| LEAD STORIES
'You'll pay a price for being
pricey'
State Higher Education Minister K Ponmudi today warned self-financing
engineering colleges in the State, and said strict action would be taken,
which may include derecognisation, if they were found collecting exorbitant
fees.
Cement: Minister's promise on
prices
State Higher Education and Mining Minister K Pomudy today announced
that the government had decided to import cement to check the rising cement
prices in the domestic market.
2 held for fake land deal
Two persons allegedly sold land worth Rs 25 lakh by using fake documents
and were arrested today by the Central Crime Branch police on charges of
land-grabbing.
White paper on Naxals sought
The BJP today demanded Chief Minister M Karunanidhi to come out with
a white paper on Naxalites and in the same vein condemned the cancellation
of cooperative society polls in Tamilnadu.
Elderly woman crushed to death
An elderly woman was crushed to death when a container lorry overturned
and landed on a hut at Thiruvottiyur, near Chennai. Five huts were damaged
as a result.
Stop politicising recognition
for govt medical colleges
The increasing politicisation of issues involving granting recognition
to medical colleges run by the government is a cause for serious concern,
if unchecked may lead to serious fall in the standards of medical education
in Tamilnadu. V Gangadharan writes. |
