Day: August 17, 2018

“The demise of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a huge loss to the nation. He ensured all-round progress for India. I convey my condolence to the millions of our party workers across the country,” said BJPTamilnadu unit general secretary Vanathi Srinivasan.

What is common to Jyothika, Samantha, Nayanthara, Hansika, Kajal Agarwal, Varalaxmi and Trisha?

Foster daughter Namita Kaul Bhattacharya lit the pyre as cries of ‘Atal Bihari Amar Rahe’ reverberated.

The decks were finally cleared today for the Asia Cup as BCCI officially handed over its hosting rights to the Emirates Cricket Board.

As an interesting tale, residents recall with amusement that everytime the DMK came to power, the destination boards on buses would read as ‘Kalaignar Karunanidhi Nagar’ and once the AIADMK came to power, it would be back to ‘K K Nagar’.

“I used to travel by 5E bus to my office from K K Nagar to Taramani. At Chinnamalai, Kakkanji used to get into the bus. Commuters and I used to ask him to sit by offering our seat. But he used to say ‘Amma Ukkarunga, Thaymarellam Nikakoodathu’. Even when the conductor offers him the seat, he would refuse to sit. This showed his simplicity,” she says.

The first Independence Day celebration was held in the vast sprawling quadrangle inside the Gemini Studios. This was the quadrangle used later for the popular drum dance sequence in the film ‘Chandralekha’,”Krishnaswamy says.

But even to this day, there is not even a single ATM on the entire stretch. One has to go to MGR Road or Medavakkam Road to draw money from an ATM. People are finding it very difficult in the absence of ATMs in a commercial spot like this.

The park will be named RK Nagar Poonga, and will be thrown open to public by the first week of September.

The odds were in their favour as the TASMAC shop in that locality was shut down thanks to the High Court order that called upon the closing of several wine shops across the State.