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Chennai Struggles With Floods

IMAGE: An auto driver wades through a flooded street following heavy rainfall in Chennai on Tuesday, October 15, 2024. All photographs: ANI Photo Heavy rain continued to lash Chennai and other......

How Monsoon 2025 Turned Into A Nightmare

IMD data shows in the 24 hours between September 1 and 2, Haryana received 806 per cent more rainfall than normal, Punjab 759 per cent, Himachal Pradesh 510 per cent, Delhi 740 per cent, Chandigarh......

Social media lends helping hand in reaching aid to Chennai flood-hit

Submerged in water, with no access to power and transport, it was various social media platforms that came to people's aid in the rain-hit city since Monday. IMAGE: People use a boat to shift to a......

Shortages hit Chennai still under water, volunteers step up

Volunteers waded through knee-deep water in Mudichur and distributed food packets and water bottles, even as several parts of Chennai continued to struggle with scanty supplies of milk and curd for......

PHOTOS: Chennai grapples with flood aftermath

The flood-ravaged city was on Saturday struggling to return to normalcy with partial restoration of telecommunication and train services, besides many roads also becoming fairly motorable even as......

Bengaluru, Chennai join '100 Resilient Cities' network

Image: Check-in counters at Bengaluru International Airport; Photograph: Kind courtesy, Wikimedia Commons Bengaluru and Chennai have joined the 100 Resilient Cities network, dedicated to helping......

Disaster risks grow, as India's cities flounder

Poor land-use planning, indiscriminate approvals of building plans and the absence of disaster-risk assessment in urban design have resulted in what experts term concentrated concretization,......

Truck sales crash 60% in August

The overall volume at India’s top four M&HCV makers - Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Volvo Eicher, and Mahindra & Mahindra - fell 59.5 per cent to 31,067 units during the month. Sales of......

Given low Q3 expectations, Budget holds the key for the markets

Earnings growth is unlikely to see much recovery and sales revenues are also likely to remain muted The market is gearing up for third quarter earnings results, which should start flowing next......

The BIG problem Indian IT firms are facing

They need to upgrade their skills and become smaller, smarter organisations, says Devangshu Datta. Traditionally, the third quarter is weak for information technology (IT) services companies due......

Will this be India's SCARIEST horror film?

'Once The House Next Door becomes a hit, this will become the reference point instead of Baahubali.' Yes, Siddharth is very, VERY confident about his latest film. IMAGE: Siddharth in The......

Rohit's IPL 2025 Slump: Can He Bounce Back?

IMAGE: Rohit Sharma has struggled to make an impact, failing to convert starts. Photograph: BCCI Rohit Sharma's poor run in IPL 2025 has become a major talking point among fans and experts. The......

KKR need sound opening balance vs heavyweights CSK

IMAGE: The biggest positive for Kolkata Knight Riders against Delhi Capitals was the return to form of Andre Russell, who hit four monstrous sixes while scoring 38 off 31 balls to lift them to 127......

Harsha Bhogle: My Hero, Sunil Gavaskar

We have all had heroes. We have all wanted to be someone else.But there was nobody I wanted to be more than I wanted to be Sunil Gavaskar, notes Harsha Bhogle.Continuing our series celebrating 50......

Asian Games: Hima, Anas, Dutee shine; heartbreak for Lakshmanan

Long distance runner Govindan Lakshmanan finished third in men's 10,000m race but was later disqualified for lane infringement. IMAGE: Hima Das celebrates after winning the silver medal in the......

Sports Shorts: Paes drops out of top-100 for first time in 19 years

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday. IMAGE: The last time Leander Paes, 46, was placed outside the top-100 was in October 2000 when he was ranked 118.......

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