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No more tears: Experts say that long-term interventions such as construction of warehouses, direct procurement from small farmers by the government and strengthening of Uzhavar Sandhais will help curb the upward trend in onion prices .

The rising price of onions over the past few months has dominated conversations in private and public domains. Given the importance of the bulb in the Indian kitchen, consumers have been moved to tears by the hike. Can anything be done to ensure that such a situation is not repeated? Experts weigh in.

Onions: Peeling the layers off price-rise

The rising price of onions over the past few months has dominated conversations in private and public domains. Given the importance of the bulb in the Indian kitchen, consumers have been moved to tears by the hike. Can anything be done to ensure that such a situation is not repeated? Experts weigh in.

Traffic in T. Nagar gets chaotic due to the parking of vehicles on main roads, especially outside eateries

Illegal parking on main roads irks Chennai’s T. Nagar residents

An arts and crafts market held by Wandering Artist Foundation in Chennai

Fund-raising event in Chennai to help patients battling cancer

A shot from a camera that is monitoring the parking system

Chennai Corporation launches app for parking in the city

Policemen standing in front of a house searched by the NIA in Coimbatore. file photo

NIA sends storage devices seized from IS sympathisers for analysis

City gets an online waste exchange

Premium parking lot reopens at Central railway station

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Chennai Margazhi young artiste of the day: Sunil Gargyan

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R. Sai Vignesh.

Chennai Margazhi young artiste of the day: R. Sai Vignesh

Chennai Margazhi young artiste of the day: Thirucherai Karthik

Chennai Margazhi young artiste of the day: K. Parthasaarathy

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R. Sai Vignesh.

Chennai Margazhi young artiste of the day: Sunil Gargyan

Amidst his concert schedule, he makes time to learn the mridangam from gurus B. Ganapathiraman and B. Sivaraman.

Chennai Margazhi young artiste of the day: R. Sai Vignesh

Sai Vignesh has won several awards including Best Vocal artist from The Music Academy for the Spirit of Youth Festival 2018.

Chennai Margazhi young artiste of the day: Thirucherai Karthik

Thirucherai Karthik has been performing in almost all the leading sabhas in the city for over eight years now.

Beethoven recital by Anand Seshadri to celebrate 250 years of the German pianist

Sweta Akundi Spend an evening learning the musical motifs in classic pieces by Beethoven, Brahms and Liszt

Chennai Margazhi young artiste of the day: K. Parthasaarathy

K. Parthasaarathy has collaborated with many of leading musicians and dancers, and travelled the globe extensively for performances

Chennai Margazhi young artiste of the day: Salman Usmani

Apart from this, he had been a part of a band named Atharva and sing for movies.

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Music

Chennai Margazhi young artiste of the day: Sunil Gargyan

Popaii steals young hearts with humour, dance

Peeling the layers off onions' price-rise

Robbery case cracked

Velumani rebuts Stalin’s charge

A treat in store for bird-watchers

Traffic diversions for match at Chepauk

The city traffic police have announced diversions around Triplicane in view of the cricket match between India and the West Indies, to be played at

Man injured with a pin, robbed of phone

The Nolambur police are on the lookout for a suspect who robbed a man of his mobile phone after injuring him with a pin. Suryaraj, who works at a

‘Refund ₹82.61 lakh with interest’

TNRERA gives direction to developer in a case of non-delivery of commercial units

Chennai Engagements, December 15, 2019

RELIGIONViveka Choodamani: Ramana Swaroopananda, Rajam Neela, Plot No W140, 4th St., Sector B, Park Rd., Anna Nagar West, 6.45 p.m.Arunagirinathar: P.

The young generation should take people like Mariyappan Thangavelu as their role models, says Tamil Nadu Governor

The Governor was speaking at a medical conference on rehabilitation, in Chennai

Hitting a sustainability note this Margazhi music season

Here is an initiative that politely asks musicians to ‘bring their own reusable bottles’ and the sabhas to take a pledge against the use of single-use plastics. A look at this musicians-supported exercise that is in its second season

High-mast lamp to illuminate busy stretch

A new high-mast lamp has been installed at the intersection of Chennai – Tiruvallur High (CTH) Road and Third Main Road in Ambattur Industrial Estate.

