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Besant Nagar is the city’s new fashion destination. The photo shows the former Miss Chennai 2007 and ace model Ms. Samyuktha Shanmuganathan who is the brand ambassador for MIO women’s fashion boutique. She exhibited some the latest fashionable and trendy outfits of MIO. Creating a new milieu for lovely women of Chennai, Mio opened its doors for the very best in contemporary fashion in women’s apparels and accessories.

The boutique was formally opened with Ms. Nina Reddy, ED, Savera Hotels by cutting the ribbon and Ms. Girija Venkatesan, Interior Designer lighting the lamp. Ms. Rupa Gurunath made the first purchase. The event saw an ensemble of socialites and celebrities from Chennai, marking the gala occasion. .

MIO offers a fresh, chic venue for women to shop for trendy apparel and accessories which nourish femininity and sophisticated style. MIO’s self made designer Sujitha Arvind, designed the apparels to cater to women’s ‘girly’ side. With a collection of labels such as Rio Girl (party wear), It’s Me (Casual and Regular Office wear), Sensual Moments (Night and swim wear) and Baby doll (kids wear) along with a collection of accessories such as Handbags & Clutches, jewellery for the fashionable women, Hair accessories, belts, stoles, shoes and cosmetics, MIO is set to rock Chennai. Sujitha Arvind an architect by profession had designed the interiors, with the high-end fashion vibes of Western world. Packed tight with couture yet affordable clothing, MIO serves the shopper with a distinct taste for contemporary designs by Sujitha Arvind as well as hand-picked designs from places like Bangkok and Scandinivia.

Mio will offer the clients likes and dislikes of style, colour and fit, and accordingly advise and service them in such a way that they go out completely delighted. Mio is a brainchild of Sujitha and her friend Ms. Niranjani Bashyam, an expert in the garment business. The duo believes that the personal touches they offer make the difference at Mio. “We want to provide an upscale shopping experience that feels feminine and personal,” commented Ms. Nirnajani Bashyam.

MIO fashion Boutique for women is located at No- 29/53, MGR Road, Kalakshetra Colony, Besant Nagar, Chennai – 90.

The 5th Outlet of Taj Madras Flight Kitchen, Chennai, was recently inaugurated at Rajam Tower , 45 KB Dasan Road, , Teynampet, Chennai 600 018. It is located very near to SIET College.

The Retail outlets is trendy with state of the art infrastructure, well lit ambience and decorum truly giving a flavour of the Taj to our Customers.The outlet was inaugurated by Mrs. Flora Rayer who is a well wisher of TMFK from Paris. She cut the ribbon and declare Wings – Cake Shop of the TMFK at Alwarpet open and she also made the first purchase. A traditional Lamp – Kuttu Velakku was lit on this auspicious day by a list of distinguished guests – Mr. Nandakumar, Former Chairman of Cantonment Board and a very active member of the Tirusulam area, truly a well wisher of TMFK, Fr. Phillip from Australia, Fr. Micheal – Secretary to the Salesian Schools in Tamil Nadu ,

Fr. Arulappa, Parish Priest from St. Lourdes Church, Madipakkam and Mr. Joseph Rayer also a well wisher of TMFK from Paris. The outlet has variety delicious cakes for all occasions – Birthdays, Weddings and Anniversaries. Their spread includes Pastries, Gateaux, Puddings, Mousses, and a series of Snacks ranging from Burgers, Pizzas, Sandwiches and Frankies. Wings also provide health conscious Salads ranging from protein to a variety of others. Bakery Products like Croissants, Danish, Muffins, Brioche, spread of Patties, Vol-eu-vent, Pies, and Quiche, Varieties of Breads from French Loaf, Farmers Bread to Brown Bread and more are available.

Sneha Venkatraman is well known for her talent and special skills in boat rowing. She has been rowing for Tamil Nadu for the past many years and has bagged Gold medals is Sub-Junior and open category events in rowing. She has won many Awards , Gold Medals and Trophies for her achievements in Boat Rowing Competitions. Sneha is a M.A. Communication, student of MOP Vaishnav College for Women.

She completed her B.Sc Electronic media in the same college. She told Chennai Plus that she enjoys rock music and likes to read novels.In 2000, she won the Gold position in the First Zone Rowing – Coxed four Sub Juniors (under-16) event at Bangalore. She was the youngest Sculler to represent in the National TARA held in Nov 2000 at Bangalore. In the year 2001 she got Gold position for the Single Scull and Double Scull- 3rd Sub Junior Nations – (Under- 16) held in Chennai and also Coxed Four 3rd Sub Junior Nationals. Sneha won the Double Sculls – 4th Nationals ( under -16) held at Bangalore in July.

