Author: Praveen Kumar S

It’s raining bonkers in Chennai, with the majority of our road networks throwing all sorts of obstacles to motorists on a daily basis. Chief among which are caused by vehicles themselves.

The Chennai-Tiruvallur High Road (CTH Road) is the lifeline that connects the city with the national highways network.

It would become cliched to write that electric vehicles are here to stay, for many have written about it, explored the possibilities and explained the technology on a large scale worldwide. People have also spoken about what new car manufacturers will come up with and how important it is for them to move with times and that is all good. But nobody seems to care about the difficulties that manufacturers go through.

Having dinner at a wonderful place during Chennai’s mixed July weather with the sea just a few minutes away and with the constant sound of waves being sonorous, it would take some beating to best the wine dinner.

PhonePe has been one of the leading players in the field and had crossed two billion transactions recently on the app. The Bengaluru headquartered digital wallet firm had in the fag end of last year registered its wealth management division and recently launched….

Cleaning disused lakes and ponds has been gaining momentum in the neighbourhood. Members of Ambattur Waterbodies Protection Movement have completed two more ponds and are currently working on the third.

German auto giant Volkswagen (VW) pulled the plug and ended the production of the iconic Beetle only recently, with the last car rolling of a factory in Puebla, Mexico. The car that was called the ‘Bug’, and a few other names, fondly over the years across the globe, was nothing sort of extraordinary when it came in the 1930s. It took the automotive world by storm and even today, the cars that run on the road stay true to their origins.

Small and simple moments often leave a profound impact on people. Some even change the course of life for many. It may be a little gesture, a comment from a passer-by or even a cute smile that could make another person’s day beautiful.

The work of the DRLs is to increase chances of a vehicle being spot at all times, because accidents have happened in the thousands where two vehicles have met in a head-on collision because they could not see the other coming.

When News Today contacted Alexander, the MLA of Ambattur regarding the issue, he said he had taken it up during the Assembly session yesterday.  ‘The problem is that property taxes were hiked when Ambattur was a Municipality and once again after it came under the Corporation. I spoke about addressing the disparity on the matter in the Assembly and I have been assured that it will be looked at,’ he said.