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Researchers from the University of Kerala have pinpointed places on Earth whose geology and chemistry resemble conditions on Mars — in Tamil Nadu and in Chile. They found melanterite at Neyveli and gypsum in the Tiruchir...
The 2026 migratory season around Chennai opened with a grey-headed lapwing, a long-distance traveller from East Asia, reaching the Pallikaranai marsh on 20 September, nearly two weeks ahead of its usual first-week-of-Oct...
The Tamil Nadu Department of Archaeology has unearthed the complete skeletal remains of two Iron Age individuals at Thelunganur, close to Mettur Dam in Salem district. Among the iron objects recovered are a 1.9-metre spe...
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 first confidence motion in an Indian legislature traces back to the 1952 Aruppukottai Lok Sabha bypoll in Tamil Nadu, held after U. Muthuramalinga Thevar resigned the seat. The ruling Congress lost to M. D. Ramasamy...
Delhi ranked 268th among 1,000 cities in the Oxford Economics Global Cities Index (GCI) 2026, the highest among Indian cities. The annual index assesses cities on Economics, Human Capital, Quality of Life, Environment an...
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister inaugurated the renovated Gandhi Memorial Museum in Madurai. The work was carried out by the Heritage Wing of the Public Works Department (PWD) at a total cost of ₹10.25 crore. The building...
CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute (CSIR-CLRI), Chennai, has created a leather-like material using coffee husk waste. India produces about 3.5 lakh tonnes of coffee a year, leaving around 1 lakh tonnes of husk. The...
The report of the Justice B. Gokuldas Commission, which probed the 2024 Kallakurichi illicit liquor tragedy, was placed before the Tamil Nadu Assembly on September 8, 2026. It blamed lapses by the Police, the Prohibition...
The Tamil Nadu government is weighing the abolition of the State Planning Commission (SPC), set up about 55 years ago in the early 1970s to assess State resources and plan their balanced use. Posts of Vice-Chairperson an...
Tamil Nadu registered 8.02 lakh births in 2025, around 45,000 fewer than the 8.47 lakh recorded in 2024, a fall of 5.3%. The State's total fertility rate dropped below the replacement level of 2.1 nearly two decades ago,...
On September 3, 2026, a Bill to amend the Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services Act, 2025 was introduced in the State Assembly. It removes references to the National Building Code of India, 2016, which the Bureau of Indian...
