You can take a wedding out of Manapatti, but you can seldom take Manapatti out of a wedding Before sunrise, the clearing outside a house on Madurai’s outskirts has become a kitchen. Goat meat simmers in broad aluminium vessels. Ginger and garlic are pounded in stone mortars. Men squat beside baskets of onions, peeling and…
Chennai: PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss was unanimously re elected as PMK president for another year at the party’s general council (GC) on Wednesday. The incumbent general secretary Vadivel Ravanan and treasurer M Thilagabama will also continue as general secretary and treasurer for another year.This was the first GC meeting held after PMK founder S Ramadoss…
Signal failure disrupts suburban rail services on Chennai–Gummidipoondi route Chennai: A signal failure between Ennore and Tiruvottiyur on Wednesday evening disrupted suburban train services on the Chennai Beach–Gummidipoondi section, delaying multiple trains and leaving thousands of commuters stranded during peak hours.Railway officials said the unexpected signalling error occurred around 4.30pm, forcing a train to halt….
Govt seeks HC nod to appoint V-Cs to state univs Chennai: Tamil Nadu govt on Wednesday requested the Madras high court for permission to appoint vice-chancellors to state universities as the Supreme Court has vacated its stay against the operation of amendments made to state universities acts.Advocate-general Vijay Narayan made the submission on a public…
Chennai: Ensure speedy trial in criminal cases of offences against women and children, Madras high court has said, issuing a series of directions to special courts. The court also directed the DGP to ensure that the Singappen Special Task Force constituted by the state functions with the effectiveness envisaged. “The force shall ensure conduct of…
Officials in the state say running these facilities, without adequate funds from the Centre, has been a challenge. Chennai: Across the past five years, Tamil Nadu has had the highest number of information and communication technology (ICT) labs sanctioned under the Centre-sponsored Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) among the southern states, revealed a reply to a…
Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay travels on the Chennai Metro Rail (Photo: IANS/X/@CMOTamilnadu) Chennai: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Wednesday travelled in metro trains, including a driverless train on the yet-to-be inaugurated Poonamallee Bypass-Vadapalani corridor, and reviewed the progress of the city’s phase-II metro project.Vijay travelled on the phase-I network from Government…
Reducing gap between guideline value and actual market value Chennai: Streets in Tamil Nadu’s market value guideline register will now be classified as commercial, mixed-use or residential based on the share of commercial electricity connections, as part of a correction exercise ordered by the Registration Department to address eight categories of anomalies identified by a…
Chennai: An unidentified man stole a two-sovereign gold chain and a mobile phone from an injured motorist after accompanying him to a hospital following an accident on the Pallavaram flyover.On Tuesday night, the injured man, Prem Kishore, 32, of Guduvanchery, closed his shop on Butt Road at St Thomas Mount, and was riding home via…
Chennai: Mambalam police arrested three women from Madhya Pradesh for stealing jewellery and cash from shoppers at a commercial establishments in T Nagar. Police recovered ₹6.44lakh in cash from them.The accused were identified as Lakshmibai , 40, Meenakshi, 35, and Khushbu, 40, all from Rajgarh district in Madhya Pradesh.On July 25, a woman shopping at…
