Former minister found dead in Chennai

October 3rd, 2009 TOKYO - Japanese former finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa has been found dead in his Tokyo home, the Kyodo news agency reported Sunday. Police said the body of the 56-year-old was found face down on his bed and did not appear to have any external injuries.

October 2nd, 2009 CHENNAI - A Chennai-Coimbatore Jetlite flight with Home Minister P. Chidambaram on board made an emergency landing at Chennai airport.

September 21st, 2009 CHENNAI - Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Monday flagged off the non-stop Duronto Express from Chennai to Hazrat Nizamuddin in New Delhi.

August 22nd, 2009 CHENNAI - It was a close shave for 141 passengers and crew of a Chennai-bound Air India flight as the pilot managed to safely land the aircraft here Saturday despite a tyre burst while taking off from Singapore. "The officials of Singapore airport suspected a tyre burst in the Chennai-bound Air India flight when they found pieces of rubber on their runway and warned us, as well as the pilot," an official of the Chennai airport told IANS.

August 22nd, 2009 CHENNAI - A Singapore-Chennai flight had to make an emergency landing ay Chennai airport on Saturday after one of its rear tyres burst. According to preliminary reports, all 132 passengers and crew on board Flight IC 556 were safe.

July 1st, 2009 CHENNAI - Union Home Minister P Chidambaram inaugurated the second hub of the National Security Guard (NSG) at Nedunkundaram near Chennai, here this morning. This is the first hub of the elite commando unit in South India.

June 10th, 2009 CHENNAI - The Tamil Nadu government has sanctioned Rs.550 crore for the first phase of the Chennai Metro Rail project, Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said here Wednesday.

May 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A policeman was found dead Wednesday morning with a bullet injury to his head at the official residence of an Uttar Pradesh minister to whom he was assigned as a guard, the police said. Constable Suresh Kumar was found dead in his quarter inside Tourism Minister Vinod Singh's residence on the Kalidas Marg here.

May 6th, 2009 CHENNAI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi's public meetings that were scheduled to be held in Chennai and Puducherry Wednesday have been postponed due to the ill health of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, a party leader said.

April 27th, 2009 CHENNAI/NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday telephoned Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, who is on a hunger strike in Chennai, and said the government would do its best to bring peace to Sri Lanka.

April 5th, 2009 CHENNAI - At least two people died and eighteen people were missing and feared dead after a boat carrying 20 people suddenly capsized off Chennai's northern suburb of Ennore Sunday, the police said. The bodies of two people have recovered and they identified as R.

March 30th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Prabunath Singh, former Bihar state minister, was found dead Monday under mysterious circumstances in a train in Uttar Pradesh, railway officials said. 'Singh was found dead in the Vaishali Express at the Basti railway station in Uttar Pradesh,' Government Railway Police (GRP) inspector S.K.

March 17th, 2009 CHENNAI - A passenger was found dead in the Chennai bound Air India flight from Kuala Lumpur, police said Monday. Immigration authorities identified the deceased as P.

February 14th, 2009 HYDERABAD - A space scientist from Andhra Pradesh was found dead under suspicious circumstances at his house in Spain. Yarlagadda Sidhartha, 26, an aeronautical engineer from Nizamabad district in Telangana region, was working at a space research centre in Madrid.

December 31st, 2008 CHENNAI - A middle-aged couple, formerly employed with central government organisations, were Thursday found murdered in their house in southern suburb of Chennai, the police said. According to police sources, the bodies of K.