Chennai: Alleging that contractors executing highways projects in Tamil Nadu were previously forced to pay nearly 25% of project costs in commissions, highways minister Aadhav Arjuna assured contractors on Friday that no bribes would be sought under the present govt and that all tenders would be awarded transparently.At a meeting with them, Arjuna said contractors…
Chennai Metro Rail’s CMRL tunnelling work involving a Tunnel Boring Machine TBM Chennai: Motorists navigating the city’s maze of metro barricades may have to endure the inconvenience for longer, as delays in Chennai Metro Rail Ltd’s underground construction have created a costly bottleneck involving tunnel boring machines (TBMs), potentially delaying phase-2 deadlines.Officials said that in…
Annamalai launches movement ‘to end cult and dynasty politics’ | page 1Chennai: Hours after his resignation was accepted by BJP national president Nitin Nabin on Friday, former BJP state president K Annamalai announced the launch of his political movement that would fight against “cult and dynasty politics” in Tamil Nadu, an apparent reference to TVK…
Chennai: Two men have been arrested so far in connection with the sensational theft of hard disks from the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) headquarters and a total of 34 hard disks have been recovered from them, police said on Friday. The arrests and recoveries come two days after the TOI expose on the theft…
aakash baskaran film producer ed tasmac Chennai: Enforcement Directorate has decided to withdraw its proceedings against film producer Aakash Baskaran, based on searches conducted at the Tasmac headquarters in connection with suspected irregularities. A submission to this effect was made by Union govt in Madras high court on Friday.The adjudicating authority will, however, undertake fresh…
Chennai: Kefira, a CBSE Class XII student from the city, says two pages from her maths answer sheet were not scanned and the copy had repeated pages. She was hoping to secure 195 out of 200 cut-off marks for engineering admissions. However, she got only 187 out of 200 cut-off marks and anxiously awaits her…
Chennai: The Municipal Administration and Water Supply (MAWS) department has directed commissioners of all urban local bodies (ULBs) in Tamil Nadu to be in the field before 7am every day and step up monitoring of civic services, sanitation and infrastructure works.In a communication issued to commissioners, engineers and officials, MAWS secretary Gagandeep Singh Bedi instructed…
Chennai: Marking the fulfilment of chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s promise to the electorate immediately after assumption of office, Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac) closed 717 retail liquor shops located within 500m of educational institutions and religious worship places across the state.The exercise, however, had overshot the two-week deadline by nearly 10 days.Prohibition and…
Chennai: The population of the Nilgiri Tahr, Tamil Nadu’s state animal, has increased marginally from 1,303 to 1,364 this year, according to data released by State Forest Minister R V Ranjith Kumar on World Environment Day on Friday. However, this year’s growth rate plumetted to 4.68%, compared to 21% in 2025.State Forest Secretary Supriya Sahu…
Chennai: R Abhinav from Chennai has secured the first rank among 37,000 applicants in Sastra deemed university’s engineering admission’s rank list that was released on Friday.Admissions will be based on Class XII marks and JEE (main) scores, in which Abhinav got 97.8% and 99.69 respectively.Sastra has provided 20% of seats for students from Trichy and…
