Tamilnadu daily current affairs

TAMILNADU Plea to allot major part of Sterlite’s oxygen to south Tamil Nadu   With oxygen availability in Madurai and the southern region getting worse, hospitals and healthcare experts have demanded that the government take steps to provide a major portion of the lifesaving gas produced at the Sterlite plant to these districts.   The district administration … 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 Covid-19: Tamil Nadu govt sets up committee to coordinate with NGOs   The Tamil Nadu government has set up a four-member state-level committee to coordinate with the non-government organisations for Covid-19 management.   The committee will receive corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds from the industries and coordinate the measures with the support of voluntary organisations. INTERNATIONAL Google Cloud … Read more

TAMILNADU Tamil Nadu labour department to establish control rooms in 8 districts to help guest workers   In a bid to ensure that guest workers continue to work in Tamil Nadu, the labour department has decided to establish control rooms in eight districts across the state to extend relief measures during the pandemic. According to a … Read more

TAMILNADU Tamil Nadu farmers asked to make use of govt’s agri godowns   The Tamil Nadu agriculture department asked farmers to make use of godown facilities in its regulated markets in the state. An official release said the government was taking efforts to resolve the problems relating to transportation of goods against the backdrop of Covid restrictions.   Farmers … Read more

TAMILNADU R Shanmugasundaram is new advocate-general of Tamil Nadu   The DMK’s former Rajya Sabha member and designated senior advocate, R Shanmugasundaram is the new advocate-general of Tamil Nadu. The veteran prosecutor had served as state public prosecutor from 1996 to 2001. This is the first of a series of appointment of law officers to be made in Tamil Nadu … 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: Drones to be used for 3D images of temples   In a bid to introduce transparency and efficiency, the Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR & CE) department proposes to digitize moveable and immoveable properties of 44,000-odd temples under its purview, within eight months. It would take up drone surveys to develop … 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 govt allocates Rs 42.99 lakh for Covid relief to new ration cardholders   The Tamil Nadu government has extended Covid-19 relief to 2.14 lakh new ration cardholders.   The government has allocated Rs 42.99 lakh to disburse Rs 2,000 to each of the new cardholders. The government had already allocated Rs 4,153 crore to disburse Rs 2,000 … Read more