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01 January 2012


	As a New Year gift, the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, Ms Jayalalithaa, today announced Pongal bonus for state government employees for the year 2010-11...

02 January 2012


	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, Ms Jayalalithaa, has announced that the state government would give 20 lakh rupees as financial aid towards the expenses for conducting the national conference of the All India Federation of Women Lawyers which is to be held in Chennai...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today ordered setting up of Sidha Departments at 10 ESI Dispensaries functioning in Chennai, Salem,Madurai and Coimbatore...

	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, Ms Jayalalithaa, today condoled the death of eminent Bharathanatyam exponent K J Sarasa, who died after a brief illness...

	The Speaker of the Tamilnadu legislative assembly, ministers, senior government officials and police officials today met Ms Jayalalithaa and extended their best wishes for the new year...

	AIADMK general secretary and the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today announced the expulsion of N Veerasamy,the Coimbatore suburbs joint secretary of MGR youth wing from the party...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has expressed grief over the death of 14 persons from Cuddalore district in various rain related incidents due to the cyclonic storm Thane...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa expressed grief over the death of police constable Allaudin...

04 January 2012


	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today announced an over three-fold increase in the consolidated pay offered to members of theTamil Nadu Temple Protection Force...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today announced solatium to the families of two Police personnel and three others killed in Thane cyclone and road accidents...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today assured the people of Cuddalore district that the AIADMK Government would provide all the help to rebuild their lives...

05 January 2012


	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has allocated 20 crore 20 lakh 80 thousand rupees for Human resources development schemes. She has also sanctioned 6 crore rupees to impart skill based training for 15 thousand unemployed educated youths and 7.5 crore rupees to impart soft skill training to 25 thousand college students...

	In a move to help sugarcane farmers and mills in the State, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today announced 2100 rupees as the base support price for sugarcane besides encouraging ethanol production in mills...

	The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa today chaired discussions with the concerned officials to fix the procurement price of sugarcane and to work out the modalities of the functioning of the multi specialty hospital to be established at the Omandurar estate in Chennai...

	The general secretary of AIADMK and the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa has announced that the 95th birth anniversary of the party's founder leader Dr MGR would be celebrated across Tamilnadu, Pudhucherry and other states from the 17th till the 19th of January in a grand manner...

07 January 2012


	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has alloted 39 crore rupees to set up toilet facilities in 779 schools functioning under the Adi Dravidar welfare department...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has ordered release of water from the Bhavani Sagar Dam in Erode district from tomorrow to facilitate irrigation of areas under the Lower Bhavani Project Ayacut...

	Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today condoled the death of 2 persons who were electrocuted...

08 January 2012


	Amid the simmering Mullaiperiyar dam row, the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayallaithaa today announced setting up of a memorial for British engineer Colonel John Pennycuick, who had constructed the dam at Lower Camp in Theni district over 116 years ago...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa expressed grief over the sudden demise of Sukumaran Nambiar, a national executive member of the Bharatiya Janata Party...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today announced an assistance of three lakh rupees to the family of a watchman of a Cooperative development bank at Vaalparai who was trampled to death by an elephant...

	The General Secretary of the AIADMK and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa today announced that the Joint Propaganda Secretary of the AIADMK Pazha Karuppaiah, MLA was being relieved from his post...

09 January 2012


	Water will be released from Amaravathi dam in Tiruppur district from tomorrow to irrigate over 54 thousand 637 acres of farmland in the new as well as the old Ayacut areas in Tiruppur and Karur districts on the orders of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has announced that the state government would provide a subsidy of nine percent in the project cost of textile parks to be set up in Tamil Nadu under the Integrated Textile Parks Scheme...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has condoled the deaths of 10 persons who died in 2 separate drowning incidents in Erode district...

10 January 2012


	A review meeting chaired by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was held today at the secretariat to discuss the relief measures undertaken in Cuddalore and Vizhupuram districts which have been devastated by Cyclone Thane...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has ordered implementation of a scheme to spray the fertilizer, Payaru Adhisayam in 50 thousand hectares of land to increase the productivity of pulses...

	Senior state and central government officials today made courtesy calls on Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in Chennai...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa will inaugurate the Chief Minister's Comprehensive Medical Insurance Scheme at the state secretariat in Chennai tomorrow...

	Several Ministers and AIADMK functionaries today met Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and received her blessings...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has appointed former legislator R Murugaiya Pandiyan as the Chairman and the Managing Director of the Tamil Nadu Housing Board...

