Questions raised after terminal trial run
With Planning Commission keen on privatising the Chennai airport, it looks like the Airports Authority of India (AAI) is rushing towards commissioning of the new terminals at the city airport.
While
Champ ready to make waves
While girls her age flaunt their jewellery and dresses and gear up to attend weddings and family functions, 14-year-old A.V. Jayaveena toils hard at a swimming pool.
The little girl, sporting short
Civic body to revamp grievance redressal system
With corporation’s public grievance redressal system in the news for the wrong reasons, Chennai corporation is planning to go in for a major revamp of the system.
If sources are to be believed, the
Easy to cure Hepatitis B if tracked early: Doctors
Thanks to intensive campaigning and prevention tactics, the infection rate of HIV has dropped, but experts are worried about another looming viral epidemic—hepatitis.
Hepatitis B is 100 times more in
22 in hospital for diarrhoea in Chennai
Twenty-two people with symptoms of acute diarrhoeal disease (ADD) were admitted to the Communicable Disease Hospital and KMC on Friday.
While doctors are picking up patients with diarrhoea through h
Cops crack murder of senior citizen
The city police claims to have cracked the murder case of a 65-year-old woman from Kodungaiyur, who was killed last year.
The victim, Papatthyammal, was murdered by a four-member gang that assumed s
GH readmits man after protest
In a deplorable case of apathy, a 45-year-old disabled, destitute man was thrown out of the Chromepet General Hospital, three days after a kind stranger, an American tourist, had admitted him to the h
Tangedco to post consultant July end
Even as consumers are yet to recover from the steep power tariff hike, the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation.
(Tangedco) has initiated the process for appointing a consultant to give
Largest greying population in India
India has the largest greying population in the world — 130 million senior citizens who constitute 10 per cent of the total population.
However, with dropping fertility rates and increasing longevit
TN push for new wind energy policy
The Tamil Nadu government is pushing for a new central policy to promote offshore wind energy.
The state, which stands to benefit the most by any development on the wind energy front, is keenly awai