October 2024

Tamil Nadu government implemented contract farming, which was included the early 3 farm laws brought by the central government, which the state government opposed.
Now implementing the same in different doesnt change the spirit of the farm laws

The Ministry of National Highways and Transport has announced that Tamil Nadu has topped the list of states in the country for reckless driving and road accidents.
A total of 21,73,287 accidents have occurred in the country in the 5 years between 2018-22. Out of which 2,99,595 accidents have occurred in Tamil Nadu alone.

December 2024

Tamil Nadu will continue its no-detention policy for students up to Class 8.
Countering the Centre's decision allowing detainment for failing students in Classes 5 and 8.

Tamil Nadu government replaces the Rupee symbol ₹' with 'ரூ' in budget, with a Tamil language symbol representing the same on its Tamil Nadu Budget 2025-26.
The previous Budget carried the Indian currency symbol ₹. ![obsidian|250][photo_2025-03-04_13-21-59.jpg]

A foreigner is travelling in Tamilnadu CM Stalin's car. Looks like they are heavily compromised one by one. Current updates - video

HC orders CBI probe into 5800 crore rupees illegal sand mining in Tamil Nadu.
An illegality of such high magnitude could not have been committed without there being “collusion, corruption and connivance” among politicians, the executive and the private miners, the judges said.
There is a ban which the state government imposed on beach sand mining in 2013.
The judges directed the CBI to get to the bottom of the matter since an illegality of such high magnitude, involving national security concerns too due to mining of radioactive mineral monazite (considered an ore of thorium).
The CBI must probe whether the private miners had exported monazite to foreign countries thereby posing a threat to national security.
The orders were passed on a suo motu public interest litigation petition taken up by the court in 2015.
The 2013 ban was imposed in the State during former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s regime when the then Thoothukudi Collector Ashish Kumar wrote to the then Chief Secretary Sheela Balakrishnan flagging large scale illegal mining. Then, the government also appointed a special team headed by senior IAS officer Mr. Bedi to conduct a thorough inquiry and submit a report to it. [The Hindu](Illegal beach sand mining in Tamil Nadu: Madras High Court orders CBI probe - The Hindu)

The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone and dedicated to the nation various rail and road projects worth over Rs 8,300 crore in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu .
Earlier, he inaugurated the new Pamban Rail Bridge - India’s first vertical lift sea bridge and flagged off a train and a ship from the road bridge and witnessed the operation of the bridge.

The Bridge, linking Rameswaram to the mainland, stands as a remarkable feat of Indian engineering on the global stage.
It is built at a cost of over Rs 700 crore. It is 2.08 km in length, features 99 spans and a 72.5- meter vertical lift span that rises up to a height of 17 metres.
Constructed with stainless steel reinforcement, high-grade protective paint.
It is designed for dual rail tracks to accommodate future demands. A special polysiloxane coating protects it from corrosion, ensuring longevity in the harsh marine environment.