Information and Broadcasting Ministry - Tamilnadu State

 (Anachronistic? ) State List: 

13. Communications, that is to say, roads, bridges and ferries and other means of communication not specified in List 1; municipal tramways, ropeways, inland waterways and traffic thereon, subject to the provisions of List I and List III with regard to such water-ways; vehicles other than mechanically propelled vehicles.   

State List  -Wikipedia 

State Education Policy

MK Stalin promised that the party will form a committee, to consolidate recommendation of 4 previous committees, that discussed increased autonomy for the State. 

He said the party will press the union government, to bring in a constitutional amendment. 

The party will bring the Education Department, back to State list. It is now under concurrent list. 

The party will abolish the NEP and will create a State Education Policy.

The News Minute 

Suprteme Court bars TN government from dispossesing farmers of their lands

 Supreme Court has restained Tamilnadu government from dispossessing farmers from their lands - under the Tamilnadu Land Acquisition Act 2019.  Senior advocate P Wilson informed the Court that all petitioners are farmers, and are cultivating paddy. 

Times of India,      Jan 20, 2020 

selfie spot

 

Although there are no records of a George Biden,  siblings Christopher and William Biden are mentioned - as having served as Captains in the East India Company. 

Church grounds of St. George's Cathedral are now alive with people streaming in to take selfies - at a plaque that documents  a 'honorable Christopher Biden', an ancestor of the President elect.  

- Times of India   Thursday  November 11, 2020 

Siddha Care Centres

 

Every district in Tamilnadu will soon have a Siddha Care Centre -  to treat Covid patients with mild symptoms and asymptomatic patients, said Health Minisater C Viayabhaskar, on Saturday. 

- Timnes of India,   August 01, 2020

100 feet mark

Water level crossed the 100 feet mark at Mettur dam at 4 am on Tuesday, August 13, 2019.

Public Works Department officials marked the event with a small puja.

 Times of India 

Bypass will ruin Auroville

Federal Highway Authority's original proposal passed through greenbelt of the Auroville masterplan -  And it was revised.

'Even the revised plan will be detrimental to the environment and water security,' say the Auroville community.

'The revised proposal of  the Federal Highways Authority of India's bypass around Pondicherry will destroy social, environmental, restoration and water conservation work done by Auroville in the last 50 years', said a representation by submitted by the international township.

Times Of India,  Friday    November 9, 2019