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villupuram district news

Chandrayaan-3 project director to donate 25 lakh to alma mater

P Veeramuthuvel
Updated on Nov 11, 2023 06:58 am IST

After 8 years, rural local bodies of Tamil Nadu conduct polls

In the first phase of elections, 260 district panchayat wards, 2456 Union Block Panchayat wards, 4700 village panchayat president positions and 37830 village panchayat wards had gone for polls on Friday.
Updated on Dec 30, 2019 11:55 pm IST

Debt-ridden Tamil Nadu couple kills children, records video before committing suicide

A 33-year-old man in Tamil Nadu’s Villupuram killed three of his children by feeding them cyanide and committed suicide along with his wife. (Representative Image)
Updated on Dec 13, 2019 11:49 am IST

Eight Tibetan activists detained ahead of Modi-Xi summit in Mamallapuram

Officials walk past a Buddha statue installed at the entrance of the shore temple in Mamallapuram as part of the preparations for the informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, to be held from October 11 to 13.
Updated on Oct 07, 2019 08:11 pm IST

16 dead in two different road mishaps in Tamil Nadu

Seven of the deceased are TNEB’s contract workers from Jharkhand and the police are waiting for the contractor from Madurai to identify them.
Updated on Jul 18, 2019 06:03 pm IST

Case filed against four for molesting 18-yr-old

The victim’s parent have alleged she was gang-raped but Villupuram district superintendent of police S Jayakumar said medical reports indicated the woman was not raped.
Published on Jun 21, 2019 11:00 pm IST

In Tamil Nadu, third student ends life after NEET failure

A first-year MBBS student was found hanging in her room in the girls hostel in AIIMS campus. (Representative photo)
Updated on Jun 07, 2019 01:16 pm IST

Centre nod to Vedanta EIA for oil exploration

This development comes in the backdrop of a backlash against Vedanta in Tamil Nadu, where its copper smelter, Sterlite, in Thoothukudi has been closed since May 2018 over alleged environmental pollution caused by the plant.
Updated on May 12, 2019 02:16 am IST

Tamil Nadu has a new district: Kallakurichi will be 33rd

Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said this would fulfil the two-decade old demand of the people of Kallakurichi.
Updated on Jan 09, 2019 08:58 am IST

Tamil Nadu policeman shoots dead girlfriend on her birthday, kills himself

Sources said the victim’s father rushed to the hall upon hearing gun shot and found his daughter lying in a pool of blood.
Updated on Oct 10, 2018 03:39 pm IST