Chennai: Airports Authority of India (AAI) has agreed to replace a proposed dedicated corridor with a public road for the satellite terminal planned between Chennai airport’s two runways, accepting a revised proposal from Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (CUMTA). The decision will improve connectivity for residents of neighbourhoods, including Kolapakkam and Tharapakkam.While AAI had initially…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University is likely to release the merit list for the five-year integrated law degree programmes offered by the School of Excellence in Law, govt law colleges and govt quota seats in the private law colleges this week.The rank list is being prepared for courses based on the scores in…
Pallikaranai Greater Flamingo at the Pallikaranai marsh in Chennai.04.05.2014.Photo:A.Prathap Chennai: Arappor Iyakkam, an NGO fighting against corruption, has petitioned the state govt to cancel approvals granted to a property developer for a residential project in Perumbakkam, alleging that the site falls within the protected Pallikaranai marshland.In a complaint submitted to chief minister C Joseph Vijay,…
Chennai: A 23-year-old man was arrested on charges of attempting to break into an ATM in Koyambedu. Although no money was taken, officers registered a case and later detained one of the two suspects. Search is on for the other.The probe began after Vignesh, 32, the branch manager of a Punjab National Bank office on…
Chennai: An archaeology student from University of Madras has found two pre-historic sites at Chinnamalai in Malaipalayam village and Senjerimalai in Sulur near Coimbatore. A rock shelter with red ochre geometric paintings, microlithic tools such as borer, thumbnail scrapers and hammer stones were found in Chinnamalai, while the nearby Senjerimalai yielded stone tools and debitage.“It…
Chennai: Crime branch police in Tiruvallur district arrested two brothers for running a finance company that collected nearly ₹30 crore from more than 200 people by promising to double their investments and later failed to repay the deposits.Kannan, 52, and his brother Kamaladas, 49, both residents of Villivakkam, operated the company in Tiruvallur for five…
Chennai: Two people—a petrol bunk employee and a flower vendor—were killed in separate hit-and-run accidents in Tiruvallur district on Friday.In the first incident at Arambakkam, Nagaraj, 38, a resident of Elavur village, was knocked down and run over by a speeding lorry while he was crossing the Chennai-Kolkata highway near Elavur Bazaar. He died on…
Chennai: The ₹256.45-crore 230/110 kV substation coming up at Panchetti in Tiruvallur district will be commissioned within the next one or two months, with 95% of the construction work already completed, Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation Ltd (TNPDCL) chairman and managing director J Radhakrishnan said on Saturday.During an inspection of the Panchetti 110 kV substation…
Chennai: AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Saturday held a review meeting to analyze the party’s recent electoral setback. The meeting took place amid an ongoing exodus of former AIADMK ministers and district secretaries to the TVK.Palaniswami met with Kancheepuram district functionaries, including candidates, executive members, and general council members, to evaluate the assembly…
M.K. Stalin accused Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay’s government of acting as a “xerox copy” of the BJP (File Photo) CHENNAI: DMK president M K Stalin on Saturday accused chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s govt of functioning as a “xerox copy” of the BJP and alleged that it was attempting to weaken the opposition by…
