A 17-year-old student from Sishya, Adyar, and her mother have been vociferous about the need to curb plastics and have been distributing paper bags to shopkeepers around the locality of RA Puram and Besant Nagar to make people more aware about the need to shift to using biodegradable bags.
Author: Aaditya Anand M
He made his first appearance in an ATP World Tour event in Stuttgart Open and made his debut in a Grand Slam event in the Australian Open this year. All these helped him climb up the ranking ladder and reach his career-best 97, thereby becoming the third Indian in the past decade to do so after Somdev Devvarman and Yuki Bhambri.
Corentin Moutet outplayed Andrew Harris of Australia in straight sets to clinch the men’s singles title in the ATP Chennai Open Challenger, here on Sunday.
Angala Parameswari Amman temple at Mylapore is preparing to celebrate its 100th annual festival, the Mayana Kollai Vizha, this year. The small temple, located in Mundagakanni Amman Koil Street, is more than 100 years old.
“Since there were no temples in the vicinity, the residents mooted the idea of building a temple. Construction began in 1980 under the guidance of Sadananda Swamigal”
Last week, the traffic police department carried out an eviction drive at the Mada Streets by removing encroachments and vendors to ease traffic flow and help pedestrians walk freely. However not many vendors are happy with it and have once again returned to set up their shops in the pavements.
C Swetha Steffi, a class twelve student of the Lady Sivaswami Ayyar Girls High School made the neighbourhood proud by clinching the silver medal in table tennis at the National School Games held earlier this month in Vadodara, Gujarat.
French glass manufacturing company Saint Gobain, inaugurated three world-class facilities, including a third float glass manufacturing unit, set up with an investment of over Rs 1,200 crore at its existing plant in Sriperumbudur, near here.
One of the key problems that afflict humans is poverty. In Chennai, there are a lot of people falling below the poverty line without any access to at least one meal a day.