Chennai | The Madras High Court on Friday directed Tamil Nadu Police to grant permission to the roadshow of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in Coimbatore on March 18. The Tamil Nadu Police had on Friday sent a communique to the BJP’s Coimbatore District unit that permission could not be granted to the 4km roadshow of […]
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Former DGP evades police, he was convicted in case related to sexual harassment of woman police officer
Chennai | The Crime Branch-CID of Tamil Nadu has constituted a special team to trace former Tamil Nadu DGP, Rajesh Das, who is missing. Das was convicted by the Villupuram District Court in a case related to sexual harassment of a woman police officer, and was handed three years’ imprisonment. The District Court had directed […]
10 killed, 3 injured in explosion in TN firecracker factory
Chennai | Ten workers were killed and three others were injured in an explosion at a private fireworks factory unit in Kundayiruppu near Sattur in Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu on Saturday. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has announced a relief of Rs 3 lakh for each of the deceased families and Rs 1 […]
Third year MBBS student found dead in hostel room in college
Chennai | The Greater Chennai Police have begun investigation into the death of a third year MBBS student at the Government Stanley Medical College here. The third-year MBBS student, identified as Ranjith, 25, from Kerala, was found dead inside his hostel room. On Wednesday when his classmates found Ranjith missing from class and campus, they […]
Sankaracharyas skipped Ram temple event due to PM Modi’s OBC status: Udhayanidhi Stalin
Chennai | Udhayanidhi Stalin, Tamil Nadu Minister for Sports Development and Youth affairs, has claimed that Sankaracharyas had not attended the ‘Pran Pratishtha’ ceremony in Ayodhya due to the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who belongs to a backward class community. Udhayanidhi, son of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, was addressing a party booth agents’ […]
YouTuber force-feeds live rooster to bull, FIR lodged
Chennai | A YouTuber and his accomplices have been booked on the charges of force-feeding a live rooster to a bull in Tamil Nadu’s Salem district. The FIR was booked on complaint of Arun Prasanna, Animal rights activist and founder of Chennai based animal protection group, People for Cattle in India (PFCI). Prasanna wrote to […]
Former DGP gets 3 years imprisonment in sexual harassment case
Chennai | A local court in Villupuram on Friday sentenced former Tamil Nadu Special DGP Rajesh Das to three years of imprisonment in a sexual harassment case. The accused was charged of sexual harassment by his junior woman IPS officer two years ago. Besides, the court also slapped him with a fine of Rs 10,000. […]
Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister ‘weeps’ after he is arrested by ED
Chennai | After 18 hours of interrogation, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister Senthil Balaji on Wednesday. But the Minister, according to sources, fell unconscious after his arrest and is currently admitted at a hospital in Omarandur Estate, Chennai. The marathon interrogation took place at the Minister’s official residence here on Tuesday, […]
Khusbu Sundar’s old tweet against PM goes viral, BJP leader defends herself
Chennai | An old tweet by the National Commission for Women (NCW) member and actor-turned-politician Khushbu Sundar has gone viral on social media. While the Congress across the country is protesting against the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha following his conviction by a Surat court in a 2019 criminal defamation case, the old […]
BJP MP Tejasvi Surya allegedly opened emergency exit of IndiGo flight
Chennai | BJP MP from Bengaluru South and national president of the party’s Yuva Morcha, Tejasvi Surya, has come under the lens after IndiGo released a statement on Tuesday, claiming that a passenger had opened the emergency exit of its Chennai-Tiruchirapalli flight on December 10, 2022. While the airline didn’t name the passenger, it said the […]