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Cyclone Fengal: NDRF 10th Battalion deploys four teams to Nellore, Chennai and Villupuram

The 10th Battalion of the National Disaster Response Force has deployed four teams to Chennai, Villupuram and Nellore to take up rescue and rehabilitation operations in the wake of Cyclone Fengal. “As many parts in Tamil Nadu, and a few districts in Andhra Pradesh, including Nellore, Tirupati and Chittoor, are receiving heavy rainfall, we have deployed teams to help the …

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Sixteen-year-old Grandmaster D.Gukesh, the Indian chess `Rajinikanth’, on Saturday set the Chennai Olympiad on fire defeating America’s super GM Fabiona Caruana. But Gukesh managed the position well without giving an inch to his opponent on the 64-squared board," GM Vishnu Prasanna, the coach of India’s latest chess sensation, had told IANS. “While holding on to his position well, Gukesh got …

Nellore: In a ghastly road accident, a father and his elder son were killed on the spot while returning from Chennai Airport. The family was returning after giving a send-off to another son going to USA during the early hours of Thursday at Renangivaram in J Panguluru mandal of Prakasam district. The accident took place when the car rammed into …

A fitness pole customised for Indians — This Chennai startup says #MakeLocal home-workout equipment

The air at Mannurpet’s network of streets is punctuated by sounds of machining: of steel hitting steel, metal drilling into slabs of concrete, and the sparks of welding. Along with Muthu Veeran, the three Rajalakshmi Engineering College graduates have founded a make-in-Chennai company, locally manufacturing fitness equipment such as poles, multibars, metal parallets for push-ups, Swedish bars and resistance bands. …