The slum clearance board has decided to build free houses for all hut dwellers in leased lands or lands without any valid claimants. This scheme is introduced for the first time in entire India.
Chennai city perceives high pollution during the last weekend, since the focus of specific substance (PM10) poised in the ambiance go beyond the allowable bound of 100mg per cm.
The Chennai Electricity Department has planned to install 3 new substations in Sholinganallur and additional transmission lines in the suburban areas to meet the extra power demand in the city.
Aavin has a 24-hour complaint cell
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Aavin has a 24-hour complaint cell handled by officials who maintain a register of complaints and ensure smooth distribution of milk.
Rainwater harvesting in schools
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School Education Secretary D. Sabitha, during a meeting of Chief Educational Officers from all districts convened at Chennai last week directed all Government schools to ensure rainwater harvesting systems.
The website www.gardenesia.com offers everything a plant lover looks for, from flowering bulbs imported directly from Holland, to Bonsai trees and lucky bamboo grown locally at Gardenesia’s nurseries.
Music concerts at Ragasudha Hall
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A series of music concerts have been organised from June 8 – 29 at 6.15 p.m. Highlights include Maha Periyava Jayanthi concerts on June 12 and 13.
Based on the performance report of the department for the years 2008-2013, the department of surgical gastroenterology in Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital has been recognised as a Centre of Excellence for upper gastro-intestinal surgery.
Even though we have crossed the May month, but still the roasting heat seems to hang around the Chennai city along with the mercury crosses 40.1 degree celsius on Friday.
In your next plan of your eat out, think ahead your items in terms of meters, instead of kilos, says locavores, a developing type of local Eco-Foodies, who promote digesting food that can be acquired in a measure of 100km.
A study by Bangalore-established Janaagraha Centre for ‘Citizenship and Democracy’ has graded Chennai 12th, way after Kolkata, Thiruvananthapuram, Bhopal and Patna.
Workshop on free software
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Five-day workshop on free software will A be conducted by Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu and IIT-Madras GNU/Linux Users Group at IIT campus from June 15 to 19.
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry along with Tamil Chamber of Commerce and Asia Aviation Association will conduct `Logistics Summit 2014 on June 9.
377 held during `storming operation
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During a storming operation against antisocial elements, police arrested 377 people on Saturday night.
Mahayagam at Vinayagar Temple
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A Navachandi Mahayagam has been organised at the Siddhibuddhi Sametha Sri Karpaga Vinayagar Temple from June 10 – 12.
