A TV Channel exclusively dedicated for school students in Tamil Nadu will start its operations on Monday. Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami will launch the…
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As water roared out of the sluice gates of Stanley reservoir in Mettur on August 13, farmers in Tamil Nadu’s delta region rejoiced. It was…
I was on a voyage of exploration to Dhanushkodi, the ghost town forgotten in time. On the way I stopped by the Indira Gandhi Bridge,…
A Chennai city civil court has dismissed a petition filed by film director KP Selva accusing director Atlee of plagiarising his story to make ‘Bigil’…
Chennai’s water crisis will hopefully improve from mid-September as the city’s water sources are set to get inflows in a few days. According to reports,…
The passengers onboard a Bengaluru-Chennai IndiGo flight were restless for a few minutes when the aircraft opted for a go-around after flying as low as…
On Wednesday night, a group of 8 men intercepted, chased and hacked 35-year-old Raja, a resident of K Pudur, Madurai, in the middle of the…
Just a day after a ‘red alert’ was sounded in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore district following intelligence inputs of six Lashkar-Taiba (LeT) terrorists’ entry into the…
The Met Department has predicted light rain for Tamil Nadu and its capital Chennai over the weekend. According to the Regional Meteorological Centre, light to…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami on Friday announced a subsidy package for direct sowing of paddy for farmers. Encouraging farmers to take up direct…
For the last year, 48-year-old Damodaran has lived in constant fear. Every time this TASMAC employee from Podanur in Tiruvallur district walks on a deserted…
Following the high alert in Coimbatore after intelligence inputs about terrorist movement, around 2,000 police personnel have been deployed across the city. Speaking to the…
On August 8, a day before the AIADMK would lose the closely-contested Vellore Lok Sabha seat, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami sacked his…
A wave of palpable excitement sweeps a busy street at Sellur in Madurai as Stella readies to make that grand entry. The small crowd, consisting…
Kannadas, 29, is a busy man. On a recent Tuesday morning, he was occupied with continuous phone calls related to his leaf-plate business. Kannadas was…
A high alert was sounded in Coimbatore on Thursday after intelligence inputs said that six terrorists had entered Tamil Nadu. “..a group of six LeT…
After news spread around the suspension of housekeeping services on most Southern Railways trains, the Ministry of Railways has sanctioned last-minute payment to continue the…
In April this year, Usilampatti town in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai district woke up to the shocking news of an elderly farmer’s murder. Sixty-year-old Vellaisamy Elumalai,…
Two days after a group of lawyers wrote to the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court Justice Vijaya Tahilramani, protesting Justice Vaidyanathan’s remarks on…
E-commerce giant Amazon which has doubled its last mile delivery network in Tamil Nadu on Thursday announced the launch of its largest “delivery station” in…
Barely a day after a shocking video of a group of men lowering a dead body from a bridge in Tamil Nadu went viral, the…
Leaders from Tamil Nadu have reacted to the late-night arrest of former Union Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday, with the DMK calling it an act…
A month after TNM first reported on the plight of a Tamil couple fighting for custody of their children in the United Kingdom, Mohammed and…
The scared villagers of Pannimadai in Coimbatore, who bore witness to the fatal atrocities of an elephant, have named the tusker ‘Maranam’, meaning death in…
In a heart-wrenching video that has emerged online, a group of men from Tamil Nadu’s Vellore district are seen lowering the body of a dead…
A video of an elderly couple from Tirunelveli defending themselves against masked intruders went viral in the state a little over 10 days ago. Tamil…
The strike announced by private water tankers across Tamil Nadu has been withdrawn on Wednesday evening. Speaking to TNM after two rounds of talks with…
The Tamil Nadu police, on August 19, arrested six men belonging to the Hindu Munnani after they allegedly assaulted Christian pilgrims in Vellore district. The…
Tamil stand-up comedy is a growing platform in Chennai. While it is relatively new compared to English stand-up comedy, performing in one’s native language is…
The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered action against a woman under the Protection of Children from Sexual offences (POCSO) Act, for falsely accusing her…
Power supply will be suspended in the following areas on Thursday, August 22, 2019 from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm for maintenance work. Supply will…
Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) have found that subjecting cancer cells to microgravity results in the formation of giant cancer cells with…
A group of over 10 men allegedly hacked and killed a man, M Dhananchezhian, at Govindhavadi Agaram in Kancheepuram district on Tuesday. Close to 10…
The Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) has seized two Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) and documents from the SRM Institute of Science and Technology after a…
The Tamil Nadu government is unlikely to implement the 10% reservation for economically weaker sections (EWSs) for the academic year 2019-20 across universities in the…
The latest report from environmental NGO Greenpeace has bad news for India – Chennai features as one among the major SO2 (sulphur dioxide) emission hotspots…
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in the INX Media case. On January 25,…
What happens when you find yourself amidst professional comedians? In addition to the sudden pressure to sound funny and appear cool while doing so, you…
Come this Saturday, Coimbatore’s streets are sure to be filled with the colours of the rainbow. The city is set to host its first official…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on Wednesday, August 21. Power will be shut down from…
Weeks after speculation that she had quit politics, J Deepa, the niece of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has announced that the MGR Amma Deepa…
The Chennai police arrested a 23-year-old man for murdering a minor, who had allegedly exposed the man’s plan to murder someone. According to reports, Prabhu Deva…
The Tamil Nadu government has set a three-month deadline for private, government and educational institutes and buildings to set up state-approved rainwater harvesting systems. Those…
Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation (TACTV) has paid a sum of Rs 5,000 to three patrons for arbitrarily disconnecting Tamil news channel, Sathiyam TV.…
Five men, including one from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), have been booked for attacking a shopkeeper in Tiruppur, demanding money for installing a statue…
A tale of unity, initiative and public service has emerged from a small village in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur district. Around 100 men and women came…
It was in 2008 that Bhavani*, then a teacher at a government school in Tiruvannamalai, first noticed the coloured threads on the hands of her…
The presence of bio luminescence or sea sparkles in the waters at beaches along the East Coast road near Chennai, left passers by in awe…
In a tragic accident, a 5-year-old child from Chennai’s Kundrathur area died after a wall collapsed on her. According to reports, Masani was sleeping along…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on Tuesday, August 20. Power will be shut down from…
Tamil Nadu Private Water Tankers Association have once again declared a strike across the state starting from August 21, Wednesday. Murugan of the Tamil Nadu…
The Tamil Nadu government has increased the selling price of Aavin milk by Rs 6 per litre, applicable from Monday. The price of procurement of…
A video purportedly that of about a dozen police officials manhandling a man, in front of hundreds of onlookers has been going viral on social…
In a brutal crime, a 45-year-old tea shop owner in Madurai was hacked to death allegedly by five men at daybreak on Saturday. The police…
The Madras High Court has permitted the transfer of a case against an IG-rank officer who is facing allegations of sexual harassment from a woman…
Tamil Nadu’s capital city, once dubbed the ‘Detroit of Asia’ due to its burgeoning automobile manufacturing units and allied industries, is now staring at a…
The Delhi police arrested a 29-year-old man on Saturday for making a bomb threat call to Chennai airport earlier this month. After multiple calls from…
Commuters using Chennai Metro Rail would soon be able to buy food and beverages from the outlets in the station premises using their Metro travel…
Days after a TASMAC employee was found dead at the shop where he worked, more than 300 TASMAC employees from Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri staged protests…
Tamil Nadu has recorded the highest number of deaths due to manual scavenging in the past five years and that number increased on Friday. Two…
Caste discrimination is a reality in several schools in Tamil Nadu, there have been reports on students being made to wear colour-coded threads on their…
A Chennai-based employee of Indian tech giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has approached the Labour Court in Kancheepuram following an incident of alleged sexual harassment…
On a sultry night in May, 35-year-old Manikandan, a resident of Madhichiyam in Madurai, rushed out of his house to the Vaigai river bank in…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami said on Thursday that the state government is firm on the existing two-language policy in the state. The Chief…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami on Thursday presented special bravery award to an elderly couple from Tirunelveli district, who recently fought armed robbers with…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on Saturday, August 17. Power will be shut down from…
Tamil Nadu government announced the creation of two more new districts on Thursday. Newest in the line of districts are Tirupathur and Ranipet, carved out…
