With the demise of DMK chief M Karunanidhi, disqualification of the 18 MLAs supporting TTV Dhinakaran, floating of many new outfits, 2018 was a politically active year for Tamilnadu.
Author: Balasubramani Muniyandi
While it is most often said that movies have a bad influence on people, former ISRO scientist R R Elangovan feels otherwise. He says his interest in space was kindled after watching the movie Kalaiarasi (1963) starring former Chief Minister M G Ramachandran.
The loss percentage is higher when disaster strikes in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Cuddalore and Nagapattinam districts. Sources said TANGEDCO has incurred a loss of around 3,500 crore in the past seven years during natural disasters.
As many as 250 residents took part in the awareness and protest event titled ‘Nadandhadhu Yenna’ organised by Chitlapakkam Rising at Varadharaja Theatre junction recently.
Meet S Palanivel, a skating coach from Chitlapakkam, who has been training students for close to a decade now. Recently, two of his students, Karthika and Bhuvaneswari, had won bronze medals in the National-level competition held at Visakhapatnam.
The arrival of the year-end is always marked by calendars and diaries of the new year which are sold and mostly given as gifts. But with the advancement in technology, a few vendors in the city said their sales have gone down considerably.
‘Ennangal’, a short film directed by Dhinesh Kumar, a resident of Madambakkam, has caught the attention of
many.
The year 2018 will go down as one of the most productive years for ISRO with seven launches, completing 17 missions. The year began with the launch of PSLV C40 carrying the Cartosat-2 series satellite 12 January. The launch was done using the PSLV-XL launcher-type vehicle.
In a huge relief to the residents, the process to remove the garbage piled on the Madambakkam dumpyard in the Town Panchayat is now being removed.