Voltage fluctuations take a toll on Chennai
Apart from sweating their way through two-hour power outages every day, residents have to also deal with voltage fluctuation, which is taking a toll on their electrical equipment.
Several localities
Strong Winds bring power to Tamil Nadu
With wind-power generation in the state picking up in the last 3-4 days, parts of Chennai, including Kolathur, Villivakkam and OMR, were spared load-shedding Sunday.
The districts have been reeling f
Work to begin on Neelankarai link
The state highways department has floated a tender to appoint consultants to lay link roads at Neelankarai and Palavakkam at a cost of Rs100 crore to improve connectivity between East Coast Road and R
Tangedco wants penalty for misuse
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Ltd (Tangedco) has filed a petition before the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) seeking approval for levying excess demand and en
7 FOBs, 5 subways to help pedestrians
The state highways department has proposed to build seven foot overbridges (FOBs) and five subways with escalators in the city to ease the hardship faced by pedestrians in crossing busy junctions and
EB consumers ‘billed’ to suffer
Adding to the woes of electricity consumers already burdened with a steep increase in power tariff, the assessment officers of Tamil Nadu generation and distribution corporation (Tangedco) are refusin
Tangedco approval: Consumers can buy own meters from select makers
Consumers seeking new service connection can heave a sigh of relief as the Tamil Nadu generation and distribution corporation (Tangedco) has allowed them to buy meters from one of the six approved mak
Subways likely to have shops in Chennai
In order to increase the patronage for pedestrian subways, the highways department is contemplating to build shops in its proposed subways at CMBT on Jawaharlal Nehru Salai and Little Mount (near AG c
Discrimination continues for dalit village panchayats
The dalit village panchayat presidents are no exception from caste discriminations if one goes by a study conducted in 10 districts of the state.
According to a study by Evidence, a Madurai-based
Villivakkam vehicular subway to be opened soon
The Villivakkam vehicular subway, which has been under construction for the past four years, will be opened to traffic very shortly.
Mayor Mr Saidai Duraisamy told this newspaper that the subway work