Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has said the state will challenge the National Green Tribunal order, which set aside government's closure of mining firm Vedanta's Sterlite Copper plant at Tuticorin, in the Supreme Court.
Edited by Stela Dey | Saturday December 15, 2018, New Delhi
The deep depression in the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm during the next 24 hours, the Regional Meteorological Centre said.
The country's green court set aside today the Tamil Nadu state government's order to close Vedanta's copper smelter plant permanently. The National Green Tribunal or NGT directed the Tamil Nadu state pollution regulator to pass a fresh order of renewal of consent for Vedanta's copper smelter within three weeks.
Two people have been arrested after 11 people died and over 90 were hospitalised after consuming religious food offering - or prasad - at a temple in Karnataka's Chamarajanagar district on Friday, a minister in the state cabinet said.
Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J Radha Krishnan Friday appeared before the Justice A Arumughaswamy Commission of Inquiry, which is probing the circumstances leading to the death of late chief minister J Jayalalithaa.
The Madras High Court Friday acquitted a man sentenced to six months rigorous imprisonment by a lower court for allegedly damaging late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's photograph in the city corporation in 2001.
The Kerala High Court Friday granted conditional bail to social activist Rehana Fathima, who was arrested for allegedly posting controversial remarks on Lord Ayyappa devotees and Sabarimala on social media.
Posters earmarking separate entry and exit points and wash basins for vegetarian and non-vegetarian students have been allegedly pasted at a mess of the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, kicking up a row with a section of students alleging discrimination.
Telangana Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President K Chandrashekhar Rao has rewarded Mohammad Mahmood Ali once again for his loyalty by inducting him into his cabinet and allotting him the Home portfolio.
As many as 73 legislators out of the 119, who were elected in the recently concluded Telangana assembly polls, have criminal record even as average assets of an MLA doubled when compared to that of a member in the previous House.
A court in Coimbatore rejected the closure report filed by CBI in the alleged suicide of a DSP in 2015 and directed the agency to continue investigating the matter and file a fresh report in six months.
Written by Maya Sharma | Thursday December 13, 2018, Bengaluru
The Bengaluru Metro has been a boon to lakhs of commuters in the traffic-choked city -- but there has been some concern of late over what appeared to be cracks on a pillar on the stretch of Namma Metro on Mahatma Gandhi Road.
The ruling AIADMK Thursday hit out at arch rival DMK for allegedly indulging in a "false, malicious" propaganda that saree and dhoti in the Gaja cyclone relief kit being distributed to the storm-hit people were torn.
A depression has been formed over the southeast Bay of Bengal, said Union Ministry of Earth Science and a pre-cyclone watch has been issued for Andhra Pradesh.
