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  • Madras HC modifies bail condition of BJP state secretary SG Surya

    Madras HC modifies bail condition of BJP state secretary SG Surya

    Madurai: The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court on Friday modified the bail conditions of BJP state secretary S G Surya in the case registered against Madurai MP Su Venkatesan for allegedly posting derogatory tweets.

    The court allowed Surya to appear before the Chennai Cyber Crime Police instead of the Madurai Division. Justice G Elangovan passed the order on a petition filed by Surya, seeking the above amendment to enable him to take care of his elderly mother, who is speech and hearing impaired, and grandfather, who is nearly 100 years old. Will have to stay in Chennai for.

    Surya was booked by the Madurai Cyber Crime Police for his social media post defaming MP Venkatesan. He was arrested on June 17 and sent to judicial custody, but four days later the Madurai JM court released him on bail on the condition that he would appear before the Madurai cyber crime police daily.

  • AITUC union to hold protest on July 6 demanding filling up of vacancies

    AITUC union to hold protest on July 6 demanding filling up of vacancies

    CHENNAI: AITUC-affiliated Tamil Nadu Government Transport Corporation Workers Union has announced that it would stage protests across the state demanding filling up vacant posts of drivers, conductors, technical and office categories through direct recruitment.

    A resolution to this effect was adopted at the union’s executive committee meeting held at Thiruvannamalai on June 20 said the union general secretary R Arumugham. The protests would be held across the state on July 6.

    The union would hold protests seeking fulfilment of 12 point charter of demands including payment of seven months’ arrears as per the 14th wage settlement agreement and extension of wage agreement benefits to the pensioners.

    Arumugham demanded that the management should drop its proposal to appoint the drivers on a contract basis and retired drivers and conductors.

    “There are over 20,000 youngsters who underwent driver training at the Institute of Road Transport. They are registered at the employment exchange in the hope of getting a job. Those qualified should be provided job, ” he said.

  • Holiday declared for schools in 6 districts due to heavy rains in Tamil Nadu

    Holiday declared for schools in 6 districts due to heavy rains in Tamil Nadu

    Chennai (IANS) | Due to heavy rains in many parts of Tamil Nadu, holiday has been declared for schools in six districts including Chennai. According to the Meteorological Department, this is the first time since 1996 that Tamil Nadu has received such heavy rainfall in the month of June.

    A holiday has been declared for schools in Chennai, Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram, Vellore, Ranipet and Tiruvallur districts.

    Thunderstorm and heavy rains have been lashing these six districts since Sunday night, which continued on Monday morning as well.

    The Meenambakkam weather station recorded 14 cm of rain till 5.30 am on Monday. Automatic rain gauges (ARGs) at Taramani and Nandanam recorded 12 cm of rain on Monday morning and 11 cm at Chembarambakkam.

    Meteorologists predicted rains to continue till Tuesday and IMD predicted rain in 13 districts including Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu, Cuddalore, Perambalur and Tiruchi till Tuesday.

    The Regional Meteorological Center (RMC) has issued an orange alert for Chennai and neighboring districts, predicting heavy rains.

    Heavy rains have led to water-logging and traffic snarls in several areas of Chennai.

    –IANS

  • DMK cannot be stopped by raids and arrests: Udhayanidhi Stalin

    DMK cannot be stopped by raids and arrests: Udhayanidhi Stalin

    Chennai (IANS) | Tamil Nadu Sports Development and Youth Affairs Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin has said that DMK leaders are not afraid of Prime Minister Modi or Home Minister Amit Shah, they can never be cowed down by arrests and raids. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi was addressing a gathering in Pudukottai, Tamil Nadu on Sunday. The youth leader said that the CBI, ED and Income Tax have become volunteer forces of the BJP. He said the BJP was trying to enter Tamil Nadu through the back door as it could not win elections in the state.

