CHENNAI: Kayalvizhi Alagiri, daughter of former Union minister MK Alagiri, was formally arrested and released on station bail by the Adyar Police on Tuesday in connection with the assault of an SBI branch manager at the bank’s NRI branch in Adyar. She appeared before the investigating officer after being summoned under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha…
Namakkal Kavignar Maaligai at Secretariat, Fort St. George in Chennai. CHENNAI: It is official. Chief minister C Joseph Vijay will move out of the cramped confines of Fort St George and check into a plush sea-facing 11-storey Namakkal Kavignar Maligai on the state secretariat campus.The VVIP floor was being readied for infrastructure, security and landscaping…
Chennai: State government is considering a demand to serve chicken biryani as part of the noon-meal programme in schools, school education minister A Rajmohan said on Tuesday.The proposal was among several demands raised when the minister met representatives of more than 150 teachers’ and non-teaching staff associations in the city. Some associations sought the inclusion…
Chennai: A practising lawyer has moved Madras high court seeking a direction to the Tamil Nadu govt to fill the vacancies of two members at the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC). The commission is now functioning with only the chairperson.Advocate N Panneerselvam alleged that due to the unfilled vacancy, the number of pending cases has…
CHENNAI: Election Commission of India will begin checking and verifying electronic voting machines (EVMs) from 14 polling stations in the Kolathur assembly constituency at a strong room in Chintadripet on Wednesday. The exercise follows an application by DMK president and former chief minister M K Stalin, who lost the seat to TVK candidate V S…
Fabricated records to inflate student strength to avail govt benefits Ranipet: Principal District Judge V Thenmozhe sentenced a correspondent and a headmistress of a govt-aided private school to undergo four years of rigorous imprisonment on charges of fabricating school records to falsely show an inflated student strength to receive govt benefits. The judge also slapped…
Chennai: Two eighteen-year-olds were arrested for posting videos in which they were brandishing knives on social media. Five minors who appeared in the videos were also detained for inquiry and later released with a warning.According to police, videos of a group displaying a knife were circulated on social media. The social media centre forwarded it…
Chennai: Shastri Nagar police questioned Kayalvizhi Alagiri for two hours on Tuesday in a case relating to the assault of a State Bank of India (SBI) branch manager. After inquiry, she was instructed to remain in the city and inform investigators before travelling.Kayalvizhi owns the commercial building housing SBI’s NRI branch in Adyar. On July…
Chennai: An inspector of police was arrested on Tuesday on charges of sexually harassing a woman walking with her husband in Velachery on Sunday night.The Velachery police identified the delinquent officer as Manimaran, a resident of Velachery who was serving as a Traffic Enforcement Wing inspector in Ranipet district. He was with the help of…
Oppn parties express concern over Centre’s response on Mekedatu issue Chennai: Leader of opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss and We The Leaders movement founder K Annamalai on Tuesday expressed concern over Centre’s response on the Mekedatu issue that Karnataka need not obtain the consent of lower riparian…
