Taking on Karnataka over yet another river issue, Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa today accused the state of planning to build check dams across Pennaiyar River and sought the intervention of PM to advise it against going ahead with the work.
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa is angry and upset over yet another central government initiative that usurps state government powers, thereby weakening the federal structure of the country.
A day after the home ministry extended his visa for another year, controversial US historian Peter Heehs today said he is grateful to the ministry for reviewing his case.
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa Saturday said the central government is being unreasonable with regard to compensating states for the loss of their revenue due to reduction of central sales tax rates last fiscal.
DMK, a key UPA constituent, will not be a part of the Parliamentary delegation scheduled to visit Sri Lanka from April 16-22 to assess the resettlement and political process there, party chief M Karunanidhi said today.
DMK chief M Karunanidhi said that a separate Tamil Eelam rings in the ears of Tamils living all over the world as a liberation song and it will come into existence some day
.Locked in a row with Karnataka over sharing of Cauvery waters, Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday requested the Centre to immediately appoint a new Chairman of the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal.
Retired army officer K Ramaraj was sentenced to life imprisonment by a fast-track court on Friday for killing a 13-year-old boy who had entered his residential premises to collect fruit. HT reports.
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has categorically opposed a proposed amendment to the Border Security Force (BSF) Act, 1968, saying it encroaches upon the states' powers.
The recent decision by a Norwegian court to hand over two NRI children in foster care to their paternal uncle in India after a protracted legal battle was "taken in the best interest of the children", a senior official of the Scandinavian country said today.
Taking a swipe at the Congress led UPA government at the Centre, Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa today charged it with neglecting the state, indicating that it was against her.
With 5.47am tomorrow set for the blast-off of the Indian rocket carrying a remote sensing/earth observation satellite - Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) - into space, the space agency is fuelling the rocket's second stage with liquid propellant.
BJP's Puducherry State committee on Thursday sought a CBI probe into the implementation of a scheme to distribute subsidy to poor families to convert huts into concrete houses in the Union Territory.
Home minister P Chidambaram's son Karti is planning to take legal action against Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy who had yesterday levelled allegations against his investments in a telecom company.
Stressing the importance of a national agency to curb internal and external terrorist threats to the country, Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy today said a National Counter Terrorism Centre was essential to avoid incidents like the recent abduction of Odisha MLA Jhina Hikaka and Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon.