Tamil Nadu Today | State Budget tabled in Assembly
The HinduBudget 2024 | Key takeaways and reactions Presenting his first Budget as the Finance Minister in this DMK regime, Thangam Thennarasu announced many welfare schemes and expansion of flagship programmes at the Tamil Nadu Assembly in Chennai. Criticising the Budget announcements, AIADMK leader Edappadi Palaniswami called it a mirage while BJP leader K. Annamalai said the Tamil Nadu government has made the same empty announcements, which it has been making for the last three years, in this year’s Budget as well. Formula 4 night street car race | Madras High Court waves green flag The Madras High Court permitted the Tamil Nadu government to conduct the Formula 4 night street car race with certain conditions such as paying attention to the highest degree of public safety and avoiding inconvenience to public. The second Division Bench of Justices R. Mahadevan and Mohammed Shaffiq made it clear that the in-patients of the Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital at Omandurar Estate, the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital or that of Madras Medical College Hospital should not be subjected to any inconvenience, since it was represented by a batch of public interest litigation petitioners.