(Photo credit: X/@Greater Chennai Corporation) CHENNAI: Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) on Thursday doused a fire that broke out in plastic waste stockpiled at the old dump yard in Perungudi in two hours of the incident being reported.A total of nine water bowsers, three recyclors, three JCB excavators and 30 tanker loads of water were deployed…
CHENNAI: Ownership disputes, lack of consensus on redevelopment, and bureaucratic delays have kept several unsafe buildings from being razed, more than a year after Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) identified them for demolition. Ahead of every northeast monsoon, GCC officials survey and identify dilapidated structures and issue notices to owners. In 2025, the civic body identified…
CHENNAI: Staying non-committal on the implementation of PM Schools for Rising India (PM SHRI) in Tamil Nadu, school education minister Rajmohan reiterated that the state remained firm on the two-language policy.“However, if the Centre denies us our funds citing this, we will directly go to New Delhi to get our share,” he told media persons…
CHENNAI: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay handed on Wednesday the lone Rajya Sabha seat that fell vacant in Tamil Nadu to Congress, a move seen as further knitting together TVK and the national party after their post-election understanding. Congress sources said AICC functionary Praveen Chakravarthy is the frontrunner for nomination to the Upper House.Vijay’s announcement…
What next for DMK and AIADMK? TVK founder C Joseph Vijay’s victory in the recent TN assembly election winning 108 seats and forming the govt with support from DMK allies seems to have made DMK realize that its challenges are not primarily organisational or ideological, but generational. And the alliance reconfiguration has at least some…
Chennai: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge joined DMK leaders in paying tribute to late DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi on his 103rd birth anniversary on Wednesday. DMK president M K Stalin who paid homage at Karunanidhi memorial said the darkness clouding Tamil Nadu would be chased away and DMK…
Chennai: A 19-year-old burglary suspect, who escaped from the Neelankarai police station during interrogation, was recaptured by a special police team on Tuesday. The accused was arrested earlier in connection with a house burglary in Injambakkam along East Coast Road.Bicilin Ann Aldrin, 38, an electrician employed at a deemed university on Old Mahabalipuram Road, lived…
Chennai: Southern Railway has announced changes in suburban EMU train services from June 5 to 6 owing to engineering works in the Chennai Egmore-Villupuram section between Kodambakkam and St Thomas Mount stations. Railways said line block and power block would be carried out from 11.05pm on June 5 to 3.05am on June 6, resulting in…
A 25-year-old man died and three others sustained injuries after a carbon dioxide cylinder exploded during a film shoot at Binny Mill on Barracks Road in Perambur on Wednesday morning. Police registered a case and launched an investigation into the circumstances that led to the accident. A 25-year-old man died and three others sustained injuries…
Chennai: Five days after a drunk car-borne gang ran over two girls and their friends on a bike, following a quarrel at a Koyambedu pub, an injured 17-year-old girl succumbed to her injuries on Wednesday. Yancy, 18, was killed on the spot on Saturday night. Police are yet to book or arrest the owners of…
