Tamil Nadu will soon launch a new health insurance scheme for elderly residents. (File photo) CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu will launch the Chief Minister’s Elderly Health Insurance Scheme, a programme that will provide free, cashless medical treatment to nearly 38 lakh residents aged 70 and above, with no income ceiling for eligibility — a move the…
While deep-tech funding surged to $2.96 bn in 2025, a gap in the Series B and C stages remains a major financial constraint Chennai: Secondary sales remain a key exit avenue for India’s deep-tech ecosystem, even as capital flows and public listings of deep-tech companies have continued to rise over the past decade.According to the…
While deep-tech funding surged to $2.96 bn in 2025, a gap in the Series B and C stages remains a major financial constraint Chennai: Secondary sales remain a key exit avenue for India’s deep-tech ecosystem, even as capital flows and public listings of deep-tech companies have continued to rise over the past decade.According to the…
Mukesh Ahuja, MD, Tube Investments of India Ltd Chennai: Tightening global availability of battery cells is emerging as a key cost challenge for Murugappa Group’s electric-vehicle businesses, with prices expected to remain firm for at least the next two to three quarters even as improving volumes help narrow losses.“It’s a genuine challenge that we are…
The corridor is also expected to reduce congestion at seven major junctions including Eldams Road, SIET College Road, Cenotaph Road CHENNAI: The 3.2km Teynampet-Saidapet flyover on Anna Salai will miss its Sept 2026 deadline as the state highways department has run into a major design snag midway.The ₹621-crore flyover now needs a “scope change” as…
Residents gathered at Perambur MLA office, Chennai TNNChennai: Tension prevailed outside the chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s Perambur MLA office in Sharma Nagar, as residents of Selaivayal in Kodungaiyur gathered over lack of proper roads, drainage, and streetlights in their locality.The residents, who came to submit their petition on Monday morning, said repeated representations to…
Chennai: Sleuths from Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Sunday intercepted two men in possession of foreign currency worth ₹17.65 lakh and thwarted their bid to smuggle the cash to Bahrain. Based on a tip-off, the officials camped at Chennai airport and intercepted two men who were scheduled to fly to Bahrain on a Gulf…
Chennai: The resignation letters of six AIADMK MLAs were accepted only after conducting an inquiry to ascertain whether they had resigned voluntarily, Tamil Nadu Assembly speaker J C D Prabhakar has informed Madras high court.“The MLAs submitted resignation letters written in their own handwriting. I conducted inquiries with each of them. I accepted the letters…
The 3.2 km Anna Salai flyover, being built at a cost of Rs 621 crore, is progressing at snail’s pace with girders too not being placed between multiple pillars from the Nandanam-Teynampet side. Officials said 50 out of 88 deck slabs were placed on the finished girders in the non-metro stretches of the flyover, but…
A representative image shows the Madras High Court building with a judge’s gavel in the foreground, symbolizing legal proceedings and judiciary decisions in Chennai, India. Chennai: Madras high court has upheld the three-year sentence imposed on four people, including the son of deceased former DMK minister P M Senguttuvan, in a disproportionate assets case.Senguttuvan served…
