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…
AINRC founder and Puducherry chief minister N Rangasamy Puducherry: Almost three months after All India NR Congress (AINRC)-led NDA formed govt in the Union territory of Puducherry, the allocation of portfolios for AINRC founder and chief minister N Rangasamy and his five cabinet colleagues was officially announced on Wednesday night.Rangasamy retained primary governance and financial…
COIMBATORE: The Thudiyalur police in the city have registered a case against a real estate broker and a self-proclaimed advocate for defrauding a local real estate businessman of Rs 60 lakh under the pretext of selling a parcel of land in Sivaram Nagar near Ramanathapuram here.The victim has been identified as V Jeganathan 42, residing…
The fund will support de-addiction programmes and campaigns on the ill-effects of alcohol consumption. CHENNAI: In a major push to reform the state’s liquor retail network under TASMAC, augment revenues, and address system-wide environmental flaws, the state government on Friday introduced a bill proposing an additional ‘Environmental and Social Welfare Cess’ on the sale of…
Recalling the issue back to a 1969 Assembly debate, Vijay cited the then opposition leader P G Karuthiruman, who advocated setting aside partisan credit for the welfare of delta farmers. CHENNAI: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Friday defended his proposal to visit Bengaluru for direct talks with counterpart D K Shivakumar over the Cauvery…
Pumped storage projects enable greater renewable energy integration by storing surplus power and supplying it during peak demand, while strengthening grid stability and reliability. Chennai: India’s pumped storage project pipeline is gathering momentum, with around 24 GW of capacity under construction, appraisal or examination by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA).At present, 11 PSPs with a…
Chennai: Kattaikkuttu, a traditional form of theatre, relies on stories from epics such as the Mahabharata and the Puranas. Thilagavathi Palani, a folk artist who upended the status quo of this male-dominated storytelling format, is using the stage to spread the word about climate change. She is the founder of the troupe Sri Thilagam Kattaikkuttu…
CHENNAI: More than 500 commercially valuable sandalwood and teak trees have allegedly been felled and taken away from the sprawling Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (Tanuvas) research station in Kattuppakkam near Guduvanchery. This has exposed a glaring security lapse at a state-run campus.According to Tanuvas sources, the felled trees, around 200 sandalwood trees…
