M K Stalin

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu is setting up a 100 crore 'co-creation fund' to support the emergence of more venture capital funds in the state to improve investments for regional startups, women-led ventures and those innovating in rural impact and climate action. While the fund will be managed by professionals, the government will pool in a predetermined percentage based on the fund's target theme. This proposal...

CHENNAI: On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set to arrive in Chennai, Union coal minister Pralhad Joshi on Saturday announced that all three blocks in Tamil Nadu, proposed to be auctioned for coal mining, would be exempted.Pralhad Joshi, on Twitter, said the decision to exempt Tamil Nadu was taken based on the welfare of the people of Tamil Nadu. "BJP Tamil Nadu president K Annamalai rushed...

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: Chief minister M K Stalin on Wednesday informed the Tamil Nadu assembly that he has issued orders to suspend the controversial Ambasamudram assistant superintendent of police Balveer Singh.There were complaints against Balveer Singh that he had plucked the teeth and squeezed the testicles of several people in police custody.Responding to a special calling attention motion brought by the...