A total of 350 officials participated on the first day. CHENNAI: Corporate-style workplace wellness training has made its way into the govt sector, with the Greater Chennai Corporation on Monday launching a programme for its officials to help them cope with stress, fatigue and the demands of long working hours.The sessions, being conducted by Dhruthi…
Chennai: Milky Mist Dairy Food, the Tamil Nadu-based dairy products company, has raised about Rs 465 crore from 19 anchor investors ahead of its initial public offering (IPO), which opens on August 11 and closes on August 13.The IPO Committee of the Board, which met on August 10, 2026, finalised the allocation of 3,32,35,713 equity…
The biggest hurdle is the uncertainty surrounding Parandur, the site selected by the previous Tamil Nadu government for Chennai’s second airport. CHENNAI: Chennai’s long-pending second airport project has reached a crucial juncture, but the proposed greenfield airport at Parandur remains caught between the city’s growing aviation needs and opposition over land, waterbodies and the impact…
CHENNAI: Film producer Archana Kalpathi Aghoram has been appointed as a member of the reconstituted state-level committee of the Hindu religious and charitable endowments (HR&CE) department, tasked with appointing non-hereditary trustees to temples that generate an annual income of more than Rs 10 lakh.The seven-member committee has been constituted for a two-year term with effect…
CHENNAI: Customs sleuths at the Chennai airport seized 920 grams of gold, worth Rs 1.4 crore, from a woman who arrived here from Dubai on Monday.The air intelligence unit of Chennai customs intercepted the woman, who arrived here on an Emirates flight, as she attempted to exit via the green channel.Customs sleuths thoroughly searched her…
Led by Vatal Nagaraj of the Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha and Manjunath Deva of the Kannada Rakshana Vedike, more than 60 activists gathered at the toll plaza around 10.20am, raising slogans against Tamil Nadu and marching towards the border. KRISHNAGIRI: Bus services were affected between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for three hours on Monday due…
Tamil Nadu CM Joseph Vijay CHENNAI: In a decisive push to safeguard the state’s cultural identity, the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on Monday unanimously passed a resolution making it mandatory for the state anthem, “Tamil Thai Vazhthu”, to be sung at the beginning of all official programmes across educational institutions, government offices, public sector undertakings…
Chennai: Thousands of people who gathered at a city mall escaped a stampede on Saturday evening. They had converged on the mall since morning for an event featuring Hiphop Tamizha Adhi. By evening, police directed the organisers to cancel the event.When the situation inside the mall grew out of control, people began rushing out, blocking…
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: Fifteen new judges assumed office at Madras high court on Sunday, with Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari administering the oath of office to them, at a ceremony held on…
Chennai: A 30-year-old software engineer died and two others sustained injuries when their car crashed into iron rods protruding from a truck ahead of them on Adyar River bridge at Manapakkam in the early hours of Sunday.The deceased was identified as Malapati Ashok, 30, a native of Andhra Pradesh, who resided in Ramapuram and worked…
