Vacuum toilet system in trains
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Very soon trains will have toilets like in the planes. Newly designed washrooms fitted with vacuum toilet system
Photo exhibition at Chennai Fort museum
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A week-long photo exhibition has organised by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in Chennai Circle, at Fort Museum in Fort St. George between November 19 and 25.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will inaugurate the countrys first womens bank, Bharatiya Mahila Bank on today (19th November ).
Chapathis at Amma Canteen from tomorrow
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The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister will launch the sales of chapathis at Amma Canteen from Secretariat through video conferencing.
38 teams formed to nab erring autos
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Yesterday, 1,462 meters got the seal from the RTOs in the city. A total of 49,109 autorickshaws have now got seals from the mechanics and RTOs and completed the recalibration process.
Next year June, the metropolitan magistrate courts of Egmore will get a new address, with the Madras high court consenting to the Chennai Corporation’s offer of its second and third floors of Moore Market Complex near Central railway station.
Special trains for Sabarimala season
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Southern Railway will run the following special trains to clear the extra rush during the Sabarimala season.
Power supply will be suspended in the following areas on 21-11-2013
between 9.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. for maintenance work. Supply will be resumed before 5.00 P.M. if the works are completed.
The results of the drawing competition held on 17.11.2013 at Railway Mixed Higher Secondary School, Perambur, as part of events to commemorate 160 years of Indian Railways have been uploaded in the Railways website.
Chennai Corporation will begin work on laying world-class roads in Chennai. The civic body will begin the tendering process for commissioning four of these world-class roads this week.
Existing low-pressure to intensify
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The Met Department located the existing low-pressure area to 600 km east-northeast of Chennai; 500 km east-southeast of Machilipatnam; and 430 km southeast of Visakhapatnam on Tuesday afternoon.
The Tamil Nadu Government on Tuesday released the list of public holidays for 2014. There will be a total of 21 public holidays next year, down from 24 this year.
Another Tamil TV channel website hacked
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The hackers from abroad have been fooling the police department by hacking the ruling party AIADMK website. They have also hacked three private TV channels websites including Lotus TV.
Women crowd Mahila Bank on day one
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Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) Chennai Branch, touted by the Centre to be the first commercial bank aimed at serving women in a focused manner was inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over teleconferencing from a function in Mumbai.
