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When I was pursuing my doctorate in marine microbiology at the University of Madras, I got the opportunity to go to Germany and carry out part of my doctorate research at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. Thanks to the DAAD scholarship, ...

The British Cabinet Minister and the Prime Ministers trade envoy, Kenneth Clarke, will lead a UK health business delegation to Chennai this week. Clarke is expected to meet the Chie...

A joke used to do the rounds of the Madras Bar in the early 1900s, about an observation of Advocate General Corbett. Having a dig at some British judges, who came to India without knowledge of Hindu law, Corbett said that one of them had asked him, ...

AFPNEW DELHI--India's top court on Tuesday fined British resources giant Vedanta nearly US$20 million over pollution from its huge copper smelter, which has just been shut by a new row over a toxic gas leak. The court told Sterlite Industries, a ...

First, it was British Prime Minister David Cameron leading the largest ever trade delegation to India in February his second since he took over office in 2010. Now, in a further endorsement of Indias growing importance for the UK, a senior British cabinet ...

The school would be open for Tamil students as well | R Satish Babu/Express Madras Kerala Samajam, the organisation which is said to be older than the State of Kerala, will be opening its new school building in the city this June. Though it still ...

In the past year, as the Madras High Court celebrated its 150th year of existence, there have been some valuable contributions on the history of that august institution and memories of those associated with its Bench and Bar. Suresh Balakrishnan and ...

The Ooty Horse Race, a legacy of the British, commenced here on Wednesday. Several tourists and local punters attended the inaugural day's race. However, the number of punters has come down in the past one-and-a-half decades. In the past, a number ...

Some of the earliest images of Madras show a fishing village, with its cloak of nets, lengthy boats and turbaned men rushing towards the waters of the Marina as tall palms sway in the background. As this village grew, the need for connecting the ...