The decision taken by a lawyer’s association in Chennai to cancel a scheduled lecture on the abrogation of Article 370 has drawn flak from various…
Chennai-based anti-corruption NGO, Arappor Iyakkam has called for scrapping of tenders announced for solid waste management (SWM) in 11 zones in the city. This development…
Chennai-based anti-corruption NGO, Arappor Iyakkam has called for scrapping of tenders announced for solid waste management (SWM) in 11 zones in the city. This development…
Actor Vijay Sethupathi, who has been conferred the Kalaimamani Award by the Tamil Nadu government, is set to receive his award in a few days’…
It was nearing 3 am on August 3, a Sunday, and 20-year-old Geetha* was seated at a deserted bus stop in Trichy. Accompanied by a…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami announced the creation of two new districts in the state on Thursday. During his address at the Independence Day…
Actor-politician Rajinikanth reiterated his stand on the abrogation of Article 35A and Article 370 issue on Wednesday and stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and…
Prasadam from a popular temple in Tamil Nadu has been given the Geographical Indication (GI) tag. The renowned Palani panchamirtham which is served as the…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami called P Chidambaram ‘a burden for the earth’ on Tuesday. He made this comment in response to Chidambaram’s…
The Chennai District Collector has given her go-ahead to acquire Veda Nilayam, the residence of former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J Jayalalithaa and convert…
Chennai witnessed a dire water crisis this summer as images showed long queues for water tankers as borewells and lake beds in and around the…
The Kalaimamani awards from 2011 to 2018, announced this March, were awarded to the artistes by the Chief Minister on Tuesday. In the announcement that…
The state Home Department on Tuesday informed the Madras High Court that it was up to the government to decide upon premature release of life…
It is the first time in her life that 28-year-old Deepa is seeing destruction of such a massive scale. Deepa and around 110 others live in…
The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) has reiterated its demand that Dalit persons belonging to the Christian or Muslim faiths be extended reservation in government institutions…
The fate of 146 employees working with Cauvery News in Tamil Nadu hangs in the balance after the management declared that they are closing down…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on August 14, Wednesday. Power will be shut down from…
Two days after the Union government decided to revoke Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which gave autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir, Rajesh* was headed…
Two days after the Union government decided to revoke Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which gave autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir, Rajesh* was headed…
In early July, two children from Sathyamangalam in Tamil Nadu’s Erode district succumbed to diphtheria. Around this time, several other cases of diphtheria were being…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami on Tuesday oversaw the opening of the sluice gates of the Mettur dam in his home district of Salem.…
Chennai city is all set to experience thundershowers over the next two days, the Met Department has predicted. Even as the southwest monsoon has been…
70-year-old Shanmugavel, a resident of Kalyanipuram in Kadaiyam, is sitting at a table at the entrance of his house when a masked intruder is seen…
Tamil actor Vijay Sethupathi has slammed the NDA government’s move to abrogate Article 370 without involving the views of the Kashmiris. In a radio interview with SBS…
Following massive inflows into the Cauvery river, people living in the low-lying areas of Hogenakkal have been forced to move to safer places, according to…
The Chennai police arrested a 32-year-old man for murdering his girlfriend and trying to stage it as a suicide. According to reports, the woman who was…
A flood warning has been issued in downstream areas along the Cauvery in Tamil Nadu, as the Mettur dam is fast filling up due to…
An all party meeting led by the DMK on Saturday demanded the immediate release of detained former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Ministers Mehbooba Mufti and…
Actor-politician Rajinikanth has come out in support of the government’s move last week to nullify Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which gave special status…
Chennai, which is recovering from a water crisis, is set to receive 8 tmcft water from the Krishna river. The government’s announcement comes a day…
Helicopters of the Indian Air Force led the way in rescuing stranded people from Upper Bhavani section in Nilgiris as heavy rains lashed the area…
The School Education Department of Tamil Nadu has issued a circular pushing for Aadhaar enrolment for school students under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan. This despite…
