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Political parties in Tamil Nadu are increasingly acknowledging climate change, with manifestos highlighting heat mitigation, electric vehicles, and water management. While DMK and AIADMK show improvements in environmental focus, concerns remain regarding past actions and the implementation of promises. Animal welfare receives minimal attention, though DMK proposes upgrades to veterinary hospitals and wildlife conflict reduction systems.

Cognizant's Tamil Nadu delivery center headcount has dropped by 10,000 employees as hiring shifts to cities like Indore and Bhubaneswar. While Chennai remains its largest Indian hub, the company is expanding in Visakhapatnam, investing Rs 1,583 crore to create over 8,000 jobs. This reduction in Tamil Nadu could become a political issue ahead of state elections.

For 26-year-old Priya, it is always a herculean task to cross the Pallavaram-thoraipakkam Radial road after her office hours late in the night.

On Sunday, several residents of the scores of colonies in Okkiyam-thoraipakkam on either side of the thoraipakkam-Pallavaram Road were not grappling with just inundation but also with many uninvited guests snakes!

Disappointed with the apathy shown by authorities in providing civic amenities to residents of thoraipakkam, the Madras high court has observed that it would be constrained to summon the chief secretary and ask for an action plan if the authorities are not willing to work.

In Chennai, a woman named Deepa was found murdered with her body parts dumped in a suitcase near thoraipakkam. Police arrested Manikandan, who admitted to killing her following a dispute over money. The victim's brother used phone tracking to locate her, aiding the police investigation.

A two-year-old girl died after her father who was carrying a water can slipped and fell on her at their house in thoraipakkam on Thursday.

Two of the three people who allegedly abducted a driver at thoraipakkam on Monday and escaped with Rs 35 lakh were arrested on Tuesday.

A few years from now, Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) could become a metro rail hub with lines crisscrossing the main road at major junctions – Okkiam thoraipakkam and Sholinganallur – enabling people to switch trains on different lines to reach different parts of the city and also access ECR.

A major fire broke out in a supermarket in thoraipakkam on Monday morning. No casualties were reported.

Two men on a bike robbed a software engineer of two mobile phones and some cash at knifepoint at thoraipakkam in the wee hours on Saturday.

Notorious criminal ‘Neeravi’ Murugan, who was caught robbing a teacher at MCN Nagar in thoraipakkam, was taken to police custody on Tuesday and was made to re-enact the scene at a few places in Madipakkam by cops.

The TNEB has decided to open its substation-cum-local office at Anand Nagar near Okkiyam-thoraipakkam on Monday.

Intrigue surrounds the death of a 20-year-old fresh software company recruit whose body was found on a railway track in Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, after he slipped out of the first-day induction programme at a software company in thoraipakkam.

A 30-year-old carpenter in thoraipakkam committed suicide on Friday night by slitting his throat. He is said to have taken the extreme step as his wife had left him to live with her parents.

Police have arrested a police constable for creating public nuisance after getting drunk at thoraipakkam on Friday night. Dhanraj, attached to the thoraipakkam police station, was picked up from Mettu Street where he was abusing whoever passed by.

The one-km Corporation Road that connects thoraipakkam and Perungudi has been dusty and bumpy for the past seven years.

Chennai: A 48-year-old techie jumped to death from the seventh floor of his office building on the thoraipakkam-Pallavaram radial road on Saturday night, unable to cope with work pressure, police said.

Chennai police have arrested three aeronautical engineering students for the possession of 44 smuggled liquor bottles. They were caught during a vehicle checkup near thoraipakkam on Sunday night.

Burglars had a field day at Okkiyam thoraipakkam near thoraipakkam while residents were away in their native places to celebrate Pongal. They struck in at least 10 houses in the same area and decamped with valuables.

More than 100 residents of thoraipakkam and surrounding areas hit the streets on Saturday protesting the legacy landfill and dump yard at Perungudi.

Burglars entered a fruit shop by drilling a hole through the roof and escaped with cash and eatables at thoraipakkam on Thursday. Inquiries revealed that the burglars had left behind a dozen drug pills and some empty water bottles. The cops are searching for the suspects.