With the dumping of medical and other solid wastes into Tamil Nadu villages along the inter-state border creating a political furor, the Southern Bench of the NGT on Thursday directed the Kerala government to dispose them off within three days.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Monday alleged the BJP-led Union government despite lacking a majority to pass the One Nation One Poll legislation, is making a brazen attempt to push the same with an ulterior motive of conducting a presidential form of government.
In the Tamil literary sphere, Sahitya Akademi Award winner Imayam's work Koveru Kazhuthaigal landed as a tsunami, bringing him fame and criticism in equal measure.
Seven people, including a three-year-old boy, were burnt to death in a private hospital in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, on Thursday night.
Hours ahead of meeting Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin, key ally and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) president Thol Thirumavalavan on Monday suspended party deputy general secretary Aadhav Arjuna for six months his for continued offensive against the big brother
Ahead of cyclone Fengal (pronounced fenjal) making landfall early on Sunday near the Puducherry coast, Chennai and surrounding districts are pounded by heavy downpour accompanied by gutsy winds without any respite.
The Tamil Nadu and Puducherry governments are on high alert, deploying NDRF and SDRF teams in the districts which are expected to face the cyclone’s wrath. The Tamil Nadu government has stepped up measures like relief camps and shelters and emergency medical teams.
In its present form, the Prime Minister’s Vishwakarma Scheme is not inclusive but strengthens caste-based occupation and hence Tamil Nadu will not implement it, Chief Minister MK Stalin has said.
The IMD has predicted heavy rains till November 29 across the state and in the Union Territory of Puducherry.
Even as the Adani row has cast its long shadow over the winter session of Parliament, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and ruling DMK president MK Stalin has said his government has nothing to do with the indictment relating to bribery charges against the conglomerate in a US court.
