Chennai: Motorists unsure about pending traffic e-challans can approach 15 special centres operated by Greater Chennai Traffic Police (GCTP) from Sept 21 to 30. Officials will also contact vehicle owners to alert them about unpaid fines. The centres will function daily from 9am to 7pm.Police said this has been launched because many motorists are unaware…
Tamil Nadu sets rules to keep critical patients out of ill-equipped de-addiction centres Chennai: Nine years after the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, Tamil Nadu has framed regulations for enforceable standards for psychiatric hospitals, de-addiction centres and rehabilitation homes, with safeguards to prevent critically ill patients from being admitted to facilities incapable of managing medical emergencies.The…
File Photo: CCB searches linked to former minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi in an alleged ₹100-crore private school approval fraud case. TRICHY/ CHENNAI: Former DMK minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi was booked for corruption. At least six premises in Chennai and Trichy connected to him were searched by the Chennai central crime branch (CCB) personnel on Wednesday….
DMK Chief MK Stalin strongly criticized the state government’s recent raids on former minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi. CHENNAI: DMK Chief MK Stalin launched a scathing attack on the state govt following raids on former school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, calling it a desperate weapon deployed by Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay’s failing administration.Highlighting a…
CHENNAI: Political battle lines sharpened over state rights on Wednesday as a critical staff crunch paralysed the High-Level Committee on Union-State Relations, drawing severe criticism from DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin.The panel, set up under former Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph to strengthen Tamil Nadu’s federal case, has ground to a halt as contracts for…
Chennai: Former AIADMK minister D Jayakumar on Tuesday criticised the state govt’s plan to construct a new secretariat complex at Foreshore Estate at Rs 1,200 crore, warning that the facility could eventually be converted into a super specialty hospital.Jayakumar drew a parallel with the secretariat complex built at Omandurar Govt Estate by the DMK govt…
One of the largest wooden palaces in Asia, the 17th-century Padmanabhapuram Palace in Kanyakumari district, is a monument protected and maintained by the department of archaeology, Keralam. With six lakh visitors a year — more than 1,000 a day during peak seasons — the Travancore-era heritage structure in Padmanabhapuram near Thuckalay is buckling under the…
Chennai: A man died after being flung off the Kathipara flyover and falling around 30ft to the ground below when the motorcycle he was riding rammed into the parapet in Guindy on Monday evening.The deceased was identified as Kumar, 20, who was employed at a private firm. Perarasu, 20, a student, who was riding pillion,…
Chennai: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday appealed to ‘Gen Z’ and ‘Gen Alpha’ generations, asking them to ‘prioritise the country.’“Gen Z and Gen Alpha, we are ready to listen to you. Educated youth needs to be patient and understand the situation. You have to understand what is happening around you, what’s your role and…
Chennai: A 26-year-old college lecturer drowned, and her colleague went missing on Monday evening after they were swept away by waves while bathing in the sea off Thazhankuppam near Ennore.The deceased was identified as Kalaiyarasi, a nursing lecturer at a private Hotel management college in Mint. Her colleague Naveen, 27, head of the hotel management…
