Discharge of untreated effluents from leather tanneries and other factories in Ranipet pollute the Palar river. File | Photo Credit: C. Venkatachalapathy The Supreme Court on Thursday (January 30, 2025) judged that untrammelled dumping of untreated effluents by tanneries into the Palar river in the Vellore district, Tamil Nadu, has ravaged the water body, a…
Central Bureau of Investigationās Global Operations Centre jointly co-ordinated with Tamil Nadu police, Embassy of India in Bangkok and Immigration authorities in Kolkata airport for the return of Janarthanan Sundaram, who is a āRed Noticeā subject wanted by Tamil Nadu police for financial fraud. A press release said Economic Offence Wing in Chennai had registered…
Music Director Maestro Ilaiyaraaja. File Photo. Ragu R./The Hindu Music director Ilaiyaraaja, the first Indian to write a symphony, has said a symphony should not be explained but experienced. āMusic is an experience,ā he said in a conversation with The Hindu at his studio in Chennai on Wednesday (January 29, 2025). Asked whether some knowledge…
It has been a long-standing grievance of SC activists that the community has not been given prominence in appointments of political posts to the extent it deserves, unlike in many other States. Image used for representational purposesĀ | Photo Credit: Getty Images Despite Scheduled Castes (SC) constituting 20% of Tamil Naduās population and accounting for…
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin inaugurates a memorial built in honour of 21 social justice activists, at Vazhudhareddi in Villupuram district on Tuesday | Photo Credit: S.S. Kumar Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday (January 28, 2025) said only the DMK was persisting in its fight to ensure social justice at an all-India level,…
Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam president Vijay. File photo | Photo Credit: The Hindu Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam president Vijay on Sunday (January 26, 2025) sought a Madras High Court monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the Vengaivayal case, wherein human faeces was found in an overhead tank supplying water to the Scheduled Caste (SC) residents of…
The DMK and the AIADMK took potshots at each other on Sunday over the response received by Tamil Nadu in the five-day World Economic Forum, which concluded in Davos, Switzerland. Industries Minister T.R.B Rajaa rejected AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswamiās remark that it was disappointing to know that not even one MoU was signed…
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Saturday said the State had achieved growth in all economic indicators. āTamil Nadu is Indiaās second biggest economy. The Stateās contribution to the national Gross Domestic Product, which was 5.4%, has increased to 9.21% in the last four years,ā he said at a function organised by the DMK in Pallavaram…
The CPI(M) and the VCK, allies of the ruling DMK, on Friday demanded that the investigation in the Vengaivayal case be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). In a statement, CPI(M) State secretary P. Shanmugam said the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) stating in its charge-sheet that human faeces were mixed in the…
Arittapatti, a bio-diversity heritage site in Madurai district | Photo Credit: G. Moorthy The Union Ministry of Mines on Thursday (January 23, 2025) announced that it has decided to annul the auction of tungsten mineral block at Nayakkarpatti in Madurai district. It may be recalled that locals had carried out a massive rally in Madurai…
