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Chennai, Southern cities top in terms of women employment: Report

Six cities from the region rank among the Top 10 in terms of women's employment

ED seizes assets of Saravana Stores worth Rs 66 cr in money laundering case

The Enforcement Directorate said it has attached immovable properties of Saravana Stores in Chennai amounting to Rs 66.93 crore in connection with a money laundering case for defrauding Axis Bank

Competition Commission conducts searches at India Cements' Chennai office

India Cements Ltd (ICL) on Thursday said fair trade regulator CCI has conducted a "search" at its office in Chennai. The Chennai-based company added that it has not committed any breach of CCI regulations. In response to a clarification sought by BSE over news reports of a raid by CCI at ICL, the company said in a filing: "Certain officials of CCI visited our office in Chennai at around 11:30 a.m. and are conducting 'search' to find out if any irregularities concerning 'Competition Commission' has occurred." However, it added that as it has not committed any breach of CCI regulations, "We do not apprehend any material impact on the Company." ICL has a total capacity of 15.5 million tonnes per annum. Its revenue for the financial year that ended on March 31, 2022 was Rs 4,713.11 crore. India Cements operates eight integrated cement plants in Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan and two grinding units, one each in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.

Madras High Court rejects plea against linking Aadhaar and electricity code

The first bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday rejected a plea from an advocate seeking to quash a Government Order (GO) passed in October this year, which mandated seeding of Aadhaar with the electricity consumer code. There is no merit in the petition, the bench of Acting Chief Justice T Raja and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy said. The bench was dismissing the petition from M L Ravi, also founder-president of Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi who challenged the GO dated October 6 of the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO).

Chennai-based MSME plays crucial role in Arab world's first lunar rover

The Indian enterprise made key structural parts for the rover, from materials many times lighter and several times stronger than steel

TN power utility invites consumer organisations to air grievances

The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company (Tangedco) has convened a meeting with the voluntary consumer organisations functioning in the North Chennai area on December 31

Cyclone Mandous triggers heavy rainfall in TN, Chennai roads waterlogged

Cyclonic Mandous had made landfall off Mamallapuram on Friday evening influencing moderate to heavy rainfall in coastal Tamil Nadu

Sri Lanka to resume flights from Jaffna to Chennai after 3 yrs from Dec 12

Sri Lanka is set to resume flights from the northern Jaffna peninsula to Chennai from Monday, three years after the island nation discontinued the services due to Covid, a spokesman from the Sri Lankan Airport Authority said on Friday. "The commercial flight operations from Chennai International airport to Jaffna International airport will be back effective 12th December 2022," SLAA spokesperson Sumith de Silva told PTI. This will be a resumption of flights since they were stopped for Covid," de Silva said. India's Alliance Air would operate four flights a week between the two cities, said de Silva. Earlier, Sri Lanka's Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva told Parliament that flights will be operational between Jaffna and Chennai by December 12. However, there are still some improvements left to be done to the runway. The present runway can only accommodate 75-seater aircraft. The airport in Palaly was named the Jaffna international airport as Sri Lanka's third internation

'Mandous' to cross coast near Chennai, NDRF teams deployed in Tamil Nadu

Moderate to heavy rainfall is expected in Tamil Nadu as cyclonic storm 'Mandous' over Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm soon and then weaken gradually and cross the coast near here on December 9 midnight, the India Meteorological Department said on Thursday. The Tamil Nadu government said 12 teams -- comprising nearly 400 personnel from the National Disaster Response Force and the State force -- have been deployed in 10 districts including Nagapattinam and Thanjavur in the Cauvery delta region, Chennai, its three neighbouring districts and Cuddalore. A holiday has been declared for schools and colleges on Friday. In an updated bulletin, the IMD said the cyclonic storm 'Mandous' (pronounced as 'Man-dous') over Southwest Bay of Bengal moved further and it is about 480 km off east south east of Chennai and 390 km from Kariakal. On December 9, light to moderate rainfall is expected at most places and heavy to very heavy showers at a few places and extreme

ADB approves $780 mn loan to expand Chennai's metro rail network

In 2021, ADB committed a record $4.6 billion in sovereign loans to India.

Cyclonic storm likely as depression intensifies, TN braces for rain: IMD

The depression over Bay of Bengal intensified into a deep depression and lay about 770 km off Chennai on Wednesday, and it would develop into a cyclonic storm influencing moderate to heavy rainfall in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the India Meteorological Department said. The well-marked low pressure area over southeast Bay of Bengal intensified into a depression on December 6 evening over the same region and further intensified into a deep depression and lay about 690 km east-southeast of Karaikal and about 770 km east-southeast of Chennai, the IMD said in a bulletin. It is very likely to move west-northwestwards and intensify gradually into a cyclonic storm on Wednesday evening and reach southwest Bay of Bengal, off north Tamil Nadu-Puducherry and adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coasts by the morning of December 8. Under its influence, light to moderate rainfall at most places and heavy to very heavy showers at isolated places is very likely over coastal Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, ...

Chennai-based Manali Petrochemicals acquires UK-based Penn Globe

Penn Globe is a market leader in foam control agents and chemical products

Demand for musical instruments up; Chennai, Kolkata rank as top exporters

India exported $22 million worth of musical instruments and their accessories in the first half of the current fiscal year, as compared to $38.5 million in the previous year

Not so fast: Infrastructure woes slow down Vande Bharat trains

Besides cattle run-overs, fencing and track quality reasons for trains moving at an average 83 kmph

Indian warehousing needs $3.8 bn to meet 223 mn sq ft demand in next 3 yrs

Top-3 sectors, namely, 3PL, e-commerce, and manufacturing & automotive, account for a 78 per cent share of warehouse leasing space across seven cities

RIL's logistics foray rides on growing retail print, govt supply-chain push

MMLP near Chennai to be key distribution hub for company in south; firm may bid for more MMLPs across country, say sources

RIL awarded project to make India's first multimodal logistics park

RIL emerged as the winning bidder for the public-private-partnership (PPP) project, with its own investment pegged at Rs 783 crore

Alstom wins Rs 798 cr deal to manufacture 78 metro cars for Chennai Metro

Will make 26 metro trains with three coaches each for a 26-kmn corridor connect Poonamallee Bypass and Light House

IIT Madras develops regional climate model to predict localised rainfall

This was a research project of an IIT Madras scholar, Krithiga, to provide weather forecasts for irrigation management and is now being used in Chennai corporation for flood mitigation

School, colleges in Chennai, 5 other districts shut amid heavy rain warning

A Red alert was issued in Dindigul, Theni, and The Nilgiris districts on November 12. This is following a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal during the next 24 hours.