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…
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu govt on Tuesday said it would proceed against everyone involved in the alleged fraudulent registration of a parcel of 1.4acre land, valued at around Rs 100 crore, belonging to the Arulmigu Dhandayudapani Swami Mutt in Palani.Commercial taxes and registration minister D Logesh Tamilselvan made the announcement while addressing reporters alongside Hindu…
MTC was already operating 25 such buses. The facility has now been extended to 44 more schools across the city and suburbs, bringing more students under the scheme. Chennai: As many as 3,365 students from corporation and government-aided schools used Metropolitan Transport Corporation’s exclusive free school buses on Monday, the first day of the expanded…
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore city police on Monday night apprehended six juveniles who were among a group of 12 children in conflict with the law (CCL) who escaped from a govt observation home at Athur near Chengalpet on Sunday.The 12 teenagers escaped when a movie was being screened for the inmates of the home on Sunday…
Chennai: State govt appointed TVK spokesperson A Layola Mani as the chairman of the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation.According to the appointment order issued on July 9, the tenure of Mani will be three years from the date of issuing the order. Earlier, DMK functionary and orator Dindigul I Leoni served as the…
