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Police said the children came across a land where they spotted milkweed plants and started plucking the flowers. Suddenly, Vishwa allegedly slipped and fell into a pit filled with rainwater. Vishwa (inset) drowned in a pit filled with rainwater while plucking flowers for Vinayakar Chathurthi near Tambaram Sanatorium railway station. CHENNAI: An 11-year-old boy drowned in a 10-foot deep pit filled with rainwater while plucking flowers for Vinayakar Chaturthi, near Tambaram Sanatorium railway station, on Saturday. Police said the land, on which the pit is located, belongs to the railways and has been leased out to a school, but remains unused. The boy was identified as K Vishwa, a Class 5 student. On Saturday evening, Vishwa and his friends set out to pluck milkweed flowers, considered auspicious for Vinayakar Chaturthi, in the locality. Police said the children came across a land where they spotted milkweed plants and started plucking the flowers. Suddenly, Vishwa allegedly slipped...

Speaking on the occasion, Stalin said the world-class convention centre will be suitable for conducting global industrial exhibitions, trade conferences, technical meetings, international film festival Preparations in full swing at Binny Mill CHENNAI: As part of the 100th birth anniversary of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday announced the state government would build a Kalaignar International Convention Centre on a 25-acre land in Chennai. The centre will have a seminar hall with a capacity to accommodate 5,000 people, exhibition halls, parks, star hotels, restaurants and multi-storey parking lot. On the occasion, Stalin also released the logo for the centenary celebrations of Karunanidhi. Speaking on the occasion, Stalin said the world-class convention centre will be suitable for conducting global industrial exhibitions, trade conferences, technical meetings, international film festivals etc. Such utilities would take the glory of Kalaignar across the...