The Chennai water train is here!

A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com tracks the train from Jolarpettai carrying its precious cargo. IMAGE: A worker fills a tanker train with water, which was transported and supplied to water-starved......

How Chennai is trying to keep an epidemic away

'There are Rs 90 crore worth of medicines in government hospitals, which is sufficient for the next three months.' The rainfall that lashed Chennai on December 1 was the highest-ever recorded in a......

Tamil Nadu faces worst drought in 140 years

The storage of water in the six major reservoirs in the state was just 6.2 per cent of capacity as of April 27. T E Narasimhan and Gireesh Babu report. 'The farmer is dying and the country......