Intending to eradicate curable blindness, Appayya Dikshita Foundation (ADF), Kottivakkam, made a monetary donation towards its treatment for the needy, to the MN Eye Hospital,  Besant Nagar.  On Jan.3, as...

Partnering with the Varun Hope For Children Charitable Trust and Celebrating Life team, the Dream India team provided 2000 school students with cyclone relief kits: CHS Kamaraj Avenue Corporation School...

On Dec.29, Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitaraman, laid the foundation stone for the extension block of the Rukmini Devi Museum at the Kalakshetra campus.  She paid...

By R.Swathi It poured and poured in Chennai on Dec.4 as Cyclone Michaung scraped past the city. And it left a trail of destruction along the way. Many areas of...

Urbaser Sumeet, along with the Greater Chennai Corporation, organised a beach cleanup drive at the Broken Bridge, Besant Nagar, on Dec.23. Nearly 3 tonnes of waste (2 tonnes at Broken...

Surana High Tech International School, Besant Nagar celebrated Christmas with a ‘Joy of Giving’ initiative. With contribution from the parents, the students and teachers of the school joined the Christmas...

M Jyoti Lakshmi recently won gold medals in Hammer Throw and Short Put, and a silver in Discus throw, at the Tamilnadu State Masters Athletic Championship held at Thiruvannamalai, from...

Sri Varasiddhi Vinayagar temple, on Dec.21, celebrated its Golden jubilee with a grand function. The temple is a landmark at Besant Nagar, since its inception in the early 1970s.  K.R.Chandrasekhar,...

K.Mohamed Ibrahim - Former Regional Director ICCR and a resident of Jeevarathnam Nagar (Adyar), along with K.S.Gopalakrishnan, IPS (Rtd), T.S.Krishnamurthy - Former Chief Election Commissioner, J.Balasubramanian - Founder of Savithri...

Ezhuthu Sirpi Dr Vijayalakshmi Masilamani released her 20th book ‘Bharathi en Paattan’ on Nov.25 at the Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan. Dr Vijayalakshmi is a writer and the Founder-President of Suriya Thendral...