Venkatesan

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  Bill Gates Signed $1 Note Admitting He Was Wrong. Here's Why

  He humorously calls it his "retirement plan", a token from a rare moment of out-arguing one of the world's most influential figures.

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  Tamil Nadu Ex Top Cop Arrested Over Trespass After Complaint By Wife: Cops

  Former Tamil Nadu special DGP Rajesh Das was arrested on Friday for trespass and intimidation based on a complaint by his estranged wife, Beela Venkatesan, police said.

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  DMK Suspends MLA K Venkatesan Who Quit Puducherry Assembly

  The DMK on Monday suspended its Puducherry functionary K Venkatesan, who resigned as MLA, for ''violating'' party discipline.

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  Will Decide Next Whether To Support CPI-M Leader Or Not: MK Alagiri

  Expelled Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader MK Alagiri on Sunday said he will take a decision next week on whether or not he would extend support to CPI-M leader S Venkatesan, who will be contesting from Madurai Lok Sabha seat.

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  Air India Launches First Direct Flight to Silicon Valley

  Air India today launched its first non-stop flight to San Francisco which landed in San Francisco connecting America's west coast with India and making Silicon Valley its fourth destination in the US.

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  Tamil Actors Sneha, Prasanna Welcome Baby Boy

  Prasanna Venkatesan and Suhasini Rajaram Naidu, who go by the mononyms Prasanna and Sneha, married in May 2012. They reportedly began dating since starring together in 2009's Achchamundu! Achchamundu!

• BJP Functionary Allegedly Hacked to Death in Tamil Nadu

  A local BJP functionary in Tamil Nadu has been allegedly hacked to death by a four-member unidentified gang at a petrol bunk, police said today.

• Indian-American Community Meet Draws US Politicians

  Recognising the growing influence of Indian-Americans in public life, several top politicians, including three women members of the US Congress, attended the 18th biennial convention of the National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA).

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  I Director Shankar Asks For Police Protection After Protest by Transgender Community

  Popular transgender TV personality Rose Venkatesan said that the portrayal of transgenders in I belittles their community

• Seven Killed, Two Critical After Truck Overturns in Tamil Nadu

  Seven persons were killed and two seriously injured when the lorry they were travelling in, overturned near Vellore on Thursday, police said.

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  Kamal Haasan: Was nervous about Kalyana Samayal Saadham

  Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan said he wanted the recent Tamil romantic-comedy Kalyana Samayal Saadham to succeed because the makers had told him that he had been their biggest inspiration and that made him nervous.

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  Nagarjuna's Bhai slumps at the box-office

  Akkineni Nagarjuna's Telugu action-drama Bhai, which released worldwide on Friday, minted just Rs.2.88 crore in Andhra Pradesh on its opening day. Trade experts believe that the film, said to be made on a budget of Rs.42 crore, is unlikely to break even.

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  Nagarjuna turns distributor, says he's testing waters

  Akkineni Nagarjuna, who has donned a new hat of a distributor for his upcoming Telugu action-drama Bhai, says he is experimenting right now.

• Tamil Nadu Speaker revokes suspension of DMDK member

  Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker D Jayakumar has revoked the suspension of DMDK member L Venkatesan, after a resolution was moved by Finance Minister O Panneerselvam. He was suspended by the Speaker on Thursday for the rest of the session, after he engaged in heated discussion with the Chair.

• HC orders retrial in rape case

  Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has ordered a retrial into a rape case, admitting a petition by the victim seeking to set aside a lower court order framing charges against the alleged rapist under a lighter Indian Penal Code provision.