Chennai: Foodies will soon get a new place to hang out in the city. Greater Chennai Corporation’s first ever food court, coming up on Indira Nagar 3rd Avenue in Adyar, will be opened to the public within the next two months.The project is being executed at an estimated cost of ₹4.24 crore. Modelled on the…
Times News NetworkChennai: A guest worker died and 48 others were injured after the landing of an iron staircase collapsed at a workers’ accommodation facility in Nandambakkam late on Sunday night, when hundreds of workers gathered on the structure to watch and celebrate the IPL final. They fell from a height of nearly 15ft.Hundreds of…
Chennai: Two city students featured among the top 100 rank holders in JEE (advanced) exam. The results were declared on Monday and experts said candidates from Tamil Nadu have secured better ranks compared to previous year.Of 1,79,694 candidates who appeared for the exam on May 17, 56,880 qualified.Snehal Roy Choudhury, a student from Chennai scored…
Daily calls, better checks: How Kovai is bringing down maternal deaths Every day for the past two months, a small team at the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC) has been spending hours on the phone tracking pregnant women across the city. They check whether an expectant mother has attended her last antenatal visit, remind her…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu govt will take steps to appoint vice-chancellors to state universities soon, higher education minister P Viswanathan told reporters on Monday.As many as 15 of 22 state universities have been functioning without a vice-chancellor for several months due to a tussle between former Governor R N Ravi and DMK govt regarding the inclusion…
Chennai: Two drivers died, and five bus passengers suffered injuries in an accident involving three vehicles near Ulundurpet on Monday.Police said Marimuthu, 47, of Velachery was driving a mini-bus chassis vehicle from Chennai to Trichy. When it reached Sengurichi near Ulundurpet in the early hours of Monday, the driver, whom police suspect may have dozed…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Volunteers, a social welfare organisation, in collaboration with the Tamil Nadu Adi Dravidar Housing and Development Corporation (TAHDCO), has invited students from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Caste Arunthathiyar communities to enrol for Bachelor of Science programmes offered by IIT-Madras.TAHDCO and IIT-Madras will bear their education expenses, while Tamil Nadu Volunteers…
Chennai: Police arrested two men for burgling a weaver’s house at Kosavanpettai village near Periyapalayam. When Vijayakumar and his wife returned to their house after visiting a nearby temple on the morning of May 28, they found the roof tiles broken and their almirah damaged. About five sovereigns of gold and ₹80,000 in cash were…
Chennai: Earlier this year, Suzhal Arivom, an environmental research and conservation collective, spotted a ringed adult male Montagu’s harrier (Circus pygargus) at Nemmeli in Chennai. Now it’s been confirmed from the ring number that the bird was originally ringed in Rajasthan by the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) under their…
Sources indicate former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai is set to quit the party, after a meeting with top BJP leaders in Delhi CHENNAI: Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai will quit the party “in a couple of days” after meeting party national president Nitin Nabin and Union home minister Amit Shah in…
