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Sarath Kumar, IJK form alliance Updated: Updated: Will work towards a change in State, says AISMK leader Share Article Will work towards a change in State, says AISMK leader All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi founded by R. Sarath Kumar and Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi, founded by Paarivendhar of the SRM group, have formed an alliance for the upcoming Assembly election. While Mr. Sarath Kumar was in the AIADMK alliance, Paarivendhar had won the 2019 Lok Sabha polls on the DMK symbol from Perambalur...

Sahitya academy awards announced Updated: Updated: Share Article Tejo-Tungabhadra, Kapil P. Humnabade’s novel Hanadi, Anupama Prasad’s Panchavarnada Hamsa are among the works awarded for 2019. While Vasumati Udupa has bagged the award for children’s fiction, senior journalist Cha.Ha. Raghunath has been awarded for essays. Prominent writers Premashekhar, Rajappa Dalavayi, B.T. Jahnavi, M.S. Aashadevi, Shivananda Kalave, and Veena Bannanje are among the 10 writers chosen for the Sahitya ...

Plea for reservation in education, jobs Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Members of Tamil Nadu Maruthuvar Samooga Nala Sangam and Tiruchi District Barbers’ Association on Friday staged a demonstration demanding 5% reservation in education and government jobs. Shops of members attached to the association remained closed in the city. “There are as many as 50 lakh people belonging to our community in the State, and we have no assistance from the government. We are not asking for special tre...

DPC employee held for obtaining bribe Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A clerk at the Direct Purchase Centre of the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation was arrested on a charge of receiving bribe from a farmer in Sirkazhi on Friday. Elangovan, attached to the DPC at Kondal, was trapped by a Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption team when he received ₹ 7,000 from farmer Durai Kannan of Keezhathenur village, for procuring 172 bags of paddy. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER Submit ...

Preliminary work for excavation at Kodumanal begins Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The State Archaeological Department began on Friday preliminary works for excavation at Kodumanal village, located on the banks of River Noyyal in Chennimalai Union here. A team led by J. Ranjith, Archaeology Officer, Chennai, and Project Director for Kodumanal Excavation began the work at the settlement area near the river where excavations were carried out last year. During the four-month excavation tha...

Jewel loans from co-op institutions up to 6 sovereigns waived The Tamil Nadu government will waive loans taken by women’s self-help groups from cooperative banks and cooperative unions, as also jewel loans of up to six sovereigns from cooperative institutions, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami announced in the Assembly on Friday. The Chief Minister said the women’s self-help groups had sought a waiver as they were unable to pay back these loans due to normal life being hit by the COVID...

Awareness programme on child safety Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Young Indians, Tiruchi Chapter, along with Childline India Foundation conducted an online session on ‘Defending innocence: sounds of the silence,’ an awareness programme on child safety on Thursday. Members of BVM Global Senior Secondary School, Parenting Circle and ‘I Love Tiruchi’ took part in the session on Friday. Conducted by J. Godwin Prem Singh, Director, of Childline Nodal Agency, the objectives of the sess...

No truth in reports on closure of schools, says DEO Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA District Educational Officer (DEO) B. Lingeswara Reddy said that a fake news claiming that schools are going to be shut down from March 1 due to COVID-19 outbreak is being circulated in social media. He appealed to parents and students not to believe in such news, which is totally baseless. He also sought people not to believe and forward such posts. The DEO said that schools are being run in a very peaceful...

Updated: Share Article AAA A protest was organised by representatives of the A.P. NGOs Association at the NGO Home on the premises of the Collectorate here on Friday to protest against privatisation of the public sector unions (PSU) by the Centre on the call given by the All India State government Employees Federation. Association district president K. Eswara Rao alleged that the Centre, instead of allocating captive mines, has decided to privatise the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) on the ple...

Python rescued, released into forests Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Police rescued a python from a person at Lakshmi Nagar in the town and took one K. Gangajalam into custody. On receiving information from local residents, police visited the house of Gangajalam and recovered the eight-foot-long reptile. During questioning, the family members said the python was brought from Military Madhavaram village and was kept in a room. Police alerted the Forest Department personnel, who released it ...