Chennai: In a bid to weed out corruption and plug loopholes in the tender procedure, the state municipal administration and water supply (MAWS) department has directed the local bodies not to seek site visits and machinery certificates during tenders. Contractors had been long complaining about these two conditions, which were used by officials to arm-twist…
Chennai: Ruling TVK is set to send its first member to the Rajya Sabha as the Election Commission announced the bypoll for the lone Tamil Nadu seat vacated by former AIADMK minister C Ve Shanmugam. TVK is expected to win the seat comfortably.C Ve Shanmugam resigned from the Rajya Sabha on May 7 after winning…
Chennai: After being kept on hold during the Assembly election model code of conduct, revised toll charges at around 60 national highway toll plazas across Tamil Nadu will come into effect from Saturday, increasing road travel costs on key inter-city routes.Most of the plazas are located on Chennai’s outskirts and major corridors, including Paranur and…
SP Velumani, C Ve Shanmugam Chennai: Reconciliation moves are on in AIADMK after those who revolted against party general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami were left hanging with chief minister C Joseph Vijay filling the last two slots in his cabinet with VCK and IUML members.Sources said the two sides have made their respective demands for…
Chennai: Against the backdrop of the BJP’s poor performance in the 2026 Assembly elections, where the party won only one of the 27 seats it contested, the Tamil Nadu unit has decided to hold district-level office-bearers’ meetings across the state from May 24 to May 29 as part of an outreach and review exercise.Apart from…
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The deceased, M Vijay, a mason from Thamaraikeni village near Sunambedu, was in a relationship with a married woman from the same village. CHENNAI: An extramarital affair ended in the murder of a 31-year-old man, whose leg was hacked off before he was gagged and force-fed pesticide by the woman’s relatives in a village in…
R.Saivenkatesh@timesofindia.comChennai: CBSE extended the deadline for Class XII students to apply for scanned copies of their answer sheets from May 23 to May 24, but several students who applied on May 20 said they are still waiting to receive the scanned copies.With applications for revaluation scheduled to begin on May 26, parents said students would…
Chennai: Madras high court on Friday dismissed the bail petitions filed by nine persons arrested on charges of leaking Vijay’s last film Jana Nayagan online ahead of its theatrical release.Their counsel argued that the arrested persons were in custody for 42 days and said some of them had already been detained under the Goondas Act….
Chennai: After years of crippling abdominal pain, repeated hospital admissions, and multiple failed endoscopic procedures, a 12-year-old girl from Tamil Nadu has found relief through a rare and highly complex robotic pancreatic reconstruction surgery performed at Kauvery Hospital.Doctors said the procedure – a robotic Frey’s surgery carried out to treat chronic pancreatitis caused by a…
