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Association urges PM Modi, Tamil Nadu CM to safeguard business and trade from rising fuel prices
The Tamil Nadu Foodgrains Merchants Association Limited has written to PM Narendra Modi and to CM Edappadi K Palaniswami seeking their intervention to safeguard business and trade from the increasing petrol and diesel prices. Read full story
The Teachers Recruitment Board will recruit 2,098 post-graduate teachers for government higher secondary schools this year. Candidates can apply online from March 1 to 25.
Vaccine centres have busy day as 15,800 drop in to take shot
Vaccination centres in the state had their busiest day yet on Friday when 15,856 people took the shots against Covid-19 from 626 centres across the state. Meanwhile, 483 fresh cases and six deaths pushed the state’s case tally to8,44,173 anddeathtollto12,408. There were 4,285 active cases.
The death toll in Friday's Sattur firecracker manufacturing unit accident has climbed to 19 with two more people succumbing to injuries. Read full story
Addicted to investing in stock market, banker swindles Rs 82 lakh from customer’s account, held
An assistant manager at State Bank of India’s Egmore branch, 35-year-old K Madhavan, a native of Manmangalam near Karur, swindled the money to compensate the losses he suffered in the share market.
Work on sewers for Anakaputhur, Pammal to begin
Residents of Pammal and Anakaputhur municipalities will soon get underground sewage connections. Metrowater has been handed over construction of the system after the Chennai River Restoration Trust (CRRT) said sewage from both the localities was draining into the Adyar river and proposed the system that would also help in the ongoing ecological restoration of the river. Construction is expected to begin in about 10 days and is scheduled to be completed in 18 months.
Tamil Nadu: Death toll rises to 19 in the fire incident that took place at firecracker factory in Achankulam near Sattur yesterday (ANI)
In one of the worst fireworks unit blasts in Tamil Nadu in the past nine years, 17 people, including seven women, were killed and 35 others were injured in an accident at a unit at Achankulam near Sattur on Friday. The condition of many of the injured is said to be critical.
No distancing as fans throng Chepauk
There was little social distancing as hundreds of fans flocked to the MA Chidambaram stadium in Chepauk on Friday, a day ahead of the start second cricket Test between India and England. A similar throng was noticed on Thursday as well.
Anna university can’t have 2 M Tech courses this year, AICTE tells HC
The two Centresponsored M Tech courses for which admissions were cancelled by Anna University over quota-related controversy cannot be offered this year as the cut-off date set by the Supreme Court is over, AICTE told the Madras high court on Friday.
32-year-old robs over 20 senior citizens, lands in police net
The city police arrested a man who robbed more than 20 senior citizens of valuables in Mylapore and surrounding areas. Police said the robber came out on bail on January 13 and then started targeting senior citizens.
2-year imprisonment for former vehicle inspector for taking bribe
Twelve years after a motor vehicle inspector was caught red-handed while taking bribe by DVAC officials, a special court for cases dealing with the Prevention of Corruption Act found him guilty and sentenced him to two-year rigorous imprisonment. The official took Rs 1,200 from an autorickshaw driver to release his original RC book.
