The Union government has officially notified heatwaves and lightning as natural calamities eligible for relief under the State and National Disaster Response Funds, Union Minister Nityanand Rai told Parliament on August 4.…
The Hindu reports that Tamil Nadu Leader of the Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin was arrested on August 4, 2026, in connection with allegedly obscene remarks made during a demonstration on the Cauvery water…
The Tamil Nadu International Kite Festival will unveil a kite based on Poikkal Kuthirai, the traditional dummy horse dance, at its August 14 to 16 event. More than 200 giant kites will…
The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution urging the Union government to ensure the State receives its due share of tax devolution. The Hindu reports that Finance Minister N.…
A five-day-old baby girl placed in the Ammathottil electronic cradle at the Kerala State Council for Child Welfare in Thiruvananthapuram early Tuesday became the 1,000th infant received since the scheme began in…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay will chair a meeting of the state’s Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs on August 8 to discuss the Union government’s proposed delimitation exercise. The…
Hundreds of Megamalai residents protested at the Theni collectorate on Friday against the Supreme Court order directing the eviction of people from over 50 villages in the Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve. The order,…
VIT founder and chancellor G. Viswanathan met Union Civil Aviation Minister K. Rammohan Naidu in New Delhi on Thursday and urged the Centre to speed up the remaining work at the new…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fast-track the Godavari-Cauvery-Gundar river-linking project and grant it national project status. He proposed a special purpose vehicle involving…
Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar chaired a meeting in Bengaluru on Friday after the Cauvery Water Management Authority upheld an order requiring the state to release 3,500 cusecs daily to Tamil Nadu…
