SOWA turns to the sun to power common facilities

Now, it saves around ₹10,000 every month on its electricity bills

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Battle against stormwater drains resumes

Residents of Besant Nagar First Avenue issue one more call against SWD construction

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Not a pleasant experience, say beach-goers

The walk to the beach will be energising; but not on these roads branching off ECR

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Road in Perungudi resembles war zone

Corporation Road will be relaid after CMWSSB completes its work, says GCC

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Heritage building at Connemara library undergoing renovation

The work is expected to be completed by March 2020

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Traffic chaos at LIC Colony

Residents complain that vehicles of visitors to a Tasmac outlet eat into the carriageway

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Residents irked by garbage pile-ups in Ashok Nagar

They say waste is cleared from Third Avenue Road only once in a fortnight

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Tamil Nadu to unveil e-vehicle policy in 3 wks

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Experiencing Infinity

With Greater Chennai Corporation receiving a certificate of appreciation from the State government for the sensory park it established last December, here is a look at how the facility benefits city residents

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A section of Surapet Main Road ‘cracks’ under showers

Less than five months after it was widened from a two-lane to a four-lane road, Surapet Main Road is now potholes-ridden. The newly-laid bitumen surfa

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Market Road in Koyambedu: Dug-up, slushy and unmotorable

That is the status of Market Road in Koyambedu

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A century old, and creaking

Once a lifeline for motorists and railway workers, the steel overbridge in Perambur Loco Works is now in a state of neglect

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TN: Ex-SI slaps woman lawyer, arrested

Police have arrested a 74-year-old retired subinspector of police for allegedly slapping a woman lawyer at Virugambakkam on Thursday night.

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Chennai: Test your driving skills on simulators

For those who wish to refresh their four-wheeler driving skills, or corporates and school managements that want to ensure safe practices by drivers who carry their employees and students, the city has now got virtual reality-based advanced driver training simulators.

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Take petition filing online: RTI activists to TN

The Tamil Nadu government will have to respond to the Supreme Court on establishing a portal through which citizens would be able to file RTIs, after a plea was heard earlier this week.

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Bank employees stage protest against Centre’s decision to merge PSU banks

Employees of all public and private sector banks wore black badges to work as a mark of protest to the government’s decision.

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MU bans faculty from inviting students home

In a precautionary step aimed at preventing incidence of sexual harassment on campus, University of Madras has banned its faculty members from inviting students to their houses.

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Chennai: Tomato prices go down, onion gets dearer

The prices of tomatoes at wholesale and retail markets across the city fell by half, but that of onions nearly doubled on Friday.

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Rain soaks Chennai, wet weekend forecast

The city’s residents thrilled by the spell of rain on Friday evening have more good news, with the met department forecasting rain or thundershowers for the next 24 hours.

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Can Chengalpet turn Chennai’s Gurugram?

Bifurcation of Kancheepuram to carve out the new Chengalpet district may transform the town into the Gurugram of Chennai.

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Vellore school building on brink of collapse

A government school near Ambur in Vellore district is on the verge of collapse, putting its 118 students at serious risk. The tiled roofs of Vadapudhupattu Government Middle School has developed several cracks and it has been like this almost a year.

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Will set up air ambulance facility in Tamil Nadu, says EPS

Tamil Nadu will soon set up an air ambulance facility to pick up victims from faraway places and get them to tertiary care centres that are at least 200km-300km away, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said on Friday.

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Schoolgirls made to hold up homophobic, sexist placards on public road in Chennai

‘Sexy dresses invite eve teasing’, ‘Do not corrupt others minds by wearing provocative and revealing dresses’, ‘Parents, protect yourself and your children from gays-homos-lesbians’ were some of the sexist and homophobic placards unsuspecting girl students of Avvai Home TVR girls’ higher secondary school in Besant Nagar were on Friday

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Puducherry Cenatc mop-up counselling on Aug 31

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TN teacher lone faculty for Fulbright Program

Sudha Prasad, a postgraduate zoology teacher at St Joseph of Cluny Matriculation HSS in Neyveli, has been selected for the prestigious ‘Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Program.

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London gets 10m more landline phone numbers to meet demand

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TN: Chennai receives early evening rain

After a day of dry spell, Chennai started receiving widespread early evening thundershowers on Friday.

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YouTube restores far-right channels after appeal

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Eight men facing charges over illegal streaming sites

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TN best investment destination in India: CM

Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday expressed his government’s interest in working with Britain and said the state is the best investment destination in India.

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DMK rewards two defectors from AMMK

The DMK on Friday rewarded two defectors from T T V Dhinakaran’s Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) with plum posts in the party.

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Suicide in PWD office: Chief engineer booked

A day after contractor Awadhesh Srivastava shot himself dead in the office of PWD chief engineer over non-payment of his Rs 5 crore dues, police lodged a named FIR against six engineers of the department, including the chief engineer, and an engineer of the electricity department on abetment of suicide charge.

