Months after popular singer Karthik was anonymously accused of sexual misconduct as part of the ‘Me Too’ movement, the musician has finally opened up in…
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The incident where a pregnant woman was transfused with HIV-infected blood in Tamil Nadu is still fresh in the minds of the people. Months later,…
A day after the AIADMK finalised alliances with the BJP and PMK, the DMK is set to announce its first ally for the 2019 Lok…
To provide seamless network connectivity for all its commuters, Chennai Metro Rail will now install WiFi facilities at all its stations. At present, CMRL has…
The police on Tuesday arrested four college students in Chennai for allegedly damaging an MTC bus in broad daylight. The incident had taken place a…
The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu and the BJP formalized their “mega alliance” for the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections on Tuesday. The national party will…
Marking a new milestone in Apollo Hospital’s journey, a new commemorative postal stamp on Preventive Healthcare was released by Tamil Nadu Governor Bunwarilal Purohit on…
Three days post the horrific incident when a trans woman priest in Thoothukudi temple was attacked and decapitated, police have arrested both the accused. Speaking…
Love, in India, often comes with a heavy price. Especially when it is love that threatens the social order, it is brutally crushed even before…
After much speculation and back-and-forth negotiations, the PMK has signed an alliance with the ruling AIADMK for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections. The alliance was…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in a few parts of Chennai on Tuesday, February 19. Power will be shut…
It was close to 7pm in the evening on September 7, 2018 when a panicked family in Tiruvallur district rushed to the local police station.…
Two days after Mugilan — the activist who alleged that senior police officers were involved in the Sterlite firing — went missing, the Madras High…
DMK President M K Stalin on Monday demanded the registration of a case against the US-based Cognizant Technology Solutions for bribing Tamil Nadu government officials…
Two days after the gruesome murder of a 38-year-old Rajathi, a transgender woman, in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district, police are yet to nab her alleged…
In a big victory for the Tamil Nadu government, the Supreme Court on Monday, upheld its decision to issue closure orders to Vedanta Private Limited’s…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in a few parts of Chennai on Monday, February 18. Power will be shut…
Among several political leaders who commented on Rajinikanth’s statement that his party will not contest in the Lok Sabha elections 2019, actor Kamal Haasan criticised…
Passengers aboard the Srilankan Airlines flight UL 121 had a narrow escape on Sunday morning when the rear tyre of the aircraft burst as the…
Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan has been transferred after holding the post for over six years. He will now be the Principal Secretary to…
India’s General Elections are barely months away, and political parties everywhere are trying to form the best alliances possible. And therefore in Tamil Nadu, there…
Five months after the Tamil Nadu Idol Wing found allegedly unregistered antiques in the residences of industrialist Ranvir Shah and businesswoman Kiran Rao in Chennai,…
The entrance to Savalaperi village in Thoothukudi off NH 7 is through an iron archway. A white cloth hangs below bearing bold Tamil words painted…
In a gruesome incident in Tamil Nadu, a 38-year old trans woman priest and Bharatanatyam artiste was brutally murdered in Thoothukudi. The deceased has been…
The National Green Tribunal has slapped a fine of Rs 100 crore on the Tamil Nadu government for failing to control pollution and restore Chennai’s…
When Cyclone Gaja hit Tamil Nadu, it caused widespread destruction, but most of the palmyrah trees were unaffected and stood firm. Palmyrah is the state…
Two bravehearts from Tamil Nadu, were amongst the at least 40 CRPF personnel who were killed in a suicide terror attack on Thursday in Pulwama…
While seat sharing talks between the BJP and AIADMK continue to progress, the ruling party in Tamil Nadu, also has to deal with identifying candidates…
The Justice Arumughaswamy (retired) commission constituted in August 2017 to probe the death of former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has requested yet another extension to…
The wild elephant Chinnathambi’s excursions in and around Madathukkulam, near Udumalaipettai in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur district, came to an end on Friday as he was…
Ten students belonging to the Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN) in Thiruvarur began an indefinite hunger strike on Friday demanding that the management revoke…
“We wanted to redefine the meaning of ‘Valentine’ to include all of humankind, not just for one special person. If you share love universally, you’ll…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has announced a solatium of Rs 20 lakh each to the families of two Central Reserve Police Force…
