Tamil Nadu govt has floated a tender to procure 5.32 lakh bicycles along with helmets and water bottles for students of govt, aided and partly-aided schools across the state for this academic year | File photo Chennai: Tamil Nadu govt has floated a tender to procure 5.32 lakh bicycles, along with helmets and water bottles,…
Preventive work is aimed at minimising waterlogging Chennai: With the northeast monsoon about two months away, Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has stepped up preparedness measures across the city, allocating ₹100 crore for a slew of preventive work aimed at minimising waterlogging.The work includes desilting of 1,671km of stormwater drains at about ₹22.46 crore, establishing rainwater…
Metrowater has installed 372 of a planned 456 flow meters across its treatment plants, distribution stations and filling stations, as part of a ₹44.93 crore drive to track how much water Chennai loses before it reaches consumers Chennai: Metrowater has installed 372 of a planned 456 flow meters across its treatment plants, distribution stations and…
Residents rescued a pelican from a suspected poacher at Korattur Lake and handed over the bird to Forest Department officials. Chennai: A pelican suffered a neck injury after it was attacked by a man at Korattur lake around 9am on Saturday. People at the spot intervened, chased the man away and alerted forest officials, who…
Asha.Prakash@timesofindia.comA few weeks ago, environment educator’s organisation Palluyir Trust announced an ‘insect walk’, for which 25 people signed up within a day. On the day of the walk, it started raining heavily, but participants kept calling up the organisers, requesting them not to cancel the walk, says Kanishka Padmanabhan of Palluyir. And this has been…
Chennai: CPM state secretary P Shanmugam on Saturday criticised the state govt’s decision to release water from the Mettur dam for 45 days from Sept 1, saying the duration would be insufficient for samba paddy cultivation and could work to Karnataka’s advantage in the Cauvery water dispute.Water resources minister N Anand had announced that chief…
Chennai: Granite baron, Veeramani, 84, was on Saturday arrested on charges of sexually abusing a minor girl at an acquaintance’s house in Teynampet. A couple, who were his business associates, were also arrested for facilitating the sexual abuse. The arrests were made by the anti-vice squad (AVS) of the central crime branch (CCB) police.The case…
Chennai: A 46-year-old man was arrested on Saturday in connection with the murder of a 45-year-old Andhra Pradesh woman near Uthukottai in Tiruvallur district.The suspect, S Bharathi Raja of Othattur Kandigai in Tiruvallur, was arrested near Periyapalayam on Saturday morning. The deceased, Aruna, wife of Manjunatha and a resident of Chittoor district, had come to…
Chennai: The omission of references to Jawaharlal Nehru, ‘Periyar’ E V Ramasamy, B R Ambedkar and the Justice Party from the state govt’s policy note on backward classes welfare has triggered a political controversy, with minister V Sampath Kumar taking “moral responsibility” for the lapse and promising a revised publication. DMK accused the TVK govt…
Chennai: CISF personnel recovered three live rounds and a magazine from the hand baggage of a woman passenger during security screening at Terminal 1 of Chennai airport on Saturday. The passenger, who was travelling with her family to Kochi, could not produce documents or authorisation for carrying the ammunition.During pre-embarkation screening of domestic passengers, CISF…
