Chennai: Jewellery retailers Joyalukkas and Kalyan Jewellers have been awarded the contract to supply gold rings under the ‘Thaaimaman Thanga Mothiram’ scheme, under which every child born in a govt hospital will receive a 1g gold ring, a release from the state’s health department on Friday said.On July 14, Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation (TNMSC)…
Chennai: Leader of Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin on Friday brought to the attention of assembly speaker J C D Prabhakar that video clips containing remarks by members which were expunged from assembly records are being circulated on social media.Flagging the issue, Udhayanidhi asked what was the use of expunging the remarks when they go viral on…
IOB assistant branch manager arrested for ₹3.09 crore gold loan fraud Chennai: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested an assistant branch manager of Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) for pilfering 2,179g of gold jewellery pledged by customers, replacing the ornaments with fake jewellery and causing a loss of ₹3.09 crore to the bank. The cops haven’t…
Rakesh CK, head of Sun Nxt Chennai: Sun TV Network aims to capture a slice of the growing micro-drama category and boost its subscription revenues by launching short-form content on its Sun NXT platform.On Friday, the company announced the launch, featuring a mix of originals and remastered content from its movie and television library across…
Leader of opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin flagged the issue, citing Vijay’s statement at the SZC meet chaired by Union home minister Amit Shah. CHENNAI: A nearly 40-minute high-voltage exchange over delimitation kept the Tamil Nadu assembly on the edge on Friday, with the opposition putting chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s stand under the scanner and questioning…
Elegant actor Sowcar Janaki passed away at ninety-four years old CHENNAI: Sowcar Janaki, the elegant actor whose career spanned more than seven decades of South Indian cinema, died in Chennai on Friday following age-related ailments. She was 94.From the studio-era social dramas of the 1950s to the sharply observed middle-class stories of filmmaker K Balachander,…
Sowcar Janaki at a function organised by stage artist and producer S Shivpprasadh CHENNAI: By the time Sowcar Janaki met K Balachander, she did not need to be discovered. She was already a name, bankable, carrying an image the industry had settled on without asking her: the actress who cried beautifully. What Balachander did was…
Opposition leader Udhayanidhi Stalin announced fifty-nine DMK MLAs will decline official cars (File Photo) CHENNAI: A sharp political debate broke out in the Tamil Nadu Assembly after Leader of Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin announced that 59 DMK MLAs would voluntarily decline state-provided official cars, pointing to the state’s tight financial condition.Stalin urged the administration to scrutinize…
Udhayanidhi Stalin questioned Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay’s delay in acting on corruption files CHENNAI: Political sparks flew in the Assembly on Friday as Leader of Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin launched a sharp attack on chief minister C Joseph Vijay, demanding immediate action on alleged corruption files sitting on the chief minister’s desk.Taking a satirical dig…
Chennai: Prohibition and excise minister K Vignesh on Thursday said that TVK govt will not cow down to pressure tactics to allow monopoly of certain liquor brands and corruption, including MRP violations in Tasmac.After releasing the list of 717 liquor shops closed in TN after TVK formed govt, the minister told reporters that the series…
