MLA disqualification issue Chennai: Tamil Nadu assembly secretary R Santhi has sent a notice to AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami asking him to appear before assembly speaker J C D Prabhakar on July 30 to offer explanation on his complaint against accepting the resignation of four former AIADMK MLAs who joined TVK.EPS had complained…
Valedictory function of new Congress district presidents Chennai: AICC general secretary (organization) K C Venugopal said on Sunday that Congress leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi is set to visit Tamil Nadu on Aug 1.Speaking to reporters in Chennai airport, Venugopal said Rahul was visiting TN to participate in the valedictory function…
The Chidambaram Taluk police have registered a case and launched a search for the absconding accused Chennai: A 16-year-old girl is fighting for life after a stalker stabbed her for resisting his advances. The incident occurred on Sunday near Chidambaram in Cuddalore district.Police, who identified the man as Iyappan, said he was an electrician and…
US-based Bridge Green’s critical mineral recovery plant at Gummidipoondi Last July, the Indian automotive industry slowed down production and even faced the threat of halting due to China’s rare earth export controls. The incident and the previous COVID lockdown underlined how rare earths are ubiquitous in the modern economy even if the final product contains…
S B Mohanty, chairman and managing director of IREL IREL (India)’s proposed mining and processing sites under a joint venture with TAMIN in Tuticorin will produce Neodymium-Praseodymium (NdPr) oxide, supplying for domestic NdFeB permanent magnets manufacturing programme, said S B Mohanty, chairman and MD of IREL (India), a central PSU under the Department of Atomic…
Chennai: Senior TVK ministers on Sunday defended chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s approach in Cauvery row stating that Tamil Nadu govt would never let Karnataka build Mekedatu dam.A day after DMK president M K Stalin said Vijay should reconsider his plan to visit Bengaluru to hold talks on Cauvery, PWD minister Aadhav Arjuna said TVK…
Chennai: Every year, roads in Goodwill Nagar and nearby areas in Tambaram face waterlogging after a few hours of rain. Several other low-lying areas within Tambaram City Municipal Corporation limits also experience flooding during heavy rain. With the northeast monsoon just months away, the civic body has proposed a ₹111.08-crore stormwater drain (SWD) project to…
Of the 4,048 liquor shops in the state (after the govt closed 717 shops), 2,638 have a bar attached Chennai: Tamil Nadu will soon have stand-alone Tasmac bars.The state govt has amended the Tamil Nadu Liquor Retail Vending (in Shops and Bars) Rules, 2003, paving way for new operators to run Tasmac bars, ending the…
Reinforcing the coastal green belt Chennai: Officials of the Chennai District Forest Department, along with National Cadet Corps (NCC) cadets from AMET University, observed International Mangrove Forest Day by planting 50 mangrove saplings in the estuary area of the Buckingham Canal.Chennai District Forest Officer V A Saravanan said this was the second batch of plantation…
Chennai: Following the declaration of NEET re-exam results and completion of admissions in IITs and NITs, as many as 5,726 students (15%) of 37,976 skipped the first round of engineering counselling this year. Students who got cut-off marks from 171.3 to 200 were allowed to take part in the first round of online general counselling…
