Street and road name-boards bear new images now
Did you notice the newly-designed visuals for street and road name boards in Mylapore? They have come up over the last week. Besides the street / road name, these boards …
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Huge yet-to-be developed plot in Pattinapakkam is now dump for debris, garbage
Nature has a way of regaining spaces. And man finds ways to violate them. This is best illustrated in a patch of land in Pattinapakkam, on the seaward side. This …
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Why is the tank of Sri Kapali Temple not filling up fully?
Why did not water in the tank of Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple overflow or even fill to the brim this monsoon? Many people, especially those who have a special place for …
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As rain plays games, civic workers continue work in Mandaveli, Seethammal Colony
The rain may be playing its own games this Monday, November 29 morning but in Mylapore’s ‘red’ zones, those areas badly affected by this monsoon civic workers are continuing their …
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BSNL in Mylapore now has full-fledged Customer Care service centre
BSNL, Chennai Telephones now has a full-fledged Customer Care Service centre at its telephone exchange of Mylapore complex located on 166 Luz Church Road ( diagonally opposite Nageswara Rao Park). …
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Expert says ground is soaked with rainwater, so seepage will happen through this monsoon. Happening in Mylapore.
When a team of workers from Rain Centre ( Adyar based. Contact – 2441 6134) began work on digging spots inside the campus of Rani Meyyammai Girls School in R. A. …
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Sections of two roads collapse, repair work on
A section of St Mary’s Road ( near GCC cemetery / MRTS Mandaveli station end) and another section of Sri Mundagakanni Amman Temple Street ( shown in this photo) caved …
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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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