Chennai: A 31-year-old man died after getting trapped in slush while bathing with friends in Vallur dam on the Kosasthalaiyar River near Minjur in the city on Friday.Aravind Prakash, 31, of Pammal, worked at a private finance company. He went to the dam in the Seemavaram area with friends on his day off on Friday….
Chennai: In Tamil Nadu’s flagship govt hospitals, monitors in cardiac theatres beep with relentless urgency. Patients keep coming, waiting lists keep growing. But the surgeons who are supposed to be there are missing.At the Govt General Hospital in Chennai, five of six chief cardiac surgeon posts are vacant, along with six of 14 assistant positions….
Chennai: Avadi cybercrime police arrested two men, including the manager of a private bank, for facilitating an online trading fraud in which a man from Thiruverkadu was cheated of 59 lakh. The complainant, S Karthikeyan, 38, was lured through a WhatsApp message earlier this year. He transferred money between Jan and April to bank accounts…
Chennai: Members of the Divisional Railway Users Consultative Committee (DRUCC) have raised concerns over a limitation in bulk train ticket bookings that restricts flexibility for passengers. Under Indian Railways rules, a person can book up to six tickets at once under a single PNR and select one boarding station. However, all passengers in that booking…
CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin on Saturday launched a career guidance helpdesk for students who completed Class XII. The DMK students’ wing has been entrusted with the task of helping students with career guidance. After Stalin launched the help desk, DMK students’ wing secretary Veeramani Jayakumar told reporters, “The help desk will help students…
Chennai: A 60-year-old man and his teenage grandson drowned in Narayanapuram lake in Pallikaranai on Friday morning.The deceased have been identified as Perumal, 60, a resident of Sengeni Amman Koil Street, Pallikaranai and his grandson Bharath, 15, a Class X student. Another grandson, Dinesh, 14, a Class IX student, who accompanied them did not enter…
Chennai: A lawyer has moved Madras high court seeking removal of a commercial complex and public toilets constructed by filling a quarry pond located on govt land in Thiruneermalai.According to advocate O Udhayakumar, authorities of Tambaram Corporation filled the pond with soil and construction debris and built five commercial complexes and a public toilet.Admitting the…
Chennai: Two days after a five-year-old boy fell into a farm well and drowned in Chengalpet (as reported in TOI on April 29), his father allegedly died by suicide. Lingam, 30, was found hanging from the steps inside the same agricultural well where his son died. On Thursday morning, the relatives and villagers went in…
Chennai’s heat is no longer just uncomfortable — doctors say it is starting to wear down the body, organ by organ, and that this is the season to get serious about self-care. As temperatures climb, and hot, dry winds blow through the city, clinicians are seeing more patients with dehydration, exhaustion, sunburn, eye irritation, and…
Chennai: Chief minister M K Stalin said on Friday that hard work of DMK cadres will become evident for everyone on May 4, the day of counting of votes.Stalin who spoke at the May Day celebrations organised at May Day Park in Chintadripet said DMK will win the Assembly election. “There is not even an…
