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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.