Nagapattinam Lok Sabha member V. Selvaraj has submitted a set of railway-related demands pertaining to his constituency to Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. In the memorandum, Mr. Selvaraj said the Nagapattinam Lok Sabha constituency, spread over Nagapattinam and Tiruvarur districts, had a large section of people whose primary occupation was agriculture and they travelled mostly by train because of the …
NAGAPATTINAM: Hundreds of residents of three panchayats in the district protesting against CPCL’s land acquisition for plant expansion stuck to plan and boycotted the general election on Friday. Over the past month, residents of Panangudi, Gopurajapuram and Narimanam staged demonstrations, mounted black flags outside their houses and more recently mailed postcards to the chief electoral officer announcing poll boycott over …
Chief Minister M.K.Stalin on Monday, March 4, 2024, accused the Union government of ignoring the genuine demands of the Tamil Nadu government and said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was only frequenting the State as the Lok Sabha polls are around the corner. “But they cannot deceive the people of Tamil Nadu who always stand on the side of the …
Crops ready for harvest were damaged in Tamil Nadu, including the Cauvery delta and northern coastal regions, due to overnight rains in certain parts of the state. Chennai and neighbouring Chengalpattu and Kancheepuram, besides Villupuram and Kallakurichi received good spells of rain while the Cauvery delta regions including Cuddalore, Nagapattinam and Tiruvarur received moderate to heavy rain. A Regional Meteorological …
The State Government would take a call on the demand of the fishermen to remove the oil pipelines owned by the Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited from Pattinamcherry off the Nagapattinam coast, said Environment Minister Siva. After visiting Pattinamcherry, a coastal hamlet near here, to take stock of the oil spills in the sea, Mr. Meyyanathan told journalists that the leakage …