Tamil Nadu school education minister KA Sengottaiyan said that the chief minister will take a decision on opening schools in February.
A member of the forum said that in the last 17 years, since the law was first introduced in 2003, the provisions of the law have been used in countering the tobacco industry’s tactics to advertise and promote tobacco use in India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Chennai on February 14, 2021. He will be inaugurating the Chennai metro rail service on a new stretch and lay the foundation for a few other projects, said an official source from the state government.
In a move that would allow spectators to watch India Vs England test matches at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, the Tamil Nadu state government on Sunday allowed spectators to all sports events, including cricket, with 50% seating capacity.
Refusing to grant a stay on the public meeting organised by Veera Mutharaiyar Munnetra Sangam in which chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami is to take part in Madurai on Sunday evening, the Madras High Court, during a special sitting on Sunday, directed that there should be no provocative statements made by the speakers taking part in the meeting.
As many as 1.54 lakh children below 5 years will be given polio drops in Madurai city on Sunday.
Expelled AIADMK leader V K Sasikala was discharged from a hospital here on Sunday after recovering from Covid-19, days after she was set free by the prison officials on completion her jail term in a corruption case, authorities said.
BJP national president J P Nadda on Saturday said the party had firmed up an alliance with the AIADMK for the ensuing assembly elections. The two parties would work together for the development of the state and the nation, he said at a public meeting here.
Former AIADMK secretary VK Sasikala will be discharged from Victoria Hospital on Sunday, according to a health bulletin issued on Saturday evening.
The number of healthcare providers who received the first dose of vaccine against Covid-19 in Tamil Nadu crossed the one lakh-mark on Saturday to 1,05,543 after 8,417 inoculations until 7pm. This is 20% of the 5.19 lakh people registered in the centralised Cowin portal and about 36% of its fortnightly target.
T Kunnathur is a nondescript village on Madurai-Rajapalayam Road, 40km from Madurai. Almost overnight, a sparkling new temple has appeared, about 800 metres from the outer ring of the village. This is no god’s temple. Planned over a short period, the shrine has been built for former chief minister J Jayalalithaa and her mentor and AIADMK founder M G Ramachandran just months before the assembly election. Villagers believe that the temple, inaugurated on Saturday, would help place the hamlet prominently on the political and tourist map.
Admission to two centrally-sponsored M Tech courses at Anna University has been cancelled this year following the Centre’s insistence that the university follow only 49.5% reservation and not the state government’s 69% quota policy in admitting students.
BJP national president J P Nadda, who is in Madurai for a series of party meetings, visited Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple on Saturday.
Two days after a single judge of the Madras high court permitted a formal inauguration of former chief minister Jayalalithaa’s house at Poes Garden as memorial, with a condition that keys should be handed over to the high court, a division bench stayed the condition and allowed authorities to retain keys to the building.
A woman suffered burns after she attempted to immolate herself when police came to apprehend her for selling illicit liquor at Besant Nagar.
A 47-year-old man was found killed in an elephant attack near Narasipuram on the outskirts of the city on Friday morning.
The state added 509 Covid-19 cases and six deaths due to the viral infection on Friday. This pushed the cumulative case tally in Tamil Nadu to 8,37,327 and death toll to 12,345. There were 4,601 people still under treatment for the viral infection.
A 10-year-old boy died in a freak accident while he was trying to scale the compound wall of a children's park in Tambaram on Thursday.
The Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Chennai, will soon be installing GPS-based speakers in 500 city buses which will announce details including the next bus stop for the benefit of passengers.
A spurned lover who stabbed his 'girlfriend', an engineer, after barging into her house on Thursday, was on Friday found hanging from an electric post near Madhavaram. He allegedly took his life believing that police were after him.
The public health department will start vaccinating frontline workers in home department, local administration and revenue department from across the state from February 1 and allow nearly 200 private hospitals to start vaccinating staff in their facilities, health minister C Vijayabaskar announced on Friday.
Efforts are on to celebrate the birth anniversary of King Thirumalai Nayak, one of the key architects of Madurai city, as a government holiday, state information minister Kadambur C Raju said on Thursday.
Sacked Congress minister A Namassivayam and his supporter and former Congress MLA E Theeppainthan from Puducherry joined the BJP in the presence of the party's national general secretary Arjun Singh in Delhi on Thursday evening.
Hospitals and other agencies such as pharmacies were issued a strict warning against illegal dumping of expired medicines and other biomedical waste on roads and near waterbodies, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) said in a letter to Central Pollution Control Board.
Gone are the days when finishing schools were all about teaching young girls to master good manners, etiquette and be a lady, ready to enter society and find a suitable groom. Today, some of these schools in the city have evolved and have begun to enroll young men.
The Puzhal police are searching for a man who stabbed a 22-year-old software engineer early on Thursday as she ended their relationship.
Teachers are batting for more weightage for multiple-choice based questions and asked for more choices in Class X and Class XII board exams. The school education department is in consultation with schools to simplify the question papers for Class X and XII state board students.