With just a week to go for the originally scheduled reopening of schools in Tamil Nadu on June 1, the State has decided to heed the warnings on oppressive summer temperatures and postponed the date to June 7. Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi had earlier said the schools would reopen as...
Strange as it may seem, the bustling traffic on Arcot Road, a State Highway feeding into Porur, has been redirected since May 6 via densely populated residential neighbourhoods in Kodambakkam and K.K. Nagar, among other places, to facilitate work on the 118 km Phase II of the Chennai Metro....
All the eastern coastal states are bracing themselves for the fallout of a weather system, dubbed Cyclone Mocha, which is slowly making its way north in the Bay of Bengal. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday said a well marked low pressure area already in the South Andaman sea...
Something is better than nothing, the Madras High Court noted, and ordered the Tamil Nadu government to procure 499 low-floor buses suitable for use by people with disabilities in cities and suburbs. With its order of April 18, the Madras High Court has for now brought to a close the prolonged...
The appointment of P K Sekar Babu as the Minister in-charge of the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) in February 2023 was seen by the real estate sector as a focused attempt by the DMK to get someone with core knowledge of the city to help steer its expansion. The Chennai...
Autos in Chennai may be renouncing optimal earnings by failing to adopt a dynamic pricing system that combines a fair rate of return and a willingness to operate. This is reflected in different developments. For one, there was an attack on bike taxi operators at Koyambedu recently which left...
Chennai is seen by many across the country as a safe, modern, accessible and globally-connected metropolitan city, although the younger working population might view it as too straight-laced and falling behind Bengaluru in winning cosmopolitan credentials. Finance Minister PTR Palanivel...
As a seat of ancient Tamil glory with a thousand-year heritage, the composite district of Thanjavur should have received the highest attention from latter-day governments, but except for the Brihadeeswara Temple complex, a UNESCO heritage site of international importance, it is just another...
With the much-awaited announcement in the Tamil Nadu Budget on giving women heads of households Rs.1,000 per month from September 15 this year, Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan met one of the key promises of the DMK in the 2021 Assembly election and raised the bar for election...
The Greater Chennai Corporation has sometimes faced stringent judicial strictures over allegations of corruption, one of the cases being H Lakshmi vs The Commissioner (2018), where the Madras High Court ordered it to transfer all its vigilance staff en masse in a case of encroachment of public...
