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Clear filtersIndia has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish the country's first Mega Greenfield Shipyard at Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu. The project forms part of the maritime cooperation framework between India and...
ZSI Study Confirms Holocene-Era Fossil Bed in Thoothukudi’s Panaiyur In a significant paleontological breakthrough, a study by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has confirmed that the fossil assemblage discovered at P...
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has allowed the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology to take up the 11th phase of excavation at Keeladi and its cluster in Sivaganga district, along with seven other sites....
The Union Minister of Civil Aviation has announced that Tuticorin Airport in Tamil Nadu will henceforth be called Thoothukudi Airport in English. The change drops the anglicised name 'Tuticorin' and brings the airport's...
V.O. Chidambaranar Port in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, has rolled out India's first Digital Twin platform for a port.A digital twin is a live virtual replica of a physical system. Fed with real-time data, the platform track...
V.O. Chidambaranar Port in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, has set a national record by handling 147 windmill blades from a single vessel. This is the highest such volume unloaded from one ship at any port in India. It beats th...
About 45% of the workforce at Berth 9 of V.O. Chidambaranar Port in Thoothukudi are women, serving in administrative and operational roles. Berth 9 is a container terminal run under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) m...
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin launched new schemes and opened several projects in Chennai. The MSME Department's Tamil Nadu Women Entrepreneur Empowerment Scheme (TWEES) aims to help 1 lakh women become entrepreneurs in fiv...
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked authorities to reconsider a quarry proposal near the Vallanadu Blackbuck Sanctuary in Thoothukudi district, with protection for blackbucks in mind.Tamil Nadu's State Environmen...
Senior CPI leader R. Nallakannu passed away in Chennai on 25 February 2026 at 101 and was given State honours. Born in 1925 at Srivaikundam, Thoothukudi, he joined the freedom struggle as a student. Arrested in the 1949...
SIPCOT industrial parks grew from 24 in 15 districts (32,525 acres) before 2021 to 54 parks across 49,468 acres. India's largest workers' hostel, with 18,720 beds, was built at Sriperumbudur, and new TIDEL Parks are comi...
The 16th Tamiraparani water bird census recorded 21,091 birds of 69 species across 68 irrigation tanks in Tirunelveli, Tenkasi and Thoothukudi districts of southern Tamil Nadu. Migratory species, including those using th...
