Category: Tamil Nadu

Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) has relieved former Congress and TMC MLA C Gnanasekaran as its vice-president. In a statement, TMC chief G K Vasan said apart from Gnanasekaran, Srinivasa Gandhi has also been relieved from Vellore district president post. Sources said both are joining AIADMK on Tuesday. Already former TMC leader S R Balasubramanian joined AIADMK and is now a […]

The IAF’s missing AN32 aircraft with 29 people on board stretched into the third day on Sunday, the search and rescue team is now seeking satellite imagery to find any clue of the plane that lost contact over the Bay of Bengal. “There is no sign of the plane as yet,” a senior defence official said. “We have also sought […]

An Indian Air Force (IAF) plane with 29 people on board has gone missing over the Bay of Bengal amid inclement weather. The IAF’s AN-32 plane took off from Tambaram in Chennai for Port Blair in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands when it lost radar contact around 8:45 am. Its estimated time of arrival in Port Blair was 11.30 am. […]

Two women – a research scholar and a professor’s wife, allegedly committed suicide separately in the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras on Wednesday. Police sources said P. Maheswari (34), a married post-doctoral research scholar in chemistry from Puducherry, was found hanging in the Sabarmati hostel around 4 p.m. In the other incident, G. Vijayalakshmi(47), wife of Ganesan, was found hanging in […]

The former Telecom Minister, Dayanidhi Maran; his brother, Kalanidhi Maran, and the latter’s wife Kaveri Maran on Monday moved a Delhi court seeking bail in the Aircel-Maxis money laundering case. Special Judge O.P. Saini posted their applications for hearing on July 21. The court summoned them and another accused in February for July 11. While taking cognisance of the complaint […]

Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speed up establishment of an inter-State green energy corridor at the earliest to enable Tamil Nadu to sell about 1,000 MW of surplus renewable energy to other States. In her letter to Mr. Modi, Ms. Jayalalithaa said Tamil Nadu, which had met its Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO), was in […]