Surrogacy: HC frames guidelines to clear child custody applications Chennai: Madras high court has issued guidelines for magistrates who deal with custody and parentage applications in surrogacy cases. The court has said that such applications must be disposed of in four weeks unless a deeper scrutiny is required where fraud, fabrication of documents, involuntary consent…
Omjasvin.MD@timesofindia.comThe state’s Secretariat is buckling under mounting footfalls, haphazardly parked vehicles, absence of washrooms and drinking water facilities, besides poor canteens.With scores now coming to greet the new chief minister and ministers, the corridors are packed to the rafters. Officials say the daily footfall at the complex located on the 400-year-old Fort St George campus,…
Chennai/Trichy:DMK chief MK Stalin is facing growing pressure from the party leaders to contest the upcoming Trichy East by-poll to enable his return to the Tamil Nadu assembly.Stalin has indicated that such a proposal was under consideration, though the party has not finalised the plan. “No decision has been taken in this regard. Will let…
Chennai: School Education Minister A Rajmohan on Friday strongly criticised a series published by the DMK’s mouthpiece targeting CPM State Secretary P Shanmugam, calling it unacceptable. He noted that the veteran communist leader has spent decades fighting for the rights and welfare of the working class, making the opposition party’s malicious campaign against him deeply…
MDMK general secretary Vaiko Chennai: MDMK is likely to make a formal announcement of its exit from the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance after its general council meeting on Saturday. Senior MDMK functionaries told TOI that members of the committee unanimously backed the proposal to quit the alliance. Meanwhile, one of the two MDMK MLAs who…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu human resources management minister D Sarathkumar on Friday denied allegations of drug use after a two-year-old video resurfaced on social media, showing him arranging a white powder-like substance on the surface of a mobile phone using an ATM card and holding a currency note.“I was crushing a tablet meant for my daughter…
V Srimalini at the rock shelter at Ayilam village in Ranipet district Chennai: A student from the University of Madras has found a new prehistoric site with rock shelter, rock art, stone tools and pottery fragments at Ayilam village in Ranipet district, some 127 km from Chennai.The rock shelter was situated on the elevated hillock…
Govt cancels tenders to study privatisation of waste mgmt in 12 corpns Chennai: The TVK govt has withdrawn its tenders to study outsourcing solid waste management operations in 12 corporations across the state, following political backlash from its allies. The tenders were floated last week for a detailed feasibility report for the 12 corporations for…
Chennai: Two more workers died due to complications on Friday, taking the death toll in the ammonia gas leak at a seafood processing unit in Tiruvallur district to 15. The number of critically ill patients has dropped sharply, leaving only two on ventilator support across hospitals.Budhubari Naik from Odisha, who was undergoing treatment at Rajiv…
Robber stealing valuable things from the house Chennai: The Pondy Bazaar police obtained three days’ custody of the main accused in the June 1 T Nagar house burglary case. The accused, Prabhakaran, 50, surrendered before a court after remaining underground, after his wife, Sumathi, 47, was arrested.The burglary happened at the residence of businessman Venkateswara…
