Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu govt invites public suggestions to boost state's revenue

The Tamil Nadu government's Revenue Augmentation Committee, headed by former Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, has invited suggestions from the public and experts to boost the state's revenues. The panel, which held its first meeting on July 31, resolved to seek views from the general public, associations, academicians, research scholars, and institutions engaged in public finance, according to an official release. The committee is looking for measures to augment the state's own tax and non-tax revenues, and to improve revenue buoyancy, efficiency, and self-reliance. Stakeholders have been asked to email their suggestions to tnrac@tn.gov.in, preferably before August 11. The views can be submitted in English, Tamil, or both. To facilitate follow-up and categorisation, the government has requested senders to indicate the broad category of their suggestion in the email's subject line. These categories include GST, Stamp Duty and Registration, State Excise, Mo

TN introduces carbon trading for farmers, launches ₹600 cr soil mission

Facing severe climate uncertainties, including the anticipated Super El Nino phenomenon, the Tamil Nadu government on Thursday rolled out a series of climate-resilient initiatives in its Agriculture budget 2026-27, featuring a carbon trading scheme for farmers and a multi-year soil restoration drive. Presenting the budget, Tamil Nadu Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare R Vinoth allocated Rs 60 lakh to launch demonstration projects across 2,000 acres and develop monitoring and verification protocols for carbon trading. Under the scheme, farmers will be enabled to earn supplementary income through carbon credits by adopting existing sustainable cultivation methods, specifically emission-reducing practices such as Direct Seeded Rice (DSR) and Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) irrigation techniques. These established cultivation practices are estimated to cut greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 50 per cent while promoting carbon sequestration in agricultural soils, the .

Gold coins, rings, and livestock: Inside Tamil Nadu's new welfare Budget

Tamil Nadu's first TVK Budget sets aside over ₹1,000 crore for gold gifts and livestock schemes for women and vulnerable groups, while promising to balance welfare spending with fiscal discipline

TVK's first Budget mixes poll promises with fiscal prudence in Tamil Nadu

The Vijay-led Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam government unveiled a welfare-focused maiden Budget with allocations for poll promises, an AI city and farm loan waivers, while retaining fiscal discipline.

TN LoP Udhayanidhi Stalin arrested for comment allegedly insulting Trisha

Tamil Nadu Opposition Leader Udhayanidhi Stalin was taken into police custody from his residence on Tuesday for questioning over his controversial double-meaning remark in Thanjavur meeting over Cauvery issue. The development follows Udhayanidhi's controversial speech at a DMK farmers' protest on August 3 concerning the Cauvery water dispute. During the rally, he allegedly used an offensive double entendre alluding to actor Trisha after sections of the crowd chanted her name. Besides a police complaint, the ruling TVK party, led by Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, has formally lodged a complaint with the National Commission for Women seeking action over the speech.

Cauvery row: Tamil Nadu moves SC to secure its due share of water

The Tamil Nadu government on Monday moved the Supreme Court over the Cauvery dispute with neighbouring Karnataka, saying the quantum allocated to it by the CWRC as well as that released by its neighbour was less. An official release here said the government filed a petition in the apex court on the directions of Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay who discussed the matter with senior advocates. As of August 3, the combined total storage in the reservoirs in Karnataka--KRS, Kabini, Harangi and Hemavathy, stood at 77.537 TMC and Karnataka would face no difficulty in releasing Tamil Nadu's due share proportionately. Following rains in the catchment areas in the KRS and Kabini dams in Karnataka recently, the proportionate water to be realised at Biligundlu should be 26.954 TMC, it said. "Accordingly, the Cauvery Water Management Authority order allocating 4.536 TMC is very less," the release added. Karnataka has "failed" to share Tamil Nadu its due share of water and the quantum was 26.954

Focus of TN Budget will shift to investment from expenditure: Chakravarty

Congress MP Praveen Chakravarty says Tamil Nadu's first TVK budget will prioritise revenue reforms, fiscal discipline and investment, while calling for a rethink on jobs and welfare

UP gains credit-active consumer share as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu decline

TransUnion Cibil data shows Uttar Pradesh posted the sharpest rise in credit-active consumer share between March 2017 and March 2026, while Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu lost ground

Tamil Nadu bags Chubb, Nordex GCC projects, first foreign university campus

Tamil Nadu signed agreements with Chubb, Nordex, UWA and MotiveLink for projects spanning GCCs, research, higher education and manufacturing, creating 2,920 jobs

TN govt taps Montek Singh Ahluwalia to chart roadmap for boosting revenue

Six-member panel will recommend measures to improve tax and non-tax revenues, enhance compliance and fiscal self-reliance amid the state's rising debt burden

