Chennai: State sports minister Aadhav Arjuna on Wednesday asked Union govt to permit Tamil Nadu to host 2029 national games.Aadhav called on Union minister for youth affairs and sports Mansukh Mandaviya in Delhi and submitted a memorandum highlighting the state’s track record of hosting major national and international events. He said TN Nadu hosting the…
shanmughasundaram.j@timesofindia.comChennai: Tamil Nadu is likely to face a steep cut in fund allocation for VBG RAMG as per the draft proposal sent to the state govt by the Union rural development ministry.TN officials familiar with the proposal estimate that the state’s share of national funding, which accounted for nearly 10% of total allocations by the…
Chennai: A 22-year-old delivery worker was arrested for sexually assaulting a 31-year-old woman at her residence in Aminjikarai after arriving to deliver an online order. He has been remanded in judicial custody.On May 31, the woman, who lives in Aminjikarai with her husband and children, received a delivery. After handing over the parcel, the delivery…
Chennai: Madras high court has directed its registry and the Tamil Nadu prison department to take steps to implement ‘E-Prisons Early Release Processing Module’ – a software for premature release of convicts mandated by the Supreme Court.“As a first step, the prisons at Puzhal will be taken up as a pilot project for implementation of…
Winning just 47 seats and getting relegated to the third place in the April assembly election, AIADMK has entered a phase of fight for survival. Edappadi K Palaniswami, 72, who managed to keep the party intact through the turmoil following J Jayalalithaa’s death in Dec 2016, now faces the challenge of keeping ‘two leaves’ alive…
Chennai: Madras high court has dismissed a plea seeking a probe by income tax department against former chief minister and AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami for suppressing material facts about his wealth in his election affidavit filed during the 2026 Tamil Nadu assembly election.Concurring with the submission of the Election Commission of India (ECI)…
Senior IPS officer Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal assumed charge as the Director General of Police (DGP) and Head of the Police Force (HoPF) of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday following his repatriation from central deputation. Upon taking charge, he said the police would focus on ensuring the safety of women and children, strengthening action against narcotics offences…
CHENNAI: Perhaps this is a first for India — a high court ‘censuring’ the Supreme Court. Madras high court on Wednesday declared the DMK’s M Appavu as winner in a 10-year-old election case, and attributed the delay in deciding the case to the Supreme Court. It then observed: “If the delay caused by the courts…
ERODE: The opposition cannot remain silent on murders and sexual violence as they are immediate concerns, former DMK minister S Muthusamy said on Wednesday justifying the reason for the party attacking the TVK govt despite its stand that it would allow the new govt to function without interference for the first six months.Muthusamy was speaking…
Simultaneous stroke and acute cardiac events are not common in clinical literature, but their co-occurrence is not entirely surprising given risk factors including diabetes and age Chennai: The 76-year-old woman came into the emergency room of a city hospital a month ago complaining of sudden weakness on one side of her body and slurred speech…
