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…
PUDUCHERRY: A 20-year-old college student collapsed while participating in a physical test and was declared dead upon arrival in the hospital in Puducherry on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Gokul from the Kannamangalam area near Arani in Tiruvannamalai district. Gokul was a second-year undergraduate student at a college in Arani. His father, Babu,…
Chennai: PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss dubbed the Tamil Nadu govt’s decision to approach the Supreme Court over the Cauvery water-sharing dispute a “delayed but correct step”. In a statement on Saturday, he cautioned the state against engaging in bilateral negotiations with Karnataka on the river dispute or the proposed Mekedatu dam project.Anbumani noted that the…
Chennai: A suspect in a multi-crore iridium investment scam was arrested by CB-CID at Chennai airport on arrival from Bahrain on Saturday. Suresh Kumar was remanded in judicial custody on Saturday for forging bank documents to cheat investors.The case was registered by the Salem branch of the Organised Crime Unit of the CB-CID on March…
The centre is expected to bridge a long-standing gap in access to healthcare for families of persons with disabilities in the locality. Chennai: Tamil Nadu assembly speaker J C D Prabhakar on Saturday opened a centre for free therapy and rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities at the Greater Chennai Corporation-run Chennai Special School for…
Children enjoy a rainy Saturday evening, playing in the showers in Chennai. Chennai: After a hot day when temperatures climbed nearly 3°C above normal, evening rain brought relief to many parts of the city and its suburbs on Saturday. While IMD has forecast light to moderate rain over the city and the suburbs only on…
