy Day Check-List for Chennaiites

If only you had thought ahead, you would have stocked snacks and biscuits, bread and cake, and vegetables suited for Amma or pondatti to make your favourite bajji and pakoda, observes N Sathiya......

It's an odd, odd world out there!

These 10 images prove we live in a wonderfully weird world. A visitor photographs a display of candles during the Festival of Lights Cittadella, in the medieval citadel in Victoria, on the......

Partial success for opposition's Bharat Bandh

Rediff.com brings you a combined update of the effect of Thursday's Bharat bandh, called by the National Democratic Alliance, Left parties and Samajwadi Party to protest against the latest hike in......

Terrorism: The Enemy Within

Bangalore is learning what Delhi and Mumbai have long known, that being a major metropolis attracts not just venture capitalists but also the third rate scum known as terrorists. Just as Delhi is......

Rains continue to pummel Tamil Nadu

At least 100 people were feared drowned today as major parts of Tamil Nadu faced the fury of unprecedented rains which cut off southern districts from the state capital while Kollidam and other......

Get a Merc or a Jaguar at cheap prices in Chennai!

Insurance companies sell off inventory of flood-damaged vehicles to cut losses. Image: The on-road value of a Jaguar F-Type is about Rs 2.2 crore. In Chennai, if you are lucky, you could get......

Tomato, garlic prices continue to rise

Though onion prices have begun downhill journey in major cities, citizens across the country continued to be battered by high rates of other important vegetables--tomato and garlic-- whose rates......

BOI first to open office in Beijing

Bank of India will become the first Indian bank to set foot in the Chinese capital when its Representative Office is inauguratedin Beijing next week. Bank of India, which ventured into China in......

No CAS in Mumbai from Sept 1

With stringent opposition from Shiv Sena, an NDA partner, a pending petition in Bombay high court and no proper directions from the Maharashtra and Union governments, the chances of implementation......

Quartermiler Anjali Devi punches ticket to Asian Games

'I can improve my timing a lot, because I am taking part here after four-five weeks of training at the national camp. I am completely recovered. I will work hard at the national camp and do well in......

Asian Games torch arrives in host city Guangzhou

The Asian Games torch has arrived in the host city Guangzhou after a nationwide tour, one week before the start of the world's second-largest sporting event after the Olympics. Torchbearers will......

Umpire Rauf to miss Chennai Test

ICC elite panel umpire Asad Rauf of Pakistan will not officiate in the first Test between India and England, starting next week in Chennai, as he does not have a visa for Chennai. The first Test......

China braces for Formula One debut

Formula One, a symbol of global capitalism and glamour if ever there was one, is ready to take China by storm when the world's most populous nation hosts a Grand Prix for the first time next......

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