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Chennai: Phase-2 elevated stations to get platform screen doors

CHENNAI: To prevent people from crossing or jumping onto tracks, all elevated stations in the 118.9km phase-2 network will have platform screen doors (PSDs). Recently, Chennai Metro Rail Limited floated a tender to design, manufacture, install and commission doors for the 27 stations in the 26.1km corridor-4 from Lighthouse to…

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Chennai: Man loses Rs 1.2 lakh cash, phones to robbers

CHENNAI: Six men on three motorbikes robbed a mobile showroom staff of 1.2 lakh and five mobile phones at Koyambedu flyover when he was returning home on Monday night. The complainant, Rahim, runs a shop in Burma Bazaar.

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Give disability certificate at doorstep: Madras high court

CHENNAI: The Madras high court on Tuesday directed health professionals to visit those who have applied for disability certificates at their homes to carry out assessments, especially of mental health, instead of asking them to visit crowded government hospitals.

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Tamil Nadu: Top cop M Ravi retires after 31 years in IPS

CHENNAI: M Ravi, an IPS officer of the 1991 batch, retired from service on Tuesday after 31 years in uniform.

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CHENNAI: A horticulture department outlet at Semmozhi Poonga, popular among terrace garden enthusiasts for natural manure, gardening tools and seeds among other products, has been closed. It was started about a year and a half ago during the previous government.

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Chennai: May ends without temp crossing 40°C at Nungambakkam

CHENNAI: The city may have experienced above-normal maximum temperatures in the last few days, but May, considered the hottest month in the year, ended without temperature touching 40°C in Nungambakkam station for the second time at least since 2012.

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Chennai: Footboard rail travel, 364 cases booked in 4 months

CHENNAI: Southern Railway has registered 364 cases for footboard travel in the last four months in the city, but commuters want stronger action because students continue to do stunts and put their life at risk.

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Tamil Nadu: BJP threatens statewide protest if govt fails to cut fuel prices

CHENNAI: The BJP state unit on Tuesday threatened to hold a statewide hunger strike and a massive rally in Trichy if the DMK government fails to fulfil its poll promise of slashing fuel prices.

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Chennai: Businessman abducted for Rs 1 crore rescued

CHENNAI: The Mangadu police rescued a real estate broker from a house in Attur near Salem in the wee hours of Tuesday, and arrested 10 people who abducted him for a ransom of 1 crore.

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SriLankan Airlines makes fuel stops at Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram airports

‘They are essentially refuelling stops for long-haul international flights’

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‘He intimidates when he doesn’t have answers’: Chennai journalists hold protest against BJP TN chief

On May 30, around 50 journalists gathered in the oppressive summer heat at the Chennai Press Club’s premises in Chepauk, shouting slogans.

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Help yourselves is the mantra at poorly managed suburban stations

CHENNAI: Every day, N Srinivasan alights the suburban train around 7pm, switches on the torch on his mobile phone and walks across the tracks to reach a road that leads to his home on the northern side of Pattabiram railway station, around an hour’s trip by train from the city.…

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‘SWD contractors not technically equipped’

CHENNAI: DMK councillors during the council meeting on Monday raised issues on storm water drain work, saying the contractors in the field were not technically equipped.

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Chennai: After building plan approval goes online, no. of applications up

CHENNAI: Building approval applications to the CMDA, which had reduced during the pandemic and continued this year too, saw an increase after the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority’s online portal went live from May 7.

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Chennai: Wife of ex-IAS officer sets dog upon staffer at complex

CHENNAI: The wife of a retired IAS officer residing at the TAISHA complex in Nerkundram allegedly let loose her dog on a manager when he went to remove CCTV cameras installed outside their apartment following some complaints.

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Don’t hike property tax, CPM tells CM MK Stalin

CHENNAI: CPM state secretary K Balakrishnan has written to chief minister M K Stalin urging him to reconsider the move to increase the property tax by 6% annually, as it would adversely affect the poor and middle class sections of the society.

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Chennai: YouTuber arrested for swindling Rs 36 lakh

CHENNAI: The Avadi Cyber Crime police on Monday arrested right wing YouTuber S Karthik Gopinath for swindling ₹36 lakh which he collected from people to renovate temple statues.

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Tamil Nadu: Kelambakkam VIT Covid tally increases to 74

CHENNAI: Fresh Covid-19 cases at the Vellore Institute of Technology campus in Kelambakkam rose to 42, taking the cluster tally on the campus to 74, the state health department said on Monday.

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Chennai Corporation frames laws to streamline salons, spas

CHENNAI: Customers of salons and beauty parlours can now expect better quality and safer experience as Greater Chennai Corporation has come up with new laws to regularise the trade in the wake of several unlicensed facilities springing up.

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Only 27 Tamil Nadu candidates clear civil services

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has had just 27 successful candidates in the Union Public Service Commission's civil services exam 2021, results of which were announced on Monday.

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Chorus in DMK to make Udhayanidhi Stalin Tamil Nadu cabinet minister

CHENNAI/TRICHY: Moves are afoot within the DMK to push for the induction of Chepauk-Triplicane MLA Udhayanidhi Stalin into the state cabinet led by his father M K Stalin. On Monday, DMK district units, including Trichy South, Thanjavur Central and Dindigul East and West, passed resolutions calling for inducting Udhayanidhi into…

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Chennai: Sewage work at Ramapuram to be completed by March 2023

CHENNAI: Metrowater (CMWSSB) has told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that 78% of underground sewerage system (UGSS) work in Ramapuram area has been completed till date.

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BJP is afraid of Congress’s ideologies, says P Chidambaram

CHENNAI: Former Union minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday said the BJP was afraid of the Congress’s ideology.

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Paint the Chennai way you want

CHENNAI: If you could reimagine a heritage building in Chennai, what colour would you paint it? Madras Inherited wants to know, which is why it has launched a series of free downloadable colouring sheets, where it works with artists to create black and white outlines of localities in the city,…

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Sameer Wankhede transferred from DRI to DG Taxpayer Service Directorate in Chennai

MUMBAI: Indian Revenue Service officer Sameer Wankhede, who headed the Narcotics Control Bureau in Mumbai when the NCB arrested several persons, including superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan in the controversial drugs-on-cruise case last year, was on Monday transferred to the DG Taxpayer Service Directorate in Chennai, an official said.

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