These mega projects, worth about Rs 1 trillion, would boost the economy, ensure smooth supply of petroleum products across the nation and also provide the much-needed relief to people looking to get back to work after the lockdown.
Dubai-based Vasco Global Maritime, the middle-east arm of Singapore-based Vasco Maritime, is the sole agent for the service in Dubai.
On May 22 and 23, the Tamil Nadu police shot dead 13 persons in Tuticorin after the months-long anti-Sterlite protests turned violent. A month later, when A Ganesh Nadar visited the homes of a few victims, he found the families and friends still cowering under fear of the police.
The murder charges capped dramatic developments both in the court and outside where a woman head constable witness to the happenings told a Magisterial probe that the two traders were thrashed an entire night by the other police personnel at Sathankulam station where they were detained over alleged lockdown violations late last month.
Migrant workers. Poor students. School dropouts. Impoverished women. Daniel Ponraj and his Shubh Sandesh Foundation are helping them all.
BJP, AIADMK oppose the project while DMK and CPI(M) support the Sethusamudram shipping project across the Palk Strait. T E Narasimhan reports
Protests rocked different parts of Tamil Nadu for the second day on Friday against the capital punishment awarded by a Sri Lankan court to five Indian fishermen for alleged drug trafficking.
This drive-in, drive-out facility will be on offer for passengers on board Scotia Prince.
Downstream oil sector regulator Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board had been pushing for cancellation of the authorisation given to RGTIL.
The investigation under FEMA was taken up by ED based on a reference received from RBI to investigate advance remittances received by certain entities for the purchase of the shares of Tamil Nadu Mercantile Bank through escrow mechanism maintained with Standard Chartered Bank, Mumbai.
Tamil Nadu government deployed state and national disaster response force teams in Kanyakumari district, which bore the brunt of the rain fury.
The actor also said that the Centre will face TN wrath if it fails to set up CMB.
The Dravida Munnetra Kazagham on Monday named two party nominees for the Rajya Sabha election and announced that the third seat was being allotted to ally Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
In his dare, the Congress president asked the PM to reduce the spiralling fuel prices in the country or face a nationwide stir by his party.
Twenty-two foreign nationals among the 35 arrested crew of detained United States-based private ship were shifted from the Central Prison at Palayamkottai in Tirunelveli to Chennai while a court remanded three others to police custody for seven days, officials said.
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Thirty-three crew members of an American firm owned ship were on Friday arrested by Tamil Nadu police on charges of illegally carrying arms and ammunition and straying into Indian territorial waters without proper authorisation.
The ministry refused to buy RGTIL's argument that the government has already allocated all of the projected mmscmd of gas output from the KG-D6 fields to customers in Andhra Pradesh, Maharasthra and other northern states, leaving no gas for transportation through its proposed pipelines from Kakinada to Howrah, Chennai, Tuticorin and Mangalore.
The directions came after the Delhi government told the court that oxygen that was to come from Panipat in Haryana was not being allowed to be picked up by the local police there.
With the much-delayed Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project expected to be commissioned by April, anti-KNPP activists on Monday revived their protest by laying a siege to the plant through sea.
The veteran star likened Modi to tall leaders of India, including Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, A B Vajpayee, K Kamaraj, C N Annadurai, M G Ramachandran, M Karunanidhi and J Jayalalithaa.
Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar hopped on to a fishing boat at Kudankulam amid the anti-nuclear power protests at sea.
SC overrules order to shut down Tuticorin plant but asks the company to pay up for ecological damage.
The company has flouted green norms at its plant in Tamil Nadu, a judge said.
Around 250 people were on Sunday arrested in Tuticorin after being stopped from heading towards anti-nuclear agitators here who, in a fresh form of protest against loading of fuel in Koodankulam plant, buried themselves upto waist in beach sand.
The Sterlite Copper Smelter unit in Tuticorin, which was shut down over two months ago, has resumed operations after the National Green Tribunal's expert panel gave a green signal.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday appealed to people not to fall prey to the "designs" of anti-nuclear lobbyists and defended the police action, in which one fisherman was killed during protests in Tuticorin against the Kudankulam atomic power project.
Bus services to several southern districts including Dindigul, Tuticorin and Tirunelveli were affected after news about the murder of a Dalit leader in Dindigul spread across the areas, police said.
Sathya Agencies started off as a small store in Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu in 1987 selling electronic appliances and household articles.
There is a deep-seated sense of rejection that the new generation Tamil youth have felt for a decade and more now, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
There has to be an enquiry to find out why a fisherman was shot dead 45 kms from the site of the Kudankulam agitation, and also why has the shooter policeman not been suspended yet. A Ganesh Nadar reports.
There has to be an enquiry to find out why a fisherman was shot dead 45 kms from the site of the Kudankulam agitation, and also why has the shooter policeman not been suspended yet. A Ganesh Nadar reports.
Tamil Nadu Chief MinisterJ Jayalalitha, who is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Tuesday in New Delhi, will give him a memorandum to focus on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue.
A Hindu caste group has built a fence around a Dalit colony to prevent them from venturing onto their fields and using sanitation facilities. The reason: The SC community protested against their oppressive employers six years ago. Ganesh Nadar brings attention to the plight of 50 families from Velayuthapuram in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district
On June 1, 2010, under Indian Ports Act, 1908, govt declared Port Blair as 13th major port in India
'It was a professional relationship with Jayalalithaa.' 'Being a businessman, I have to be in touch with the ruling party.'
Unhappy with the lack of seriousness being accorded to voices against the nuclear plant, the protestors have been touring the southern-most districts of the state to spread the word.
Three protesters were killed on Sunday at Paramakudi in Ramanathapuram district in Tamil Nadu after police fired at stone-pelting dalit agitators following reports that their leader had been detained, the security agency said.
Travelling to the Maldives might just get a little more exciting with the government now considering starting a sea route facility to the smallest Asian country.
The ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has bagged a Mayor's post and is leading in all ten corporations including Chennai as counting of votes polled during the two-phased Tamil Nadu civic polls on October 17 and 19 was taken up on Friday.
Villages in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district suffer power cuts for at least three hours everyday. To make matters worse, these villages are plunged in darkness many more times, thanks to frequent power cuts of shorter durations. Once a month, the power cut lasts for nearly the whole day. Officials claim that it is imperative for 'maintenance'. And this special 'maintenance' is not confined to villages alone; even capital Chennai had to put up with a 24-hour power cut recently.
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