A total of 135 fishermen from various coastal hamlets in the state would leave from here for Sri Lanka on Sunday morning to bring back the 87 boats seized by the island nation in 2014, a fisheries department official said.
A total of 135 fishermen from various coastal hamlets in the state would leave from here for Sri Lanka on Sunday morning to bring back the 87 boats seized by the island nation in 2014, a fisheries department official said.
Madras High Court on Friday lambasted the state government and Chennai police for the early morning arrest of 82-year-old social activist 'Traffic' Ramaswamy on March 11 and directed that he be immediately shifted to the Government Super Speciality Hospital as a normal patient and that he not be retained in the convict ward.
The issue of attack on the office of a Tamil TV channel in Chennai for airing promos of a debate that questioned the need of 'mangal sutra' was raised in the Lok Sabha on Friday.
Congress members in the Lok Sabha on Friday raised the issue of an attack on a Tamil news channel in Chennai and sought a reply from the government in the matter.
Two muzzleloader guns were recovered from the Neiyamalai reserve forests in the district today, official sources said.
In keeping with provisions of a Central Act, manual scavenging will not be allowed in Tamil Nadu from March 15.
Two tiffin-box crude bombs were hurled at the office of Tamil news channel Puthiya Thalaimurai on Thursday morning. The bombs exploded with a loud noise, but no one was injured nor was any property damaged, police said.
A demand for setting up a national panel to champion the cause of country's fishermen and provide them a platform to raise their concerns, was made in Rajya Sabha by a DMK member today.
A woman and her five-year old daughter were killed and another daughter aged seven was seriously injured after they jumped before a train near Mettupalayam, today.
Pandemonium prevailed in the city Corporation Council meeting here on Thursday when ruling AIADMK and opposition DMK members clashed over corruption charges against their respective leaders Jayalalithaa and M Karunanidhi.
Sri Lankan naval personnel on Thursday allegedly hurled petrol bombs at a fishing boat from Thangachimadam here causing damage to the boat, police said.
Suspected members of a fringe right-wing outfit Thursday threw crude bombs at the local office of a popular Tamil TV news channel over a proposed interactive show on 'Thaali' (Mangal Sutra), drawing widespread condemnation from media bodies and political parties which termed it as an attack on freedom of expression.
Two watchmen of an estate guest house today suffocated to death due to lack of oxygen following heat generated by an electric heater in their room at Vandicholai near Coonoor, about 18 km from here, police said.
Atomic power plant operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) is hoping to load the real fuel in the second 1,000 MW plant being set up at Kudankulam around June, said a senior official on Wednesday.
Atomic power plant operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) is hoping to load the real fuel in the second 1,000 MW plant being set up at Kudankulam around June, said a senior official on Wednesday.
The Karnataka High Court will on Wednesday wind up hearing of the appeals filed by former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa and three others challenging their conviction in the disproportionate assets case.
AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa on Tuesday directed her party functionaries to open a fixed deposit account for Rs 5 lakh in the name of a nonagenarian Congress leader of Tamil Nadu living in indigent circumstances.
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday said it would wind up tomorrow hearing of the appeals filed by former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and three others challenging their conviction in the disproportionate assets case.
A Sri Lankan Tamil woman, who symbolised the fight against the alleged disappearances during the final stages of the war against the LTTE in 2009, was on Tuesday released on conditional bail after spending nearly a year in jail on charges of sheltering a criminal.
An AIADMK functionary was Tuesday hacked to death at Kongarayakurichi in the district by some unidentified assailants, police said.
Members of Aadhi Tamilar Viduthalai Iyakkam in Coimbatore expressed their outrage against the ban imposed by the Maharashtra Government on consumption and sale of beef across the state by eating 'beef biryani'.
A solution for the decades old Tamils issue, ending the travails of Tamil Nadu fishermen, are among the several expectations in the state over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two day visit to Sri Lanka on March 13 and 14.
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the country, DMK President Karunanidhi said on Monday that Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe's statement on Indian fishermen was like 'slap on the face'.
A 16-year-old boy died today after he slipped and fell into a 60-feet deep quarry while working, police today said.
Decrying the recent attack on upcoming author 'Puliyur' Murugesan, DMK President M Karunanidhi on Sunday urged the state government to ensure freedom of expression of writers and their personal safety.
Two days after he was stripped of key party posts in the AIADMK, Agriculture Minister 'agri' S S Krishnamoorthy was on Saturday dropped from the state cabinet by Chief Minister O Panneerselvam.
One Babu alias Samshuddin, involved in smuggling of rice meanto to distribute through Public Distribution System to neighbouring Kerala, was detained under Goondas act.
A year ahead of the state Assembly elections, the ruling AIADMK today held youth resurgence rallies across Tamil Nadu, hailing the welfare programmes and "achievements" of its regime.
The central government on Saturday assured Tamil Nadu of 100 MW additional power from the second 1,000 MW nuclear power plant at Kudankulam, said a state government release.
Three fresh cases of swine flu were today reported in various parts of the district, officials said.
