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CHENNAI: In a major en masse administrative reshuffle aimed at cleaning up the urban local body system, Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) and Municipal Administration and Water Supply (MAWS) department have transferred more than 100 officials across engineering, planning and administrative wings.GCC alone transferred 70 engineers across ranks, including nearly 50 assistant engineers (AEs) and assistant…

Chennai: Lessons on artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive AI, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), HTML and coding will be introduced in 5,000 schools on a pilot basis, school education minister Rajmohan said on Friday.After chairing his first review meeting with department officials and chief and district education officers, Rajmohan told reporters that infrastructural changes in schools…

Chennai: The state govt has created 1,328 new physical education (PE) teacher posts and 297 physical education director grade-II posts for state-run schools.The state has 5,597 high and higher secondary schools—2,864 govt and municipal high schools; and 2,913 higher secondary schools. But there are only 4,571 PE teacher posts, 93 PE director grade-II posts and…

Chennai: Taking strong exception to the Tambaram corporation and water resources department’s failure to plug sewage contamination of Madambakkam lake, the southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the civic body to fast-track implementation of the underground sewerage scheme.Until the project is completed, the tribunal has directed the corporation to operationalize an…

Chennai: Madras high court on Friday directed the Union govt to respond to a public interest writ petition challenging the circular directing playing of the national song and national anthem before Tamil Thai Vaazhthu in functions attended by the state governor.Admitting a plea moved by Ananya Radhakrishnan, the first bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind…

Niraj Rajmohan, founder and CTO of Ultraviolette Chennai: Electric two-wheeler startup Ultraviolette plans an aggressive ramp-up of its manufacturing capacity to 1,50,000 units in six to eight months, from around 30,000 units to cater to growing demand from domestic and global markets. The company is doubling capacity at its first pilot plant to 60,000 units…

Chennai: There was a time when monsoon meant putting travel plans on hold. Families waited for the summer, and tour operators treated the rainy months as a lull between peak travel seasons. That seems to be changing—welcome to the era of flip climate tours and coolcations, where people travel to destinations with change in weather…

TRICHY: Tamil Nadu govt on Friday announced a Rs 134.83 crore kuruvai special package to support paddy cultivation, but it failed to enthuse farmers as water for irrigating the crop could not be released as scheduled (customarily on June 12) from Mettur dam due to low storage. This has left thousands of farmers in the…

Chennai: Assembly speaker J C D Prabhakar issued a show-cause notice to four former AIADMK MLAs who resigned from their posts and joined the ruling TVK. He has sought their explanation on the charges levelled against them by AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami under the provisions of the anti-defection law.Addressing the media in his…

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