CHENNAI: Areas yet to be covered with drinking water supply like Korrukupet in north Chennai and those surrounding OMR will soon get fresh water supply.Municipal administration and water supply minister K N Nehru on Thursday announced drinking water supply projects worth several crores of rupees across the city. Under these projects, Korukkupet will get storage tanks of 10mld capacity and 3 mld...
CHENNAI: Customs officers at Chennai airport foiled a bid to smuggle foreign currencies worth Rs 55.8 lakh by two passengers. Based on intelligence, two men who were about to board a flight to Singapore were intercepted. A search led to the seizure of foreign currencies from them. They had hidden currencies in the false bottom of a bag, said customs sleuths. The two passengers were booked. Further...
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Thursday said his government will celebrate the centenary year of the Vaikom Satyagraha (Vaikom struggle) to honour the memory of social reformist Periyar, who fought across the borders for the people and succeeded in making such revolutions in history, and to propagate the principles of social justice. Making a suo motu statement under Rule 110, the...
CHENNAI: On a day when Aavin said a categorical 'no' to Food Safety and Standards Commission of India's (FSSAI) proposal to print 'Dahi' in Hindi on curd packets, chief minister M K Stalin called FSSAI's directive a "brazen disregard to our mother tongue."Stalin tweeted: "The unabashed insistences of Hindi Imposition have come to the extent of directing us to label even a curd packet in Hindi,...
CHENNAI: The Chennai zonal unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested three men for smuggling 3.9 kg of ephedrine, a controlled substance, from Chennai to Mumbai via Bengaluru.Based on information, NCB sleuths secured one of them at Periamet in Chennai on March 25 (Saturday) and seized the drug, which he had hidden in three handbags and embroidery mats. Based on his inputs, another man,...
CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin on Wednesday informed the Tamil Nadu assembly that he has issued orders to suspend the controversial Ambasamudram assistant superintendent of police Balveer Singh.There were complaints against Balveer Singh that he had plucked the teeth and squeezed the testicles of several people in police custody.Responding to a special calling attention motion brought by the...
CHENNAI: Up to nine people can get infected while travelling on a half-full city bus with one Covid-19 positive passenger, shows a study by scientists at the Anna University and Puducherry-based ICMRVector Control Research Centre. The numbers can increase if there are more infected patients or if the bus is more crowded or if the passengers travel longer distances. In the study, recently published in...
CHENNAI: Traffic was affected on the arterial Anna Salai and the Rukmani Lakshmipathy Salai in Egmore as the various employee unions of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) took out a rally to draw the chief minister's attention to their various long-pending demands, including wage revision and filling of vacancies.The rally was held as announced earlier, even as...
CHENNAI: The traffic police have booked and fined nearly 42,000 violators in the last 22 days, deploying personnel at key junctions to photograph the offences. Of these, 17,043 were booked for not complying with the stopline rule, 13,484 for not wearing helmets, 7,564 for riding on the wrong side and causing hindrance to motorists, 3,511 for jumping signals and 1,103 for riding/driving with defective...
CHENNAI: Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology - Madras (IIT Madras) have developed a three-dimensional (3D) paper-based portable device that can detect adulteration of milk in 30 seconds. The test could be performed at home. It can detect multiple substances used as adulterating agents, including urea, detergents, soap, starch, hydrogen peroxide, sodium-hydrogen-carbonate, salt and...
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