Lawyers Police Clash at Chennai High Court Video

Lawyers and policemen clashed for over two hours on the premises of the Madras High Court on Thursday, leaving around 20 people injured. A high court judge and two news photographers caught were also hurt. The situation was brought under control after the Rapid Action Force, the Special Action Group and the Tamil Nadu police commandoes were called in.

[ The trigger for the violence was the presence of Janata Party leader and former union minister Subramanium Swamy in the court. Swamy had been assaulted by a group of lawyers on January 17 for having been a critic of the LTTE.

Swamy, who had come for an unrelated matter, departed without incident. A group of lawyers led by one S. Rajnikanth then went to the police station located inside the court premises and
complained that Swamy, while walking along the court’s verandah, had made derogatory remarks about the lawyers. However, some of the lawyers were detained by the police and told they were being arrested for the earlier assault on Swamy. “A furious argument began and all hell broke loose,” said an eyewitness.] - Thanks Hinduston Times

2nd SearchCamp'2009 in Chennai

SearchCamp'2009 is a two day event aimed to bring together the best minds from the Search Engine Marketing space to talk about search engine advertising, including optimization and marketing issues. The event is scheduled for the 28th February & 1st March 2009.

Main Speakers
Adam Lasnik, Search Evangelist, Google
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Mahesh Murthy, CEO, Pinstorm
Milind Mody, CEO, eBrandz
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Date & Location
The event is scheduled for the 28th February & 1st March 2009, at the Main Auditorium, Tidel Park, Chennai. The event starts at 9 a.m. Registration at 8 a.m. Reg.cost Rs.500/-.

Careers in SearchCamp
Due to the current economic downturn, the recruitment of freshers is most severely impacted. As part of Searchcamp, the Knowledge Foundation has organized "Careers in Search" This sub-event is a wonderful eye opener to an exciting world of "Search Marketing".

Final Year College Students, Gradutes interested in Online Marketing and Professionals are Welcome to attend this camp.

Day & Date for Careers in Search: Saturday, 28th February 2009, Time : 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM, Registration Fee : Rs 100 (Students) - Rs 200 (Others), Venue : Tidel Park, Chennai.

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Tamilnadu Budget - Interest Free Loans to Farmers

22 Jan 2009, K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2009-2010. Tamil Nadu again took the lead among States in the country to come up with a new scheme of giving interest-free co-operative crop loans to farmers on Tuesday and slashed land revenue to rock-bottom level.

Keeping eye on the coming Lok Sabha polls, the DMK Government in yet another populist stroke decided to waive interest on all crop loans given by all cooperative sector banks. The interest rate on such loans has already been cut from 9 to 4 per cent. (The other freebies will continue including free electricity to all farmers, PDS rice at Rs.1 per kg to 1.86 crore ration card holders, and giving free colour TVs’ to over 56 lakhs poor families.)

AIADMK on Tuesday flayed the State budget for 2009-2010, Ms.Jayalalithaa said through this budget, poor would not get any benefit.

TamilNadu Shuts Colleges & Hostels Indefinitely

All private and Government Colleges and hostels across the State of Tamilnadu were closed on Sunday following the order by State Government.

More than 10,000 people including students and political and social activists on Saturday attended the funeral of a youth, Muthukumar, who immolated himself in protest against Lankan troops operation in the island country. They also raised slogans against LTTE leader V Prabhakaran and condemned India for its alleged military support/supplies of armed help to SriLanka. Students and youth had been protesting against the plight of Tamil civilians since Lankan troops launched their operation against LTTE in the island nation. On Saturday, newly-formed Sri Lankan Tamils Protection Movement, which is demanding a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, gave a call for the state bandh on February 4. The bandh will coincide with Sri Lanka’s Independence Day.