Chennai: Cocking a snook at a series of Madras high court orders, and setting at naught the beach restoration work done over the years, a large number of street vendors returned to occupy a 3km-long stretch of Loop Road along Marina Beach on Friday. The weekend ahead will likely see more shops returning, while Greater…
Students taking photographs to use in the online hall tickets for the Tancet exam Chennai: Anna University declared the results for common engineering entrance test and admissions (CEETA-PG) and Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (Tancet) on Friday. The top 400 rankers of CEETA-PG from the 2026-27 batch will get a scholarship with ₹10,000 a month….
Chennai: Strongly condemning Karnataka deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar’s remarks that Tamil Nadu has “no rights” to object the proposed Mekedatu balancing reservoir project across Cauvery river, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami questioned the silence of the chief minister C Joseph Vijay on the issue.PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss also strongly condemned the Karnataka…
Chennai: Madras high court has issued notice to Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) on a public interest writ petition seeking a vigilance probe into suspected financial irregularities of more than ₹90 lakh in the construction of a bridge across the Otteri Nullah canal in Chennai.The PIL, filed by Prabhakaran of Choolaimedu, claimed collusion of retired and…
Chennai: Two school boys, aged 10 and 9 years, who had come to their grandmother’s house in Irumbedu village in Kancheepuram, drowned in a pond where they had gone fishing on Thursday evening.T Saran, 10, from Navalur near Somangalam, was a Class V student at a local school. He had been staying at his grandmother’s…
Chennai: Frequent, prolonged power cuts over the past two weeks have left residents across the Avadi Corporation limits struggling through intense summer heat, with many areas facing outages lasting four to five hours every day.For the last two weeks, 38-year-old Karthika has been sitting beside her young children every night and fanning them by hand…
Chennai City Police Commissioner A. Amalraj, a 1996-batch IPS officer who recently assumed office, stated that controlling rowdyism and ensuring swift action in crimes against women and children would be among his key priorities in the city. Chennai City Police Commissioner A. Amalraj, a 1996-batch IPS officer who recently assumed office, stated that controlling rowdyism…
Chennai: A single answer from a wife during cross-examination collapsed the defence built by her husband in a child sexual assault case, resulting in 20-year jail term for the 44-year-old man.The complainant lived with her two minor daughters in North Chennai. Since she remained away for work during the day, her children often played with…
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Chennai: Unable to arrange money for the funeral, a 65-year-old man stuffed his live-in partner’s body in a sack and abandoned it on the roadside near Pallavaram on Thursday.The incident came to light after residents noticed a sack lying on Mukkanni Amman Koil Street in Trisulam and alerted the Pallavaram police. Officers found the body…
