Chennai: The 44-odd canals, spanning 81.8km in the city, have only one thing in common. They’re all choked with sewage, garbage, and debris and are encroached upon by houses. This has increased flood risk in several key core city neighbourhoods such as T Nagar, Nungambakkam, Anna Nagar, Virugambakkam, Velachery and Nandanam.Residents and civic activists said…
Watchtower at Guddiyam caves Screenshot Chennai: Just an hour’s drive from Chennai’s concrete sprawl, the Guddiyam caves in Tiruvallur district have emerged as Tamil Nadu’s most sought-after trekking destination, according to forest officials. A total of 4,040 trekkers have visited in just eighteen months.The caves are among the top five destinations on the Trek TN…
IOB assistant branch manager arrested for ₹3.09 crore gold loan fraud Chennai: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested an assistant branch manager of Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) for pilfering 2,179g of gold jewellery pledged by customers, replacing the ornaments with fake jewellery and causing a loss of ₹3.09 crore to the bank. The cops haven’t…
Ennore fish death: TNPCB suspects sewage contamination, but fishers call for probe into chemical leak Chennai: Sewage contamination may have triggered the recent mass fish death in Ennore, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) suspects, after low levels of dissolved oxygen (DO) were recorded at two locations.TNPCB officials said DO levels were under 4mg/litre…
Leader of opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin flagged the issue, citing Vijay’s statement at the SZC meet chaired by Union home minister Amit Shah. CHENNAI: A nearly 40-minute high-voltage exchange over delimitation kept the Tamil Nadu assembly on the edge on Friday, with the opposition putting chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s stand under the scanner and questioning…
Sowcar Janaki at a function organised by stage artist and producer S Shivpprasadh CHENNAI: By the time Sowcar Janaki met K Balachander, she did not need to be discovered. She was already a name, bankable, carrying an image the industry had settled on without asking her: the actress who cried beautifully. What Balachander did was…
Elegant actor Sowcar Janaki passed away at ninety-four years old CHENNAI: Sowcar Janaki, the elegant actor whose career spanned more than seven decades of South Indian cinema, died in Chennai on Friday following age-related ailments. She was 94.From the studio-era social dramas of the 1950s to the sharply observed middle-class stories of filmmaker K Balachander,…
Rakesh CK, Head of Sun Nxt Chennai: Sun TV Network aims to capture a slice of the growing micro-drama category and boost its subscription revenues by launching short-form content on its Sun NXT platform.On Friday, the company announced the launch, featuring a mix of originals and remastered content from its movie and television library across…
Chennai: Revenue minister K A Sengottaiyan on Thursday triggered a debate in the assembly saying that the rice supplied in the ration shops was used only as animal feed. DMK as well as AIADMK members objected the remarks and asked Sengottaiyan not to demean people who consume ration rice.“The entire country knows that the rice…
Opposition leader Udhayanidhi Stalin announced fifty-nine DMK MLAs will decline official cars (File Photo) CHENNAI: A sharp political debate broke out in the Tamil Nadu Assembly after Leader of Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin announced that 59 DMK MLAs would voluntarily decline state-provided official cars, pointing to the state’s tight financial condition.Stalin urged the administration to scrutinize…
