Chennai | After the Union Home Ministry imposed a ban for five years on the Popular Front of India (PFI) on Wednesday, several leaders and cadres of the organisation have gone into hiding. Sources in the state police told IANS that many of the leaders and cadres who were present in public after the September 22 […]
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Adding Rs 1,600 cr per day to his wealth, Adani tops India’s rich list, ranks second in world
Chennai | Takeover tycoon and world’s second richest person, 60-year-old Gautam Adani, naturally heads the India’s rich list with wealth of Rs 10,94,400 crore, as per the IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2022. Adani ranks second after Tesla CEO, Elon Musk who has net worth of Rs 12.37 lakh crore. Interestingly, Adani gets the honours […]
Woman refuses to rent out flat to SC person, booked
Chennai | A woman has been booked for refusing to rent out a flat to a Scheduled Caste (SC) man in Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district. Madurai Veeran of Arasapillaipatti village approached Lakshmi and Velusamy, for renting a residential flat owned by the couple. While showing Veeran and another person accompanying him the flat, Lakshmi asked about […]
BJP’s TN unit to gift gold coins to newborns on PM Modi’s birthday
Chennai | The Tamil Nadu unit of the BJP will gift gold coins to children born on the birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP state unit has identified RSRM hospital Chennai and all children born at this hospital on September 17, the birthday of the Prime Minister, will be gifted a gold coin. Each […]
Govt school headmistress refuses to hoist Tricolour on I-Day
Chennai | A controversy has erupted in Tamil Nadu after reports of a government school headmistress allegedly refusing to hoist the national flag and salute it on Independence Day. The woman named Tamil Selvi, a government school Headmistress in Dharmapuri district, did not hoist the national flag stating that she was a Christian and that her […]
Passenger carried monkey and several reptiles in luggage, held at Chennai airport
Chennai | In an unprecedented incident, live animals, including a monkey and snakes, were recovered from the baggage of a passenger who landed at Chennai Airport from Bangkok, Customs officials said on Saturday. The official said that the passenger, whose name was not disclosed, was intercepted by Customs officials on Thursday at on the basis of […]
Techie beaten to death by Ola cab driver after argument over OTP
Chennai | A software developer from Coimbatore, who was in Chennai for weekend holiday along with his family, was beaten to death by an Ola cab driver following a dispute over delay in entering the one-time password (OTP) on the Old Mahabalipuram Road here on Sunday. Greater Chennai Police Commissioner, Shankar Jiwal, told IANS that the […]
Those speaking Hindi selling ‘pani puri’, doing menial jobs: TN Minister
Chennai | In remarks that could spark off a furore, Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister, K. Ponmudy on Friday said that the English language is much more valuable than Hindi, and those speaking Hindi are selling “pani puris” and doing menial jobs. In his address at a convocation ceremony at Bharathiar University, where Governor R.N. Ravi […]
4 boys, all aged 14, sexually abuse classmate in Chennai, booked under POCSO Act
Chennai | Four boys, all 14-year-olds, were booked under the Prevention of Children from Sexual offences (POCSO) Act and sent to a correctional facility in Kellys, Chennai for sexually abusing their classmate at her residence a few days ago. Police said that while there was no penetrative sex, the boys were regularly watching pornographic movies […]
‘Idli Amma’ elated as Anand Mahindra gifts her a house on Mother’s Day
Chennai | Eighty-five-year-old K. Kamalthal of Coimbatore is a sensation on internet, thanks to the Rupee one idli she serves people and is fondly called ‘Idli Patti’ or ‘Idli Grandmother’. No wonder, chairman of Mahindra Group, Anand Mahindra found it fit to donate a new home to her. Mahindra group has handed over a 300 […]