Chennai students to appear for exams barefoot
In Tamil Nadu it is not enough if students leave their books and bags outside their examination hall. According to a new order for class ten and twelve public exams starting next month, students will have to leave their shoes, socks and belts as well.
This controversial order is in a bid to check malpractices.
This [...]
Reservation on economic basis gets Kerala HC nod
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: Arguments in favour of reservations based on economic criteria got a boost on Wednesday with the Kerala High Court upholding the state governments decision to provide a quota for poor students among the forward communities in graduate and undergraduate courses.
The state cabinet had, in September 2008, decided to allot 10% seats in [...]
Judge to face probe over links with woman officer
CHENNAI: A district judge, who allegedly had an intimate relationship with a court officer in Tirunelveli, must face inquiry proceedings for moral turpitude, the Madras high court has ruled.
Refusing to interfere with the inquiry proceedings against M Mohamed Essath Ali, principal family court judge here, a division bench comprising Justice Elipe Dharma Rao [...]
Bomb threat at Chennai airport
CHENNAI: Chennai airport, which is under tight security in connection with the first anniversary of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, received a bomb threat on Thursday.
The airport telephone exchange received the phone call, where the caller warned of a bomb attack on the airport and disconnected immediately, officials said.
Following the threat, security in the airport [...]
Cyber crime: Chennai Police interrogating Dutch national
CHENNAI: A Dutch national, arrested for allegedly uploading material on child sexual abuse on the Internet, is being interrogated to ascertain if he was involved in other crimes at a locality in the city where he was staying for some time, a top police official said on Thursday.
City police commissioner T Rajendiran told reporters [...]
To up insurance bills, docs remove patients’ uterus
CHENNAI: At 25, it was a surgery Meena Kumari least expected. When she had gone to the doctor last year with irregular menstrual cycle, a city-based private hospital diagnosed a small fibroid and removed her uterus. Covered as she was by the government employees’ health insurance scheme, the hospital sent a Rs 40,000 to [...]
Senior biologist in Vandalur zoo charged with rape, held
CHENNAI: Kancheepuram police on Tuesday night arrested a senior wildlife biologist of the Arignar Anna Zoological Park, Vandalur, for allegedly raping a 35-year-old woman, mother of two, just outside the zoo premises on Sunday night.
Kancheepuram police sources told The Times Of India that a medical examination of the woman had confirmed rape and that [...]
Dad, aunts of abused boy held
CHENNAI: The city police on Tuesday arrested the father and two aunts of the five-and-a-half-year-old boy, who was kept confined for more than two months in a cramped space in the kitchen of the family’s house in Trustpuram.
The boy’s father, Paneerselvam (39), and his aunts, Mekala (40) and Vasuki (45), were arrested based on [...]
