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The Tamil Nadu government has ordered a rainwater harvesting (RWH) campaign across the State to conserve water and recharge groundwater. Existing RWH structures will be revived, and fresh facilities will be set up in hou...
The Digital India BHASHINI Division, together with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has built text-to-speech models for Sourashtra. Sourashtra is a minority Indo-Aryan language whose speakers are mainly...
Tamil Nadu has earmarked ₹100.72 crore across five years, from 2026-27 to 2030-31, to bolster its forest force. Of this, a forest-fire management programme worth ₹60.58 crore will upgrade fire prevention and emergency re...
Bird watchers in Chennai have reported a rare visitor: a Japanese Sparrowhawk (Tachyspiza gularis) was spotted at the Adyar Estuary. According to records, this is only the third time the species has ever been documented...
The International Space Station (ISS) made a rare solar transit visible from Palavakkam in Chennai, moving across the face of the Sun for roughly 1.38 seconds. A solar transit happens when an object passes directly betwe...
Ahead of the yearly migration season, thousands of migratory waders and shorebirds have flocked to the Muttukadu-Nemmeli estuarine habitats close to Chennai. Covering thousands of kilometres from northern countries, the...
The Global Automotive Research Centre (GARC) at Oragadam, Chennai, is modernising its automotive testing infrastructure with an allocation of ₹221.13 crore under the PM E-DRIVE (Prime Minister Electric Drive Revolution i...
The Tamil Nadu government is widening support for women entrepreneurs across the State through the Vetri Magalir Thozhilmunaivor Membattu Thittam. Eligible women can obtain loans ranging from ₹10 lakh to ₹5 crore through...
Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has asked the State government for clarifications on certain provisions of the Tamil Nadu Private Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which remains under his consideration...
The Tamil Nadu government has formally notified the Tamil Nadu State Mental Healthcare Regulations, 2026. They lay down minimum standards for infrastructure, staffing, professional qualifications and patient care in ment...
Sir Thomas Munro's visit to Ootacamund (Ooty) on 29 September 1826 led to the creation of the British Raj's first hill station in the Nilgiris. Munro, Governor of the Madras Presidency from 1820 to 1827, came at the invi...
The Tamil Nadu government has shortlisted Cheyyur in Chengalpattu district and Manellore near Gummidipoondi in Tiruvallur district as possible locations for Chennai's second airport. The step follows the State's decision...
