Chennai: Blunav, an airport operations technology company, has raised $1 million in seed funding from Piper Serica.It is building systems from flight operations and gate and bay allocations to passenger systems and commercial activities into a platform and has been deployed at Chennai International Airport, under the Airports Authority of India (AAI)’s Startup India initiative.Blunav…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu is set to witness its youngest Assembly in nearly two decades, with the median age of MLAs dropping from 56 in 2021 to 51 now, driven largely by younger crop of legislators from TVK.Of the party’s 107 MLAs, the median age stands at 47, much lower than DMK’s 57 and AIADMK’s 59….
Vijay meets governor R V Arlekar in Lok Bhavan on Wednesday. CHENNAI: The mood in the TVK camp changed from jubilation on Wednesday morning to anxiety in the evening, when C Joseph Vijay’s party was staring at a gap of five seats even after Congress offered support.TVK sources said the governor insisted on letters of…
CHENNAI: DMK will wait for TVK leader C Joseph Vijay to form the govt, and “watch without disturbing for six months”, outgoing chief minister M K Stalin told TOI on Wednesday.Indicating that DMK doesn’t want a constitutional crisis or another election soon, Stalin said he expects the new govt to continue the schemes introduced by…
CHENNAI: After a day-long hectic parleys, AIADMK on Wednesday ruled out “any support under any circumstances” to actor Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) to form a govt in Tamil Nadu.“Under no circumstances is our party going to extend support to TVK. I am conveying this with the permission of our party general secretary, Edappadiyar (Edappadi…
CHENNAI: A resident of Kodungaiyur has moved the Madras high court seeking to register a cheating and money laundering case against chief minister-designate and TVK founder Vijay for alleged suppression of financial transactions and receipt of unaccounted cash as renumeration.The first bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan, through an…
SALEM: All India NR Congress (AINRC) leader and Puducherry chief minister N Rangasamy on Wednesday lauded Congress’s decision to support TVK president Vijay to form a govt in Tamil Nadu. “It is a good political decision in a situation where a govt has to be formed,” Rangasamy told reporters here. Rangasamy’s AINRC is part of…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Congress leaders on Wednesday met TVK president Vijay at the party headquarters in Chennai and extended support to the party to form the government in the state following a hung Assembly verdict. The delegation included Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K Selvaperunthagai, Congress Legislature Party leader S Rajesh Kumar, AICC functionary Praveen…
CHENNAI: Senior AIADMK leaders S P Velumani and C Ve Shanmugam are holding a meeting with party General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami at his camp office on Greenways Road. The meeting is focused on whether to extend support to Vijay’s TVK to form the government. However, Palaniswami is unwilling to offer “voluntary support” to the…
CHENNAI: The Congress severed its 11-year ties with the DMK and decided to support TVK. AICC in-charge for Tamil Nadu Girish Chodankar announced that Congress would support TVK on the condition that there should be no “communal forces” in the alliance.Girish Chodankar, in a statement, said Congress supports the people’s mandate. “It is our constitutional…
