June 11, 2013
Ugly scenes were seen on Venkatesa Agraharam road near Sai Baba Temple on Monday morning when Mylapore police chased and charged two groups of people who clashed on the issue of the Sai Vidyalaya school condition here.
This morning, parents and their wards gathered outside the school that stands in the campus of the Saibaba Temple and shouted slogans. They wanted the temple managers to stop using what was part of the school hall for their annadhanam.
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June 10, 2013
Young Carnatic music singer Ranjani Hebbar-Guruprasad, a Mylapore resident passed away on Sunday at her hometown Udupi, Karnataka after battling cancer. She was ailing for sometime and the end came at a hospital in Manipal, Udupi, south Kanara.
June 10, 2013
All local schools reopened this morning for the new academic year. They were to have opened on June 3 but the state ordered that it be postponed by a week since the temperature was still high – in the 40s.
June 9, 2013
Jalandhar Reddy of Seethammal Colony, off TTK Road in Alwarpet displays his collection of bonsai plants that he nurtures at home. His collection was part of the bonsai exhibition held at C P Art Centre, Alwarpet on Saturday, June 8. [...]
June 8, 2013
One look at the people gathered in Children Garden School on two weekends and you may have wondered what teens were doing with seniors. Their common area of interest that brought them together on May 26 and June 2 on [...]
June 8, 2013
San Thome resident and the mother of union minister P. Chidambaram, Lakshmi Palaniappan passed away early on Friday, June 7 at her residence. She had been ailing for sometime. Chidambaram flew in in the morning to take part in the [...]
June 8, 2013
The scene inside Sri Kapali Temple, Mylapore on June 6, Pradosham evening. The images of lord Kapaleeswar and goddess Karpagambal were decorated with golden plated kavasams and with flowers and taken out in procession inside the temple campus. Photo: Abhilash [...]
June 7, 2013
It is Jayanthi Natarajan’s birthday today. And wellwishers and Congress party workers have erected colourful displays in and around her residence on C V Raman Road in Alwarpet. Jayanthi is now a union minister in charge of environment and forests. [...]
June 7, 2013
JUNE 8 Talk on ‘Prevention in Diabetes’ by Dr. G. Vijaya Kumar. 6 p.m. At Potti Sreeramulu Memorial Building, 215 Royapettah High Road, Luz (next to Vidya Mandir School). Contact 24981244. Public lecture on Hindu Scriptures by Muthukrishan on ‘Piditha [...]
June 6, 2013
Dark clouds gathered in the western skies this evening on a day that was muggy and hot. It began to drizzle at about 3 p.m. and thunder and lightning followed. It rained a bit across the Mylapore neighbourhood but only [...]
June 6, 2013
Residents, shop owners and office workers in parts of R A Pura, Abhiramapuram and Alwarpet were in for a pleasant surprise on Thursday when the regular power shut down was not enforced. Power was to have been cut from 9 [...]
