May 2021

TAMILNADU Tamil Nadu skips online meeting called by Union education minister on NEP   Tamil Nadu school education department officials did not attend a meeting called by Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank to discuss the National Education Policy 2020.   A couple of days ago, the Tamil Nadu school education department received an email from the Union … Read more

TAMILNADU Puducherry launches integrated temple management system   The Union territory of Puducherry has become the second state after Tamil Nadu in the country to launch an online integrated temple management system (ITMS), connecting all the 243 temples and mutts in the territory. The system will enable devotees, who are presently not permitted to visit any temples due to lockdown measures … Read more

TAMILNADU Tamil Nadu govt to erect statue of writer Ki Rajanarayanan, convert his school into museum   The Tamil Nadu government will erect a statue in memory of eminent Tamil writer Ki Rajanarayanan in his native village Edaiseval in Tuticorin district.   The government would renovate the Edaiseval Panchayat Union Middle School, where Ki Ra had studied, without losing … Read more

TAMILNADU Tamil Nadu government deputes nodal ministers for seven more districts   The state government on Saturday deputed nodal ministers for seven more districts, including Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, Krishnagiri, Thanjavur, Theni and Kanyakumari. Earlier, nodal ministers were deputed in highly-infected 14 districts. The ministers had been deputed to pay special attention in the highly-infected districts … Read more

TAMILNADU Govt. will work with industry for revival   The Tamil Nadu government will engage with the industry and come out with an economic revival plan, Industries Minister Thangam Thennarasu has said. Interacting with select members of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)-Tamil Nadu, he said the industrial activity would be allowed in phases, with … Read more

TAMILNADU Tamil Nadu govt appoints special monitoring officers for Cauvery desilting   The Tamil Nadu government has appointed four special monitoring officers for the speedy implementation of desilting work in the delta districts of Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam and Mayiladuthurai.   The state government sanctioned Rs 62.9 crore for desilting work in 589 places in Ariyalur, Karur, Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam, Pudukkottai, Trichy, Tiruvarur, Thanjavur … Read more