Four men were arrested by the RK Nagar police for hacking to death a 28-year-old autorickshaw driver and then disposing his body in a gunny bag at Tondiarpet on Wednesday. Police arrested the four within 12 hours.
In a surprise inspection near Gandhi Market, the Trichy Corporation seized around 50kg of banned plastic products on Friday.
A farmer from Andhra Pradesh died on Thursday after falling off an autorickshaw at Uthukottai in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu is yet to take a decision on implementing the economically weaker section quota in medical admissions. Yet, if the state implements it as per the centre’s announcement, it will not affect the existing 69% reservation, says health minister C Vijaya Baskar.
Inquiries revealed that Nellaiyappan had been running more than 30 bars near Tasmac liquor shops without permission and in connivance with some AIADMK workers. He owned a resort near Mamallapuram.
The DMK will hold a meeting of its district secretaries, MPs and MLAs at the party headquarters -- Anna Arivalayam – here on June 3.
The BJP is looking for a new president for Tamil Nadu. Following the party’s severe drubbing in the state, where it lost all five seats it contested, the BJP will choose its new chief carefully.
Will be inquiring into the alleged irregularities in procurement of electrical parts
A majority of the people in the country may have been glued to the swearing in of the Union cabinet, but the trend brands are locked on to is the #pray_for_nesamani, which took social media by storm on Wednesday and Thursday.
A week after the DMK emerged as the third largest party in the Lok Sabha, party veteran and Sriperumbudur MP, T R Baalu, has shot off a letter to the Railway Board chairman demanding that the Chennai-Madurai Tejas Express stop at Tambaram, which falls in his constituency.
ust a day before the deadline ends, the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) committee on Thursday received 1.3 lakh applications. Last year, 1.41 lakh applications were received.
In 2011, when the Thiru Vi Ka Park in Shenoy Nagar was taken over for an underground metro rail station, residents were promised that it would be restored when the facility became operational.
Police commissioner A K Viswanathan has placed four policemen, including a sub-inspector, under suspension after it was confirmed that they demanded Rs 80,000 bribe from a trader at Triplicane. They were transferred to the vacancy reserve after the issue surfaced on Tuesday.
The incidence of oral cancer has been increasing, particularly among teenage boys, according to statistics released by the Chennai Metropolitan Tumour Registry attached to the Cancer Institute in Adyar.
After taking oath as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress Party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday said DMK chief M K Stalin would become the chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday extended his wishes to Naveen Patnaik and YS Jagan Mohan Reddy for being sworn in as chief ministers of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
Trichy city police arrested a Chennai-based man for cheating a Trichy based man Rs 3 lakh on the promise of getting job in Chennai International Airport, here on Wednesday.
Two persons were killed in an explosion which was triggered at a cracker unit near Sattur here on Thursday.
A day after parents of an 18-year-old girl lodged a missing complaint with the Selvapuram police, their daughter, along with her ‘husband’, approached the same police station on Wednesday seeking protection from her family.
A 12-year-old elephant was electrocuted after it came into contact with an illegal electric fence that was erected around a farmland near Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) here on Wednesday.
The Tirunelveli district police arrested a 19-year-old boy on Wednesday for sexually abusing and murdering a nine-year-old boy from a place near Thalaiyuthu on the outskirts of Tirunelveli city. The accused was identified as M Mayandi, a labourer from the same locality.
The rise of teenage pregnancies has started to set a worrying trend in Trichy. Going by the data with the public health department, a total of 509 teenage pregnancies were reported from April 2018 to March 2019.
History took a different turn for Chennai 156 years ago, when an assistant geologist at the Geological Survey of India stumbled upon paleolithic tools at his workplace, a mining site in Pallavaram.
Chennai-based Sri Muthukumaran Medical College Hospital and Research Institute is likely to lose the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University affiliation (a mandatory requirement to admit students) following serious infrastructural flaws and inadequate patients in its teaching hospital.
Seven years after his 15-year-old speech impaired daughter committed suicide allegedly due to sexual abuse by a man, the girl’s father hacked the 40-year-old man to death in broad daylight
The Chennai collectorate on Wednesday released the list of 25 schools functioning without obtaining government’s recognition.
In a first, the state fire and rescue services department has sent a proposal to the government requesting authority to lock and seal buildings which flout all fire safety norms.
In yet another seizure of wildlife at the city airport, customs officials stopped the illegal export of 64kg of shark fins, worth Rs 32 lakh, to Singapore on Tuesday night.