The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission will hold certificate verification and oral test for shortlisted candidates for Group II services recruitment, from November 6 to 30 (including Saturdays).
The weeklong strike of government doctors in Tamil Nadu continued on Thursday despite the state government’s warning that their posts would be declared as vacant.
The Salem Railway Division launched a mainline electric multiple unit (MEMU) train on the Coimbatore-Mettupalayam route on Wednesday. Its first journey from Mettupalayam to Coimbatore was on Thursday.
National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials on Thursday morning conducted searches at the residences of five people in Coimbatore, Trichy, Nagapattinam and Tuticorin districts of Tamil Nadu.
Manivasagam, a native of Salem in Tamil Nadu, was one of the four people who have been gunned down by the Thunderbolt, a special task force of the Kerala police to handle left extremists especially CPI (Maoists), in the Agali forest area in the last few days.
Shock and confusion prevailed during the funeral of an army jawan’s wife at Krishnapuram in Tiruvannamalai district on Wednesday, after her daughter alleged that her mother’s death, initially thought to be suicide, was a murder. The jawan’s wife was allegedly set on fire at the army quarters in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
The death of two-year-old B Sujith Wilson after falling into an abandoned borewell near Trichy has triggered a mad rush across the state to close abandoned borewells or convert them into rainwater harvesting systems. However, people have been using different ways to close borewells with even district machineries clueless on the right procedure to follow.
The Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association (TNGDA) doctors at the Government Rajaji Hospital in Madurai postponed their strike on Wednesday for two weeks.
A total of 65 dengue and seven chikungunya cases have been reported between September 1 and October 29 this year, considered the peak season for mosquito-borne illnesses and viral fevers. However, there have been no fatalities.
Tamil Nadu government is mulling to revise the procurement price of milk, which it buys from farmers, every year, instead of once every five years as being done now. While the move could be beneficial to farmers,
At a time when the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and state government are looking for sites to build a second airport in the city, air passenger traffic for the first six months of this financial year has stagnated at Chennai airport. The numbers are marginally lower than last year’s, that the AAI has declared 0% growth for the first time in several years.
Two weeks into the northeast monsoon, two weather systems that originated over Bay of Bengal have shifted course to the active zone of Arabian Sea, denying coastal Tamil Nadu a downpour.
After short spells of intense rain, the city is expected to get more such showers in the next two days, the met department has said.
The state government on Wednesday served an ultimatum to striking doctors to return to work. Health minister C Vijayabaskar said more than 4,000 posts of striking doctors would be declared vacant and the government would fill the vacancies with internal transfers or through new recruitment.
The inauguration of the pedestrian plaza at Pondy Bazaar in T Nagar by chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswamy will be delayed by at least a week, say corporation officials. The plaza was to be thrown open before the end of October and officials were waiting for the availability of dates from the chief minister.
An autorickshaw driver, along with another man, on Monday night robbed a woman passenger who later broke her arm when she jumped out of the vehicle to escape.
A 20-year-old engineering student of Anna University in Trichy fell into Kollidam river after being chased by five-member gang while the victim was speaking with his girlfriend during the evening hours on Wednesday.
While Sujith Wilson’s death deep down a borewell near Trichy has hogged the limelight, several thousand borewells illegally dug right on platforms, roads and public spaces have gone unnoticed at several crowded localities in Chennai. Worse, neither the Chennai district collector nor the Greater Chennai Corporation has any data on the platform and on-the-road borewells found in residential areas such as George Twon, Washermenpet, Villivakkam, Choolaimedu, Saidapet and Triplicane.
A two-wheeler accident victim from Chennai lost 10% of accident compensation for riding triple.
If Sujith died after falling into an abandoned borewell, his uncle had died only five months ago after falling into a 70-foot-deep dry well. The open well was right behind the house close to which Sujith was trapped in a narrow borewell.
The city has been experiencing consistent sharp spells since Tuesday night due to a well-marked low pressure hovering closer to Kanyakumari region. IMD has forecast light to moderate rains to continue over the city for the next 24 hours.
