Chennai: A day after the suspension of the Tamil Nadu Green Energy Corporation chief engineer P Chandrasekaran, electricity minister CTR Nirmal Kumar on Thursday confirmed that chief financial controller V Kasi of the financial wing of the power distribution corporation has also been placed under suspension for malpractices.An official note on the suspension said Kasi…
Chennai: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s flagship inaugural announcement for women’s safety – the Singapen Special Task Force – has come into existence, but without any teeth nor the wherewithal to achieve anything.A week after the announcement, the govt has formed the special force under an inspector-general of police rank officer K Bhavaneeswari, along with…
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…
