Chennai |Β The Tamil Nadu Police have arrested a self-styled godman Sathiya Narayanan and his wife Pushpalatha after he was charged with sexually abusing a woman devotee. Police said that Pushpalatha had helped Sathiya Narayanan rape the woman when she was 16 years of age. The arrests were made on Saturday. The police said that objectionable […]
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Bus driver saves 30 lives before dying of heart attack
Chennai |Β A Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) bus driver saved 30 lives on Thursday morning before dying of heart attack at Madurai. Arumugam, 44 was driving a TNSTC bus from Arappalayam to Kodaikanal with 30 passengers on board. As the bus departed from Arappalayam at 6.20 a.m., the driver complained of intense chest pain […]
Tamil Nadu: Man sentenced to double life imprisonment for raping minor girl
Chennai |Β A court in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur district has sentenced a 29-year-old man to double life imprisonment for raping and forcibly marrying a minor girl. The incident occurred in 2016 when the man was 24 years old and the minor girl 14. The man, a relative of the girl, raped her while she was alone […]
Minor gives birth to child in TN, police asked to take action against man
Chennai |Β The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of Tamil Nadu has directed the Theni DSP to take action against accused Perumal (27) who raped a minor girl leading to the birth of a girl child. The CWC has asked the police to take action under Protection of Children against Sexual Offences (POCSO) and report it within […]
Tamil Nadu: Police constable suspended after video shows him receiving kiss from woman
Chennai |Β A constable attached with the Armed Reserve Police in Coimbatore city has been suspended after he received a kiss from a woman at a park in the city. The police constable was in uniform while the incident took place which was recorded by a few youngsters who complained to the Coimbatore city police. The […]
Shop in Tamil Nadu forced to shut after huge crowd gathers to buy T-Shirt for 50 paise
Chennai |Β Tamil Nadu Police forced a garment shop owner to shut down his shop after a huge crowd thronged it on its opening day at Tiruchy. The reason for the heavy crowd and commotion was the announcement made by the shop owner that he would provide T-Shirts for 50 paise as part of the inaugural […]
Worker of Greater Chennai Corporation finds 100-gram gold coin in garbage, returns it
Chennai |Β An upright sanitation worker of the Greater Chennai Corporation is in news for her deed of restoring a gold coin that she found in collected waste to its rightful owners, through the police. Mary was sorting out the garbage collected from various domestic households at Thiruvattiyur street when she heard a tinkle. She thought […]
TN rural body polls: BJP candidate gets only one vote
Chennai |Β A BJP candidate in the rural local body polls in Tamil Nadu got only one vote even though his own household had five voters. D. Karthik, who contested for the post of ward member in Periyanaickenpalayam union in Coimbatore district, has become a butt of jokes on social media platforms with the hashtag #Single_Vote_BJP […]
Indian Army disposed live bombs found in TN in controlled blasts
Chennai |Β The Indian Army’s Bomb Disposal Squad has safely disposed the remaining unexploded bombs that were seized along with iron and steel scrap from an industry estate, an Defence Ministry statement said on Tuesday. In the statement issued here, the Ministry said that nearly 15 ton of live unexploded ordnance, along with iron and steel […]
Chennai: 8-month pregnant woman dies after taking pill for abortion
Chennai |Β An eight-month pregnant woman in Chennai died after consuming pills to abort the foetus, as she was reportedly afraid of delivery-related complications, police said on Tuesday. Kumari Kanjakam, 23, was a native of Odisha but she migrated to Chennai with her husband, Pratap Ulaka, and niece Geetha Kanjaka. Police said that she had visited […]