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Displaced residents now starved of water
Chennai :: India | 3 months ago
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Ramesh has had to walk 2 km from his flat in Kannagi Nagar, in search of water. But even getting one pot filled, often requires arguing with other residents of the locality, all of them desperate for water. While summer and the water shortage
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Chennai to get over 350 new parking lots
Chennai :: India | 6 months ago
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November 22, 2012 The Hindu Wallajah Road is one of the stretches where a parking lot will be set up...Ravindran Motorists in the city have reason to celebrate as Chennai Corporation will soon set up 361 parking lots on roads. The Traffic Police has
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Style and the city
Chennai :: India | 9 months ago
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Ragu Designer Ananka Narayanan about the city's discerning women and her sense of style I spent most of my life trying to get out of Madras, so in a way it's ironic that I moved back here to start my business. I first left the city when I was 16, to
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MADRAS 373 Oh Madras, my Chennai
Chennai :: India | 9 months ago
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More than anything else, I like the city for the ability to laugh at itself. Humour, is what Chennai's about and interestingly enough, it pervades every class of society, not just the leisurely upper middle class watching Crazy Mohan plays. I am
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Chennai?s selfless, surplus love
Chennai :: India | 9 months ago
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Thulasi Kakkat Meena Kandasamy, poet, writer, activist and translator, on the city, its people, sights and sounds Give it to Chennai for chutzpah, for her courage to take on the world. For all the laidback calm, she launched the Home Rule League to
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Northeasterners leave Chennai
Bangalore :: India | 9 months ago
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Overcome by a sense of fear after rumours of attacks and fuelled by the exodus from Bangalore, North Easterners here are also leaving the city, even as police assured them that they were safe. Railway officials acknowledged a spurt in ticket sales
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India Ink: For Rising Seniors, a College Checklist for August
Bangalore :: India | 9 months ago
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About India Ink This report on India from the journalists of The New York Times and a pool of talented writers in India and beyond provides unbiased, authoritative reporting on the country and its place in the world. India Ink also strives to be a
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Police step up security for I-Day
Police :: Poland | 9 months ago
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The Hindu Chennai Central and Egmore stations, Chennai Moffusil Bus Terminus and the airport have come under the safety net...Ragu To inspect the preparedness of police personnel deployed for additional security on Independence Day in the city, a
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Traffic woes threaten to throw EMRIP off track
Mumbai :: India | 9 months ago
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June 2013 as traffic woes prevent them from offloading material for road construction and widening...We are not able to off-load material on Tiruvottiyur-Ponneri-Panchetti Road and Ennore Expressway. As the vehicles are parked in a haphazard manner
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When city revelled in day-long jubilation
New Delhi :: India | 9 months ago
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The Hindu This is a series of pictures that were published in The Hindu on August 15, 1947: The tri-colour atop Fort St. George; the Chief Justice of Madras administers oath to Governor of Madras H...Sir Archibald Nye at the Secretariat; the Governor
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