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By October 2 (Gandhi Jayanthi day) the entire urban India including Chennai will become ODF, according to Praveen Prakash, National Mission Director of Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), under the Union urban development ministry, here on Monday.

No more open defecation in Coimbatore city

Urban India including Chennai to be open defecation free by Oct. 2, 2018.

21 Feb 2017 2:10 AM IST

Sanitary napkins

Freedom from sanitary napkins

A menstruating woman uses, on an average, about 144 pads a year.

21 Feb 2017 2:07 AM IST

Interest in PG engineering courses waning

The number of applications for the Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (Tancet) 2017 for post-graduate engineering courses...

21 Feb 2017 2:05 AM IST

Madras High Court

Local body elections by May 15

The observation of the judge that the SEC had acted with unwarranted hurry was not justified in the facts of the case.

21 Feb 2017 1:58 AM IST

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palanisami addresses the media at secretariat on Monday. (Photo: DC)

Edappadi Palanisamy goes down Jayalalithaa's populist path

Edappadi Palanisamy on Monday announced implementation of high-cost welfare measures promised by J Jayalalithaa.

21 Feb 2017 1:56 AM IST

DMK Working President MK Stalin addressing a press conference at the party office after a meeting in Chennai. (Photo: PTI)

Palanisamy wouldn't be TN CM if there was a secret ballot in Assembly:...

Stalin said DMK will move a no-confidence motion against Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal.

20 Feb 2017 9:20 PM IST

Marina beach looks deserted as access has been denied due to preparations for Republic Day celebrations on Tuesday (Photo: DC)

Protest, pollution and politics: What if Marina Beach could speak?

If Chennai's Marina beach could document the events it saw in the recent past, it would probably sound like this.

20 Feb 2017 4:40 PM IST

The announcement was part of late AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaas promise to usher in prohibition in the state in a phased manner. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

In Jaya's footsteps, TN CM announces subsidised scooters, hikes...

Palaniswami also announced closure of 500 more state-run liquor outlets in his first set of orders as TN CM.

20 Feb 2017 2:02 PM IST

Palanisamy won a resounding majority with 122 AIADMK MLAs supporting him during the vote of confidence after those of the DMK were evicted and its allies staged a noisy walkout. (Photo: PTI/ File)

DMK moves Madras HC against TN CM Palanisamy's trust vote, calls it...

The Madras High Court is set to hear the petition against the Chief Minister on Tuesday.

20 Feb 2017 12:57 PM IST

Forest fire that broke out at Mandradiar circle area in MTR on Saturday evening destroyed around 100 acres (Photo: DC)

Wild fire devastates 100 acres in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

The period between January and March is usually tough in forest management in the hills, as the drying woods become...

20 Feb 2017 6:35 AM IST

City-based collector of antiques, Robert Kennedy, has over thirty typewriters in his collection, including an 1897 model of Underwood (Photo: DC)

Chennai: Typewriters are passÃ©, so too repairmen

Over the years, he has collected typewriters of a number of brands such as Remington, Woodstock, and Underwood.

20 Feb 2017 6:33 AM IST

Number of untraced children in 2015 was 62,988 as against 34,244 in the year 2013. (Representational Image)

Vaccination programme steady despite rumours

Parents of students are showing renewed interest now.

20 Feb 2017 6:31 AM IST