West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan on Friday demitted office and left for Chennai along with his wife Padmini.
The Crime Branch and Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) officials are carrying out raids on hotels of suspected Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing accused Vikram Aggarwal in Chennai on Friday.
A junior cricket team from Sri Lanka, which arrived in Chennai to participate in a private tournament, was sent back on Monday owing to security concerns, senior police officials said.
Kejriwal said that the ordinance must be defeated collectively in Parliament where it is likely to come up for voting as a law in the forthcoming session.
At the Leo fete, Vijay had this also to tell his fans: 'I know you all are in my heart. But today, I also know that I am also in the hearts of all of you...' A typical politician's line, did you say, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
Murugan, along with Santhan, both Sri Lankan nationals, were taken in a police vehicle following their release to the special refugee camp in Tiruchirappalli in the state.
A trial court in Tamil Nadu's Kumbakonam on Tuesday convicted international antique dealer Subhash Chandra Kapoor and five of his accomplices to 10 years imprisonment in the Udayarpalayam burglary and illegal export of 19 antique idols valued over Rs 94 crore to the Art of the Past Gallery, New York, USA, the state idol wing CID said on Tuesday.
According to the police and Dinamalar sources, about 20 VCK activists, armed with clubs and glass bottles, attacked two security men on duty, injuring one of them.
'The linking of Aadhaar to births and deaths will revive the debate around citizenship.'
The army termed the incident as "very unfortunate," and said it would not allow the guilty to go scot-free. "We have constituted a board of officers to carry out a proper search of the area including the houses adjoining the scene of the incident. The process of search is going on in detail," Brigadier (administration) Sashi Nair told reporters
The Chennai Police has once again summoned suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner Lalit Modi and other people in connection with a funds misappropriation case, giving them time till February 15 to appear before it for inquiry.
The government brought back former Chennai Police Commissioner T K Rajendran, DGP and Inspector Genral prisons, as Chennai Police Commissioner replacing Ashutosh Shukla.
Today, with the Lok Sabha polls only months away, any inter-state dispute over the Cauvery water dispute has the potential to take more political turns than otherwise, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
The list also includes two notorious fugitives -- Sukumara Kurup, never nabbed in connection with a murder and Dr Edadi Omana -- who had given the slip to the investigating agencies, and have remained untraceable for several years.
The CM also announced compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for those killed during the protest and Rs 3 lakh each for the injured, government jobs for the family members of the deceased also announced.
Chennai would have seen a spate of terror attacks had the Lashkar-e-Tayiba not called off their dirty plans at the last minute, revealed the Gulf operative of the LeT -- Sarfaraz Nawaz.
The 61-year-old has proved to be as elusive as he has been brash, defying the Supreme Court and passing his own judgments against his peers.
Nine persons were killed and 72 others injured when a speeding passenger train rammed into a stationary train here, leading to derailment of five coaches.
S Swathi, employed with software giant Infosys, was found dead with cut injuries on her face and neck around 6.30 am on a platform in Nungambakkam railway station, police said.
The BJP and the AIADMK are unable to sort out ideological differences, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
The BJP has nothing to lose after a point. For the DMK it is a difficult choice, as it would not want to give too much of space to a 'national party' lest the 'Dravidian duel' of the past decades should be lost forever, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
A police release in Coimbatore said a case has been registered in the Ukkadam police station over the incident.
'Ours is a disaster movie with no big stars, songs or commercial ingredients.' 'Yet, it is Malayalam cinema's highest grosser.'
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday started its investigation into alleged criminal negligence leading to the Balasore train accident which claimed 278 lives after registering a first information report (FIR), officials said.
The arrest followed a complaint lodged by the victim, a class 12 student, they said.\n
Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi stoked a fresh controversy on Thursday, remarking that the anti-Sterlite protests in the state in 2018 had been fuelled by foreign funds and was aimed at hindering progress. His comment instantaneously drew an outcry from the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and its allies.
Kanimozhi told reporters that the Palaniswami-led government has become 'bloodthirsty' and the chief minister should be held responsible for the incident.
What is noticeable in both movies is the willingness with which both the ageing stars -- Kamal is 68 and Rajini, four years older at 72 with a kidney transplant that he has not shied away from acknowledging -- have learnt to respect their age and bodies, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Police said they caught the assailants on Thursday night after a continuous search based on clues given by the boys and girls who were playing with the murdered child.
A five-year old girl who went missing from the Marina Beach in Chennai on May 11 during a family outing remains untraced till Tuesday despite the city police's efforts to locate her. Tamanna, daughter of Syed Noor Ahmed of Royapettah, went missing from the beach on the evening of May 11, where she had gone with her twin brother, mother and grandmother, police said. Tamanna's father runs a medical shop in the city.
The Delhi high court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking direction to the Centre and the Election Commission to make voting compulsory in parliamentary and assembly polls, saying it cannot force a person to vote.
The AIADMK is convinced that the BJP will remain an electoral burden for a long time to come, beginning the Lok Sabha polls next year, reveals N Sathiya Moorthy.
Chennai Express is a full throttle masala entertainment ruled by Shah Rukh Khan's star power
As the posters suddenly sprang up in Kumbakonam, the VCK members staged an agitation demanding stringent action on the Indu Makkal Katchi for their affront on Ambedkar.
The Delhi Police personnel, who were inside Dinakaran's house for about 20 minutes, declined to speak to the waiting media while leaving the premises.
The army on Monday suggested that none of its personnel were involved in the killing of a teenaged boy in Chennai, saying no discrepancy has been found during the "physical checks" of the weapons in its possession at St George Cantonment.
The investigators hunting for leads in the Chennai blasts case say they are certain that a member of the banned outfit Al-Ummah executed the attack.
Already, there is a feeling even within the BJP's AIADMK ally that the BJP is overdoing things on the ED/I-T front, as corruption is not an election issue in the state -- as long as the people are otherwise not excessively unhappy with the governing party, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Among the series of questions raised were how self-loading riffles found their way out of the armoury and came to be used in the firing, how snipers were perched atop vehicles and how persons came to be shot in the face and chest.
A week after the killing of a 13-year old boy in an Army premises in Chennai, the Tamil Nadu Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department has cracked the case with the arrest of a retired Army officer, who confessed to his involvement in the incident. The special team of the Crime Branch of CID police arrested the 58-year old Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Kandaswamy Ramraj and recovered the 0.3 mm rifle used to fire at Dilshan, who was hit by the bullet.
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