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Bird Flu Alert In Chennai: Centre Urges Tamil Nadu To Intensify Preventive Measures After Mass Crow Deaths
Chennai is on high alert after more than 1,500 crows were found dead across several neighbourhoods in recent days, prompting the Central government to direct the Tamil Nadu administration to strengthen surveillance.
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3 Arrested In Chennai For Attempted Murder Of Delivery Worker
Three men have been arrested in Chennai in connection with the attempted murder of a 23-year-old delivery worker who was stabbed multiple times in the Velachery area on Sunday, triggering a political exchange over law and order in Tamil Nadu.
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IIT-Madras PhD Student Dies By Suicide, Third Case This Year
A PhD student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, died by suicide in his room in Tamil Nadu's Velachery, police said on Sunday.
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Repolling In Tamil Nadu's Velachery Assembly After 2 Found Carrying Voting Machines
The Election Commission on Tuesday ordered repoll in a booth under the Velachery Assembly segment here, to be held on April 17.
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American Woman Says Indian Husband Abandoned Her In Tamil Nadu Town
An American national was found roaming about in tattered clothes claiming she was abandoned by her husband, the police said Saturday.
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In Chennai, Shelter With 1,800 Animals Damaged By Cyclone Vardah
Cyclone Vardah, which made landfall near Chennai on Monday, has caused extensive damage to an animal shelter run by the Blue Cross of India at Velachery in the city. Strong winds and heavy downpour uprooted over 68 trees inside the premises, which is home to over 1,800 animals.
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A Wedding the Chennai Floods Could not Wash Out
It was a monsoon wedding everyone involved would remember. Hours before the wedding, the groom and his entire family had to be rescued by hired boats -- the Velachery area of Chennai, where their home is located, was flooded.
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Why Chennai Was Flooded. Warnings Were Ignored
Environmentalists claim that the encroachments into the buffer zones around Chennai's marshlands have affected its capacity to act as a natural absorbent of flood waters.
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Swamps for Home with No Electricity or Drinking Water in Flooded Chennai
For the third consecutive day, several low lying pockets of Velacherry in Chennai are without power. The floods in Chennai have turned the office of Pariti Bharati and Akaash Chaturvedi, both techies, into a refuge for their friends and colleagues. Ever since their localities have become swamps with waist-deep water, they don't stay much at home.
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Tamil Nadu police not a trigger-happy force: Jayalalithaa
Holding that Tamil Nadu police are not a 'trigger- happy' force, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today said the February 23 encounter in which five suspected bank robbers were killed was necessitated only after they opened fire on police personnel, forcing them to retaliate. Giving a detailed description about events leading to the firing in Velachery...
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Bird Flu Alert In Chennai: Centre Urges Tamil Nadu To Intensify Preventive Measures After Mass Crow Deaths
Chennai is on high alert after more than 1,500 crows were found dead across several neighbourhoods in recent days, prompting the Central government to direct the Tamil Nadu administration to strengthen surveillance.
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3 Arrested In Chennai For Attempted Murder Of Delivery Worker
Three men have been arrested in Chennai in connection with the attempted murder of a 23-year-old delivery worker who was stabbed multiple times in the Velachery area on Sunday, triggering a political exchange over law and order in Tamil Nadu.
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IIT-Madras PhD Student Dies By Suicide, Third Case This Year
A PhD student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, died by suicide in his room in Tamil Nadu's Velachery, police said on Sunday.
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Repolling In Tamil Nadu's Velachery Assembly After 2 Found Carrying Voting Machines
The Election Commission on Tuesday ordered repoll in a booth under the Velachery Assembly segment here, to be held on April 17.
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American Woman Says Indian Husband Abandoned Her In Tamil Nadu Town
An American national was found roaming about in tattered clothes claiming she was abandoned by her husband, the police said Saturday.
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In Chennai, Shelter With 1,800 Animals Damaged By Cyclone Vardah
Cyclone Vardah, which made landfall near Chennai on Monday, has caused extensive damage to an animal shelter run by the Blue Cross of India at Velachery in the city. Strong winds and heavy downpour uprooted over 68 trees inside the premises, which is home to over 1,800 animals.
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A Wedding the Chennai Floods Could not Wash Out
It was a monsoon wedding everyone involved would remember. Hours before the wedding, the groom and his entire family had to be rescued by hired boats -- the Velachery area of Chennai, where their home is located, was flooded.
-
Why Chennai Was Flooded. Warnings Were Ignored
Environmentalists claim that the encroachments into the buffer zones around Chennai's marshlands have affected its capacity to act as a natural absorbent of flood waters.
-
Swamps for Home with No Electricity or Drinking Water in Flooded Chennai
For the third consecutive day, several low lying pockets of Velacherry in Chennai are without power. The floods in Chennai have turned the office of Pariti Bharati and Akaash Chaturvedi, both techies, into a refuge for their friends and colleagues. Ever since their localities have become swamps with waist-deep water, they don't stay much at home.
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Tamil Nadu police not a trigger-happy force: Jayalalithaa
Holding that Tamil Nadu police are not a 'trigger- happy' force, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today said the February 23 encounter in which five suspected bank robbers were killed was necessitated only after they opened fire on police personnel, forcing them to retaliate. Giving a detailed description about events leading to the firing in Velachery...
