Chennai: Police arrested two men for burgling a weaver’s house at Kosavanpettai village near Periyapalayam. When Vijayakumar and his wife returned to their house after visiting a nearby temple on the morning of May 28, they found the roof tiles broken and their almirah damaged. About five sovereigns of gold and ₹80,000 in cash were…
Chennai: Earlier this year, Suzhal Arivom, an environmental research and conservation collective, spotted a ringed adult male Montagu’s harrier (Circus pygargus) at Nemmeli in Chennai. Now it’s been confirmed from the ring number that the bird was originally ringed in Rajasthan by the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) under their…
Sources indicate former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai is set to quit the party, after a meeting with top BJP leaders in Delhi CHENNAI: Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai will quit the party “in a couple of days” after meeting party national president Nitin Nabin and Union home minister Amit Shah in…
Giant posters in Coimbatore suggest K Annamalai may launch a new political movement. Supporters are calling for his leadership. COIMBATORE: Giant posters put up by supporters of former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai across Coimbatore have intensified political speculation that he could be preparing to launch a new political movement amid reports of growing…
Representative image created using AI CHENNAI: Tenkasi association of government doctors has called on the Tamil Nadu government to enact legislation mandating the surgical removal of the genitalia of men convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering women and children.The Tenkasi district unit of the association passed the special resolution at its general body meeting, urging…
Chennai: Starting today, primary school teachers will assume the role of students and get trained in teaching methodologies for the newly launched state board textbooks for Classes I-III. The three-day special training, announced last month, will be held from 9am to 5pm, sensitising the teachers in planning activities, and teaching lessons through stories.Officials from the…
CHENNAI: A bar brawl spilled onto the road with a group of youth crashing their car into a bike, killing an 18-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil woman and critically injuring her 17-year-old female friend near Thirumangalam in the city late on Saturday night.Police said the deceased, Yancy , and five women friends went on three twowheelers…
School students in the corridor Chennai: Amid the technical glitches and stringent corrections this year, CBSE Class XII students looking to apply for revaluation are facing a new problem — inconsistencies in answer keys and a lack of clarity on whether they will get back lost marks.Some students said some of the answers that were…
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Chennai: With more than two lakh students up for engineering courses this year, the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) committee will go ahead as per schedule despite the NEET re-exam.The National Testing Agency (NTA) cancelled the NEET-UG exam conducted on May 3 following a question paper leak. It has set the re-exam for June 21….
