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Chennai: A total of 28.3 lakh voters will be eligible to vote in the 2026 assembly elections as per the final electoral roll released by Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) on Monday after the special intensive revision (SIR). One-third of city voters’ names have been deleted from the previous electoral roll, which was frozen at 40…

CHENNAI: Doctors can thrive without hospitals whereas a hospital can never exist without doctors supporting such institutions by rendering their services. Therefore, by no stretch, a hospital can treat a doctor like a workman in a factory or a technical person or a regular employee, the Madras high court has said.Justice N Anand Venkatesh made…

Chennai: A 32-year-old woman died by suicide after jumping in front of a suburban electric train between Singaperumal Koil and Paranur railway stations on Saturday night, following a family dispute. The deceased was identified as Anusuya, wife of Rajadurai, a native of Tiruvarur district. According to police, the couple argued frequently. On Saturday at 9pm,…

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has a total of 5,67,07,380 electors — 28,960,838 women and 27,738,925 men, according to the final electoral roll of the Special Intensive Revision 2026 released on Monday.Chief Electoral Officer of Tamil Nadu, Archana Patnaik, released the final electoral roll.Post the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the state saw 97.37 lakh voter deletions, with…

Chennai: Nearly a third of the wet waste will soon stop being sent to the dumpyard, as Greater Chennai Corporation plans three windrow composting centres in the city. The first one, a 1,000-tonne plant, will be set up in a 20-acre reclaimed space at Perungudi dumpyard on the biomined land. The funds for this will…

Chennai: Police launched a hunt for a man and a woman in connection with the rape and impregnation of the woman’s 20-year-old daughter. According to police, the survivor said the accused, Dakshinamoorthy, 50, an acquaintance of her mother, frequently visited their home. “In Jan, her mother administered sedative tablets on multiple occasions. On once instance,…

KRISHNAGIRI: An assistant labour inspector died after a youth allegedly drove a car into him and three members of his family following a dispute over two-wheelers parked in front of his house on Sunday night.The deceased has been identified as K. Sivamoorthy, 54, of Annai Arvind Nagar near the Housing Board residential area in Hosur…

CHENNAI: DMK formed a seven-member committee to hold seat sharing talks with alliance parties.DMK general secretary Duraimurugan announced through a release that the seven-member committee would be headed by DMK treasurer T R Baalu in which municipal administration minister K N Nehru, DMK MP Trichy Siva, DMK MP A Raja, DMK organizational secretary R S…

Chennai: Tamil Nadu will introduce a co-ordinated single-window counselling system for PhD admissions across all state-run universities under the higher education department, state higher education minister Govi Chezhiaan told the assembly on Thursday.Under the system, universities will publish discipline-wise details of departments, research supervisors and available PhD vacancies, allowing applicants to choose their area of…