Matrimandir – Golden Temple for meditation in Auroville, an experimental township in Viluppuram district, Tamil Nadu, India Chennai: An exhibition — featuring photographs, videos, testimonials and documentary material — titled ‘Auroville: An Experiment Under Threat’ was held in Puducherry on Saturday and Sunday. Major Arun Ambathy, a organiser of the event, told TOI that the…
Chennai: After inspecting and reviewing a playground and gym at Vyasarpadi Sharma Nagar in Perambur constituency on Sunday, Greater Chennai Corporation commissioner G S Sameeran instructed officials to upgrade both. According to a release from GCC, the upgrades will include setting up a boxing training centre, a gym for women, cricket nets and adequate drinking…
CHENNAI: A bird strike grounded a British Airways flight that was supposed to fly from Chennai to London in the wee hours of Monday. The bird hit took place around 3.30 am seconds before the flight landed in Chennai with 226 passengers on board from London. However, the flight landed safely and the passenger were…
Chennai: Coordinators of Greater Chennai Corporation’s (GCC) shelter project conducted an awareness programme on the civic body’s shelter scheme in the city.More than 800 people benefitted from the programme that was recently held at the Central Railway station on the instructions of the commissioner and the joint commissioner (works). According to a release, the coordinators…
CHENNAI: In Gummidipoondi and Madhavaram, nearly 40km apart, two families spent Sunday waiting for loved ones who would never walk through the door again. Babu Kuppusamy, 52, and Santhosh Kumar, 47, were among the 15 Indian tourists killed in the speedboat accident near Vietnam’s Phu Quoc Island. Their bodies are yet to be brought back.A…
K Annamalai launched his ‘We the Leaders’ forum advocating healthy politics and societal change COIMBATORE: Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai on Sunday refrained from attacking any political party at the first state conference of his newly launched ‘We the Leaders’ (WTL) forum in Pollachi.On the contrary, he gave a call for ‘healthy politics’…
An empty vice-chancellor office at a state university in India symbolizes the ongoing governance impasse between the governor and state government over UGC nominees and plans to amend State University Acts to expand vice-chancellor search panels, delaying academic reforms, research, and faculty hiring. Chennai: Following the decision to include University Grants Commission’s (UGC) nominee in…
The TVK govt’s White Paper on state finances triggered political debate. A similar assessment of the state’s power sector attracted far less attention as its findings were hardly surprising. The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board has been losing money for years, with little meaningful intervention, though some corrective efforts were made in recent years.A financially weak…
J Radhakrishnan, CMD of TNPDCL and additional chief secretary to Tamil Nadu govt Following the release of the TVK govt’s White Paper on the power sector, the administration has identified key priorities and an investment programme to put the sector on a sustainable path. In an interview,J Radhakrishnan, CMD of TNPDCL and additional chief secretary…
Ravikumar Ramanujam is a Chennai-based former business journalist with about 25 years of experience covering industry and the TN economy BY INVITATIONRavikumar RamanujamTwenty years ago, Sriperumbudur was little more than a fast-growing industrial township on the outskirts of Chennai, known primarily for its automobile and component factories. Today, the corridor has emerged as one of…