The last stretch of Chennai metro’s first phase was completed and opened to public on February 10. And work on the second phase, which will…
Tamil actor Yashika, who has done a few TV serials and a small role in Mannar Vagaiyara was found dead in her house in GKM Colony, Peravallur,…
The Arumughaswamy Commission, which is investigation the death of Tamil Nadu’s former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, told the court that the Commission has the right…
Former Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran, and his brother founder of Sun TV Network Kalanithi Maran have moved the Madras High Court challenging the charges framed…
For 68-year-old Periyathai, the wait has been brutal. It’s almost 9 years since she turned 60 and hung up her boots after working in a…
The BJP and the AIADMK began talks for a pre-poll alliance in Tamil Nadu with Union Minister and BJP’s Tamil Nadu election in-charge Piyush Goyal…
Three journalists were injured and their camera equipment damaged when they were manhandled by police who had arrived to provide additional security at the Srivilliputhur…
The hearing in the case regarding the alleged sexual harassment of a woman Superintendent of Police by Murugan IPS, the Joint Director of Directorate of…
It is no secret that the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) led by S Ramdoss is currently in discussions for a pre-poll alliance with both the…
On January 26 at 10.30 am, Kesavan, dressed in a checked shirt and white veshti, is taking us on his bike to Melmugam Panchayat. “Akka…
About two weeks after it suspended government school teachers for joining a strike against the state government pressing for their demands, the School Education Department…
The eve of Valentine’s day turned bloody at the IIT-Madras campus, after a postgraduate student pursuing his M Tech stabbed a classmate, allegedly over a…
Ahead of Former Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa’s birth anniversary, the Madras High Court on Wednesday refused to relax its ban on registered political…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on Friday, February 15. Power will be shut down from…
Putting an end to wild elephant Chinnathambi’s free run, the Madras High Court has given an interim order to capture the animal. The case, which came…
Tamil Nadu has the ignominy of having recorded the highest number of deaths due to manual scavenging in the last five years. The death count…
‘2.0 is a basically a ghost movie. If it was given to Lawrence, he would have finished it at a lower budget and done a…
After spending over nine months in the Madurai Central Prison over allegations of luring female college students for sex work, Assistant Professor V Murugan and former…
Desiya Murpokku Dravidar Kazhagam’s (DMDK) poll alliances will be finalised once its chief ‘Captain’ Vijayakant is back from the US, said LK Sudhish, the Deputy…
The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered the immediate closure of illegal bars functioning in the state and directed the government to file a status…
The First Information Report (FIR) filed by the Thiruvidaimarudhur police in the case of the murder of PMK member Ramalingam on February 5, has alleged…
February 10 was an unusual day for the women students who live inside the hostels in Central University of Tamil Nadu campus. The campus ground,…
If things go as per the plan of the Tamil Nadu government, people of Tamil Nadu may not get to use one of their favorite…
Fake news and fake forwards are the order of the day when it comes to social media and the latest victim is Tamil actor Vijay…
Chennai woke up to mild tremors on Tuesday morning from an earthquake that struck the Bay of Bengal. According to the United States Geological Survey,…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on Wednesday, February 13. Power will be shut down from…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami on Monday announced financial assistance of Rs 2,000 each for 60 lakh families below the poverty line (BPL) in…
The Tamil Nadu Forest Department on Monday informed the Madras High Court that wild elephant Chinnathambi will be captured and sent to elephant camps. Sanjay…
In a shocking incident in Chennai, a city-based customer found a blood-stained, used bandage in the food he had ordered through Swiggy. On Sunday, Balamurugan…
Nalini Sriharan, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has been on a hunger strike in the Special Prison for Women in Vellore…
The Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle(APSC), a student group at the centrally-funded Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, has alleged an attempt by the union government to…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on February 12, Tuesday. Power will be shut down from…
The Madras High Court on Monday refused to stay the proceedings of the Arumughaswamy Commission, which is probing the death of former Chief Minister J…
In what comes as a major inconvenience to passengers using the Chennai Metro Rail Services (CMRL) across the city, the service came to an abrupt…
