CHENNAI: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay handed on Wednesday the lone Rajya Sabha seat that fell vacant in Tamil Nadu to Congress, a move seen as further knitting together TVK and the national party after their post-election understanding. Congress sources said AICC functionary Praveen Chakravarthy is the frontrunner for nomination to the Upper House.Vijay’s announcement…
What next for DMK and AIADMK? TVK founder C Joseph Vijay’s victory in the recent TN assembly election winning 108 seats and forming the govt with support from DMK allies seems to have made DMK realize that its challenges are not primarily organisational or ideological, but generational. And the alliance reconfiguration has at least some…
Chennai: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge joined DMK leaders in paying tribute to late DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi on his 103rd birth anniversary on Wednesday. DMK president M K Stalin who paid homage at Karunanidhi memorial said the darkness clouding Tamil Nadu would be chased away and DMK…
Chennai: A 19-year-old burglary suspect, who escaped from the Neelankarai police station during interrogation, was recaptured by a special police team on Tuesday. The accused was arrested earlier in connection with a house burglary in Injambakkam along East Coast Road.Bicilin Ann Aldrin, 38, an electrician employed at a deemed university on Old Mahabalipuram Road, lived…
Chennai: Southern Railway has announced changes in suburban EMU train services from June 5 to 6 owing to engineering works in the Chennai Egmore-Villupuram section between Kodambakkam and St Thomas Mount stations. Railways said line block and power block would be carried out from 11.05pm on June 5 to 3.05am on June 6, resulting in…
A 25-year-old man died and three others sustained injuries after a carbon dioxide cylinder exploded during a film shoot at Binny Mill on Barracks Road in Perambur on Wednesday morning. Police registered a case and launched an investigation into the circumstances that led to the accident. A 25-year-old man died and three others sustained injuries…
Chennai: Five days after a drunk car-borne gang ran over two girls and their friends on a bike, following a quarrel at a Koyambedu pub, an injured 17-year-old girl succumbed to her injuries on Wednesday. Yancy, 18, was killed on the spot on Saturday night. Police are yet to book or arrest the owners of…
Chennai: The ongoing Israel-Iran-US conflict has had a ripple effect on parents’ wallets this year, with prices of stationery items and bags rising by ₹5 to ₹300.The primary reason, according to retailers, is a spike in raw materials used to make plastic rulers, pencil cases, geometry boxes, pens, folders, book covers, bottles, and bag components….
Tamil Nadu Electricity Board headquarters CHENNAI: In a brazen act of sabotage, at least 18 hard disks containing confidential data, particularly records related to tenders, purchases and ongoing investigations, have been stolen from the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) headquarters on Anna Salai.The prime target seems to be the coal purchase details under the custody…
Girish Tanti, vice chairman of Suzlon Group Chennai: Wind energy equipment maker Suzlon Group has unveiled the next phase of its growth strategy, branded as ‘Suzlon 2.0’, with an ambition to quadruple annual renewable energy sales to 10 GW and expand its assets under management (AUM) to 70GW by FY31. In FY26, the company supplied…
