Rural development and water resources minister N Anand on Wednesday chaired a review meeting with officials at the Perambalur district collectorate to assess the progress of key irrigation and rural development projects across the region. Chennai: Former professor of Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed University G Palanithurai has been appointed as an adviser for capacity building of…
Chennai: Bodhan AI, a centre of excellence in AI for education incubated at IIT Madras, has launched four open AI models for Indian languages. These models will convert spoken language into text, recognise and extract text from documents and images, translate content across 22 Indian languages and convert text into natural-sounding speech.These four voice and…
Tamil Nadu finance minister N Marie Wilson PUDUCHERRY: Tamil Nadu finance minister N Marie Wilson appeared before the Puducherry second judicial magistrate on Friday in connection with an ongoing assault case involving his brother Marie Claude. The magistrate served him a copy of the additional charge sheet along with a pen drive containing case details…
At the American Center Chennai library Five months after the British Council Library shut down its Anna Salai premises, the American Center Chennai (ACC) has also decided to go digital. Patrons were informed last month to return books on loan by Sept 30 as the Center ‘will transition from physical lending to a modern model’.The…
Farmers preparing the fields for samba crop in Nagapattinam Ever since Sept 1, when Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay opened the Mettur dam in Salem district and released Cauvery water for irrigation, farmers in the delta, who missed the kuruvai (short-duration) season, have begun preparing for samba (long-duration) and thaladi (second-season) paddy cultivation….
Onions for Rs 35/kg: Govt begins sales through PDS shopsChennai: The state govt has launched the sale of onions at a subsidised price of Rs 35 per kg, as announced in the assembly last week, to contain the recent rise in prices and ease the burden on consumers. Onions are sold for of Rs 55…
Promoting Transparency K. Antony Xavier Chennai: The Tamil Nadu State Information Commission has ordered the hindu religious and charitable endowments (HR&CE) department to proactively disclose details of movable and immovable properties of all temples under its control and display the same at the dept offices, respective temples, either through posters or on the notice boards.The…
Police are probing if there is connection between the two incidents Chennai: A second-year engineering student suffered critical injuries after jumping from a building at a private engineering college near Sriperumbudur on Thursday, a day after a 19-year-old student of the same institution died after leaping off the fifth floor.On Thursday evening, Sasidharan, a second-year…
For families in the city, it’s not just chopping onions that brings tears to their eyes. The retail prices of essential commodities such as rice, dhal, pulses, cooking oil, and spices rose by nearly 20% in Aug. This has left families across income groups spending more on the same basket of everyday staples, forcing some…
Chennai: A city court awarded ₹1.41 lakh compensation to RTI activist C Selvaraj, holding that a criminal prosecution launched against him in 2016 was malicious and instituted without reasonable and probable cause.In its order dated Sept 1, the first assistant city civil court directed the state govt, the then official in the land administration department,…
