Bakan Jagdish Sudhakar, CEO, TN Green Climate Company Chennai: Tamil Nadu was working on decarbonisation plans for four districts and had initiated a Rs 1,000-crore Green Climate Fund, with an initial Rs 100-crore commitment from the State government and the remaining corpus proposed to be raised from the market to support businesses in areas including…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu govt will provide sports jerseys to 23 lakh students studying in govt and govt-aided schools from Class IX to XII, school education minister Rajmohan announced in the assembly on Monday.During the debate on demand for grants for school education, he announced that there will be one period allotted to sports, arts and…
MADURAI: It will be a death of the witness box, the ubiquitous wooden structure one would see in Indian courts and cinema. It will not be even the ‘designated’ locations from where one could depose and get their statements recorded by trial courts.Madras high court has virtually freed witnesses from all procedural shackles, as it…
CHENNAI: With 12 out of 13 state universities under higher education department without vice-chancellors, the Tamil Nadu govt has appointed two senior-most professors in Alagappa University and Manonmaniam Sundaranar University as interim vice-chancellors.Professor J Jeyakanthan from the department of bioinformatics at Alagappa University has been appointed officiating vice-chancellor of Alagappa University. Professor S Prabahar from…
AINRC founder and Puducherry chief minister N Rangasamy Puducherry: Chief minister N Rangasamy presented a tax-free ₹14,300 crore budget for 2026-27 for the Union territory of Puducherry on Monday.Rangasamy, who holds the finance portfolio, said the Union territory’s own revenue receipts have been estimated at ₹7,890 crore, while the central assistance, including the State Disaster…
Chennai: The govt’s decision to drop the Parandur greenfield airport project has raised several questions, and topping them is the status of the acquired land parcels. A lot of housing projects and investments, initiated at the prospects of a new airport coming up there, are in a quandary. And the question of the next location…
Chennai: Higher education minister P Viswanathan on Monday apologised for the circular in which asked colleges to prevent students from taking part in the protests organised by Left parties and Cockroach Janata Party.During the debate on demand for grants for school education and higher education, CPM floor leader R Chellasamy demanded the suspension of the…
Tamil Nadu school education minister A Rajmohan CHENNAI: A personalised-learning module designed through AI for govt middle school students, a ‘TN-Arivu curriculum’ for students to develop entrepreneurial skills and analytical thinking, an AI-based higher education guidance app/platform for govt school students and the Mathichudar scheme to give students exposure to higher-order thinking skill (HOTS) and…
CHENNAI: Madras high court on Monday extended till Sept 8 an interim order restraining the Election Commission of India (ECI) from announcing byelections to the constituencies in Tamil Nadu. The ECI informed the high court that there was no proposal to announce byelections to Trichy East, Karur, Viralimalai, Perundurai and Ambasamudram assembly constituencies until the…
R. Dinesh, Chairman, TVS Supply Chain Solutions Chennai: TVS Supply Chain Solutions (TVS SCS) and Japan-based logistics and engineering company Sankyu Inc. have signed an agreement to jointly pursue growth opportunities in supply chain and engineering services.As part of the agreement, Sankyu intends to acquire a 0.5% stake in TVS SCS, subject to regulatory approvals.The…
