Chennai: Metro ridership in the city crossed the one-crore mark for the second time this year in July, with 1.06 crore passengers travelling on the network. It is the highest monthly ridership recorded in 2026 so far, averaging 3.43 lakh commuters a day.The figure marks an increase from 96.75 lakh passengers (3.22 lakh a day)…
Chennai: A 39-year-old house painter was found dead with his throat slit near a police booth close to Ellaiyamman Temple on Tiruvottiyur High Road in Chennai early on Saturday. Tiruvottiyur police recovered the body and sent it to Stanley Govt Hospital for postmortem.Police said Durai Babu, of Komadha Nagar in Tiruvottiyur, lived with his wife,…
Chennai: A 28-year-old man escaped from Tiruttani police station on Friday after being arrested in connection with a dispute with a local trader. Police launched a search operation to trace him and initiated an inquiry.Police identified the escaped detainee as Hari, 28. He and Ravi, 33, a sweet vendor from Amrithapuram, were arrested after they…
Chennai: Residents along OMR have urged the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to carry out a detailed investigation into the recurring “dead fish” odour and make the findings public.The smell surfaces in the evenings and is strongest between Tiruporur and Semmencheri. It briefly eased after TNPCB inspected a pharmaceutical unit at the SIDCO Industrial Estate…
Chennai: After a brief lull, unscheduled and prolonged power cuts are back in the city. On Friday night, residents of R K Nagar staged a road blockade, bringing vehicle movement to a halt in protest against night-time outages that occur almost every other day.Residents of Mayor Basudev Street blocked Tiruvottiyur High Road, demanding immediate restoration…
Chennai: Hundreds of cancer survivors gathered at Adyar Cancer Institute (WIA) on Saturday to celebrate its Annual Survivors’ Reunion Day. The Cancer Institute, which was once a small hospital with no more than 12 beds, is now a testament to numerous stories of survival.The event, organised after a long break due to Covid, brought together…
Chennai: Dissatisfied with the local body’s efforts to protect Munishwaran Temple tank in Tiruvallur district, the southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has called for the restoration of the waterbody within 90 days and warned action against local body officials if they fail to comply with the orders.Posting the matter for the next…
Chennai: DMK on Saturday alleged irregularities in electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in Chennai’s Kolathur assembly constituency, where former chief minister M K Stalin lost to TVK candidate V S Babu by 8,795 votes. District election officer (DEO) and Greater Chennai Corporation commissioner G S Sameeran, however, denied the allegations.DMK legal wing secretary N R…
Chennai: Researchers at the Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN) have developed a rapid analytical technique to detect cow ghee adulteration and simultaneously identify and quantify multiple adulterants. The technique could offer a low-cost tool to strengthen food quality checks.The study, published in Food Chemistry, uses Angular Sweep Total Fluorescence Spectroscopy (ASTFS), a fluorescence-based analytical…
Employers to verify community certificates within initial years of an staff’s service ‘Cannot tolerate the use of delayed procedures as a dangling sword’ Chennai: A full bench of Madras high court has held that verification into the genuineness of a community certificate or caste status of a govt employee remains legally permissible even after their…
