GCC removes encroachments on Pantheon Road Chennai: More than ten days after chief minister Vijay inspected the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Government Hospital for Women and Children in Egmore, Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) on Sunday carried out an eviction drive on Pantheon Road.GCC removed six encroachments, including two bunk shops, a sugarcane juice…
Chennai: To address complaints over the limited variety of liquor and beer available at Tasmac outlets, and to counter allegations of favouritism towards certain manufacturers, the state-owned corporation has scrapped its conventional indent system for procuring beer and ordinary Indian-made foreign spirits (IMFS). Instead, it has begun placing procurement orders equally among all eligible suppliers…
An educational game made using LLM Chennai: For teachers, AI large language models (LLMs) must not be a mere information platforms that perform administrative tasks, but to change classroom pedagogy and help students learn more effectively. This motto is what prompted organisers of Universal Teachers Academy (UTA), a Tamil Nadu-based teachers’ collective, to create educational…
Chennai: The Chennai city police on Saturday arrested a man who sexually assaulted a woman on the false promise of marriage and then abandoned her after she gave birth to a child.The woman, who works at a private hospital in the city, lodged a complaint at Teynampet all women police station saying R Siva, 33,…
Chennai: An unidentified elderly man died after being run over by a reversing truck on the Vanagaram-Poonamallee service road here on Friday night.Police said the accident occurred around 11pm when the man was sitting on the roadside. When the driver reversed the truck to park it on the Poonamallee-Vanagaram service road, its rear left wheel…
Chennai: Higher education minister P Viswanathan on Saturday asked the BA, BSc, BCom graduates to learn foreign languages such as Japanese and German to get jobs with higher salaries.“An undergraduate with N4 or N5 certification in Japanese language will get ₹3lakh a month salary in Japan for BA, BSc, BCom graduates. The world is willing…
Chennai: Fourteen years after registration of a corruption case against a personal security officer (PSO) of former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi in connection with allotment of 10 cents of land under the govt’s discretionary quota (GDQ) in the impeccable honest govt servant category, Madras high court has quashed the final report filed in…
Police said fake currency notes with a face value of nearly ₹34 lakh were seized during the investigation. Chennai: A Malaysian woman was arrested in Chennai on Friday in connection with an investigation into a counterfeit currency racket, taking the total number of arrests in the case to three. Police said fake currency notes with…
A final-year law student was arrested by the Shankar Nagar All Women Police in Chennai for creating and uploading morphed obscene images of a fellow student on social media. During the investigation, police found that he had similarly altered photographs of other women, including students, professors and a few of his nieces too, using his…
Chennai: A pawn shop owner in Tiruvallur district was cheated of ₹1.91 crore by two men who sold him fake jewellery by claiming it was gold.In his complaint, Iman alias Poovarasan, 31, who runs a pawn shop at Pullarambakkam near Tiruvallur, said two men came to his shop in a car on July 14 and…
