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Chennai: Researchers at the Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN) have developed a rapid analytical technique to detect cow ghee adulteration and simultaneously identify and quantify multiple adulterants. The technique could offer a low-cost tool to strengthen food quality checks.The study, published in Food Chemistry, uses Angular Sweep Total Fluorescence Spectroscopy (ASTFS), a fluorescence-based analytical…

Employers to verify community certificates within initial years of an staff’s service ‘Cannot tolerate the use of delayed procedures as a dangling sword’ Chennai: A full bench of Madras high court has held that verification into the genuineness of a community certificate or caste status of a govt employee remains legally permissible even after their…

PUDUCHERRY: A 20-year-old college student collapsed while participating in a physical test and was declared dead upon arrival in the hospital in Puducherry on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Gokul from the Kannamangalam area near Arani in Tiruvannamalai district. Gokul was a second-year undergraduate student at a college in Arani. His father, Babu,…

Chennai: PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss dubbed the Tamil Nadu govt’s decision to approach the Supreme Court over the Cauvery water-sharing dispute a “delayed but correct step”. In a statement on Saturday, he cautioned the state against engaging in bilateral negotiations with Karnataka on the river dispute or the proposed Mekedatu dam project.Anbumani noted that the…

Chennai: A suspect in a multi-crore iridium investment scam was arrested by CB-CID at Chennai airport on arrival from Bahrain on Saturday. Suresh Kumar was remanded in judicial custody on Saturday for forging bank documents to cheat investors.The case was registered by the Salem branch of the Organised Crime Unit of the CB-CID on March…

The centre is expected to bridge a long-standing gap in access to healthcare for families of persons with disabilities in the locality. Chennai: Tamil Nadu assembly speaker J C D Prabhakar on Saturday opened a centre for free therapy and rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities at the Greater Chennai Corporation-run Chennai Special School for…

Children enjoy a rainy Saturday evening, playing in the showers in Chennai. Chennai: After a hot day when temperatures climbed nearly 3°C above normal, evening rain brought relief to many parts of the city and its suburbs on Saturday. While IMD has forecast light to moderate rain over the city and the suburbs only on…

KRISHNAGIRI: A farmer died by suicide near Hosur in Krishnagiri district in the early hours of Saturday allegedly after being harassed by the loan recovery agents of a private financial company.The deceased has been identified as K Ramachandran,39, of Devasanapalli village near Shoolagiri. He is survived by wife Anjali, 30, and two young sons.Two years…

Tamil Nadu agriculture minister R Vinoth at the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple on Saturday CHENNAI: A controversy erupted on Saturday after Tamil Nadu agriculture minister R Vinoth offered prayers at the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple holding an “agriculture budget document.” Vinoth is to present TVK govt’s maiden agricultural budget in the Tamil Nadu assembly on Aug 6….

Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay CHENNAI: The TVK IT wing on Saturday said chief minister C Joseph Vijay was handling the Cauvery issue keeping in mind the welfare of Tamil Nadu farmers and Tamils living in Karnataka as the priority. In a post on X, the TVK IT wing accused DMK of playing…