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India celebrates Teachers' Day on 5 September each year in honour of the birth anniversary of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Born on 5 September 1888 at Tiruttani in Tamil Nadu, he was a noted philosopher, scholar and edu...
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,...
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh unveiled RAKSHA on September 3, 2026, a 10-year framework for India's defence diplomacy and global strategic partnerships. It seeks to deepen bilateral and multilateral defence ties through...
India and Uzbekistan have raised their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and set an annual trade goal of $5 billion by 2030. Eleven agreements were signed or exchanged in areas such as mining, tourism...
World Sanskrit Day is observed every year on Shravana Purnima; in 2026 it fell on August 28. It aims to promote and preserve the Sanskrit language and its cultural heritage. Sanskrit Day has been officially observed in I...
Madras, founded at Fort St. George in 1639, began as a trading post exporting cotton piece goods, indigo and hides. In 1899 Alfred Chatterton of the College of Engineering, Guindy, was tasked with promoting industrial te...
The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust (MCBT) in Chennai has marked 50 years of reptile conservation. Founded by Romulus 'Rom' Whitaker and Zai Whitaker to protect crocodiles and other reptiles, the 8.5-acre centre is home to m...
Tamil Nadu has announced a Social Justice Welfare Board for the welfare of Dalits. The Board will extend financial help for education, medical treatment and marriages. The State unveiled 67 measures under the Social Just...
The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a resolution seeking exemption from the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) for teachers appointed before August 23, 2010, the date from which the National Council for T...
Tamil Nadu will roll out the TN-ARIVU (Analytical Thinking, Reasoning, Innovation, Venture and Entrepreneurship, Upskilling) curriculum, covering Artificial Intelligence and emerging technologies, from the 2027-28 academ...
The Union Government has chosen two teachers from Tamil Nadu for the National Teachers' Award 2026. They are M Thangaraj of Tenkasi and J Amudha, Headmistress of Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2, Madurai. Thangaraj was recognise...
Sadbhavana Diwas is marked on 20 August, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, to promote national integration, communal harmony and goodwill. Born in Bombay in 1944, he became India’s youngest PM...
