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In its response to a Right to Information Act application, the Ordnance Factory Board cited sections 8(1)(a) which exempts from disclosure information related to security and strategic matters and section 8(1)(d) which exempts information related to commercial confidence.

Chennai: Flood relief RTI pleas get rejected or go unaddressed

The state government, which promised to provide the compensation by January 2015, had failed to do so, singing the hopes...

19 Jan 2017 6:42 AM IST

An experiment, coordinated by Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, has commenced in Maharashtra and Telangana to study the efficacy of cloud seeding when the monsoon plays truant (Representational image)

Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry may see wet January from January 20

Widespread rains can be expected across the state from the night of January 20.

18 Jan 2017 6:08 AM IST

Three common infections transmitted by sex are increasingly resisting antibiotics. (Photo: Pixabay)

Stop overuse of antibiotics

Doctors confirm presence of new superbug.

17 Jan 2017 6:02 AM IST

Surrounded by garbage, a public toilet at a fishing village of Besant Nagar remains inaccessible. (Photo: DC)

Chennai: Fishing villages see discrimination in conservancy services

A few yards away, the posh locality of Bessi looks clean, with wide roads and adequate greenery.

13 Jan 2017 4:12 AM IST

Adi Dravidar higher secondary school, which suffered damage during Moulivakkam building crash in 2014, remains in shambles. (Photo: DC)

Chennai: Adi Dravida school students hopeful

School suffered damage after Moulivakkam building collapsed n Team inspects premises.

11 Jan 2017 6:24 AM IST

Guindy industrial estate with green and e-wastes piled up. (Photo: DC)

Guindy industrial estate in shambles

Lack of water, dirty environment force units shut shop.

8 Jan 2017 6:09 AM IST

Saravanan Thyagarajan, with the cover of his book Jallikattu-Arubadum Mookanangairu. (Photo: DC)

Ex-techie's book on jallikattu to be released

Echoing the residents' anguish, Saravanan said that there is a unanimous crave among them to perform the sport this...

7 Jan 2017 6:34 AM IST

A night shelter at Stanley medical college hospital remains locked, a month after it was constructed. (Photo: DC)

Chennai: Night shelters stay locked

State government yet to inaugurate Rs 3 crore project.

4 Jan 2017 6:42 AM IST

Water in Red Hills lake going down to zero level fast. (Photo: DC)

Worst water scenario in past 12 years in Tamil Nadu

The sorry situation also reiterates the need to improvise rainwater structures in the city as ground water is fast...

3 Jan 2017 6:11 AM IST

There is a high possibility of a repeat of 1995 and 1986 scenario, this time where the state received incessant rains during Pongal.

Northeast monsoon likely to extend, say weather experts

Weather experts believe it to be an extended monsoon, the phenomenon which was witnessed 21 years ago.

31 Dec 2016 6:24 AM IST

Shanmugavel shows his patta document. (Photo: DC)

Tsunami survivor gets promised land at last, but.

It's been a long journey of miserable struggle for existence for the man.

28 Dec 2016 6:22 AM IST

The fear left behind by Cyclone Vardah is so deep among city residents that they worked themselves into a state of panic over a possible low-pressure area over the Andaman Sea.

Chennai: Don't panic, no cyclone warning

This is in fact a follow up of another false warning purportedly by NASA that Chennai was to receive 250 cm of rainfall.

18 Dec 2016 7:39 AM IST