Chennai

Heavy rains lash Chennai, neigbouring districts surplus from reservoirs let out

8:21 pm January 5, 2021

Chennai: Heavy rains lashed Chennai and its suburbs on Tuesday, inundating houses in some low lying areas and affecting normal life, while authorities released surplus water from the city reservoirs, including Chembarambakkam. The incessant rains, which returned to the city after a break of several weeks, led to water logging in many roads and motorists and office-goers […]

Govt school teacher suspended for sending lewd messages to women teachers: Official

Instant loan app fraud cases under ED scanner

7:38 pm January 4, 2021

New Delhi: The ED has brought under its scanner the alleged fraud cases of instant loan sanction through mobile applications, reported recently from Telangana and Tamil Nadu, as part of its money-laundering probe in an online betting scam pegged at over Rs 1,100 crore, official sources said on Monday. At least five people, including a software engineer, have reportedly ended […]

Chennai: Airport employee, passenger from Dubai held for gold smuggling

8:32 pm December 28, 2020

Chennai: A software engineer working at the Chennai airport and a passenger who arrived from Dubai were apprehended on Monday for allegedly smuggling gold bars worth Rs 1.5 crore, the CISF said. They said the security personnel found that the passenger, Niyamatullah Hadi, was behaving in a suspicious manner as he entered a bathroom located […]

Rajinikanth’s health improves, discharged from hospital

10:40 pm December 27, 2020

Hyderabad/Chennai: Superstar Rajinikanth, who suffered from high blood pressure, was on Sunday discharged from a hospital in Hyderabad, following improvement in his condition after three days of treatment, authorities said. Later, the 70-year old Rajinikanth took a flight to Chennai and reached his Poes Garden home where he is set to take rest for at […]

Four more UK returnees test positive for COVID-19

11:28 pm December 25, 2020

Chennai: Four more returnees to Tamil Nadu from UK have tested positive for coronavirus and their samples have been sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune for genomic analysis, a senior official said here on Friday. Of the four returnees, two belonged to Thanjavur and one each from here and Madurai,Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan said. Along with these […]