The Madurai city police arrested two minors aged 15 and 17 for robbing a gold chain and cash from a woman near Avaniyapuram, Wednesday.
The AIADMK’s choice of CM candidature for the 2021 assembly election, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, continues to be a bone of contention among allies.
Tension prevailed for a while in front of chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami’s house at Suramangalam here on Wednesday morning after a section of Periya Soragai villagers threatened to immolate themselves for denying them basic amenities. Police, however, thwarted their self-immolation bid and pacified them.
A day after actor Rajinikanth said no to electoral politics, his close confidante and founder of Gandhiya Makkal Iyakkam Tamilaruvi Manian too called it quits. “I am quitting politics and will not re-enter till my death,” Manian said in a statement. Manian had been one of the key leaders, urging the Tamil Superstar to enter politics.
After BJP general secretary C T Ravi said NDA’s CM pick will be decided by a panel and PMK’s G K Mani said chief S Ramadoss would announce the CM candidate, AIADMK said it “will keep out parties that do not accept EPS as CM candidate”.
The country has now been split into six regions for a huge molecular hunt for the new UK variant of the coronavirus. The search includes 10 labs located across the country — all capable of genome sequencing.
A day after Rajinikanth called off his political plunge, MNM chief Kamal Haasan said he would seek the support of his ‘close friend’ in the assembly poll.“It is obvious to seek support from all sections.
Two people including a PMK worker on a bike were killed in a road accident after an SUV rammed the twowheeler at Sriperumbudur on Tuesday, police said.
The pandemic has not broken Deepak Krishnan's party spirits. Since there are restrictions on gatherings on New Year’s Eve, he has booked a banquet hall in a five-star hotel in the city on January 2 to host a dinner for 25 guests.
A special police team members posed as prospective buyers looking for second-hand bikes and arrested a bike thief at Madhavaram on Tuesday night.
The Velachery-St Thomas Mount MRTS extension line has come a little closer to realisation. The state government on Wednesday began demolishing the last few buildings in Adambakkam to complete land acquisition .
In the climax of his 2002 flop ‘Baba’, Rajinikanth makes a last-minute return from sanyaas to socio-political life. On Tuesday, the actor made a virtual repeat of the theme, this time in reverse, going back on his promise to launch a political party.
Rajini Makkal Mandram (RMM) functionaries are in a state of grief, unable to digest their leader’s decision not to launch a political party. Many said they were “politically orphaned”, but added they valued Rajini’s health more than anything else.
In two months, the Chennai corporation will launch a portal with all records of land in the city.
A 25-year-old man who returned to Chennai from the United Kingdom recently has tested positive for the mutant strain of Covid-19.
A 57-year-old sub-inspector, who was 'cured' of Covid-19, later died of suffocation at Kilpauk Medical College hospital on Monday.
The Madurai city police arrested a 39-year-old from Tenkasi for fradulently acquiring money worth Rs 20 lakh from an individual on the promise of doubling his money.
A gang of four men barged into a house in Tallakulam, Madurai and looted gold jewellery and cash by threatening two elderly women at knife point.
A 97-year-old woman and her three daughters on Monday attempted to commit self-immolation on the district collectorate premises.
Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Monday formally inaugurated the 38th district of Tamil Nadu, Mayiladuthurai, through video conferencing from Chennai, bringing much cheer to residents, traders and politicians who have been demanding it for two decades. Carved out from Nagapattinam, it consists of rural and semi-urban regions with a mix of traders, farmers, agriculture labourers and the fishing community which offer a lot of scope for development on the economic front.
One person in Tamil Nadu, who returned from the United Kingdom recently, tested positive for the new super-spreader Covid-19 strain.
Ruling out declaring 2020-21 a 'zero academic year' due to Covid-19, school education minister K A Sengottaiyan on Monday said board exams for Classes X, XI and XII will be conducted for the academic year.
An MBBS aspirant and her doctor father, who submitted a fake NEET scorecard to medical counselling officials and went hiding from their native place in Paramakudi, have been traced to Kerala, the Periamet police investigating the case said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Maan Ki Baat address on Sunday praised father-daughter duo from the city for creating a wheelchair for their dog with broken legs to walk and run.
This doctor gave the Chennai police a taste of their own medicine. Stopped and sent home in an autorickshaw for driving drunk, he came back after a while and drove away the cops’ vehicle when they refused to return his car. He then dashed the police jeep against an autorickshaw at Kilpauk, injuring three people.