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Chennai: Metro takes park sans green nod

CHENNAI: Greater Chennai Corporation on Saturday handed over 323 sq m of Panagal Park to metro rail for construction work, but the council resolution for this is silent on whether the green committee was consulted or whether the committee will supervise the fate of the 87 trees that have to…

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No Metrowater for 5 days, Mogappair residents struggle

CHENNAI: Residents of Mogappair East have been left without Metrowater supply for the last five days. Residents of Venugopal Street, EB Road, and Church Road rued that Metrowater was not flowing into their houses for the past five days. “Complaints to the Metrowater authorities have fallen on deaf ears. Every…

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50kg sandalwood worth Rs 1.5 lakh seized in Chennai

CHENNAI: Kavarapettai police on Sunday arrested a three-member gang, which was smuggling 50kg of sandalwood worth ₹1.5 lakh from Andhra Pradesh. Police seized 96 pieces of sandalwood from the gang.

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Chennai: Expired medicines dumped in Korattur lake

CHENNAI: Walkers at the Korattur lake were in for a shock when they saw a man dumping what turned out to be expired medicines and syrup bottles in a weir of the water body on Saturday morning. When some of them raised an alarm, the person immediately ran away from…

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Chennai: Man attacks DSP during row over parking vehicle, arrested

CHENNAI: A man attacked a DSP over an argument over parking at Mylapore on Saturday night.

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Tamil Nadu men beat Punjab to regain National Basketball Championships title

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu men registered a comprehensive 87-69 win over Punjab to regain the senior National basketball crown at the Nehru Indoor Stadium on Sunday evening. This was Tamil Nadu’s 10th National title. The chief architects of the Muin Bek-led side’s win were A Aravind (25 points) and M Arvind…

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State reports 30 new COVID-19 infections

Two new clusters identified in Chennai

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Chennai Corporation removes defacement on 'Namma Chennai' structure, files police complaint

CHENNAI: The Greater Chennai Corporation on Sunday removed the defacements on the ‘Namma Chennai’ structure at the Marina Beach.

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Congress to take out rally from Coimbatore to Chennai against fuel price hike

TNCC president K.S. Alagiri to flag off the rally tomorrow

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Property tax payments made easy with QR codes

CHENNAI: The corporation’s budget presented on Saturday focused on tech-based governance. Mayor R Priya announced the launch of QR codes to ease up payment of property tax. She also said residents will now be able to get building approvals on the Namma Chennai app.

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Spoken English classes in all Chennai corporation schools

CHENNAI: Spoken English classes will be extended to all schools of Greater Chennai Corporation which has, after a decade, allocated more than ₹100 crore to its education department to implement various schemes and improve the quality of education. Currently, only 20 schools have classes for spoken English.

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Broke, with a backpack

CHENNAI: In 2021, during the second wave of the pandemic, when Mutchintala Sairaj Vamsheekar lost his job as a physical education teacher, he decided to take a long walk to clear his head.

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Tamil Nadu school Headmaster held for sexually assaulting girls

CHENNAI: The Kovilpatti all-woman police in Tamil Nadu on Saturday arrested the headmaster of a government aided primary school for sexually harassing nine girl students for the last three months. The incident came to light when a parent of a girl lodged a police complaint on Friday.

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16 central infra projects in Tamil Nadu suffer cost overrun

CHENNAI: Blame it on underestimation of original cost, spiralling land acquisition costs, shortage of manpower, changes in project scope, monopolistic pricing by vendors of equipment services, general price rise/inflation and time overrun, the Union government has listed 16 infrastructure projects suffering cost overruns in Tamil Nadu.

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11 Iranians on boat detained off Chennai

CHENNAI: Coast Guard officials nabbed 11 Iran nationals mid-sea on Saturday. Since the men are suspected to be drug smugglers, they have been handed over to the Narcotics Control Bureau.

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Fresh Covid cases in Tamil Nadu down to 21

CHENNAI: Fresh cases in Tamil Nadu dropped to 21 on Saturday, one less than its tally on Friday. The state discharged 29 patients from the registry and reported no new deaths from the viral infection. There were 229 patients on the state’s active registry, of which 25 patients were in…

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Tamil Nadu: Disabled students allowed to use computers for boards

CHENNAI: In a relief to more than 16,000 disabled candidates set to appear for Class X, XI and XII state board exams this year, the school education department has allowed these candidates to use assistive devices such as video magnifier, talking calculator, braille map, tailor frame, abacus, and computers to…

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Chennai Corporation budget allocates Rs 1,800 crore for infrastructure boost

CHENNAI: A Rs 789 crore deficit notwithstanding, the Greater Chennai Corporation’s first open budget in more than six years earmarked about Rs 1,800 crore to rebuild basic infrastructure such as storm water drains, roads, school and hospital buildings.

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Madras University to start undergrad programme with Melbourne University

CHENNAI: The 164-year-old University of Madras will start its first-ever undergraduate degree programme Blended Bachelor of Science (BBSc) from the 2022-23 academic year. The curriculum for the science degree will be given by the University of Melbourne in Australia which is ranked 33 among the world universities.

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274 Pocso trials stalled in Chennai due to report delay

CHENNAI: An inordinate delay in issuing detailed report of the forensic science laboratory has stalled the court trial in more than 595 Pocso (Prevention of Crimes against Sexual Offences) Act cases in the state including 274 in Chennai city alone in 2020-21, proving true the maxim “justice delayed is justice…

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Fuel price increase: Madras high court for periodic revision of auto fares

CHENNAI: Revise auto-rickshaw fares periodically considering the fluctuating fuel prices, and put in place a software to do the job automatically, the Madras high court has suggested to the Tamil Nadu government.

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30% of India’s entertainment, media revenue is from south

CHENNAI: Half of the films released in 2021 were in one of the four south Indian languages and regional movies have produced some of the most successful box office hits in the recent past, according to a report released by CII southern region titled, ‘Regional is the new national –…

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Madras HC sets aside ouster of Maritime University director

CHENNAI: The Madras high court has set aside the removal of P Vijayan from the post of director of Indian Maritime University (IMU) and has quashed another order imposing ₹22.7 lakh as penalty on him for unauthorised deployment of services of menial staff and alleged misuse of official vehicles thereby…

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Chennai: 2 college girls teach phone snatchers a tough lesson

CHENNAI: Two men on a bike who tried their luck to snatch a mobile phone from a woman pedestrian in Perambur on Friday were chased by the woman and her friend who with passersby helped catch one robber.

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Bengaluru: Passports renewed in 1 hour, bereaved kin fly out to Malaysia

BENGALURU: A phone call from Malaysia broke the silence of a Banaswadi household on a Friday morning early this year, when the third wave of Covid-19 was at its peak. The family’s youngest male member, who was away in the southeast Asian nation for years, had died in a road…

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