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ABVP Leader Who Allegedly Harassed Chennai Woman Appointed To AIIMS Board
A top ABVP leader and oncologist who was a few months ago accused of harassing an elderly neighbour in Chennai by urinating at her doorstep and dumping garbage there has been appointed to the board of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Madurai.
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Tamil Nadu Government Paves Way For Adoption of Abandoned Newborn Baby
Two weeks after the Chennai Police rescued a newborn baby boy from a pile of garbage, the government has handed over the child to a non-government organisation paving the way for its adoption.
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Chief Of BJP-Linked Student Group Charged For Harassing Chennai Woman
The national president of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a student group linked to the BJP, has been charged for allegedly harassing a 52-year-old woman in Chennai.
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Chennai Filmmaker Arrested 2 Weeks After Wife's Body Parts Found In Bins
More than a fortnight after dismembered body parts of a woman were found in garbage bins in Chennai, the police have arrested the woman's husband, who is a small-time film director and producer.
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Headless Body Found In Chennai Is Of TV Actor Sasirekha, Husband Arrested
A month after a headless body of a woman was found in a garbage yard in Chennai, the police have identified it as the body of a television actress Sasirekha.
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Chennai Rains Fallout: Garbage Everywhere but Workers Missing
Garbage has been piling up in Chennai. An estimated 15,000 tonnes of it. And, it is rotting faster than usual because large parts of Chennai are still water-logged.
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Chennai Airport Resumes 24-Hour Operations: 10 Developments
Chennai airport re-opened for 24-hour domestic and international flight operations today, five days after it was shut due to excessive water-logging. The city is now slowly returning to normalcy with water receding from most areas, but cleaning up garbage and slush that piled up due to water-logging remains a big challenge.
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Heavy Rains Flood Chennai Beaches With Garbage
Thanks to heavy rains over the past few days in Chennai, tonnes of garbage including plastic, thermocol and rubber can be seen at Elliot's Beach.
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Huge protests at Chennai's largest garbage dump
Kodungaiyur is where Chennai's largest dumping ground is located. The city's garbage, adding up over the years, is now a small hill, circled in the sky by birds and guarded on the ground by dogs. A major part of the city's 3,200 tonnes of daily refuse ends up in this 65 acre plot.
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With Rs 500, Chennai hopes to bridge the gap with Singapore
How often have we all strictly adhered to the 'no littering garbage in public' rule in countries like Singapore during our travel on holidays; and then on landing back in Chennai, not batting an eyelid before letting go of that toffee wrapper on the road?
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Every breath you take near Kodungaiyur may be toxic: Report
If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system. What's worse, the noxious fumes contain Butadiene, Chloromethane and Benzene, known to be carcinogenic and between 8.5 to 50...
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Every breath you take near Kodungaiyur
If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system.
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City lacks sanitation, says study
In the belief that local councilor elections had provided a good opportunity for citizens' voices to be heard, Transparent Chennai conducted a ward-based, citizen-driven intervention that created information about the state of public sanitation.
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ABVP Leader Who Allegedly Harassed Chennai Woman Appointed To AIIMS Board
A top ABVP leader and oncologist who was a few months ago accused of harassing an elderly neighbour in Chennai by urinating at her doorstep and dumping garbage there has been appointed to the board of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Madurai.
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Tamil Nadu Government Paves Way For Adoption of Abandoned Newborn Baby
Two weeks after the Chennai Police rescued a newborn baby boy from a pile of garbage, the government has handed over the child to a non-government organisation paving the way for its adoption.
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Chief Of BJP-Linked Student Group Charged For Harassing Chennai Woman
The national president of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a student group linked to the BJP, has been charged for allegedly harassing a 52-year-old woman in Chennai.
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Chennai Filmmaker Arrested 2 Weeks After Wife's Body Parts Found In Bins
More than a fortnight after dismembered body parts of a woman were found in garbage bins in Chennai, the police have arrested the woman's husband, who is a small-time film director and producer.
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Headless Body Found In Chennai Is Of TV Actor Sasirekha, Husband Arrested
A month after a headless body of a woman was found in a garbage yard in Chennai, the police have identified it as the body of a television actress Sasirekha.
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Chennai Rains Fallout: Garbage Everywhere but Workers Missing
Garbage has been piling up in Chennai. An estimated 15,000 tonnes of it. And, it is rotting faster than usual because large parts of Chennai are still water-logged.
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Chennai Airport Resumes 24-Hour Operations: 10 Developments
Chennai airport re-opened for 24-hour domestic and international flight operations today, five days after it was shut due to excessive water-logging. The city is now slowly returning to normalcy with water receding from most areas, but cleaning up garbage and slush that piled up due to water-logging remains a big challenge.
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Heavy Rains Flood Chennai Beaches With Garbage
Thanks to heavy rains over the past few days in Chennai, tonnes of garbage including plastic, thermocol and rubber can be seen at Elliot's Beach.
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Huge protests at Chennai's largest garbage dump
Kodungaiyur is where Chennai's largest dumping ground is located. The city's garbage, adding up over the years, is now a small hill, circled in the sky by birds and guarded on the ground by dogs. A major part of the city's 3,200 tonnes of daily refuse ends up in this 65 acre plot.
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With Rs 500, Chennai hopes to bridge the gap with Singapore
How often have we all strictly adhered to the 'no littering garbage in public' rule in countries like Singapore during our travel on holidays; and then on landing back in Chennai, not batting an eyelid before letting go of that toffee wrapper on the road?
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Every breath you take near Kodungaiyur may be toxic: Report
If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system. What's worse, the noxious fumes contain Butadiene, Chloromethane and Benzene, known to be carcinogenic and between 8.5 to 50...
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Every breath you take near Kodungaiyur
If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system.
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City lacks sanitation, says study
In the belief that local councilor elections had provided a good opportunity for citizens' voices to be heard, Transparent Chennai conducted a ward-based, citizen-driven intervention that created information about the state of public sanitation.
