The move comes amid the Tamil Nadu govt’s decision to shut down 717 TASMAC shops across the state Chennai: Southern Railway has sought the relocation of 39 Tasmac liquor shops situated near stations and tracks in the city and its periphery. Frequent incidents of stones being thrown at trains, theft from passengers waiting at stations,…
Chennai: The CMBT police arrested four persons, including a history-sheeter facing 58 robbery and chain-snatching cases, for assaulting and robbing a software engineer of his laptop and mobile phones near Arumbakkam.Police identified the accused as Vignesh alias “Pallu” Vicky, 30, of Mangadu; college students Thirupathi, Gautham and Sanjay Kumar.According to police, the victim, Shyam Dhan…
A 15-day-old baby was taken to multiple hospitals before being referred to Chennai-based Institute of Child Health where his condition was diagnosed as whooping cough Chennai: When a baby boy was brought to a clinic in Karaikudi in early 2025, he was coughing so hard his skin turned blue. He was 15 days old.Doctors gave…
Chennai: Union minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai said the Centre did not receive any memorandum from the Tamil Nadu govt seeking financial assistance for the Ditwah cyclone that hit the state in 2025.Rai made the remark in a recent letter written in Tamil to Sudha R, who had raised the issue during…
Rising temperatures, smog, garbage, ecology under stress … are Ooty, Kodai and Yercaud too popular for their own good? The way the weather’s been hotting up in the hills over the past couple of months, you would think you were still down in the plains. Ooty touched 27.6°C this May, crossing seasonal averages. Yercaud hit…
Chennai/Trichy: Members of the Tamil Nadu farmers union on Tuesday held a protest in front of the secretariat against TVK govt’s announcement of crop loan waiver. Farmers gathered in large numbers and raised slogans demanding that the govt issue a fresh order for a complete crop loan waiver. They later aired a grievance that police…
Udhayanidhi Stalin and Vijay CHENNAI: Former deputy chief minister and leader of opposition in the assembly Udhayanidhi Stalin and AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday slammed TVK govt for its crop loan waiver announcement, alleging that chief minister C Joseph Vijay diluted the party’s poll promise of a complete waiver for small farmers….
Chennai: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, urging him to instruct officers in the Ministry of Jal Shakti and the Central Water Commission to reject Karnataka’s detailed project report for Mekedatu project. He urged the PM to advise Karnataka not to initiate new projects without the…
Chennai: Former BJP state president K Annamalai on Tuesday took a surprising stand, opposing the BJP-led Union govt on the issue of three-language policy by insisting that the CBSE withdraw its recent notification on the policy.Annamalai on X said the CBSE notification issued on May 15 violated its previous notices on the three-language policy.“In April…
Chennai: Leader of Opposition in the assembly Udhayanidhi Stalin and AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday slammed TVK govt for its crop loan waiver announcement, saying that chief minister C Joseph Vijay diluted the party’s poll promise of a complete waiver for small farmers.In a post on X, Udhayanidhi said Vijay assured during…
