Chennai: Every night, Anitha, 32, sits beside her two young children, fanning them by hand so they can sleep through the heat. With unscheduled power cuts stretching for hours, her home in Tambaram turns stifling, leaving the family restless and exhausted. Her situation reflects the growing distress faced by hundreds of residents across the Tambaram…
Chennai: Ashwin Saravanan, a visually challenged student, was in for double joy when the ISC results were declared on Thursday. Not only did he get 93%, scoring 99/100 in environmental studies, he achieved the feat without the help of a scribe.And all it took him was the use of a basic laptop and a non-visual…
Vaitheeswaran.B@timesofindia.comWhen Tata Power evaluated a site in Gangaikondan, a small town on the outskirts of Tirunelveli in southern Tamil Nadu, to set up a solar manufacturing facility after the pandemic, the region did not have a strong manufacturing talent pool with experience in adjacent industries, unlike Chennai. Even TN had limited sectoral talent then, compared…
Chennai: A 58-year-old woman with chronic knee pain was treated at a city hospital with a new meniscus — a C-shaped pad of tissue that cushions and stabilises the knee — from another patient, who underwent knee replacement surgery.Doctors at Rathimed Speciality Hospital said the patient’s meniscus was severely damaged and could not be repaired….
Chennai: Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has decided to build six new night shelters across the city at a cost of 9 crore. Designed with modern amenities, the facility will offer secure overnight accommodation for people living on the streets, particularly during extreme weather conditions. Each shelter will be a ground-plus-first floor facility. Civic officials said…
Chennai: Four retired state govt employees have approached Madras high court seeking a direction to state govt to formulate and notify necessary rules to implement the Tamil Nadu Assured Pension Scheme (TAPS) announced in Jan. Admitting the plea on Friday, Justice P T Asha directed the govt to respond to the plea in eight weeks…
CHENNAI: A passenger allegedly opened an emergency exit door while the aircraft was taxiing on Sunday morning, triggering brief tension at Chennai International Airport.The incident occurred when an Air Arabia flight arrived in Chennai from Sharjah carrying 231 passengers, according to news agency PTI. According to officials, the aircraft was moving along the taxiway —…
Chennai: Police booked a 35-year-old man from Nepal who fled after misappropriating gold worth 13.4 lakh from a T Nagar jewellery shop. Police said Ramesh Bahadur worked for Lalit Kumar, 39, who has runs a shop on South Usman Road, for seven years. Kumar gave four gold bars to Bahadur and Deepika on Friday and…
KMDK president E.R. Eswaran stated that TVK president Vijay’s party likely garnered around 20% of votes, primarily from the AIADMK’s vote share. CHENNAI: KMDK president E R Eswaran said on Saturday that TVK president Vijay ate into AIADMK vote share. Eswaran met chief minister M K Stalin at DMK headquarters here. He later told reporters…
CHENNAI: Archaeologists of Tamil University have unearthed rare ‘pit houses’ dating to the Neolithic period, at Molapalayam near Coimbatore on the foothills of the Western Ghats.The agro-pastoral community that lived here 3,500 years ago could have used the pits within their houses to store foodgrain or protect themselves from natural disasters, archaeologists said.Some pits had…
