Here are the big stories from Tamil Nadu today
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Welcome to the Tamil Nadu Today newsletter, your guide from The Hindu on the major news stories to follow today. Curated and written by Lalitha Ranjani.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has released the Tamil Nadu Electric Vehicles Policy, 2023 in Chennai.
The policy aims to transform Tamil Nadu into the preferred destination for electric vehicle manufacturing in South-East Asia, to attract investments worth a sum of ₹50,000 crore in electric vehicle manufacturing sector and to generate 1.5 lakh jobs.
It also intends to promote Chennai, Coimbatore, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai, Salem, and Tirunelveli as pilot cities for implementing e-mobility solutions. Besides, the policy also aims to promote electrification of commercial and public transport fleets.
A postgraduate student of Indian Institute of Technology — Madras (IIT-M), who was pursuing M.S. in electrical engineering, was found dead in his hostel room. The Kotturpuram Police who have filed a case, suspect it to be suicide. However no suicide note has been recovered as yet, they said.
A police official of the Chennai City Police said the student was a native of Maharashtra. He stayed in a single occupancy room at the Mahanadhi hostel on the IIT-M campus.
The Nilgiris district police arrested five men along the Kotagiri Road, in connection with the murder of a 22-year-old man near the Combined Court Complex in Coimbatore yesterday. They were later handed over to the Coimbatore city police.
The arrested suspects were identified as M. Hari alias Gowtham, 24, C. Barani Sounther, 20, S. Gowtham, 25, V. Arun Kumar and J. Josua Dev Periyan, 23. They were nabbed during vehicle checks conducted after the location of the mobile phone of one of the suspects was tracked.
Actor and Hindupur MLA Nandamuri Balakrishna relaunched the Anna Canteen and NTR Arogya Ratham here on Monday amidst much fanfare. The twin occasions marked Mr. Balakrishna’s 64th birthday celebrations. Speaking to the media, Mr. Balakrishna said that the people of Andhra Pradesh had given a historic verdict to the NDA, and “I shall tirelessly work to fulfil all the promises made to them.”
A delegation of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) led by its Polit Bureau member Varla Ramaiah has lodged a complaint with Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Superintendent of Police (SP) U. Ravi Prakash, alleging that former Minister Botcha Satyanarayana, his personal assistant and some officers had taken bribes from teachers for transferring them to the places of their choice.
The Medical & Health Department launched a mass screening test in the tribal hamlets of Buruga and China Konela of Ananthagiri mandal in the Alluri Sitharama Raju district on Monday, June 10. It also organised a medical camp to detect malaria cases and treat those with symptoms of the infection at Buruga.