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36 stories for “Chief” · February 2026
Clear filtersA total of 64 Parliamentary Friendship Groups have been set up in the 18th Lok Sabha to deepen ties with other countries. Three-term MP Shrikant Eknath Shinde became the youngest MP nominated to head a group, the India-I...
B.V.R. Subrahmanyam finished his three-year term as Chief Executive Officer of NITI Aayog on 24 February 2026, and Nidhi Chhibber has taken additional charge of the post. NITI Aayog serves as the government's top policy...
Tamil Nadu constituted a 16-member State-level Steering Committee to prepare a Human Resources for Health strategy under the World Bank-backed Enhanced Health Service Delivery Program (EHSDP). It is chaired by the Additi...
After the Special Intensive Revision, the final electoral rolls of Tamil Nadu show over 5.67 crore electors: 2,89,60,838 women, 2,77,38,925 men and 7,617 third-gender voters. Sholinganallur in Chengalpattu has the most v...
In Nagercoil, the Chief Minister unveiled a statue of Ponnappa Nadar, a freedom fighter and Congress leader. The memorial recognises the part he played, together with Marshall Nesamani, in the movement that resulted in K...
Tamil Nadu's Committee on Union-State Relations met in New Delhi to discuss Part II of its report. Constituted in April 2025 as a non-partisan exercise, it started work on 1 June 2025. Part I, covering 10 topics includin...
At the 9th Conclave of Chiefs held in Visakhapatnam, India assumed the chairmanship of the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) from Thailand for a two-year term. India returns to the post after a gap of 16 years. The Ind...
The Maharashtra government under Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis withdrew the 5% quota for socially and educationally backward Muslims. It was introduced through an ordinance in July 2014 by the Congress-NCP government...
Tamil Nadu's Deputy Chief Minister released in Chennai the fourth volume of a comparative etymological dictionary of Tamil and Indo-European languages. Starting from 19 Tamil root words, this volume traces how related wo...
Overview In 2026, Tamil Nadu significantly expanded its pioneering Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme, marking a major milestone in the state’s commitment to child welfare and education. Initially launched to address clas...
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin laid the foundation stone for a Global Sports City in Chennai, a project estimated to cost ₹261 crore. The facility is intended to give the State world-class sporting infrastructure for trainin...
Tamil Nadu used its Climate Summit 4.0 in Chennai to announce that climate action will be embedded in the budget of every government department. The State will also prepare State-level Determined Contributions, patterned...
