Preliminary inquiries revealed that the deceased was aged around 30. Chennai: A guest worker died by suicide at a construction site in Porur on Thursday after slitting his throat using a power saw.According to police, construction work was underway at a house in Subbaiah Nagar, Ayyappanthangal, near Porur. A group of workers engaged in shuttering…
Chennai: The decomposed body of a railway employee was found inside his locked house in Kolathur on Thursday.Raghupathi, 52, a resident of Bhagavathy Amman Temple Street in Kolathur, worked as a locomotive driver. While his wife Priyanka was living in Salem, his daughter Sophia was staying with their relatives. Police said Raghupathi was seen last…
Chennai: Growing disconnect with grassroots workers, over dependence on inhouse and external poll strategy agencies, and failure to grasp the magnitude of support for TVK were among the key factors that led to DMK’s defeat in the assembly poll, according to DMK panels formed to identify reasons for the debacle.A total of 19 committees, each…
Mercy Stephen, 33, gave birth to a stillborn baby at 8 months Chennai: Days after a 33-year-old woman gave birth to a stillborn baby at 8 months at Govt Kasturba Gandhi Hospital for Women and Children following an hour-long delay at the Urban Community Health Centre (UCHC), GCC commissioner G S Sameeran made spot inspection…
Chennai: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday condemned the recurring power cuts in Tamil Nadu, alleging that the TVK govt had failed to plan adequately for the state’s growing electricity demand. In a statement, EPS said unannounced outages were affecting households, small industries, farmers and students across the state. With temperatures crossing 40℃…
The accident occurred around 7.40 am on the Kancheepuram-Arakkonam Road Chennai: A 30-year-old man was killed and 12 others injured when their tractor collided with a private company van near Kancheepuram on Thursday morning.The accident occurred around 7.40 am on the Kancheepuram-Arakkonam Road. Daily wage labourers in the tractor were heading to Parandur where they…
Employed under National Urban Health Mission and posted at primary health centres run by Greater Chennai Corporation, many protesters said they had not received full pay Chennai: Around 200 medical workers, including nurses and doctors, gathered outside the Ripon Building on Wednesday, demanding that their salaries be paid for this month.Employed under National Urban Health…
Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay calls on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Thursday. CHENNAI: At his first NITI Aayog Governing Council meeting on Thursday, chief minister C Joseph Vijay sought the release of pending central funds, including Rs 3,284 crore under the Samagra Shiksha scheme and Rs 2,284 crore for the…
Commercial Taxes and Registration Minister D Logesh Tamilselvan Chennai: With complaints of corruption continuing to dog the registration department, the Tamil Nadu govt will roll out a series of measures to reduce graft and improve transparency, said Commercial Taxes and Registration minister D Logesh Tamilselvan.Speaking to the Times of India, the minister said that chief…
COIMBATORE: All teacher vacancies in govt schools in Tamil Nadu will be filled soon to ensure that students’ education is not affected, school education and information & public relations minister Rajmohan said on Thursday.Addressing reporters at the Coimbatore International Airport, Rajmohan detailed various ongoing reforms in the school education department in the current academic year….