	With efforts in full swing to bring back normalcy to cyclone-battered Cuddalore,Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today appealed to the people to help the State Government with their contributions, which would be entitled to 100% tax exemption, to intensify relief measures...

	A Business Support Center to support Japanese companies planning to invest in Tamil Nadu will soon be set up in Chennai. A Memorandum of Understanding for this purpose was signed today in the presence of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa...

	To commemorate the 95th birth anniversary of the founder leader of AIADMK, Dr MGR on the 17th of January, the party's general secretary and the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa will garland the statue of the leader at the party headquarters in Chennai...

	The general secretary of AIADMK and the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today announced that Nainar Nagendran, MLA was being relieved from the post of Tirunelveli city district party secretary, from today...

11 January 2012


	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today expressed grief over the demise of three police personnel in three separate incidents while on duty. She ordered cash assistance to their families...

	Several MLAs and functionaries of the AIADMK called on the General Secretary of the party and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ms Jayalalithaa today...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today launched the Chief Minister's Comprehensive Medical Insurance scheme which covers more than one thousand one hundred ailments and treatment options for all including infants...

	The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ms Jayalalithaa, today filed a petition in the Madras High court seeking action against the Editor and Publisher of the Tamil Magazine Nakkeeran and the Joint Editor of the Magazine for publishing a defamatory article about her...

	A donation of two crore rupees was handed over to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today on behalf of the State Bank of India towards the relief measures initiated by the state in the cyclone-hit districts...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today announced that saplings would be given to farmers free of cost to help them plant horticultural crops including coconut, cashew and jackfruit which had been destroyed by the cyclonic storm Thane...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had condoled the death of three persons who lost their lives in three separate incidents. She ordered solatium to their families...

12 January 2012


	The General Secretary of the AIADMK and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms. Jayalalithaa today expelled Virudhunagar district AIADMK literary wing vice President S P Shanmuga Moorthy from the party...

	On the orders of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, more than 10 thousand special buses will be operated to various parts of Tamil Nadu for the benefit of the public visiting their native places for the Pongal festival...

13 January 2012


	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has ordered distribution of 7.41 crore rupees as performance based incentive to one lakh 27 thousand Transport workers for pongal festival...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today sanctioned 54 lakh rupees for providing basic amenities to the tourists visiting Tirumalai and Kodiyakarai in Sivagangai and Pudhukottai districts respectively...

	Functionaries of the Sree Haithiamman temple in Nilgiris district today called on Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and thanked her for declaring a local holiday for the entire Nilgiris district on the occasion of Sree Haithiamman Festival, an important day for the Baddugar Community...

	The general secretary of the AIADMK and the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today announced that public meetings would be held across Tamilnadu on behalf of the party's students wing on the 25th of January to observe Anti Hindi Martyrs Day...

	A sum of 4 crores 57 lakhs 26 thousand was handed over to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa by people belonging to various sections towards the fund for Cyclone relief assistance...

	Coinciding with the traditional harvest festival of Pongal, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today launched the distribution of sarees and dhotis to the poor under the costless saree and dhoti scheme at the secretariat...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa announced a cash solatium of 2 lakh rupees from the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund to Grade One Constable Rajan, who died in harness...

	Flag Officer Commanding-in-chief, Eastern Naval Command, Vice Admiral Anil Chopra called on Chief Minister Jayalalithaa at the state secretariat today...

	Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today announced Pongal incentives for the employees of Aavin Milk Producers Cooperative federation ,district milk cooperative unions and Consumers cooperative societies...

14 January 2012


	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, Ms Jayalalithaa today extended her heartfelt Pongal Greetings to the Tamil people, world over...

	On the occasion of Pongal Day the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa has ordered for the award of Chief Minister's Medals to 1686 Police personnel, Fire and Rescue services Personnel and Prison wardens...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has announced performance based incentive to 32,870 workers of the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd for the year 2011...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has ordered presenting of the Chief Minister's Award for Excellence in e-Governance for Government Departments under 3 categories to encourage and recognize government departments which effectively use e governance in its service to the public...

	The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa has announced the names for awards to be given by the Tamil Nadu Government, instituted in the name of prominent scholars and selfless leaders of Tamil Nadu...

16 January 2012


	AIADMK general secretary and Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa will garland the statue of the party's founder leader Dr MGR at the party's headquarters on his 95th birth anniversary...

	The Chief MInister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa today expressed grief over the death of a leading fireman who was killed while fighting to put out a fire at the Ezhilagam Complex in Chennai early today...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has announced that an Integrated Urban Development Scheme would be implemented at a cost of 6 thousand 654 crore rupees to develop infrastructure facilities in areas coming under corporations, municipalities and town panchayats...

