MRTS service disrupted
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Few woman passengers noticed smoke coming from beneath the compartment of the train that had halted at Thirumalai (Mylapore) station and alerted railway officials at about 5.50 pm on Saturday.
SETC’s special buses to Velankanni
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On the occasion of Arokia Madha festival at Velankanni, SETC has planned to operate special buses to the pilgrim centre from Chennai, Bangalore, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Kanyakumari and Nagercoil from August 25 to September 10.
ONGC and ALIMCO along with RC Madras Nungambakkam is organising camp at Chennai to identify the beneficiaries for giving equipments like wheel chairs, Hearing aids, folding sticks for blind etc.
Power supply will be suspended in the following areas on August 20,2013 between 9.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. for maintenance work. Supply will be resumed before 5.00 P.M. if the works are completed.
Madras week this year , a grand start
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Madrasapatnam, chennapatnam, Madras and now it is popularly known as Chennai. This 4th metropolitan city in India was born on 1639 on Aug 22nd. Chennai is seeing lots of changes over time.
Onion soaring prices really brought tears in the eyes of chennaites. Flood and shortfall onion production were considered as the major reason for this price hike.
The Airport Authority of India after receiving many petitions from people has decided to consider the issue regarding the extending the time for free parking.
Aadhaar enrollment is going on in Chennai for quite some time. On Monday things began to speed up as as the census department started collecting data from Sholinganallur residents for the National Population Register (NPR).
Power supply will be suspended in the following areas on August 22,2013 between 9.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. for maintenance work. Supply will be resumed before 5.00 P.M. if the works are completed.
WWF-India and TRAFFIC India is today organizing the 6th edition of Wild Wisdom, a nation-wide wildlife quiz at Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) premises in Santhome on August 21.
KSA trust honored six candidates from various fields of arts, education, enterprise, social initiative, sports and heath care by giving the Champion of Chennai Awards at a grand function held at Chinmaya Heritage Centre.
The Chennai Corporation had earlier announced that if a resident collects plastic wastes and gives it to the Civic body, they will get a gold coin or a wrist watch. This scheme comes into effect from 1st September.
