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Barbers,robbers and romance?
CHENNAI
Inflation props up sex trade
TOURISM
The great Indian travel crisis
FOR A GOOD CAUSE
On road, safety first
ENVIRONMENT
Kan and will keep forests alive
BEHIND THE LENS
Gourd caught in its glory
HEALTH
The fitness philanthropist
Congress looks at big picture as Baalu meets Sonia
The Congress on Wednesday made two tactical moves, one is it supported Bihar CM Nitish Kumar in the trust vote and the other one is it tentatively mended fences with DMK by granting its parliamentary party leader T R Baalu an audience with the Congress president without any commitment though.
According to a 2012-13 survey, use of the sleek, handheld gadget by the Chennai’s post-millennial generation is on a steady rise .
BBMP Commissioner Lakshminarayana pointed out that the city’s footpaths have been largely encroached upon by traders to display their wares.
University officials are in the dock once again, with a woman complaining to Governor ESL Narasimhan that she was denied assistant professor post in preference for a less deserving candidate.
It looks like the efforts of the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) in allaying transmission woes in Ernakulam district will pay off.
The much-awaited Thakaraparambu flyover development project will take many more months to be completed.
With the DMK and DMDK tied down for the sixth seat from the State to Rajya Sabha, hectic parleys and the hunt for support from the Congress and other minor parties continued on Tuesday.
Indications are that the Assembly sittings in the days ahead will continue to be stormy with the Opposition adamant that Chief Minister Oommen Chandy resign and face a judicial investigation in the solar panel scam.
The Rs 1 rice scheme announced by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will be launched with much fanfare on July 1, but it will reach the poor only between July 10 and 20.
The Chief Minister said Dharmana and Sabitha had resigned in accordance with the Congress policy of not continuing in the Cabinet if charge-sheeted.
Normalcy returned on the power front with Upper Kolab hydro power station resuming generation of electricity and the fourth unit of the Talcher Thermal Power Station back to the state grid.
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An impressive bowling performance powered England to the Champions Trophy summit clash as the hosts thrashed South Africa by seven wickets in the first semifinal.
The All England Club released the seedings on Wednesday for this year's championships, with the top five in the ATP rankings, where Djokovic is leading the No. 1 positon, followed by Murray, Federer, David Ferrer and Nadal.
Sudheendra Kulkarni, who is one of the advisers to Advani and is virtually his alter ego, has also called BJP President Rajnath Singh 'foxy'.
The attack comes only six months after the UN expanded its presence in Mogadishu, where it had kept a small operation because Islamic insurgents had controlled much of the capital until being pushed out in an offensive in 2011.
