The Latest Breaking News from Tamil Nadu

Days after the electricity portfolio was re-allocated to Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu, the Tamil Nadu government on Monday named IAS officer Beela Rajesh as the Secretary of its Energy Department, replacing incumbent Ramesh Chand Meena. The latter has been posted as the Secretary of the Special Initiatives Department.

Storage at the Mettur dam, the lifeline of the Cauvery delta in Tamil Nadu, has witnessed a net depletion of nearly six thousand million cubic feet after the commencement of water release for irrigation a week ago, on June 12, 2023. 

The controversial DMK platform speaker, Shivaji Krishnamurthy, was expelled from the party and arrested in Chennai on Sunday for making abusive comments at a public meeting against Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi, BJP State president K. Annamalai and functionary Khushbu Sundar.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s unconditional backing and retaining of V. Senthilbalaji, a political turncoat, as a Minister without a portfolio citing only his “hospitalisation” raises uncomfortable questions.

Tamil Nadu requires a renewed approach to address the qualitative aspects of social policy, and an industrialisation strategy that ensures decent wages and dignified working conditions

A petitioner’s claim to ownership of a plot of land was rejected as a document he produced, an unregistered will, written in 1967, bore the seal of “Tamil Nadu”; however, the State bearing that name only came into existence two years later.

The India Meterological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rain at one or two places over coastal and delta districts of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal on Monday

While Palani is wanted in over 50 criminal cases in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra, his two accomplices were also involved in a dozen cases each across the south Indian States.

Several places in Tamil Nadu including Chennai city and its suburbs experienced welcome showers on June 18 morning bringing down the high temperatures felt over the past few days