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CHENNAI: Southern Railway has revised timings of suburban EMU train services in the Chennai Beach–Tambaram–Chengalpet section from June 1 to improve operational efficiency and services. A release said the revised weekday timetable, which will come into effect from Monday, showed departing 5 to 20minutes earlier or later than current schedules. A separate Sunday timetable will…

TRICHY: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay is set to visit Trichy on Monday (June 1) and address a public meeting, marking the first such instance after assuming office as chief minister. Though he spoke on the day of oath taking ceremony, he has not made a public address since then.The TVK chief is scheduled to…

Chennai: In a move with some political and emotional significance, AIADMK general secretary and former chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has moved out of his long-time official residence ‘Sevvanthi’ on Greenways Road. For 15 years, this bungalow served as the nerve center of his political rise, surviving dramatic shifts in Tamil Nadu’s political landscape.At Palaniswami’s…

dashwant Dashwanth Accused of sexually assaulting and murder a 7-year old girl Hasini in Moulivakkam last year appears in Chengalpet Court on Monday. Photo L R Shankar Chennai: Tamil Nadu govt has decided to file a curative petition in the Supreme Court seeking a relook of its judgment acquitting Dashwant in the 2017 rape and…

Chennai: Declining to interfere with the ongoing police probe into the rape-murder of a 10-year-old girl in Coimbatore, Madras high court said the investigation is prima facie proceeding in the right direction. The court could not dictate to the police how an investigation should be conducted, said a vacation bench of Justice GR Swaminathan and…

Chennai: With both city observatories breaching the 40°C mark on several days this week, the city has been experiencing its hottest spell of the year. But the India Meteorological Department’s long-range forecast for June suggests little immediate relief, with hot days, warmer nights and at least two to three heatwave days likely in the city…

CHENNAI: A worker was beaten to death by a mob after he allegedly misbehaved with a woman in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu Friday.The deceased was identified as Prosenjit Das (35) from Kamrup district in Assam. Police said he was among the six workers who had arrived in Tiruvallur Wednesday in search of employment and…

School students in the corridor Chennai: All private schools in the state — matriculation, govt-aided and CBSE — should promptly display the Class-wise fee structure on their notice boards at the entrance, publish the same on their websites as well as the enrolment application forms issued to students, the state information commission has ordered.Information commissioner…

Chennai: Holding that breaching of contractual obligations by a few is no threat to public order and the public safety at large, Madras high court has quashed the preventive detention order passed by the then commissioner of police, A Arun, against realtor Santhosh Sharma.“We are more than satisfied that the ground case as well as…

Chennai: State govt has given a sovereign guarantee before Madras high court for temple funds invested in the Tamil Nadu Power Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation (TNPFIDC).A vacation bench of Justices G R Swaminathan and V Lakshminarayanan had on Wednesday asked whether govt would extend the sovereign guarantee to the temple funds, similar to how…