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The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992 mandates at least 33% (one-third) reservation for women in Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) across India, including for positions of chairpersons. The HinduC. Palanivel Rajan takes a deep dive to examine whether women have moved from being seen as “proxies” or “rubber-stamp” heads to achieving true empowerment. Hearteningly, hewe…

The awards were given away by Thangam Meganathan, Chairperson, Rajalakshmi Institutions, in the presence of Tejshree Abhay Meganathan, Executive Director, Rajalakshmi Institutions

Four persons from Chennai were killed when the car they were travelling in fell into a roadside well at Alampoondi near Gingee on Tuesday

On December 3, 1995, Nallakannu’s 84-year-old father-in-law, A.K. Annasamy, was murdered by a gang while he was asleep at his house in Marudanvalvu village, then part of Chidambaranar district (now Thoothukudi district)

The Cuddalore Corporation completed the beautifcation and improvement works on the beach at a cost of ₹4 crore

The district administration had made elaborate arrangements in all the centres

IIT Madras is proposing to sell up to 23,07,700 equity shares of face value of ₹1 each

Health officials said that the new single-storey facility, which will cover around 5,000 sq.ft, has 50 beds with separate wards for maternity, newborn care, and in-patients

The four-day event had over 18,000 participants, including from 30 countries

The impacts of climate change are not for the future, they are here, now, and will only inconvenience humans more over time. Geetha Srimathi looks at how the trade and health of folk artistes of Tamil Nadu have already been deeply impacted by the growing summer heat