Tamil Nadu's actor-politician Kamal Haasan, who met HD Kumaraswamy today to discuss sharing of Cauvery water between the two states, said the Karnataka Chief Minister's response was "heartening".
Celebrations are low key for the second consecutive year as DMK supremo M Karunanidhi turned 95 today. For more than a year the DMK patriarch has been confined to his home due to age related health conditions.
The State Human Rights Commission Saturday began its enquiry into the police firing during the anti Sterlite protests in the city on May 22 and 23 that turned violent, leading to the death of 13 persons.
A Mumbai-based journalist has threatened to file a defamation suit against actor Rajinikanth over his film 'Kaala' which is scheduled to release on Friday.
The centre on Friday constituted the Cauvery Water Management Authority in compliance with a Supreme Court order to address the water dispute involving the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
Edited by Aloke Tikku | Thursday May 31, 2018, Chennai
Superstar Rajinikanth who lost his cool on Wednesday after being questioned about his statement justifying last week's police firing in Tuticorin that killed 13 people, expressed regret, saying he did not intend to hurt anyone's sentiments.
The magistrate court had last month issued summons directing Mr Rajinikanth to appear before it on June 6. Mr Bothra filed the defamation complaint against Mr Rajinikanth in a civil suit that he was attempting to extort money from him.
DMK and several other political parties in Tamil Nadu today hit out at superstar Rajinikanth for his comments that too many protests would turn the state into a 'graveyard'.
DMK today held a mock assembly session here and hit out at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami over the recent Tuticorin police firings in which 13 persons were killed.
The Madras High Court on Wednesday refused to stay prosecution initiated against former union minister P Chidambaram's wife Nalini, son Karti, daughter-in-law Srinidhi and a firm under the Black Money Act for allegedly not disclosing their foreign assets.
The Justice A Arumughaswamy Commission of Inquiry, probing the circumstances leading to former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's death, has completed examining 50 witnesses, including seven who had petitioned it.
Superstar Rajinikanth today blamed anti-social elements for the anti-Sterlite protests in Tuticorin last week that resulted in 13 deaths in police firing, and called for a Jayalalithaa-style 'iron fist' policy to crush such people in the interest of Tamil Nadu.
Vedanta Resources is working on a legal challenge to the Tamil Nadu government's closure of of its Sterlite copper smelter, but it will not proceed until tensions over the deaths of 13 people during protests last week have eased, two sources told Reuters.
