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IIT-Madras professor bags award for water purification technology

Chennai: IIT-M professor Thalappil Pradeep has won the 10th 'Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water' for developing affordable technology for rapid removal of arsenic from drinking water. His technologies are delivering clean water to more than 1.2 crore people.

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Tamil Nadu: Mother, son killed in road accident

CHENNAI: A woman and her son died while his wife escaped with injuries when the car in which they were travelling met with an accident at Sriperumbudur on Sunday night.

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Five college students arrested for selling ganja in Chennai

CHENNAI: Five college students were arrested for smuggling ganja from Andhra Pradesh and selling it to other collegegoers.

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Chennai: Bypass project delay throws traffic off gear

CHENNAI: Delay in construction of two major bypass road projects on Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) has worsened traffic congestion between Kelambakkam and Thiruporur.

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Tamil Nadu: Women cops counselled on stress management

CHENNAI: The state police have started counselling sessions for its personnel, especially the women, striving to maintain a work-life balance.

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Tamil Nadu registers 255 new Covid cases in a day

CHENNAI: In the past seven days, Tamil Nadu added 1,464 new Covid-19 cases including the 255 cases it reported on Monday. The weekly sum of cases has nearly tripled since May 30 when the sum of cases was 451.

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Cauvery Water Management Authority has to decide on Mekedatu project, says solicitor general Tushar Mehta

CHENNAI: Solicitor general of India Tushar Mehta stated it was indisputable that the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) was constituted to give effect to the Tribunal award as modified by the Supreme Court and it would have to take a decision as to whether the Karnataka government’s Mekedatu dam project…

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Techies to aid Railways on suburban lines

CHENNAI: Southern Railway is looking at technology developers, entrepreneurs and innovators to offer advanced signalling techniques to increase the number of services in the suburban network without compromising on safety.

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Mekedatu: Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin urges PM Narendra Modi to restrain Cauvery water management authority

CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin on Monday sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention to restrain the Cauvery water management authority from discussing Karnataka's Mekedatu project proposal in its meeting on June 17. Writing to Modi, Stalin said the scope of the CWMA is limited to implementing the Supreme Court's…

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Streetlights in Korattur lake are illegal: Chennai revenue department

CHENNAI: Four days after TOI highlighted that illegal street lights had been put up in Korattur and Puzhal lakes since 2018, the revenue department on Monday confirmed that the lights were indeed inside Korattur lake area and were put up for encroachers.

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Chennai: PWD canal along Pallavaram radial road shrinks in size

CHENNAI: A PWD canal along the Pallavaram-Thoraipakkam radial road which was about 15 feet wide years ago has now shrunk to a width of five feet. Activists fear that the PWD is reducing the width of the canal to match the width of the canal opposite the road, which is…

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Chennai: A note from a burglar, to an army officer

CHENNAI: A burglar left behind a note at a retired army official’s residence in Selaivoyal near Manali and decamped with 40 sovereigns of gold jewellery from the house. “How dare could you object to my child playing near your house? Now you are at the receiving end.”

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Thunderstorms likely for next 2 days in Chennai, forecasts IMD

CHENNAI: City residents may get some respite from the sweltering heat as weathermen have forecast thunderstorms in the coming days.

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Tamil Nadu: ‘Governor or sanatana dharma protector?’

CHENNAI: Murasoli, the DMK’s mouthpiece, has slammed Tamil Nadu governor R N Ravi for his speech glorifying ‘sanatana dharma’ at an event to commemorate the 100th year of the devotional song ‘Harivarasanam’. The editorial that appeared in Murasoli on Monday wondered whether he was the governor or a protector of…

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Aishwarya breaks triple jump National record

CHENNAI: The ongoing 61st National inter-state athletics championships at the JN Stadium here has turned out to be a memorable one for Karnataka's B Aishwarya. Just a day after she breached the Commonwealth Games' qualifying mark of 6.73m in the long jump category, the 24-year-old from Bengaluru produced yet another…

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Custodial death: SHRC seeks report from Chennai Police Commissioner

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I did not evade dope testing agencies, asserts quarter-miler Aishwarya Mishra

CHENNAI: Refuting assumptions that she deliberately evaded dope testing agencies after emerging champion in the Federation Cup in April, Maharashtra quarter-miler Aishwarya Mishra on Monday asserted that she did not run away from the authorities but was in Uttar Pradesh on a personal visit.

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Yet another ‘custodial death’ in Chennai

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Long-jumper Aishwarya breaches CWG mark at Inter-State National Athletics meet

CHENNAI: Long-jumper Aishwarya B clocked 6.73m during the qualifying rounds of the 61st inter-state National athletics meet at the JN Stadium on Sunday evening to breach the Commonwealth Games’ qualifying mark of 6.50m.

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AIADMK district secretaries to meet on June 14

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After serving four-year doping ban, Manpreet Kaur smashes own shot put national record

CHENNAI: Having returned to competition last year after serving a doping ban of four years, Manpreet Kaur smashed her own national record to steal the limelight on the second day of National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships here on Saturday.

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Chennaiyin FC sign defender Gurmukh Singh

CHENNAI: Defender Gurmukh Singh has been roped in by Indian Super League (ISL) outfit Chennaiyin FC on a two-year contract after his impressive show for Rajasthan United FC in the I-League.

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Tamil Nadu: Buying a second-hand bike? make sure RC is not a fake

When you buy a second-hand vehicle next time, be wary of fake smart vehicle registration certificates (RCs). The Tamil Nadu Transport Department has recently unearthed a scam involving Coimbatore-based agents who allegedly distributed hundreds of fake RCs for hypothecated vehicles across Tamil Nadu, particularly in Chennai, where demand for secondhand…

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Vaccinated elderly with comorbid conditions at higher risk: Study

CHENNAI: The antibodies acquired through vaccinations to protect people against Covid-19 ebb away early in people above 60 years of age, particularly those with comorbid conditions, increasing the risk of breakthrough infections by up to 15 times and risk of hospitalisation by up to 10 times, a study by scientists…

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Tamil Nadu: Justice K Chandru-led panel to look into law on online rummy

CHENNAI: On a day the PMK organised demonstration in the city demanding ban on online gambling, the state government, on Friday, announced setting up of a four-member committee headed by retired Madras high court judge K Chandru to recommend grounds to promulgate an ordinance on “online rummy”.

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