CHENNAI: A resident of Kodungaiyur has moved the Madras high court seeking to register a cheating and money laundering case against chief minister-designate and TVK founder Vijay for alleged suppression of financial transactions and receipt of unaccounted cash as renumeration.The first bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan, through an…
SALEM: All India NR Congress (AINRC) leader and Puducherry chief minister N Rangasamy on Wednesday lauded Congress’s decision to support TVK president Vijay to form a govt in Tamil Nadu. “It is a good political decision in a situation where a govt has to be formed,” Rangasamy told reporters here. Rangasamy’s AINRC is part of…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Congress leaders on Wednesday met TVK president Vijay at the party headquarters in Chennai and extended support to the party to form the government in the state following a hung Assembly verdict. The delegation included Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K Selvaperunthagai, Congress Legislature Party leader S Rajesh Kumar, AICC functionary Praveen…
CHENNAI: Senior AIADMK leaders S P Velumani and C Ve Shanmugam are holding a meeting with party General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami at his camp office on Greenways Road. The meeting is focused on whether to extend support to Vijay’s TVK to form the government. However, Palaniswami is unwilling to offer “voluntary support” to the…
CHENNAI: The Congress severed its 11-year ties with the DMK and decided to support TVK. AICC in-charge for Tamil Nadu Girish Chodankar announced that Congress would support TVK on the condition that there should be no “communal forces” in the alliance.Girish Chodankar, in a statement, said Congress supports the people’s mandate. “It is our constitutional…
Chennai: City researchers have identified a locally found freshwater microalgae that can ‘eat’ plastic waste in polluted water bodies in three months. A study by the Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, University of Madras, found that Uronema trentonense, isolated from plastic waste in Rajakilpakkam Lake, can degrade up to 27% of high-density polyethylene (HDPE)…
Chennai: The city police have arrested two men involved in a mobile phone snatching case in Vepery and seized a stolen two-wheeler.On May 3, the victim, Ilanchezhiyan, 38, was walking along Thana Street when two men on a two-wheeler followed him, snatched his mobile phone, and fled the scene. Based on his complaint, Vepery police…
Chennai: India’s esports sector is searching for sustainable monetisation models after new gaming rules gave it formal recognition but also eliminated real-money gaming companies that were among its biggest sponsors. The rules, effective May 1, separate esports from money gaming for the first time, bringing regulatory clarity and ending the negative perception that had kept…
CHENNAI: The 17th Tamil Nadu assembly is set to reflect a greater demographic diversity with 25 people from minority communities, 50 from SC/ST communities, 23 women and two brahmins representatives entering the House. And, TVK has been the catalyst in breaking caste and religious barriers. The party fielded dalit candidates in eight general constituences and…
CHENNAI: The Congress has offered conditional support to TVK president C Joseph Vijay who is 10 seats short in the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly to form the govt and has reached out to multiple parties in both alliances.The five Congress MLAs will offer support through a letter tomorrow on condition that TVK does not induct…
