A green initiative spreads its branches

By planting trees, L. Thangapandian, an electrical contractor with a private company in Perungudi, has become an inspiration for many at work and in his neighbourhood

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‘Trash point’ on Nerkundram Pathai

Residents say conservancy workers clear garbage only twice a week

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When caution is at the top of the shopping list

Neighbourhood stores design a new experience for customers

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As pipeline work crawls, streets turn muddy

Construction materials such as long steel plates and cement pipes continue to occupy footpaths

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Taking safety to a new level

The median on a section of Jawaharlal Nehru Main Road is being raised to a height of four feet to prevent pedestrians from crossing the road at undesignated points

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MTC alters bus routes in suburbs without notice

Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) Chennai has silently introduced a new bus route and altered a few in the southern and western suburbs.

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Plea in HC over siddha dispensaries in temples

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.

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Savadu soil: HC seeks details of licences given

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.

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Kid playing with plastic bag suffocates to death

A 5-year-old boy died of suffocation, his face covered with a plastic bag, at Tiruttani, about 90 km from here, on Thursday.

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Bazaar Road is a picture of squalor

On Bazaar Road in Mylapore, residents are treated to an unpleasant sight, day after day. Stray dogs and cattle feed on the leftovers lying around the

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Korattur subway opens for vehicular traffic

The facility cuts down on travel time dramatically, sparing many motorists a five-kilometre detour

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Vehicles put through a mud bath in Ambattur

Drain repair work makes Third Main Road in Ambattur a nightmare for motorists

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Busy section of CTH Road gets a fresh coat of tar

As part of monsoon-preparedness work, a three-kilometre stretch of the arterial road is being relaid

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A Good Samaritan for these times

Here is how a traffic police officer goes beyond the call of duty, often serving the community in unexpected ways

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Local communities build cities: A case study from South Chennai

The theme of this year’s World Cities Day, observed yesterday, underscores the role of geographically defined groups in promoting sustainability. How residents of Perumbakkam, just a breeze away from Rajiv Gandhi Salai, have been driving a solid waste management movement in their locality illustrates this point

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A waste management model that thrived during the crisis

The challenges of the pandemic seem to have demonstrated the resilience of CEEBROS Boulevard’s award-winning trash programme

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Children open the innings for their gated community in Chennai

Cherry Pick finds inspiration far from home to design a source segregation programme, and then gets its young residents to introduce it to the grown-ups

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How social media is preparing for US election chaos

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Few takers, 163 engg colleges in TN face a crisis

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%.

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Bangladeshi nat'l held for illegal stay from Avadi

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.

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Chennai: Covid case count down to May-end level

The daily count of Covid-19 cases in the city is down to the level last seen exactly five months ago.

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TN: Man missing for two years found murdered

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.

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Chennai: Now, for some Covid-themed meme fest

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!’

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3 held in 2018 Kancheepuram murder case

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AIIMS board member row: Minister defends Centre

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MKU invites applications for four posts

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Biden campaign fury at blocked Facebook ads

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Marriott Hotels fined £18.4m for data breach that hit millions

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Crane hits Pamban railway bridge, traffic hit

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Fisherman missing after boat capsizes in TN

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MSU approves add-on diploma courses

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Residents given car stickers to eliminate unauthorised parking in Alwarpet

Seethama Colony Residents Association has taken the initiative

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TN guv gives assent to 7.5% NEET quota Bill

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Chennai: Godwoman cons man, kin of Rs 48 lakh

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.

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Tamil Nadu: Loot in the name of people of soil

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.

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TN: Christian preacher held over obscene messages

A preacher with an evangelical Christian organization has been arrested for sending obscene messages to a city school girl from 2011 to 2016.

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For Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google business is booming

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UK fusion experiment used in hunt for clean energy

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Dog training technique helps robot learn and other news

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Pics: Chennai goes under water, again

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

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UGC, Tamil Nadu spar over axing arrear exams

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.

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More rain likely in Chennai after November 3

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.

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TN: 62-year-old woman raped, strangled near Hosur

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.

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TN issues GO for 7.5% med quota for govt students

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.

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TN: MBBS cut-off may go up by 70-100 marks

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.

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Getting too many texts? Blame the election

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Madurai: 2 women held for stealing gold chain

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Rajinikanth clarifies, says no decision yet on politics as speculated

On December 31 in 2017, the actor had officially announced that he would enter politics and would launch a political party.

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Government’s failure responsible for inundation of Chennai, alleges Stalin

“Chennai is not able to withstand rain even for a day. People fear that there will be a repeat of flooding that ravaged Chennai in December 2015.”

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Madurai cracker unit death toll rises to eight

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Tuticorin: A bathroom built with plastic bottles

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SIMS launches centre to treat dystonia and spasticity

The centre will treat movement disorders using botulinum toxin injection.

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In pics: Rain causes waterlogging in Chennai

Several parts of Tamil Nadu witnessed severe waterlogging on Wednesday after the region received incessant rainfall.

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How autumn colours dress Chennai round the year

Chennai may not have a set autumn season but the brilliant red hues of many tree species growing in the city usher fall vibes throughout the year

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Tuticorin port sets coal unloading record

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Water levels in Chennai’s reservoirs up

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.

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Chennai: Wholesale cost of onion drops by Rs 20

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.

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Chennai: Making learning fun for underprivileged

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.

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Chennai gets another player in the coworking space

Awfis has set up its first space, spread over 65,000 sq. ft at Gemini Circle, Nungambakkam

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Samsung sees sales surge from rival Huawei's ban

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What's triggering heavy October rain in Chennai

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Chennai rains: Heavy rainfall in parts of the city, more showers predicted

Many neighbourhoods experience waterlogging.

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Need a socially-distanced holiday? Just set sail, say coastal cities

In a socially-distanced post-Covid-19 world, sailing, kayaking and other water-based solo sports are finding popularity among people looking for adventure

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20 TN engg colleges couldn’t fill a single seat

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.

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What forced Rajini to rethink political entry

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.

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‘Illegal’ admission: Madras HC orders CB-CID probe

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.

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Chennai: Four held for smuggling 330kg ganja

The Chennai police caught four men for smuggling 330kg of ganja into the city.

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Suburban services not ready for post-nCov travel

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.

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Animal Crossing: 'My sister lives on in a video game'

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Stalin slams poor infra in 10 new govt colleges

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Trump campaign website hacked in 'cryptocurrency '

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