CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai on Sunday said the AIADMK was still part of their alliance and he had never said otherwise.On his meeting with Union home minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah, Annamalai said it would not be appropriate to divulge details.Speaking on the sidelines of an educational event in Chennai, Annamalai said the AIADMK was still part of the BJP-led alliance. “I...
CHENNAI: Police on Friday arrested a 38-year-old man who had fled the country after sexually harassing his 14-year-old daughter. The girl's mother had lodged a complaint 16 months ago against Naveen and his brother-in-law, who had started harassing the minor in January 2021. The Tambaram AWPS police registered a case under the Pocso Act and the IT Act.After the police registered the case in November...
CHENNAI: Cricket fans heading to M A Chidambaram Stadium in Chepauk to watch IPL matches could travel in metro trains for free or catch the action live on large screens put up at five metro stations. Chennai Metro Rail Limited has tied up with Chennai Super Kings to provide free metro train ride for IPL and CSK fans on all match days in the city in April and May. Passengers will have to produce their QR...
CHENNAI: Government middle schools functioning with more than 100 students will get five subject teachers, school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi announced in the Tamil Nadu assembly on Friday.Of the 6,600 government middle schools, around 900 schools have more than 100 students studying from classes VI to VIII. These schools don’t have subject teachers.Replying to the debate on demand for...
CHENNAI: Real estate developer Urbanrise, an Alliance Group Company, on Friday announced that it would develop two million square feet of luxury high-rise apartment community at Mahindra World City (MWC) in Chennai and earmarked an investment of Rs 700 crore for the purpose. Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd (MLDL), the real estate and infrastructure development business of the Mahindra Group, has...
CHENNAI: Areas yet to be covered with drinking water supply like Korrukupet in north Chennai and those surrounding OMR will soon get fresh water supply.Municipal administration and water supply minister K N Nehru on Thursday announced drinking water supply projects worth several crores of rupees across the city. Under these projects, Korukkupet will get storage tanks of 10mld capacity and 3 mld...
CHENNAI: Customs officers at Chennai airport foiled a bid to smuggle foreign currencies worth Rs 55.8 lakh by two passengers. Based on intelligence, two men who were about to board a flight to Singapore were intercepted. A search led to the seizure of foreign currencies from them. They had hidden currencies in the false bottom of a bag, said customs sleuths. The two passengers were booked. Further...
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Thursday said his government will celebrate the centenary year of the Vaikom Satyagraha (Vaikom struggle) to honour the memory of social reformist Periyar, who fought across the borders for the people and succeeded in making such revolutions in history, and to propagate the principles of social justice. Making a suo motu statement under Rule 110, the...
CHENNAI: On a day when Aavin said a categorical 'no' to Food Safety and Standards Commission of India's (FSSAI) proposal to print 'Dahi' in Hindi on curd packets, chief minister M K Stalin called FSSAI's directive a "brazen disregard to our mother tongue."Stalin tweeted: "The unabashed insistences of Hindi Imposition have come to the extent of directing us to label even a curd packet in Hindi,...
CHENNAI: The Chennai zonal unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested three men for smuggling 3.9 kg of ephedrine, a controlled substance, from Chennai to Mumbai via Bengaluru.Based on information, NCB sleuths secured one of them at Periamet in Chennai on March 25 (Saturday) and seized the drug, which he had hidden in three handbags and embroidery mats. Based on his inputs, another man,...
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