Daily Chennai - Tamilnadu, India

India’s national selectors announced that the same 15 players who formed the squad for the Rajkot one-dayer against Sri Lanka would travel to the West Indies for the forthcoming World Cup. The selectors stuck to a conservative approach and pulled no major surprises.
“Most of the squad selected themselves, based on merit and their performance,” captain [...]

The Shriram Group of companies is celebrating the 125th birth anniversary of poet Subramania Bharathi on February 10 at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore.Speaking to mediapersons, G. Sundaresan, chairman of the Shriram Bharathi Kalai Ilakkiya Kazhagam, said that the celebrations were being held for the 20th year in succession.
Oratorical competitions were conducted for school and [...]

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited plans to erect an additional 300 communication towers across Chennai as part of the roadmap for ringing in 3G or third-generation wireless technology in mobile telephony.Widely tipped to revolutionise lifestyle, 3G technology has features such as enhanced multimedia (voice, data and video), high speed browsing, email and video-conferencing.
There are already 590 [...]

An adopted son is eligible to claim the job of his father on compassionate grounds and authorities concerned must take proper care to scrutinise such claims, the Madras High Court has said.A Division Bench, comprising Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice N. Paul Vasanthakumar, passed the order on a writ appeal filed by A. Sudhakar, who [...]

This picture has sent shockwaves throughout the Tamil and Telugu movie industry.

The curtain was down for the love between Nayantara and Simbu. Both of them are even going to the extent by saying that nothing was there between them. Some said that the love drama is only for the promotion of ‘Vallavan’ but nothing more. [...]

Recently, rumours were floating around the city that the ultimate star Ajith met with an accident and admitted to the hospital.
Ajith did not met with any accident at the shooting spot in Visakappatinam. His wife Shalini announced that He used to go for medical check-up once in three months from the day when he had [...]

Indra K. Nooyi Biography
October 28, 1955 • Madras, India
Executive
Indra K. Nooyi is the president and chief financial officer of PepsiCo. Best known for its Pepsi soft drinks, the international powerhouse that Nooyi oversees is actually one of the world’s largest snack-food companies. It makes and sells dozens of other products, including Doritos-brand chips, the Tropicana [...]

The Chennai girl hit headlines on Monday yet again when PepsiCo’s board of directors announced that it has elected Indra K Nooyi, 51, chairman of the board, effective May 2 when current executive chairman Steven S Reinemund, 58, retires.
Ms Nooyi is currently chief executive officer of the more than $32-billion global convenient food and beverage [...]

The University of Madras’ Syndicate has approved three Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) for collaborative research and exchange programmes with Turkish and Japanese institutions.
The Department of Applied Geology will be collaborating with Kyoto University, Japan, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies International Environment and Disaster Management Laboratory and Middle East Technical University, Turkey, Disaster Management and [...]

 Six additional visa interview windows will be added this week at the United States Consulate in Chennai to help eliminate the visa backlog.
“Our goal is to totally eliminate the visa backlog by March 31,” says U.S. Vice-Consul Jimmy Mauldin.
Speaking on the sidelines of a business forum organised by the U.S. State of Virginia and the [...]