Sept 3, 2010: Come Teachers Day (September 5), a more than 100-year old Panchayat Union Middle School in Tiruttani, in which former President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan studied, would be named after him.

Popularly known as Alamaram Palli, the school building was craving for renovation and it was refurbished and renovated at a cost of [...]

Sept 3, 2010: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president M Karunanidhi on Thursday congratulated UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on her getting elected, unopposed, as the president of the Congress party successively for the fourth time.

The octogenarian, whose party is one of the longtime alliance partners of the Congress, said the performance of the [...]

Sept 3, 2010: In a surprise development, the Tamil Nadu government on Thursday issued an order revoking the suspension of C Umashankar, formerly Commissioner of Small Savings, Chennai.

The Government Order said since an inquiry had been initiated into the genuineness of his Scheduled Caste Community Certificate, the government revoked the suspension with effect from the [...]

Sept 3, 2010: Chennai Mayor M Subramanian on Thursday denied reports appeared in a section of the media that there was a cholera outbreak in the city.

After reports that there was a cholera epidemic in north Chennai, the civic chief visited the Communicable Diseases Hospital (CDH) in Tondiarpet and interacted with the patients admitted with [...]

Sept 3, 2010: PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss on Thursday said he was not against government distributing freebies but this should be given to the needy alone.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a party meeting in Chennai, he said 25 per cent of the population was in the grip of poverty with an income [...]

Sept 2, 2010: Former Chief Secretary K S Sripathi was sworn in State Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) at a brief function at Raj Bhavan in Chennai on Wednesday. Tamil Nadu Governor Surjit Singh Barnala administered the oath of office to Sripathi, who succeeded S Ramakrishnan, who demitted office on Monday.

Finance Minister K Anbazhagan, Deputy Chief [...]

Sept 2, 2010: AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa has written to Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi urging him to reformulate the proposals for delimitation of constituencies for the Legislative Council after obtaining population data.

Referring to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Council Act creating the upper house in the state assembly and the draft delimitation [...]

Sept 2, 2010: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday said former Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa was shedding crocodile tears for the noon meal staff.

In a statement, the Chief Minister said that when the noon meal staff joined duty, they had accepted the stipulation that their service would be part [...]

Sept 2, 2010: Chennai Corporation Mayor M Subramanian on Wednesday said that the work to renovate Nungambakkam, Mambalam, Nandanam and Kodungaiyur canals will be completed in two years.

He was inspecting desilting work on Nungambakkam canal. “A total length of 13,075 metre of canals is being restored at a cost of Rs 68.35 crore,” pointed out [...]

Sept 2, 2010: Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian Oil Corporation under which the former will offer discounts to customers of the latter at its facilities.

Speaking after signing the MoU, TTDC Managing Director A C Mohandass said TTDC has 54 hotels and resorts at various tourist destinations across [...]