Porur lake, one of the large water bodies in suburban Chennai, is muddied with garbage strewn along the bund and sewage being discharged into it through illicit connections.

Residents of areas near t

Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa has parried questions on whether the AIADMK would support finance minister Pranab Mukherjee for Presidency, saying the party has not yet been approached by an

In an apparent dig at home minister P. Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa has said chief ministers of states have their feet firmly planted on the ground and do not keep holding pr

Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa said on Saturday that the state government’s stand on the Mullaperiyar dam has been vindicated by the Supreme Court appointed empowered committee’s report, which vouched

Kanchi seer Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamy has stated that he did not support the “appointment” of Nityananda as the 293rd pontiff of Madurai Aadheenam, even as the present pontiff Arunagirinatha Desig

This professor is on the streets now. Forty-eight-year engineering graduate R.Kaleeshwaran, a former professor in theatre work at the prestigious Loyola College here, is now busy training 35 folk thea

Students and parents associations plan to approach either the Madras high court or the Supreme Court seeking it to quash the high court verdict allowing 400 private matriculation schools in the state

With several traders closing their shops to observe trade day in the city, the usual buzz and traffic was missing on Saturday and roads leading to Island Grounds suffered traffic snarls.

A majority

Rising mercury levels coupled with power outage made Chennaiites sweat and fume on Saturday.

While heat wave conditions prevailed in some parts of coastal Tamil Nadu and coastal Andhra Pradesh, Chen

The city’s aesthetic view is all set to improve with city corporation planning to improve the landscape of existing flyovers and subways.

The corporation engineers have now begun preparing estimates