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Three persons were arrested by the Forest Department for chopping one tonne of bamboo in Reserve Forest (RF) at Melarasanpattu village near Odugathur town in Vellore along Jawadhu Hills on Tuesday. Forest officials said the arrested persons were identified as K.Chakravarthy (67), B. Ravi (52) and C. Santhosh Kumar (36). They are residents in Vellore. They…
Ramkumar Shankar, Preident, MCCI, V. Arun Roy, Industries secretary (middle) and Sandeep Nanduri, MD., TIDCO during a session at the State Logistics Policy conducted jointly by Madras Chamber of Commerce & Industry held in Chennai on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: S.R. RAGHUNATHAN The preparation of city logistics plans for Chennai and Coimbatore has been under…
P. Krishnaveni, an 81-year old retired school teacher, remembers how her village in Theni district in Tamil Nadu was stratified 70 years ago. Each caste had its own street. Scheduled Castes (SCs) lived away from the village and each street in an SC neighbourhood was named after a particular SC sub-caste, she says. Similarly, Sarojini…
It was an election result that looked not just improbable but impossible just a few months ago. Canada has voted in the Liberal Party for another term in government. That’s a rare fourth consecutive mandate for the centre-left party. Mark Carney, a former central banker and economist, will stay on as prime minister. He’ll be…
Axiom Mission 4 crew, from left to right, European Space Agency astronaut Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary. Photo: X/@NASASpaceOps via PTI Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to be launched on May 29…
An audit of records of the regional joint directorates of collegiate education by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has found that aided and self-financing colleges in Tamil Nadu have overcharged students for applications, undergraduate or postgraduate programmes. The Directorate of Collegiate Education issues annual guidelines that colleges can charge ₹48 as application fee for…
Slowing growth can drag government revenue | Photo Credit: V RAJU The IMF’s Fiscal Monitor and Financial Stability Report released recently has expressed grave apprehensions over the impact of Trump’s trade policies. This comes on top of repeated IMF warnings in the past on elevated global debt. The US, India and other countries have been…
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday announced in the Assembly that the term ‘Colony’ would be removed from official records and public parlance as it had come to symbolise oppression and carried the connotation of untouchability. “The term ‘colony’ has been used to derogatorily refer to the original inhabitants of this land. Steps will be…
PRCS The Palestinian Red Crescent posted a video showing Assad al-Nassasra being greeted by colleagues after 37 days in detention The Israeli military has released a Palestinian paramedic detained when Israeli troops killed 15 other emergency workers in southern Gaza last month, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said. Assad al-Nassasra was missing for three weeks…
Vizhinjam has a venerable past with its history of maritime trade dating back to the second century BCE. Once again the old maritime hub is in the news with the Vizhinjam international seaport set to be commissioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. It is believed that Vizhinjam was developed into a small port by Raja Kesavadas, who…