From 12th to 17th January, more than five thousand buses will be operating throughout the state connecting various regions of the state including Chennai.

The government has also warned private operators not to overcharge passengers. The government will take strict action if they receive any complaint against the operators.

MTC (Metropolitan Transport Corporation) will be operating more than 200 services that will connect all the tourist places in and around Chennai, from 14th to 17th January.

Lenovo officials declined to discuss the price and quantity of machines. R K Amar Babu, MD of Lenovo India said that there is some time to go before the actual order and discussions are being carried on with vendors regarding the price and quantity. The state government plans to give 6.8 million free laptops to students of government aided colleges and schools at a cost of Rs 10,200 crore. Though Lenovo is the fourth in the Indian market, in the global market it is the second largest PC vendor with a market share of 13.5%.

Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi said that the cause of the accident is being investigated. Rescue efforts were started immediately after the accident but it was hampered because of rain. Mr Trivedi further added that he along with K H Muniyappa (Minister of state for Railways), Chairman of Railway Board and other officials were leaving for the accident site. A compensation of Rs 5 lakh for the dead, Rs 1 lakh for seriously injured and Rs 25,000 for others have been announced. Trivedi however, refused to comment on the exact reason of the accident.

He however said that the driver of the passenger train is alive and is being treated and he can tell the main reason behind the mishap once he is in the condition to do so. Following the accident, Southern Railway cancelled and rescheduled several trains from Chennai.

Old age pension was also doubled from Rs 500 to Rs 1000 while maternity leave for government employees was increased from three months to six months. Financial aid to fishermen during fishing ban period was also hiked from Rs 1000 to 2000. Notably during pre poll campaign both AIADMK and DMK had announced several promises in their election manifesto to attract voters.

Jayalalithaa also said that she will soon be meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and further added that she will bring down prices of essential items. She also said that restoring law and order is her first concern and also said that she will make Tamil Nadu the number one state in the country.

A release from the Raj Bhavan said that portfolios such as Public, Police, Home and Prevention of Corruption will be under the purview of Jayalalithaa. In the new cabinet, apart from Jayalalithaa, Selvi Ramajayam and Gokula Indra are the women faces. Senthil Balaji, a young face in the cabinet has been alloted the transport ministry.

Coimbatore, June 22^nd: More than 5,000 people from India and abroad, including a large number of scholars, will take part in the first five-day World Classical Tamil Conference starting here on Wednesday.

President Pratibha Patil will inaugurate the conference that has dramatically improved the infrastructure of Coimbatore, a throbbing Tamil Nadu city.

Thousands of delegates from India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Singapore, Canada, the US, Greece and other countries have confirmed their participation.These include around 1,000 scholars who will submit research papers. About 200 of the papers will come from 50 countries.

‘The conference is expected to raise the awareness level for cooperative and collaborative research on the classical side of Tamil language,’ said Gregory James from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and author of ‘A History of Tamil Dictionaries’.

Tamil language has a recorded history dating back two millennia. It is estimated that 75 million people in the world speak Tamil, an overwhelming majority in Tamil Nadu in India.

Schools and colleges across Tamil Nadu have been ordered shut during the conference period so that students and teachers can attend it. Special trains will ply to Coimbatore to meet the expected rush. Special counters have come up at the Chennai and Coimbatore airports to assist the delegates.

VIT, Vellore conducts VITEE Examinations every year for admission to their B. Tech Degree Programmes. It also offers a 5 years integrated MBA programme.

Vellore Institute of Technology, VIT is situated in the city of Vellore, in Tamil Nadu. VIT and is the first educational institution in India to get international accreditation’s for its programmes.

To check the VITEEE 2010 Results (VIT Results 2010), please visit the official site here.

Chennai, March 8 – Perhaps not in the history of India, any disciple has presented such gurudakshina to his master. The self styled God man Swami Paramahamsa Nityananda’s former disciple, Nitya Dharmananda alias Lenin Karuppan claimed to conduct the sting operation to unmasked the normal man behind the spiritual disguise. The videos showed Nityanand in compromising positions with actress Ranjitha. According to Dharmananda the former actress was a disciple of Nityananda and acted as personal attendant during the day’s long visit to his ashram.

In a shocking revelation, Dharmananda charged that Nityananda had illegitimate relationships with other actresses too. The disciple, Nithya Premananda, alias Lenin Karuppan, now admitted that he leaked out the tape and wanted police security because he feared of his life from Nityananda’s disciples.

He said he was shocked and aroused doubts about Swami when heard about the death of a devotee from Canada at the ashram and another attempted suicide. Dharmananda is also said to have handed over to the police two CDs believed to contain Nityanand’s dalliance with other tinseltown beauties.

The former Nityanand disciple said he had joined the godman’s staff as a driver. He went on to become Nityanand’s trusted lieutenant and settled down in the Bangalore ashram in 2006. He had free access to the godman’s private rooms and he said he made the tapes December last.

“Sensing I had done a sting operation, Nityanand and ashram functionaries threatened me on February 18 during a visit to Salem. I escaped,” Dharmananda said. He has sought police protection.

In the meantime, Nityanand asked his devotee not to carried away by the false tapes and said all these are conspiracy to defame him.

Chennai, March 3 – The self styled godman who claimed to bestow inner bliss through self-realization, now caught in hidden camera, realizing something very different from Self. Swami Paramhamsa Nithyananda, a “saint” based in Tamil Nadu, who had also big followers in the state and abroad, has caught in the sex net where a news channel telecast video footage purportedly showing him in a sex romp with an actress.

The local news channel Sun played the footage again and again and in another place Tamil magazine Nakkeeran has published photographs of the assumed gambol. Internet has already shown footage on popular sites like YouTube and others.

Neither Nithyananda, 32, nor the actress, Ranjitha, — a second-line heroine of the 90s who is not active in films now — was available for comment.

In the defense a spokesperson for Nithyananda’s headquarters in Bidadi, Karnataka said that the whole thing was an conspiracy, graphical morphs and filthy rumors and the organization would take legal action soon.

After the revelation right wing Hindu party and atheistic Dravidar Kazhagam ransacked all the ashrams in Tamil Nadu and garlanded his poster with slippers.

As the protest took an ugly shape, police had to deploy protection in ashrams in Tiruvannamali, his birthplace, and a few other towns.

“There has been no formal request from the ashrams but we have deployed forces to maintain law and order,” a police officer said.

Some of Nithyananda’s followers said the video was solely made to derail swami’s image and put in danger the movement of the organization.

“His movement had become a multi-crore business empire within a decade by taking donations from the public,” said K. Sethuraman, a chartered accountant and a keen follower of the seer’s discourses. “It remains to be seen how he is able to retrieve himself from this mess.”

Erode, Feb.01- Four caught by police for keeping unlicensed guns near a forest area in Erode. Six unlicensed guns are seized from them. They are suspected as animal pilfers.

During an intensive checking in the area by an anonymous information lead the police to the arrest, a policeman said. Police caught them while they are entering the forest area.

Regarding the information, many such unlicensed guns are flowing in the district. It is not made sure whether it connected to drugs mafia or Srilankan terrorists or any illegal social rivalry.

In Kadathur and Velllitiruppur areas of the district are under intensified patrol list. From Kadathur area, police found out one more unlicensed gun in the forest area and were searching for its owner. T.Jayachandran, District Superintendent of Police ordered for an intensified inspection to seize illegal weapons and to arrest those persons.