Status: Not ApprovedHEAD: 24_Che_VN_Oppili turtle seenByline: Vivek NarayananWildlife authorities release first batch of hatchlings into marine waters at besant nagarWildlife authorities released the first batch of hatchlings into marine waters at Besant Nagar.Oppili.P@timesofindia.comChennai: Wildlife officials in Chennai released 46 hatchlings from nests nurtured at the Forest Department’s Besant Nagar hatchery during the ongoing sea turtle…
Status: Not ApprovedHEAD: 24_Che_AS_Drunken brawls kill rag picker and injure guest worker in ChennaiByline: A SelvarajDrunken brawls kill rag picker and injure guest worker in ChennaiChennai: In two separate incidents, a rag picker was killed and a guest worker was injured following a drunken brawl at Neelankarai and JJ Nagar. While the Neelankarai incident was…
Chennai: After two days of stalemate, the contract staffers of the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Ltd (Tasmac) returned to duty and opened liquor retail outlets on Saturday, but prohibition and excise minister K Vignesh has warned of action as per rules for protest.Salesmen and supervisors closed 200 liquor shops in Kancheepuram and Chengalpet districts…
Chennai: Madras high court has granted three more months’ time to the Tamil Nadu forest department to notify elephant corridors across the state. The time was granted since there was a discrepancy in the number of corridors identified by the Wildlife Trust of India and the state govt.A special division bench of Justice N Sathish…
Chennai: Madras high court orders the Commissioner of Greater Chennai Police to immediately de-seal the rented premises occupied by the banned Islamic fundamentalist organisation Peoples Front of India (PFI) in Periamet for its office.A division bench of Justice Anita Sumanth and Justice Sunder Mohan passed the order while dismissing a plea moved by the state…
CHENNAI: Amid cheers, hugs and proud smiles from their families, 342 officer cadets were welcomed into the Indian Army as commissioned officers, as they passed out of the Officers Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai on Saturday.The passing-out parade of the SSC-122nd and SSC (Women)-36th batches saw 313 men and 29 women commissioned into various Arms…
Udangudi thermal plant will be the seventh thermal power station to generate electricity from coal for the state taking the total installed capacity from 5120 MW to 5780 MW CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has got one more stable power source. Tamil Nadu Power Generation Corporation (TNPGCL) on Saturday brought the Unit 1 of Udangudi thermal power…
CPI state secretary M Veerapandian CHENNAI: CPI state secretary M Veerapandian on Saturday rejected the explanation given by TVK ministers on Friday that they were unaware of the controversial circular directing universities to monitor students affiliated to Left parties. The chief minister and the ministers should direct bureaucrats; but the opposite is happening in Tamil…
DVAC officials are conducting surprise searches at nineteen locations across Tamil Nadu linked to to former DMK minister KN Nehru CHENNAI: Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) officials on Saturday are conducting surprise searches at 19 locations, including the offices and residences of former Tamil Nadu DMK minister KN Nehru and his brother Ravichandran, in…
CHENNAI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has barred former MLA Aasan Maulana from contesting parliamentary and state assembly elections for three years. The decision came after he failed to submit an accurate account of his election expenditure for the 2021 Assembly elections.According to an ECI notification dated August 28, Maulana had initially declared election…
