CHENNAI: Former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthilbalaji appeared before the Triplicane police in Chennai on Saturday in compliance with bail conditions in the TVK MLA horse-trading case. He and his brother, Ashok Kumar, signed the station register and were questioned for about two hours before leaving. After the inquiry, Senthilbalaji criticised the state govt, accusing…
The renovation will enable the check dam to store up to 5.9 million cubic feet of water received through the Athikadavu–Avinashi scheme, besides rainwater during the monsoon. COIMBATORE: Renovation work on the Salaiyur check dam across the Kousika river in Coimbatore district began on Saturday morning. The project is being undertaken by Kousika Neerkarangal, an…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu govt has appointed eight additional advocates-general and 83 other law officers to represent the state in the principal and Madurai benches of Madras high court.Senior advocates P V Balasubramaniam, T Gowtham, advocates B Saravanan, A Abdul Hameed, J Barathan, S Arjun Suresh, S Kumaresan, and Kavitha Nithyanandhan have been appointed as additional…
Chennai: Madras high court has directed the Tamil Nadu govt to respond to a petition seeking installation of warning advertisements in Tasmac liquor outlets highlighting the harmful effects of alcohol consumption.According to petitioner K Gauri Krishnan, who runs a hospital in Cuddalore, he conducted a liver health camp in Panruti and found that 59% of…
C Joseph Vijay and D K Shivakumar CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s plans to visit Bengaluru on Aug 3 for talks on the Cauvery issue suffered a setback on Friday after his Karnataka counterpart D K Shivakumar requested him to defer the visit, saying the situation was not conducive. State law minister…
Chennai: The first phase of Census 2027, for houselisting and housing, will begin across Tamil Nadu on Saturday, with around 1.15 lakh enumerators set to conduct a month-long door-to-door survey covering every household in the state.Enumerators will collect information through a 33-question schedule on housing conditions, civic amenities and access to utilities until Aug 30,…
Chennai: The Centre has said that the Terms of Reference (ToR) for Karnataka’s proposed Mekedatu reservoir project would be issued only after receiving clearance from the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti and final approval from the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA).Union of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Kirti Vardhan Singh told the Rajya…
Chennai: An elderly woman, 68, and her unmarried 42-year-old son, were murdered at their Anna Nagar East home on Friday, by the woman’s two other sons and family membersHours after the double murder over a property dispute, a total of five people — the murdered woman’s eldest son, Abrar Ahmed, 50, his wife Fousiya Asma,…
Sub-inspector Prakash walked through a maze of lanes and bylanes in Otteri last week searching for Munniyan, a ganja peddler. He had passed the suspect, but returned empty-handed. Reason: Munniyan tonsured his head and changed his appearance to escape the officer’s eye.A week later, police returned to the locality carrying a smartphone with IDENTIX app….
Chennai: The proportion of schoolchildren in the city with impaired fasting glucose — a measure used to identify prediabetes — rose to 28.1% from 3.1% among girls and to 26.4% from 3.5% among boys over 17 years, a new study found.The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews,…