A day after inviting Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) Chief Kamal Haasan to join hands with its alliance, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) President KS Alagiri,…
Two bikes collided with each other and burst into flames killing both its riders near Chennai on Saturday night. According to a report in Times of India,…
In his second visit to the state in less than three weeks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday attacked the grand anti-BJP alliance that has…
Wedding season in Tamil Nadu this year has been kicked off by one of Tamil cinema’s most prominent families, with filmmaker Soundarya Rajinikanth getting married…
In a tragic incident in Chennai, an 18-year-old college student aboard the local EMU train died after hitting an electric pole near St Thomas Mount…
After months of going back and forth with the Arumughaswamy Commission, which is probing the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, Apollo…
The Thiruvidaimarudur police of Thanjavur district arrested three more men on Saturday in connection with the murder of Ramalingam, a PMK functionary. A police officer confirmed…
For the DMK, which drew a blank in the previous Lok Sabha elections, 2018 is a chance to redeem itself. The party has formed a…
The Tamil Nadu Budget invited mixed reactions from various quarters minutes after it was presented in the Assembly by O Panneerselvam, the Deputy Chief Minister…
Boarding a bus to go to school turned fatal for a 28-year-old teacher as she was reportedly crushed between a lorry and the bus she…
Chennai grabbed a good share of infrastructure and other development projects in the Tamil Nadu Budget 2019-20, presented by Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister…
Dr Ramanathan V Ramani, founder and managing trustee of Shankara Eye Foundation, a charitable eye hospital that has its roots in Coimbatore, was honoured with…
Even as the 2019 parliamentary elections are fast approaching, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) government has gone all out to woo farmers…
On Wednesday, a shocking scene unfolded at the Greater Chennai Corporation’s Anna Nagar zonal office. It was around 11 am in the morning and D…
The Tamil Nadu government is all set to present the budget for the state on Friday. Even as the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections are fast…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on Saturday, February 9. Power will be shut down from…
Karti Chidambaram, son of former Finance Minister and Congress leader P. Chidambaram was on Thursday questioned for over six hours by the Enforcement Directorate (ED)…
The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa and four others to plant 15,000 trees, observing that they have failed…
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Election Commission (EC) to consider allotting a common symbol — pressure cooker — to the TTV Dinakaran-led AMMK…
For years, cinema lovers have seen every kind of stunt scene — heroes beating up villains in flying cars, heroes beating up villains with peck…
Even as tension prevails in Kumbakonam town, Tamil Nadu, over the murder of a PMK functionary on Tuesday night, five persons have been arrested in…
On January 21, the capital city of Tamil Nadu woke up to news of a gruesome crime. Corporation staff who were leveling waste at the…
After many rounds of talks and some dissent, the AIADMK- BJP alliance is all set to be formally announced soon. As per the latest developments,…
On January 29, the Income Department in Tamil Nadu descended upon over 70 branches and offices of retail giant Saravana stores in Chennai and Coimbatore.…
Observing that alcohol has destroyed a generation and that it was imperative to protect the future generations from the ill-effects of alcohol, the Madras High…
When superstar Rajinikanth met with a few political leaders in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday, it triggered waves of speculations on the purpose of the visit.…
Fearing unrest over the murder of a Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) functionary allegedly by members belonging to a minority community, around 250 police personnel have…
On Tuesday, news emerged that Engineering and MBA graduates and postgraduates from Tamil Nadu are in the race to bag the work of sweepers and…
On Sunday, drama unfolded at the Rajaji children’s park in Tallakulam, Madurai, as the district police picked up 12 couples – all adults – for…
Global technology and services provider Bosch Group on Wednesday inaugurated the Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBC-DSAI) at the Indian Institute…
A Madras High Court lawyer on Tuesday helped nab a scamster pretending to hold several important posts in the CBI, Interpol and the Prime Minister’s…
Two weeks after the Chennai police discovered human body parts at the Pallikaranai dumpyard, the identity of the victim, a woman, has been established. The…
Chennai is hosting its 7th International Documentary and Short Film Festival this year curated by documentary filmmaker and activist Amudhan Ramalingam Pushpam aka Amudhan RP.…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on February 7, Thursday. Power will be shut down from…
