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20 June – 2024 Tamil Nadu alcohol poisoning: At least 47 people are reported killed after suffering methanol poisoning caused by tainted liquor in Kallakurichi district in Tamil Nadu. [97] [98] 22 June – Subodh Kumar Singh is dismissed as the director general of the National Testing Agency following uproar over the 2024 NEET controversy. [99]
23 September 2024 Ranil Wickremesinghe: Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government Harini Amarasuriya: National People's Power: 24 September 2024 18 November 2024 Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Minister of Justice, Public Administration, Provincial Councils, Local Government and Labour [58] Chandana ...
Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) is a program undertaken by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs of Government of India.The scheme was launched on 25 June 2015 and aims to develop infrastructure in important cities and municipalities across the country. [1]
eMigrate was launched in 2014 by the Overseas Employment Division of MEA, India. [4]In October 2024, External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar relaunched the portal as version 2.0 with more functionalities including a 24*7 multilingual helpline support to address workers' issues and quicker registration of feedbacks for redressal. [5]
The 2024 Indian general election was held in Tamil Nadu on 19 April to elect 39 members of the 18th Lok Sabha. [1] The results were announced on 4 June 2024, after the completion of six other phases of voting in other parts of the country. [2] [3]
Tamil Nadu is a major center for medical tourism and Chennai is termed as "India's health capital". [9] Medical tourism forms an important part of the economy with more than 40% of total medical tourists visiting India making it to Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu Congress Pioneered the first Midday Meal Scheme in India in the Year 1953. [6] This led to a huge wave of enrollment by students from the predominant rural and semi urban pockets of Tamil Nadu, which helped increase the Literacy rate of the state from 16% in 1947 to 82% in 2011.
The current seat of the assembly is at Fort St. George in Chennai. The first election to the assembly on the basis of universal adult suffrage was held in January 1952. [7] The legislature of Tamil Nadu was bicameral until 1986, when it was replaced by a unicameral legislature after the abolishment of Tamil Nadu Legislative Council. [8]