Heavy rains continue to batter Tamil Nadu, causing a rise in reservoir levels and prompting a red alert. Schools and colleges are closed in several districts as authorities prepare for potential flooding.
Coorg is famous for its pork curry and Anjali Ponnanna is famous for her scrumptious take on it.
Several parts of Chennai reeled under a sudden power outage due to a fire incident which caused sequential faults on both feeders at the Manali substation in Chennai.
As the triangular political contest in Telangana intensifies, many believe that for the regional major BRS, it is a battle for survival after being routed in the assembly polls held late last year. What is haunting the party this time is the scams, the 10-year anti-incumbency factor, and family dominance in the party.
For the first time in three decades, Nungambakkam, a core city area recorded 8 cmin a single day and suburban Red Hills 13 cm followed by 12 cm in Perambur, also in the city.
Lakshmanan contracted polio when he was only three months old. 'I didn't want to go for the swayamvar, but my uncle convinced me to attend.' He sat close to the door at the swayamvar. And then, Rohini walked in. Both her legs, too, were afflicted with polio.
He appealed to Kerala to extend cooperation to store full water in the Mullaiperiyar dam.
The rains also led to waterlogging in the low-lying areas of the city, they said.
As the storage level touched 3,000 million cubic feet in the Chembarambakkam reservoir as against its full capacity of 3,645 Mcft, authorities on Wednesday began releasing about 1,000 cusecs into the Adyar river as a precautionary measure.
The DMK's campaign appeared to be the most visible with propaganda at a feverish pace across the segment for the April 6 assembly polls and Stalin is the party's chief minister candidate.
The Chennai police on Friday rescued an eight- year-old girl a day after she was kidnapped by unidentified persons for a ransom of Rs 5 lakh and arrested a priest who allegedly masterminded her abduction in a bid to make money to pay off loan.
The skeletal remains of post-Godhra riot victims of the Lunawada mass grave site will now be sent to the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics instead of Red Hill Laboratory (both in Andhra Pradesh).
Rains on Friday continued to batter several parts of Tamil Nadu under the influence of an active North-East monsoon as the toll in rain-related incidents in the state stood at 48.
The flood-ravaged city was on Saturday struggling to return to normalcy with partial restoration of telecommunication and train services.
For all the blame-game over the flood preparedness in Chennai and elsewhere in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, this is not the first of its kind. Nor would it be the last, given the nature of the north-east monsoon, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
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