Port road projects hit a roadblock
Miffed with the increasing project cost overruns, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), which is handling both Chennai port- Maduravoyal elevated expressway (CPME) and Ennore-Manali road imp
Emerging blues for city corporation
While the political leadership in the state is engaged in heated debates over the high voltage Emerging Kerala meet, the host city corporation has also landed in a controversy following the alleged au
Anna arches defy demolishers
Work on demolishing the Anna arches was halted on Monday morning after the crane operator doubted the capacity of the 400-tonne crane to lift the arch.
The arches are being pulled down to make way fo
Toll collection yet to start
Toll collection at the Sadarhalli Gate on NH-7 could not start on Monday as there was no police protection. With the cops beefing up security at sensitive areas due to the recent terror plots that wer
City bids farewell to Anna arches
Work to remove the landmark Anna arches to make way for the Rs 117-crore two flyover project begun on Saturday night with the state highways department starting to pull down the arches with the help o
Go slow, potholes ahead
With the south-west monsoon making a late surge in the fag end of August, roads in the city are crumbling, unable to stand the new pattern of the monsoon.
Over a dozen roads are in a bad condition a
Water storage facilities poor at Fort St George
Water storage facilities at Fort St George are not safe. Chennai metro water has made this startling revelation following an inspection of storage facilities at the Fort among other areas.
The inspe
Chennai GHs await prescription
Patients and their relatives treat state-run hospitals like parks and guesthouses, lament government doctors, defending their filthy wards and garbage-strewn campuses.
Even as the four major govern
Kollam-Kottappuram inland stretch this year
The much awaited Kollam-Kottappuram stretch of Kerala’s National Inland Waterways would be operational this year itself, said chief minister Oommen Chandy in Kochi on Saturday.
He was inaugurating t
Stormwater may be drained into lake
Chennai mayor Saidai Duraisamy has said the top brass of the corporation would review water-logging at Guindy, Maduvankarai and Alandur areas to ensure that the localities do not suffer inundation dur