Sneha won the Fours- 24th Junior Nationals (under-19) event held at Hyderabad in July 2003. She got the Gold position for the Women fours 25th Junior Nationals (under-19) Roorkee event held in October 2004. Sneha told the Chennai Plus reporter Elwyn that she had also bagged the first place in the Double Scull – 26th National (under-19) events held at Bhopal in Nov 2005. Sneha won the Women Double scull and Women Coxed four – 64th rowing Association of East (ARAE) Chennai in 2006. She also won the All India National University Competition women’s pairs, Kolkata in March 2006

. In the year 2009 she won the Womens Coxless Pairs – All India National University held at Himachal Pradesh in Dec 2009 and secured gold position at the womens coxed four- Amateur Rowing Association of the East (ARAE) Madras in Jan 2010. Her maiden Regatta was in 2000 (June – July) by winning first place in Ladies scull event. Sneha aims to become a Referee for the highest level in any sport and for the Olympic Games. She also has an ambition to get into Media Advertising

Saturday
 A teenager made Medical history by becoming the first person to be discharged from a pediatric hospital in South Texas with an implanted mechanical heart pump.
An Indian American professor and his two colleagues where shot dead when a disgruntled woman faculty member went on a shooting spree at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
A media reports as many as 58 executives of the BBC earn more than the British Prime Minister whose salary is 1,94,250 sterling pounds per annum.
A two month old girl from Bihar was accidentally trampled to death by drunk relatives at a wedding in Southern Nepal.
A 22 year old Hungarian student who told the police he planned to kill 22 people at random because he had 22 bad years.

Sunday

 A 73 year old pensioner unarmed robbed three banks in Florida 600 dollars from each bank to pay his mortgage was arrested and faces a penalty of 15 years jail term for each charge.
Scientists have successfully transplanted most of the nose of the mosquito centered its antennae that spread malaria into frog eggs and fruit flies are employing the surrogates to combat the spread of malaria.
27 Gold coins with Arabic inscriptions were unearthed by farm workers in Poosanur village in Thoothukudi district were confiscated by police.
Latin America’s main development bank announces that the damage from Haiti earthquake on 12th January is twice the value of the country’s annual economy.
Having chips might be considered bad for health for its high carbohydrates counts but a new study by the potato council claims that improves a person’s mood and makes him or her calm or more cheerful.

Monday

A Mumbai born entrepreneur plans to re-launch the East Indian Company after strenuously acquiring shares in the firm that once ruled India.
Investigators in Belgium say that they have found an important clue that may help them to recover the haul from the World’s largest diamond robbery in which gems and cash worth up to 350 million pounds were stolen.
A liquor outlet in Britain has come up with an unique way to combat underage drinking by installing an electronic fingerprint gadget to identify the age.
The popular Cartoon character “Dennis the Menace” will no longer be seen wearing his traditional catapult as the creators have admitted that it is being redrawn to appear less violent.
A powerful blast ripped Pune’s famous German Bakery killing 10 persons and injuring more than 43. Among the dead there were 3 foreigners

Tuesday

A letter written by John F. Kennedy to a Swedish woman during his affair with her in early 1950s is expected to fetch 25000 dollars at an auction.
South Korean researchers have developed the world’s first Tangerine based gel that has the potential to be used make artificial skin, which can effectively protect damaged skin from infections.
A Russian businessman has been arrested for murder after local person was allegedly assaulted by him succumbed to injuries at Panaji Goa over a petty brawl
Britain airways is planning to establish Europe’s first green Jet fuel plant that would turn rubbish into carbon neutral aviation fuel by the year 2014
Researchers in Egypt, Italy and Germany in an extensive study reveal that Egypt’s famed king Tutankhamen suffered from a cleft palate clubfoot and died of complications from a broken leg and exacerbated by malaria 30 centuries ago.

Wednesday

Michael Gurevitz a professor in Tel Aviv University in his new study says scorpion venom is notoriously poisonous but it can potentially replace dangerous and addictive pain killers like morphine.
Psychological scientists from university of British Columbia and a researcher says babies who hear two languages regularly when they are in their mother’s womb are more open to being bilingual.
Perkin Elmer Health Science laboratory in Collaboration with an American health care giant launches the country’s first foetal maternal and new born screening lab in Chennai.
A team at Washington University in U S has designed an artificial foot which they claim recycles energy otherwise wasted in between steps making it easier for amputees to walk.
A survey says Indians figure among first ten in the list of the most attractive looking people in the world while America top the list.

