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Tamil Nadu govt defends Fintech City contract, says process transparent

Company that won deal for project is not blacklisted, it says after criticism

Vedanta likely to sell copper plant in Tamil Nadu for Rs 4,500 crore

VRL has $1.7 billion of short-term investments in various bank deposits, quoted bonds and mutual funds as of March 2023

Tamil Nadu Minister Senthil Balaji undergoes coronary bypass surgery

Tamil Nadu Minister Senthil Balaji underwent a bypass surgery on Wednesday at the Kauvery Hospital in Chennai, the hospital said

2024 Lok Sabha polls: AIADMK wants to make a strong comeback

The party which was battered and bruised in the 2019 elections in which it won only one seat among the thirty nine seats, is now preparing itself for making a strong comeback in the state

Senthil Balaji to undergo surgery on June 21, says TN health minister

Tamil Nadu health minister Ma Subramanian said that Balaji will undergo a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery at Kauvery Hospital in Chennai; Balaji was arrested by the ED on June 14

Inter-State Athletics Championships: Tamil Nadu crowned overall champions

The 62nd Inter-state Athletics Championships drew to a close today with another display of India's finest athletes competing for supremacy at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar

Two killed, at least 30 injured as two buses collide head-on in Tamil Nadu

Two persons were killed and at least 30 injured in a head-on collision involving two private buses in Cuddalore district on Monday, police said. The front portion of the two vehicles were completely damaged in the accident at Melpattampakkam in Panruti. Immediately after the mishap, members of the public and police rushed to the spot and helped rush the injured to hospital. Police said the exact cause of the accident was being probed. Initial reports indicated that the front tyre of one of the buses burst leading to the driver losing control of the vehicle as a result of which it collided into a bus coming in the opposite direction, police added. Senior district revenue and police officials rushed to Melpattampakkam to help the injured.

DMK cannot be cowed down by raids and arrests, Udayanidhi Stalin to BJP

Arrests and raids can never cow down DMK whose leaders are not afraid of Prime Minister Modi or Amit Shah, Tamil Nadu Minister for Sports Development and Youth Affairs Udayanidhi Stalin has said

Heavy rains lash Chennai and its suburbs; holiday declared for schools

Heavy overnight rains lashed the city and its suburbs, prompting authorities to declare a holiday for schools on Monday. International flight operations at the airport were affected as around 10 incoming flights, including from Doha and Dubai were diverted to Bengaluru, subsequently affecting departure as well. The showers brought relief to people from the sweltering heat that the city and its nearby districts had been witnessing over the past few days. Following the rains, authorities declared a holiday for schools in Chennai and its neighbouring districts of Chengalpet, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur, besides Vellore and Ranipet. The weather office forecast more spells of rain for the city and its suburbs on Monday.

Fintech City will make TN an unparalleled hub in financial tech: Minister

The proposed financial technology tower of Fintech City being set up in Chennai is expected to bring in investments worth Rs 1,000 crore in its first phase, Tamil Nadu Industries Minister T R B Rajaa said. Chief Minister M K Stalin, on Saturday, laid the foundation stone for setting up the Fintech City and a Fintech tower at an outlay of Rs 370 crore that is expected to generate 90,000 jobs in the state. The Financial Technology Tower, which will come up in Nandambakkam in the city, is expected to generate 7,000 new jobs in the state in the initial phase, Rajaa said. "As the first phase of development of TN FinTech City, the Fintech tower in Nandambakkam, Chennai will attract over Rs 1,000 crore investments and generate 7,000 employment opportunities for Tamil Nadu and make the state an unparalleled hub in financial technology (sector)," Rajaa said in a social media post. "It will shine as the central node for fintech companies in TN. Today, we have not just laid the foundation sto

Money, muscle, and media versus mind: Who will win out in Tamil Nadu?

