CHENNAI: IUML’s A M Shahjahan and VCK’s Vanni Arasu were inducted into chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s cabinet on Friday. This takes the total number of ministers in the 17th Tamil Nadu Assembly to 35, completing the final line-up of the Tamizhaga Vettri Kazhagam-led multi-parties’ coalition govt.With this, the number of Dalit ministers in the…
CHENNAI: Congress made a comeback into govt in Tamil Nadu, ending its 59-year exile, with two of its legislators among 23 new ministers sworn in, as CM C Joseph Vijay Thursday expanded his cabinet in an exercise that rewarded loyalists, accommodated allies and signalled a bid to rewrite social engineering.With 21 TVK ministers taking oath…
Class X student B Abishek Chennai: When the Class X board examination results were announced on Wednesday, relatives, neighbours and teachers gathered at the home of B Abishek in Ariyathurai village in Tiruvallur district to console his family and honour an achievement he did not live to see.Abishek, 15, a student of Kavarapettai govt High…
A 65-year-old man holding a Sri Lankan passport was arrested on Wednesday for voting in the Tamil Nadu assembly elections Chennai: A 65-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil, holding a Sri Lanka passport, was arrested for illegally casting his vote in the Tamil Nadu assembly elections. Immigration authorities arrested him at Chennai International Airport on Wednesday. So…
The maternal mortality ratio fell to 37 deaths per 100,000 live births — a 19% drop from pre-pandemic levels and considerably lower than national average Chennai: When India’s second Covid wave hit Tamil Nadu in 2021, pregnant women bore a disproportionate share of the damage. Hospitals overflowed, lockdowns kept expectant mothers away from clinics, and…
Chennai: In the fishing hamlet of Nettukuppam at Ennore, about 150 homes have been grappling with a life-and-health problem for the past several years — dust, wheezing and year-round damp terraces with blackish-grey deposits. The reason? Hardly a kilometre away, swathes of fly ash mixed with river sand lie uncleared along the floodplains of Kosasthalaiyar…
Residents of Sepakkam say they are used to the living conditions Residents of Sepakkam say they are used to the living conditions Residents of Sepakkam say they are used to the living conditions Residents of Sepakkam say they are used to the living conditions Residents of Sepakkam say they are used to the living conditions…
Chennai: VCK and IUML have decided to join the cabinet and their MLAs will be sworn in on Friday. VCK’s Tindivanam MLA Vanni Arasu is likely to be allotted Adi dravidar welfare, and IUML’s Papanasam MLA A M Shahjahan is set to get minorities welfare department.After meeting senior party functionaries, IUML president K M Kader…
Tamil Nadu CM Vijay poses for a group photo at the ministers’ swearing-in ceremony in Chennai on Thursday. (@CMOTamilnadu X/ANI Photo) Chennai: Sixteen MLAs inducted into the state cabinet — N Anand, Venkatramanan P, T K Prabhu, R Vinoth, B Rajkumar, V Gandhiraj, K Jegadeshwari, M Vijay Balaji, Vijay Tamilan Parthiban, S Ramesh, K Thennarasu,…
Some areas reported night-long powercuts Chennai: As nights get hotter, many city neighbourhoods report prolonged power cuts over the past few days. For the second consecutive day, Chennai’s temperature crossed 40C on Thursday. This affected the city’s power demand, which surged beyond 4,800MW for the first time, breaching the previous record of 4,769MW in 2024.Residents…
