British medical expert Dr. Richard Beale will, over the next few days, monitor the progress in the health of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. This is Dr. Beale’s fourth visit to Chennai in 22 days.
A 50 per cent discount will be offered for international flights on AirAsia from January 9, 2017, booking for which would have to be done before the week ending on October 30.In an official statement, AirAsia said.
A new initiative by the Postal Department has the postmen who are out to deliver mails also to sell postal stationery. Postmen will carry postage stamp, revenue stamps, envelopes.
The reservations for the Deepavali Special Buses commenced today morning (Monday, 24th October).The most popular festival Deepavali is set to be celebrated on Saturday, 29th October.
The Government Railway Police had alerted the train passengers not to carry any inflammable object like cracker during their train travel, especially in a time when Diwali is fast approaching.
The tenure of the representatives of the present local body council came to an end yesterday. The Tamil Nadu State Government has appointed special officers to take care of the administration.
On the occasion of Deepavali festival, 29 special counters for advance booking of bus tickets were opened. On the first day 3000 passengers have booked their tickets.On 26th 3254 buses will be operated from.
Director of School Education, S. Kannappan has sent a circular to educational officers regarding accident free Deepavali festival. In the circular he has mentioned: Coming 29th, the Deepavali festival will be celebrated.
Diwali surprise from government
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Owing to Diwali fast approaching, government employees are set to receive their salary for this month earlier, on 28th of this month. In a report rolled out by the government in this regard,
The Aadhar card coverage in Tamil Nadu until August this year was 6.4 crore out of 7.63 crore. About 4.71 crore of them have submitted their Aadhar details to FPS, say officials. Chennai, Kanchipuram.
4400 special buses will be operated from today for three days on the occasion of Deepavali festival. The transport department has announced that special buses will be operated on 26th, 27th and 28th.
The Pollution Control Board has decided to conduct a survey to assess noise and pollution levels on Deepavali day in Chennai and 11 important cities of Tamil Nadu. During the Deepavali festival day.
The Special Public Distribution System scheme under which commodities such as Urad dhal, Toor dhal and palmolien oil are distributed at subsidized rates to the people expired during the month of September.
New crackers to enthrall this Diwali
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As Diwali is fast approaching, crackers sale is gathering pace. New kind of crackers are introduced to attract children. These new ones are suitable for children and have attracted the buyers.
Food Minister R. Kamaraj informed that there was no time limit to link Aadhaar number with ration cards and essentials would be given at fair price shops to those card holders who failed to link Aadhaar.
As Lakhs of persons plan to travel to their native places to celebrate the popular festival of Deepavali with their families, it is understood that the tickets for travel by train, bus and even by flight have all been sold out.
Chennai Police have given 15 safety measures for bursting crackers.Crackers should be burst only from 6 am to 10 pm. it is an offence to manufacture, sell or burst crackers that emit noise beyond 125 decibels.
Finance Minster Panneerselvam convened a cabinet meeting yesterday. In this meeting it was decided to implement the National Food Security Act from November 1.A government order to this effect was issued.
The Diwali celebration organized by Rotary District 3230 at VGP Universal Kingdom, nearly 1500 children from over 33 special schools took part. This event took place under the guidance.
It will take end of this year for the Tambaram railway station into a passenger terminal following the existing ones: Chennai Central and Chennai Egmore.In ten days from now, the necessary civil.
