V. Moorthy

Chennai's Madhavaram and Maduravoyal constituencies are set for electoral rematches between incumbent MLAs and their rivals. DMK's Sudharsanam faces AIADMK's Moorthy in Madhavaram, while DMK's Ganapathy contests AIADMK's Benjamin in Maduravoyal. Both incumbents highlight development projects and welfare schemes, while challengers cite anti-incumbency and local issues. TVK's influence is also noted.

Chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday dropped milk and dairy development minister V Moorthy from the cabinet.

The Tamil Nadu government is in the process of discussing with the Belgian experts the production of chocolates as well as a range of milk products through the state-owned Aavin.

HYDERABAD: The expansion of Ramagundam unit VII of 500 mw project is all set to achieve the major milestone of boiler light-up and would become the country's largest power station by producing 2,600 mega watt.

With an aim of augmenting milk production, Tamil Nadu government today announced that it would procure 10,000 milch cows with financial assistance from banks.

HYDERABAD: The employees of the National Thermal Power Corporation's southern region headquarters contributed Rs 20,000 for disabled persons to buy artificial limbs, on the occasion of Independence Day, here on Friday.

A 42-year-old man was fatally run over by a speeding train on Monday morning when he was fleeing from police who questioned him in connection with an alleged attempt to steal a cow near Vazhapadi in Salem district of Tamil Nadu.

DMK treasurer M K Stalin has pooh-poohed Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's claim that there has been no political interference in the functioning of the police department since her government came to power in 2011,

In a sudden move, Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa on Friday sacked six of her ministerial colleagues and inducted an equal number to replace them.

She’s been out of the office for more than a month, and on Friday, a day after the Tamil Nadu general elections were done, chief minister J Jayalalithaa returned to the state secretariat and spent 40 minutes in her chamber in the afternoon.

Jayalalithaa drops milk and dairy development minister, replaces him with former minister.

The state-owned Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation (Aavin) has converted a prime property in Madhavaram into a children’s park and playing ground.

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In a bid to strengthen the party ahead of the assembly polls, the ruling AIADMK on Saturday revamped its district units and brought on board ministers, MLAs, and veterans to run the party affairs. Former minister Natham R Viswanathan and his rival and forest minister Dindigul C Sreenivasan will head Dindigul East and West units respectively, while minister Vellamandi N Natarajan is Trichy city unit secretary.

The minister said that the sale of milk through Aavin has also increased from 1.2 lakh litres last year to 1.56 lakh litres.Additional agents are being roped in to increase the milk sales to 1.75 lakh litres, he said.

The shortage of green fodder in Madurai and Theni districts, which has take a toll on the development of milk production, is likely to end soon as the government has proposed green fodder production schemes in both the drought-hit areas.

The party urged the government to amend the relevant Acts to punish adulterators with life imprisonment, as suggested by the Supreme Court recently.

Travelling daily from Avadi to his office in Perungudi is an ordeal for V Moorthy. He takes a suburban train to Beach station, switches over to MRTS till Thiruvanmiyur before boarding a bus to reach his destination. To mitigate problems for people like him, the Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Corporation (Cumta) has firmed up finer details on how to interconnect suburban/MRTS stations, buses and cabs/auto rickshaw with the upcoming phase II line.

In a bid to strengthen the party ahead of the assembly polls, the ruling AIADMK on Saturday revamped its district units and brought on board ministers, MLAs, and veterans to helm the affairs. Former minister Natham R Viswanathan and his arch-rival and forest minister Dindigul C Sreenivasan will head Dindigul East and West units respectively, while minister Vellamandi N Natarajan Trichy Town.

There was high drama at chief minister O Panneerselvam’s official residence on Greenways Road on Saturday afternoon when 50 Aam Aadmi Party members, demanding a CBI probe into the February 20 suicide of an agriculture department engineer, breached the security cordon and staged a sit-in protest on the portico.

A day after some of his 'personal' photographs went viral, state milk and dairy development minister B V Ramana was sacked from the J Jayalalithaa cabinet on Saturday

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