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Saturday, September 20, 2025
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Topic: Chennai

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

How Chennai aims to ramp up flood prevention efforts with sponge park drive, boost green cover

Chennai: To floodproof Chennai and increase its green cover, the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC)—the city’s civic body—is focusing on a massive tree plantation drive...

DMK trains guns at Centre over ‘promised’ funds for Chennai metro. Stalin seeks Modi’s intervention

The chief minister said work on the Chennai metro has been delayed due to the state’s fiscal constraints, pushing the completion deadline to December 2028 from December 2027.

Tamil Nadu govt & Ford go way back. How carmaker’s return is new chapter in story that began in 1995

High value of 350-acre Ford plant property drove TN to encourage Ford to return over nearly a yr of negotiations. It's expected to reinforce state's resurgence as global manufacturing hub.

MQ-9B surveillance drone leased from US crashes after technical glitch as deal awaits final nod

The Navy had leased two MQ-9B drones in 2020. India is in the process of acquiring 31 Remotely Piloted Aircraft of different types from the US.

Police detain 104 protesting Samsung workers in TN for planning a march demanding higher wages

Workers have been protesting near the plant, demanding higher wages, CITU-backed union recognition, and better working hours since last week.

Dalit printing press to Murugan—Chennai exhibition is all about caste counterculture

Titled, ‘From Paper to Pixel: Unveiling Dalit Print Culture,’ the exhibition shows the front page of the magazine 'Tamilian' that revived Tamil Buddhism, among others.

Sought-after local haunt since British Raj, how Chennai’s Guindy Race Course ran into trouble

Horse-racing ground has been sealed by Tamil Nadu government over non-payment of arrears by Madras Race Club, to which it was leased out in 1946 for a period of 99 years.

Udhayanidhi takes charge of monsoon preparedness in Chennai as DMK aims to avoid repeat of 2023 deluge

GCC analysis in aftermath of 2015 deluge identified clogging and inadeqaute capacity of drains, besides encroachment of river basins as factors that led to waterlogging in Chennai.

Over 100 bodies recovered after landslides in Kerala’s Wayanad, many still trapped

Fire services, NDRF & police deployed in affected area to coordinate rescue ops. Kerala govt has declared state mourning on 30 & 31 July.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.