3 killed as fireworks-laden mini-van explodes

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Camera detecting attentiveness is 'useful': PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned out to be at his wittiest best when he addressed a hall packed with students, academicians and special invitees at the prize distribution ceremony of the ‘Singapore-India Hackathon’ at IIT-Madras on Monday.

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PM Modi plays Tamil pride card in Chennai visit

Playing Tamil pride card after landing at Chennai airport on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled his statement in the US that Tamil is the oldest language in the world. Modi said what he had spoken in the US was widely published in the media.

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TN: 'AMMK will emerge stronger after polls'

Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) founder TTV Dhinakaran on Sunday said his party would emerge stronger after the assembly elections.

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Chennai: Corruption alleged in ‘108’ services

Drivers and paramedics of ‘108’ ambulances get money from private hospitals in Chennai for taking patients, including road accident victims, whistleblowers have reported. Some of these hospitals pay the drivers a percentage of the total bill as commission after the patient is discharged, a complaint to GVK-Emergency Management and Research Institute (GVK-EMRI) that runs the ‘108’ service in Tamil Nadu.

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Chennai: Birthday boy, friend killed in car crash

Two college students were killed and five others were seriously injured after their car rammed into a median near Injambakkam on ECR Road early on Sunday. One of the deceased, A Ahamed Fahim, turned 20 on Saturday and all the occupants of the car were returning from his birthday party at a resort on Akkarai beach.

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Ganapathy man threatens hotel owner at gunpoint

A 40-year-old moneylender from Ganapathy has been arrested for threatening to kill a hotel owner at gunpoint in an inebriated state when the latter intervened in his fight with a hotel staffer and attempted to pacify him.

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Brick kiln owners barge into houses of TN activists

Brick kiln owners from Thadagam and nearby areas on Sunday barged into the houses of two activists, who had filed a writ petition against unauthorised red earth mining by the former, at Chinna Thadagam and threatened them.

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Drones used to track down fugitive in China

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Asics blames hackers for porn on shop screens

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OK hand sign added to list of hate symbols

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Tamil resonates across US: PM IIT-Madras event

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday arrived in Chennai and asserted that he has learned about the diversity of the 'ancient' Tamil language which is resonated across the United States.

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Autos fleece passengers at Chennai Central

The Chennai Central or MGR Central railway station is a major gateway where visitors form the first impression about the city. But first-time visitors continue to get fleeced by autorickshaw drivers though prepaid auto service is available within the premises.

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Chennai woman returns bag containing Rs 40,000

A 50-year-old construction worker handed over a bag containing 40,000, she found on the road, to the police on Saturday night. The bag was accidentally dropped by a motorist at Kodambakkam.

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3 die as bus collides with truck in Tamil Nadu

Three people, including a woman, died when a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus collided with a container truck near Hosur in Krishnagiri district in the early hours of Monday.

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Great robbery in Southern Rlys: What TOI found

R Sivakumar, a cook on contract at Perambur Loco Works in Chennai, said he was shocked to learn that he was getting paid just ₹10,000 as salary for September as opposed to ₹15,000 that the railways was paying to his contractor for him. He said he was being paid in cash through an account operated by his contractor with no debit card or bank passbook with him.

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Live | PM Modi in Chennai: Arrives at airport, to address IIT-M convocation

More than 1,000 policemen have been deployed inside and outside the campus

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TN govt departments owe discom Rs 1,500 core

The Union and state government departments are major power bill defaulters in Tamil Nadu. At present, ₹1,500 crore is pending from several government departments. Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board leads the defaulters’ list with dues of ₹855 crore.

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TN: New app to tell you where your bus is

On lines of mobile apps such as Ola and Uber, the government is developing a new app which will let public live track government buses and help them plan trips accordingly.

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Chennai: Sewage recycling to save 50mld water

With the addition of Metrowater's new tertiary treatment reverse osmosis (TTRO) plant in Kodungaiyur, industrial units at Manali, Ennore and Minjur in the city will soon get 50mld of treated sewage water. This will reduce the pressure on Chennai's drinking water sources - the Redhills reservoir and the Minjur desalination plant - which earlier used to supply the water to the industrial units. The plant is expected to be inaugurated by chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday.

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Water supply to get better in Chennai

Adding to the city’s precarious water bowl, Krishna waters from Andhra Pradesh reached the Poondi reservoir late on Saturday night. Early on Sunday, about 100 cusecs (cubic metres per second) of water was reaching Poondi reservoir, said a Metrowater officer.

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PM's visit: Security up at IIT Madras

Security has been stepped up at IIT Madras campus and its surrounding areas in preparation for visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.

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Will virtual clothes transform how we shop?

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PM to take aerial route to IIT-M

Heavy security posted around campus, but traffic will be hassle-free, say police

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Pedestrians inconveniencedPedestrians are forced to walk on Anna Salai at great risk. There is only one traffic policeman near the Teynampet signal. H

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‘Need to promote research in ocular oncology’

Prof. N. Rajan memorial oration d

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College students to be imparted training in Tamil language

Students cannot even write in mother tongue, finds survey

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Easing norms for NGOs in schools: Teachers and experts raise concerns

A recent circular issued by the Director of School Education which has eased norms for NGOs or volunteers wanting to improve learning outcomes in gove

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Despite crackdown, illegal banners continue to crop up in city

No fresh permission given this year, says Corporation

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Chennai engagements, September 30, 2019

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Social workers have a role to play during disasters, says former NDMA member

Pointing out at the devastation in Kerala last year and this year, he said it was mainly due to mindless exploitation of natural resources

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Stalin claims graft in gadgets tender; CM refutes

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Why much of the internet is closed off to blind people

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Social workers have a role to play during disasters, says NDMA founder

Pointing out at the devastation in Kerala last year and this year, he said it was mainly due to mindless exploitation of natural resources

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Elon Musk gives update on Starpship rocket plans

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TN: A week after NEET scam, MCI, NTA yet to act

More than a week after the news about impersonation in medical admissions at government and deemed universities in the state broke and nearly four arrests were made, there has been no reaction from either the National Testing Agency, which conducted the examination or the Medical Council of India, the apex body regulating medical education.

