Chennai: City’s three major waterways — Cooum, Adyar and Buckingham Canal — now have got another chance to revive as chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s dream scheme to restore them has got funding support from the Union govt.The Union govt has given an in-principle approval to provide ₹7,500 crore to Tamil Nadu under the Urban…
Chennai: A truck driver lost control of the vehicle and ploughed into people waiting at a traffic signal, killing one person and injuring two others near Maraimalai Nagar on Wednesday.The truck carrying heavy iron centering plates was travelling at high speed from Chennai towards Trichy when the driver lost control. Police said the driver failed…
Chennai: The surprise showers on Tuesday night brought relief from the summer heat, ending a prolonged dry spell across the city and suburbs. The IMD has forecast more light to moderate rainfall on Thursday, which may further ease daytime temperatures to 38-39°C.“On Thursday, the city and the suburbs may receive light to moderate rainfall with…
Chennai: The Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) department has decided to introduce online bookings for several facilities, including paid darshans, donations, and for other special events at Mangadu and Parthasarathy temples.Officials said both these temples get a crowd of 7,000 to 8,000 people during the weekends and a sizeable number of people book the…
Chennai: Vietnamese EV maker VinFast has proposed a Rs 7,000-crore Phase II expansion at its Tuticorin manufacturing complex, widening its production portfolio beyond passenger cars to include electric scooters and buses. The expansion would significantly increase the scale of operations at the factory located in the southern Tamil Nadu port city and is expected to…
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Chennai: Amidst apprehensions over the quantum of fund Tamil Nadu will be receiving under VBG RAMG, the Union govt has allocated Rs 7585 crore to the state, which was only Rs 120 crore lesser than last year.Union rural development minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that this interim allocation was made to ensure that the states…
Bharathiraja with Revathy Chennai: “Bring anyone from the street, and I can make her a heroine,” Bharathiraja is known to have said. It may have sounded like arrogance. Not to those who knew him.When Tamil cinema was obsessed with glamour and established faces in the late 1970s, Bharathiraja scoured the land for ‘ordinary women’, whom…
Still from ‘Red Rose’, a remake of ‘Sigappu Rojakkal’ For most filmmakers, success in Tamil cinema is enough. For Bharathiraja, Bollywood represented a new frontier.In 1979, just two years after ‘16 Vayathinile’, Bharathiraja crossed the Vindhyas. ‘Solva Sawan’ (meaning ‘Sixteenth Spring’) was his Hindi romantic drama starring Amol Palekar and Sridevi. It marked 15-year-old Sridevi’s…
K Bhagyaraj with his mentor When people speak about Bharathiraja’s legacy, the conversation often begins with the actors he introduced and the heroines he transformed into stars. But perhaps, his greatest contribution to Tamil cinema lies behind the camera.For nearly five decades, Bharathiraja’s sets functioned as an informal film institute, producing a generation of assistant…
