Author: Naomi N

Instituted by Senior Citizens’ Group Of Besant Nagar (SCGOBN), these awards honour individuals who have gone beyond the scope of normal work to help the poor and needy, especially senior citizens, and are supported by the Rotary Club of Madras Mount.

The city police are searching for four men who fled with gold and cash from an alleged prostitution den at Ramapuram, in Chennai, yesterday.

He was married to Jaya for seven years. Last night, while the couple’s son Varun had gone for dance classes, the duo got into a fight. In a fit of rage, Naresh stabbed Jaya with a kitchen knife. He later, hanged himself with a shawl.

The past few months witnessed Velacheri struggling for water. But the civic body officials are not ones to take things lying low. They are campaigning on a war footing to install more and more rainwater harvesting (RWH) facilities in the localities.

A school is bringing children close to nature, by adopting a pond. This adoption process of the Neelankarai Dhobi pond, by My School, Palavakkam, was recently inaugurated by Member of Parliament, Thamizhachi Thangapandian.

The victim was identified as Parthasarathy (50), a native of Tiruvannamalai. He worked as a crane operator at a private container yard in Poonamallee.

According to the police, at 3.30 pm Friday, two men, identified as Mohan Raj (38), a land broker from Ayapakkam, and Velayudham (47) from Vijayalakshmipuram, Red Hills, claimed to be working in the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption.

At 80, Gangabai’s memories of her father are still as fresh as new. A resident of Annai Indira Nagar, Velacheri, she speaks highly of her father Rathinavel, a freedom fighter who was active in his native Thanjavur.

A man has lodged a police complaint that nearly 150 sovereigns of gold has been stolen from his locked house at Valasaravakkam.