The Madurai bench of Madras High court on Tuesday ordered the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to assess the damage caused in the Uppar…
Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister and AIADMK Coordinator O Panneerselvam’s son, P Raveendranath Kumar has sought a party ticket for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections…
Three years ago, 30-year-old Narayanaswamy thought he would never be able to live life normally again. Today he works as ward manager at the government…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered drones to provide precise information about where exactly people are stuck when a disaster strikes emerged as the top winner of a…
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hopes to benefit from a 7-12 % swing in votes in Tamil Nadu in the Lok Sabha elections due to…
Contrary to what was being emphasised by Tamil Nadu’s Forest Minister Dindigul Srinivasan, Tamil Nadu’s Principal Chief Conservator of Forests has assured the Madras High…
A 35-year-old man, who had allegedly sexually harassed minor girls in his village, was beaten to death by two men in Pudukottai district. According to…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in a few parts of Chennai on February 6, Wednesday. Power will be shut…
Not too far from the dusty roads of Triplicane lies the secret to Chennai’s world famous halwa. The Dum ka Roat, a glorious sweet born…
AIADMK Coordinator and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam has confirmed ‘secret’ alliance talks between the ruling party in the state and other parties, including national…
Chinnathambi, the elephant in Tamil Nadu which was translocated for raiding crops in Coimbatore but had managed to travel nearly 100kms in the last few…
Sudden light showers and drizzles over parts of Chennai on Monday morning possibly rid many Chennaities of their Monday Blues, but the unexpected surprise did…
When Bharathi Prabhu of Thudi movement, a non-profit organization working among Dalit students in Tamil Nadu attempted a Dalit graduation ceremony on the lines of…
In a video that has emerged from Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, three police officials are seen demanding a bribe of Rs 200 from a lorry…
Close to two years after DMK President MK Stalin criticised Vedic ceremonies conducted in Hindu marriages, a video of his speech has sparked outrage on…
n June 2016, in one of the largest missions by Tamil Nadu forest authorities, 20-year-old wild elephant ‘Kattayan’ alias ‘Madukkarai Maharaj’ was tranquilised and trapped…
In a tragic accident on Friday, three young school students who visited Marina Beach in Chennai, drowned in the sea. Their bodies were found on…
Power supply will be suspended in the following areas on Monday from 9am to 5pm for maintenance work. Supply will be restored before 5pm if…
Months ahead of the Lok Sabha election, the All India Congress Committee on Saturday appointed former Cuddalore Lok Sabha MP KS Alagiri as its Tamil…
Weddings and parties are reasons for breaking free and having fun, but the implications of loud music and trash generated as a result of such…
A police officer was caught on camera hitting a biker’s motorcycle after he reportedly failed to stop for a check on Friday evening. CCTV visuals…
Guna, who likes to add the prefix ‘Kodambakkam’ to his name, has been running a roadside eatery for over 22 years in the Kodambakkam’s Mahalingapuram…
AIADMK senior leader and Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha Thambidurai on Saturday dubbed the Union Budget 2019 a ‘part of the election manifesto of the…
The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) at the Chennai International Airport recovered a leopard cub from the luggage of a man returning to the city from…
The return of the elephant Chinnathambi, who was translocated from Thadagam region in Coimbatore, back into the village he was removed from has renewed the…
Earlier this month, news emerged that producer and director Soundarya Rajinikanth, daughter of actor Rajinikanth and Latha, is all set to marry actor and businessman…
Anti-caste activist Gowsalya has been suspended from the Wellington Cantonment Board where she works for her comments on India in an interview with an English…
A 37-year-old van driver and a 55-year-old helper of a private school in Coimbatore were arrested on Friday for allegedly sexually abusing a four-year-old girl…
“Every one comes across a situation in life where decisions are taken purely out of intuition… The threat of negative marks will never allow intuition…
Tamil Nadu Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar has welcomed the creation of the Department of Fisheries by the Union government. During the presentation of the Interim…
The seventh edition of the Chennai Storytelling Festival, organised by the World Storytelling Institute in collaboration with Chennai Storytellers and other organisations, began on Thursday.…
With the Indian subcontinent preparing for parliamentary elections that are just months away, voters in the state of Tamil Nadu are once again set to…