Chennai police arrested a man for making a hoax call to the police control room claiming that a bomb will explode at the Chief Minister’s…
Chennai’s Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) will soon introduce new buses that enable persons with disabilities to travel comfortably. The buses will be designed in such…
Floods, landslides, damaged roads and sheets of rain. The Queen of South India, Nilgiris, has been brought to its knees by the incessant rainfall that has…
A two-year-old girl is feared to have been washed away in the flash floods near Pollachi in Coimbatore district late on Thursday night. Heavy rains…
After a tight race to the finish and with a difference of 8,460 votes, DMK’s Kathir Anand won the Vellore Parliamentary elections on Friday. He…
A red alert was sounded at Chennai International Airport on Friday after a bomb threat call was made early Friday morning. The red alert was…
A day after the state government removed Tamil Nadu Information Technology Minister K Manikandan from the cabinet, DMK Chief MK Stalin has expressed shock over…
The Avalanche region in Nilgiris district has now recorded the wettest 24 hours ever to be seen in Tamil Nadu, according to Tamil Nadu Weatherman…
The district collectors of Coimbatore and Nilgiris have announced holiday for schools and colleges in the districts on Friday due to incessant rainfall. The announcement…
A 20-year-old Dalit man, who was assaulted near Virudachalam in Cuddalore district, by five members of the Vanniyar community, was arrested by the police on…
Two fresh cases of diphtheria have been reported from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. This comes weeks after 10 children who had contracted diphtheria were admitted…
Vaiko’s MDMK seems to be in a desperate fund crunch. The leader, who was recently in the news for his fiery Rajya Sabha speech on…
On July 18, residents of Kochadai area in Madurai south were shocked to see water gushing out from a pipe on the ground, flowing out…
Two workers died and another suffered severe injuries after a parcel office adjoining the Coimbatore railway station collapsed in the early hours of Thursday. According to…
In a surprise move, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami dropped Information Technology Minister M Manikandan from his cabinet late on Wednesday. A press release…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on August 9, Friday. Power will be shut down from…
DMK President MK Stalin on Wednesday said the BJP-led government at the Centre is promoting communalism in the garb of patriotism and his party will…
The Tamil Nadu government has admitted to the Centre that it rejected over 10,000 claims made by tribals in the state over the forest land…
The Tamil Nadu government has admitted to the Centre that it rejected over 10,000 claims made by tribals in the state over the forest land…
Chennai International Airport has informed travellers to arrive early amid a high-security alert. In a tweet on Wednesday, the airport said, “Early is on time!!!!…
With one match left to be played by all eight teams in the league stage of the Tamil Nadu Premier League 2019, the tournament is…
The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on Thursday, August 8. Power will be shut down…
The DMK has announced an all-party meeting at its party headquarters in Chennai on Saturday, August 10, to discuss the Kashmir issue, in the wake…
As rains continue to lash Karnataka, the Regional Meteorological Department in its latest bulletin predicts heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places over Nilgiris…
The seventh edition of the Chennai International Queer Film Festival (CIQFF) saw close to 30 films, showcasing sexuality, gender diversity and associated issues, screened to…
A doyen in the field of education, the passing away of 93-year-old Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy, has been hailed as the end of era by her students…
Senior DMK leader and Lok Sabha MP TR Baalu called P Raveendranath Kumar, AIADMK’s sole Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha ‘spineless’ as heated discussion…
Ninety-three-year-old renowned educationist Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy, known by students and well-wishers as Mrs YGP, passed away on Tuesday afternoon at Apollo Hospital in Chennai. She is a…
Less than two weeks ago, a video of a few young men, armed with long machetes, chasing and taking a swing at other young men…
Aimed at increasing patronage for metro services, the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has launched a feeder service cab at a flat rate of Rs…
The Southern Railway has announced changes in trains services between August 6 and August 11 due to engineering works at Latteri Yard in the Jolarpettai-Arakkonam…
Weeks after his controversial comment about molesting and groping women on buses when he was young, actor Saravanan was eliminated from the Bigg Boss Tamil…
On Monday, as the BJP government introduced multiple proposals concerning Jammu and Kashmir, in the midst of a lock-down in the state, two vociferous voices…
The AIADMK, the ruling party in Tamil Nadu announced on Monday its support for the scrapping of Article 370 that gives special status to the…