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TN: A WhatsApp group to revive dying water bodies

Even as many invite public ire for spreading false information and unwanted content on social media, a bunch of like-minded people drew praise from peers for a WhatsApp group campaign to revive waterbodies and supply channels.

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846 blackspots on national highways in TN

Against the backdrop of national highways accounting for 38% of fatalities in accidents in Tamil Nadu so far this year, the Union ministry of road transport and highways has identified 846 “accident blackspots” and asked the state government and NHAI to take corrective steps soon.

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GCC finds 2,100 potholes on 1,300 streets

Santhosh Venkataraman, a resident of Mogappair, had a near-death experience while crossing pothole-ridden Gangai Amman Nagar Road in Mogappair last week. It’s not the only road that’s filled with potholes. In the past two months, Greater Chennai Corporation conducted a survey and found 2,100 potholes on 1,300 streets across all 15 zones.

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Chennai: Gang cheats 50 of Rs 2 crore on promise of jobs, 2 arrested

Police arrested two people and launched a search for four others for cheating people of several lakhs of rupees promising them jobs in merchant ships.

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Tamil Nadu: Special courts to try RPWDA cases

In a paper-compliance, the Tamil Nadu government has ‘designated’ regular sessions courts in all districts courts to try cases related to persons with disabilities.

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Chennai to get mild rain today, forecasts Met

The city is expected to get mild rain on Sunday which is likely to be warm.

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Non-Tamil Nadu centre NEET students under probe

As the NEET impersonation scam turns bigger with the arrest of one more first-year MBBS student anddetention of two morestudents who are yet to be formally arrested, the CB-CID police have approached the National Testing Agency for details of all Tamil Nadu Class XII students who opted for NEET centres outside the state.

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Man who kicked mom told to pay Rs 10k to old age home

A man who beat his own mother, aged 75 years, with chappals and kicked her over a property dispute has been granted anticipatory bail by the Madras high court with a condition that he pay Rs 10,000 to a senior citizen’s home at Royapuram.

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Rs 350 cr deals for buying equipment for TN police under DVAC scanner

After an internal probe brought out serious irregularities in the procurement of communication equipment and gadgetssuch as body-worn cameras and CCTVs worth₹350 crore for the Tamil Nadu police, the state government has ordered a Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) probe.

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HC junks residents’ plea against metro facility at Thiru-Vi-Ka park

The Madras high court refused to stall construction of a parking area and amenities centre planned by Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) in Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar park, but has directed the state to ensure that the CMRL plants 5,200 trees in the area, as per an undertaking, to make up for the loss of green cover due to the facility.

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The sparrow street

Byndiamman Koil Street in Besant Nagar seems to be offering us a few lessons about species adaptation

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Kolu Kondattam gets bigger

Registrations for contest close on October 7

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Tackling it street by street

Residents of Thiruvengada Nagar are following a monitoring system that ensures civic problems are not allowed to fester

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Give the number, solve the problem

In Thirumullaivoyal, a numbering system is allied to how damaged electricity poles are set right

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TN: 75-year-old farmer fights off robbers

A 75-year-old farmer in Tamil Nadu’s Tirupur district suffered injuries when he tried to fight off two robbers who tried to snatch his wife’s gold chain on Thursday night.

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Man held for trying to circulate fake currency

A 28-year-old man from Arunachal Pradesh has been arrested in Tamil Nadu’s Tirupur for trying to circulate counterfeit currency notes.

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Tragedy sparks a safety movement in Chitlapakkam

Residents start survey of faulty electric poles and transformers

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Residents’ group in R.K. Nagar forms forum

Quick response by police to a complaint published in The Hindu Downtown prompts move

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May Day Park gets a facelift

The park was taken over by CMRL almost a decade ago for constructing underground tunnels

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Why girls elope: Study has answers

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Trichy: Former DSP, SI sentenced to prison

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Man arrested for sexually abusing stepdaughter

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Cops honour people for attending to road mishaps

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Trichy: Two die after loose soil falls on them

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Trichy: Woman steals money drugging co-passenger

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Four more persons nabbed in Subasri’s death case

The Traffic Police of St Thomas Mount has apprehended four more persons in connection with the death of Subasri in a road accident after an illegal f

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Politics live: After BJP inducts its lone MLA into party, Akali Dal decides to go it alone in Haryana polls

Here are the day's political developments from across the country

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TN: Bus goes up in flames with people on board

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TN: Man's hand gets stuck in machine, dies

A 31-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh died on Thursday after he met with an accident at a private spinning mill in Avinashi in Tirupur.

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Chennai: Elephants tortured while being shifted

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Cops seize 76kg of sea horses at Mannady house

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Girl's bite mark puts 2 rapists behind bars

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Spoofing emails: The trickery costing businesses billions

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