All publications of Shreya Ramkrishna . Chennai , India
Chennai’s water level has gone done during summers. As a result, Chennai faced drought-like situation during the summer months between April and June. Water provided in trains from Vellore. Initially, the train was touted to carry out 25 lakh litres of water and make four trips per day from Vellore district. This water supply started in April and continue until October.
The water supply department said, “The situation is under control, we have sufficient underground water, there have been some rains also. The Krishna water has begun to arrive from the neighbouring, Andhra Pradesh.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said, “We are planning to lay a pipeline for Krishna water to reduce stealing. The route of Poondi water reservoir will be changed to ensure maximum water supply.
Near the Southern Railway Headquarter and above LIC metro rail station on Anna Salai, a serpentine line live power cable passed through the road to push metro work. Thousands of people pass through that road every day, and the government can not do anything to rectify that.
Authorities can place cables underground for Anna Salai and Poonamallee High Road, but instead, they kept them unexposed. Not only human life but these cables themselves could suffer damage.
As per Officials of state power utility Tangedco, “the cable had been lying under the ground, and due to metro work they got pushed above the surface”.
Officials also mentioned,” that once they finish the work on the surface level, they will lay the cables inside”.
According to the Blue Cross of India report, 90% of cattle roaming in Chennai have plastic waste in their guts, all thanks to the resident of Chennai who throw plastic on the roads only.
“Animals like Cow and Goat tend to gulp food without separating them from foreign bodies like plastic. This is the reason why only ruminants like them are facing this issue,” Said Dr P Dhanapalan.
Dr P Dhanapalan mentioned, “Food is fermented, but material like plastic, metal and cloth remain in the rumen which leads to disease like anorexia, starvation, constipation, difficulty in breathing and the death. And then the only thing left for surgeons is to open rumen wall and remove all the foreign material from inside the animal body”.
According to the draft electoral report, Chennai has 57,97652 votes. Today onward, the list will be placed at all 15 Zonal offices and 200 ward office so that the public can view it.
As per the Greater Chennai Corporation, “The least number of voters (2,921) is from Ward No. 159 Alandur zone (zone 12), and the highest number of voters (54,801) is from Ward No. 137 Kodambakkam zone (zone 10).”
The announcement of the election date is still pending. Total 5,714 polling booths will set up by the government for the local body election all the security measures should take into consideration as the number of voters is enormous.
And Chennai government is expecting colossal participation this year.
Excessive campus hiring happened this season in Chennai. IT product start-ups and MNCs both contributed as there is an increase in engineer, analyst demand. The placements went from 15% to 20% this year.
Cognizant, an IT-based company, usually visit 75 engineering colleges across the country but this year they visited 100 campuses for recruitment. They have also increased the entry-level salary for engineer graduating in June 2020.
Manoj Sharma, HR Director, NetApp said, they are hiring candidates who have good knowledge about C, C++, Java and Python Skills. They hire candidates as an intern and then enrol them for 6-12 month of On-the-Job training, and after 6-12 month they offer full-time position based on the performance.
Companies are not only visiting Engineering colleges but are also hiring from MBA and other specialized institutes.
Shuttl, an Indian based start-up, has now expanded its footprint in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on Thursday. Shuttl was founded by two IITians - Amit Singh and Deepanshu Malviyia and backed up Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Amazon, and Dentsu.
Shuttl provides services in cities like Delhi, NCR, Kolkata, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai is going to be the Sixth City.
The main aim is to improve mobility in an urban area and make the city less polluted. It allows its users to reserve a seat in shuttl bus by using its app.
“We witnessed huge demand from office-goers in Chennai for a comfortable daily commute, so thought of launching services in Chennai”, said Amit Singh, Co-founder and CEO of Shuttl.
Shuttl provides comfortable commuting at affordable rates and creates a positive impact on the environment.
A report released on Wednesday stated tht three of the Major Railway Stations in Chennai failed the cleanliness test.
Last year Southern Railway Zone secured seventh position and this year it has slipped down to twelve as all the major stations failed to reach in top 50 rankings. Central ranked at 58, which was at 36th position in 2018, Egmore is at 149, which was at 27 in 2018 and Tambaram at 321 from 62 in 2018.
Government is spending crores on sanitation, but Railway cleans these stations annually during Swachh campaigns, said, passenger.
A Senior Official said, “Chennai is still doing better than other metro cities, it is unfair to compare the ranking of the cities, and it is an achievement considering that the cleanliness expectation from Tamil Nadu and Chennai is higher than other states.
After an extended visit to the US, Prime minister Narendra Modi visited IIT Madras for the convocation ceremony. He praises the Tamil language and says it echoes across the United States.
During UN speech in the US, PM Modi mentioned the beauty of the diversity of the Indian language. He referred Tamil as ancient language as well.
He greeted the people of Madras with "Vanakkam" at Chennai airport. It was his first visit to Madras after election 2019.
Modi appealed for foreign investment in India while addressing the United Nations with his pitch powered with linguistic flexibility in India.
The national broadcaster Doordarshan failed to telecast the Narendra Modi's speech at IIT Madras in Chennai. It created an issue due to which the assistant director of Doordarshan in Chennai has been suspended owing to disciplinary litigation against her.
The official order published against R Vasumathi has not specified the reason but announces her suspension on October 1.
Shashi Shekhar Vempati, Chief Executive Officer of Prasar Bharti, has signed this order of suspension.
As per the reports, she has got suspended after failing of live telecast of PM Modi's speech at the Singapore India Hackathon 2019.
