NAGAR AYUKTA

Last year, some new pipelines were laid for fresh water under the Smart City project. A new sewer line was also laid a few months ago and "the civil work was shoddy", a local claimed. At many places, the excavated portions were "not filled up proper...

Bharti, in charge of AAP's Tamil Nadu affairs, and 27 other party workers were taken into custody when they tried to take out a rally without permission, police said.

"Freebies don't work anymore," MK Stalin says, "development and job creation does."

Setting up of the Board would ensure proper release of water from Cauvery to the Mettur dam, which had not been opened this year on the normal date of June 12.