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...
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin’s recent assurance to the real estate sector that Floor Space Index (FSI) in Chennai would be increased even along narrow roads buttresses regulator CMDA’s proposal to allow FSI of 6.5 around Chennai Metro and MRTS. The Chief Minister was speaking at a...
Just how far can a tight travel budget take you in Chennai when the only choice you have is public transport? That depends on what kind of information you get about the ways to move around, switching from buses to suburban trains to Metro trains to share autos to simply walking a short stretch....
Singara Chennai 2.0 gets many things conceptually right. It has a stated priority for parks and playgrounds for which outlays were approved for 2022-23. As the city is returning to healthy levels of economic activity after COVID-19, it’s good to have more open public spaces. The Singara Chennai...
On Thaipoosam this year (February 5), Thanjavur district was packed with tourists, many of them from abroad — the fear of the coronavirus mostly overcome and the grand architectural achievements of the Chola era casting a magnetic spell anew. Against a clear blue sky after a few days of rain,...
