The salary and allowances of MLAs has been raised from Rs 55,000 to Rs 1.05 lakh a month.
An official release in Chennai on Wednesday said Chief Minister M Karunanidhi announced the reward for Karthik, who belongs to the state.
The Tamil Nadu Government on Friday said calls were made to foreign countries, including Britain and Sri Lanka, from the cellphone recovered from Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
Hitting back, Greenpeace India on Thursday said it will move court against Tamil Nadu government's notice threatening cancellation of its registration and alleged that the "perversely framed and maliciously designed" charges were levelled at the behest of Union home ministry.
Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary said the flooding was caused by heavy rains in Chennai, Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur districts.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday that the Centre would consider a proposal by the Tamil Nadu government to grant Indian citizenship to all Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in the state.
Government doctors were visiting severely affected areas to distribute medicine for the residents to safeguard themselves against diarrhoea and other water-borne infections.
"Nalini had harboured the prime accused and had been associated with the accused. She became part and parcel of the conspiracy hatched to assassinate former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in which 18 others also died. She had also been informed about the assassination plot well in advance. She had acquired degree and diplomas, which does not mean that she had changed her attitude. Even now she does not admit her guilt and she has no regrets for her act," the report said.
The searches, they said, are related to the department's probe in the biggest haul of cash and gold in Chennai post demonetisation.
The Madras high court will on Thursday hear a report of the advisory board, which has called for the premature release of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassin, Nalini Sreeharan.
Personnel from multiple government departments, including revenue, police, fisheries, animal husbandry and other state agencies from Ariyalur, Perambalur, Tiruvallur, Cuddalore, Salem and Thanjavur districts were being deployed to handle the situation in the cyclone-hit regions
France-based tyre manufacturer Michelin Group on Monday signed an MoU with Tamil Nadu government for setting up a Rs 4,000-crore (Rs 40 billion) manufacturing facility in Tiruvallur district near Chennai.
The Madras High Court on Friday directed the Tamil Nadu government to file a report on whether the land being claimed by some persons in Kaverirajapuram were covered in the Thiruvallur district collector's report to the Supreme Court Collegium, which was looking into allegations of land-grabbing in the area by Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran.
In his inaugural address at the 7th edition of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, organised by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, Tamil Nadu government and Confederation of Indian Industries, the prime minister said that professionals, including doctors, dentists, pharmactists, engineers, architects and chartered accountants, would have the benefit of practising their professions in India.
The Tamil Nadu government has said it cannot take any unilateral decision on the plea by Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, for her premature release.
Should other states take Tamil Nadu's lead and abolish corporal punishment?
The advisory board formed to consider the plea of Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, will submit its report to the Tamil Nadu government in a few days. The government constituted board, headed by District Collector C Rajendran, had met for over three hours on Wednesday and heard Nalini on her plea at the Vellore women's prison, where she is lodged. The meeting went on till late in the night.
The trial court's conclusion in a case relating to alleged irregularities in purchase and distribution of television sets that other accused committed offences under Prevention of Corruption Act would apply to former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa also, the Tamil Nadu government told the Madras High Court on Thursday.
The Tamil chief minister suffered a heart attack on Sunday evening.
The Supreme Court on Thursday said defamation cases should not be used as a political counter weapon against critics of governments.
The automaker will invest USD 195 million (about Rs 1,300 crore) and would employ 3,000 workers over the next five years, Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford said in the Tamil Nadu capital today.
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The court observed that the Sales Tax Department ought to have given an opportunity to Nokia and heard its objections over the Rs 2,400-crore tax dispute.
The 'Chennai Trekking Club' has blamed the local farmers for the fire that engulfed the area.
4 copters of the IAF and their 10 commandos are involved in the rescue operation.
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Last year's wooden spooners Delhi Daredevils will have to go into a tough IPL-8 opening encounter against the formidable Chennai Super Kings on April 9 without the services of star all-rounder Angelo Mathews.
The Congress president addressing women students at the Stella Maris College said that the law must apply to everybody and not be applied selectively.
Bowing to demands from opposition parties and others, Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday announced a Commission of Inquiry to go into the circumstances leading to the violence during the recent pro-Jallikattu stir at the Marina and elsewhere and the alleged police excesses.
Stating that there were 50,000 transgenders living in the state, he said, 'the transgenders included under the insurance scheme would get treatment in govertnment or private hospitals for various ailments including for kidney, heart and liver and if they met with accidents'.
The carmaker on Thursday signed an agreement with the Tamil Nadu government for the $500-million expansion programme at its manufacturing facility at Maraimalai Nagar a city suburb.
In the circumstances, an independent probe alone would establish the truth, starting from Koodangulam. It is more so in the case of Marina violence, which may even at this late hour hold a candle to the events and developments in Thoothukudi, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief Jayalalithaa is disqualified from contesting elections for ten years, the Tamil Nadu government has said in a gazette notification.
Two persons committed suicide today in two separate incidents in Tamil Nadu, allegedly distressed over the plight of Tamils in war-torn Sri Lanka.
The recent rise in number of deaths of Indian fishermen by Sri Lankan naval forces has raised an alarm in New Delhi. Politicians from Tamil Nadu met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to brief him on the recent killings on the Sri Lankan waters, and also gave him a memorandum on the same.
A Ganesh Nadar visits the bustling centre that hosts Tamil Nadu's health helpline that answers more than 100 medical queries an hour.
The ongoing strike, now in its 118th day, by workers at two of tyre giant MRF's factories has resulted is Rs 1,000 crore of losses, according to K M Mammen, managing director.
'Appointed, sponsored and nurtured' by Jayalalithaa, P Rama Mohana Rao is now seen as a man who holds the key to the secrets of ministers and bureaucrats.
Taking a serious view of the suspicious movement of an American ship in Indian waters, the Centre on Monday sought a report from the Tamil Nadu government on the vessel which was detained for carrying arms and buying diesel unauthorisedly.
While several banks and ATMs are providing cash far below the allowed limit every now and then due to cash shortage, the damage caused by the cyclone has dealt a further blow with movement of cash vehicles coming to a grinding halt, resulting in empty ATMs.
The Tamil Nadu government today issued orders to "ensure" that Muslims and Christians got 3.5 per cent reservation each in government services to overcome some 'practical problems' faced by the two communities in availing the benefit
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