Tag: Tamil Nadu

Chennai: The DMK and other opposition parties in Tamil Nadu have called for a dawn-to-dusk bandh tomorrow, condemning the police action against protesters in Tuticorin, in which 11 people lost their lives. The DMK had on Tuesday called for an all-party protest in all district headquarters on May 25 to condemn the police firing in […]

Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit courted a controversy on Tuesday during a press conference after patting the cheek of a woman journalist in Raj Bhavan. The incident took place towards the end of the press conference during which the 78-year-old Governor dismissed the allegation that he was being probed for sexual misconduct by the Union […]

Rameswaram: Eight fishermen from Tamil Nadu were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly fishing in their territorial waters off Thalaimannar coast today, the police said here today. According to information reaching here, the Sri Lankan Navy also seized the boat and have taken the fishermen to Thalaimannar district naval camp, they said. The […]

Erode (TN): Tamil Nadu government would soon set up coaching academies for civil services aspirants in all districts, state Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan said today. “To help those appearing for IAS/IPS examinations, the state education department will soon start coaching academies in all the 32 districts,” he said. The academies would benefit poor and […]

Chennai: Tamil film superstar Rajinikanth today said fame and clout earned in the world of cinema were not enough to help one make a mark in politics, and stressed there was something beyond these attributes that ensured success in public affairs. Rajinikanth said his contemporary Kamal Haasan possibly knew what that something was, but might […]

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami today handed over cash awards amounting to Rs 4.09 crore to 72 sports persons and 42 coaches. The sports persons were honoured for their excellence at various National and international level events, an official release said. Sixty six athletes who won various medals at the 35th National Games […]

Berhampur: A MLA has alleged that 42 labourers from three villages of Ganjam district were not being paid their wages for the past few months by a Tamil Nadu-based cement factory. Digapahandi MLA and former minister S N Patro has urged the state Labour Secretary to look into the issue. Labourers from Bhramarapur, Narayanpur and […]

Coimbatore: Five minor girls, hailing from Odisha, have been rescued from a textile mill on the city outskirts where they were reportedly kept as bonded labourers, police said today. A police team from Odisha had reached here following a complaint from a woman in Kandhamal in the state that her daughter was brought here and […]

Koraput: A 16-year-old boy of Koraput district, who was rescued from Tamil Nadu, is still waiting for wages to be transferred to his bank account. A native of Khatiguda village in Koraput district, Sambaru Bhatra was working at a borewell digging unit there. Sambaru was one among the five children rescued from Thiruvallur in Tamil […]

Chennai: National Human Rights Commission today sought a factual report from Tamil Nadu government in two weeks on the recent rescue of 550 bonded labourers from a brick klin in neighbouring Tiruvallur District. Citing a report in an English daily on March 3 that the bonded labourers were freed by State authorities in Tiruvallur District, […]

New Delhi: Government has set up an expert panel to analyse the methodology adopted in the bidding process for ultra mega power projects in Odisha and Tamil Nadu, which received tepid response from the private sector. The group will soon submit its report after examining the bidding documents to determine if the methodology adopted at […]

New Delhi: The government has abandoned the bidding process of two ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) in Odisha and Tamil Nadu and will soon set up a committee to move it forward. “It has been done (scrapping of bidding process). Unfortunately, we did not received the response we expected,” Power Minister Piyush Goyal said at […]

It may have taken years for Tamil Nadu to emerge as a major industrial hub, but it's just one deadly blow served by global giant Nokia's exit that has sent it back to the drawing board to regain its lost glory

Kendrapara/Baripada: With an alarming increase in the number of migrant labourers leaving the State in search of jobs, horrible consequences like labour trafficking, harassment, cheating, murder, missing and exploitation of these Odia workers outside also seem to have no end whatsoever. In one such case of exploitation, one Khetrabasi Sahoo of Baburampatna village under Sadar […]

Bolangir: Three minor boys from Rahenmal village under Gudvella block in Bolangir, who had gone to Tamil Nadu for work, have been allegedly tortured and detained illegally by some unidentified miscreants. The matter came to light after three other teenagers somehow managed to escape from the clutches of the unknown persons and narrated the ordeal […]