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How 15 musicians from five countries came together for one concert in Chennai

The auditorium of KM College of Music envelops a cacophony of sounds: violins, the tabla, electric guitars… each in it own bubble of sound check. And

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TN: Two students expelled over caste ‘tilak’

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3rd free dialysis unit opened in Chennai

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Elderly man falls from Guindy hotel escalator, dies

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TN: Why there's tension in Vellore village

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Not just TN CM, ministers too clocking int'l miles

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3-year-old boy charred to death in Chennai

A three-year-old boy was charred to death at Kolkumedu near Avadi here on Thursday afternoon when a hut in which he was sleeping caught fire.

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Google finds 'indiscriminate iPhone attack lasting years'

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Man slits wrist, gifts blood to girlfriend before killing self in Chennai

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Chennai: Roofs of cyclone Vardah-hit railway stations continue to leak

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Chennai: 2 lakh devotees have only 8 toilets, 20-min-long wait outside each

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Doctors remove toy part stuck in toddler’s nose for two months in Chennai

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Tamil Nadu: 4-feet rod pierces chest, man survives to tell tale

A 4-foot-long rod that pierced the chest of a man after he accidentally fell into a roadside ditch that was under construction was successfully removed by doctors at the Government Rajaji Hospital after a surgery.

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Tanya Gersh Was The Target Of A Neo-Nazi 'Troll Storm.' Then She Fought Back And Was Awarded $14 Million

Tanya Gersh Was The Target Of A Neo-Nazi 'Troll Storm.' Then She Fought Back And Was Awarded $14 Million
Now, she's ready to tell her story.

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Elon Musk and Jack Ma disagree about AI's threat

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Dhinakaran slams attack on Piyush by BJP cadre

AMMK general secretary T T V Dhinakaran on Thursday condemned the attack on social activist Piyush Manush in Salem by BJP cadre on Wednesday evening.

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Huddersfield woman jailed for abusing children for money online

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Sr citizen dies while taking bath in waterfalls

A 74-year-old man from Kumbakonam died after suffering breathing difficulties while bathing in the Courtallam Main Falls on Thursday morning.

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TN: 'Stalin went abroad without permission'

Suspended Congress leader Karate R Thiagarajan on Thursday joined issue with DMK president M K Stalin who had earlier questioned the “intent” behind Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami’s overseas visit.

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Stalin reviews DMK MPs’ performance

DMK president M K Stalin on Thursday reviewed the performance of party MPs and asked them to meet people in their constituencies regularly.

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Helmet rule: HC issues ultimatum to TN police

With no sign of effective implementation of its order in connection with compulsory helmet rule for both the pillion and rider of two-wheelers in the state, Madras high court has issued an ultimatum to the state police.

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TN: Stem cell drive to find match for 11-mth-old

Around 2,200 stem cell transplants take place every year in India. Unfortunately, the demand is 10 times that, says Dr Vikram Mathews, professor and head of the department of haematology at CMC Hospital, Vellore.

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TN: Unexploded shell handed over to commando force

A day after the Manampathi police planned to defuse an 84mm shell of a Carl Gustaf rocket launcher with the help of the Tamil Nadu Commando Force after getting an order from a judicial magistrate’s court in Chengalpet on Tuesday, the shell was handed over to the force on Wednesday.

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TN: 1K disabled people detained during protest

Police on Thursday detained around 1,000 disabled people when they staged a protest outside Ezhilagam building on the Kamarajar Salai here which houses several government departments.

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Samsung heir faces South Korea bribery retrial

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Huawei's next phone won't have Google apps

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Pick your trail at this off road sports complex at ECR

Take charge of the handle bar, as your ATV takes control of the terrain, and discover a path shaded by trees and bordered by playful waves

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HC dismisses Nalini’s plea for release of convicts

Refusing her any relief, a division bench of Justice R Subbiah and Justice C Saravanan dismissed the plea.

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Tamil Nadu: Man thrashes two wives, one dies

day after a meat shop owner thrashed his two wives for giving him a laxative, the elder one died on Tuesday.

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ECR gets number plate recognition cameras

Is speeding a given part of your drive on the scenic Eat Coast Road? Think again before you step on the accelerator for you will be pulled up, even if there are no police personnel in sight.

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Pinterest to direct vaccine searches to health sites

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No one stopped dalits’ funeral procession: Tamil Nadu

About a week after ‘airdropping’ of a Dalit’s body from a 20-ft bridge, on its way to funeral, went viral prompting the Madras high court to take up the issue suo motu, Tamil Nadu government told the court that no one denied access to Dalit villagers of Vaniyambadi in Vellore to their cremation ground.

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