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......

Will Chennai Shed Its 'Disaster Capital' Tag?

For the Stalin government to win back the confidence of voters ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, post-flooding restoration works, their speed and efficacy would be closely watched, and not just by the......

Social media lends helping hand in reaching aid to Chennai flood-hit

Submerged in water, with no access to power and transport, it was various social media platforms that came to people's aid in the rain-hit city since Monday. IMAGE: People use a boat to shift to a......

Chennai's story needs to be heard

No one imagined that this could happen to Chennai. We were just a happy little town content with our Kollywood and Coffee, but humanity has won over once again, says Pavithra Selvam. The rains......

'Little India' is BIG globally

August has been a good month for Delhi-based fashion designer Manish Arora. He's just heard that celebrities like Keira Knightley, Kate Bosworth and Alicia Keyes had picked up shoes designed by him......

A new IT firm every 3 days in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu will secure the topmost position in information technology in India, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J.Jayalalithaa, said.In her address after the inauguration of the 5th edition of......

Reliance plans BPO push

The Reliance group is moving into business process outsourcing in a big way. The strategy is being charted by Reliance Infocomm, its telecommunications arm.Reliance Infocomm has a captive centre,......

Lankan Airlines slashes airfares by 50%

Sri Lankan Airlines has slashed its airfares by half for passengers travelling from Chennai to London, Paris, Zurich, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Tokyo, Maldives and Malaysia.According to a......

Evano Oruvan, a must-watch

Leukos Films Pvt Ltd & Abbas Mastan's latest offering, Evano Oruvan (Someone), directed by Nishikanth Kamat and the Tamil version of the Marathi trendsetter Dombivli Fast, asks certain pertinent......

Boys just wanna have fun!

I watched the promos, read interesting titbits in newspapers about how Boys is about a group of guys (plus one girl, of course) singing their way to the MTV Awards, and played the Boys tape to the......

'I am jealous of Jadeja': Ashwin confesses

'Jadeja on the field is a fire. He's a rocket on the field. So, all in all, I envy him. I'm jealous of him but totally admire him' IMAGE: While Ravichandran Ashwin hogged the limelight for his......

Seeking parochialism

Not so long ago, there was random moaning about increasing parochialism in Indian cricket. Players were being booed in the home stadiums of their perceived rivals; it was no longer about wanting......

Cash to pair with Rastogi

Top seeds Leander Paes and Martin Damm of the Czech Republic have been drawn to take on Tomas Cibulec and David Skoch of the Czech Republic in the first round of the doubles event at the US......