Category: Tamil Nadu

The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached assets worth Rs.1.16 crore said to be linked to former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram. The assets in question are in the form of bank accounts and Rs.90 lakh in fixed deposits. The Directorate has taken the action in connection with a money laundering case. The agency alleges that attempts were being […]

Japanese two-wheeler manufacturer Yamaha will invest more than ₹ 200 crore for its expansion plans that would take the total investment in the Chennai factory to ₹1,500 crore, a top official said “Investments will be about Rs 200 crore.. This will be for new Assembly line in the factory.. That will take the production to nine lakh units..,” India Yamaha […]

An AIADMK MP from the T.T.V. Dhinakaran camp on Friday switched sides to extend support to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami in a boost to his faction. M. Vasanthi, the AIADMK MP from Tenkasi (SC), alleged that Mr. Dhinakaran, the party’s sidelined leader, had “aligned” with the DMK to topple the “Amma government”, a reference to the the […]

Eighteen dissident AIADMK MLAs belonging to the T.T.V. Dhinakaran faction, who had withdrawn support to Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami, were on Monday disqualified from their posts by Assembly Speaker P. Dhanapal. Announcing this, Assembly Secretary K. Boopathy said in an official release that since the Speaker has disqualified them under Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (Disqualification on Ground of Defection) Rules, […]

The Chief Executive Officer of the Coimbatore Smart City Limited (CSCL), R. Suganya, tendered her resignation on Monday. The CSCL is the company (special purpose vehicle) that implements the Central Government’s Smart City projects in the city. Sources familiar with the development said the 28-year-old daughter of former AIADMK MLA K.P. Raju had stated in Tamil that she wished to […]

A day after the merger of two AIADMK factions, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami faced his first major crisis as 19 MLAs belonging to the T.T.V. Dhinakaran faction submitted letters to Governor Ch.Vidyasagar Rao expressing lack of confidence in the Chief Minister and withdrawing support to him. Shortly after the development, Leader of the Opposition and DMK leader M K […]