Vijay will fly to Delhi in a special aircraft on Wednesday morning. CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday.Vijay will fly to Delhi in a special aircraft on Wednesday morning. Govt sources said the meeting with Modi is…
CHENNAI: In a statement that could reignite the row over disaster relief, Union minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai has said the Centre did not receive any memorandum from the Tamil Nadu govt seeking financial assistance for the Ditwah cyclone/disaster that hit the state in 2025.Rai made the remark in a recent letter…
Music in the evening, stargazing by night Study the architecture of the Natarajar temple in Chidambaram in the afternoon, get a lowdown on the Pichavaram mangrove forests in the evening and top it off gazing at the Milky Way through a telescope by night. Or how about attending a book reading session in the evening…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu assembly speaker JCD Prabhakar on Tuesday accepted the handwritten resignation letter of former minister and sitting Ambasamudram MLA Esakki Subaya, after initially rejecting a typed version. Subbaiah joined the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK). This follows Monday’s resignations of three MLAs from the rebel camp led by former AIADMK ministers C Ve…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu school education minister Raj Mohan on Tuesday announced that schools for the academic year 2026–2027 would reopen for all classes uniformly on June 4. This is applicable to all schools, including govt, govt-aided, matriculation and private schools.Earlier, the school education department had announced that schools reopen on June 1 for classes IV…
Udhayanidhi Stalin (Left: Photo credit: X/@Udhayanidhi Stalin), Tamil Nadu CM C Joseph Vijay (Right: Photo credit: X/@ANI) CHENNAI: Former deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin slammed the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government saying that chief minister C Joseph Vijay-led TVK govt cheated farmers by diluting its poll promise on complete crop loan waiver.“Now, they are carrying out…
Udhayanidhi Stalin (File photo) CHENNAI: Leader of Opposition and DMK youth wing leader Udhayanidhi Stalin and AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Monday flayed TVK govt for the recent crimes reported across the state.In a post on X, Udhayanidhi said 25 murders, four double murders, and 19 sexual offences were reported in Tamil Nadu…
Gender and social justice are discussed at Katradi youth camps It was the boys who followed me, I did nothing wrong, 16-year-old Bhuvana (name changed) plucked the courage to tell her parents while attending a ‘Bridging the Gaps’ youth camp with Chennai-based Katradi (Wind Dancer’s Trust). Bhuvana’s father had beaten her a few days before…
Chennai: A day after the Union govt sought help from IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur to sort out the technical issues faced by the CBSE’s online portal, IIT Madras director V Kamakoti said the site might have faced a cyberattack, which could have denied access and payment for scanned copies of Class XII answer scripts.Due…
Chennai: A 24-year-old man from Kanyakumari, declared brain dead after a road accident near Cheyyar, gave a new lease of life to multiple patients after his family consented to donate his organs at Saveetha Hospital.“In our community, it is customary to cremate the youngest child. We did not want our son’s life, efforts and organs…
