The Vijay government is yet to publicly explain why references to Periyar, Ambedkar, Nehru and the Justice Party, which were included in the 2024 policy note, were omitted from the latest document. CHENNAI: The C Joseph Vijay-led Tamiliga Vettri Kazhagam govt’s policy note for the Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare Department has…
Render of ₹261 crore global sports city project was planned at Semmancheri, along the OMR Chennai: Barely six months after laying its foundation stone, state govt has pulled the plug on the ₹261 crore global sports city project at Semmancheri. It has decided to go back to the drawing board to redesign the facility on…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay has sought the Madras high court to vacate the stay against conducting byelection to five assembly constituencies—Trichy East, Karur, Viralimalai, Perundurai and Ambasamudram—as it would affect the interest of lakhs of people in the constituencies.The submission was made in response to a public interest writ petition moved…
The students were returning to Chennai from Puducherry when the accident occurred. CHENNAI: Three college students were killed and four others injured after a tyre of their SUV burst on the Chennai-Tiruchi National Highway near Madurantakam early Saturday.The students, from a city college in Chennai, were returning from Puducherry when the accident occurred.Police said the…
Tamil Nadu pilgrims meet external affairs minister S Jaishankar Chennai: More than 400 people, mostly pilgrims, from Tamil Nadu were in Nepal when a glacier collapse triggered a mud-tsunami on Wednesday. More than 90 of them are still unreachable, information minister A Rajmohan said on Friday.Meanwhile, 21 from a group of 57 pilgrims from the…
phasing out milk packaged in plastic sachets Chennai: Aavin, the state-owned milk cooperative federation, has informed Madras high court that automatic vending machines (AVMs), with a capacity of 200l each, for retail sale of milk has been installed in Ooty and Kodaikanal on pilot basis for phasing out milk packaged in plastic sachets.The submission was…
Santhosh, who secured admission to IIT-M’s 4 year BS degree course. (Sai Story) Chennai: J Santhosh, a 17-year-old student with a 90% spinal muscular disability and cerebral palsy since birth, was in tears last year when he was the only student from Class XII who couldn’t visit IIT Madras on a school trip. Fast forward…
The survivors arrived by an Air India flight from Delhi and were received at the airport by ministers N Anand and D Sarathkumar CHENNAI: Twenty-one members of a Tamil Nadu tourist group who escaped from a devastating flash flood in Nepal’s Rasuwagadhi area reached Chennai on Friday, recounting how they narrowly escaped as muddy water,…
Stalin flays Vijayover Mekedatu issue Chennai: Madras high court has directed the former chief minister and DMK president M K Stalin and the DMK IT Wing to respond by Sept 15 to a defamation case filed by public works minister Aadhav Arjuna over a social media post linking his relative in a drug trafficking case.On…
Chennai: The central bureau of investigation (CBI) has completed the first round of inquiry in connection with the murder of BSP leader K Armstrong, after taking over the investigation as per the Madras high court’s order.Armstrong’s wife Porkodi, his brother Veeramani and K Immanuel alias Keynos Armstrong were among the persons who were inquired. While…
