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Speaking on the Parandur airport project, Mr. Sengottaiyan said the waterbodies and wetland in the region had to be viewed separately from the land required for the airport and for SIPCOT projects. The runway could not be constructed on a lake, he said.

On reports that headmasters of government and government-aided schools having been asked to bear the expenses of the launch of expansion of the Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Breakfast Scheme on September 17, the AMMK leader urged the government to drop the move.  

Tamil Nadu Minister C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar accuses DMK of resorting to obscene language

According to a Tamil Nadu government website, the historic shrine was under the care of a monk up to the 10th century A.D.

Ajith thanked the CM for coming to the circuit and said, “My wish is to see these events come to India.”

“It is the Indian High Commission in London that is making all the arrangements for the travel, including security,” said the official, in response to the question of why Mr. Vijay had chosen to be away when Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was to be in Chennai on Sunday

Tamil scholar and speaker Solomon Pappaiah, who passed away today, declined film offers to concentrate on literary and academic work

Mr. Shanmugam said the fishing community living in the area, close to the identified location in Pattinapakkam, had been opposing the proposal to construct the new Secretariat there

Around 1,500 fisherfolk families living in Foreshore Estate will be forced to relocate and the proposed site is a nesting ground for Olive Ridley turtles, told Mr. Veerapandian

Somehow, the Fort had such an appeal that the legislature kept coming back to the historic 17th-century vestige of the colonial era

Both Maragatham Kumaravel and P. Sathyabama had contested the 2026 Assembly election from Madurantakam and Dharapuram, respectively, as AIADMK candidates. They won the elections but resigned as MLAs within a few days and subsequently joined the ruling TVK

In a video released on social media explaining what had befallen him in prison, Mr. Stalin said that he and others had been lodged in a leper ward

VIT held the 25th edition of the annual Onam cultural festival

This resulted in eligible Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe students being left out, the report stated

In London, a few important MoUs between the Tamil Nadu government and multinational companies are likely to be inked in the presence of CM Vijay

The DMK high command has invited the district secretaries to Chennai to chalk out the strategy for the elections to the two constituencies in Tamil Nadu — Madurantakam and Dharapuram

A compilation of stories on the hooch tragedy that saw the deaths of 69 persons at Karunapuram village in Kallakurichi district of Tamil Nadu

The Commission recommended that the government make arrangements to provide education, food and shelter to children orphaned by the death of their parents and offer them government jobs after they complete their education.

The TVK-led government has not filled the posts of Vice-Chairperson and full-time members of the SPC after the resignation of the team appointed by the previous DMK government

The abject failure of the Animal Birth Control programme in the State is apparent on the streets. This report reveals that the ABC programme, besides being in a shambles, is inhumane, corrupt, and cruel, in many cases

TVK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay will hold discussions with leaders of the Congress, IUML, VCK, and MDMK on formalising the existing alliance in the State

While the decline in births reflects a broader demographic transition, with implications for the workforce and ageing population, experts say greater attention must be paid to education, childcare, social security, elderly care and standard of living

In a previous hearing, the Union government had submitted that out of the 152 seats transferred by the State of Tamil Nadu, approximately 40 seats continued to remain vacant

Why are roads in Tamil Nadu being raised when the government has already ordered that they should not be?

In May 1983, MGR government issued an order to raise a structure for housing the Tamil Nadu Secretariat. But this was given up later. Nearly 20 years later, Jayalalithaa floated the idea of an Administrative City near Mamallapuram. When Karunanidhi returned to office in May 2006, he built the Assembly-Secretariat complex at the Omandurar Estate.