Royapuram gained importance in erstwhile Madrasapattinam because of the first biggest South Indian railway terminal, inaugurated on 1856 by the then colonial rulers.

The region’s historic importance

Electricity Board officials swiftly responded to the report published in this newspaper on Wednesday (August 22) about bricks being tied to an overhead electric cable endangering the lives of the resi

Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Thursday renewed her request to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to convene forthwith a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) and also advise Karnataka to release

The state government on Wednesday informed the Madras high court that draft rules to regulate the use of vehicles carrying schoolgoing children is ready and will placed before the Cabinet in a couple

The State Express Transport Corporation (SETC) is looking forward to almost doubling its existing fleet following the state government’s decision to merge all long distance buses operated by other tra

Two of a four-member gang of thugs were arrested on Tuesday thanks to Mr Ramachandran, 50, who used his knowledge of the Kerala martial arts, kalari, to overpower one of them while the other was appre

A woman gave birth on board the Cheran Express barely a few hundred metres off Chennai Central around 5.20 pm on Wednesday.

A heavily pregnant Ms Sulochana, 23, had boarded the Cheran Express at Arak

A marriage is said to be a bond of a lifetime. Not for Shahanaz, who has overnight become the woman most wanted by Chennai police for having married more than a dozen men and disappearing with their m

A sessions court on Wednesday ordered issuance of summons to DMK president M. Karunanidhi, party treasurer M.K. Stalin, DMDK president and leader of Opposition in the Assembly Vijaykant and PMK founde

City college girl Sruthi Vijayachandran has won the “Best Young Speaker from Asia” award at an international competition hosted by the University of Cambridge.

She has bagged an MBA scholarship at t