Tag Archives: Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu makes chess compulsory in schools

by Kiran Manral WHAT’S HAPPENING Tamil Nadu will be the second state in India to make chess a compulsory subject for all government and aided schools. Gujarat was the first state in India to require that students learn chess. This is a bid to improve the cognitive skills of the students, especially those from “educationally backward” districts (Times […]

Powering on: Tamil Nadu village to become energy self-sufficient

by Aditi Krishnan WHAT’S HAPPENING While the rest of the state languishes under severe power cuts, Odunathurai in Mettupalyam, a small village in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, is all set to supply itself with free energy within the next five years. The villages panchayat (local grassroots self-government body), which has won the distinction of being the […]

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