AMMK leader T T V Dhinakaran calls Tamil Nadu Governor R V Arlekar on Tuesday. CHENNAI: AMMK leader T T V Dhinakaran on Tuesday called on Tamil Nadu Governor R V Arlekar and submitted a representation seeking his intervention in the alleged horse-trading of his party MLA by the ruling TVK.Dhinakaran said his efforts were…
Sean Lyu, MD of RayTech Group Chennai: RayTech Group, a provider of industrial X-ray inspection solutions, is looking to set up a manufacturing facility in India. The Singapore-based company, which makes X-ray industrial inspection equipment in Malaysia, Singapore, and the US, is eyeing the $300 million industrial X-ray inspection market in the country over the…
CHENNAI: More than 30 years after he was arrested for rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl, and after having served a large part of his life sentence, a man was ordered to be released by Madras high court, after it found that he was a juvenile at the time of the offence and that…
Chennai: If you live in Chennai’s suburbs or on the outskirts and believe driving to work is the quickest option, the numbers challenge that assumption.A TOI analysis of journey times and costs across five prominent routes found that cars were never the fastest mode of transport. It covered Tambaram–Guindy, Central–Tambaram, Tambaram–Koyambedu, Velachery–Tambaram and Kilambakkam–Central.The analysis…
Chennai: For core city residents travelling 10km-20km round-trip, cheap tickets do not ensure savings, as 5km auto feeders can exceed MTC fares by 250% to 900%.TOI analysed costs on five city routes: Anna Nagar–T Nagar, Thiruvanmiyur–Thoraipakkam, T Nagar–Velachery, Porur–Vadapalani and Velachery–Taramani.For those living within 5km of a bus stop or railway station, one-end costs range…
Chennai: A state forest department accountant in Tiruvarur, K S Sivakumar, has been charged in a case and placed under suspension for allegedly forging treasury challans and bank seals to divert at least ₹48 lakh of department funds into private bank accounts.According to a senior forest official, income from the department is usually remitted in…
Chennai: The ongoing expansion of Sardar Patel Road from the Raj Bhavan point up to the IIT-Madras signal junction has been stuck with no sign of progress for the past couple of months. This highways department’s ₹48-crore road-widening project, which began last year, has effectively stalled, with several stretches still awaiting work.Result: The IIT-M junction…
Sanitation workers barge into Ripon building on Tuesday evening (Tarika Story) Chennai: Tense moments ensued after a flash protest by more than 50 sanitation workers at the Ripon Building on Tuesday. They entered the civic headquarters, sat on the floor and raised slogans demanding regularisation of their jobs.According to police, the sanitation workers sought permission…
Chennai: Unidentified men cut open an ICICI bank ATM using a welding machine and escaped with ₹10 lakh at Pudupedu near Somangalam in the early hours of Tuesday. The burglars sprayed a chemical substance on the CCTV camera inside the kiosk in an attempt to conceal their identities, police said. They also disabled the alarm….
Grand Anicut Canal system in Tamil Nadu This year too, failure to open Mettur dam on the customary date, June 12, has impacted paddy cultivation in Cauvery delta districts and caused substantial drinking water shortage in districts. This is reportedly the 57th time in the 83-year history of the dam that water was not released…
