Chennai: DMK President M.K. Stalin on Tuesday demanded registration of criminal cases against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami, officials of Election Commission, state police and also the person who filed a petition seeking cancellation of the FIR registered in the R.K. Nagar cash-for-vote case. Stalin also demanded registration of[Read More…]
Chennai: Job offers for students of the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M), in the first phase of placements for 2018-19, has increased by nearly 30 per cent, excluding pre-placement offers, compared to last year, a statement said on Tuesday. The institute said that in the first three days of phase[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of Madras High Court over awarding the 196 grace mark for students, writing exams in Tamil under National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). 24,000 students were earlier given the grace mark for writing the exam in their native language. A[Read More…]
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday took stock of the situation in Tamil Nadu where severe cyclonic storm Gaja has battered coastal areas leaving 11 dead so far, and assured Chief Minister E.K. Palaniswami of all possible Central assistance. The Minister spoke with Palaniswami on phone and[Read More…]
New Delhi: Former All India Congress Committee (AICC) President and senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi is going to unveil the late Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Chief M Karunanidhi’s statue at DMK’s Head Quarter in Chennai on December 16. A formal invitation to this ceremony will be conveyed by DMK President[Read More…]
A teenager from Pulianthope (Chennai), studying in Class 10 in a government school, was ordered by Juvenile Justice Board to regulate the city traffic for 16 hours over the weekend. This unique punishment was pronounced during a hearing on Friday where it was found that the boy had been riding[Read More…]
Chennai: People in Tamil Nadu celebrated Diwali with traditional fervour, starting off with special sesame oil bath, wearing new clothes and bursting firecrackers, while police registered cases against several of those who violated the cracker bursting time slot ordered by the government. Unlike previous years though the sound of the[Read More…]
Chennai: People in Tamil Nadu celebrated Diwali with traditional fervour starting of with special sesame oil bath, wearing new clothes and bursting fire crackers. Unlike previous years though the sound of the bursting of fire crackers was rather subdued following the he Supreme Court-imposed restrictions. The state government has permitted[Read More…]
Poongani amma, the oldest living villupaattu performer with more than 50 years of experience in the art form, passed away on Friday November 2, after her deteriorating health condition. The 84-year-old artist was living all by herself in a small village of Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. Poongani, fondly known as[Read More…]
2 days after publishing a scathing article, DMK mouthpiece Murasoli’s editor, S Selvam came up with a statement saying that the editorial team has been advised to take care while publishing such write-ups. “Who is the black sheep…Mae..Mae…Mae”, titled op-ed, comprised of a conversation between Mr Rajinikanth and an “innocent”[Read More…]
Chennai: A total of 20 assembly seats are vacant in Tamil Nadu as of Thursday following the Madras High Court judgment in the AIADMK MLAs case and it will be a sort of mini-assembly elections if bypolls are to held simultaneously. The bypolls for 20 seats will be an acid[Read More…]
Chennai: The Supreme Court appointed third judge, Justice M. Sathyanarayanan of the Madras High Court, on Thursday upheld the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker’s decision disqualifying 18 AIADMK legislators in 2017. Pronouncing his decision in the split verdict that had previously been delivered, Sathyanarayanan upheld Speaker P. Dhanapal’s disqualification order. With[Read More…]
Chennai: South Actor turned politician Rajinikanth on Saturday said that one should maintain ‘Caution’ over women’s entry in Sabarimala, years old tradition being followed, in a response to the Supreme Court verdict on entry of women of all age groups into the temple premise in Kerala, which followed a violent[Read More…]
The never-ending struggle of physically impaired and differently-abled people doesn’t seem to end in Tamil Nadu as the government in the state denies a license to the persons with monocular vision. Despite the Centre’s order to permit license to those who are legally blind in one eye in the country,[Read More…]
Recently a man was spotted and captured in camera, where he uses a spatulas to create music from the steel containers while stirring the corn in the spices. The 30 second clip featuring an unnamed man in Brookefields mall in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, soon went viral when communications professional Karthik[Read More…]
Chennai, The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has relieved T.K.S. Elangovan from the party’s spokesperson position, a statement said. DMK General Secretary K. Anbazhagan said this in the statement issued late on Monday. However, he did not give any reason for the action against the Rajya Sabha member of the party. The announcement[Read More…]
Chennai: A day after a couple lodged complaint about their 35-day missing child, police revealed that the child was murdered by the parents themselves and recovered the child’s body from a lake. Police arrested the woman and concluded that she had murdered the month-old child as she was unable to[Read More…]
On finding extramarital affair of husband, wife threatened to make a police complaint against him. The husband challenged the woman that recent verdict by Supreme Court has scrapped adultery as crime following which, the depressed jilted wife committed suicide. The incident took place at MGR Nagar in Chennai on Saturday[Read More…]
Chennai, Sep 27 (IANS) DMK President M.K. Stalin has undergone a minor surgery for removal of cyst from his right thigh, said Apollo Hospitals. In a statement issued here on Thursday the hospital said Stalin was admitted to the hospital late on Wednesday. “He underwent a minor surgical procedure for[Read More…]
DMK President M.K. Stalin on Monday demanded action against those who beat to death 15-year-old P. Balasubramani for allegedly stealing a mobile phone. In a statement issued here, Stalin said the killing of the boy, who belonged to Tamil Nadu’s Karur district, is condemnable and not acceptable in a civilised[Read More…]
To utmost contentment for Dev Nath and his parents, the teenager had passed his class 10th exams with flying colours. He was on cloud nine because he had scored 84 marks in Science while his teachers told him that he cannot pass and that he was a bad student. The[Read More…]
With fuel prices skyrocketing from past few weeks, Tamil Nadu is no stranger to the same fury, where petrol and diesel prices are Rs 85.15 per litre and Rs 77.94 per litre. Making the best use of current market values, a group of friends decided to give 5 litres of[Read More…]
Central Crime Branch (CCB) police gets three months’ time during a hearing on Wednesday from Madras High Court to complete the ongoing investigation into recruitment scam and then file a comprehensive report in the case. CCB has been asked to probe Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) Group-I recruitment scam.[Read More…]
Tiruchy banks deprive visually impaired people of availing ATM facilities on the grounds of their disability. This has added to their troubles as now they have to stand in long queues of banks for money withdrawals. According to visually impaired people, this is a common practice across Tamil Nadu state[Read More…]
Tamil Nadu police releases Louis Sophia who raised slogans against the BJP-led central government in public’ on bail after her arrest sparked a political row. DMK chief MK Stalin had slammed the Tamil Nadu government for arresting her and called for Sofia’s release on Monday. Stalin had also dared Tamil[Read More…]