Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s urban centres are staring at water shortage due to poor monsoon and prolonged heat. Water managers, however, said Chennai and most southern urban centres are in a relatively comfortable position for now.Chief secretary Sai Kumar and municipal administration and water supply additional chief secretary Gagandeep Singh Bedi held a video conference with…
Chennai: A Right to Information (RTI) application by a 66-year-old retired professor has brought to light how his private patta land in Kanyakumari district had been mistakenly classified as a temple property in the (HR&CE) department’s online ITMS database. The State Information Commission has now ordered a departmental inquiry and a show-cause notice proposing the…
Chennai: A software professional died by suicide after recording and sending a video to her relatives and friends, accusing her husband of physically abusing her in Poonamallee, on Wednesday night.Shalini, 33, had been living with her husband Selvin, 36, also a techie, in an apartment at Poonamallee. Married about eight years ago, they have a…
Chennai: Signs of deepening unrest within the AIADMK emerged on Thursday as former minister and Coimbatore strongman S P Velumani skipped the Assembly election review meeting chaired by party general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami. The party suffered another setback with former Coimbatore Lok Sabha candidate Singai G Ramachandran quitting.Velumani’s supporters also stayed away from the…
KK Nagar, Tambaram, Maduravoyal, Adyar and Valasaravakkam are among the micro-markets expected to record the highest rental appreciation Chennai: The search for affordable homes with better connectivity is reshaping the city’s rental map. As tenants move beyond traditional residential pockets, the western suburbs, deeper parts of south Chennai and the GST Road corridor have emerged…
BJP TN unit and AMMK protest CJP protests Chennai: BJP state president Nainar Nagenthran and AMMK general secretary T T V Dhinakaran on Thursday protested in Chennai, accusing Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi of misleading students over the NEET issue.Nagenthran alleged that Rahul was “hiding behind cockroach (CJP)” to pursue his political agenda and…
Chennai: A group of juveniles reportedly damaged furniture and other property inside a govt special home in Chengalpet on Thursday in a suspected attempt to escape the facility. Police rushed to the facility on information from the panicked staff, and brought the situation under control.Security has been tightened and additional police personnel have been deployed…
Police detain members of the Student Federation of India (SFI) and Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) during a protest near Rajarathinam Stadium in Egmore, demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the alleged NEET-UG question paper leak and examination irregularities, in Chennai Chennai: State Platform for Common School System (SPCSS) on…
Milky Mist focuses on value-added dairy products Chennai: Milky Mist Dairy Food Ltd. is expected to launch its initial public offering (IPO) in the first week of August, according to people familiar with the matter.The IPO follows a ₹482-crore pre-IPO fundraise in May, led by Jongsong Investments Pte. Ltd., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of…
CPCL achieved a refinery capacity utilisation of 108% in Q1FY27 Chennai: Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL) reported a sharp turnaround in its financial performance for the first quarter of FY27, posting a standalone net profit of Rs 1,017 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, against a net loss of Rs 57 crore in…
