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Chennai Buzz: Plea over mall parking fees | ‘She’ toilets | Permits for street vendors… and more

December 22, 2019 News Desk

From the latest water supply update to civic and infrastructure initiatives, catch a round-up of news from the city over the last seven days.

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Chennai Buzz: Direct election of mayor | FASTag for Chennai toll plazas | Water supply update …and more

October 20, 2019 News Desk

Your weekly round-up of news and updates affecting life in the city

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Chennai Buzz: End to water woes in sight? | Streetlights makeover | Ban on ready-foods packaging…and more

January 7, 2019 News Desk

Will the plastic ban now also extend to packaging such as biscuit covers? How can the city tackle water crisis in the wake of failed monsoons that are growing increasingly common? What’s in the 140-crore project for streetlights? All this and more in this week’s ‘buzz’.

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Chennai buzz: Water crisis, MTC woes and smart city proposals

March 31, 2018 Sandhya Raju

Never miss what’s important to you and your city. Watch this space every weekend for a round up of the week’s key news from different sources, all of which impacts you, the Chennai citizen.

Civic

Law on paper, manual scavengers in Chennai struggle for respite

December 27, 2017 Laasya Shekhar

Central law says manual scavengers can choose to give up the profession and start life afresh with funds from the government, but hapless workers in Chennai know how elusive that can be.

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MP visit revives hopes for people’s gym in Marundeeswarar Nagar

June 10, 2017 Geeta Padmanabhan

MP Jayavardhan assures Marundeeswarar Nagar youth that he will arrange for new equipment for the MGR-era gym that has served generations of the slum population in the area.

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With three rivers and five wetlands, why is Chennai staring at ecological collapse?

February 6, 2017 Mahesh Kumar S T

With its waterways polluted, wetlands encroached and groundwater overexploited, Chennai must wake up immediately to the need for preserving its well-endowed natural heritage.

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