The murder charges capped dramatic developments both in the court and outside where a woman head constable witness to the happenings told a Magisterial probe that the two traders were thrashed an entire night by the other police personnel at Sathankulam station where they were detained over alleged lockdown violations late last month.
The work we have done in the south and the northeast over the last 10 years under Prime Minister Modi's leadership, we have started getting results of the same, he said.
65,000 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees still live in Tamil Nadu. Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar discovers the challenges for the refugees to return home.
Mutt advocate A Shanmugham told the \nthe Special Investigation Team probing the cases against the Kanchi seers that the summons were not legally enforceable.
Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam announced on Friday morning that the state government will amend a central act on Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to allow the conduct of Jallikattu in the state with the Centre's backing, and urged protestors across the state to withdraw their agitation following the likelihood of the bull-taming sport to be held in a "day or two."
K Premkumar, heading the investigation into the Sankararaman murder case in which Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswathi has been arrested, has been brough back as the SP, Kanchipuram.
Shops were open and bus and train services were unaffected.
Kanchi Shankaracharya was produced before a magistrate in Kancheepuram on Friday and was remanded in judicial custody\n
The issue of fishermen continues to be thorny in the relations across the Palk Straits as the Sri Lankan Navy is often accused of harassing the Tamil Nadu fishermen.
In 2016, the Tamil Nadu railway police rescued 2,128 children; nearly six children a day, or a child every four hours.
The Tamil Nadu government had appointed advocates P S Nagarajan and K S Ramasamy as special public prosecutors for the case, which was transferred to Pondicherry by the Supreme Court on a petition from the seer last year.
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He was 64 and is survived by his wife, four sons and five daughters.
The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 is being hailed as the first significant attempt to recognise domestic abuse as a punishable offence.
His father Prakash Singh, who is known for introducing several police reforms and has been awarded Padma Shri as well, had served as the BSF DG from 1993-94.
'They are afraid that if they approach a police station for filing a complaint they might themselves get arrested under some random charges.'
The boat's Arab owner says he has paid the fine of Rs 29.5 lakhs, but the Iranians now want parking fees. As the Arab-Persian standoff continues, the Indian fishermen's families live in a state of limbo.
Two courts in Sri Lanka on Monday ordered the release of 163 Tamil Nadu fishermen, arrested by naval personnel of the island nation in the past two months and lodged in prisons there, a top functionary of the local fishermen's organisation said.
Over 2,000 employees, mostly union leaders, have already been dismissed from service by the state government by invoking the Essential Services Maitenance Act against them, according official sources.
They are demanding restoration of curtailed benefits.
A Ganesh Nadar speaks to a terror suspect's father about his son's alleged role in a terror plot in Chennai.
The Supreme Court on Monday threatened to issue arrest warrants against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, Union Transport Minister T R Baalu and four others for failing to respond to a contempt notice on the Sethusamudram bandh row.
"We told the prime minister that it is the question of sentiments of crores of Hindus, hurt by investigations being conducted with a vindictive attitude and the ill-treatment meted out to Jayendra Saraswati," BJP president L K Advani said.
The Kanchi seer should resign to protect the respect and dignity of the post occupied by him, he said.
The arrest follows investigation into the murder of Sankararaman, who had once managed the accounts of the Mutt.
Eyewitnesses said they heard two explosions on coaches S4 and S4 of the Bangalore-Guwahati Kaziranga express as it arrived at the Chennai railway station.
'It shows that they cannot manage the situation with the forces in their hand.'
Nine more persons died on Tuesday in Karnataka, taking the toll there to 58, while eight more lost their lives in Krishnagiri, taking the toll there to 25. Of the 58 persons who have died in Karnataka, 19 were from Kolar.
When over a hundred fishermen from Tamil Nadu were arrested by the Sri Lankan navy and their boats seized last month, fishermen in coastal Tamil Nadu went on strike. Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar visits the coastal towns of Nagapattinam and Rameswaram to discover that the fishermen do not have many choices.
They reportedly helped the brigand during the abduction episode of Nagappa.
Subahani Haja Moideen, a Keralite, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency in 2016 following a crackdown in Tamil Nadu with the help of central security agencies and other state police, foiling designs of Islamic State operatives to attack or eliminate certain prominent persons and target places of public importance.
The ordeal of an innocent man who was jailed for 50 days.
'All this for only one reason -- that I oppose the government's nuclear power policy.' 'They will not break my resolve.' 'I will stand by my principle, which is to point out that nuclear energy is not safe.'
According to the police, all six persons in the car were drunk.
The court noted that no appreciable steps have been taken ever since an order was passed by it on June 13 to deploy central forces in sensitive areas for the poll process.
In private, AIADMK spokespersons say that the raid on Chief Secretary P Ramamohana Rao might be aimed at weakening the AIADMK, and demotivating the party from selecting/electing Jayalalithaa's confidante, Sasikala Natarajan, as her successor -- first as party head then possibly in the government, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
On average, about 60 cases were filed by the agency in 2019 and 2020, officials said.
