Power shutdown in parts of Chennai on Sept 17

Supply will be resumed before 05.00 P.M if the works are completed.
 
Published: 14th September 2019 06:23 PM |

Power shutdown in Chennai owing to maintenance
By Express News Service

CHENNAI: Power supply will be suspended in the following areas on 17.09.2019 from 09.00 am to 05.00 pm for maintenance work.

Supply will be resumed before 05.00 P.M if the works are completed.

PUZHAL AREA : Jail Quarters, Anthoniyar st (Puzhal), Kannapa swamy nagar, One part of GNT road, Vandivedu, Anna street, PWD st & Market, GNT service road, Kamaraj nagar, M.A Nagar, Padiyanallur, Indira Gandhi salai.

LAKSHMIPURAM AREA : Teachers colony, Venkataeswara nagar, Ganapathy nagar, Krishna nagar, Devi nagar, Kumaran nagar, Iyyappa nagar, Sathya nagar, Bhavani st, Jayanthi nagar, Vivekananda nagar, Kadappa road, Sarathi nagar.


VELACHERY AREA: Ram nagar, By pass, Seetharam nagar, Dandeeswaram, Tansi nagar, Vijay nagar, MGR nagar, Velachery main road Jegannathapuram, Rajalakshmi nagar, TA Koil st, Gandhi salai, KA Ramasamy nagar, Anna garden, VGP Selvan nagar, Anna nagar, Venkateshwara nagar, Murugu nagar, Nehru nagar, Sarathi nagar, Baby nagar, Annai Indra nagar, Park Avenue, Part of Tharamani 100 feet road.

PAMMAL AREA : Balaji nagar, Gurusamy nagar, Venkateswara nagar, Kasthuribai nagar, Sathya nagar, Elumalai st, Pammal main road, Anna nagar area, Signal office road, Gandhi road, Nallathambi road, H.L colony, Pammal, Nehru nagar, Venkateswara nagar (Nehru nagar feeder), Agatheeswara nagar, Bharathi nagar, Pozhichalur bus stand, Prem nagar.

Tamil Nadu: Fake doctor tries to cheat woman of Rs 10 lakh, arrested

TNN | Sep 14, 2019, 05.21 AM IST

CHENNAI:

 A 32-year-old man, who posed as a government doctor, has been arrested on the day of his marriage reception in Madhavaram. The suspect, identified as Karthik of Coimbatore, had cheated another woman posing as a doctor and took Rs 12lakh from her parents.

In the latest incident, he had collected Rs 10lakh from the bride’s mother. The bride’s family became suspicious when the man, on the day of the reception, demanded another Rs 1lakh.

Karthik was introduced by the bride’s family friend Thai Anban of Kolathur. Thai Anban was an engineer in a firm in the city. He had met Karthik six months back in Coimbatore, when he had gone there for official work. The two became friends when Karthik asked Thai Anban to look for a rented house in Chennai as he would be working in the GH. Thai Anban arranged a place for Karthik in Villivakkam. He pretended to hail from a wealthy family and claimed that he was orphan.

Thai Anban’s friend, a nurse, was looking for a bridegroom and they decided to get the woman married to Karthik, police said.

Soon after the marriage was fixed, Karthik collected Rs 10lakh from the nurse.

New Chennai airport terminal to be ready in a year

TNN | Sep 14, 2019, 05.39 AM IST  CHENNAI: 

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is working to complete by September 2020, a new integrated terminal in the space between the domestic and international terminals at Chennai airport. It will be used partly for domestic and international passengers.

A senior AAI official said around 21% of the work was over. “It is moving at a pace good enough to meet the next September deadline. The terminal work is being done in two phases. The first is to complete the building. We will then move the international arrival to the new building and pull down the old one for rebuilding.”

The project is expected to be completed by 2022, he added. AAI chairman Anuj Agarwal held a review meeting on Thursday to assess progress.

Work on the integrated building began in July 2018 at the old Kamaraj domestic terminal. The new building is being designed to help handle domestic and international flights simultaneously. International arrivals are currently operated from the old building which will have to be pulled down and a new building constructed and linked to the integrated building. This will boost the terminal capacity to 30million passengers a year. AAI wants to speed up the work as the airport is expected to get saturated by 2022 and the state government is yet to identify land for the second airport.

Once ready, the new building will handle international arrivals and the existing building would be pulled down. The new international arrival terminal is to be ready by 2022 under a Rs 2,000crore project that is part of the airport’s phase-2 expansion. A domestic terminal and international terminal were commissioned in 2013 in the first phase. “The challenge is to carry out construction when there are two terminals on either side of the plot where passengers are handled. This means we can’t build it like a greenfield airport where work is done on open land. We have to ensure flight operations and passenger movement on the city side are not affected,” said an official. The authorities had to reallocate parking bays for flights away from the terminals. There are not enough aerobridges either as most of them were connected to the already-razed Kamaraj terminal.

In a year, most of the hassles faced by airlines and passengers will be removed, said officials. While the integrated terminal will have aerobridges and a modern check-in and boarding system, parking bays will be closer to reduce boarding time. Feedback is being obtained at all stages to ensure the building is user-friendly. As no feedback from airlines was taken before 2013, when the existing international terminal was being built, the facilities did not match user requirement. AAI has still not been able to open the arrival portion on the ground floor of the existing steel and glass building.