Hi-tech cameras to watch over Telephone Exchange junction

The eyes of high-resolution CCTV cameras will now be trained on vehicles navigating the Ambattur Telephone Exchange junction. It is a central point in

Horticulture department to sell onions, Christmas-tree saplings

Onions are sourced directly from farmers in Madurai, says an official

Fund-raising event in Chennai to help patients battling cancer

Part of the proceeds of the art and crafts market of Wandering Artist Foundation will be used to provide art therapy for those with cancer

A refreshing sight in the neighbourhood

Here is how a pond in Velachery got to sport an all-new look

Stormwater drain work moves at a snail’s pace near Panagal Park

GCC officials cite sewage inflow for the delay in completing the work

Delay in drain work on Vepery Main Road puts pedestrians at risk

Trenches with protruding steel rods have been left open for nearly three months

Kodambakkam police personnel to move to their new building by January

The facility has four floors and a spacious parking lot

Here’s how four homemakers from Anna Nagar became entrepreneurs

The four women are stitching cloth bags and selling them to neighbourhood outlets

Chennai Corporation launches app for parking in the city

The app, released as part of the civic body’s ‘On Street Smart Parking Management System’, can be used to find a parking slot near your destination and pay for it

Community newsletter in Hyderabad finds a wider readership

A nearly 20-year-old neighbourhood journal in Hyderabad goes beyond its small corner, discussing issues that would resonate with residents’ welfare associations in any part of the country

Two desilted ponds in Pattaravakkam and Avadi revive old memories

Now, every time he passes by a pond on Avadi - Poonamallee Main Road, 68-year-old K. Maruthu finds himself doused in the light of “other days”. His

Illegal parking on main roads irks Chennai’s T. Nagar residents

With vehicles parked on both sides of many streets, there is very little room for commuters

NIA sends storage devices seized from IS sympathisers for analysis

Seizures took place during agency’s recent searches conducted in T.N., Kerala

Chennai Margazhi young artiste of the day: R. Sai Vignesh

Sai Vignesh has won several awards including Best Vocal artist from The Music Academy for the Spirit of Youth Festival 2018.

PIL seeks setting up of waste processing facilities in city

‘Restrain Corpn. from inviting tenders for collecting waste’

Premium parking lot reopens at Central railway station

Facility remained closed for Metro work

Unaccounted cash seized from businessman

The police on Friday seized ₹27 lakh of unaccounted money, kept in gunny bags, from a businessman from Kerala. Following information that cash was

Man gets two-year jail term for sending bomb threat

The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court in Egmore convicted and sentenced a man to two years’ imprisonment for sending a threat letter to blow

City gets an online waste exchange

The platform will function through a portal as well as an app; allow buyers and sellers to trade

HC dismisses plea for CBI probe into IIT-M student deaths

‘Probe by city police does not appear to be tainted’

The Hindu and Margazhi

The Hindu celebrates the talent of youngsters this Margazhi, in a web series. In the December Music Season, a young crop of artistes will get a chance

A new creche to watch over kids of police personnel

New building constructed in Egmore for ₹70 lakh

Stagnant water, a bane of this college in Vyasarpadi

Students, teachers say issue persists for 4-5 months a year

Honours for Unnikrishnan, Rajendra Gangani

Musician P. Unnikrishnan and Kathak exponent Pandit Rajendra Gangani were honoured with the titles ‘Sangeetha Choodamani’ and ‘Nritya Choodamani’,

‘Music connects people’

Music connects people of different faiths and it has its own universal language of love and peace, said Prince of Arcot Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali.He

Slices of life in Chennai, frozen in time

Exhibition, capturing myriad facets of the city, is on till Sunday

IIT Madras launches 3D Braille puzzle

Shaastra 2020, the annual tech fest of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, has taken up improving the lives of the visually challenged as part

New College students protest

Students of New College staged a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill on Friday. The students squatted inside the college premises and

Direct Centre to recall Governor, a litigant urges HC

Petitioner alleges failure to discharge constitutional duty in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case

Vending of liquor is an obnoxious trade, says Chief Justice Sahi

‘However law does no prohibit establishment of liquor shops on farm lands’

Chennai Engagements for December 14, 2019

RELIGIONRamayanam: B. Sundarkumar, 9/19, Karnan St., Rangarajapuram, Kodambakkam, 6.30 p.m. Andrada Vazhvil Vedantham: Moksha Vidhyaananda Sarasvati,

Frisky whisky under the stars

The Gatsby Lounge at InterContinental gives ECR its first nightclub, but seems more suited for intimate gatherings

Stalin wants probe into sand procurement for Chennai Corporation

The DMK president has demanded a probe by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption to look into reports that M-sand was used in projects where river sand could have been used

Motorists complain of encroachments on Velachery High Road

Shops and eateries as well as customers’ vehicles, are eating into the road space, they say

Major fire at chemical godown in Chennai

The fire broke out at the godown in Erukkenchery early on Friday

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