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Chennai news live: EC to announce Tamil Nadu, Puducherry assembly polls dates today
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I can never forget the inauguration ceremony of the hospital at Dick oya in Sri Lanka. This modern hospital will help many. These efforts in healthcare, that too for the Tamil community, would have made MGR happy. MGR's governance was full of compassion towards the poor, subjects of healthcare, education & women empowerment were dear to him. A few years ago I went to Sri Lanka, where MGR was born. India is honoured to be working for Tamils in Sri Lanka in health sector.
PM Modi at the convocation of Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University
Election Commission of India to announce the schedule for assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry at 4.30pm today.
D Pandian passes away in Chennai
Senior Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D Pandian, 88, passed away at the Government Rajiv Gandhi General Hospital (RGGH) in Chennai on Friday morning after two days of hospitalisation.
Checking lax at TN airports and stations
Tamil Nadu may have tightened quarantine rules for those arriving from Kerala and Maharashtra because of the high incidence of Covid-19 cases, but checks are not stringent at airports, railway stations and at the border. Passengers arriving at Chennai airport undergo a thermal check, while those coming by trains and those driving in are not checked at the border.
PM Modi to address 33rd convocation of Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University today
Customs seizes Rs 70L in foreign currencies
Customs officials at Chennai international airport on Wednesday seized foreign currencies worth around ?70lakh (3.57 lakh Saudi riyals and $2,000) from a passenger and arrested him. Based on intelligence inputs, customs officials intercepted Noormohamed Sultan, 60, of Kancheepuram after he cleared immigration and was proceeding towards security hold area for boarding an Indi-Go flight (6E-65) to Dubai.
Active Covid cases in city continue to increase
Tamil Nadu added 467 fresh cases and five deaths to the Covid-19 registry on Thursday. After 471discharges, there were 4,053 people in the active cases list. This pushed the cumulative case tally to 8,50,096 and the death toll to12,483.
15 days after 23 deaths, 6 killed in another TN fireworks unit blast
Barely two weeks after a blast ripped apart a fireworks unit at Sattur in Virudhunagar district killing 23 people, an explosion rocked a cracker unit at Kalayarkuruchi village in the district on Thursday killing six people. In all, 14 people sustained injuries and have been admitted to Sivakasi government hospital.
All Class IX-XI students will be promoted
Keeping with his populist pitch, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday declared nearly 27 lakh students belonging to Classes IX, X, and XI in TN to have passed this academic year without annual or board exam. The state will soon release guidelines for assessment of marks, he said.
Staff to retire at 60, TN saves Rs 5,000cr for now
In a bid to appease the large government workforce ahead of the assembly poll, the AIADMK government on Thursday raised the retirement age to 60 years from the existing 59. The move may help the government, which is at the fag-end of its tenure and is facing a fund crunch, to defer payment of Rs 5,000 crore towards retirement benefits in the next fiscal year. The decision, however, has evoked mixed response from government staff.