Chennai

Expressing unhappiness over the Supreme Court order which gave the green signal for commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, anti-nuclear activists today termed the decision as "unjust" and said protests will continue.

With voting for Assembly elections in Karnataka over, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today urged the Centre to set up Cauvery Management Board and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee to give effect to the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal orders.

PMK leader and former union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss was arrested by Kancheepuram police today in connection with an alleged hate speech case filed against him.

PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss on Wednesday apologised for the desecration of a heritage temple by his party workers, who continued their protest against the arrest of party chief S Ramadoss for allegedly inciting caste violence.

Objecting strongly to some aspects of the Centre’s Direct Benefits Transfer scheme, TN chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to operationalise the scheme in her state as it was “an infringement of the authority of the state governments”, HT reports.

The Tamil Nadu police late on Monday night arrested three persons belonging to the banned terrorist outfit Al Umma in connection with the Bengaluru blast on April 17. HT reports.

Three people have been held in Tamil Nadu for their alleged involvement in the bomb blast in Bangalore. A bomb placed on a parked motorcycle exploded near the BJP office on April 17 injuring 16 persons.

Legendary Lalgudi Jayaraman, who died at a private hospital in Chennai on Monday at 82 after a brief illness, was to the violin what Pandit Ravi Shankar was to the sitar.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav today strongly advocated for a Third Front saying Congress and BJP have not fulfilled their promises.

DMK members of the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probing the allocation and pricing of 2G spectrum have readied their dissent note to the panel's draft report, said the party's parliamentary leader TR Baalu.

The Madras high court today ordered issue of a notice to former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi on a petition seeking a direction to police to probe a complaint against him for allegedly making certain "malicious" remarks at a public meeting in Chennai over a decade ago.

DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi expressed surprise and shock over the draft JPC report on telecom scam that put the blame on A Raja, former telecom minister and DMK's dalit icon. HT reports.

In a swift action, the city police have traced the registered owner of the motorbike which was used for bomb blast in Bangalore, in which 16 people were injured.

DMK members in Tamil Nadu assembly were on Wednesday suspended en masse for the rest of the ongoing budget session scheduled till May 16 after they were evicted from the House for the fourth time for disrupting the proceedings.