Two men were arrested in Coimbatore on Thursday for selling drugs without prescription or and possessing drugs prohibited under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances…
It was after 12 years at desk job in the IT industry that Sriram Prasad decided to get his hands dirty, literally. He took up…
When the Twitterati of Tamil Nadu were busy trending the hashtag #GoBackModi on Sunday last to show their dissent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on February 2, Saturday. Power will be shut down from…
The Vedanta Group whose Sterlite Copper smelting plant has been shut down since May 28, 2018, on Thursday told the Supreme Court that they were…
“Why is there so much distrust in medical care today? There has been a heavy influence of outsiders and non-medicos in the industry who are…
For the third time in less than two years, Tamil Nadu Education Minister K Sengottaiyan has promised school students additional marks in their subjects, if…
Madras High Court on Thursday dismissed the petition seeking a stay on Ilaiyaraaja 75, an event planned and organised by Tamil Film Producers’ Council (TFPC). Justice…
In order to address wage disparities between permanent workers and temporary workers hired for similar profiles work in state government departments, the Madras High Court…
In August 2018, a year after Tiruvannamalai Collector KS Kanadasamy took charge of the district administration, he chanced upon a disturbing sight while inspecting a…
“Chennai police are the main reason behind my death. No one else,” a frustrated looking cab driver said in a video he’d shot of himself…
The latest Crime Records Bureau data for Coimbatore city reveals some troubling numbers, especially when it comes to children. According to this data available with…
With the final budget of BJP-led NDA government set to be announced on February 1, Tiruppur, India’s leading exporter of knitwear, is hoping that two…
A Special CBI Court in Chennai framed charges against former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother, founder of Sun TV Network Kalanithi Maran, in…
After eight days of protests, the Joint Action Council of Tamil Nadu Teachers’ Organisation and Government Employees’ Organisations (Jactto-Geo), an umbrella association of government staff…
A 21-year-old college student was stabbed to death by his senior allegedly for talking to a girl who studied in the same college in Coimbatore. The…
A 21-year-old college student was stabbed to death by his senior allegedly for talking to a girl who studied in the same college in Coimbatore. The…
For the third time in the span of a year, the Tiruvannamalai police has sealed a government recognised children’s home in the district, following allegations…
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that Vedanta’s Sterlite copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi can’t be allowed to…
The ruling AIADMK on Wednesday invited applications from candidates aspiring to contest the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry even as it made…
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Tamil Nadu President Tamilisai Soundararajan has slammed a body-shaming cartoon that appeared in the Tamil daily Dinamalar. A distasteful cartoon, that…
PA Shyna now lives alone in a small well-lit apartment in one of the main residential areas of Coimbatore. The former Maoist leader who was…
Even as India gears up for the presentation of the Union Budget on February 1, experts say that Tamil Nadu could be the target of…
Barring a few, almost all the protesting teachers across Tamil Nadu resumed their duties on Tuesday with the AIADMK government-led by Chief Minister K Palaniswami…
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the pollution level of the groundwater in and around Vedanta group’s Sterlite…
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) have announced power cuts in parts of Chennai on Friday, February 1. Power will be shut down from…
The Pollachi police have registered a case against headmistress Snehalatha, an active participant in the ongoing JACTTO-GEO protests. The educator has been booked under four…
“People ask me, why do you write about complexion? Why do you write about caste? Why do you write about these things? But I think…
The Madras High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by 14 of the 17 accused in the Ayanavaram child rape case who sought a…
A functionary of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu has been arrested by the state police for an allegedly…
Close to 120 teams of the Income Tax Investigation Wing conducted searches at over 70 branches of the retail store chain Saravana stores in Chennai…
AIADMK Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament V Maitreyan took to Facebook on Monday to express disappointment over his exclusion in pre-poll committees announced by the…
39-year-old Vaishnavi had hoped for a pleasant travel on Sunday night while returning home from Puducherry. But what awaited her was a traumatic experience at…
In a case of burglary, masked culprits broke into a public sector bank branch in Trichy district over the weekend and made away with the…
