CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Wednesday announced a 4% dearness allowance hike for government employees, teachers, pensioners and family pensioners.The chief minister had earlier announced that the government would fulfil the demand of the government employees and teachers to immediately announce dearness allowance hike as and when the Union government announced the rate revision for...
CHENNAI: In a span of two months, the Tambaram Corporation's public health department captured 398 stray dogs and performed animal birth control (ABC) surgery on 383 dogs. Covering an area of 87.64 sq km, the Tambaram Corporation has around 80,000 dogs within its jurisdiction. Due to the absence of effective sterilisation programs, the stray dog population has seen an increase.A senior official said,...
CHENNAI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths nabbed the kingpin of a human trafficking racket involved in an attempt to send 61 Sri Lankan nationals abroad illegally after bringing them to India in 2021.The accused, identified as Mohamed Imran Khan (39) alias Haja Najerbheeden, a native of Ramanathpuram, was secured from his hideout in Theni district by the absconder tracker team (ATT) of...
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to integrate caste census with the upcoming national decadal census, stating that the crucial caste-related data outcomes would touch the lives of crores of deserving people in the country and it should not be delayed any further. “I have no doubt that this initiative will be a monumental step to take the...
The state of Tamil Nadu in India is planning to create 38 exclusive walking corridors, with the first one set to be unveiled in Chennai. The 8km circuit will run from Adyar to Besant Nagar and will be free of traffic from 5am to 8am. The corridors will also feature benches for walkers and regular health check camps. The initiative aims to improve public health by promoting walking and preventing...
The recent encounter killing of history-sheeters by the Tamil Nadu police may have passed without much of an uproar, but in the past, such incidents have cast a cloud over the nature of police action.When encounter killings have been reported over the years, the question often asked but seldom answered is, how members of a force meant to catch perpetrators and investigate their crimes turn into...
A TN prison literacy, numeracy and life skills programme aims to help more than 1,000 inmatesThe same hands that once committed a crime now hold a piece of white chalk and a slate, the fingers slowly form the letters of the alphabet. ‘Padam’, the word forms in Tamil. The ‘padam’ (meaning picture) of the inmates at the Madurai central prison enrolled in the Tamil Nadu government’s new special...
CHENNAI: The Madras high court on Monday reserved its order on the bail application moved by Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji. The minister was arrested on June 14 by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for alleged offence of money laundering under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Concluding the final hearing, Justice G Jayachandran reserved his orders. According to the minister,...
CHENNAI: Seven of a family, including two children, died in a road accident when a lorry rammed a car, in which they were travelling, in Pakkiripalayam bypass road near Chengam in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvannamalai district. A lone survivor, a woman, is undergoing treatment at the government hospital in Tiruvannamalai.One of the deceased, identified as Sathish, from Tumkur in Karnataka, along with his wife,...
CHENNAI: A 36-year-old man murdered his four-month pregnant wife by setting her on fire following a domestic quarrel at Maraimalai Nagar in Kancheepuram district on Thursday night.Police said Rajkumar and Nandini, 28, got married seven years ago in Manali. The couple has a six-year-old son and Nandhini was four months pregnant now. Rajkumar was jobless and was staying in Govindapuram near Maraimalai...
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