A circular issued by Tamil Nadu School Education Department on July 31 announced that a screening test will be conducted for government and government-aided school students…
Elections to the Vellore Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu are currently underway even as 1,553 polling booths have been placed under tight security. Polling…
The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on Tuesday, August 6. Power will be shut down…
With the Northeast monsoon set to commence in a few months, the Tamil Nadu government is taking precautions and putting all necessary measures in place…
Nearly nine months after Cyclone Gaja wreaked havoc upon the coastal and delta districts of Tamil Nadu, a Lok Sabha MP from the state has…
Among the reputed and well-known dance institutes in Chennai is the Kalasamarpana Foundation, founded by the Narasimhacharis – Late Narasimhachari and Vasanthalakshmi Narasimhachari – in 1969. Swarnaanjali,…
Diamonds worth Rs 2.25 crore were seized at Anna International Airport in Chennai on Saturday. Customs officials seized 2,996 carat of diamonds from a passenger who…
Diamonds worth Rs 2.25 crore were seized at Anna International Airport in Chennai on Saturday. Customs officials seized 2,996 carat of diamonds from a passenger who…
Almost six months after the murder of Ramalingam, a Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) functionary in Kumbakonam, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargesheet…
“When majority of the people are in pursuit of self aggrandizement, very few dedicate their lives towards public cause. It is a cruel truth that…
Following an accusation of homophobia against The Slate Hotels, Chennai, last week, the queer community in the city has issued a statement condemning The Slate…
The Tamil Nadu consumer forum has ordered Hotel Saravana Bhavan to pay Rs 1.1 lakh to a customer almost five years after a food poisoning…
A 28-year-old woman was abducted by two robbers, who looted her of her possessions and then dumped her on the road near Sholavaram in Chennai. …
DMK chief and Leader of the Opposition in Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin has been booked for holding a meeting without requisite permission in the poll-bound…
When the rank list for Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) was published, U Chandran was over the moon. He was listed as…
The Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) has directed Karnataka to release water to Tamil Nadu for five more days. A meeting of the CWRC took…
The Tamil Nadu government has suspended a Deputy Superintendent of Police for sexually harassing a subordinate female officer in 2015. S Venakatraman, who was the…
A fire accident in the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) telephone exchange office in Mannady in the early hours of Thursday has caused disruption in…
The Madras High Court has asked why the Tamil Nadu government kept the state and the Legislative Assembly in the dark for almost two years…
On April 16 this year, just two days before the state went to polls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) cancelled the election to the…
The Dharmapuri police have booked six persons in connection with a brutal caste crime in Pennagaram Taluk. The accused are all relatives of a 22-year-old…
In what civil society activists have called a clear case of harassment, Jayaram Venkatesan, the convenor of Arappor Iyakkam has been slapped with a criminal…
In what civil society activists have called a clear case of harassment, Jayaram Venkatesan, the convenor of Arappor Iyakkam has been slapped with a criminal…
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death penalty awarded to the lone surviving accused in the sensational Coimbatore sibling-murder case that had rocked the…
With less than a week to go for polls to the Vellore parliamentary constituency, the DMK has demanded the deployment of paramilitary forces across all…
The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on Friday, August 2. Power will be shut down…
Father and son Veeramalai and Nallathambi, who are both farmers, were killed in Mudaliapatti village in Karur district on Monday for allegedly trying to protect…
Doctors have extracted an astounding 526 teeth from the mouth of a seven-year-old boy in a rare surgery performed at the city’s Saveetha Dental College…
More than 50% of engineering seats in Tamil Nadu remain vacant at the end of counselling for admissions for 2019. The counselling process for 1.72…
On Saturday, 20-year-old Rasika Gopalakrishnan and her girlfriend, 21-year-old Shivangi Singh, were at The Slate Hotels on Khader Nawaz Khan Road, Chennai, when they were…
A 30-year-old man, R Thangaraj from Sirumugai Road near Karamadai in Coimbatore chopped off the hand of his friend, P Sujatha, while arguing with her…
Over a week after the NIA conducted searches in 14 locations across Tamil Nadu in connection with an alleged terror plan, the DMK has condemned…
‘Lottery’ Martin’s longtime employee Palanisamy, who was found dead in a pond in Coimbatore, might not have died due to suicide. The first of the…
