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......

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......

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......

#ChennaiRainsHelp: Samaritans emerge amid rain fury

Image: Murthy Megavan and his team of surfers rescued more than 60 people with their kayaks and boats. Photograph courtesy: Covelong Point Social Surfing School. Rains abated in Chennai......

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......

Ashok Leyland to export buses to Pakistan

Auto major Ashok Leyland on Friday said it would export buses to Pakistan soon and was also exploring the Chinese market.The company had already established contacts with some bus operators in......

Hyundai's Sept sales up 53.1%

Hyundai Motor India said on Wednesday that its car sales has surged by 53.1 per cent in September 2003 to 17,009 units from 11,105 units a year earlier.Domestic sales went up by 9.4 per cent to......

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......

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......

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......