Chennai: A teacher died, while his woman colleague and four students suffered injuries as their car veered off a flyover near Kundrathur and fell into a 30ft deep ditch on Sunday morning.The deceased was identified as Prabhakar, 44, a teacher at the Pazhaverkadu Govt Higher Secondary School and resident of NGO Colony, Ponneri, Tiruvallur district….
Chennai: Power cuts continued to hit several neighbourhoods across the city through Sunday, with a nearly 22-hour outage at Apollo Hospital in Perungudi intensifying public concern.Electricity supply to the hospital was cut around 2.30pm on Saturday, and videos and photographs showing darkened sections of the premises, a nurse using an ambu bag to assist a…
Chennai: Commuters using the main entrance of Chennai Egmore Railway Station are facing severe inconvenience during peak hours owing to traffic congestion, haphazard parking and encroachments on Gandhi-Irwin Road.Passengers said barricades near the entrance have made pick-up and drop-off difficult. The stretch is especially clogged between 3am and 7am and again from 3pm till late…
Times News NetworkChennai: A 22-year-old woman died after an immersion water heater exploded in a bathroom at Kumarakuppam near Tiruttani on Saturday morning.The deceased was identified as Uma Maheswari, wife of Sudhakar, 27. The couple has a one-and-a-half-year-old son.According to police, Uma Maheswari had entered the bathroom when a loud explosion was heard from inside….
Chennai: The relief for residents of North Chennai’s Old Washermenpet over Chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s order to close Tasmac outlets within 500metres of educational institutions has been short lived. An outlet in the neighbourhood located near three schools and a college still hasn’t been closed.This two-decade-old liquor shop and bar in Mint Suburayulu Naidu…
Chennai: Travel disruptions stemming from the West Asia conflict continue to weigh on India’s medical tourism sector, with overseas patient inflows yet to return to earlier levels. The region accounts for a substantial share of overseas patients visiting India’s nearly $9-billion medical tourism market.Although hospital operators have begun to see early signs of improvement from…
As India seeks to build a globally competitive sports goods industry, Tamil Nadu is emerging as one of the strongest contenders for a large-scale manufacturing hub, leveraging its deep industrial ecosystem, export infrastructure, and vast MSME network. NITI Aayog‘s recent assessment of state-level readiness for sports goods manufacturing identified Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu…
Despite competition through the 1960s and 1970s, Kannadasan’s songs became, for many Tamils, a prism through which life was interpreted — articulating longing, disappointment, romance, faith, despair and philosophical resignation in language at once simple and memorable. VamananStanding well over six feet in height, Kannadasan often dictated his film songs while reclining against pillows like…
Royal Enfield, the 125-year-old motorcycle maker owned by Eicher Motors, ended FY26 with annual sales of over 1.11 million motorcycles, marking its second consecutive year above the million-unit milestone. While it has entered the EV segment, it has lined up a2,200-crore capex plan for FY27, including around 1,000 crore for its Chennai operations, covering new…
Chennai: Civil services aspirants found the general studies paper in the Union Public Service Commission’s (UPSC) preliminary exam tough and lengthy this year.As many as 16,626 candidates from the city appeared for the UPSC’s civil services preliminary exam on Sunday. As many as 6,494 candidates were absent.Ajay Isac, one of the aspirants who wrote the…