Transfer of power aside, BJP's 'Sengol' is part of a larger political play in its Tamil Nadu plan

Nitish Kumar to inaugurate 'Kalaignar Kottam' in TN's Tiruvarur: Stalin

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav will be attending the inauguration of initiatives in memory of late DMK president M Karunanidhi at Tiruvarur on June 20, his son and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Sunday. While Kumar will inaugurate the 'Kalaignar Kottam', Yadav will open the 'Muthuvelar' Library, both established in Karunanidhi's native Tiruvarur district, Stalin said. A 'kottam' in Tamil refers to a structure built in memory of someone highly respected. In a letter to partymen, the DMK chief exhorted them to attend the June 20 event in good numbers. Stalin said he will unveil a statue of his father, who is a former Chief Minister, at the event, coinciding with Karunanidhi's centenary celebrations.

Tamil Nadu woos fintech firms; hopes to raise Rs 12,000 cr for Fintech City

State allots 56 acres for project, aims to create 80,000 jobs

With Senthil Balaji's arrest, TN politics heading for direct DMK-BJP fight

The arrest of Senthil Balaji, who is considered very close to the Chief Minister and one of the pointsman of the party in Western Tamil Nadu, led to Stalin directly intervening

TN CM took revenge for ED action against Balaji: BJP on arrest of Suryah

The BJP on Saturday slammed the Tamil Nadu government over the arrest of its Tamil Nadu leader S G Suryah, alleging that Chief Minister M K Stalin has taken "revenge" for the arrest of his Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case. Suryah was arrested by the police in Chennai late on Friday under sections of the IPC and the IT Act. Police sources said the action was based on a CPI(M) complaint against a social media post by the BJP state secretary. Reacting to the arrest, BJP national spokesperson Tom Vaddakan told a press conference at the party headquarters here, "I call it a vendetta arrest. The chief minister has said in a statement after the arrest of Balaji that he will take revenge." The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday arrested Balaji under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in an alleged cash-for-jobs scam in the state transport department when he was the transport minister in the AIADMK government ..

AIADMK functionary arrested in TN for 'defamatory' info on CM Stalin

Police said that Gowtham of Thondampalayam, Erode was working as a district office bearer of the IT wing of the AIADMK

TN BJP secretary arrested over social media post, Annamalai slams DMK

Tamil Nadu BJP leader S G Suryah was arrested by the police from Chennai late on Friday, with the party's state unit chief K Annamalai slamming the move as an attempt to "curtail free speech." Police sources said the action was based on a CPI(M) complaint against a social media post of the BJP state secretary. Suryah was arrested under sections of IPC and the IT Act, police said. "The arrest of @BJP4TamilNadu State Secretary Thiru @SuryahSG avl is highly condemnable. His only mistake was to expose the nasty double standards of the communists, allies of DMK. Using state machinery to curtail free speech & getting jittery for the slightest criticism is unbecoming of a democratically elected leader and, indeed, are signs of an autocratic leader in the making," Annamalai tweeted. "These arrests will not deter us & we will continue to be bearers of the uncomfortable truth!" he added.

Tyranny of unelected: AAP MP slams TN Guv for opposing Balaji as minister

He said the recent events in Punjab, Delhi, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu have shown that some Governors are excessively overstepping their bounds

Ex-Tamil Nadu SDG gets three years in prison for sexually harassing junior

Rajesh Das was later given bail to file an appeal against the conviction within 30 days

Tamil Nadu sees record number of tourist arrivals till May, says govt

Tamil Nadu has witnessed a multi-fold increase in the number of tourist arrivals to the state till May, to become the top-ranked tourist destination in the country, Minister for Tourism and Tourism Development Corporation K Ramachandran said on Friday. The increase in the number of tourists visiting the state has been recorded in both domestic and overseas segments, he said. The Minister on Friday chaired a review meeting of his department and said on account of various measures taken by Chief Minister M K Stalin, the government has witnessed a surge in tourist arrivals. Giving some statistics, he said, tourists from overseas countries which stood at 57,622 in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic had grown to 4,07,139 in 2022 while it further increased to 4,42,337 till May. On the domestic tourists visiting the state, he said it also increased from 11,53,36,719 in 2021 to 21,85,84,846 in 2022 and till May it witnessed 12,21,38,238 arrivals. To be specific, during April-May, as many a