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Widow wins 7-year battle with power board for family pension

A widow has won a seven-year battle with the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) with the Madras high court directing the board to pay family pension to her within eight weeks with arrears from April

GHMC contractors to continue strike

Contractors will continue to stay away from executing any works related to CoP-11 on Sunday as the talks between the officials and GHMC Contractors’ Association members failed on Saturday. “We have no

Cameras in place to detect waste dumpers

The city corporation on Saturday installed a surveillance camera at Edappally Muttar Junction to check waste dumping.

The first phase of the Rs 10 lakh-project was inaugurated by mayor Tony Chammany

For Hindi movies, the house is full in Chennai

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Chennai cinema crowd seems to have gone multi-lingual. Thanks to the spurt in multiplexes across the city, access to non-Tamil films like Eega (Telugu) and Barfi (Hindi), are easier and being receive

Writ against TTD Trust chief

A writ petition has been filed in the AP High Court by an advocate challenging the appointment of K. Bapiraju as the chairman of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Trust Board for a period of two yea

Shettar sticks to 5,000 cusecs offer

Even though the state government claimed that it cannot release Cauvery water from Cauvery river reservoirs to Tamil Nadu, nearly 5,000 to 7,000 cusecs of water is reaching Biligundlu measuring statio

Get a lorry of water in a jiffy

Chennaiites, particularly hotels and restaurants, no longer have to obey the diktat of water mafia.

They don’t have to wait painstakingly to get ‘untreated’ groundwater from private suppliers who ex

No wrong if a minister appears before court: CM

Stating that there were earlier instances where some ministers had appe-ared before courts, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday said there was nothing wrong in Dharmana Prasada Rao attendi

Billboards: Mayor assures probe

A probe will be conducted into alleged corruption in allotting the right to erect advertisement boards in the city to a private company, mayor Tony Chammany said on Saturday.

The standing committee c

Kerala Police-ICF showdown promises fireworks

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In the days gone by, Integral Coach Factory (ICF) enjoyed a stranglehold on the TFA Shield — one of the prominent fixtures in the Chennai football calendar of yesteryear until the tournament was put o

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.