Tamil Nadu: As the girl went missing on March 8, unable to find her in the neighborhood, her parents registered an FIR at Thirukazhukundram police station.
Crowded Ranganathan Street in T Nagar. Photo by A Pratha
CHENNAI: As Covid-19 cases surge, residents of Chennai’s T Nagar have written to Tamil Nadu health secretary J Radhakrishnan urging him to enforce mask compliance.
T Nagar Residents Welfare Association secretary B Kannan said, “With reports about a surge in Covid-19 cases, the residents of T Nagar, particularly those residing in the streets off the Usman Road, are a worried lot. Residential apartments are sandwiched between commercial buildings. When Covid-19 was at its peak, most streets in T Nagar were containment areas causing untold miseries to the residents,” he said.
TUTICORIN: Unaccounted cash to the tune of Rs 67.96 lakh was seized from the owner of a brick kiln in the city late on Thursday evening.
The seizure was by a flying squad on election duty at Dhamodhara Nagar in the city when they checked the car in which it was carried. Preliminary inquiry revealed that the occupant of the vehicle owned a brick kiln at Madathur in Tuticorin district.
Since he could not produce documents supporting the cash he was carrying. The money was handed over to the assistant returning officer of Thoothukudi assembly segment Justin Chelladurai and later taken to the treasury for safe keeping. Income tax officials were also alerted and they were conducting inquiries with the man carrying it. This takes the total unaccounted case seizure in the district to Rs 83.86 lakh.
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CHENNAI: Time and technology have simplified almost everything including theft. Want a ‘used’ motorcycle at an affordable rate? Contact an agent, who will put expert thieves on the job and ensure the bike of your choice is at your doorstep. And you can pay through digital wallets.
Muthu, a 40-year-old with 20 years of experience in picking locks of parked bikes, says field workers like himself make `6,000-`10,000 for each job, while the agents make nearly
`1 lakh. While it might take anything from a few hours to three days and a week to choose the target, it barely takes 20 seconds to pick the lock and ride off, says Muthu, who has been jailed several times and is out on conditional bail since January. In a Triplicane neighbourhood recently, he adds, he settled on the target in a couple of minutes, completed the job and called his client.
Updated Mar 09, 2021 | 16:07 IST
Chennai News: Microplastics found in 80 per cent of samples of seven popular fish species sold near Marina, as per the National Centre for Coastal Research report. Representational Image | Photo Credit: IANS
Chennai: The presence of microplastics in the guts of fishes in coastal areas of Chennai has once again become a cause of concern. The city-based research centre, the National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR) found microplastics in seven popular fish varieties.
According to the researchers, 80 per cent of samples of seven popular fish sold near Marina may contain tiny specks of plastic. Fish sold at Pattinapakkam were detected with microplastics in the gills. The gut of Indian Mackerel, Greater Lizardfish, Humphead Snapper, Barracuda and Golden Snapper were between 1.93 mm and 2.03 mm in the form of fibres.