Passing out parade at OTA CHENNAI: It was perhaps the happiest Teachers’ Day for Dashrath Singh Rathore, a teacher from Sindarli village in Rajasthan’s Pali district as his daughter, Shivani Rathore , 25, passed out of the Officer’s Training Academy in Chennai on Saturday. Asked why his daughter chose the Army and became the first…
CHENNAI: Burglars took away an ATM containing around ₹5 lakh in cash from Koodapakkam near Tiruvallur on Saturday. This is the third ATM burglary reported from the outskirts of Chennai in less than 10 days. In previous ATM thefts, offenders had either broken open the machines or drilled through them to access the cash. In…
Udangudi thermal plant will be the seventh thermal power station to generate electricity from coal for the state taking the total installed capacity from 5120 MW to 5780 MW CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has got one more stable power source. Tamil Nadu Power Generation Corporation (TNPGCL) on Saturday brought the Unit 1 of Udangudi thermal power…
CPI state secretary M Veerapandian CHENNAI: CPI state secretary M Veerapandian on Saturday rejected the explanation given by TVK ministers on Friday that they were unaware of the controversial circular directing universities to monitor students affiliated to Left parties. The chief minister and the ministers should direct bureaucrats; but the opposite is happening in Tamil…
CHENNAI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has barred former MLA Aasan Maulana from contesting parliamentary and state assembly elections for three years. The decision came after he failed to submit an accurate account of his election expenditure for the 2021 Assembly elections.According to an ECI notification dated August 28, Maulana had initially declared election…
DVAC officials are conducting surprise searches at nineteen locations across Tamil Nadu linked to to former DMK minister KN Nehru CHENNAI: Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) officials on Saturday are conducting surprise searches at 19 locations, including the offices and residences of former Tamil Nadu DMK minister KN Nehru and his brother Ravichandran, in…
In photo: The accussed and the panchayat president TIRUNELVELI: Tirunelveli district police have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a 68-year-old panchayat president following a dispute over drinking water supply at Kannanallur near Valliyur on Friday evening.The deceased was identified as Maharajan, president of Kannanallur panchayat and a resident of Thamaraikulam South…
CHENNAI: Former chief minister M K Stalin on Saturday slammed the TVK government for unleashing the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) to raid the residence and properties of DMK Principal Secretary K N Nehru. Terming the search operations “politically motivated”, Stalin alleged that they were staged to deflect attention from the alleged horse-trading of…
Chennai: Bodhan AI, a centre of excellence in AI for education incubated at IIT Madras, has launched four open AI models for Indian languages. These models will convert spoken language into text, recognise and extract text from documents and images, translate content across 22 Indian languages and convert text into natural-sounding speech.These four voice and…
Chennai: For scores of bonded labourers who have struggled to establish their identity after being freed, a document certifying their release is set to act as an identity document and become a gateway to welfare schemes.Commissioner of revenue administration and disaster management N Muruganandam has issued an order recognising ‘rescue-release certificates’ issued to bonded labourers…