As Cyclone Kyarr is moving on its course from the west coast of India to Oman, the number of deep sea fishing boats from Kanyakumari that were in the vulnerable path has come down to four by late on Tuesday night. A senior fisheries department official said that they spotted one of the five boats that were in the vulnerable position till Monday.
The students of SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) here have received 6,514 offers from more than 200 companies in this placement season so far.
Opposition leader M K Stalin sought to draw some political mileage out of the failed operation stating that the state government did not have a proper plan to rescue the boy.
Hours after being pulled out from the 88ft depth of an abandoned borewell decomposed and dismembered, the body of 2-year-old Sujith Wilson was laid to rest on Tuesday, as people across the state and the nation grieved along with his family.
With the well-marked low pressure hovering over Comorin area and adjoining equatorial Indian Ocean, weathermen have forecast light to moderate rain over some areas in the city for the next 48 hours.
A 22-year-old man allegedly plunged to his death while trying to take a selfie atop a 75-ft-high waterfall at Jamanamaruthur village in Tiruvannamalai.
They say development comes at a cost. In the case of East Coast Road the cost has been water. Indiscriminate pumping of groundwater by residents and inadequate recharge has led to seawater intrusion up to 700m inland from Adyar to Muttukadu on ECR, Anna University researchers have found.
After a gap of two years, the Tamil Nadu government has withdrawn its ban on recruitment of new faculty members in the 13 state universities, a move that will help fill 1,000 teaching posts.
Unidentified people broke into a clinic in KK Nagar here and decamped with Rs 3.80 lakh in cash.
A well-marked low pressure area just off the Sri Lankan coast which is intensifying into a depression and moving towards the Kerala coast is likely to bring good rain to Tamil Nadu in another 48 hours, according to weathermen.
Psychiatrist and head of the psychiatry department at Coimbatore Medical College Dr M S Jagadeesan says he sees at least three to four new children, aged under 12 years, a month with addiction issues.
Observing that the nation has lost a two-and-a-half-year-old son, the Madras high court on Tuesday appealed to the media, particularly television channels, to allot more time to create awareness among public on such social issues like open borewells.
DMK president M K Stalin on Tuesday said the Tamil Nadu government had failed to rescue two-and-a-half-year-old B Sujith Wilson who fell into an abandoned borewell near his home at Nadukattupatti in Trichy district on Friday. He said the government didn’t have a proper plan about rescuing the boy.
While the Chennai Corporation’s conservancy staff worked overtime on Sunday night to get Chennai’s streets spruced up in time for the start of a new week, residents also did their bit to clean up the city post Diwali.
Sleuths from the Central Crime Branch arrested four people including the kingpin of a racket for cheating as many as 73 of Rs 3.5 crore on the promise of getting them jobs at Anna University and Tangedco.
The city generated more than 82 tonnes of cracker waste over the Diwali weekend, said Greater Chennai Corporation. More than 19,000 conservancy workers were engaged on a rotational basis to clear the waste from the streets.
A couple hailing from Nungambakkam was killed after the car they were travelling in collided with a private bus near Maduranthakam early on Sunday. They were on their way to a relative’s house in Kallakurichi to celebrate Diwali.
A two-year-old girl drowned in a tub of water at her house in Tuticorin district on Monday night while her parents were glued to TV, watching news updates on the bid to rescue toddler Sujith Wilson. Revathi Sanjana was the daughter of fisherman Lingeswaran and his wife, Nisha, of Therespuram coastal village. The couple were watching TV and discussing the rescue efforts when they suddenly realised that their child was missing, police said.
Body of two-year-old Sujith Wilson, who was found dead in a borewell in the wee hours of Tuesday, was brought to Pudur for cremation.
The Tamil Nadu police registered 497 cases for violation of the Supreme Court order on time limit for bursting firecrackers on Diwali day. Last year, 2,176 cases were registered.
Weather is expected to be pleasant with mild rain on Tuesday as Met department has forecast light to moderate rain in the next 48 hours.