The biggest upgrade in the new Baleno is the introduction of Level 2 ADAS Chennai: Maruti Suzuki India on Saturday launched the new Baleno premium hatchback with prices starting at Rs 6.09 lakh (ex-showroom), adding Level 2 advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), ventilated front seats and a new engine as it seeks to strengthen the…
Chennai: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has barred former Congress MLA (Velachery), Aassan Maulaana, from contesting assembly and general elections for three years for failing to submit an accurate account of his election expenditure during the 2021 assembly polls. Maulaana termed the action “biased” and said he would challenge it in court.According to an…
Chennai: With the northeast monsoon weeks away, Tambaram Corporation has stepped up dengue prevention measures, deploying around 700 mosquito breeding control workers across its 70 wards to identify and eliminate breeding sites before the rains intensify.According to corporation officials, workers inspected more than 1.2 lakh houses over the past week and destroyed over 4,500 potential…
Chennai: After two days of stalemate, the contract staffers of the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Ltd (Tasmac) returned to duty and opened liquor retail outlets on Saturday, but prohibition and excise minister K Vignesh has warned of action as per rules for protest.Salesmen and supervisors closed 200 liquor shops in Kancheepuram and Chengalpet districts…
Chennai: Madras high court has granted three more months’ time to the Tamil Nadu forest department to notify elephant corridors across the state. The time was granted since there was a discrepancy in the number of corridors identified by the Wildlife Trust of India and the state govt.A special division bench of Justice N Sathish…
Chennai: Madras high court orders the Commissioner of Greater Chennai Police to immediately de-seal the rented premises occupied by the banned Islamic fundamentalist organisation Peoples Front of India (PFI) in Periamet for its office.A division bench of Justice Anita Sumanth and Justice Sunder Mohan passed the order while dismissing a plea moved by the state…
CHENNAI: Amid cheers, hugs and proud smiles from their families, 342 officer cadets were welcomed into the Indian Army as commissioned officers, as they passed out of the Officers Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai on Saturday.The passing-out parade of the SSC-122nd and SSC (Women)-36th batches saw 313 men and 29 women commissioned into various Arms…
Passing out parade at OTA CHENNAI: It was perhaps the happiest Teachers’ Day for Dashrath Singh Rathore, a teacher from Sindarli village in Rajasthan’s Pali district as his daughter, Shivani Rathore , 25, passed out of the Officer’s Training Academy in Chennai on Saturday. Asked why his daughter chose the Army and became the first…
CHENNAI: Burglars took away an ATM containing around ₹5 lakh in cash from Koodapakkam near Tiruvallur on Saturday. This is the third ATM burglary reported from the outskirts of Chennai in less than 10 days. In previous ATM thefts, offenders had either broken open the machines or drilled through them to access the cash. In…
Udangudi thermal plant will be the seventh thermal power station to generate electricity from coal for the state taking the total installed capacity from 5120 MW to 5780 MW CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has got one more stable power source. Tamil Nadu Power Generation Corporation (TNPGCL) on Saturday brought the Unit 1 of Udangudi thermal power…
