Wildlife activists in the city have lauded the recent government order to construct a compound wall around the Nanmangalam Reserve Forest near Tambaram. The wall would protect the flora and fauna of N

A five-month-old boy who went missing from his home in Korukkupet on Wednesday night was found murdered in a sewage canal behind the house on Thursday morning.

Gokul, son of Gomathi and Rajesh of the

Kottesaara Rao, a mental health professional, does not like to send his children who are in Class III and Class I in an overloaded autorickshaw to a nearby school, but he has no choice as it is hard t

Housing budget of Chennaiite has shrunk, thanks to shooting inflation and continuing high interest rates on home loans.

With no big bonuses coming their way this year following global recession, Che

The over 20,000 cable operators in the city heaved a sigh of relief with the Union government deciding to postpone the deadline for a switchover from the analogue system to digital system to November

The state government has speeded up the augmentation of the city’s water resources.

Senior state WRO (water resource organization) officials revealed to Deccan Chronicle that tenders would be floate

Several civic works launched by the Chennai corporation are progressing behind schedule and lack of staff at several departments coupled with bureaucracy continues to haunt the civic administration at

The Madras high court on Thursday directed the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) to file an affidavit stating in detail the power position in the state and particularly in Chennai and also what step

The BJP’s decision to support former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma is to sustain the “anti-Congress, anti-UPA mood” in the country, the party’s national spokesperson Nirmala Seetharaman asserted, even

Ms Kanniyammal and her son Parameshwaran worked as bonded labourers in a rice mill at Kodungallur, Tiruvannamalai district, for almost a decade till the Adivasi Solidarity Council (ASC) rescued them.