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17 stories for “State” · January 2026
Clear filtersTamil Nadu Forest Department data showed wild animal attacks caused 685 human deaths in the state over 2015-2025, most by wild elephants (522), followed by gaur, wild boar, deer and bear. The highest elephant-attack toll...
Tamil Nadu's Anna Medal for Gallantry 2026 was awarded posthumously to Peter Johnson (who died saving two youths in the Thamirabharani river) and to firemen V. Sankar, S. Rameshkumar and P. Suresh for a flash-flood rescu...
Chief Minister M. K. Stalin launched the Tamil Nadu Women Employment and Safety (TNWESafe) Project (World Bank-financed) and a state-wide free HPV vaccination programme at the Tamil Nadu Global Women Summit 2026. Startin...
On 24 January 2026, the Tamil Nadu Assembly passed the Tamil Nadu Water Resources (Regulation, Management and Augmentation) Bill, 2026. It sets up the Tamil Nadu Water Resources Management Authority to oversee all water...
Tamil Nadu CM M.K. Stalin laid the foundation stone for the Mamallan reservoir on East Coast Road, proposed as Chennai's sixth drinking-water source and the State's first coastal freshwater reservoir.
Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi declined to read his customary address prepared by the State government and walked out of the Assembly on 20 January, the fourth consecutive year; the House resolved that only the government...
As of January 2026, the Tamil Nadu Climate Change Mission (TNCCM), meticulously executed under the specialized aegis of the Tamil Nadu Green Climate Company (TNGCC), has rapidly accelerated its aggressive environmental a...
Tamil Nadu announced its State Awards 2026: the Thiruvalluvar Award 2026 to Dr. Sathiyavel Muruganar, Kamarajar Award 2025 to Idhayathulla, Mahakavi Bharathiyar Award 2025 to Nellai Jayantha, Pavendhar Bharathidasan Awar...
Tamil Nadu signed an MoU with Sarvam AI to build India's first Sovereign AI Park, a ₹10,000 crore project. It will be a complete AI hub with computing infrastructure, secure data systems, research labs and innovation clu...
The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu released the Tamil Nadu Warehousing Policy 2026 in Chennai to promote modern warehousing infrastructure and strengthen supply chains and logistics. It gives five years of incentives to op...
iTNT Hub signed a Letter of Intent with Germany-based XeedQ GmbH at UmagineTN 2026 to start quantum-computing programmes in Tamil Nadu. In phase one, students and startups get remote access to a 4-qubit quantum computer...
Tamil Nadu released the State Indicator Framework (SIF) 2.0 to track SDG progress to 2030, reducing indicators from 314 to 244 across 17 SDGs, monitored by 28 State departments. The State's multidimensional poverty rate...
