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Tamil Nadu govt presents Budget 2025-26 in Assembly, AIADMK stages walkout

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin-led DMK regime on Friday presented its Budget 2025-26 in the Assembly, a full-fledged exercise ahead of the state election next year, and made big allocations for its flagship welfare schemes which include the fare-free bus travel scheme for women. Noisy scenes were witnessed in the Assembly as the main opposition AIADMK walked out after attempting to raise alleged graft in state-run liquor corporation TASMAC as the Enforcement Directorate has held searches related to the state-owned company. Presenting the Budget, Finance Minister Thangam Thenarasu said women using fare-free bus services has risen to 65 per cent from 40 per cent. "On an average, 50 lakh women travel daily in the buses run by State Transport Undertakings, leading to a total of 642 crore trips so far. Notably, a study by the State Planning Commission revealed that women save an average of Rs 888 per month due to this initiative. For the year 2025-26, the government has allocated a

'Secessionist sentiments': FM Sitharaman slams DMK over ₹ symbol change

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman slammed Tamil Nadu's move to replace the rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in the 2025-26 state Budget logo, calling it a threat to national unity

ED says it found unaccounted-for cash deals worth ₹1,000 cr in TASMAC ops

The Enforcement Directorate Thursday said it has found "multiple irregularities" in the operations of TASMAC that has monopoly over liquor trade in Tamil Nadu, including "manipulation" in the tender processes and "unaccounted" cash transactions worth Rs 1,000 crore through distillery companies. The federal agency claimed in a statement that it got "evidence" suggesting these corrupt practices after it raided the employees, corporate offices of distilleries and plants of the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Limited (TASMAC) on March 6. ED sources, on the day of the raids, had said the searches were also conducted against "key associates" linked to prohibition and excise department minister Senthil Balaji. The ED said it found "incriminating" data related to transfer postings, transport and bar licence tenders, indent orders "favouring" few distillery companies, excess charge of Rs 10-30 per bottle by TASMAC outlets, with the "involvement" of TASMAC officials, during the ...

Language dispute: Tamil Nadu drops rupee symbol from Budget logo

Chief Minister M K Stalin released the new logo on the X platform in a pre-Budget video

Tamil Nadu drops rupee symbol, Ranya Rao smuggling case, Pak train attack & more

Amid its tussle with the Centre over alleged Hindi imposition, the DMK-led Tamil Nadu government replaced the Devanagari rupee symbol (₹) with a Tamil letter for ‘ru,’ derived from ‘rubai.

War of words over National Education Policy: Stalin vs Modi govt

A war of words has erupted between the Tamil Nadu government and the Centre over the New Education Policy. In a recent rally, Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin launched a scathing attack on the Centre.

Meet Udaya Kumar, DMK leader's son whose ₹ symbol is dropped by DMK govt

The rupee (₹) symbol was introduced less than 15 years ago, chosen from thousands of designs. Incidentally, the design that was selected was created by the son of a former DMK MLA

Tamil Nadu's Economic Survey: State eyes over 8% growth amid challenges

Tamil Nadu is projected to grow over 8% in 2024-25, driven by policy reforms, infrastructure development, and economic diversification

Tamil Nadu drops official rupee symbol from state Budget amid language row

This marks the first time a state has rejected the national currency symbol, taking Tamil Nadu's resistance to the NEP to a new level

BS Round Table: TN takes 'product nation' route on road to $1 trn economy

Industries minister TRB Rajaa bats for 'Making in Tamil Nadu for world', says state's manufacturing talent pool on a par with Japan

Business Standard Round Table: GCCs can help TN become $1 trn economy

Jaikumar Subramanian, partner at Deloitte India, said as the state aimed to treble the size of its economy in five years, it should focus on a closer collaboration of industry, academia, and startups

Understanding delimitation process and why Tamil Nadu opposes it | MK Stalin | Congress

Lately, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and several opposition parties have been raising strong objections to delimitation. Their main concern?

Jaguar Land Rover shelves plan to build EVs at Tata's Tamil Nadu plant

The British luxury car unit was unable to find the right price-quality balance for locally sourced EV parts

BS round table: Reimagining Tamil Nadu's road to a knowledge economy

The event is being organised in Chennai, in collaboration with the State Planning Commission, and Guidance Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu Round Table 2025

Watch policymakers and industry experts discuss Tamil Nadu’s path to a knowledge-driven economy, covering AI, Global Capability Centers (GCCs), advanced manufacturing, and key policy reforms.

DMK MP Kanimozhi demands apology for Dharmendra Pradhan's 'abusive' remarks

Kanimozhi, the MP from Lok Sabha constituency Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, said the Union Minister's remarks were undemocratic and demanded an apology

Godrej Consumer Products Tamil Nadu FMCG unit eyeing US, LatAm markets

The plant officially started operations with the ceremonial activation of the production line by Chief Minister M K Stalin, who marked the occasion by turning on the first production run

TN CM slams Pradhan for 'arrogance', tells him to control his tongue

The CM's remarks came in the wake of the exchange between the DMK MPs and Pradhan in the Lok Sabha over the PM SHRI scheme and fund allocation to the southern state

Periyar to Stalin: A look at Tamil Nadu's unyielding battle against Hindi

Tamil Nadu has long opposed Hindi imposition, arguing it threatens linguistic identity. With past protests turning violent, the state's resistance remains firm as tensions with the Centre escalate

Southern states will lose 26 seats in LS after delimitation: Chidambaram

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has called for a joint effort from various political parties to raise their voices against Delimitation, calling for a Joint Action Committee meeting on March 22