In a horrifying crime from Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district, a 16-year old boy was killed by his classmate after an argument between the two at…
The Election Commission of India in Tamil Nadu has announced the seizure of over Rs 3 crore in poll-related raids in the Vellore Parliamentary constituency.…
A 46-year-old woman killed herself hours after she was detained and questioned by Chennai police in a case related to theft in the house of…
The case involving the gruesome murder of former Tirunelveli Mayor Uma Maheshwari, her husband Murugasankaran and their domestic help has been handed over to the…
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached assets worth Rs 246 crore in Tamil Nadu’s Gutkha scam. The attached property includes 174 immovable items worth Rs 243.80…
Around half a dozen people are huddled around Rani*, who lies unconscious in a hospital bed in Bengaluru. She has not spoken a single word…
16 years after former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa set a landmark ordinance on rainwater harvesting in Tamil Nadu, at least a third of the buildings…
Arputhammal, the mother of AG Perarivalan alias Arivu who was convicted in the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, met with Union Home…
Cloudy weather is expected to continue in Chennai city with the Met Department predicting light rain in some areas. The bulletin issued at 9 pm…
With less than a week left for the Vellore parliamentary polls, the ruling AIADMK and rival DMK have been heating up the campaign trail. Chief…
Two mechanics were killed and six others injured in a freak accident at the Vadapalani bus depot in Chennai. The incident occurred early Sunday morning,…
In an incident of brutal violence, eight members of a family were allegedly tied to trees, stripped and assaulted in Dharmapuri district, by a group…
Chennai, Tamil Nadu’s second wettest district this summer, is hopeful of receiving two more days of rain, according to IMD. The bulletin issued at 8.30…
The six-month-old baby of the woman from Sattur in Virudhunagar, who was transfused with HIV-positive blood at a government hospital in December last year, tested…
In a 180-degree-turn on its position on the controversial Triple Talaq Bill, the AIADMK came out in support even as the sole MP from the…
Chennai’s South West monsoon season recorded rainfall levels that were 56% above normal since June 1 this year. It is hoped that the excess rain…
An inspector with the Chennai police has been suspended for colluding with those who illegally tapped water from below the ground. According to reports, Commissioner of Police…
Last year, the Sri Sivananda Balalaya (SSB) school in Trichy in Tamil Nadu, got its first transgender student. Krithi* had been cast out of her…
The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court ordered the Tamil Nadu Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department to initiate action and file criminal cases against…
The Madras High Court has ordered the Tamil Nadu government to give Rs. 25 lakh as compensation to a woman from Sattur in Virudhunagar, who…
In a move to potentially address the scores of complaints of having to wait for 15-30 days after booking to get water delivered, the Chennai…
In a tragic loss for Tamil Nadu, Dr Shankar Ganesan, one of the first openly queer academics from the state, passed away on Wednesday. The…
Two weeks after her latest hearing at the district court premises in Srivilliputhur, Nirmala Devi has been admitted to a psychiatric centre in Tirunelveli. The…
In a tragic loss for Tamil Nadu, Dr Shankar Ganesan, one of the first openly gay academics from the state, passed away on Wednesday. The…
Not all messages that you receive on WhatsApp are true. Most often, the messaging app is used to circulate fake messages with the intent of…
For the first time since his Thiruppanandal speech on Tamil emperor Raja Raja Chozhan in June went viral, Pa Ranjith, one of the most important Tamil…
The controversial Economically Weaker Section reservation brought in by the Union government has set off its first storm during implementation in Tamil Nadu. In the…
“We promise not to engage in any undesirable activities. We promise to make our parents proud. If we break these promises, we will surrender ourselves…
Durga Stalin, wife of DMK President and Leader of the Opposition in Tamil Nadu MK Stalin, has sued Ananda Vikatan over a ‘defamatory’ article in…
Tamil Nadu ministers Dindigul Srinivasan and Sevvoor Ramachandran vehemently denied any involvement in the idol theft cases in the state. Their denial came after Special…
Days after the visuals of Pachaiyappa’s College students attacking each other with swords on the roads went public, the Chennai Police have identified 90 such…
Wracked by allegations of corruption, the Coimbatore Corporation is no stranger to its officers being accused of demanding bribes. But matters took a shocking turn…
At least 10 children between 8 and 15 years old from Sathyamangalam have been admitted to Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital after they were found…
In May 2019, R Balachander was shocked to realise that he had no water in his borewell. A first in the 40 years since the…