Chennai: Mounds of construction debris and the parking of several seized vehicles near the Rajiv Gandhi statue enclosure at Saidapet has turned the area into an eyesore for locals. Residents and commuters say police began using the space to dump vehicles involved in offences in Highways department land. “Freeing up the area would have several…
Chennai: A man hacked his wife to death after a quarrel at their home in Adambakkam, and then died by suicide on Tuesday, police said. The deceased were identified as Nagalakshmi, 42, and her husband Subramanian, 52, residents of Thillaiganga Nagar in Nanganallur. Police said Nagalakshmi ran silk saree outlets and was the sole breadwinner….
Chennai: Chief minister M K Stalin, finance minister Thangam Thennarasu and industries minister T R B Rajaa on Tuesday lauded Tamil Nadu’s 10.8% economic growth rate for 2025-26. According to the report released by Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation recently, this is the second consecutive year that the state is registering a double-digit…
Chennai: A 25-year-old security guard was beaten to death with a stone following a drunken quarrel with his friends near Manimangalam in Kancheepuram district on Monday night. Vijayakumar was drinking with his friend Gokul, and the latter’s brother Madhavan, when a heated argument broke out between them. When Vijayakumar spoke ill about Gokul’s wife, the…
Chennai: While the Election Commission of India (ECI) released Bihar’s Assembly poll percentages within 24 hours last year, Tamil Nadu’s political parties are still waiting for final turnout figures, five days after voting. The election was held on April 23 for 234 assembly segments in the state. It witnessed brisk polling from 7am in a…
Projects need to follow voters, to the added areas in Chennai CHENNAI: Electoral data after SIR underscores that the added areas are growing fast while the core city stays stagnant, underscoring the need for a policy shift in infrastructure investment and timely completion of civic projects. Even after nearly 30% deletions, the electorate in Sholinganallur,…
Chennai: Police seized 400kg of red sandalwood logs from a vehicle in Parry’s Corner and arrested three men in connection with the bid to smuggle, sources said.Acting on a tip-off, a team from the North Beach police station inspected an SUV parked at Fourth Beach Lane in Clive Battery. During the search, officers found red…
Chennai: Chennai-based real estate developer DRA has deployed an AI-based construction intelligence platform, using AI across project management, quality inspection, site monitoring, procurement optimisation, workforce productivity, safety analytics, delay prediction and decision-making.Ranjeeth Rathod, managing director of DRA, said this is their attempt to exploit AI-based efficiency in the physical sector, as AI models are rapidly…
Chennai: Allied healthcare aspirants — from prospective physiotherapists and optometrists to lab and imaging technologists — are scrambling to decode a maze of eligibility rules, as course-wise criteria under the National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions are scattered across multiple documents and sometimes seem to contradict one another. “There is no single, authoritative reference…
Chennai: As many as 20 of 57 students pursuing BA Economics (honours) degree at Madras School of Economics (MSE) have secured admissions in top international schools such as London School of Economics, Barcelona School of Economics, Columbia University, and National University of Singapore for the academic year 2026-27.Students said the strong curriculum and quantitative training…
