CHENNAI: Police should register a case against Tasmac employees at retail vending outlets if they are found overcharging the consumers, ruled Madras high court, ordering the state govt to deploy police personnel to regulate buyers at crowded liquor shops.Justice GK Ilanthiraiyan issued the directions on Friday, when the state govt submitted the compliance report of…
Chennai: Former DMK minister K Ponmudy on Friday appeared before the George Town magistrate court, a day after it issued a non-bailable warrant against him for skipping the hearing in a case over derogatory remarks made against women and religious sentiments.Ponmudy filed a petition seeking recall of the non-bailable warrant. The court accepted the petition…
Former ministers S P Velumani, C Ve Shanmugam and K P Anbazhagan called on senior TVK leader and minister for water resource department N Anand at the secretariat on Thursday Chennai: Amid a fresh round of internal strife in AIADMK, former ministers S P Velumani, C Ve Shanmugam and K P Anbazhagan called on senior…
Chennai: Liquor will soon cost more in Tamil Nadu as the govt on Friday introduced a bill to amend the Tamil Nadu Value Added Tax Act, 2006, proposing an additional ‘environmental and social welfare cess’ on the sale of liquor.The proposed cess, capped at ₹20 per unit container, will be levied in addition to the…
Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to introduce a separate entrance examination or not to use NEET scores for admissions to Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry (BVSc & AH) courses. Instead, admissions should be made based…
CHENNAI: The Union govt on Friday notified the appointment of 15 judges to Madras high court, which at present is working with just 51 judges, as against the sanctioned strength of 75.While a total of 24 names were recommended by the collegium of the Madras high court, initially 19 were cleared for notification. Now, only…
Chennai: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay has invited Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs from Tamil Nadu for a meeting on Saturday to discuss the Centre’s proposed delimitation exercise.The meeting, scheduled at 3pm on Aug 8 at Kalaivanar Arangam in Chennai, will deliberate on the proposed constituency delimitation and its implications for TN, said a…
Chennai: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to fast-track the Godavari-Cauvery-Gundar river linking project and declare it a project of national importance.“The Godavari-Cauvery-Gundar link represents the most significant long-term opportunity for augmenting Tamil Nadu’s surface water resources. The project is of vital importance to redress the…
Chennai: Firefighters are continuing search operations for the 30-year-old Reserve Bank of India employee who jumped into the Adyar River from Kotturpuram Bridge on Wednesday night. Kotturpuram police have registered a case and launched an inquiry. Police said S Mohankumar, who lived in the Reserve Bank staff quarters in KK Nagar, had invested ₹60 lakh…
Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay CHENNAI: Asserting that the party is not opposed to delimitation but seeks the exercise to be conducted fairly, DMK has decided to stay away from chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s meeting with Tamil Nadu MPs here on Saturday to discuss the Union govt’s proposed delimitation exercise and its…
