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The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) studied the disaster exposure of telecom towers in Assam, Gujarat, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand. In Tamil Nadu, 57% of the 48,416 towers are located in zon...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened five railway stations in Tamil Nadu on 11 October 2026 after their redevelopment under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme (ABSS). They are Ambasamudram (Tirunelveli), Palani (Dindigul), N...
Tamil Nadu met the 95-95-95 goal set under Phase V of the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP-V) in September 2026. The goal requires that 95% of people living with HIV are aware of their status, 95% of those diagnosed...
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...
Five participants from Tamil Nadu won one Silver Medal and four Medals for Excellence at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 in China. Mohammed Salam took silver in Dental Prosthetics. Ragul K.B. earned a Medal for Excellence in I...
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 National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the Forest Department have developed a new 25-hectare mangrove patch at Pichavaram in Cuddalore district at a cost of ₹1.97 crore. More than 75,000 Rhizophora apiculata...
Tamil Nadu has sanctioned 29,108 new police posts, the first such large expansion in 17 years, to ease manpower shortages and reduce the workload of personnel. The State's police-public ratio fell from 198.07 in 2013 to...
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...
Under Rule 110 in the Assembly, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister announced a world-class Olympic City in Chennai, to be built by the Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu (SDAT) at Semmencheri on the OMR corridor, the...
The Tamil Nadu government has launched 'Vettri Karangal' to give construction workers international-standard skills for jobs abroad. 1,000 registered workers will be trained at a cost of ₹15 crore, and another 50,000 wil...
The National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) has introduced RAINCHNNAI, a weather futures contract tied to Northeast monsoon rainfall in Chennai. It is cash-settled and uses official India Meteorological Depar...
