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LEAD STORIES
More rain, more traffic snarls The city woke up to a blast of rainfall, and in the event the morning traffic was inevitably thrown out of gear. The rain spell was particularly strong and most places saw heavy stagnation, leaving the motorists struggling to cope up with the traffic. Doctor ready to serve bitter pill? State Minister and senior DMK leader Arcot Veerasamy’s remark that there was no need for an alliance with a party like PMK seems to have set the cat among the pigeons, and reports suggest that this may be the proverbial straw on the camel’s back as the PMK may now choose to make an exit from the DMK-led alliance. Ex-AIADMK Minister’s premises raided The slueths of Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) today raided former AIADMK Minister Valarmathi and her relatives houses at 12 places all over the state. More from NT Bureau. The body of an unidentified youth with head injury was found on a busy road at Sholinganallur, a city suburb, this morning and sent for postmortem to Royapettah Government hospital by the police. A teenager was washed ashore when he was taking bath at Palar river near Padalam yesterday. In a new initiative policemen on patrol in Chennai are asked general knowledge questions from the police control room to check if they are alert during the middle of the night. G R Sindhu has more details. Unnecessary speed breakers on link road The road leading to Pazhavanthangal and out of Nanganallur to GST Road
near Trident Hotel comes under highways. Overnight five speed breakers
have come up for every 15 feet on the road. The speed breakers are neither
near Kendriya Vidyalaya school located on the road.
Minister asks parties to sink differences State Information and Urban Development Minister Parithi Ilamvazhuthi today called upon political parties to sink their differences on the implementation of various infrastructure projects in Tamilnadu. Govt to get tough against illegal hoardings The State government today took a decision to remove hoardings in the city, which had not obtained an interim stay against their removal. A school drop out, who kidnapped a close relative’s eight-year old daughter for ransom has landed in police custody. A 30-year-old man was run over his tractor, when he tried to pull the wheel of his vehicle which was struck in slush near Madurantakam. Martyrs and revolutionaries of India’s freedom — IX The massive popular agitation in Bengal and later in the rest of India following the Partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon in 1905, brought into national prominence the rise of a new political party, an Extremist Party, which differed in essential points and ideology. V Sundarams writes. |
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