Chennai: Tamil Nadu human resources management minister D Sarathkumar on Friday denied allegations of drug use after a two-year-old video resurfaced on social media, showing him arranging a white powder-like substance on the surface of a mobile phone using an ATM card and holding a currency note.“I was crushing a tablet meant for my daughter…
Chennai: School Education Minister A Rajmohan on Friday strongly criticised a series published by the DMK’s mouthpiece targeting CPM State Secretary P Shanmugam, calling it unacceptable. He noted that the veteran communist leader has spent decades fighting for the rights and welfare of the working class, making the opposition party’s malicious campaign against him deeply…
MDMK general secretary Vaiko Chennai: MDMK is likely to make a formal announcement of its exit from the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance after its general council meeting on Saturday. Senior MDMK functionaries told TOI that members of the committee unanimously backed the proposal to quit the alliance. Meanwhile, one of the two MDMK MLAs who…
V Srimalini at the rock shelter at Ayilam village in Ranipet district Chennai: A student from the University of Madras has found a new prehistoric site with rock shelter, rock art, stone tools and pottery fragments at Ayilam village in Ranipet district, some 127 km from Chennai.The rock shelter was situated on the elevated hillock…
Surrogacy: HC frames guidelines to clear child custody applications Chennai: Madras high court has issued guidelines for magistrates who deal with custody and parentage applications in surrogacy cases. The court has said that such applications must be disposed of in four weeks unless a deeper scrutiny is required where fraud, fabrication of documents, involuntary consent…
Chennai: Two more workers died due to complications on Friday, taking the death toll in the ammonia gas leak at a seafood processing unit in Tiruvallur district to 15. The number of critically ill patients has dropped sharply, leaving only two on ventilator support across hospitals.Budhubari Naik from Odisha, who was undergoing treatment at Rajiv…
The Idol Wing CID arrested three men and seized a metal idol of Goddess Amman after intercepting an idol smuggling attempt near Thimmarajanpettai in Walajabad taluk, Kancheepuram district, on Thursday. The suspects were unable to produce documents establishing lawful possession of the idol, prompting police to register a case and launch an investigation into its…
COIMBATORE: Postgraduate and physical education teachers have urged the Coimbatore district administration to exempt them from duties related to the national population census, warning that the assignment could disrupt classroom teaching, Class XII exam preparation and the conduct of school-level sports activities.M Muhammad Kaja Mukaitheen, district president of the Tamil Nadu Postgraduate Teachers Association, said…
State electricity and law minister R Nirmalkumar (middle) released the White Paper on the performance and financial status of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board in Chennai on Thursday. CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu electricity and law minister R Nirmalkumar on Thursday said that they have identified yet another malpractice in Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation (TNPDCL) in…
State electricity and law minister R Nirmalkumar (middle) released the White Paper on the performance and financial status of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board in Chennai on Thursday CHENNAI: There will be no power tariff hike for 3.5 crore consumers in Tamil Nadu this year, electricity and law minister R Nirmalkumar announced on Thursday.“As per…