Thursday

In Meerut a couple were to be married on February 16th but the groom met with a road accident and was admitted to ICU the bride did not want to postpone the marriage and the couple were married at the ICU as arranged.
Two kids missed the 7th standard Board Exam because the unfortunate parents could not pay the exam fee of Rs.25/ each, in Kantapada village Orissa.
An 89 year old man in Saibanamedu in North Vellore was handed over to the police by the public for teasing school girl students.
A Colombian woman declared dead of heart attack moved one of hers arms just as an undertaker was about to embalm her.
Two drunk Iranian women assaulted the traffic police and the TV crew when they were booked for drunk driving with out a valid license.
Friday

 In Noida a bridegroom was shot dead when his drunk relatives opened celebratory fire at a wedding ceremony . The groom was hit on the head when his paternal uncle fired from his double barrel gun during the brides farewell.
British Scientists from Oxford University have found a way to keep vaccines stable even in room temperatures to overcome worst problems in healthcare, faulty and inadequate cold chain for vaccine storage.
Researchers from the University of London Institute of Education tracked 15000 children over the first four years of their life and found that those kids who could not crawl at 9 months face falling behind at school
 A Saudi court has sentenced a 50 year old employee of Kingdom’s religious police to 120 Lashes for marrying 6 women
In an unique wedding 100 year old Shafi Mohamed a resident of Dera Sarai Phulwar in Sambhal district married 90 year old Quraisha a resident of Turitipura village with a crowd of their grand and great grand children

Artist Lalitha is organizing a shows and exhibition for social defence Children. According to her most of the children in Social defence center are depressed by their own problems. In order to make their days delightful she works closely with those children and makes them to think and work in art and crafts. The main motive behind this work is to enhance their creativity skills, which can transform their life. She works with children who are selling in Beach and teaches them to make small creativity work like making greeting cards, Painting, and crafts work, in order to avoid child Labour. She makes Children to be like Self- Help Group. She also saves many children who are wandering in roadside. She stated that Rise n Shine exhibition will be conducted on March 2010. Lalitha completed her Bachelor Of Fine Arts (BFA)- Painting-2004 and her Master Of Fine Arts (MFA)- Painting- 2008 at the Govt, College Of Fine Arts, Egmore. Her area of Specialisation is Art. She is talented in doing Drawing, Painting, Oil painting, Water color, Glass painting, Tile Painting, Abstract, Pot, Sculpture, Photography,junk Art, madhubani, Child Art etc. Her technical Skills are adobe Photoshop, Maya etc. She has done a Project Research work on Puppetry in India for which she received an award by the Government. Lalitha was awarded the Yuva Shakthi, Youth Achiever Award in 2008, the Women Achievement-2007,2008 and Camilin – 2004,2006 for her achievements in arts. Lalitha is working in ICAT (Image College of Arts and Animation), Mylapore, Chennai. She told Chennai Plus that whenever she gets spare time she spends the time with the special children. Lalitha can be contacted on 9003040049

Following the successful series of shows at different Barista locations in Bangalore, Explocity and Barista have tied up to conduct music musicians / bands in Chennai with a focus on discovering new talent in the city and providing with a platform to showcase their talent. Theatre artist, singer and winner of several Karaoke competitions, Mridhula Sekar performed live at on February 5th at Barista, Khader Nawaz Khan Road at 6:30pm. Mridhula Sekar started singing at the age of six and performing at the age of seven. With an aim to perfect her every chord and note, she was under formal training since late 2007. Member of Little Theatre and participant of various AFM shows, Mridhula says “Ive always loved music and consider it as something that I would not be able to live without.” The café located on Khader Nawaz Khan Road, Nungambakkam, hosted the first of the shows. While the format will initially feature musicians, including rock bands, folk singers, acapaella groups, soloists, duo or a small group, it will later be expanded to include poetry readings, stand-up comedy and other performing arts. The CEO and Publisher of Explocity, Ramjee Chandran said, “Explocity@Barista is a wonderful opportunity for talented musicians to showcase themselves and we have enjoyed our relationship with Barista. We hope that the success of Bangalore and Chennai will enable us to take this program to all Barista locations in India.”Sanjay Coutinho, CEO of Barista said, “The talent of Explocity@Barista is a wonderful source of entertainment for our patrons and is also a facet of our commitment to the Chennai community of arts lovers.”

The Stella Maris College Play titled ‘Winding Up the Charm’ is an original script based on the timeless works of William Shakespeare. It incorporates various female characters from nine classics including ‘Hamlet’, ‘Macbeth’, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, and others. When the three Witches from ‘Macbeth’ make a mistake while casting a spell, a miserable Ophelia from ‘Hamlet’ appears out of a magical box kept in their lair. Trying to send Ophelia back to her own world through the box fails, and only serves to make matters even worse, as a furious Beatrice from ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ emerges from the box and takes one of the witches away with her. While the remaining two witches attempt to bring back their missing sister, a bizarre stream of myriad Shakespearian characters appear out of the box, making for conversations that range from the sinister to the innocent, hilarious to the philosophical to offer the heartbroken Ophelia their advice.
The play is directed by Hans Kaushik. It will be staged at Alliance Francaise on the 5th, 6th and 7th of February. At 7 pm on the 5th and at 3 pm and 7 pm on the 6th and the 7th. The tickets are available at Landmark (Nungambakkam) and Fruit Shop ( Spencer Plaza, Annanagar, Kilpauk, BesantNagar and Greams Road). For details call 9840795390 or e.mail curtaincall.smc@gmail.com.

