Rivers in Chennai and Salem have been identified as âpriority stretchesâ by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) based on water quality data, as per a response by Kirti Vardhan Singh, Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, in response to a question posed by M. Thambidurai, Rajya Sabha MP, on February 6….
Tamil Nadu is one of the frontrunners when it comes to creating infrastructure needed to encourage adoption of more electric vehicles (EV) and manufacturing, according to Minister of State for Heavy Industries, Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma, replying to DMK MP Kanimozhi NVN Somuâs question in Rajya Sabha on February 7 in New Delhi. Uttar Pradesh leads…
The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday said it was taking steps to bring the mortal remains of a man hailing from the State, who was killed during a shoot-out in Jamaica last December. An official release said the State government would bear the expenses. Vignesh, a native of Tirunelveli district, was employed at a supermarket…
The statue of Mukkanneswara Swamy, or the three-eyed bull, being built at Sri Devasenapathy Sthapathy Sons, a bronze idol manufacturing company in Kumbakonam | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Placed in the backyard of Sri Devasenapathy Sthapathy Sons, a well-known bronze idol manufacturing company in Swamimalai near Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, is a life-size statue of a…
Tirupparankundram Hills. File | Photo Credit: N. Thangarathinam Around 110 years ago, a dispute had arisen between the administrators of the Madura Meenakshi Devasthanam and the Sultan Sikkandar Avulia Dargah that briefly warranted the intervention of the government. The Devasthanam was then administering the Tirupparankundram Subramanya Swamy temple, the first of the six abodes of…
Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister Govi. Chezhian on Wednesday said the draft University Grants Commission regulations 2024 and 2025 are an attempt to impose National Educational Policy through the backdoor and is a threat to federal principles. At a meeting of State Higher Education Ministers to discuss the new regulations in Bengaluru, Mr. Chezhian said…
Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu releases the State Focus Paper 2025-26, during the State credit seminar organised by NABARD in Chennai on Tuesday | Photo Credit: S.R. Raghunathan Despite recent natural disasters, Tamil Nadu continues to demonstrate strong resilience with a compounded annual growth rate of 11-12 percent over the past decade, Finance Minister…
K. Annamalai. File | Photo Credit: S. Siva Saravanan BJP Tamil Nadu president K. Annamalai on Wednesday (February 5, 2025) alleged that sexual assault on women and girls has become a horrifying reality in Tamil Nadu, with drugs becoming an easily accessible commodity in the State. Citing a report published in The Hindu, Mr. Annamalai…
DMK candidate V.C. Chandhirakumar after casting his vote in the Erode (East) byelection on Wednesday, February 5 | Photo Credit: M. Govarthan The result of the byelection to the Erode (East) constituency, which the DMK will win by a huge margin, will serve as a prelude to the âgrand victoryâ in the 2026 Assembly elections,…
Four journalists have filed writ petitions in the Madras High Court to forbear an all-women Special Investigation Team (SIT), which is probing the Anna University sexual assault FIR leak case, from harassing them on the pretext of inquiry and also to return the mobile phone seized from one of them. While V. Ramkumar from Jaya…