Nurse, boyfriend stage kidnap, held in Chennai

TNN | Sep 15, 2019, 06.45 AM IST  CHENNAI: 

A day after a nurse was reported to have been kidnapped by unidentified men from Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus (CMBT), police revealed that the kidnap had been staged by the woman and her boyfriend. The two were arrested and are now in jail.

While the woman, A Vidya, 22, of Telangana, is a nurse at a private hospital, her boyfriend Mano, 25, of Karaikal, works in a software firm. Vidya's father Arumugam, had received a call from an unknown number on Wednesday, saying his daughter had been kidnapped, and that he should pay 10 lakh to get her back.

Vidya's brother Vignesh, 24, also received a call with the same demand and to convince him further, Vidya spoke in a choked voice begging to be rescued.

Vignesh lodged a complaint at the Koyambedu police station, and a team headed by joint commissioner B Vijayakumari probed the incident. Mano confessed to hatching a plan to extort money from Vidya's father, as he needed money to go abroad for a job.

Chennai: Inspector turns midwife, helps woman deliver baby on roadside

TNN | Sep 15, 2019, 06.43 AM IST   CHENNAI: 

A woman police inspector on night patrol turned guardian angel for a 26-year-old woman in labour and helped her deliver a boy by the roadside with the help of some rag pickers in Choolaimedu in the wee hours on Friday. New mom Banumathi and her son are said to be doing fine at the Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital where they were admitted.

Inspector S Chitra was on her weekly night rounds in Choolaimedu when she found the pregnant woman crying for help on Nelson Manickam Road. Banumathi’s husband Vasanthakumar had gone to get an autorickshaw to take her to a hospital. The couple did not have a cellphone to call for an ambulance.

“She was unable to bear the pain as her water broke. She was well into labour and needed immediate attention,” said Chitra, recalling the experience.

“I decided to take the woman to a hospital in my patrol vehicle, but she had started crowning and a rag picker nearby advised me against it,” said the 2004-batch officer.

With time running out, Chitra asked her driver M Padmavathi to alert a ‘108’ ambulance and mustered courage to tend to the woman herself. Using towels from her car and the support of the rag pickers around, the group walked the woman through the labour, helping her deliver a boy.

“We cut the umbilical cord using pen-knife but didn’t have any clip/ band to tie it. I snatched the twine from which a Lord Hanuman figurine was suspended in my car and used it to tie the cord,” said the officer, a mother of two.

Soon, a ‘108’ ambulance arrived and Banumathi’s husband reached the spot. The mother and child were sent to the hospital. “Only after sending them I realised that I hadn’t even asked the woman her name. Her husband gave me their details as I wanted to visit the child later,” Chitra said.

Appreciation has been pouring in for inspector Chritra and driver Padmavathi since. They were rewarded by city police commissioner A K Viswanathan on Saturday.

Saying she would remember the incident for all her life, Chitra said, “For those 15 minutes, I was not a police officer. All that was in my mind was that two lives were at risk. I never knew I was capable of such a thing.”

Chennai cabbie turns thief to fund daughters’ education, held

TNN | Sep 15, 2019, 06.55 AM IST

CHENNAI: Police have arrested a 50-year-old cab driver, who travelled in his car and resorted to chain snatching in the southern suburbs. The arrested was identified as Balaji of Ayanavaram.

Police sources later quoted the accused as saying that he took to chain snatching to fund the education of his two college-going daughters.

Police had launched a hunt for the culprit after two incidents in Alandur where elderly women were targeted. In both incidents, the victims said the culprit had come in a car, which intrigued police since typically bike-borne men snatch chains.

In one incident in Thillai Ganga Nagar near Adambakkam, a 72-year-old woman was relieved of her 1.5-sovereign chain while she was on her morning walk. According to police, the accused had snatched a gold chain from her while driving the car. In another incident, a 62-year-old woman complained that she was relieved off her 5-sovereign chain. The victim, Malathy, was a resident of 22nd Street in Nanganallur. She was plucking flowers outside the compound wall of her house when a car slowed down. The driver called her on the pretext of asking for directions and when she came near the vehicle, he snatched her chain and fled.

Madras HC orders 86-year-old life convict be freed

TNN | Sep 15, 2019, 06.53 AM IST

CHENNAI: The Madras high court has made it clear that when the medical board recommends premature release of a life convict, then the same cannot be denied on the basis of objections from the director general of prison (DGP) or the inspector general of prison (IG).

Making the observation, a division bench of Justices MM Sundresh and M Nirmal Kumar ordered the release of 86-year-old Bilal Haijiar, a life convict for murder, currently lodged in the Coimbatore central prison, within four weeks.

"This exercise has been done by the medical board in favour of the life convict. The board has clearly opined that the life convict is suffering from multi system and multi organ diseases which are progressive in nature and some of them are dangerous. Therefore, they have recommended premature release of the convict in due compliance of the Tamil Nadu Prison Rules," the bench said. Bilal was convicted under Section 302 of IPC and his life conviction was confirmed by the high court on October 10, 2018.

On January 3, he made a representation to the authorities seeking premature release on health condition.

As it was not disposed of, he moved the court and obtained an order directing the prison authorities to consider his representation.