With BJP workers staging agitations across the state demanding that Thol Thirumavalavan apologise for his remark allegedly denigrating women, the VCK cadres countered it by flash protests and they allegedly attacked saffron party office-bearers at Madurai.
People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani on Thursday claimed he was a victim of "deep-rooted conspiracy" by his adversaries, including intelligences agencies, to implicate him in the 2008 Bangalore blasts case.
Serving pilots question the Kozhikode plane crash report findings.
The Bollywood superstar is the latest celebrity to extend support for the drive, which has been backed by many personalities from the world of glamour, films, and business.
A Coimbatore-bound Jet Airways plane with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on board returned to the Chennai airport on Friday due to a technical problem that developed mid-air.The problem was detected while the flight was mid-air, following which it flew back to Chennai, airport officials said. Later, the passengers including Chidambaram were put on another Jet Airways flight which left for Coimbatore, they said.
AirAsia India appears to have chosen destinations where it would face intense competition from other airlines, which fly directly to all these, barring one.
'DMK is taking a wrong image of BJP to the people.'
Rediff readers shared these photographs of the national animal.
"If journalists in Coimbatore want me to quit, you fix a date and I will do so," he said at a press conference in Coimbatore at the end of the five day world classical Tamil conference, his pet project.
The Grand Old Lady of Yoga V Nanammal was the oldest recipient of the Padma Shri on Republic Day this year. Archana Masih met the nearly 100 year old yoga guru who does not wear glasses, has never been to a doctor and can do age defying twists, hauls and bends.
It is increasingly clear that for the BJP to try and establish itself as an electoral force in Tamil Nadu, the party has to come out of the old Brahminical mould, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
There is a deep-seated sense of rejection that the new generation Tamil youth have felt for a decade and more now, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Health, fitness and healing are the key elements of this entrepreneur's life.
Unlike the regimes of Jayalalitha, Palaniswami and Karunanidhi, ministers are actually getting to make decisions on their own, with the unmentioned rider that they would be held responsible and accountable, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Stalin, like his father M Karunanidhi did in 2004, may play the king-maker in a way -- not the king, unless the 2024 post-poll circumstances throws up a situation where he alone becomes acceptable to the rest, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
The state-wide bandh called by the Bharatiya Janata Party to protest the murder of a senior party functionary evoked mixed response across Tamil Nadu with normal life largely remaining unaffected, barring some stray incidents of stone pelting.
With six airports handed over to the Adani group for 50 years, the government is now all set to hand over another 25 airports to private players in a bid to 'monetise' them. Official figures reveal that since 2017-18, the government has spent and will be spending Rs 14,500 crore on significantly revamping infrastructure at most of these airports before handing them over to private players. The Airports Authority of India (AAI), which operates these airports for the government, has spent billions of rupees in building new terminal buildings, runways, reinforcing taxiways, upgrading aircraft landing systems, radars and a host of other heavy duty and capital intensive infrastructure works.
The samples of the two patients, a 34-year-old woman and her five-year-old son, who were admitted in the identified isolation facility at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, have tested positive for swine flu.
'The BJP has become a reasonably larger force in Tamil Nadu in the last two years.'
Reports from Ludhiana, Coimbatore, Moradabad, Tirupur, Indore, Surat, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad, suggest the impact of demonetisation is worsening.
'They are all the time asking people not to do this, not to do that.' 'Their version of society and Hinduism is very warped; not an inclusive one.'
In 2017, 60 million passengers flew between India and the UAE, the largest overseas air travel market from India.
Chinese bicycle sharing giant Ofo launches service in seven Indian cities.
Real Kashmir FC face defending champions Chennai City FC in their first I-League home match of the season on Thursday in the first big sporting event in the Kashmir Valley since it became a union territory. The abrogation of Article 370 and the ensuing lockdown in the valley in August had raised security concerns, but Real Kashmir have made elaborate arrangements since then, allaying the fears of the visiting teams.
'The Air Force rules the skies.' Wing Commander K Dinesh (retd) recounts an encounter at Mumbai airport.
The Isha Foundation is full of spiritual surprises and a must-halt for those who wish to find out the various aspects of yoga in a safe and elegant place.
As a result, vehicular traffic and movement of people on roads saw a consequential increase in most parts of the state including rural regions, the State capital and key cities like Coimbatore, Madurai, and Tiruchirappalli.
In yet another blow for Nestle India, live larvae and worms have been found in their milk powder in Coimbatore.
The police immediately swung into action and arrested the four students who have since been remanded to judicial custody. They could not arrest the warden, manager and principal, as the police says they are absconding as of Thursday
With economic activities gathering pace post easing of lockdowns across the country, hiring activities in most sectors have shown significant recovery in October over the previous month, says a report. On yearly basis, however, the overall hiring was down by 17 per cent in October, according to the Naukri JobSpeak Index for October' 2020.
'In a country like ours, people talk about wanting to be like Singapore, but when it comes to paying taxes, they start criticising.' 'The medicine is bitter, but the long term effect is good,' Senthil Natarajan, who runs Kovai Pazamudhir Nilayam, a one of its kind fruit and vegetable chain in Tamil Nadu, tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih.
A Coimbatore-based transgender has become a trailblazer for her community becoming the first TV transgender news anchor when she went 'live' on Independence day on a private Tamil satellite channel in Tamil Nadu.
A high voter turnout was recorded in West Bengal, Assam Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry assembly elections on Tuesday. The massive polling exercise following COVID-19 health protocol and involving lakhs of personnel began at 7 am and the last hour from 6 pm to 7 pm was set aside for COVID-19 patients and those under isolation. The counting of votes in the states will be held on May 2.
Town in west-central Tamil Nadu, 50km from Coimbatore, has reported a 10 per cent growth in order flow in the past two months.
DMK blamed the Centre and state government for 'not taking appropriate, timely steps' to ensure conduct of the event and announced a state-wide stir.
The fresh round of discounted fares is applicable for three days starting Tuesday on all SpiceJet flights from eight cities in South India.
Coimbatore based reader Bibhuti Bhusan Mohanty shared his story.
'Nobody expected the slowdown to go for these many days. Unfortunately, it is an unbelievably bad slow down.'
Cases have been registered in Coimbatore against former Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament Ram Vilas Vedanti for his alleged directive against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi for his anti-Ram remarks, police said.
