Madurai: Parents allege unfair treatment of class 12 students suspended for bursting firecrackers

A parent alleged the School Management Council (SMC) member kept the students away from the class while the headmaster denied they were suspended. 

26 Oct 2022

Tamil Nadu: Over 300 guest lecturers, non-teaching staff at govt colleges fear loss of job over GO

In Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) alone, over 50 teaching and non-teaching staff are employed above the permitted number.

24 Oct 2022

Pregnant woman, mother die as 108 ambulance rams tree

A pregnant woman and her mother died on the spot after a 108 ambulance crashed into a tamarind tree at Sengulam village in the early hours of Friday.

22 Oct 2022

Why drive when you can glide? Rope car to link Palani-Kodai in 40 mins

A rope car to bring the travel time between Kodaikanal and Palani down from three hours to just 40 minutes will soon become a reality if all goes well.

12 Oct 2022

Aish, Trisha pictures on cover of Ponniyin Selvan raise eyebrows

Tapping in on the movie's popularity was a publisher who replaced the original cover featuring the drawings of Manian Selvam with the photographs of the actors

10 Oct 2022

Delayed exams leave 10000 TN B.Pharm students in the lurch, CM's help sought

T Raja, a lecturer working in a self-financing college, claimed the Directorate of Medical Education has been following the same pattern for the last many years.

10 Oct 2022

Madurai Kamaraj University salaries stalled till discrepancies fixed?

V-C requests release of Rs 54 crore, says need to resolve irregularities, audit objections accumulated over 15 years 

10 Oct 2022

40 years on, Tamil Nadu road to Kerala still a dirt track

Fruits and other agricultural products from Theni in  Tamil Nadu are being transported to Kerala regularly," they said.

07 Oct 2022

Will TRB provide 50 per cent reservation to guest lecturers in assistant professor recruitment?

"They stuck on to the job believing that their job would get regularised one day.

04 Oct 2022

'Form common recruitment board for colleges, universities'

Initially, managements of government-aided colleges never thought about money as their aim was imparting higher education to the masses.

28 Sep 2022

NHAI to lay two 15km 'model safe roads' in Kanniyakumari and Tirunelveli

According to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the work is estimated to cost Rs 2 crore.

28 Sep 2022

A team effort to take theni back to the roots

Memories flitted through his mind as he sat above the Venkatachalapathi temple on the hilltop of Thamaraikulam.

18 Sep 2022

Stalin launches free breakfast plan for govt primary students 

Stalin said the scheme would bring beneficial change in the lives of the poor people and billed the initiative as one that would earn a place in history.

16 Sep 2022

River of woes weigh down Melapravu villagers' lives

Melapravu is located in Anaikaraipatti village panchayat which falls under the Bodinayakanur Assembly constituency.

15 Sep 2022

The distance to reach the unreached

Since the ’70s, this theni-based organisation has been rescuing thousands of orphans & women.

11 Sep 2022