IndiGo plane makes emergency landing at Chennai airport

TNN | Nov 5, 2018, 07.29 PM IST

IndiGo plane makes emergency landing at Chennai airport

CHENNAI: A Rajahmundry-Chennai IndiGo flight (6E 7123) made an emergency landing at Chennai airport after the ATR plane's left engine failed on Sunday. The flight landed here safely around 6.20pm.

An airport official said the pilot first had requested for a standby but he later called in requesting a full emergency landing when the flight neared the airport.

In a statement, IndiGo said, "The flight suffered a technical glitch on one of its engines just before landing at Chennai. The aircraft landed safely."

Diwali rain may skip Chennai today: Independent weathermen

TNN | Nov 6, 2018, 12.05 AM IST

CHENNAI: The customary Diwali showers may skip Chennai this time.

While independent weather experts forecast dry weather across the city on Tuesday, the Met department has predicted light rain in some areas of the city and heavy rainfall in the southern districts.

Private weather bloggers, who have often been accurate, said the city may witness only cloudy skies, while there may be scattered rainfall in the southern districts. According to IMD’s regional weather inference, a low pressure area is likely to develop over southwest Bay of Bengal off Sri Lanka and adjoining equatorial Indian Ocean in the next 24 hours. This system may be the outcome of a trough or an extended region of low atmospheric pressure and an associated cyclonic circulation or swirling winds caused by a low pressure area. Between November 6 and 8, the low pressure is likely to move west-northwestwards across Sri Lanka-Comorin area.

As a result, it may bring rainfall to southern districts. IMD has forecast heavy rain at isolated places over Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on Diwali day and heavy to very heavy rain on Wednesday and Thursday. Skymet Weather, however, has predicted light to moderate rainfall for the next two to three days in southern districts, as the low pressure expected to develop may not intensify. “It will be generally cloudy in the city. Districts may get scattered rains because the system is not strong,” said Mahesh Palawat, chief meteorologist, Skymet Weather. Weather blogger Pradeep John said districts including Ramanathapuram, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari may experience spells of rain starting from Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.

Last year, on November 6, the state received widespread heavy to very heavy rainfall. Chennai recorded the maximum rain at 30cm in 24 hours, by the end of November 3, 8.30am, as widespread rainfall was recorded through the first week of November 2017.

Just 15 days’ water in reservoirs, Chennai could face crisis if rain fails

TNN | Nov 6, 2018, 06.16 AM IST

CHENNAI: The water in the four reservoirs that serve the city could run out in 15 days if it does not rain soon in the catchment areas in Tiruvallur and Kancheepuram districts.

In fact, Cholavaram and Chembarambakkam are almost dry, holding just 2% and 6% of their total storage.

The combined storage in the four reservoirs on November 3 was 1,758 million cubic feet (mcft) against 2,114mcft recorded the same time last year. Water managers say the present storage is enough to supply the city for another 15 days. Various other sources such as the Veeranam lake, agricultural wells and desalination plants will ensure supply for another two months. But after that, there will be a crisis if the monsoon continues to play truant.


“We expect rain in November-end and in December. Even if it rains for 15 days at night alone, these reservoirs will reach half capacity, which is enough for us to sail through summer,” said a Metrowater official.

The city currently received 675MLD (million litres a day) of water from Metrowater of which 520MLD is for households. Generally, the supply was around 830MLD. This year, 165MLD was being pumped from Veeranam reservoir every day, 100 MLD from Nemmeli desalination plant and 100 MLD from Minjur desalination plant.

“We will continue to supply water to residents every alternate day and there is no rationing. We have started looking at various alternative sources already,” said an official. Metrowater has called for tenders to pump water from the quarries located near Chembarambakkam reservoir. These 22 quarries that are 70m deep will help the city with a minimum of 30MLD water.

Another 80MLD will be pumped from agricultural wells. Apart from this, Metrowater has also called for tenders to pump from lakes in Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur.

Wish you happy Diwali

Lack of digital display boards at Tambaram stn baffles commuters

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:6.11.2018

Tambaram has been functioning as the city’s third coaching terminal, and many trains to southern districts are now starting from there. But, the thousands who throng the station complain that it lacks two basic facilities — a digital display board and coach indication system.

During the weekend as well as on Monday, passengers were inconvenienced as they didn’t know the position of coaches on the platform. “Many senior citizens and pregnant women waiting at one point had to run a long distance to board their coach which was at a different position,” said D Rakesh, a passenger.

On Friday, the coach position of train 82605, Chennai Egmore-Tirunelveli Suvidha special was wrongly announced, causing a great deal of confusion among passengers. Many said they were tense as the train was also scheduled to leave around 11pm, adding to the anxiety. Complaints have been sent via Twitter to the railways’ official twitter handle, but no explanation has been given for the incident so far.

Another issue faced by the holiday passengers was that the main entrance to platform 1on the west side of the station has been barricaded. Several passengers rushing in to catch the train from that side had to take a detour through another entrance which is not clearly marked.

A Southern Railway official said this was on account of the work done on the footover-bridge (FOB) and the barricade was for passenger safety purposes. As for the coach indication, the official said, orders had been given to the contractor to provide digital display boards, but that the work had not taken off. “It will be done soon,” he said.

All trains which start from Chennai Egmore towards Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Madurai, Kanyakumari and parts of Kerala stop at Tambaram. This is an easier station to access for passengers who live in areas like Velachery, Adambakkam and Chromepet in the southern suburbs or on the outskirts of Chennai. But the facilities are at the stations yet to match those available at Egmore or Central, say passengers.

During the weekend as well as on Monday, passengers were inconvenienced as they could not know which coach of the train would be at which point at the platform

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தாயார் பிரசாதம் இனி அஞ்சலில் கிடைக்கும்

பதிவு செய்த நாள்: நவ 03,2018 00:18

திருப்பதி: திருச்சானுார் பத்மாவதி தாயார் பிரசாதத்தை, அஞ்சல் மூலம் அனுப்பும் திட்டத்தை, திருமலை தேவஸ்தானம் துவக்கி உள்ளது.திருமலை ஏழுமலையான் கோவிலில், தொலைபேசி மூலம் பக்தர்கள் குறைகேட்பு நிகழ்ச்சி நேற்று நடந்தது. இதில், பல மாநிலங்களைச் சேர்ந்த பக்தர்கள், தங்கள் கருத்துக்களை தெரிவித்தனர். தேவஸ்தான செயல் அதிகாரி அனில்குமார் சிங்கால் கூறியதாவது: திருச்சானுார் பத்மாவதி தாயாருக்கு, டிசம்பரில், வருடாந்திர பிரம்மோற்ஸவம் நடக்க உள்ளது. இதற்கான ஏற்பாடுகள் நடந்து வருகின்றன. திருமலை ஏழுமலையானுக்கு, 500 ரூபாய்க்கு மேல் நன்கொடை வழங்கும் பக்தர்களுக்கு, ஆசீர்வாதம் திட்டத்தின் கீழ், ஏழுமலையான் பிரசாதம், அட்சதை உள்ளிட்டவை அஞ்சல் மூலம் அனுப்பப்பட்டு வருகிறது.அதேபோல், திருச்சானுார் பத்மாவதி தாயாருக்கு நன்கொடை வழங்குவோருக்கும், அதே திட்டத்தை தேவஸ்தானம் துவக்கி உள்ளது. இதற்கு பக்தர்களிடம் வரவேற்பும் அதிகரித்து
உள்ளது. இவ்வாறு அவர் கூறினார்.

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சவுதியில் செவிலியர்கள் வேலை

பதிவு செய்த நாள்: நவ 02,2018 21:46

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