Anti-Neet protest enters 6th day in Tamil Nadu; doctors to join on July 28

Protests against the NEET in Tamil Nadu intensified on Saturday, with the continuous sit-in at the CPI State Headquarters (Balan Illam) in T Nagar entering its sixth day. The students have demanded the scrapping of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test, the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and action against the alleged police excesses against protesting youth in Delhi. The Students' Federation of India organised campus demonstrations at Loyola College, Presidency College and other educational institutions. Medical professionals and students across Tamil Nadu are also set to launch a coordinated statewide protest on July 28. The protest has been called by the Doctors' Association for Social Equality and the Tamil Nadu Medical Students Association in solidarity with the ongoing anti-NEET demonstrations in New Delhi. As part of the agitation, demonstrations will be held outside all government medical colleges across Tamil Nadu. Meanwhile, activist So

NPCIL denies sensitive data breach at Kudankulam nuclear power plant

NPCIL said the information claimed to be available in the public domain pertains only to Balance of Plant common service facilities and does not relate to any nuclear related information

'State will never accept NEP': Tamil Nadu Congress chief hits out at Guv

Tamil Nadu Congress chief B Manickam Tagore on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, asserting that the state will never accept the NEP, which he alleged is a tool to impose the RSS's "politics of hate." Criticising the governor's recent remarks advocating for the NEP and expressing regret over the inability to implement the traditional "Gurukul" system, Tagore, in a statement, warned the Lok Bhavan against encroaching upon the educational rights of a democratically elected state government. "The governor must realise that Tamil Nadu will never accept the National Education Policy (NEP), which imposes the RSS's politics of hate," he said. "Ever since the BJP government led by Narendra Modi came to power at the Centre, it has been systematically dismantling and destroying the education system built during the Congress regime since the days of Pandit Nehru," he alleged. Stating that "education for all" was the sole objective of the Congress ...

The 'Whistle Revolution' echoes across the Opposition in Tamil Nadu

As the TVK consolidates power, an exodus from the AIADMK is redrawing the state's political landscape

TN CM Vijay slams DMK for 'politicising' Karur stampede, announces memorial

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay on Friday slammed the DMK for attempting to gain "political mileage" from the tragic stampede here last year and restraining him from visiting the district. In his first visit here since the 2025 stampede that killed 41 persons, Vijay faulted the police for not alerting him about the swelling crowd at the TVK venue on September 27 last, nor taking any steps to cancel the meeting as the crowd had become unmanageable to control. "The police could have alerted us that the crowd was swelling and become unmanageable to control. The police have all the right to cancel the meeting. Without doing so, the police escorted us on the highway," Vijay said during his first visit here after taking up the reins as chief minister in May. Vijay could not meet the affected 41 families in Karur last year but had those affected families were brought near Chennai and he personally consoled them. At the meeting today, Vijay said "I trusted the police fully and ev

Flawed subsidy targeting, discoms trigger fiscal strain for Tamil Nadu

State's outstanding debt and liabilities reached almost ₹10 trillion in FY26

Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu: Two success stories in India's agriculture

Among hilly regions and Northeast India, Assam, Manipur and Tripura recorded the highest CAGR during the same period, though from a smaller base

Karur stampede: SC rejects DMK plea on TN ministers' influencing witnesses

The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the DMK for questioning Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay's scheduled meeting with the families of the Karur stampede victims, and refused to entertain its plea alleging that state ministers were influencing witnesses in the case. A partial working day bench of Justices KV Viswanathan and Alok Aradhe asked the DMK as to how can the court regulate the visit of the executive head. The bench asked the DMK, represented by senior advocate Ranjit Kumar, how does visiting stampede victims amount to influencing witnesses. Vijay is scheduled to meet the families of the stampede victims on July 10. The court told Kumar that the DMK may wish to withdraw its plea and avail any other remedy under law or else the court will dismiss it. Kumar agreed to withdraw the plea with liberty to approach any other forum. The top court dismissed the plea as withdrawn. DMK secretary RS Bharati had filed the plea seeking to restrain the Tamil Nadu chief ministe

Mass exodus continues from AIADMK, 3 ex-ministers, cadres join TVK

Three former AIADMK ministers, Dr C Vijayabaskar, M R Vijayabaskar and M S M Anandan along with their supporters, joined the ruling TVK in the presence of its general secretary 'Bussy' N Anand at Mamallapuram, about 57 km from here, on Thursday, evoking a "washing machine" jibe from the DMK. Both C Vijayabaskar, who resigned as Viralimalai MLA, and M R Vijayabaskar, who gave up the Karur seat after winning on the AIADMK's Two Leaves symbol, and former legislators, including Anandan, joined the ruling dispensation lauding the governance under Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay. Welcoming them into the party, TVK chief coordinator K A Sengottaiyan said they had come to the right party after becoming disillusioned with the present AIADMK leadership that was functioning like a "corporate firm" rather than being a political organisation. Defending their exit from the Dravidian major, Sengottaiyan who had quit the AIADMK in November 2025 after he was expelled by its general secretary Edappadi

TNEA rank list 2026 expected today at tneaonline.org; steps to download

DoTE, Tamil Nadu, will declare the TNEA Rank List 2026 on Jul 1 at tneaonline.org. Originally due on Jun 29, the list was delayed after the certificate verification deadline was extended