TPDK stages protest
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Members of the Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam staged a protest on Friday condemning the Central Government’s alleged discrimination against the State in vaccine distribution.
The outfit’s general secretary K. Ramakrishnan said members of the organisation across the State held placards and flag in front of their houses and shared the photographs of the protest on social media platforms to comply with the lockdown norms.
He alleged that the government gave more vaccines to State that had a lesser population than Tamil Nadu. This was step-motherly treatment, he added.
No stickers on buses about new scheme
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Women enquiring about the free travel scheme in city buses at Gandhipuram Town Bus Terminus on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Siva SaravananS
On the first day of the rollout of the scheme for women to travel free of cost in ordinary city buses on Saturday, the Coimbatore Division of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) did not paste the stickers announcing the new scheme on the buses, causing confusion among women passengers.
“Many women were unaware that the scheme was starting (on Saturday),” said G.S. Lalitha, secretary of the women’s wing of Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam (TPDK).
EVR Periyar Salai or Grand Western Trunk Road? Chennai road name board sparks controversy
When contacted, an official from the State Highways department said that records had always shown the road s name as Grand Western Trunk Road.
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CHENNAI: Is it EVR Periyar Salai or the Grand Western Trunk Road? A board put up by the Highways department near the Chennai Central Metro station mentioning the latter rather than the former has sparked a controversy with opposition parties slamming the move.
The road, previously known as Poonamalle High Road, was renamed EVR Periyar Salai in 1979 by then Chief Minister M G Ramachandran during the Periyar centenary celebrations.