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MHRD has launched the Vittiya Saksharata Abhiyan (Visaka), a campaign for promoting digital economy through youth volunteers.

UGC: Universities must go cashless

UGC has asked all the universities to involve students in a campaign for promoting digital economy.

9 Dec 2016 7:13 AM IST

AIADMK members pray for the speedy recovery of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in Coimbatore on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Grand Marina memorial for Jayalalithaa before February 24

A grand memorial in memory of late Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa is likely to stand tall on the Marina Beach.

9 Dec 2016 7:05 AM IST

Tamil Nadu Finance Minister O Panneerselvam.

O Panneerselvam meets Sasikala at Poes Garden

This is the second time the CM is meeting Saiskala in the last two days.

9 Dec 2016 6:59 AM IST

The RBI would like to think it is magenta, but it looks more pink in the eyes of the people with even Amitabh Bachchan quipping that his movie is now more popular thanks to the pink notes.

Income-Tax sleuths warn about flaws in banking industry

Cop exposed major chinks in the banking industry when they arrested four bankers for allegedly helping to launder lakhs...

9 Dec 2016 6:36 AM IST

The new and old notes seized by the I-T department.

Rs 100 crore in cash, 120 kg gold seized in Income Tax raids in...

The raids were fallout of monitoring of phones and following the trail of Prem, who was trying to change some gold bars.

9 Dec 2016 1:15 AM IST

Police on Monday seized 30 lakh in banned notes from a man named Kanakaiah during a routine vehicle check at Jangaon on Monday. Kanakaiah was a trader in Hanamkonda and was taking the cash to Hyderabad in his car. (Photo: DC)

Chennai: IT sleuths raid jewellers' homes, seize Rs 90 cr cash, 100 kg...

The income tax department said they had seized Rs 2,000 crore of undeclared income till Dec 6.

8 Dec 2016 5:30 PM IST

V. Sasikala arrives to pay tribute to political commentator Cho Ramaswamy in Chennai. (Photo: PTI)

Panneerselvam, other ministers meet Sasikala at Jaya's residence

AIADMK has to find a replacement for Jayalalithaa as party chief, and Sasikala is now a frontrunner for the post.

8 Dec 2016 3:59 PM IST

Renault Nissan Automotive India Pvt Ltd have invested around Rs 5,000 crore at the facility in 2008.

Renault-Nissan to scale down production at Chennai plant

The employees at the factory have been informed that the plant would operate in two shifts instead of three from second...

8 Dec 2016 3:57 PM IST

Odisha is prone to natural calamities such as cyclone and flood.

Depression now cyclonic storm, may turn severe; landfall expected in...

Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at isolated places over Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the next 48 hours.

8 Dec 2016 3:50 PM IST

The staff fondly remembered how the AIADMK supremo would try and eat her meals when her three were favourite nurses were around, one for each of them and one for herself. (Photo: PTI)

Jaya offered beauty tips to King Kong' nurses, called them home for...

Jayalalithaa was also quite candid at times ordering' the women staff in her medical team to change their hair-style.

8 Dec 2016 1:38 PM IST

Information and Broadcasting Minister M Venkaiah Naidu. (Photo: PTI/File)

BJP, AIADMK ideologically close; wanted tie-up during TN polls:...

Naidu said that when Modi comforted Panneerselvam, the PM also told the CM that he could rely on the Central government...

8 Dec 2016 10:25 AM IST

Sasikala, the close aide of Tamil Nadus former Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalithaa near her mortal remains kept at Rajaji Hall for public viewing in Chennai. (Photo: PTI)

Did Sasikala manoeuvre AIADMK to emerge kingmaker after Jaya's death?

Jayalalithaa's close confidante now holds the levers of power after meetings with AIADMK heavyweights throughout Monday.

8 Dec 2016 9:40 AM IST