Chennai: Tamil Nadu, where sticky summer nights increasingly deny relief even after sunset, has emerged as one of India’s biggest heat-and-humidity hotspots, a trend now quietly reshaping electricity demand and intensifying urban heat stress.A report released by Climate Trends, ‘From Heatwave to Grid Wave’, ranked Tamil Nadu second in the country for “compound hot-humid days”,…
Farmers demand full waiver of crop loan Chennai: Former AIADMK minister O S Manian and PMK floor leader Sowmiya Anbumani on Monday urged chief minister C Joseph Vijay to announce a complete waiver of crop loans availed by farmers from cooperative societies.Participating in the discussion on Governor’s address in the assembly, Manian said the partial…
Minister J Mohamed Farvas informs the assembly that the CM has orders review of hazardous industries. CHENNAI: In the wake of an ammonia leak at a seafood processing unit in Tiruvallur that claimed seven lives, the Tamil Nadu govt will constitute a high-level committee to audit hazardous industries in the state and prevent such accidents…
Chennai: Thousands of Indian doctors continue to wait — with completed internships and idle stethoscopes — as the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences is yet to open registrations for NEET PG 2026, the national entrance test for postgraduate medical admissions.The delay, nearly two months behind last year’s April 17 start, leaves the exam…
Students were made to carry chairs, benches and microphone stands NAMAKKAL: Students were allegedly subjected to hardships in Sowthapuram Government Higher Secondary School in Namakkal district when a local functionary of the ruling TVK organized a function to celebrate chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s birthday.According to reports, “Thalapathi” Surya, deputy secretary of Sowthapuram panchayat union,…
CHENNAI: Power supply will be suspended in and around Sembium, Keelkattalai and Ennore from 9am to 2pm on Wednesday to carry out maintenance work.Sembium: Chandraprabhu Colony, Thanigachalam Nagar, Moolakadai, Annai Sathya Nagar, Venkateshwara Nagar, Police Quarters, Madhavaram High Road, KH Road, Nagaiah Thottam, Munusamy Street, Palayakkara Street, United India Nagar, KK Nagar and Chetty Thottam.Keelkattalai:…
CHENNAI: At least five workers have died and 67 others remain hospitalised following an ammonia leak at a seafood processing unit in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur district. The incident has put the spotlight on a chemical that quietly powers India’s seafood export industry — and the devastating consequences when it escapes containment.The gas that keeps seafood…
Tragedy struck a seafood processing unit in Tiruvallur as an ammonia gas leak claimed five lives by Monday morning CHENNAI: The death toll in the ammonia gas leak at a private seafood processing unit in Tiruvallur district has risen to five, with three more fatalities reported by 7 am on Monday, according to a Health…
Chennai: Six months after the state govt ordered school headmasters to appoint nodal officers to tackle the stray dog menace on campuses, several schools have already forgotten about the rule. The order, issued by the school education department on Dec 9 last year, came in the wake of the Supreme Court’s directives to remove stray…
TNN P Shanmugam Chennai: Opposition to the recommendation for a separate tribunal on Mekedatu dam intensified on Sunday, with CPM state secretary P Shanmugam and PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss criticising the proposal. Earlier, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami had also opposed the recommendation.Shanmugam has hit out at DMK for proposing the idea and TVK…