Wow! It’s a great news indeed. Kalakar Studio (Alwarpet) is shifted to Gopalapuram. This Studio is more spacious place, with almost 20 different activities happening under one roof, to attract young and old, enthusiastic of Chennai city. She has done her graduation in Fine Arts from Stella Maris College and has also specialized in make-up. She has held many exhibitions and has also conducted various workshops. Kalakar Studio offers a special offer waiver of registration fees for first 50 entries! But there is limited registrations only per batch.

So go head and visit Kalakar Studio, A1, Ayshwarya Villa, #17, Sadasivam Street; Gopalpuram, (off Lloyds rd, opp. National Public School), Chennai -86. It will make your life more thrilling, interesting and artistic.

For details call 9884316134/ 28113624/ 9962229392.

Yoland Lobow was born and brought up in Tangasseri, Quilon in Kerala, known as God’s own country, a place where all Anglo-Indians lived. She studied in Mount Carmel Convent A.I.School, Tangasseri. After her schooling she had come to Chennai to do her Secretarial Course at the Pudupet Convent School of Commerce.

Yoland Lobow told the Chennai Plus that after completion of her course she had gone back to Tangasseri, since her parents who were turning old and needed someone to be with them.She said that her parents have eight children, but most of them got married and moved out. She worked in Quilon for M/s.C.B.Joseph a Co., Chartered Accountants. In the year 1975 her father passed away and a few years later she came to Chennai city to better her job prospects.

She got a job in M/s.Jabin Road Transport and after a year or so joined Lintas India Ltd an Advertising Company. In the year 1982 she joined work at E.I.D Parry (India) Ltd, where she have been as a Secretary for the past 26 years and she has also received a Long service award - 25 years from the Company. She presently works in the Sugar-Technology Division, designated as Asst.Manager and she has just 2 more years to retire.

She told the Chennai Plus reporter Elwyn that she is proud to be working for the Murugappa group which is a billion dollar company. She does a lot of co-ordination with the factories and interact with suppliers and have gained a Lot of respect from colleagues and others.

She got married in December 1982 to Mr.Richard Lobow has two sons, named Nathanael and Lemuet. The eldest boy is 25 years and the second son is 22 years. They both have graduated from Loyola College, Chennai. “We are proud of them” she adds.

She like’s to maintain a good home and would like to have a crèche when she retires from her job. Her kind request and friendly advise to the people is to be to be honest, hard working and dedicated to their work as this will help them achieve a bright future. Yoland Lobow resides at 154 Paper Mills Road, Peravallur, Chennai 600 082

A trip down Cathedral Road, Gopalapuram in search of the best and trendy clothes and accessories is not complete without stepping inside Mee Store, with its bright purple colour name board attracting customers to visit inside the shop. The Mee store was started by two talented young ladies named Deepal and Shivani, both having good knowledge of the latest fashion trends and style. Mee store has latest cool clothes, elegant skirts, cool designer dresses, shoes, belts to stylish accessories. Just visit the store and name it you get it at Mee store. Apart from clothes selection the store also body care products, footwear and exotic fashionable jewellery.

The store mainly focuses in at giving trendy line of women’s clothes especially that ones that is not found in Chennai. So do take time to drop in at Mee store to solve all your party shopping problems. Mee is a complete woman’s store which sells party wear , casual clothes , fashionable dresses and more. In a nut shell the store caters to all needs of a woman from hair band to clothes to accessories to shoes. Deepal told Chennai Plus reporter Elwyn that when she and Shivani felt that the Chennai city ladies experienced a tough time to shop in the city to get the right trendy and stylish stuff. So they had decided to start their own shop. Though there are other outlets who offer party wear, Mee store distinct itself with its reasonable and affordable rates. Their range of collections include tees for casual wear and party wear, jeans, skirts, mini skirts, shorts, leggings, harem pants, dresses, shrugs, woolen shrugs, accessories and shoes.
They have clothes designed by Designer Nishani Manohar. They also sell bags of all sizes and stylish variety of beautiful shoes. Within a period of one and a half year, Mee has become very popular in Chennai. They have also started another showroom in Kilpauk on New Avadi Road. The collections at Mee store are great, trendy and worth buying. It is surely shopping made easy.

Get yourself geared up for a great shopping experience. Visit Mee Store at 102, Cathedral Road, Gopalapuram, Chennai-86. The store can be contacted on 42329525.