CHENNAI: As sun shone bright, flood-battered Chennai and its suburbs were today fast on course to normalcy with train and air services resuming after days of disruption due to unprecedented rains.
Waters have receded from most areas of the city ravaged by floods and the authorities have scrambled nearly 25,000 sanitary workers to clear the stinking garbage accumulated over the past several days to prevent outbreak of diseases.
Chennai Airport Director Deepak Shastri said the fa ..
International flight operations commenced since 6 AM today. An Air India Express flight arrived at 10 am this morning, Airports Authority of India said in a release.
All flight operations to and from Chennai had to be suspended last Tuesday night after the runway and other operation areas got submerged following heavy downpour.
A Southern Railway spokesperson told that all trains, particularly to Chennai and its surrounding areas, began operating in full swing from today.
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At the end of a nearly 15-hour mission, the vice president of the technology company linked up with an Army team to rescue his wife, two kids, their dog and three elderly neighbours, including the widow of an Air Vice Marshal.
An SOS call from his children declaring that they were marooned at their defence colony home in Chennai’s Ekkattuthangal sent a senior executive of a global technology company on a dramatic rescue mission from Bengaluru to one of the worst flood-affected areas of the city on December 2.
At the end of a nearly 15-hour mission, the vice president of the technology company linked up with an Army team to rescue his wife, two kids, their dog and three elderly neighbours, including the widow of an Air Vice Marshal.
Just a block away in the same neighbourhood, Lieutenant Colonel G Venkatesan (Retd) and his wife, Geetha, who lived in a single-storey home, died on December 2.
At his office at the Embassy Golf Links tech park in Bengaluru, Unni Aravindakshan received the first call from his kids on Wednesday morning (December 2).
“Dad, water is entering the house, we don’t know what to do,’’ he said recalling the call that came a little later. By 4 pm the same day, Aravindakshan hired an SUV and left for Chennai.
While he reached the city within five hours using the Bengaluru-Chennai highway, it took him “another nightmarish twelve hours’’
“The BSNL line on the ground floor of my house, which had been working sporadically through the day, went dead at night breaking off all communication links. But, I knew my wife had moved to the first floor…,’’ he said.
Aravindakshan claimed that his efforts to arrange a rescue at night failed despite frantic SOS calls to top authorities.
On the morning of December 3, he still found most routes to his home inaccessible.
“I tried cutting through the Chennai Trade Centre but could not, Mount Road was closed and in T Nagar water had risen to the chest level. Finally, I cut through Adyar…I had heard that there were police rescue boats operating near Kathipara but there were not enough boats when I got there,’’ he said.
Aravindakshan finally made his way towards the military hospital near defence colony and requested a Brigadier for help. “They provided a large boat and I jumped in with the commandos,” he said.
After being rowed to safety, the family left for Bengaluru in the SUV. Air Vice Marshal V Krishnaswamy’s widowed wife Jaya and her two relatives – all of them over 70, were taken to the military hospital.
Waters have receded from most areas of the city ravaged by floods and the authorities have scrambled nearly 25,000 sanitary workers to clear the stinking garbage accumulated over the past several days to prevent outbreak of diseases.
Chennai Airport Director Deepak Shastri said the fa ..
International flight operations commenced since 6 AM today. An Air India Express flight arrived at 10 am this morning, Airports Authority of India said in a release.
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All flight operations to and from Chennai had to be suspended last Tuesday night after the runway and other operation areas got submerged following heavy downpour.
A Southern Railway spokesperson told that all trains, particularly to Chennai and its surrounding areas, began operating in full swing from today.
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At the end of a nearly 15-hour mission, the vice president of the technology company linked up with an Army team to rescue his wife, two kids, their dog and three elderly neighbours, including the widow of an Air Vice Marshal.
An SOS call from his children declaring that they were marooned at their defence colony home in Chennai’s Ekkattuthangal sent a senior executive of a global technology company on a dramatic rescue mission from Bengaluru to one of the worst flood-affected areas of the city on December 2.
At the end of a nearly 15-hour mission, the vice president of the technology company linked up with an Army team to rescue his wife, two kids, their dog and three elderly neighbours, including the widow of an Air Vice Marshal.
Just a block away in the same neighbourhood, Lieutenant Colonel G Venkatesan (Retd) and his wife, Geetha, who lived in a single-storey home, died on December 2.
At his office at the Embassy Golf Links tech park in Bengaluru, Unni Aravindakshan received the first call from his kids on Wednesday morning (December 2).
“Dad, water is entering the house, we don’t know what to do,’’ he said recalling the call that came a little later. By 4 pm the same day, Aravindakshan hired an SUV and left for Chennai.
While he reached the city within five hours using the Bengaluru-Chennai highway, it took him “another nightmarish twelve hours’’
“The BSNL line on the ground floor of my house, which had been working sporadically through the day, went dead at night breaking off all communication links. But, I knew my wife had moved to the first floor…,’’ he said.
Aravindakshan claimed that his efforts to arrange a rescue at night failed despite frantic SOS calls to top authorities.
On the morning of December 3, he still found most routes to his home inaccessible.
“I tried cutting through the Chennai Trade Centre but could not, Mount Road was closed and in T Nagar water had risen to the chest level. Finally, I cut through Adyar…I had heard that there were police rescue boats operating near Kathipara but there were not enough boats when I got there,’’ he said.
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Aravindakshan finally made his way towards the military hospital near defence colony and requested a Brigadier for help. “They provided a large boat and I jumped in with the commandos,” he said.
After being rowed to safety, the family left for Bengaluru in the SUV. Air Vice Marshal V Krishnaswamy’s widowed wife Jaya and her two relatives – all of them over 70, were taken to the military hospital.
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