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The Cauvery is maybe 40 per cent of what it was 50 years ago. Almost all our rivers are going through this, which is a disaster waiting to unfold. (Photo: DC)

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Cauvery River is polluted by a range of contaminants, IIT research...

The study found significant contamination by metals such as arsenic, zinc, chromium, lead and nickel

7 Oct 2021 4:10 PM IST

BJP leader Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy. (Photo: Wikipedia)

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Use PM Modi's pictures in central schemes implemented: BJP's appeal to...

The Tamil Nadu BJP cadre indulged in the cleaning of streets at Chennai's Royapuram

7 Oct 2021 11:31 AM IST

The government hopes the venture will generate one lakh direct and two lakh indirect employment per park. (Representional Image)

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Textile parks to get over Rs 4,400 crore incentives

Parks will be developed by a special purpose vehicle which will be owned by the state government and the Centre

7 Oct 2021 7:30 AM IST

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin. (PTI Photo)

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TN CM M K Stalin announces Welfare Board for Tamils living abroad

The state government would constitute a Rs five crore benevolent fund for Non-Resident Tamils, an official release here...

6 Oct 2021 4:54 PM IST

DMK team with Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. (Photo: Twitter)

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DMK team meets Kerala CM, seeks support to oppose NEET

Elangovan gave a copy of a letter written by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin to Vijayan

6 Oct 2021 2:35 PM IST

The last couple of years have also seen three tigers, in addition to at least two leopards, being killed by poachers in the Hyderabad. (PTI Photo)

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Don't kill 'man-eater' tiger, Madras high court tells state government

It may not be a man-eater tiger. There are only a few tigers left in the country, the first bench said

6 Oct 2021 9:06 AM IST

$\I do not want every Tom, Dick and Harry to collect money. Is there any state control over this collection of funds via crowdfunding? We should know where the money is going,\ the court said. (RepresenAFP Photo)$ Business

Sa-Dhan seeks additional Rs 7.5K crore credit guarantee

The guarantee cover was available up to March 31, 2022 or until the guarantees for Rs 7,500 crore loans were used up

6 Oct 2021 7:28 AM IST

Globally, 54 per cent women lost their jobs during the Covid pandemic, said Columbia University Medical Centre Public Psychiatry Education Director and Clinical Psychiatry Associate Professor Dr Stephanie M. Le Melle on Saturday. (Photo:PTI)

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Services, jobs in expansion mode

Post-loosening of pandemic restrictions, the services sector continued to expand in September

6 Oct 2021 7:22 AM IST

Earlier on June 27, 2018, An Extraordinary Gazette Notification by the Tamil Nadu Government imposed a ban. (Representational Image)

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Greater Chennai Corporation launches campaign against single-use...

The movement against the use of plastic bags would be intensified in the coming months

5 Oct 2021 11:43 AM IST

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Stalin ropes in 12 states in fight against NEET

All the 12 states are governed by non-BJP Chief Ministers

5 Oct 2021 7:28 AM IST

Along with the bypolls in Uttarakhand and West Bengal, the ECI is nearly certain to club the election for Huzurabad in Telangana state. (Representational Photo:AP)

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Dalits seeking unreserved seats, a new trend in Tamil Nadu

Since political parties have a tendency to field candidates of the dominant caste in the particular constituency, they...

5 Oct 2021 2:52 AM IST

Kumaran held the Indian flag up in spite of the blows he received. Due to his supreme sacrifice, he earned the sobriquet Kodi Katha Kumaran for not letting the flag fall down. (Twitter Photo)

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TN CM names road in Erode after freedom fighter 'Kodi Katha' Kumadran

4 Oct 2021 4:13 PM IST