Chennai: The proportion of schoolchildren in the city with impaired fasting glucose — a measure used to identify prediabetes — rose to 28.1% from 3.1% among girls and to 26.4% from 3.5% among boys over 17 years, a new study found.The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews,…
Chennai: The Centre of Excellence for Road Safety (CoERS) at IIT Madras organised its first-ever international hackathon on road safety recently. Students, engineers and researchers from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand took part in the hackathon.The participants developed AI-powered chatbot solutions across three problem statements: Drivelegal, which provides road users with location-specific…
Chennai: A group of more than 300 traders in Sowcarpet locked up a team of Goods and Services Tax (GST) officials who had visited the commercial hub for inspection. On receiving an SOS message from the officials, personnel from Elephant Gate police station rushed to the location and rescued them.Police said the team led by…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu govt has ordered the High-Level Committee on Union-State Relations headed by Justice Joseph Kurian to cancel the exclusive copyright it had given to Bloomsbury, to publish Part-I of its report submitted in the assembly in Feb 2026. The hardbound version of the English version of the report, priced at Rs 799, was…
Chennai: The GCC officials handling public tenders will henceforth be guided by three principles: do not bypass administrative sanctions; do not disclose bid details before tenders are opened; and do not escalate project costs without written explanation.These were some of the instructions given by experts to GCC officials during the first-of-its-kind tender training session on…
Chennai: Former minister S S Sivasankar and DMK organisational secretary R S Bharathi on Friday alleged that the TVK govt has renamed the Thayumanavar scheme launched by former chief minister M K Stalin to deliver ration commodities at the doorsteps of senior citizens and persons with disabilities.Addressing reporters at Anna Arivalayam, Bharathi said the Nilgiris…
Chennai: To curb tender irregularities and prevent officials from bypassing mandatory approval norms, the Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) has barred urban local bodies from splitting a single project into multiple smaller estimates to evade state govt’s administrative and financial scrutiny.Officials said that for projects above ₹10 crore, the local body must get the approval…
Chennai: The first phase of Census 2027, for houselisting and housing, will begin across Tamil Nadu on Saturday, with around 1.15 lakh enumerators set to conduct a month-long door-to-door survey covering every household in the state.Enumerators will collect information through a 33-question schedule on housing conditions, civic amenities and access to utilities until Aug 30,…
Chennai: DVAC arrested two people in connection with its ongoing investigation into suspected large-scale irregularities in the functioning of Tasmac between 2021 and 2025. The suspects — Karthik and his associate Ramesh from Karur district — were produced before a Chennai court on Friday and remanded in judicial custody.The arrests followed the registration of a…
C Joseph Vijay and D K Shivakumar CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s plans to visit Bengaluru on Aug 3 for talks on the Cauvery issue suffered a setback on Friday after his Karnataka counterpart D K Shivakumar requested him to defer the visit, saying the situation was not conducive. State law minister…
