Chennai: Rats dart through corridors and cockroaches crawl near beds while patients undergo treatments. This is the situation at the ₹380 crore 1,000-bed Kalaignar Centenary Super-Speciality Hospital at Guindy, which was opened in 2023.“We see the pests near patients’ beds in the wards, and sometimes even in their food. Though the hospital staff clean the…
Chennai: Police arrested a 29-year-old man, Aleem Joshua alias Seeman, on Wednesday for supplying narcotic tablets and seized 700 tablets from him. The man was an associate of a history-sheeter, Shankar Bhai, who was earlier arrested at Ayanavaram.Acting on a tip off, police had arrested Shankar Bhai, 29, of East Ayanavaram. A total of 100…
Chennai: Four postgraduate courses in civil engineering — structural engineering, construction engineering, environmental engineering and environmental management — at the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG) have witnessed 100% placements in the 2025-26 acadFour postgraduate courses in civil engineering — structural engineering, construction engineering, environmental engineering and environmental management — at the College of Engineering, Guindy…
Tamil Nadu’s success was built on auto and auto components, textiles, leather goods and heavy engineering Ramanathan SWhen a new govt assumes office, there is an expectation that it must immediately announce new policies, launch new schemes and signal a departure from the past. In industrial development, however, the opposite is usually true: investors value…
Chennai: CPI state secretary M Veerapandian on Thursday urged chief minister C Joseph Vijay to focus on law and order issues on a war footing.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of CPI protest against LPG price hike, Veerapandian said no time should be wasted in ensuring that law and order is maintained. CPI had organised…
Chennai: The cybercrime wing of Chennai police on Thursday arrested political commentator Tiruchi Surya Siva, 33, son of DMK MP Tiruchi Siva, based on a complaint lodged by bike racer and BJP sports and skill development cell state secretary Alisha Abdullah for making derogatory remarks aimed at her. Police said efforts are under way to…
Chennai: Leader of the opposition in the assembly Udhayanidhi Stalin urged chief minister C Joseph Vijay to immediately intervene and ensure that 152 unfilled super speciality medical seats in Tamil Nadu are not surrendered to the all-India quota.In a letter to Vijay sent on Thursday, Udhayanidhi said the Supreme Court’s May 29 order directing the…
Matrimandir – Golden Temple for meditation in Auroville, an experimental township in Viluppuram district, Tamil Nadu, India Chennai: A section of residents of Auroville will exhibit to the public in the city on June 6 photographs, videos, testimonies and documentary material on the turmoil at the international township.Titled, ‘Auroville: An Experiment Under Threat’, the exhibition…
CBSE schools in Tamil Nadu use textbooks produced by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) for Tamil-language instruction for Classes I-X Chennai: Students of Classes I-III at many CBSE schools were yet to receive their new Tamil textbooks on opening day.CBSE schools in Tamil Nadu use textbooks produced by the State Council…
Former Tamil Nadu chief ministers Edappadi K Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam Chennai: Former chief ministers O Panneerselvam and Edappadi K Palaniswami, who fought a bitter battle to control the AIADMK and filed multiple cases against each other, withdrew the pending ones in Madras high court on Thursday.Justice K Kumaresh Babu dismissed as withdrawn pleas moved…
