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High mast lamps, LED lights at Marina

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As part of the Marina improvement programme, the city corporation has planned to install LED lights with inductions.

The private firm that will get the project will have to install the lights and mai

Share autos have a free run

While authorities claim to have intensified their crackdown on school vans and autorickshaws transporting children in the backdrop of the tragic death of a Tambaram schoolgirl recently, eight-year-old

No JCBs, tipper lorries on Ooty lands

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The Madras high court has held that use of JCBs, tipper lorries and poclain in Nilgiris district would only trigger landslides in the area endangering the flora and fauna of the area and dismissed a b

Councillors unite when it comes to ‘cut’

Despite the state government and city corporation sanctioning over Rs 100 crore for the development of Ambattur, which was recently merged with Chennai corporation, a majority of the funds remain unut

Lifejackets for 7 boathouses soon

There will virtually be no rides at the Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC’s) boating yards without lifejackets.

The authorities, who have mandated the wearing of lifejackets for all t

Loco shed staff prone to deafness

At least 10 per cent of the railway employees working at the diesel loco shed in Tondiarpet suffer heart ailments and nearly 60 per cent of them have hearing problems.

It is because employees work i

No pictures of min, MLAs on banners

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In a move aimed at preventing intra-party squabbles, the ruling AIADMK has warned its partymen against using photos of ministers and party functionaries in banners and advertisements pertaining to par

Service charges may be added to power bill

Just four months after a steep hike in electricity charges, consumers may have to shell out more as the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) Ltd proposes to hike the charges l

Toll in Nellore train tragedy rises to 33

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The toll in the Nellore train tragedy rose to 33 on Friday morning with the death of Sambasiva Rao, 33, who was admitted to a private hospital in Vadapalani on Monday with 90 per cent burns.

Rao’s re

Paper cups prove bees’ death traps

Our cellphone towers confuse them and make them lose their way; our ‘concretisation’ of green spaces leaves them starving and our vehicle fumes deaden their senses. Now, discarded paper cups are drown

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