Nirupa Shankar, MD, Brigade Hotel Ventures Chennai: Brigade Hotel Ventures is set to expand its presence in Chennai with three more hotels planned across the city, as Chennai, along with Bengaluru and Hyderabad, is expected to witness demand growth that will significantly outpace new room additions, creating favourable demand-supply dynamics through FY30.The Bengaluru-headquartered company’s pipeline…
Sudarshan Venu, chairman of TVS Motor Company Chennai: Home Credit India Finance, a subsidiary of TVS Holdings Ltd, has agreed to acquire a 100% stake in Varthana Finance Private through an all-cash transaction valued at Rs 967 crore.The company signed a share purchase agreement on July 15. The transaction is subject to approvals from various…
CPM state secretary P Shanmugam CHENNAI: CPM on Wednesday urged the Tamil Nadu govt to immediately appeal against the Supreme Court’s order directing the eviction of encroachers in the Srivilliputhur-Megamalai Tiger Reserve. CPM state secretary P Shanmugam criticized the Supreme Court order to deploy paramilitary forces for the eviction drive. He called the measure excessively…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu director general of police Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal on Wednesday transferred to the CB-CID the investigation into the alleged fraudulent registration of a parcel of 1.4-acre land belonging to the Arulmigu Dhandayudapani Swami Mutt in Palani. The property is estimated to be worth around Rs 100 crore. The registration department had earlier suspended…
Mohanlal, Vijay to share stage at Kerala anti-drug event CHENNAI: Kerala home minister Ramesh Chennithala on Wednesday said chief minister C Joseph Vijay has accepted his invitation to visit Kerala and share the stage with actor Mohanlal at a major anti-drug awareness event.Chennithala met Vijay at secretariat to discuss about ‘Operation Toofan’.Speaking to reporters after…
The deceased, identified as (C) Sabarivarman, was a resident of the Nagercoil area CHENNAI: A 34-year-old man who was arrested for allegedly selling tobacco products and remanded to judicial custody has died in prison in Tamil Nadu‘s Kanniyakumari district, triggering protests by his family, who have alleged custodial assault.The deceased, identified as Sabarivarman, was a…
Tamil Nadu medical colleges added 950 MBBS seats for the 2026-27 academic year CHENNAI: Medical colleges across Tamil Nadu together expanded MBBS seats by 950 this year, with 13 existing institutions, including three government medical colleges, raising their intake and one new private college joining the roster, according to a seat matrix released by India’s…
The victim, R Vanaja, sold idli batter from home, while her husband Radhakrishnan ran a provision store nearby. CHENNAI: A day after the murder of a 55-year-old woman in Pulicat, Tiruvallur, police have arrested a man who lived in the same locality, for murdering her and robbing her jewellery to fund his pregnant wife’s hospital…
Chennai: The state govt on Tuesday appointed an interim panel to steer the Tamil Nadu Real Estate Regulatory Authority (TNRERA), with retired IAS officer K Phanindra Reddy as its chairperson. Retired district judge A Nazir Ahamed and retired IAS officer Reeta Harish Thakkar have been appointed members.This follows the recent resignations of the authority’s chairperson…
CHENNAI: Now you can report a TN govt employee demanding bribe by sending a WhatsApp message to 9498180936.This is among the latest measures put forward by the govt to fight corruption. Chief secretary M Sai Kumar on Tuesday sent a circular instructing all govt department heads and collectors to ensure anti-bribery notice boards are displayed…
