Ration card-holders begin to pick up Pongal goodies
Ration card holders began to queue at ration shops across Mylapore to get their Pongal bag of goodies that the state government has ordered be given for the festival. The …
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Students at GCC High School in Mylapore get vaccinated
Some 40 students of Class 10 at the Chennai High School in Mylapore’s Veera Perumal Koil Street prepared themselves to take the vaccination this Tuesday morning on campus. This was …
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In Nageswara Rao Park, water percolation taking time. This water harvesting zone has its place.
If you are a regular at Nageswara Rao Park in Luz and may wonder why the rainwater is still seen stagnating in spots all around here, you may be ignorant …
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Vaccination for teens: GCC to focus now on govt. and state-run schools. Jabs to be given in campus.
Vaccination for teens will get going at the Mylapore zone level only on Tuesday or Wednesday. But this will focus on government schools for now. The city’s civic body has …
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This margazhi procession attracted lots of attention this Sunday morning
People stepped out on their balconies or came to their gates. Bikers stopped to shoot pictures. Passersby stood and admired the effort and nodded. Reactions to the margazhi procession of …
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Desilting plan of tank of Sri Kapali Temple submitted by Anna Univ called off
The officers of Sri Kapali Temple have called off plans to implement the recent desilting plan recommended after a detailed study was undertaken last year by the Anna University. This …
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A commercial artist’s New Year message in his wall art
For the past three years, commercial artist M. Lakshmanan has creatively used the street-facing wall of his house in Srinivasapuram by the sea, to do a collage of what he …
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For QMC’s non-teaching staff, lessons on dealing with stress and enjoying the value of laughing
For all the non- teaching staff of Queen Mary’s College, Chennai, this was a never-yet experience. A stress management workshop was organised by the post-graduate Department of Home Science on …
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Margazhi mornings. Of the 70s
By T. N. VENKATANARAYANAN My earliest memories of Margazhi mornings in Mylapore dates back to the 1970s and to my childhood. My amma (Meenakshi), an ardent devotee of Sri Kapaleeswarar, …
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Stream of people at Sri Kapali Temple. A prayer for the new year.
Since the break of dawn, the stream of people visiting Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple, Mylapore has been thick, steady and unbroken. People who are here to say a prayer to welcome …
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Forlorn look at Marina spot where New Year celebrants used to have some fun
What a forlorn look the Marina junction off the Gandhi statue wore at midnight on the last day of 2021. For, police had barricaded all approach roads and told people …
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School student electrocuted at his home in Mylapore
A youth was electrocuted on Karaneeswarar Pagoda Street, Mylapore on Thursday evening after he is said to have come in contact with a ‘live’ power line in his home quarters, …
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