A fan ate ‘mann soru,’ a ritual of eating food from the floor, while a few walked on their knees for the success of chief minister C Joesph Vijay’s Jana Nayagan Chennai: Governance briefly took a back seat on Thursday as the ruling establishment —including Tamil Nadu assembly speaker J C D Prabhakar, senior minister…
How Nilgiris’ organic dream lost the plot Seven years ago, the Nilgiris set out to become Tamil Nadu’s first fully organic district with thousands of farmers, exchange programmes, subsidies and a proposed ban on highly toxic pesticides. Today, the ambitious programme backed by farmers, funds and the district administration appears to have lost steam.In 2019,…
MADURAI: A 24-year-old man who was arrested and released by police in Tuticorin died in a hospital after six days of treatment, triggering allegations of custodial assault. His family protested outside Thoothukudi Government Hospital alleging that police assaulted him, resulting in head injuries that led to death.Family of the deceased, N Arunachalam, released a video…
DMK MLA MARKANDEYAN ARRESTED FOR ‘DEFAMATORY REMARKS AGAINST TAMIL NADU CM VIJAY’ Chennai: Madras high court has directed police to file their response to the bail petition of Vilathikulam DMK MLA GV Markandeyan, who was arrested for allegedly making threatening and defamatory remarks against chief minister C Joseph Vijay.The MLA was arrested by the Thoothukudi…
Chennai: MNM president and Rajya Sabha MP Kamal Haasan requested engineer-turned-education reformer Sonam Wangchuk to end his fast demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan following the NEET paper leak.Wangchuk began an indefinite fast from June 28 at Jantar Mantar to extend support to the protest launched by Cockroach Janata Party demanding Pradhan’s…
IMA flags pressure on doctors in Karaikudi case Chennai: The state wing of the Indian Medical Association said a senior member of TVK from Karaikudi convened a kangaroo-court-style settlement, forcing two doctors accused of medical negligence to pay ₹50 lakh to the patient’s family. At the same time, the case remains pending before the court.A…
TNGECL starts giving NOC for stalled solar plant projects Chennai: In a relief to investors in solar plants in the state, Tamil Nadu Green Energy Corporation (TNGECL) has started issuing no-objection to projects that were kept in abeyance since the TVK govt took over.Electricity and law minister R Nirmalkumar had alleged malpractices in granting approvals…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s urban centres are staring at water shortage due to poor monsoon and prolonged heat. Water managers, however, said Chennai and most southern urban centres are in a relatively comfortable position for now.Chief secretary Sai Kumar and municipal administration and water supply additional chief secretary Gagandeep Singh Bedi held a video conference with…
Chennai: A Right to Information (RTI) application by a 66-year-old retired professor has brought to light how his private patta land in Kanyakumari district had been mistakenly classified as a temple property in the (HR&CE) department’s online ITMS database. The State Information Commission has now ordered a departmental inquiry and a show-cause notice proposing the…
Chennai: A software professional died by suicide after recording and sending a video to her relatives and friends, accusing her husband of physically abusing her in Poonamallee, on Wednesday night.Shalini, 33, had been living with her husband Selvin, 36, also a techie, in an apartment at Poonamallee. Married about eight years ago, they have a…
