Chennai: CPI state secretary M Veerapandian on Sunday urged the Tamil Nadu govt to withdraw its proposed move to privatise sanitation work in municipal corporations.“Sanitation work is an essential public service and should not be handed over to private companies. The govt must not facilitate the exploitation of sanitation workers through privatisation,” Veerapandian said in…
NEET suicide Chennai: Political parties in Tamil Nadu have criticised the Union govt for NEET suicides in Tamil Nadu. DMK has said the party’s students wing would hold a protest on Tuesday.“Ever since NEET was introduced, there were forgery incidents every year due to which there were suicides. This year, after the cancellation of NEET…
Earlier sighted only in the plains, of late there have been reports of elephants wandering into Ooty villages An elephant wandered into a private hospital in Ooty last fortnight. Wildlife experts say that, more than unusual, it is concerning. What was an elephant doing on the upper plateau of the Nilgiris, an area not usually…
CHENNAI: At least five workers have died and 67 others remain hospitalised following an ammonia leak at a seafood processing unit in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur district. The incident has put the spotlight on a chemical that quietly powers India’s seafood export industry — and the devastating consequences when it escapes containment.The gas that keeps seafood…
Chennai: A 30-year-old cab driver had a narrow escape after his car plunged into a construction pit near Nandanam metro station on Saturday night.Police said Ibrahim of Tiruvottiyur was driving near a construction site for a road overbridge above the metro tunnel stretch connecting Nandanam with Saidapet, when another car approached him at high speed.In…
Tragedy struck a seafood processing unit in Tiruvallur as an ammonia gas leak claimed five lives by Monday morning CHENNAI: The death toll in the ammonia gas leak at a private seafood processing unit in Tiruvallur district has risen to five, with three more fatalities reported by 7 am on Monday, according to a Health…
A three-member committee comprising the director of industrial safety and health, the member-secretary of the Pollution Control Board, and the additional director of public health has been constituted to submit a preliminary report within 24 hours and a detailed report within three days on the ammonia leak at a seafood export firm on Sunday.Chief minister…
Jasbir Singh, executive chairman and CEO of Amber Enterprises India Chennai: Amber Group plans a rapid ramp-up of commercial production of Oppo branded smartphones with 8 million units by the 2028 financial year, which is roughly about 20% of Oppo’s India volume. It plans to ramp it up to 15 million in FY29, with trial…
When BMW inaugurated its 20-million euro factory near Chennai in 2007, it was betting on a market that barely existed. India’s luxury-car industry sold only about 4,500 vehicles a year, import duties were steep and meaningful localisation seemed a distant prospect. Yet Norbert Reithofer, then chairman of BMW AG, saw far greater potential, predicting that…
Marine products worth about $620mn were exported through Chennai Port in FY26, as per latest data from Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) under the Union ministry of commerce and industry. While the port accounted for more than 7% of India’s seafood exports, handling 1,10,967 tonnes and ranking fifth among major ports, industry representatives believe…