    He asserted that the DMK would oust the BJP and its henchmen (AIADMK) from the state in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    The minister called on Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi of keeping 21 files pending without signing them, as most of them were against the corruption of AIADMK ministers of the previous government.

    Notably, after the midnight arrest of Tamil Nadu minister Senthil Balaji, the DMK is on a collision course with the BJP-led central government.

    Chief Minister Stalin himself is strongly against the arrest, has even challenged BJP that DMK also knows politics and what to do. Stalin has also said that if the DMK retaliates, the BJP will not be able to tolerate it.

    –IANS

  • Senthil Balaji will continue to be a minister without portfolio in the Stalin cabinet.

    Senthil Balaji will continue to be a minister without portfolio in the Stalin cabinet.

    Chennai (IANS) | Tamil Nadu Minister for Power, Excise and Prohibition Senthil Balaji, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and remanded to judicial custody by a court, Chief Minister M.K. Ministers without portfolios would remain in Stalin’s cabinet. From now on, Balaji’s power department will be handled by state finance minister Thangam Thennarasu, who recently replaced P. Thiagarajan.

    Senior leader and Tamil Nadu Housing Minister Erode Muthuswamy will hold the additional charge of Excise and Prohibition. Stalin made a recommendation to this effect to Governor R.N. From Ravi

    Soon after his arrest, Balaji complained of chest pain and was admitted to the Omandurar Multi-Speciality Hospital, where he underwent an angiogram test and doctors suggested immediate bypass surgery as he had three blockages in the coronary arteries of his heart. .

    Balaji was arrested by ED officials on Wednesday in a case related to a cash scam for a job in the Tamil Nadu Transport Corporation. This matter pertains to the year 2011-16, when he was the then Chief Minister J.J. He was a minister in the AIADMK government led by Jayalalithaa.

    Balaji later resigned from the AIADMK to join the DMK and was made a minister in the Stalin cabinet.

    –IANS

  • Amit Shah will be on a tour of Tamil Nadu on Sunday

    Amit Shah will be on a tour of Tamil Nadu on Sunday

    Chennai: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Tamil Nadu on Saturday to meet party workers and industrialists.

    Shah will first meet the industrialists in Chennai. This would be followed by a meeting with party leaders from the Chennai South Lok Sabha constituency at a marriage hall in Kovilambakkam.

    According to the BJP leaders, Shah’s visit is aimed at activating the party’s grass-roots workers in the run up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    BJP will contest the Lok Sabha elections in alliance with the AIADMK and the party expects to win 11 seats, which include Chennai South, The Nilgiris, Coimbatore, Vellore, Sivaganga, Ramanathapuram, Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli and a few other seats.

    AIADMK General Secretary and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami is also scheduled to meet Shah in Chennai. Later Shah will leave for Vellore in a chopper to attend a public rally on Sunday.

  •  Rajnath Singh invites German investments in UP & Tamil Nadu Defence Corridors

     Rajnath Singh invites German investments in UP & Tamil Nadu Defence Corridors

    New delhi. Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh held a bilateral meeting with German Federal Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius in New Delhi on June 06, 2023. Both Ministers reviewed the ongoing bilateral defence cooperation activities and explored ways to enhance the collaboration, particularly defence industrial partnership.

    The Raksha Mantri highlighted the opportunities that have opened up in the defence production sector, including the possibilities for German investments in the two Defence Industrial Corridors in Uttar Pradesh & Tamil Nadu. The Indian defence industry could participate in the supply chains of German defence industry and add value to the ecosystem, besides contributing to supply chain resilience.

    Shri Rajnath Singh stressed that India and Germany could build a more symbiotic relationship based on shared goals and complementarity of strength, namely skilled workforce & competitive costs from India and high technologies & investment from Germany.

    India and Germany have a Strategic Partnership since 2000, which is being strengthened through Inter-Governmental Consultations since 2011 at the level of Heads of Government.

