Chennai, March 22 (IANS) NTK chief coordinator Seeman is set to kick off an intensive six-day election campaign across northern Tamil Nadu, covering multiple constituencies between March 23 and March 28 as part of the party’s first phase of outreach ahead of the Assembly elections.The campaign will begin on Monday with a symbolic start, as Seeman is scheduled to offer prayers at the Murugan temple in Tiruttani.Following this, he will embark on a series of vehicle rallies in Tiruttani and Sholi…
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Chennai, March 19 (IANS) Tamil Nadu is preparing to meet a surge in electricity demand as temperatures climb across the state, with power authorities planning to maximise output from coal-based thermal plants in the coming days.The move is aimed at ensuring uninterrupted supply during the peak summer period, when consumption typically rises sharply.The state’s thermal power generation network, with an installed capacity of 5,120 MW, includes major plants in North Chennai, Mettur and Thoothukud…
Chennai, Feb 10 (IANS) The ambitious Rs 14,000-crore Nadanthaai Vaazhi Cauvery River restoration scheme, projected as a major ecological and irrigation lifeline for Tamil Nadu, is unlikely to begin before the upcoming Assembly elections due to administrative and financial bottlenecks, senior officials have indicated.The delay became a political flashpoint after AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami accused the DMK government of deliberately stalling the project.Speaking during the NDA…
Chennai, Jan 27 (IANS) Tamil Nadu is heading into the summer months with significantly lower water reserves after a marginal dip in rainfall during the northeast monsoon, triggering concerns over drinking water availability across the state.Data from the Water Resources Department (WRD) shows that the combined storage in 90 major reservoirs stood at 146.373 thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) as on Monday, nearly 20 per cent lower than the storage recorded during the same period last year.The cu…