There is neither any legal basis nor justification for recalling the child witness again,” the court said Chennai: Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (Pocso) Act takes the prosecution of the offender and the well-being of the child hand in hand. It is not as if the interests of the child can be…
Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay handed over appointment orders to 80 candidates selected through the TNPSC for various roles in the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department at the Secretariat on Tuesday. Chennai: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Tuesday inaugurated facilities built at a cost of ₹23.67 crore at the Arulmigu…
Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay announced a milk procurement price hike. CHENNAI: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Wednesday announced a Rs 3-per-litre hike in the procurement price of milk from producers supplying milk to cooperative societies, taking the total procurement price from Rs 38 to Rs 41 per litre.“The govt has decided to increase…
The Madras High Court clarified a Union Home Ministry notification. CHENNAI: The Madras high court has clarified that the Union home ministry’s notification requiring ‘Vande Mataram‘ to be sung first at government functions does not prohibit the Tamil Thai Vazhthu from being sung before it.The court was hearing a PIL filed by Ananya Radhakrishnan, who…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only CHENNAI: Facing backlash from students’ organisations, the Directorate of Collegiate Education (DoCE) backtracked on its circular that called for action against college students taking part in protests organised by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) and left-wing parties.In a circular, dated Aug 17, the DoCE had called upon the school…
Vidya Reddy co-founder and Executive Director of Tulir Chennai: In the assembly session on Monday, Tamil Nadu PWD Minister Aadhav Arjuna attributed a “40% rise in Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) cases between 2023 and 2026” to the state’s inability to crack down on drug culture (which he claimed ‘arrived’ in 2020). As…
The Chief Minister’s Cancer Care Mission will be upgraded at a cost of Rs 673.44 crore. CHENNAI: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay, announced that the annual insurance cover under the Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme had been increased from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 25 lakh and a 400-bed multispeciality hospital would be established…
Chennai: Lotte India, a subsidiary of South Korea’s Lotte Corporation, has clarified that there is no ban on its Choco Pie product following regulatory action by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Durg, Chhattisgarh, over a specific batch of the snack.The company said the independent testing conducted by a third-party NABL-accredited laboratory found that…
More elevated corridors, expressways and grade separators for TN Chennai: The state highways department, in its ₹21,524-crore budget, has announced massive infrastructural projects, including an eight-lane corridor from Chennai to Kanyakumari, a Chennai-Coimbatore-Thoothukudi Industrial Corridor, a 21-km elevated corridor from Padi to Thirunindravur, and another 30-km elevated corridor from Kilambakkam to Chengalpet. Another ₹1,000 crore…
CHENNAI: Married woman govt employees in Tamil Nadu will get a full year maternity leave for the third child as well, human resources management minister D Sarathkumar told assembly on Tuesday.Till now, women employees were eligible for one-year paid maternity leave for the first and second children, and 12 weeks for the third child. Now…
