In Dr. Ranga Road, ground water is oozing out continuously in some plots
Hemalatha resides in a block of four apartments, set away from Dr. Ranga Road. Every time she steps out to shop the past five days, she glances at the two …
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GCC school in Alwarpet grapples with monsoon aches. Campus still hold rainwater.
Even a week after the monsoon took a break, rainwater sheets stand across the sprawling campus of GCC’s Chennai Higher Secondary School in Bheemanapet in Alwarpet zone. Students are forced …
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GCC addressing issues of flooding off Dr Ranga Road but residents want long-term solutions.
Dr Ranga Road is dry. It was flooded when the rains came down hard. But Dr Ranga Lane, closer to the Warren Road junction is still standing in rainwater that …
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Bees, not mosquitoes !
The few people who had queued at the ration shop alongside the Chitrakulam ( south side) had to scamper away when some workmen began to spray the inside of this …
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Break open new drain that cannot take floodwater and rip power, Net cables to add to misery of residents. A Alwarpet story.
You build a drain. And when it floods badly during the top of the monsoon and the drain cannot take the flood, you break it up. And the job is …
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Voters List / ID: teams working this weekend in your area to get your job done
This is yet another opportunity for you to either set right your Voter Card or apply for a new ones. At all Chennai Corporation offices and E Seva Centers in …
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Many streets under sewage polluted water. MLA says pumping station in Mandaveli broke down.
If the stink is unbearable and you are forded to wade through sewage-polluted water standing on the streets in many parts of Mylapore zone, it is because some key civic …
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Workers and pumps still clearing the floodwaters in Seethammal Colony
With the sun out for the third day, it allowed civic workers to toil hard to rid of Seethammal Colony in Alwarpet of its flood waters on Sunday. This was …
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Nageswara Rao Park becomes aaratha kuttai once again
Nageswara Rao Park turned into the kuttai that it originally was. But now, water seems to have drained off, slowly. Since Sunday night, the water flooded in patches to start …
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When DMK cadres used their fists instead of lending a hand to helpless Mandaveli residents
Instead of lending a helping hand to residents of a Mandaveli colony who were living a miserable 48 hours in the monsoon deluge, local DMK cadres bashed up those who …
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Rainwater. Sewage. Problem repeats in these Mandaveli colonies.
Pump. Pump. Pump. That is what is going on in the inner streets that meet Devanathan Street in Mandaveli. It is not just the rainwater that is cleared out now. …
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Graveyard on St Mary’s Road water-logged
The GCC graveyard on St. Mary’s Road went under rainwater midweek as rain came down steadily. Many simple tombs, with just mud over them could not be seen at all. …
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