	AIADMK general secretary and the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today exhorted party men to take a pledge to ensure the party scaled greater heights and reached a level that it could decide the course of national politics...

17 January 2012


	A party development fund of 4 crore 64 lakh rupees was handed over to the General Secretary of the AIADMK and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa by the representatives of various party wise districts today...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has ordered computerisation of the commercial taxes department, to enhance the performance of the department to keep pace with the growing trade transactions at a cost of 230.96 crore rupees...

	The General Secretary of the AIADMK and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms. Jayalalithaa has announced several changes in the party's governing council...

	The General Secretary of the AIADMK and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ms Jayalalithaa, today garlanded the statue of the party's founder Dr MGR situated at the party headquarters in Chennai on the occasion of his 95th birth anniversary...

18 January 2012


	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today expressed grief over the death of one Kasthuri, who died in a road mishap on the 16th of January...

	The general secretary of AIADMK and Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, Ms Jayalalithaa, today announced S Muthuselvi as the party candidate for the Sankarankoil Assembly constituency by-election...

	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today ordered distribution of additional sets of uniforms to 47 lakh students studying in government, municipal and corporation schools at a cost of 260 crore rupees...

20 January 2012


	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today attended the reception in connection with the wedding of the Madras High court judge, B Rajendran's daughter Akila to R Prasanna...

	The President and Managing Director of Ford India, Michael Boneham today met Chief Minister Jayalalithaa at the state secretariat...

	The chairperson of the Cancer Institute in Chennai, Dr V Shantha today met Ms Jayalalithaa at the state secretariat today...

	S Muthuselvi,the AIADMK candidate announced for the Sankarankovil assembly constituency by-election, today met Ms Jayalalithaa and sought her blessings...

21 January 2012


	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today ordered the expansion of the pioneering Biometric Smart Card scheme for disbursement of Social Security Pension, throughout the state to provide pension at the doorsteps of the beneficiaries.This scheme would be expanded in 3 phases starting from June 2012...

	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa yesterday held a review meeting at Fort St George, the state secretariat, to discuss the damage caused to Ezhilagam in fire accident...

	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, Ms Jayalalithaa, today sanctioned 2.50 crore rupees in the first phase to the Social Welfare and Industries and Commerce Departments to purchase new computers,furniture and stationery, after they suffered extensive damage in the Ezhilagam fire ...

22 January 2012


	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today announced the creation of 1,267 posts of graduate teachers to be filled up in the current academic year in various middle schools which have been upgraded...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today allotted 1.10 crore rupees to modernise the Government Printing Press with new printing machines and computers...

	Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today announced assistance of two lakh rupees to the family of an armed Police Head Constable of Greater Chennai, who died in harness following a heart attack...

23 January 2012


	In a bid to free this metropolis from traffic congestion, the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today issued orders for laying a second outer ring road at a cost of 1,075 crore rupees...

	The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa today chaired another meeting of the state Ministers and concerned officials to review the post-cyclone relief works and relief distribution being carried out in Cuddalore and Villupuram districts...

	With the aim of encouraging quality literary works in Tamil and helping economically poor authors, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today directed that the assistance given to such writers be hiked from 25 thousand rupees to 50 thousand rupees...

	The Chief Minister of Tamilandu Ms Jayalalithaa today condoled the deaths of 2 children who died in a road accident on the Manaparai road in Trichy district...

24 January 2012


	With a view to meet the growing drinking water requirements of Chennai and its suburbs, the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today ordered linking of 2 lakes in Kannankotai and Thervaikandigai villages in Gumidipoondi block in Thiruvallur district and to create a new reservoir at a cost of 330 crore rupees...

	The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa today sanctioned family pension for construction workers, who were members of the Construction Workers Welfare Board...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today inaugurated five new Panchayat Union office buildings built at a cost of 8 crore rupees at various places in Tamil Nadu...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today gave away appointment orders to 76 persons recruited to different posts in the Chennai Corporation on compassionate grounds...

	The Member-Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Iyal Isai Naataga Manram, Actress Kumari P S Sachu made a courtesy call on the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa today...

	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today inaugurated the Pillur 2nd Drinking water scheme, which was created on behalf of the Coimbatore corporation, at a cost of 114 crore rupees. She also launched the Ukkadam solid waste Management plant at a cost of 97 crore rupees...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today inaugurated the additional buildings in the Government hospitals built at a cost of 50 crore rupees...

	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today condoled the deaths of 2 children who were drowned in a lake in Trichy district...

