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With Cyclone Nivar advancing towards Tamil Nadu and expected to make landfall between Mamallapuram and Karaikal on the night of November 25, residents of Chennai and surrounds are worried that there could be a repeat of the nightmarish 2015 floods. On Wednesday, authorities announced the release of 1000 cusecs of…
At around 10.30 pm on Sunday night, J Gnanaraj Jesudasan heard a voice call out to his son. Jesudasan, 54, a journalist with Tamil publication Maalai Tamizhagam, went out to see who it was. Manoj Selvam, a young man known to them, had arrived and Jesudasan heard Manoj asking his…
The CBI’s report on the probe into the Sathankulam custodial deaths of Jeyaraj and Beniks details what took place on the fateful days between June 19 (when the duo was beaten) and June 23 in Thoothukudi district, when Beniks died a day after Jeyaraj. The Lede had earlier reported on…
In Part 1, we saw how rules were bent, prompting a Rs 5800 crore loss to the Tamil Nadu state in royalties and illegally mined minerals. Rs 5800 Crore Loss To TN Exchequer From Unpaid Royalties & Cost Of Illegally Mined Minerals In Part 2, we look at some of…
In the ongoing court battle between the beach sand miners of Tamil Nadu, the state government and various departments of the Government of India, a fresh calculation has come to light – that the miners owe the state of Tamil Nadu over Rs 5800 crore of royalties and cost of…
The BJP-led Central government has pushed through what they call, long pending reforms in agriculture, in the form of three Farm Acts. These legislations are as follows: (a) The Farmers’ Produce Trade And Commerce (Promotion And Facilitation) Act, 2020 (b) The Farmers (Empowerment And Protection) Agreement On Price Assurance And…
Deaths are seen mainly in severe cases of COVID-19 which require admission into Intensive Care Units (ICU). And while tests by RT-PCR kits can provide results in six hours, it often takes between 24 to 48 hours for the patient to access results due to processes when done in government…
The state government has projected that GSDP (Gross State Domestic Product) of Tamil Nadu is likely to fall by nine to ten percentage points from 8.1% growth as estimated in 2020-21 Budget to -1% to -2%. This projection is internal and could change if there is another lockdown before the…
“Initially we were very apprehensive that we were going to have more mortality,” Dr Asha Frederick, Joint Director of Medical & Rural Health Services (TM) who is part of the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme’s Tamil Nadu TB Cell, admitted to The Lede. Her patients already had lung disease – tuberculosis.…