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With soil test reports being favourable, government engineers have begun preparing the detailed project reports for the bridges.

Chennai to get 15 bridges in areas prone to flooding

Apart from the eight bridges, 187 battered roads have also identified across the stretch by the department that would...

27 Nov 2017 6:14 AM IST

Jayalalithaa Jayarams first death anniversary should hopefully remind us of the perils of political and party leadership in extremely difficult times.

Weighing Jayalalithaa legacy from wider socio-economic perspective

Time for healing touch ahead of Amma's first death anniversary.

27 Nov 2017 6:12 AM IST

Teachers, students need proper counselling: Educationists

At present, the government is operating 10 mobile counselling centres across the state to help the students who are in...

27 Nov 2017 6:09 AM IST

Kamal Haasan remains non-committal on contesting bypoll

The actor who returned from New Delhi after attending a literary event, declined to take questions from the media on...

27 Nov 2017 6:07 AM IST

MK Stalin supports Telangana CM on reservation

The DMK would support procession planned by Telangana CM at Delhi's Jantar Mantar.

27 Nov 2017 6:05 AM IST

To this extent, the Tuticorin port will be dredged to 16.5 meters from 14 meters now allowing it to handle vessels with more than twice the current 60,000 tonnage capacity.

Tuticorin port handling capacity to be increased

The development would enable exporters to ship merchandise directly to the US and Europe from Tuticorin port, according...

27 Nov 2017 6:04 AM IST

Much-awaited by-elections to the prestigious R K Nagar Assembly constituency, which fell vacant after the death of former chief minister J. Jayalalithaa, will be held on December 21.

Nominations for RK Nagar byelection to begin today

Papers will be scrutinised on Dec. 5: ECI.

27 Nov 2017 6:01 AM IST

A bridge on East Coast Road, 60 kms from Chennai cries for attention after it got damaged in 2015 floods. (Photo: DC)

Bridge on ECR stretch hit by 2015 floods yet to be restored

After a series of fatal mishaps on the highway due to steep and narrow curves, the authorities had straightened these...

27 Nov 2017 1:44 AM IST

Girl befriended the suspect through facebook when she was 13.

Chennai: Hunt on for FB friend for rape, blackmail

Cops arrest another involved in act.

27 Nov 2017 1:40 AM IST

VIT chancellor Dr G. Viswanathan and founder president of Friends of United States, garlands and welcomes the Consul General Robert Burgess at the event in Chennai on Saturday (Photo: DC)

Diplomacy bloomed on a convivial evening

India-US ties are at an uptick and India's trade balance is favorable, said Dr G. Viswanathan, president of the Friends...

27 Nov 2017 1:38 AM IST

Forest department officials destroying cannabis seedlings. (Photo: DC)

Anamalai tiger reserve: Ganja cultivation found, destroyed

In a similar discovery, forest officials had uncovered ganja cultivation inside the tiger reserve in 2012.

27 Nov 2017 1:36 AM IST

Two men were feared drowned in Vasishta river, a tributary of Godavari, in the border area between Teeparru and Kakaraparru villages of Peravali mandal in West Godavari on Wednesday.

Chennai: Boy drowns in rainwater pit

The mishap occurred when the boy was playing outside his house while his parents were inside in Thiruvottiyur on...

27 Nov 2017 1:31 AM IST