Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay presents an appointment order to a candidate during a recruitment event organised by the Department of Health and Family Welfare at the Presidency College in Chennai on Tuesday. Chennai: Tamil Nadu has launched a new nonprofit foundation aimed at drawing corporate and individual donations into the state’s public hospital network,…
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation — the state agency that procures drugs and medical equipment for govt hospitals — has floated a tender to supply gold rings for newborns under a signature welfare scheme of chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s govt.The corporation is seeking a one-year rate contract for roughly 4.41 lakh one-gram,…
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation — the state agency that procures drugs and medical equipment for govt hospitals — has floated a tender to supply gold rings for newborns under a signature welfare scheme of chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s govt.The corporation is seeking a one-year rate contract for roughly 4.41 lakh one-gram,…
Chennai: A day after the murder of a 55-year-old woman in Pulicat, Tiruvallur, police have arrested a man who lived in the same locality, for murdering her and robbing her jewellery to fund his pregnant wife’s hospital expenses.On Monday, Thiruppalaivanam police were alerted after the victim’s husband found her dead at their home near the…
Sewage overflow likely at Teynampet, Adyar tomorrow Chennai: Neighbourhoods in Teynampet and Adyar zones may experience sewage overflow on July 16, as operations at seven sewage pumping stations will be halted for 24 hours due to pipeline realignment work at Taramani. Metrowater officials said the ongoing work by Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) necessitated the…
Chennai: State govt will come up with a uniform and legally sustainable framework to address employment and rehabilitation-related demands arising from industrial and infra projects, including power plants, said electricity and law minister R Nirmalkumar after holding talks with representatives of eight fishermen unions from Ennore on Tuesday.The meeting focused on demands raised by the…
Police said Arasakumar collected more than ₹100 crore from school managements across TN by promising recognition, grade upgrades, planning approvals, NOCs and other statutory clearances. Chennai: Days after Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested B T Arasakumar in connection with the ₹100-crore fraud involving private schools, he was put under preventive detention by police, invoking the…
Chennai: In a rebuttal to Tamil Nadu governor R V Arlekar’s statement that National Education Policy (NEP) should not be rejected, TNCC president B Manickam Tagore said on Tuesday that the state would never accept NEP.In a statement, Tagore said the NEP was an attempt to push the RSS’s ideological agenda through the education system….
Tamil Nadu electricity and law minister R Nirmalkumar CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu electricity and law minister R Nirmalkumar on Tuesday denied allegations that the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam was indulging in horse-trading. He alleged that DMK was continuing its attempts to lure MLAs.Responding to CPI state secretary M Veerapandian’s remarks on horse-trading, Nirmalkumar said TVK was not…
CHENNAI: People returning home from work were stranded at suburban railway stations as a signal failure at Chennai Beach station disrupted EMU services during the evening peak hour on Tuesday. The signal failure, which was reported around 5.30pm, delayed at least 17 EMU services on the Chennai Beach–Tambaram line. Trains bound for Tambaram were detained…
