Chennai: After a video showing Vijay Dhamu, a TVK candidate elected from Royapuram, cutting a cake with a machete during a public celebration went viral on social media, a complaint was filed on Wednesday with the Chennai Police Commissioner’s office seeking legal action. The complaint was submitted by G G Siva, 36, of Pulianthope.In his…
Chennai: YouTuber Savukku Shankar has moved Madras High Court seeking bail in connection with an attempt-to-murder case registered against him while he was imprisoned in Puzhal central prison.Admitting the plea, Justice L Victoria Gowri directed the prosecution to file their reply on May 7 and adjourned the hearing. The court said the plea will be…
Chennai: Police arrested a 35-year-old man on Tuesday for sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl on April 23.The girl’s mother, an IT professional, filed a complaint after she learnt about the incident from her daughter on Sunday. The incident occurred when the child was visiting her grandmother’s house for the summer holidays. She was playing when…
Chennai: Software service company Freshworks will lay off around 500 employees, or roughly 11% of its workforce, citing plans to ramp up investments in AI-focused product development and related business areas.It was part of its restructuring plan to streamline efforts and product development process and increase AI and automation usage across the business, the Nasdaq-listed…
Chennai: Blunav, an airport operations technology company, has raised $1 million in seed funding from Piper Serica.It is building systems from flight operations and gate and bay allocations to passenger systems and commercial activities into a platform and has been deployed at Chennai International Airport, under the Airports Authority of India (AAI)’s Startup India initiative.Blunav…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu is set to witness its youngest Assembly in nearly two decades, with the median age of MLAs dropping from 56 in 2021 to 51 now, driven largely by younger crop of legislators from TVK.Of the party’s 107 MLAs, the median age stands at 47, much lower than DMK’s 57 and AIADMK’s 59….
Vijay meets governor R V Arlekar in Lok Bhavan on Wednesday. CHENNAI: The mood in the TVK camp changed from jubilation on Wednesday morning to anxiety in the evening, when C Joseph Vijay’s party was staring at a gap of five seats even after Congress offered support.TVK sources said the governor insisted on letters of…
CHENNAI: DMK will wait for TVK leader C Joseph Vijay to form the govt, and “watch without disturbing for six months”, outgoing chief minister M K Stalin told TOI on Wednesday.Indicating that DMK doesn’t want a constitutional crisis or another election soon, Stalin said he expects the new govt to continue the schemes introduced by…
CHENNAI: After a day-long hectic parleys, AIADMK on Wednesday ruled out “any support under any circumstances” to actor Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) to form a govt in Tamil Nadu.“Under no circumstances is our party going to extend support to TVK. I am conveying this with the permission of our party general secretary, Edappadiyar (Edappadi…
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…
