Category: TAMIL NADU

• CHENNAI
• Kanyakumari
• Coimbatore
• Sivakasi
• Auroville
• Mahabalipuram

According to authorities, five more people are said to be trapped in the godown, with the fire and rescue services jointly conducting an operation with the district police.

Looking back at the year, ISRO had two successful commercial launches. The first one was the launch of 36 satellites belonging to the UK-based OneWeb with the LVM3 rocket in March.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted searches and raids at the residences and business premises of a few leaders of the banned Islamist organisation, Popular Front of India (PFI).

With a reduction in the quantity of tomatoes arriving in Chennai's Koyambedu market, South India's largest vegetable market, the price of tomatoes has touched Rs 170 per kilogram here and outskirts in the retail market and the rain in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are being held responsible for this.

The ED sleuths were conducting raids at his premises since morning related to amassing disproportionate wealth during 2006-2011 years when Ponmudi was a minister for mines and minerals.

Ponmudi and his wife P. Visalakshi were earlier acquitted by the Principal District Judge, Vellore in June 2023 in a case filed by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption in 2011.

ISRO will be sending up its Aditya L1, a coronagraphy satellite, on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)/rocket to study the solar atmosphere towards the end of August.

European Space Agency (ESA) from its various centres will be tracking India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft's progress and health, said the space agency, adding that it will also lend support to some future missions.

Even though the Chandrayaan-3 mission is helmed by men, unlike the Chandrayaan-2 mission, a sizable number of women are behind the former, said a senior official of the Indian space agency.

While the first rocket’s first stage is powered by solid fuel, the second stage is by liquid fuel and the third and final stage consists of a cryogenic engine powered by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.

Even as the Tamil Nadu BJP state president and former IPS officer, K. Annamalai has time and again been making unruly comments against the AIADMK and its leaders, the central leadership of the BJP is keen that the party is in its fold.

Sources say that he borrowed the service pistol from the gunman and went inside his room. On hearing a firing noise from the DIG's room, the gunman rushed inside only to find the senior IPS officer lying in a pool of blood.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), in a tweet on Thursday, said: “Announcing the launch of Chandrayaan-3: LVM3-M4/Chandrayaan-3 Mission:The launch is now scheduled for July 14, 2023, at 2:35 pm IST from SDSC, Sriharikota.”

According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on July 1,2023, it had conducted the first hot test on an intermediate configuration of the semi-cryogenic engine, known as Power Head Test Article (PHTA) at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu.

A total of 22 claims for disability and hospitalisation due to the Odisha train accident have been lodged with the general insurance companies under the IRCTC travel accident insurance scheme for train passengers till date, said the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI).

According to the police, the accident occurred on Sunday night and victims -- P. Nagarathinam, Muthamil Selvan, G. Manikandan, R. Ayyappan, S. Deenadhayalan -- were all occupants of the car.

The world's first land-based small modular reactor (SMR) with RITM-200N is slated to be commissioned in 2028 in Russia's Arctic region, said Director General of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev.

According to the joint statement issued by the US White House, the US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi set a course to reach new frontiers across all sectors of space cooperation.

On the occasion of International Yoga Day (IYD), Bollywood actress Hansika Motwani on wednesday perfomed some asanas in the morning and shared that Yoga brings a lot of positivity.

Industry experts said the upward trend will be there for some more months and the markets may turn nervous during the next round of state elections in November/December 2023.

Tamil Nadu BJP state secretary S.G. Suryah has been arrested in connection with his tweet against Madurai MP and CPI(M) leader Su Venkatesan. The arrest was made by the Madurai cyber cell police on Friday night.

In the last 24 hours, Tamil Nadu recorded 10 fresh Covid-19 cases, of which five patients tested positive upon their arrival from abroad, authorities said on Saturday.

The incident had taken place during the election campaigning when the accused and the victim officer were involved in planning security arrangements for the former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswamy.

A coronary angiogram has been performed on the minister who complained of chest pain at the TN Government Multi-Super Specialty hospital at Omandurar where he was admitted.

Addressing the media here, DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Minister for Sports Development and Youth Welfare Udayanidhi Stalin said that the ruling party cannot be cowed down by the intimidation tactics of the Central government.