Chief Minister K Palaniswami announced a solatium of Rs 4 lakh to the kin of each of the victims
Three persons from Australia were on Thursday prevented from entering Idinthakarai, the epicentre of protests by People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy leading the stir against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tirunelveli district, the police said.
Launching another phase of their agitation against Kudankulam atomic power project, anti-nuclear protestors on Monday began a day-long 'siege' of the plant by placing fibre boats and floating buoys in the sea.
After spending 22 days in prison and working in harsh conditions in Iran, the released fishermen returned to India on Tuesday. Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar spoke to them about their extremely trying experiences
The ministry had sent the six previous teams to Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Bengal to review the implementation of the lockdown measures after the assessment of ground situation in identified select districts.
Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar hopped on to a fishing boat at Kudankulam amid the anti-nuclear power protests at sea.
Jayalalithaa termed the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu as a corrupt party, pointing out that the CBI was carrying out raids on the residences and offices of people close to the party's leadership. "The 2G spectrum scam, which has caused a loss of one lakh eighty thousand crores, has been the largest scam in the history of the world .The DMK has always been a corrupt party and this scam has revealed the heights which the DMK leadership can reach in corruption," she said.
Police in southern Tamil Nadu are facing grave charges of falsely implicating members of a nomadic tribe and torturing them into admitting to crimes they did not commit. A Ganesh Nadar reports from Kanyakumari.
The government said it had been evaluating the implementation of the decentralised model of vaccination since its launch on May 1 and that the decision to centralise it again was taken after detailed deliberations and following requests by some states, amid claims by the Opposition that the policy change was due to the Supreme Court's intervention.
Moderate to rather heavy rains are likely at many places over all districts of coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on Monday as a low pressure area would form over the Southwest Bay.
Jothi Nirmala, the collector of Kanyakumari district, was awarded the Kalpana Chawla award by the Tamil Nadu government for taking on the sand mafia in the district and also bringing about harmony after violent clashes between communities and also intra-community violence among fishermen here.
A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and J M Panchal refused to interfere with the Madras High Court judgment upholding the validity of the Tamil Nadu Tamil Learning Act of 2006. The bench dismissed a bunch of petitions from the Kanyakumari District Malayala Samajam and others challenging the law. It said it couldn't interfere with the policy decision of the state and cited similar laws in Karnataka and Maharashtra, making Kanada and Marathi as a compulsory subject.
The case fatality rate has dropped 2.01 per cent, according to ministry data.
A visit to Kanyakumari, one of the most affected areas in the 2004 tsunami.
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The IMD has predicted heavy rainfall over Karnataka and Kerala for the next few days.
Transcript of the chat with Ganesh Nadar who covered the tsunami-hit Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu.
The DMK has been alleging that the AIADMK government was being controlled by the BJP government at the Centre.
India registered over 10,000 cases for the eighth day in a row.
'The navy and coast guard have not even come one nautical mile near the islands in distress.'
Tamil Nadu parties are using Hindi to woo north Indian voters in the upcoming elections.
'I expect normalcy to return in one or two days,' says Tuticorin's new Collector Sandeep Nandur.
Though many fishermen were brought ashore safely and admitted to hospitals, many are yet to recover from the shock of wrestling the lashing waves and seeing death face-to-face.
If purists are surprised as to why and how people are not demanding prohibition or not talking about past promises, both in the election manifestos five years back and even those made to the courts, the answer lies in how the state has been evolving and changing these past few years, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
As the virus continued to spread its tentacles across India, several parts, including Kashmir valley headed towards a virtual lockdown with the administration restricting movement of people in several parts and banning all public transport in Srinagar city.
Sixteen deaths in rain and flood-related incidents have been reported from western Maharashtra in the last seven days, while the toll in Karnataka rose to five since Sunday.
State Revenue and Disaster Minister S N Patro said the men jumped from the trawlers and swam to safety at Ersama in Jagatsinghpur district.
The candidate is from the DMK's ruling family, and the sky is the limit -- for both expenses and expectations.
For a party that has adopted the successful social re-engineering model from Gujarat, Rajasthan and across the rest of the 'Hindi belt' over the past decades, Tamil Nadu continues to remain a tricky customer, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
It maybe time for the Centre to take a closer look at Chief Minister Jayalalitha's innovative' solution to a long-pending problem, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
An unspecified number of people were evacuated from coastal areas of Odisha where Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore were likely to experience heavy rainfall accompanied by high-velocity winds, particularly on May 19 and 20, IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said.
In one village, a woman asks, "They are always showing cash seizures on television, you think some of it will escape and we will get money as usual?" "Only 1 percent of cash is actually seized, the rest has arrived, you don't worry," a party worker assures her. Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar reports on the election in the southern-most tip of the country.
The Congress president addressing women students at the Stella Maris College said that the law must apply to everybody and not be applied selectively.
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