Chennai: Maharashtra Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Nawab Malik was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case, linked to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Reports said a team of ED officials reached his residence on Wednesday evening and then took him to the office for questioning. Recently, ED conducted multiple raids in Mumbai in connection with the money laundering case against Dawood Ibrahim and his aides. According to reports, close to nine places in Mumbai and one in Thane were raided by the ED including the residences of Dawood Ibrahim’s late sister Haseena Parkar…
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Chennai: On a day when his bail plea was set to come up for hearing before a court here, AIADMK senior and former Minister D Jayakumar was today arrested in a fresh case. According to sources, the police have filed the case against Jayakumar under four sections for an unlawful protest by violating Covid-19 norms during urban local body polls on 19 February. Jayakumar was arrested Monday evening on charges of assaulting a DMK party worker during Saturday’s polling to urban local body polls in Tamilnadu. Amid heated arguments and stiff opposition from his family members, Jayakumar was arrested from…
Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras and National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai, are organising Oceans 2022 Conference and Exposition, the bi-annual event for Global Marine Researchers, technologists and engineers, students, and policymakers, till 24 February. This conference is being organised in India for the first time and is being coordinated by the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras. According to a press release, they are organising the event on behalf of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Ocean Engineering Society (IEEE OES) and Marine Technology Society (MTS). The conference is being held in hybrid mode. This event…
Chennai: Observing that language was a fundamental bond that unites people, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has said the drive to protect and preserve mother tongues should become a people’s movement in the country. ‘If we lose our mother tongue, we will lose our identity’, he said, while addressing an event organised by the Ministry of Earth Science on the occasion of International Mother Languages Day virtually from Chennai. The Vice President called for tailoring languages to the changing needs of our times and finding creative and innovative ways to promote them among younger generations. ‘Children should be encouraged to…
The US ambassador to the United Nations has dismissed as nonsense Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that he is putting Russian troops in separatist areas of eastern Ukraine as peacekeepers, saying their presence is clearly the basis for Russia’s attempt to create a pretext for a further invasion of Ukraine. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Monday night that this move and Putin’s earlier announcement that Russia will recognize the separatist areas as independent states are also an unprovoked attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. By his actions, she said, Putin has torn…
Chennai: With the ruling DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance in Tamilnadu securing a landslide victory having won a majority of the wards in the urban local bodies, the party is now facing a rush among winners for top civic posts including Mayors, Municipal Chairman and Town Panchayat Presidents. Also, allies like the Congress and the VCK too are said to be demanding civic chief posts from the DMK. According to sources, the high command has decided to select those with ‘clean image’ for Mayor and other posts after a clear background check. The DMK’s resounding victory was seen as people’s endorsement…
Chennai: Higher Education Minister K Ponmudy has opposed the draft National Higher Education Qualifications Framework (NHEQF) which states that the admission to the first year undergraduate programme will be open to those who have met the entrance requirements. This framework was envisaged in the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020. Noting that mandating entrance exams for getting admissions even in arts and science colleges would affect the students from rural areas, Ponmudy said that Tamilnadu would strongly oppose the proposal mooted under the New Education Policy. He added that the government would inform the Union government about its position on the…
Chennai: The number of persons who tested positive for Covid-19 dipped further to 671 in Tamilnadu on Tuesday. The State reported eight deaths due to the virus. Chennai reported 169 new cases, while Coimbatore’s daily cases went below 100 at 96. A total of 22 districts reported fewer than 10 cases each on Tuesday. The number of samples tested stood at 70,379. This took the total number of samples tested so far to 6,39,61,280. While 2,375 persons were discharged after treatment, the total recoveries so far stands at 33,96,078.
Chennai: The ruling DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance in Tamilnadu has established clear leads in a majority of the wards and is all set to sweep the urban local bodies, as the counting of votes polled in the 19 February ordinary elections began amid tight security today. The counting of votes began at 8 ams in 268 counting centres across the State. As per the early trends, the DMK-led Front, which had won the May 2021 Assemby polls with a comfortable majority and returned to power after a gap of ten years in the company of Congress, MDMK, VCK, CPI, CPI(M),…