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Prateebha suicide: Palaniswami govt announces Rs 7 lakh relief to kin

Prateebha allegedly committed suicide on June 4 by consuming poison, after she could not clear NEET, despite scoring...

6 Jun 2018 2:05 PM IST

The plastic ban order of the Maharashtra government is likely to make nearly 3,00,000 people jobless as industry urged the government to come out with a solution, an industry official said here.

Tamil Nadu bans manufacture, use of plastic from January 1, 2019

Ban excludes using disposable plastic for packaging milk, curd, oil and medical utilities, says Tamil Nadu CM...

5 Jun 2018 12:48 PM IST

The analysis also showed that cancer patients are about three times more likely to commit suicide than the general population. (Photo: Pixabay)

Tamil Nadu dalit medical aspirant kills self after failing to clear...

Medical aspirant scored 1125 out of 1200 in her Class 12 exams killed self after failing to clear NEET.

5 Jun 2018 9:38 AM IST

The 94-year-old leader had breathed his last at a hospital here after fighting for life for 11 days. (Photo: AFP)

Dravidian doyen M Karunanidhi laid to rest at Marina, lakhs bid adieu

Karunanidhi was buried with full military honours with soldiers giving him a gun salute and buglars sounding the last...

8 Aug 2018 9:08 PM IST

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president and former Tamil Nadu chief minister K. Karunanidhi. (Photo: PTI/File)

Pall of gloom descends on native village of Karunanidhi

Villagers turned up in large numbers to pay floral tributes at a portrait of the DMK patriarch at his house in...

8 Aug 2018 9:58 AM IST

DMK chief M Karunanidhi being laid to rest at Marina Beach. (Photo: ANI)

End of a political era in TN as DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi is laid to...

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi passed away on Tuesday at the age of 94.

8 Aug 2018 9:50 AM IST

A highly imaginative Karunanidhi did not leave any opportunity to show his historical knowledge and interest in organising functions. (Photo: File/PTI)

3,500 sq ft for Jayalalithaa but AIADMK refusing 6 ft for Karunanidhi:...

DMK said AIADMK's refusal to permit the burial was plain and simple 'political vendetta' and 'reeks of pettiness'.

8 Aug 2018 9:12 AM IST

Late DMK president Muthuvel Karunanidhi.

DMK's key test to live up to Karuna's legacy

There are two prisms through which we must look at the passing of Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the DMK patriarch, which was...

10 Aug 2018 12:47 AM IST

Mullaperiyar Dam. (Photo: DC/file)

After Kerala complaints, SC asks TN to keep Mullaperiyar water level...

Supreme Court asked Tamil Nadu govt to maintain the water level at Mullaperiyar dam at 139 feet till August 31.

24 Aug 2018 1:30 PM IST

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is set to register three separate cases to probe the alleged irregularities in certain contracts awarded by the Delhi governments Public Works Department (PWD).

Bank fraud: ED conducts raids in Tamil Nadu

The ED has filed its PMLA case against the firm based on a CBI FIR and charge sheet against R Shenbagan and others.

9 Sept 2018 12:23 AM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLC Girish Vyas raised the issue of sale of gutka in the state.

Chennai Gutka Scam: CBI raids TN minister, top cop among 40 others

The Madras High Court in April ordered the CBI to probe sale of chewing tobacco, which is banned in Tamil Nadu.

5 Sept 2018 11:24 AM IST

Lois Sofia was arrested after the plane landed in Tuticorin and Tamilisai filed a complaint with the airport police. (Photo: File)

Student arrested for shouting 'BJP-RSS fascist government' on plane...

Lois Sofia, a research scholar in Canada, and Tamil Nadu BJP chief Tamilisai Soundararajan, were on flight to Tuticorin.

4 Sept 2018 1:12 PM IST