Tamil Nadu News

Two-year-old Sivamuniyan, son of C Sivachandran, the soldier who was killed in Pulwama terror attack on Thursday, looked puzzled as hundreds including Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, paid their tribute before bidding his father final farewell. Sivamuniyan can hardly understand why he saluted and kissed the coffin draped in tricolour. His mother, Gandhimathi, pregnant with her second baby, held Sivamuniyan close to her chest.

Two former high-ranking executives of the technology company Cognizant have been charged by US prosecutors in alleged $2 million bribery of Tamil Nadu government officials to get building permits for its campus in Chennai.

Four decades after an ancient Nataraja idol was stolen from a temple in Tamil Nadu, the state idol wing police have registered a case.

Taunted by the Congress to face the coming Lok Sabha polls alone, the ruling AIADMK on Wednesday hit back, saying it was strong enough and prepared for fighting the elections on its own provided other parties in Tamil Nadu also go without allies.

The BJP's tie-up with the AIADMK is "nearly done", say sources, signaling a big about-turn by Tamil Nadu's ruling party, which had just weeks ago talked about its cadre being strongly against such an alliance. BJP president Amit Shah will seal the alliance soon, say sources, adding that the deal may be done by the time Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels to Kanyakumari to address a rally on February 19.

The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday told members of the assembly that it would take steps to ban the video-sharing app TikTok, stating that it is being used to "degrade" Tamil culture and trigger law and order problems.

Clutching his chest in severe pain, a bus driver saved 30 passengers by steering the bus to the side of a busy road before collapsing and dying of a heart attack on the steering wheel near suburban Nerkundram in Tamil Nadu.

The Madras High Court today refused to pass interim orders on a plea by Apollo Hospitals seeking to restrain the Commission of Inquiry from looking into the correctness and adequacy of the medical treatment given to former chief minister J Jayalalithaa before her death in 2016.

In the peak of election season, people in Tamil Nadu received two back to back gift hampers from the AIADMK government after Chief Minister E Palaniswami - popularly known as EPS - announced Rs 2000 each for 60 lakh families in the state.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a swipe at the Congress today at a rally in Tirupur, saying the good work of the NDA government has made some people very unhappy.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the last leg of the Chennai Metro Rail's Blue line and also gave go-ahead for the construction of underground metro stations through video-conferencing today. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minsiter O Panneerselvam were present at the inauguration.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched new projects and inaugurated completed projects in Tamil Nadu from Tirupur.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a tri-state visit to Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu today where he launches several development projects and kick off the BJP's Lok Sabha campaign.

A baby elephant was rescued after it fell into a trench in the Mettupalayam Forest Range on the outskirts of Coimbatore, forest officials said today.

Apollo Hospital today approached the Madras High Court seeking an interim stay on the proceedings of a panel probing the death of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa.