Citing ‘a serious anomaly’ in reserving seats for scheduled castes and women in Puducherry local body polls, the Madras high court ordered postponement of commencement of filing nomination to October 4.
The state added 1,624 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, a drop from 1,630 cases on Tuesday. At least 13 districts reported an increase up to 15 cases compared to their Tuesday tally. Deaths due to the viral infection, however, increased to 24 compared to 17 on Tuesday.
People waking into sub-registrar’s offices for property registration across the state could soon be in for an experience akin to that in vogue at passport seva kendras if a plan of the registration department goes well. The department is in talks with a top digital service provider to make the process online till the stage when only an official seal would be required.
After a brief lull, the city and suburbs may once again experience intense late night spells as weathermen have forecast thunderstorms with light to moderate rainfall for the next two days.
The state added 1,630 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday against Monday’s 1,657. At least 13 districts reported an increase up to 6 cases compared to their Monday tally.
Around 54% of the population in Madurai has received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine with the three mega vaccination camps alone benefiting three lakh beneficiaries.
The Madurai flower market, which has been functioning from a temporary premises for the past two months, will be shifted back to its own premises from October 1, after the traders made a representation to the Madurai district administration, to shift the market.
Nearly 1,000kg of banned tobacco products worth Rs 30.5 lakh were seized in Trichy on Tuesday. Police arrested four people in connection with the seizure and confiscated a car from the accused.
More than three lakh people received two doses of Covid-19 vaccine while close to seven lakh people received one dose so far in the Union territory of Puducherry.
Police on Tuesday arrested a history-sheeter for creating a ruckus and threatening a policeman at the Abiramapuram police station.
Less than a week after a college student was stabbed to death by her stalker, another woman in the city was assaulted by a man for rejecting him.
Soon, walk along Marina Beach under the shade of creepers. The 2.5km-long walkway between the pedestrian footpath and the service lane is set to get a revamp.
Tamil Nadu will soon have a special law to control organised crime, similar to the ones in Maharashtra and Karnataka.
After nearly 19 months, physical classes for students from I to VIII will restart in Tamil Nadu from November 1, chief minister M K Stalin said on Tuesday.
Management guru Bala V Balachandran, founder of Great Lakes Institute of Management, passed away in Chicago after a brief illness late on Monday. He was 84. He is survived by his wife and two sons.
The Centre has granted permission to Tamil Nadu to admit 850 students to undergraduate courses in seven new government medical colleges this academic year, health minister Ma Subramanian said on Tuesday. This will take the total MBBS seats in the state to 4,300.
Two women died and seven others, including a 10-year-old boy, were injured after a speeding car rammed a stationary truck which in turn hit a group of workers engaged in painting the median on 200ft road at Thathankuppam area near Villivakkam around 3am on Tuesday.
Ancient burial urns, potsherds and stone tools have been found in a private land in Puliankulam village in Thirumangalam taluk in Madurai district by a group of archaeological experts.
Days after actor Vijay moved a Chennai court to restrain his parents and other office-bearers of Vijay Makkal Iyakkam from organising any meeting using his name, his film director father S A Chandrasekaran informed the court that the Iyakkam had been dissolved.
Grieving for the departed at the various crematoriums in the city is expensive, noisy and hardly solemn. All services including those for morgue van at all the Greater Chennai Corporation-run facilities are free for all categories of mourners, but the reality is that nothing can be done without paying amounts ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 25,000.
As many as 400 vehicles seized for traffic offences by regional transport offices (RTOs) and police across Tamil Nadu and lying unclaimed will be auctioned in the coming weeks.
Nine people were arrested on Monday for their involvement in a series of robberies targeting mobile phones in Anna Nagar, Kodungaiyur, and north Chennai areas.
The Mylapore police thwarted a revenge murder by arresting four men including a father and his two sons and seized a country bomb and five machetes on Monday.
The Supreme Court on Monday granted four more months to the State Election Commission's (SEC) for concluding the poll process for the urban local bodies elections in the state.
A woman, who was eight months pregnant, died in a government hospital in the city after she consumed pills for aborting her fetus. She was also under treatment for a fall she sustained in her bathroom, police said.
The additional mahila court here on Monday extended the judicial custody of flight lieutenant Amitesh Harmukh, 29, who was arrested on the charge of raping a colleague by the city central all-woman police, till September 30.
All districts continued to report fewer than 200 cases for the third consecutive day on Monday, when they added 1,657 fresh cases, a drop from the 1,697 reported on Sunday. Yet, 11 districts including Thanjavur, Vellore and Dharmapuri reported a marginal increase in new cases.
Metrowater distributed 1,000 million litres to residents in the core areas and some added areas on Sunday, for the first time ever, but people in areas such as Ambattur, Madhavaram and Madipakkam continue to wait for piped supply.
On the occasion of the World Rabies Day, which is observed on September 28, animal rights organisation FIAPO (Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations) has called upon the Centre and the state governments to implement a multi-pronged programme that includes animal birth control (ABC), vaccination, counselling, and medical aid.
The city has recorded close to 200 dengue cases in two months and the number is likely to go up as the dengue season in the city peaks in October-November.
An unidentified man tricked two children, who were alone at home and escaped with six sovereign gold jewellery and Rs 10,000 in Avadi on Saturday.
As many as 5,972 government school students got engineering seats under the 7.5% special reservation in the online engineering counselling this year. As per the government order, 11,390 of 1.51 lakh seats reserved under this new quota were earmarked for students from government schools.
The Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) is planning to launch regular heritage walks along four routes in George Town, Mylapore and on Kamarajar Salai. It plans to rope in private individuals who used to conduct such programmes in pre-Covid times and train archaeology, history and tourism students to be part of the initiative.
An all-woman police team on Saturday arrested a 29-year-old Flight Lieutenant on the charge of raping a colleague on the Air Force Administrative College campus in Coimbatore two weeks ago.
After finding himself in the midst of a controversy through the past week over his skipping the GST Council meeting held at Lucknow on September 17, Tamil Nadu finance minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan seems to have bounced back in style this Sunday, with the GST Council nominating him in the Group of Ministers (GoM) formed to usher in GST System Reforms.
Special teams constituted to scrutinize gold loans provided by cooperative societies across the state have to complete 100% scrutiny of all loans and submit their reports to the concerned regional registrar of cooperative societies by November 15
After three days, the daily count of fresh Covid-19 positive cases dropped below the 1,700-mark in Tamil Nadu on Sunday.
A masked man sneaked into a house in Avadi on Saturday evening and, under the pretext of seeking water, snatched an eight sovereign gold chain from a woman.
The uncertainty over reopening schools for younger classes remains and the government plans to take schools to places near students and involve local volunteers to ensure everyone has foundational numeracy and literacy skills.
All districts reported fewer than 200 new Covid cases on Saturday when the state added 1,724 cases to its Covid registry — a drop from 1,733 on Friday and 1,745 on Thursday. Yet, 17 districts, including Thiruvarur and Tuticorin, reported an increase compared to their Friday tally.