Bakan Jagdish Sudhakar, CEO, TN Green Climate Company Chennai: Tamil Nadu was working on decarbonisation plans for four districts and had initiated a Rs 1,000-crore Green Climate Fund, with an initial Rs 100-crore commitment from the State government and the remaining corpus proposed to be raised from the market to support businesses in areas including…
Chennai: Criticising govt’s decision to drop the Parandur airport project, opposition parties and industrial bodies on Monday urged chief minister C Joseph Vijay to reconsider the move.“Dropping Parandur is not change. It’s an irreversible setback for Tamil Nadu’s growth,” former CM M K Stalin posted on X. “Tamil Nadu’s interests cannot be mortgaged for petty…
Chennai: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Monday announced two welfare measures aimed at easing household and mobility costs—three free LPG cylinders a year for mor than 1.3 crore families and expansion of fareless bus travel for all women and transgender persons across Tamil Nadu. Announced under Rule 110 in assembly, the schemes carry a…
Higher education minister P Viswanathan on Monday announced that the Tamil Nadu govt will recruit 6,000 assistant professors for govt arts and science colleges, engineering colleges and polytechnic colleges in three phases.Replying to the debate on demand for grants for higher education, he also announced upgradation of Teachers Recruitment Board to conduct recruitment for higher…
Chennai: The 16th Finance Commission of India (FCI) has recommended more than ₹27,000 crore under three major grant categories for urban local bodies (ULBs) in the state for 2026-2031, besides a special infrastructure component and a one-time urbanisation premium.According to municipal administration and water supply (MAWS) department policy note for this financial year, presented by…
MADURAI: It will be a death of the witness box, the ubiquitous wooden structure one would see in Indian courts and cinema. It will not be even the ‘designated’ locations from where one could depose and get their statements recorded by trial courts.Madras high court has virtually freed witnesses from all procedural shackles, as it…
CHENNAI: With 12 out of 13 state universities under higher education department without vice-chancellors, the Tamil Nadu govt has appointed two senior-most professors in Alagappa University and Manonmaniam Sundaranar University as interim vice-chancellors.Professor J Jeyakanthan from the department of bioinformatics at Alagappa University has been appointed officiating vice-chancellor of Alagappa University. Professor S Prabahar from…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu govt will provide sports jerseys to 23 lakh students studying in govt and govt-aided schools from Class IX to XII, school education minister Rajmohan announced in the assembly on Monday.During the debate on demand for grants for school education, he announced that there will be one period allotted to sports, arts and…
AINRC founder and Puducherry chief minister N Rangasamy Puducherry: Chief minister N Rangasamy presented a tax-free ₹14,300 crore budget for 2026-27 for the Union territory of Puducherry on Monday.Rangasamy, who holds the finance portfolio, said the Union territory’s own revenue receipts have been estimated at ₹7,890 crore, while the central assistance, including the State Disaster…
Chennai: A woman associate of Sri Lankan gangster Angoda Lokka and her husband have been arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) with 3kg of hashish valued at about ₹75 lakh.NCB’s Chennai zonal unit identified the Madurai-based couple as Sivagamasundari and Gurumurthy. Acting on specific intelligence, officers intercepted the couple near the Porur toll plaza…