    Senior officials from Ministry of Defence, including Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane and Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, participated in the delegation-level meeting.From the German side, State Secretary from Ministry of Defence Mr Benedikt Zimmer, apart from senior officials and the German Ambassador to India, were present. This is the first visit of a German Defence Minister to India since 2015.

    The bilateral meeting was preceded by a Tri-Service Guard of Honour to the visiting dignitary.

    Later in the day, Mr Boris Pistorius will interact with some Indian defence start-ups at IIT Delhi, in an event organised by Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX).

    The German Federal Minister of Defence arrived in India on June 05 on a four-day visit. On June 07, he will be traveling to Mumbai, where he is scheduled to visit the Headquarters, Western Naval Command and Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited.

  • Four vehicles collide in Tamil Nadu, three killed

    Four vehicles collide in Tamil Nadu, three killed

    Chennai (IANS) | At least three people were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between four vehicles on the Tiruchi-Chennai highway near Perambalur in Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Monday. Police said that the road accident happened around 3 am. A tractor, a van, an ambulance and a bus were involved in the accident.

    First the van collided with the tractor in an attempt to overtake. Due to the collision, the tractor overturned and the van came to rest after hitting the road divider.

    A ‘108’ ambulance reached the spot. While its driver and paramedic staff were busy shifting the passengers of the van, the speeding bus rammed into the ambulance first and then the divider.

    Ambulance driver Rajendran, and two paramedic staff Kavipriya and Kuppuswamy died on the spot in the accident.

    The injured tractor driver and occupants of the van have been admitted to the Government Headquarters Hospital in Perambalur.

    –IANS

  • No passenger of TN origin lost their lives: Udhay on Odisha train crash

    No passenger of TN origin lost their lives: Udhay on Odisha train crash

    CHENNAI: After a day visit to Odisha to enquire and inspect the status of passengers of Tamil Nadu natives who traveled on the Coromandel Express which derailed, Tamil Nadu Sports Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin positively said that no person of Tamil Nadu origin is on the list of deceased.

    “There are no Tamilians admitted in the hospital as injured and no name is in the deceased list. We have interacted with the Odisha state officials from their information that only 28 passengers who are Tamilian boarded in the derailed Coromandel train”, said Udhayanidhi while addressing media at Chennai Airport after his arrival.

    “Previously we have released a list of 8 Tamil passengers who went missing but now we have contacted two passengers from that list they are safe now. We could say that the remaining Six passengers Karthik, Ragunath, Meena, Kamal, Kalpana, and Arun are also safe. Some co-passengers acknowledged it as per the information from the railway police”, he added.

    The missing six passengers traveled in B3, B4, B7, B9, S1, and S2 coaches of Coromandel Express. The passengers who traveled in these coaches are safe. As far as now no person of Tamil Nadu origin who boarded in the Coromandel Express has not lost their lives, said Udhayanidhi.

    “This accident could have been avoided. When we visited the hospitals and mortuary the scenes we encountered there worried us. The Union government should find out the cause of the accident and this should not repeat in the future. I hope the Union government will take adequate actions,” said Udhayanidhi.

    Udhayanidhi and transport minister SS Sivasankar later met Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin at his residence in Chennai and briefed him about the situation.

    The Tamil Nadu government has set up a state emergency operations centre at Ezhilagam, Chennai to guide and assist the relatives of the passengers.

    Further, the TN government asked the relatives of the passengers who went missing to contact through toll-free no – 1070, 9445869843 to provide valid information.

  • Special buses to be operated from TN as holidays draw to a close

    Special buses to be operated from TN as holidays draw to a close

    CHENNAI: As summer vacation is nearing its end and schools awaiting to reopen in a few days, the State Transport Department has planned to operate special buses.

    As many as 2,200 buses, with 900 buses towards Chennai, 1300 to other districts and Bengaluru would be operated during the weekend.

    With regards to Tiruchy and Madurai, number of buses would be increased as per requirement.