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PM Narendra Modi to launch torch relay for Chess Olympiad on June 19

CHENNAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the first-ever torch relay for the 44th Chess Olympiad, to be held near here in July-August, on June 19 in New Delhi.

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52 streets in Chennai have more than 3 COVID-19 cases; 90% of patients in home isolation, says Health Minister

GCC to increase testing, open three COVID Care Centres

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FMSCI Awards gala in Chennai on June 15

Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India did not hold their annual awards for two years due to COVID-19 pandemic

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All higher educational institutions in Tamil Nadu should follow 69% quota in admissions: Minister K Ponmudy

CHENNAI: All higher educational institutions in the state should follow 69% reservation system in admissions, higher education minister K Ponmudy said on Tuesday following opposition from political parties in the state to reserving seats under economically weaker section (EWS) quota in MSc Biotechnology programme offered at Madurai Kamaraj University.

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Operations resume at Ford India’s Chennai plant

Over 300 employees report for duty and support production work

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49% of the elderly people in Chennai dependent on family for income

Survey highlights need to improve financial independence

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Chennaiyin FC rope in Thomas Brdaric as head coach

CHENNAI: Two-time Indian Super League (ISL) champions Chennaiyin FC on Tuesday roped in former German footballer Thomas Brdaric as the team's new head coach ahead of the upcoming season.

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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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