The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has warned the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre that it will face countrywide protests if it hikes petrol and diesel prices.
The services of three lab technicians of the blood bank attached to a government hospital at Sattur, near Virudhunagar, have been terminated,Health Minister C Vijayabaskar said Wednesday.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo M Karunanidhi on Monday renominated former telecom minister and 2G scam accused A Raja for the April 24 Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu. He also sent a strong message to rebels in the party by denying a ticket to his son M K Alagiri.
M K Azhagiri, son of Karunanidhi, intimidated the voters to get an 'artificial victory,' Jayalalithaa alleged.
M Thiagarajan of Paramount Airways straddles across the aviation sector like a giant. At 29, he is the promoter, chief executive officer and managing director of one of India's best-run airline that made operational profits within two years of starting business.
The base will be used by carriers such as Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, to operate 70-seater ATR aircraft to places such as Bengaluru.
The judges, however, refused to issue notice to the Union home secretary, the first respondent, and Azhagiri, the eighth respondent in the PIL.
The main accused in the Dinakaran newspaper office attack case 'Attack Pandi' on Tuesday surrendered before the police in Madurai and was produced before a lower court, which remanded him to nine days judicial custody.
Azhagiri said he was never implicated in criminal cases as alleged by the network.
The management alleged that police had registered the case even before the complaint was given.
Karunanidhi, who has always appeased Azhagiri when elections were around the corner, while pampering and promoting Stalin at all times and costs, will find Azhagiri hard to please this time around.
The survey had given 70 per cent chances to M K Stalin, the second son of Karunanidhi and just 2 per cent to elder son Azhagiri, who controlled the party cadres in Southern districts.
Music composer Dhina goes folksy and fails.
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.
Tamil actor turned politician Sharat Kumar on why he launched a new party and his aims in public life.
The Judges rejected the request of the government pleader to accord the benefit to other sporting events like rekhla race (bullock cart race), saying the petition pertained only to manjuvirattu.
Maintaining that he has been "unfairly vilified" and suspended, Dravida Munetra Kazhagam leader M K Alagiri on Monday alleged "some forces" in the party were not allowing its chief and his father M Karunanidhi to discharge his functions.
IBM India on Wednesday announced its operations in Vizag, as part of its expansion plans to enter 14 new cities in the country, in line with its strategy to make India a truly global hub.
Perarasu talks about his new film starring star-turned-politician Vijayakanth
Supporters of the bull taming sport Jalikattu on Tuesday staged protests in Tamil Nadu after SC stayed the Centre's notification lifting the ban on it.
The Singapore-based contestant is the first to have scored 93 out of 100 points to win the 10th season.
With the Supreme Court reinforcing its stay on jallikattu, the state BJP hopes it can persuade its party leadership to bring in an ordinance. But this is a path filled with risk, reports R Ramasubramanian.
This was the third consecutive day that COVID-19 cases in the country have increased by more than 26,000.
He said Muslims were trying to spread their religion by migrating to new areas, infiltration and Jehad.
On October 3, Subramanian, a Chennai-based mechanical engineer, had tagged the Twitter handles of NASA, LRO and ISRO in a tweet, asking, "Is this Vikram lander? (1 km from the landing spot) Lander might have been buried in Lunar sand?"
Subramanian, 33, who was on Tuesday the toast of the astronomy world, managed what ISRO and NASA couldn't through his close examination of before and after images of the scheduled landing.
Thiagarajan, who had primarily restricted his aviation activities to south India, is now locating stars of fortune in western and central India for possible acquisitions
DMK leader MK Stalin is concerned that a no-trust move would force the EPS faction to patch up with not only the OPS group but also the TTV camp and also get the 'Two Leaves' poll symbol unfrozen, which could upset his party's electoral apple cart, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Different petitions for and against Jallikattu were posted for hearing in the first week of February.
President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and top leaders of the Congress paid rich tributes to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 97th birth anniversary but no one from the National Democratic Alliance government was present at the event.
Chandran's brother's daughter-in-law Latha filed the case.
A Hindu Munnani leader was hacked to death by unidentified persons at Tenkasi in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, triggering tension in the communally sensitive town, police said on Monday.
Paramount Airways aims at acquiring stakes in other airlines as part of its plans for a pan-India presence by 2011, according to its top official.
Modi hit out at the UPA government for allegedly 'blocking' surgical strikes post 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008.
'It was a professional relationship with Jayalalithaa.' 'Being a businessman, I have to be in touch with the ruling party.'
With this, the total number of those arrested in connection with the Wednesday's attack has risen to six.
The actresses have been summoned for posing for 'obscene' pictures.
Heavy rains on Tuesday pounded several parts of Tamil Nadu with most areas of Chennai witnessing water logging severely disrupting train and bus services.
"The cause of action has not arisen within the jurisdiction of this court... We find no grounds to entertain the petition," it said.
