Chennai: Chennai police registered 38 cases and rounded up 77 persons during a week-long anti-narcotics crackdown conducted across the city between June 14 and June 20. The operation was carried out by the special teams headed by assistant commissioners and inspectors, under the supervision of deputy commissioners of police (DCP) across 12 police districts, intensified…
Chennai: When the smell hit, Swati (name changed) knew something was wrong. She had just finished a 12-hour night shift at a seafood processing factory near Periyapalayam in Tiruvallur district and had stepped outside around 11am on Sunday, when the ammonia leak happened.She could smell it even though she was standing outside the building, and…
Chennai: Traffic Police registered 2,825 cases during a special enforcement drive conducted across the city between June 19 and June 21 to curb traffic violations and improve road safety.The three-day operation was carried out to ensure safe and accident-free movement of vehicles. A total of 355 traffic police personnel were deployed, with 122 vehicle checkpoints…
CHENNAI: A rare moment of camaraderie swept across the political divide in Tamil Nadu assembly on Monday as members from both the treasury and opposition benches broke into laughter over a suggestion to change the practice of giving water to members in tumblers. The light-hearted exchange began when former chief minister O Panneerselvam disagreed with…
Chennai: After a hiatus of three months, the DMK and the opposition parties are getting ready for the monthly council meeting to be held on Wednesday.The DMK-led front with 155 councillors, the AIADMK alliance with 14 councillors, and the TVK alliance with 27 councillors are devising a floor plan. Deputy mayor Mahesh Kumar said all…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu, where sticky summer nights increasingly deny relief even after sunset, has emerged as one of India’s biggest heat-and-humidity hotspots, a trend now quietly reshaping electricity demand and intensifying urban heat stress.A report released by Climate Trends, ‘From Heatwave to Grid Wave’, ranked Tamil Nadu second in the country for “compound hot-humid days”,…
Farmers demand full waiver of crop loan Chennai: Former AIADMK minister O S Manian and PMK floor leader Sowmiya Anbumani on Monday urged chief minister C Joseph Vijay to announce a complete waiver of crop loans availed by farmers from cooperative societies.Participating in the discussion on Governor’s address in the assembly, Manian said the partial…
Minister J Mohamed Farvas informs the assembly that the CM has orders review of hazardous industries. CHENNAI: In the wake of an ammonia leak at a seafood processing unit in Tiruvallur that claimed seven lives, the Tamil Nadu govt will constitute a high-level committee to audit hazardous industries in the state and prevent such accidents…
Chennai: Thousands of Indian doctors continue to wait — with completed internships and idle stethoscopes — as the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences is yet to open registrations for NEET PG 2026, the national entrance test for postgraduate medical admissions.The delay, nearly two months behind last year’s April 17 start, leaves the exam…
Students were made to carry chairs, benches and microphone stands NAMAKKAL: Students were allegedly subjected to hardships in Sowthapuram Government Higher Secondary School in Namakkal district when a local functionary of the ruling TVK organized a function to celebrate chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s birthday.According to reports, “Thalapathi” Surya, deputy secretary of Sowthapuram panchayat union,…
