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CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu won the second best state award for the best Smart City projects in the country, with Madhya Pradesh winning the first prize. D Karthikeyan, secretary for municipal administration and water supply department, received the award from President Droupadi Murmu at the Smart Cities Conclave organised by the Union government in Indore on Wednesday. The Greater Chennai Corporation displayed...

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday announced its tourism policy for the first time by which it has given industry status to tourism and aims at attracting Rs 20,000crore investment in the sector. This means tourism projects and stakeholders and others will become eligible for funds that come under development of industries and will lead to better employment opportunities and training....

The 42 samples from bat and other animals, which were sent to National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, tested negative for Nipah, dealing a setback to the state’s efforts to identify the source of the recent Nipah outbreak in Kozhikode. The second batch of 42 samples were collected from the house and farmland of Mohammedali (deceased index patient in current outbreak) at...

CHENNAI: Thirteen people including seven children fell sick after drinking lemon juice mixed with silica gel in Tiruvallur district. Their health condition is stable and are recovering well, health minister Ma Subramanian told reporters here on Sunday.People fell ill after someone who made lemon juice for distribution added frozen silica gel from an ice pack, mistaking it for ice, as they could not find...

ERODE: A wild elephant trampled a farmer to death in Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) in Erode district of Tamil Nadu on Friday morning. The deceased has been identified as M Ramasamy, 63, of Attamokkai area in Puthu Vadavalli. Sathyamangalam forest range officer (FRO) K R Palanisamy said the farmer owned 1.5 acres of land. He used to stay in a room on his farm at night to guard the crops. On Thursday...

CHENNAI: A cinema theatre, which had neither elevators nor ramps, and made a person with a disability climb the staircase to watch actor Udhayanidhi's 'Nenjukku Neethi' movie, has been asked to pay ₹1 lakh as compensation to the aggrieved person.The Thiruvallur District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum passed the order based on a complaint from S Sureshkumar of Kundrathur. He complained that he went...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Thursday announced compensation of Rs 560 crore to six lakh farmers affected by natural disasters like drought, flood, cyclone and unseasonal rains under the crop insurance scheme during last fiscal.The crop insurance scheme is implemented in 14 clusters comprising 37 districts by the identified insurance companies. “An area of 24.45 lakh acres was...

CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin on Thursday inspected ongoing road works in South Chennai areas like Alandur, Perungudi and Velachery. Stalin visited Madipakkam's Ram Nagar 7th Cross Street, Third Main Road (west side), Third Main Road (east side), where works worth Rs 85 lakh are under way.Later, he inspected highway road works in Manapakkam-Kolapakkam-Gerugambakkam stretch where works worth Rs 4.5...

COIMBATORE: Four tiger cubs starved to death in the reserve forest at Kadanad, in the Chinnacoonoor area, over the past few days after their mother apparently abandoned them, forest officials said. With this, four adult tigers and six cubs have died in the Nligiris district over the past one month.Forest officials first learned of the sighting of the four tiger cubs on September 14. Immediately, a team...

Another student suicide rocked Kota on Monday as a 16-year-old girl from Mau in UP, preparing for NEET at a coaching institute in the city, died after consuming pesticide. Priyas Singh, a Class 12 student, was staying at a PG in the city's Vigyan Nagar area.DSP Dharmveer Singh said she consumed pesticide in her room at noon and started vomiting. Other students rushed her to hospital, but she succumbed...