25 January 2012


	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today sanctioned 25 crore rupees towards the special cash assistance scheme of the Tamilnadu Adi Dravidar Housing Corporation, to provide efficiency training in vocational courses to SC, ST and Converted SC Christians...

	The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa today announced doubling of subsidy to municipal corporations and municipalities to remove bottlenecks at traffic junctions across the state for speedier traffic movement by construction of bridges and widening of roads in the required places...

	People from various walks of life presented cash assistance worth 4 crore and 15 lakh rupees to Ms Jayalalithaa for the rehabilitation process in Cuddalore and Vizhupuram, which was hit by cyclone Thane...

	A Japanese business delegation led by Nobuo Ohashi, the chairman of Japan- Indian Business Co-operation Committee met Ms Jayalalithaa today at the state secretariat...

	The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa has condoled the death of a ten month old child. She announced a solatium to the child's family...

26 January 2012


	A party development fund of 6 crore 82 lakh rupees was handed over to the General Secretary of the AIADMK and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa by office-bearers of various party wise districts today...

	In an attempt to generate more quality sportspersons, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa today announced a slew of measures for the development of sports, including a Special Scholarship for elite sportspersons with the capability to win medals in Olympics and other International Games...

	The general secretary of AIADMK and the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today announced the names of SA Nigam and Raja Pazhanisamy Nainaar as candidates to contest the Mumbai corporation election...

	In a bid to improve the road infrastructure, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today ordered acquisition of lands to take up bypass road projects in 11 towns in the State at a total cost of 153 crore rupees...

27 January 2012


	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today inaugurated the Vandalur fly over, constructed at a cost of 27 crore rupees, through video conferencing. She also inaugurated 15 new fly overs across Tamilnadu which have been constructed at a cost of 46 crore 78 lakh rupees...

	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today gave away cash prizes to the tune of 18 lakh 16 thousand rupees to the 10 th and 12th class students belonging to BC, MBC, Denotified and minority communities and to the physically challenged for securing high marks in the board examinations...

	Ms Jayalalithaa today presented the Chief Minister's awards of one lakh rupees each to outstanding sportspersons, coaches and physical education teachers on behalf of the Tamil Nadu Sports Development Authority today...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has directed revamping of 19 Chennai Railway Police stations and ordered the creation of 444 new posts including Inspectors and Sub-Inspectors to reduce the crime rate...

	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today sanctioned a sum of 4 crore and 50 lakh rupees to construct own buildings for 5 Adi Dravidar hostels.This would enable the students of these communities to pursue their education by staying in the hostels...

	The Senate leader of Chile Guido Girardi today called on the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa at the state secretariat in Chennai...

	Various departments of the state and prominent individuals today contributed 28 crore 4 lakh 65 thousand 912 rupees to the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund towards the restoration and rehabilitation work post cyclone Thane, which hit the coast of Cuddalore and Villupuram districts on the 30th of December last...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has ordered the release of water from the Mettur dam to irrigate the agricultural lands of Thanjavur and Thiruvayaru divisions till the 5th of February...

	The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa today allotted 3.20 crore rupees to construct tourist guest houses at the famous temple pilgrim destinations of Rameswaram, Thirukadaiyur and also the tourist destination of Dhanushkodi...

	AIADMK general secretary and the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today announced changes in party postings in Nilgiris district...

	Tragedy struck at the 63rd Republic Day celebrations in the hilly Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu yesterday, when an Armed Reserve Police constable's acrobatic feat proved fatal...

28 January 2012


	The AIADMK's governing council members today met Ms Jayalalithaa and received her best wishes...

	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, Ms Jayalalithaa today announced revival of the Clean Village Movement, aimed at ensuring 100 per cent hygienic conditions in the rural areas of the state and allocated 1.55 crore rupees for this purpose...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today ordered setting up a Citizens' contact centre at a cost of six crore rupees to bridge the information gap and take governance to the people. She also instituted awards to encourage e-governance...

	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today announced a further slew of welfare measures in a bid to encourage sports...

29 January 2012


	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today sanctioned purchase of new laptops or computers with printers and broadband internet connection for MLAs from the MLA Constituency development fund...

	The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalithaa has ordered the release of water from the Sathanur dam in Thiruvannamalai district for irrigation from tomorrow...

	Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has condoled the death of a special Sub-Inspector of Police and announced a solatium for his family...

	The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Ms Jayalalithaa today alloted 8 crore and 90 lakh rupees for the renovation of the Anna and MGR memorials in Chennai...