An additional outgo of Rs 30,000 by Alex Andraper of Icosta Shipping, when he bought his Rs 30-lakh truck last August, might have prevented the collision it had with a Kerala transport bus in Tirupur last Thursday that claimed the lives of 20 passengers. Looks like the accident has prompted truck-makers to consider safety systems more seriously.
The Tallakulam all women police on Thursday arrested a 32-year-old man for sexually harassing two minor girls.
A 36-year-old man has been sentenced to a two-year jail term for rash and negligent driving, without a valid licence, which caused the death of a woman and injured three others in Puducherry 11 years ago. Judicial magistrate II M Dhanalakshmi also slapped a fine of Rs 7,000 M Mohanraj.
Despite modern air traffic control procedures, pilots are forced to hover over the city waiting for clearance to land at the airport. Forced to circle one above the other for up to 15 minutes during peak hours, each plane burns up to 600kg of fuel in the process
A 28-year-old central industrial security force (CISF) constable and three of his friends were arrested for stealing 39 hens here on Thursday night.
With the state gearing up for assembly election next year, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday directed the public works department to complete the ongoing projects by next March.
Police on Friday arrested a woman on charges of killing her husband and staging a suicide drama at New Washermenpet on Wednesday.
If encroachments crop up along the pedestrian plaza in T Nagar or there are any issues related to parking or traffic congestion, a specially constituted team will now swoop in and set it right. The corporation has roped in a private contractor to monitor the plaza.
With hundreds of international tourists who had booked a trip to Tamil Nadu in March forced to put off their plans, the Coronavirus (COVID-19 ) outbreak has thrown the tourism sector into a crisis.
It looked like just another wrecked vehicle towed and dumped on a police station campus. The damaged minibus on the Omalur station premises, however, has five Nepal citizens living in it — cooking, eating and sleeping.
In another four months, metro rail will reach another milestone as a 9km line will link the heart of the city to north Chennai, while construction of the ambitious 118.9km phase-2 will be officially inaugurated.
The CB-CID police have booked a retired Pondicherry University professor for posting obscene remarks on a social media site about the chairwoman of the district-level complaints committee (DLCC) probing sexual harassment at workplace.
A 33-year-old man from Othakadai in Madurai was arrested on Thursday for uploading child pornographic content. This is the second such incident in Madurai, after two people from Arapalayam were arrested on Tuesday.
A leopard on the prowl has instilled fear among the residents of Wellington cantonment area near Coonoor. The animal has been wandering around the area for the past two days.
A 52-year-old pastor was arrested by Valliyoor all woman police in Tirunelveli district on charges of repeated sexual abuse of a seven-year-old girl. Accused S Selvaraj of Siragodu village near Pechiparai in Kanyakumari district was pastor in the church for two decades. He was booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.
A government panel appearing before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sought another month’s time to prepare an interim plan to clean up the Korattur lake.
A 22-year-old woman, who had got married a scrap dealer only 11 days ago, committed suicide at her house at Chenneerkuppam near Poonamallee.
DMK MLA S Kathavarayan died on Friday. He was 58. Doctors attending him at a private hospital in Chennai said he had recently undergone a bypass surgery. He subsequently suffered renal failure.
A trip on the Metro rail will get a lot more entertaining, beginning Friday. Commuters boarding a metro train on the Central-Airport line can watch films or songs on the go without exhausting their mobile data.
A 49-year-old man employed as a manager at a leading chain of restaurants committed suicide at his house in Kancheepuram on Thursday.
An elderly pedestrian was knocked down by a biker at the Aranganathan subway in T Nagar on Wednesday night.
It was the last emblem of the state government featuring the word Madras, until the highways department began a renovation project about four months ago. Now, the seal over the pylon on Maraimalai Adigal bridge in Saidapet, built across the Adyar river, reads 'Tamil Nadu Government'.
A minor girl who was lured into prostitution and was being taken to a prospective client was rescued by her brother on Thursday, police said.
An eight-member gang hacked a rowdy to death in full public view at Kasimedu in Chennai on Wednesday evening.
Around 40 cows were charred to death when a fire broke out at a private dairy farm near Usilampatti in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Thursday.
Suburban train commuters arriving at Egmore are having it easy. Since last month, they have been able to exit from both sides of the busy station without much difficulty, thanks to platform 11-A.
A life convict, 72, died of respiratory problems at Government Stanley Medical College Hospital on Tuesday.
Several people are walking into eye clinics with red, itchy eyes and opthalmologists say the season for conjunctivitis has just begun. While adults complain of watery eyes, children are showing symptoms of fever, cold and sore throat, along with conjunctivitis.
Samy was the fisheries minister in the 2006 – 2011 DMK government.
A second-year student of Madras Medical College, who was arrested along with his father on Wednesday in connection with the NEET scam, had used an impersonator who took the entrance exam at a centre in Bihar, investigators have found.
A treasure trove of 505 gold coins weighing 1,716 grams surfaced when workers were digging the ground at the Akilandeswari Jambukeswarar temple at Thiruvanaikaval in Trichy on Wednesday. Temple officials said the coins, which had letters resembling Arabic etched on them, could date back to 1000-1200CE.
The government and the state election commission are racing against time to complete the delimitation exercise in the new nine districts so as to hold the local body elections here along with the urban local body polls across the state.
Just adding another layer of tar without scraping or milling plays havoc with road height and buildings find themselves going below road level overnight. Turning its attention to this civic menace, the Madras high court on Wednesday flayed officials and summoned three top secretaries of the Tamil Nadu government to appear in court on February 28 and explain the disobedience.
Poonamallee, the western gateway to Chennai, could soon emerge as the city’s second IT highway. The arterial road is attracting several realtors interested in developing IT parks.
The higher education department is planning to merge two shifts in government arts and science colleges throughout the state from 2020-21.
The Kannankurichi police in Salem city on Wednesday arrested social activist Piyush Manush for assaulting his landlady who wanted him to vacate the house.
Police are on the lookout for a migrant worker who married and impregnated a 15-year-old girl near Kariyampalayam on the outskirts of Coimbatore. The girl gave birth to a baby boy on Wednesday.