Chennai: The state highways department has begun major widening works at the Padi rail overbridge (ROB) on Jawaharlal Nehru Salai (Inner Ring Road).The ongoing work, worth 139 crores, will expand the existing three-lane bridge into a dual five-lane structure and widen the narrow approach stretch towards Padi, a long-standing traffic bottleneck on the corridor.Highways chief…
To educate children to respect the law is not to deny them the tools of critique. It is to sequence those tools responsibly. Srimathi Venkatachari Recently, a Class VIII National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) social science textbook with a section describing “corruption in the judiciary” made headlines.Supreme Court took suo motu cognisance…
The decision to contest on an independent symbol in a constituency was taken at the high-level committee meeting held at their party headquarters in Chennai on Tuesday . CHENNAI: MDMK on Wednesday signed an agreement with DMK to contest in four constituencies in the upcoming assembly election in Tamil Nadu. According to the agreement, MDMK…
Chennai: Outgoing governor R N Ravi described his tenure in the state as the “golden period” of his life. The warmth and affection of the people of Tamil Nadu has left a lasting imprint on him, Ravi said in his farewell message to the people. Ravi who addressed the people as his “dear Tamil brothers…
Chennai: Fan club heads and candidates who earlier won local body polls under the Vijay Makkal Iyakkam banner were among the first set of 50 aspirants interviewed by TVK president Vijay on Tuesday for the 2026 assembly elections. Most of those who appeared before him were long-time loyalists who were associated with Vijay for more…
Hotels, eateries run on fumes across city (Representative image) Nationwide LPG crunch, fuelled by unrest in West Asia, has left several hotels and eateries in the city scrambling, with many saying they may shut on Tuesday night if supplies do not resume. Dealers from oil companies such as Indian Oil Corporation and Bharat Petroleum Corporation…
BRACE FOR IMPACT: Many facilities have switched to electric cooking to reduce dependence on gas CHENNAI: Commercial LPG shortage has had a ripple effect on corporate canteens, hostels, PGs and dining rooms in wedding halls. Managers of hospitals, and school and college canteens said it may not be long until they feel the pinch.On Tuesday,…
Chennai: District collectors will be held responsible if any police officer in the district concerned was found to be using orderlies in violation of a govt order (GO) prohibiting the ‘colonial practice’, Madras high court has said. Directing the state govt to take suitable action against such district collectors, a division bench of Justice S…
Chennai: A fire that broke out at a house near Guduvanchery in the early hours of Tuesday killed three of a family — a 34-year-old man, his wife, and their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. The cause of the fire remains unclear, and an investigation is under way. Police identified the victims as Parthiban, a construction worker, his…
BUZZED OUT: New natural insecticide can kill larva inside water tanks At a time Chennai relies heavily on chemical fogging for mosquito control, and impractical civic attempts such as fixing nets over drains draw flak, a new field study suggests the solution may lie inside the city’s water tanks. The study found that a natural…
