Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), [2] and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. [3]
The city hosts the Tamil Nadu Global Investors Meet, a business summit organized by the Government of Tamil Nadu. [222] With about 62% of the population classified as affluent with less than 1% asset-poor, Chennai has the fifth highest number of millionaires. [223] [224] [225] Headquarters of major automobile producer Ashok Leyland in Chennai
The Tamil units of measurement is a system of measurements that was traditionally used in ancient Tamil-speaking parts of South India.. These ancient measurement systems spanned systems of counting, distances, volumes, time, weight as well as tools used to do so.
Tamil Nadu (/ ˌ t æ m ɪ l ˈ n ɑː d uː /; Tamil: [ˈtamiɻ ˈnaːɽɯ] ⓘ, abbr. TN) is the southernmost state of India.The tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population, Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, who speak the Tamil language—the state's official language and one of the longest surviving classical languages of the world.
Ooty (listen ⓘ; officially Udagamandalam, anglicized: Ootacamund (listen ⓘ), abbreviated as Udagai) is a town and municipality in the Nilgiris district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located 86 km (53 mi) northwest of Coimbatore , and is the headquarters of Nilgiris district.
The Tamil New Year follows the nirayanam vernal equinox [12] [page needed] and generally falls on 14 April of the Gregorian year. 14 April marks the first day of the traditional Tamil calendar and is a public holiday in the state of Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka and Mauritius.
Tamil Nadu is also home to the Tamil film industry nicknamed as Kollywood and is one of the largest industries of film production in India. [ 189 ] [ 190 ] The term Kollywood is a blend of Kodambakkam and Hollywood . [ 191 ]
Chennai is located at on the southeast coast of India and in the northeast corner of Tamil It is located on a flat coastal plain known as the Eastern Coastal Plains . The city has an average elevation of 6 metres (20 ft), its highest point being 60 m (200 ft).