Author: A Harsha Vardhan

Jothi Selvakumar who is in charge of the Karunai Illam Home for the destitute psychiatric patients of Udavum Karangal received the Working Women Achiever’s Award – 2019 from Ooruni Foundation on this week.

Residents want Mangal Eri Park, labelled as the pride of Mugappair, Chennai, developed as a eco-park like in Chetpet and want the lake inside deepened and cleaned.

Every major street and junction of the Thirumangalam police range that included Nolambur and JJ Nagar in addition to Anna Nagar and Villivakkam ranges in Chennai are now under 100 per cent CCTV surveillance.

Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam met and appreciated Anna Nagar’s three-year-old cricketing prodigy, Sanush Suryadev on Monday. Nicknamed Junior MSD, Sanush’s name was added to India Book of Records and Asia Book of Records recently.

Every major street and junction of the Anna Nagar police district, including Villivakkam and Thirumangalam ranges, is now under 100 per cent CCTV surveillance, said City Police Commissioner A K Viswanathan who announced the completion of the ‘Third Eye’ project in these localities.

With the AIADMK-DMDK alliance stuck in a tug of war,  the Vijayakanth-led party has announced that it will start issuing application forms for all 40 seats from 24 February for candidates who wish to contest in the general elections. It signals that the party is ready to face the general elections alone.

Pointing out the importance of speaking in one’s mother tongue, Purohit quoted Nelson Mandela – If you talk to a man in a language he understands, it goes to his head. But if you speak in his mother tongue, it goes to his heart. 

DMDK founder-chief, Vijayakanth’s supporters gathered in thousands this morning to celebrate their Captain’s return from America after two-month-long treatment for various ailments. Based on ground reports, it is fair to say that celebration from crowds of this magnitude inside the city was last seen for the late Dravidian party stalwarts like Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa.

Little over a month since the enforcement of plastic ban, 6.09 tonnes of the forbidden single-use products have been collected in January from Ambattur zone which Mugappair belongs to.