Category: Tamil Nadu

The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) officials said that all the 450 services to Tamil Nadu are being run only till Attibele. “It is a temporary measure and we are closely watching what is happening in Tamil Nadu,” said a KSRTC official. In a bid to prevent any untoward incident in Bengaluru, due the tension prevailing in Tamil Nadu […]

DMK president M. Karunanidhi was admitted to a private hospital in Chennai early on Thursday for “optimisation of nutrition and hydration”. The nonagenarian leader has been confined to his house for nearly a month now after he had developed drug allergy. A press release issued by Dr Aravindan Selvaraj, executive director of the Kauvery Hospital in Alwarpet, said Mr Karunanidhi […]

Union minister Smriti Irani on Saturday paid Rs 100 to a cobbler here to get her slipper repaired and the latter, who had demanded only Rs 10 for the job, happily put in additional stitches on it with the incident going viral on the social media. Irani’s slipper strap had snapped as she alighted from a flight to address a […]

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa was shifted to a special room from the intensive critical care unit at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai on Saturday. “It’s a step down intensive care unit, a kind of bridge between the intensive care unit and special ward or home. Besides ventilation, it is equipped with medicines and equipment for emergency care,” the doctor […]

An eleven-storey block adjacent to an under-construction building that collapsed in 2014 killing 61 persons will be demolished on Wednesday using implosion technique and employing controlled blasting of explosives as the structure was unsafe, the Tamil Nadu government has said. On June 28, 2014, one of the two blocks of an under construction residential building at suburban Moulivakkam collapsed, killing […]

The Salem Railway Division commissioned an All- Women Facilitation Centre at Coimbatore Railway Junction on Tuesday to commemorate the Division’s nine year completion. The new centre has been set up near the passenger reservation system (PRS). The Division which came in to being on November 1, 2007, has implemented various passenger-friendly programmes in the nine years of existence. This is […]