Making the announcements under Rule 110 in the Assembly, chief minister C Joseph Vijay said the state needed world-class power infrastructure to meet its growing economy and rising electricity demand. CHENNAI: The TVK govt on Monday announced a Rs 20,800-crore project to establish a 1,600MW new supercritical thermal power station in Tuticorin, along with a…
Milk procurement increases in Tamil Nadu (Representational image) CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister Joseph Vijay on Monday announced a further increase in the milk procurement price to Rs 44 per litre, taking the cumulative increase across the state to Rs 6.The announcement was made under Rule 110 of the Tamil Nadu Assembly rules following concerns…
Chennai: More than 10,000 aspirants have signed an online petition urging the IIT council and Joint Admission Board (JAB) to allow them a third consecutive attempt in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) (advanced) 2027. They said three attempts were allowed in JEE (main) while JEE (advanced) allows only two attempts.“JEE (advanced) is a high-pressure, single-day…
Chennai: Students of UG and PG science courses, including physics, chemistry, botany and zoology, in arts and science colleges in the state will soon receive a new laboratory curriculum framework that will allow universities to include new experiments and give freedom to students to design their own experiments.Students will be encouraged to use smartphone-based physics…
Chennai: A 24-year-old history-sheeter was hacked to death near a burial ground in Kelambakkam. His body was found around 7am on Sunday with multiple cut injuries on his face and head. Police have arrested four people in connection with the murder.The deceased was identified as Sahul Hameed, son of Ansar Ali, a resident of Anna…
Chennai: Ten people, including six juveniles, were apprehended around midnight on Saturday for racing bikes on Vadapalani 100 Feet Road and endangering motorists. Police seized five high-end motorcycles.Police said the group was intercepted after one of the speeding motorcycles came dangerously close to a two-wheeler ridden by Kumar, who was travelling with his wife and…
Remaining one hundred-odd people are missing, says minister Chennai: State school education minister A Rajmohan said 219 more people who had travelled from Tamil Nadu to Nepal have been traced, and will return on Monday. “We have gathered information that as many as 319 people from Tamil Nadu had travelled to Nepal in batches. We…
App will be useful for mobilizing area-centric relief efforts: GCC executive engineer Chennai: Greater Chennai Corporation will launch a ‘volunteers registration app’ next week as part of its monsoon preparedness drive, through which residents can register to help in relief and rescue operations in the event of floods or other disasters.After a meeting chaired by…
Venkatesh Kap, founder of Ebitaus, a Chennai-based fintech Individual KYC (know your customer) has gone digital in the past decade. Banks and lending institutions can verify an individual borrower’s identity in minutes. Still, corporate KYC remains an untidy business of documents, databases, emails and human checks—even as companies become more important customers of banks, lenders,…
led the country in outstanding gold loans, with borrowers across agriculture, MSMEs and other segments increasingly leveraging their gold holdings All that glitters is not gold, but for Tamil Nadu’s borrowers, the yellow metal proved to be a valuable source of liquidity as gold prices surged over the past year. The state led the country…
