Chennai News: The Greater Corporation Commissioner G Prakash inaugurated the Miyawaki forest opposite the Secretariat. Miyawaki forest (Representational Image) | Photo Credit: IANS
Chennai: The Greater Chennai Corporation has developed a new Miyawaki forest with an area of around 3,000 square feet, near Secretariat. The forest is planned by the Inner Wheel Club of Madras in the city.
According to the
Indian Express report, the GCC has allowed the public to visit these forests to get a glimpse of corporations initiative. Inner Wheel Club started this project in September last year. The barren land now cultivates 837 trees.
On February 01, Chennai civic body Commissioner G Prakash said: they were planning to set up 1,000 more urban forests by utilising open spaces and reserve lands in a bid to spread the green cover of the city .
At least four cracker making sheds were destroyed in the blasts.
VIRUDHUNAGAR: Sixteen people died and around 20 others suffered injuries in a series of blasts in a fireworks manufacturing unit at Achankulam near Sattur in Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu on Friday afternoon.
District collector R Kannan told TOI that the deceased include seven women and five men. “We have identified five men and five women. Two women are yet to be identified while the gender of the four other bodies is yet to be ascertained,” he said.
The accident happened around 1.30pm in a cracker unit named Mariammal Fireworks which is licenced by the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO).
VK Sasikala
CHENNAI: After a 24-hour trip from Bengaluru, and a grand reception en route, former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s confidante V K Sasikala, who has recovered from Covid-19 recently, has sought to isolate herself for another week. Her co-convict in the disproportionate assets case and sister-in-law, J Ilavarasi would give her company in a house on Habibullah Road in T Nagar in Chennai, sources said.
Her supporters have been gathering near the residence ever since she arrived in the city at 6.30am on Tuesday. Save for a few AMMK officebearers, who met her upon her arrival, no party cadre or functionary had been given audience until Wednesday. Sasikala had a word of praise for AMMK functionaries, when Dhinakaran introduced his loyalists to her for arranging a grand reception. “She has been advised rest for now. She may meet visitors from next week,” said a source. Her legal team is eagerly awaiting a call from her in case she wanted to discuss the next course of a
Sasikala enters Tamil Nadu in vehicle carrying AIADMK flag
CHENNAI: The AIADMK is putting on a brave front even as sections in the party expressed apprehensions about V K Sasikala denting the party’s prospects in some 25 constituencies in the six southern districts, where the mukkulathors, a thevar sub-sect, are dominant. The party rank and file has reposed faith in the leadership, but chances of disgruntled members jumping ship just ahead of election cannot ruled out, admitted some senior leaders.
On Monday, on her way home from Bengaluru, Sasikala sought to assert herself as the AIADMK general secretary and urged partymen to stay united to ensure that “the common enemy (DMK)” did not get the upper hand. “But (her nephew) T T V Dhinakaran tried to get the government dissolved. Despite that, Edappadi K Palaniswami has been steering the government for four years. He is ready to face anything,” minister O S Manian told reporters in Kancheepuram. The cadres and functionarie