Civic brass try to end nexus row
The contractor-councillor nexus in the Chennai corporation has reached a new low with each accusing the other of trying to swindle the taxpayers’ money.
While contractors allege that councillors dem
Olive ridley, sea eagle rescued
It was a rescue and rehabilitation day for two critically endangered animals which depend on the marine eco system of the Chennai coastline.
An Olive Ridley Turtle named Sagarika and another haples
Co-ops are public authority: HC
The Madras high court has held that a co-operative society registered under the Tamil Nadu Co-Operative Societies Act is controlled by the government and hence it is a public authority within the mean
Coast Guard orders probe into teen’s death in collision
The Coast Guard has ordered an inquiry into death of a teenager on May 10 when a vessel allegedly hit a boat off Pamban coast, said Vice Admiral M.P. Muralidharan, director general of the Indian Coast
Railway police detains 40 in combing operations
GRPF personnel undertook a massive combing operation at Chennai Central and took as many as 40 persons into preventive custody late Saturday.
GRPF DSP V. Ponramu told DC that about 200 personnel were
Designer labels keep coming to town
It is an index of confidence regarding the India story that several deluxe brands should be coming to town.
This is happening despite the stock market always seeming to look for bad news, which make
Most children can’t run, hop or catch
Schoolchildren in Chennai may be great with spelling and arithmetic, but a majority of them do not have the basic skills to run and hop or catch a ball thrown at them, and cannot even balance themselv
No sun film, no safety: Women
The sun control films and tinted glasses that were seen by the court as one of the reasons for perpetrators of crime manage to get away with impunity, also provide a safety cover to a section of soci
Number of JEE winners goes up
The number of students qualified to sit for counselling to get admission for 9,647 seats in 15 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the country from the Madras zone has increased by 540 this year
In a first, HIV+ patient gets his gullet replaced
Ravirajan had not eaten a morsel of food for five years. A person who loved to eat, it was like a death sentence, even worse than the fact that he had AIDS, when he realized he could only swallow milk