Metrowater has installed 372 of a planned 456 flow meters across its treatment plants, distribution stations and filling stations, as part of a ₹44.93 crore drive to track how much water Chennai loses before it reaches consumers Chennai: Metrowater has installed 372 of a planned 456 flow meters across its treatment plants, distribution stations and…
Residents rescued a pelican from a suspected poacher at Korattur Lake and handed over the bird to Forest Department officials. Chennai: A pelican suffered a neck injury after it was attacked by a man at Korattur lake around 9am on Saturday. People at the spot intervened, chased the man away and alerted forest officials, who…
Asha.Prakash@timesofindia.comA few weeks ago, environment educator’s organisation Palluyir Trust announced an ‘insect walk’, for which 25 people signed up within a day. On the day of the walk, it started raining heavily, but participants kept calling up the organisers, requesting them not to cancel the walk, says Kanishka Padmanabhan of Palluyir. And this has been…
At 100, one would expect Anandavally Rajam to spend most part of her days resting. But come bedtime, Anandavally reaches for her mobile phone, and starts doom scrolling endlessly, clicking on all kinds of links indiscriminately, mostly on Facebook, till 5am. At times she switches to shopping apps, and buys “unnecessary stuff”, according to her…
Chennai: CPM state secretary P Shanmugam on Saturday criticised the state govt’s decision to release water from the Mettur dam for 45 days from Sept 1, saying the duration would be insufficient for samba paddy cultivation and could work to Karnataka’s advantage in the Cauvery water dispute.Water resources minister N Anand had announced that chief…
Chennai: A 46-year-old man was arrested on Saturday in connection with the murder of a 45-year-old Andhra Pradesh woman near Uthukottai in Tiruvallur district.The suspect, S Bharathi Raja of Othattur Kandigai in Tiruvallur, was arrested near Periyapalayam on Saturday morning. The deceased, Aruna, wife of Manjunatha and a resident of Chittoor district, had come to…
Chennai: The omission of references to Jawaharlal Nehru, ‘Periyar’ E V Ramasamy, B R Ambedkar and the Justice Party from the state govt’s policy note on backward classes welfare has triggered a political controversy, with minister V Sampath Kumar taking “moral responsibility” for the lapse and promising a revised publication. DMK accused the TVK govt…
Chennai: CISF personnel recovered three live rounds and a magazine from the hand baggage of a woman passenger during security screening at Terminal 1 of Chennai airport on Saturday. The passenger, who was travelling with her family to Kochi, could not produce documents or authorisation for carrying the ammunition.During pre-embarkation screening of domestic passengers, CISF…
Chennai: Three college students died and four others were injured after their car overturned near Maduranthakam on the Chennai-Tiruchy National Highway in the early hours of Saturday.The seven students from a private university in Pallavaram were returning to Chennai from Puducherry when their vehicle’s rear tyre got punctured. Harikrishnan, 19, who was driving, lost control…
Chennai: The state govt has decided to study the feasibility to connect the proposed satellite terminal at the wide-end of the intersecting runways at Chennai international airport with the Tambaram-Maduravoyal bypass without affecting the natural flow of Adyar river as well as the residential pockets in the locality.Senior officials at the secretary level held a…
