Chennai, Jan 7 (UNI) The bye-election to the Erode East Assembly seat will be held on February five, the Election Commission of India announced on Tuesday. The seat in all probability will be again allotted to the Congress as it had won in 2021 Assembly elections and the 2023 bypoll. The bypoll, the second in…
Chennai, Jan 7 (UNI) The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-Madras) has launched Asia’s largest Shallow Wave Basin research facility that could cater to Indian research and industry requirements. Development of this advanced facility is a key demonstration of the Research and Technical capabilities of IIT Madras and the Nation. This state-of-the-art facility is located at…
Chennai, Jan 7 (UNI) After achieving a milestone in cultivating crops in space, ISRO has announced that leaves have started emerging from it. The crop cultivation was programmed as part of one of the 24 scientific experiments launched on board the POEM-4, the fourth stage of the PSLV-C60 that ferried two Spadex Satellites for space…
Chennai, Jan 6 (UNI) Veterantmarxist leader and comrade P Shanmugam was elected as the Party’s State Secretary Tamil Nau Unit. He was elected at the party’s GC meeting held at Villupuram on Sunday evening. Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin greeted him for his appointment as the new State Secretary of CPI(M). He…
Ramanathapuram (Tamil Nadu), Jan 2 (UNI) In a tragic incident, three members of a family were killed and three others critically injured, after an ambulance collided with a lorry at Valantharavai on the Madurai-Rameswaram national highway here on Wednesday midnight. Police said here on Thursday morning that the ambulance was transporting a 64-year-old patient, identified…
Ramanathapuram (Tamil Nadu), Jan 2 (UNI) Over 350 people, most of them patients, had a narrow escape, after a major fire broke out in Ramanathapuram Government Medical College Hospital on Wednesday midnight. Police said here on Thursday morning that the fire was reported at the electrical control room on the second floor of a block…
Chennai, Jan 1 (UNI) The people of this teeming megapolis ushered in the New year 2025 with spiritual fervour traditional gaiety and great enthusiasm in Tamil Nadu. As the clock struck 12, shouts of ‘Happy New Year’ rent the air, with the decibel level reaching a crescendo, as lakhs of people, including women and children,…
Chennai, Dec 28 (UNI) In a significant development for India’s logistics and maritime transport sector, CONCOR, A Navarathna PSU under the Railway Ministry, bridged the logistical gap between Chennai and Port Blair with the successful despatch of it’s first Ice Battery Container with set temperature of 5 deg C from Chennai to Srivijayapuram (Port Blair)….
Chennai, Dec 28 (UNI) The US Mission to India has issued more than one million non-immigrant visas for the second year in a row, including a record number of visitor visas, underscoring the huge demand of Indians for travel to the United States for tourism, business, and education. A press release from the US Consulate…
Chennai, Dec 28 (UNI) Aiming to end 2024 on a high, the Countdown for Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s double record mission–one on first ever space docking technology–docking and undocking series involving Spadex satellite–and the other on 24 scientific experiments as part of POEM-4 involving the fourth Stage of PSLV, onboard the PSLV-C60 launch vehicle,…
