Ravikumar Ramanujam is a Chennai-based former business journalist with about 25 years of experience covering industry and the TN economy BY INVITATIONRavikumar RamanujamTwenty years ago, Sriperumbudur was little more than a fast-growing industrial township on the outskirts of Chennai, known primarily for its automobile and component factories. Today, the corridor has emerged as one of…
Chennai: A fire broke out at an electronic components manufacturing unit in the Vallam SIPCOT industrial estate near Sriperumbudur in Kancheepuram district on Saturday, damaging goods stored in a warehouse. All 300 workers on duty were evacuated safely, and no injuries were reported.The fire occurred at Venus System Energy, a company engaged in the manufacture…
The move comes amid the Tamil Nadu govt’s decision to shut down 717 TASMAC shops across the state Chennai: Southern Railway has sought the relocation of 39 Tasmac liquor shops situated near stations and tracks in the city and its periphery. Frequent incidents of stones being thrown at trains, theft from passengers waiting at stations,…
Chennai: Two women, were killed in separate road accidents reported in Kancheepuram district on Sunday.In the first incident, Akhila , 68, of Salabogam area in Kancheepuram taluk died after falling from a moving tourist van near Kundukulam village. Police said she was travelling from Salabogam to Kundukulam and was seated near the vehicle’s steps. When…
Chennai: Two school boys, aged 10 and 9 years, who had come to their grandmother’s house in Irumbedu village in Kancheepuram, drowned in a pond where they had gone fishing on Thursday evening.T Saran, 10, from Navalur near Somangalam, was a Class V student at a local school. He had been staying at his grandmother’s…
Chennai: A 70-year-old woman took the grinding stone her son-in-law was using to attack her daughter and fatally struck him on the head with it, at Gandhi Nagar First Street near Manimangalam in Kancheepuram district on Thursday night.Police said the deceased, Dinakaran, 45, a daily wage labourer, came home drunk frequently and picked fights with…
