Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) Chennai has silently introduced a new bus route and altered a few in the southern and western suburbs.
The Madras high court has sought response from the state government in a plea which sought to establish siddha dispensaries at temples in the state.
The Madras high court has sought a response from the state government on the number of licences granted for quarrying savadu soil in patta land parcels at R S Mangalam locality in Ramanathapuram district in the past five years.
A 5-year-old boy died of suffocation, his face covered with a plastic bag, at Tiruttani, about 90 km from here, on Thursday.
The drop in engineering admissions may leave one-third of engineering colleges in the state fighting for survival in 2020-21. Of 461 colleges that took part in the online engineering counselling this year, 163 filled less than 20% seats, and 103 of them not even 10%.
Police on Friday arrested a 22-year-old Bangladeshi national from Avadi for entering the country without a passport and other valid documents. The arrested person was identified as Batcha.
The daily count of Covid-19 cases in the city is down to the level last seen exactly five months ago.
More than two years after a resident of Manimangalam in Kancheepuram district went missing, police on Thursday unearthed his grave in Villupuram district following the confession of a man arrested in July 2020 for the kidnap of the murdered man’s mother.
At a time when he was overcome by the coronavirus scare, Barath Rajendran found something that gave him a moment to drop the fear and laugh – a meme created out of a Rajinikanth song from the film ‘Muthu’ that read ‘Corona Corona ena konnudadha veena’, roughly translating to ‘Corona, please do not kill me!’
A 45-year-old self-proclaimed godwoman who cheated a man and his family members of 100 sovereigns of gold jewellery worth Rs 40 lakh and Rs 8 lakh in cash on the pretext of driving away ‘evil spirits’ besetting them at Neelankarai, has been arrested.
On October 7, a division bench of Justice N Kirubakaran and Justice B Pugalendhi observed that though there were several schemes meant for farmers, the status of the farming community remains the same as the benefits of the schemes do not reach them.
A preacher with an evangelical Christian organization has been arrested for sending obscene messages to a city school girl from 2011 to 2016.
Till about noon on Thursday, motorists on major bus route roads and arterial roads had to wade through up to two feet of water. However, by 4pm, Greater Chennai Corporation’s command and control centre recorded water stagnation of two feet or more at only nine spots, an official said
The Tamil Nadu government’s proposal to grant blanket pass in all arrear papers of college students citing the pandemic has run into rough weather with University Grants Commission (UGC) opposing the decision.
After the record breaking downpour early on Thursday, IMD has forecast more intermittent thunderstorms with heavy rainfall over some areas in the city on Friday. But weather enthusiasts said Chennai is likely to see a brief near-dry spell, with a few isolated showers, till November 3 after which the monsoon would pick up pace and bring widespread rainfall to the city, coastal belt and interior districts without long breaks.
A 62-year-old woman was raped and murdered by an unidentified person, who took away her gold ornaments, near Mathigiri here on Wednesday night.
With Tamil Nadu governor Banwarilal Purohit showing reluctance to give his assent for the bill to provide 7.5% quota for government school students in medical courses, the state government took the executive route on Thursday and issued a GO to reserve seats from this year.
The cut-off marks for MBBS admission in TN may go up by 70 to 100 for most categories due to a surge in top scorers in National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test 2020.
Several parts of Tamil Nadu witnessed severe waterlogging on Wednesday after the region received incessant rainfall.
Intermittent rain over the last few weeks and the continuous inflow of Krishna river water from Andhra Pradesh increased water levels in the four reservoirs, while the onset of the northeast monsoon on Wednesday brought further cheer. The combined storage level of water in reservoirs at Poondi, Cholavaram, Red Hills and Chembarambakkam was 5,808 mcft (million cubic feet) on Wednesday against the full capacity of 11,257 mcft.
A week after onion prices skyrocketed with the staple vegetable costing more than Rs 100 a kilogram in city neighbourhood markets, its rate has taken a turn and is falling at the Koyambedu wholesale market. Better arrivals caused a drop by Rs 20.
Sneha Nair has been photographing children for close to three years now. And if there’s something she has wanted to do as much as clicking kids, it is to make them dance. The perfect opportunity arrived a few months ago when Sneha’s former teacher Kamla Ramamurti roped her into Project Chetna, a programme by Chennai NGO Sethu Foundation that works towards learning, health, hygiene and nutrition of underprivileged children living around Teynampet, T Nagar and Nandanam.
Thirteen colleges, including 12 government and aided colleges and one self-financing college, filled 100% seats while 20 colleges could not fill a single seat after four rounds of online counselling conducted by Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions committee. Last year, 16 colleges could not get a single student.
Rajinikanth may not take the much-promised plunge into politics. Or so says a leaked communique the actor is understood to have sent to his inner circle of advisers and well-wishers.
Asserting that there is a ‘larger design’ adopted by private medical colleges in Tamil Nadu in collusion with the state authorities to make illegal admissions to PG medical courses, taking advantage of the pandemic situation, the Madras high court has ordered a CB-CID probe to unearth the conspiracy.
The Chennai police caught four men for smuggling 330kg of ganja into the city.
The state government insists suburban train services need to resume for economic activity to revive, but the railways doesn’t seem prepared to make commute safer and hassle-free on the three lines straddling the city. This is in contrast to Chennai Metro Rail Limited which has done a lot of work at its stations to ensure commuters follow Covid-19 protocol.