Four police personnel -- a woman joint commissioner, two women constables and a sub-inspector -- were injured in stone-pelting, the police said, even as reports emerged that some protesters were also hurt.
'If the BJP comes back to power, Sterlite will open in one week.' 'If the Congress comes to power, it will open in one month.'
Tamil Nadu mystery spinner Varun Chakravarathy was bought by Kings XI Punjab for a whopping Rs 8.4 crore, more than 40 times his base price.
A students-versus-vice chancellor battle has thrown the Madurai Kamaraj University into a flux, finds A Ganesh Nadar.
The two-day event at the ancient shrine, categorised as 'Great Living Chola Temples,' by the UNESCO, faced the ire of pro-Tamil outfits.
From ice-capped Siachen, the highest battlefield in the world, to the warships off South Korea, Indian armed forces on Tuesday joined the International Yoga Day celebrations.
The state government claimed that 66.49 per cent of buses belonging to state transport undertakings were plying since Saturday night across the state.
A week after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi declined to meet his grand nephews, the Maran brothers, a cable TV network backed by Karunanidhi's son M K Azhagiri was launched to counter the SUN TV channel owned by the Maran family.
bureaucrat-turned-politician Alphons Kannanthanam said that beef would continue to be consumed in Kerala.
Life virtually came to a grinding halt across Tamil Nadu as the state woke up to deserted streets with shops, including eateries, remaining shut in the wake of the demise of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court today quashed criminal cases against popular Bollywood actresses Shilpa Shetty and Reema Sen who were accused of having connivved with a Tamil eveninger to publish their obscene pictures
A new star is rising in the Tamil Nadu poitical horizon -- actor Vijaykanth.
Court stalls arrest warrants on the actresses.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam President M Karunanidhi on Tuesday said he will be the chief minister if his party wins the May 16 assembly election.
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An accused, arrested in connection with planting of a pipe bomb on BJP leader L K Advani's Jan Chetna yatra route near here, caused a flutter in a court on Tuesday when he slit his throat in a bid to commit suicide.
Sudhir Bisht remembers how he was looked down upon for greeting a potential customer with a Namaste many years ago and how the tables seem to have turned during the pandemic.
Since the Supreme Court has banned the bull-taming sport of Jallikattu, normally conducted on Mattu Pongal day, the festival is expected to be low-key in Madurai and neighbouring districts, where it is widely popular.
In an age when the electorate is increasingly impatient and changes governments every 5 years, how did the Tamil Nadu chief minister beat anti-incumbency?
A farmers' association of Tirunelveli district had filed the petition claiming that EIA was mandatory for the project to be implemented in 16,000 acres of land, of which around 3,000 acres would be on the sea shore.
Tamil actress Priya Mani, winner of the National Award for the best actress for her role in Tamil film Partuthiveeran, owes her success to the director of the movie.
Jallikattu is a four century old tradition and the Supreme Court can go take a walk. This is the mood in Alanganallur, A Ganesh Nadar says.
Fifteen villagers in Alanganallur tonsured their heads as a mark of protest. Most shops in these areas remained closed and black flags were hoisted atop houses.
Two days after the Supreme Court banned Jallikattu (bull fight), the residents of Alanganallur and Palamedu villages in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu observed a one-day fast on Sunday morning, pleading the apex court to vacate the ban. Over 500 villagers, including 100 women and children, began the fast near the old police atation at Alanganallur. The shopkeepers downed their shutters, for the second day, as a mark of protest against the ban.
The rift between the two communities is evident from the fact that they have two separate schools for their children.
The kingpin of the racket, Joseph, an unemployed techie hailing from Virudunagar in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu, was nabbed from a cyber cafe in Mahadevapura near Whitefield by the police on November 29. Six of his associates have also been nabbed. The police tracked the accused by tracing the IP address of the PC from where the accounts were hacked.
She waited for the call promised by her son in the evening but only got the heartbreaking news that Indian Air Force pilot K Praveen was no more.
Air Dravida, with an initial investment of Rs 110 crore (Rs 1.1 billion), would start three flights in Chennai-Madurai sector from July end, its Executive Director Ramachandran Iyer told newspersons in Chennai on Thursday. He said while Rs 40 crore (Rs 400 million) of the initial investment would be infused by the company promoters, the remaining Rs 70 crore (Rs 700 million) would be raised through debts and private equity routes.
The CBI's anti-corruption wing registered a case in March on the basis of a complaint received from the Union health and family welfare ministry.
GoAir reluctant to respond to overtures.
Official sources said with the deaths of two-wheeler riders in accidents increasing to alarming levels, the state had decided to make helmet wearing compulsory.
'Demand in India has been outstripping supply.'
Under its IT/ITeS SEZ development plan, Electronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot) is setting up nine IT SEZs in Tamil Nadu, developing 1 million sq ft space at an estimated cost of Rs 28,000-30,000 crore (Rs 280-300 billion) - one each at Perumbakkam village and Sholinganallur near Chennai, two in Madurai, and one each at Tiruchirapalli (Trichy), Krishnagiri, Salem, Coimbatore and Tirunelveli.
'If you feel that a group of our party members wanted to see Jyoti Basu as prime minister in 1996 and they are now going to go against Karat because we lost the trust vote, you are wrong. Again if you feel that there is a split in the party because we said the Speaker should quit, you are wrong,' says A V Bellarmin, Marxist MP from Tamil Nadu.
IBM India launched its operations in Coimbatore on Thursday as part of its expansion plans in southern India, targeting the small and medium businesses in the manufacturing sector.
Of the 5,83,000 students from about 200 countries studying in the US, Indians numbered 83,833, constituting 14.4 per cent, the largest single foreign group.
United States Consul-General for South India David T Hopper has said India is one of the top ten destinations for the US students to pursue their studies.
Paramount Airways claims to have a break even, as other Indian carriers are facing losses.
Despite Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M Karunanidhi's call to exercise restraint, members of the ruling party staged demonstrations for the third day on Tuesday, demanding action against the ex-BJP MP.
The airline is inducting two more 70-seater Embraer planes, which will be based in Bangalore and will be used to connect Bangalore and Chennai with Pune and Goa, and then other cities in western India.
