Tamil Nadu News

The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu has unveiled a bronze statue of former Chief Minister and AIADMK Chief J Jayalalithaa at their party headquarters in Chennai. The life-size statue resembling Ms Jayalalithaa has brought relief and cheer to hundreds of party workers after the party's flop show earlier this year.

The efforts to bring together a broad alliance against the National Democratic Alliance gathered steam today with Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury announcing that his party will support the DMK in Tamil Nadu. He made this statement after a meeting with DMK president MK Stalin in Chennai.

Cyclonic storm Gaja has moved westwards and was now located at about 740 km east-northeast of Chennai and expected to cross coastal Tamil Nadu in the afternoon of November 15, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said today.

The five accused persons in the Rs 5.78 crore train heist case were sent to Central Prison in Tamil Nadu capital Chennai on Monday after their police custody came to an end, police said.

The Madras High Court today directed the Tamil Nadu Home Secretary and the DGP to hold meetings with people aggrieved by film piracy and find a solution to prevent it. Justice Pushpa Satyanarayana gave this directive on a petition from the Film Exhibitors Association of Tiruchirapalli and and Thanjavur and adjourned the matter to November 28 for further hearing.

Days after calling a truce with the ruling AIADMK on the controversy surrounding the latter's freebee schemes, the 'Sarkar' film crew had a little get-together with a cake drawing all the attention.

A deep depression in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a cyclonic storm and is likely to cross the North Tamil Nadu and South Andhra Pradesh coast between Cuddalore and Sriharikota on November 15, regional weather office in Chennai said onSunday.

A 17-year-old Adivasi girl who was allegedly raped by two men at a village in Tamil Nadu last Monday RPT Monday died in a hospital, triggering protests by her family, alleging that there was a delay in accepting their complaint and nabbing the accused.

Amid reports suggesting that All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) workers vandalised the posters of the movie 'Sarkar' while protesting against the release of the film, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami claimed that it was a protest by common people and not AIADMK party workers.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Saturday took a dig at the film industry when asked about the controversy surrounding Vijay-starrer "Sarkar". Referring to the movie industry as "blood suckers", the chief minister also defended the protests surrounding "Sarkar".

Video clips of Tamil actor Vijay's fans recreating a snipped scene from his controversial movie 'Sarkar', throwing away freebies, including table fans, of the AIADMK government and setting them ablaze, went viral on the social media on Saturday.

Malfunctioning of most ATMs in the city Saturday put people to hardship as they were left without cash, the police said.

The AIADMK hit out at Tamil superstar Rajinikanth today for slamming its protests against certain scenes in the Vijay-starrer "Sarkar", saying a mere censor certification would not justify contentious scenes.

The Madras High Court Friday dismissed the petitions of former union telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanidhi Maran and other accused in the 'illegal' telephone exchange case, seeking quashing of charges framed by a CBI court against them.

The voluntary removal of certain controversial scenes relating to the AIADMK in actor Vijay's 'Sarkar' today prompted the ruling party to declare that the "issue has come to an end" and that it would not stage any more protests against the film. The statement from Information and Publicity Minister Kadambur C Raju, who first flagged the issue, should come as a relief for the film crew and Vijay fans as film buffs are likely to make a beeline to theatres coinciding with the weekend. 'Sarkar', released on November 6, has reportedly had a very good opening, ringing in cash at the box office.