The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday set up a four-member expert panel, which includes former Atomic Energy Commission chief MR Srinivasan, to submit a report on the fears and concerns of local people over the Koodankulam nuclear power project.
Enhanced monetary relief in the case of atrocities against SCs and STs has come into effect with the Centre notifying amended rules under the relevant act.
A senior Air India pilot was caught drunk minutes before he was to operate a flight out of Chennai to Madurai on Friday. HT reports.
Chief minister Jayalalithaa today blamed Central Ministers in UPA from Tamil Nadu for its "indifferent" attitude towards the state even when it sought financial assistance for relief and restoration work after cyclone 'Thane' hit Cuddalore and Villupuram districts.
V Divakaran, brother of Sasikala Natarajan, former aide of Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa, was arrested here late last night in connection with a house-demolition case, police said.
Vigilance officials on Wednesday conducted raids in the premises of former DMK minister NKP Raja across Tamil Nadu in connection with a disproportionate assets case.
An Indian Air Force (IAF) trainer aircraft crashed into a lake near early today but both pilots ejected safely, officials said.
Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa today filed a complaint in a city court here seeking to take action against former Deputy Chief Minister and DMK Treasurer M K Stalin for his statements to the press last month "which are totally false and per se defamatory."
Former DMK minister M P Swaminathan was today arrested at Tirupur near Coimbatore in connection with a land grabbing case, police said.
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy today asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to agree to Army Chief VK Singh's reported "compromise formula" for settling the age issue that he would take premature retirement if the government accepted his true year of birth as 1951.
One person was killed and three injured after a building housing government departments here caught fire today, said police.
Senior BJP leader LK Advani lauded Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's development work in Gujarat.
A second year MBBS student of a private medical college in Salem allegedly committed self-immolation in the hostel after he faced charges of stealing a high-end mobile phone of a college-mate, police said on Friday.
Three persons died and four were injured on Saturday when their tractor collided with a bus near Salem, police said.
Suspected MDMK and Nam TamizharIyakkam activists on Tuesday allegedly threw stones and slippers when a relative of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa was about to perform a 'pooja'.