Artillery is Army’s tour de force
Demonstrating a 105mm gun, currently being phased out, to visiting journalists at Mendhar camp, in Jammu, last week, the artillerymen were in high spirits. With Indian Army commemorating the first art
Water mafia drains city lakes dry
Rows of tanker lorries roar in and out of the lake round the clock. Accustomed to the jarring horns, hapless locals move to the edge of the road and make way for these trucks. A stone’s throw away, au
Noisy MRTS can cause deafness
Passengers who travel by MRTS trains between Chennai Beach and Velachery may get affected by noise-induced loss of hearing and giddiness. Surprised? The jarring sound that arises when the brakes are a
TVS to launch new product every three months
Aiming to increase its market share by three per cent, two and three-wheeler manufacturer TVS Motor Company on Friday said it would launch a new product every three months.
The first in this initiat
Family fun factor in school events
Car rallies might be popular. They are conducted all year round but they normally follow the time-speed-distance format, which is usually for car-rally enthusiasts and is not necessarily good as a fam
2-hour power cut likely in Chennai to ease demand
The critical power situation in Tamil Nadu figured high on the agenda in the Cabinet meeting presided over by chief minister Ms J. Jayalalithaa at the secretariat here on Wednesday.
Sources said the
Mayor sorry for row over anna arch
Even as 68 resolutions were passed, Anna arch issue turned Chennai corporation council meet into a battleground with ruling AIADMK and DMK slamming each other for demolition move
The blame game over
Top cop to pen thriller on Veerappan
India’s top cop K. Vijay Kumar, all set to retire as director general of Central Reserve Police Force, will turn into a thriller writer in the coming months. “After retirement, I am planning to write
Metro water’s doublespeak exposed
It may not be an overstatement to say that assistant engineer Venkataraman and conservancy worker D. Sankar were killed by a failed system and the pressure it exerted rather than asphyxiation.
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Sudden rain, thunder squall in Chennai
The sudden increase in wind speed and rain in Chennai claimed two lives on Wednesday.
Babu, 35, a worker, digging a 10-feet hole for metro water met with a watery grave on Erukkencherry high road in