Category: Chennai

Two camps will be held in each of the 200 wards from July 15 to October 31, with about 2,000 volunteers

As doctors from urban primary health centres visit hospitals only during the day, residents want the GCC to open more such evening clinics

Triplicane High Road sees heavy daily activity, but its narrow design and poor infrastructure can’t support the load

Some students map their career paths as they enter college

Parsis settled in Madras ran most of the single-screen theatres in the city since mid-1910s

The fire broke out about 40 minutes after the aircraft crash-landed and spread rapidly from the wings to the fuselage and tail; a series of explosions followed as the fuel ignited

The traffic lights for three of the four roads may by red, but that does not discourage vehicles coming from those three roads from crossing the junction out of turn

For many readers in the Madras of the past, an essential rite of passage was to read Forsyth’s masterpiece The Day of the Jackal

Just as another May recedes, Chennai continues to grapple with heat and the odd summer rain. There is also the matter of dealing with a queasy memory from a distant night, one that altered India’s political landscape.