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Tamil Nadu registered 57 deceased organ donors in January and February 2026, confirming its place as India's leading state in organ donation.The programme is run by the Transplant Authority of Tamil Nadu (Transtan), set...
Early results from radio-tagging Olive Ridley turtles off Chennai suggest the animals come back to the same nesting sites. This is Tamil Nadu's first telemetry study of the species, which the Advanced Institute for Wildl...
Tamil Nadu registered 33 deceased organ donors in January 2026, its best-ever monthly figure. Government Dharmapuri Medical College Hospital, a Non-Transplant Organ Retrieval Centre, led with five donors, followed by Gov...
Chief Minister M. K. Stalin opened an open-air museum at Keeladi, Sivaganga district, built for ₹24 crore, and laid foundation stones for the Noyyal Museum (Erode), Navai Museum (Mandapam) and Grand Chola Museum (Thanjav...
The Tamil Nadu government told the Madras High Court that a Government Order dated 21 January 2026 has abolished the police orderly system. To enforce the ban, every district now has a monitoring committee chaired by the...
The President approved Padma Awards 2026 for 13 people from Tamil Nadu: two Padma Bhushan and 11 Padma Shri. Padma Bhushan goes to S.K.M. Maeilanandhan, executive chairman of the Erode-based SKM Group, for social work, a...
At the Tamil Nadu Global Tourism Summit 2026 in Chennai, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin announced that a Tamil Biennale will be staged in January 2027. The State signed 127 memoranda of understanding valued at ₹22,794 crore,...
In January 2026, Karnataka constituted the Karnataka Platform-Based Gig Workers Welfare Development Board under its 2025 Act on gig workers' social security. Chaired by the Labour Minister, it includes officials, four wo...
Coimbatore (Rs 150.85 crore) and Tiruppur (Rs 100 crore) Municipal Corporations raised funds through municipal bonds in January 2026 for underground drainage and urban development; Chennai had raised Rs 205.59 crore. Ind...
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...
The Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai confirmed the Northeast monsoon retreated from Tamil Nadu on 19 January 2026; Tamil Nadu recorded a winter rainfall surplus of 25.8 mm since 1 January, with Tiruttani at 15.2 C...
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...