The ongoing strike by the Joint Action Council of Tamil Nadu Teachers’ Organisations and Government Employees’ Organisations (Jactto-Geo) has continued to grab headlines but no…
The Madras High Court on Monday ordered the Tamil Nadu Film Producers Council (TFPC) to submit the details of the amount spent and contracts signed…
An evening of soul-stirring musical performances quickly turned bitter as the Chennai police clamped down on Casteless Collective, an anti-caste band, from performing a song…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami on Sunday submitted a letter to the Prime Minister on a slew of issues concerning the state, including the…
Continuing the crackdown on government teachers who are on an indefinite strike in Tamil Nadu, the Director of School Education Department has ordered the teachers…
Even as there are murmurs that the Bharatiya Janata Party is scrambling to cobble together an alliance in Tamil Nadu ahead of the 2019 General…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address at a public meeting in Madurai on Sunday was peppered with the NDA government’s achievements, future plans and defence of…
The works for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Madurai was officially kicked off on Sunday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid…
Five persons, including two staff members of the Coimbatore International Airport, were arrested on Friday for attempting to smuggle gold into India. The arrests were made…
On the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Tamil Nadu, hundreds of people on social media trended the hashtag #GoBackModi. The hashtag continues to be…
With government school teachers in Tamil Nadu on strike for almost a week, the state government cracked down and suspended around 450 staff members on…
A day after 14 of the 17 accused in the Ayanavaram child rape case approached the Madras High court seeking trial by a different judge,…
The video of a wild elephant being pursued by forest department officials in Chinna Thadagam forest range in Coimbatore region of the Western Ghats was…
On a map of India cut out from black stone, hangs a few human-like forms, tied with yellow threads. This sculpture is artist Madhavan’s take…
Even a year after Rajinikanth announced his entry into politics, the lack of clarity about his political ideology continues to provide airtime to many political…
Environmental and social activist Piyush Manush has approached the Salem police, asking them to take action against Hindu Makkal Katchi President Arjun Sampath, after the…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday told the Delhi High Court that custodial interrogation of former Finance Minister…
Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday asked protesting government school teachers and employees to end their ongoing agitation and return to work. He further…
The Lok Sabha elections are fast approaching and while the DMK has made it clear that its alliance with the Congress will continue, the AIADMK…
The recently concluded Tamil Nadu Global Investors Meet 2019, saw Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) worth over Rs.3.4 lakh-crore signed within two days. In addition to…
Trans woman-dancer Nartaki Natraj from Tamil Nadu has been awarded the Padma Shri this year. Seven personalities from Tamil Nadu bagged the Padma awards this…
As members of the Joint Action Committee of Tamil Nadu Teachers Organisation- Government Employees Organisation (JACTO-GEO) are on an indefinite strike in the state, the…
The Supreme Court on Thursday did not pass any order to Vedanta’s plea seeking direction to the Tamil Nadu government to take steps for the…
The city of Chennai is headed towards a drought worse than 2016 this summer but its residents, according to authorities controlling water supply, remain in…
Tamil writer S Ramakrishnan was recently awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Sanjaaram, which is based on the lives of Nadaswaram players from Tamil…
The story of a legislator donning the hat of a pre-primary school teacher for a day has stolen the limelight in Coimbatore. Amman K Arjunan,…
Over a week after meeting Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit over the Kodanad controversy, the DMK staged a protest outside the Raj Bhavan in Chennai…
As the gale winds of Cyclone Gaja ravaged Thanjavur district in November 2018, 12-year-old Vijaya* lay dead in a small hut made of coconut leaves…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Wednesday said the state has attracted over Rs 200,000 crore of investments during the Global Investors Meet-2019 (GIM-2019).…
As Tamil Nadu’s jallikattu season comes to an end, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court has ordered the Chief Secretary to consider providing…
In a setback to Apollo Hospitals, the Arumughaswamy Commission rejected its plea to form a medical board with 21 doctors from various specialities. In the…
The Madras High Court on Wednesday said that late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa cannot be termed a convict, in a case relating to…
On the second day of the indefinite strike called for by the members of the Joint Action Committee of Tamil Nadu Teachers Organisation – Government…