Tamil Nadu

Actor-politician Rajinikanth has promised to play a part in the 2021 elections, but about 2019, he is keeping his cards close to chest. The decision, he said, will be taken once the elections are announced, "but we are ready for anything".

The Supreme Court today approved the centre's draft Cauvery Management Scheme for distribution of water among four South Indian states. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra rejected the suggestions of Karnataka and Kerala governments over the scheme, terming them as devoid of merits.

Makkal Needhi Maiam or MNM founder Kamal Haasan today launched a three-day tour of south Tamil Nadu, saying it was an attempt at understanding the people and their issues.

Arch-rivals ruling AIADMK and DMK in Tamil Nadu today greeted the BJP for its good showing in the Karnataka Assembly elections where the saffron party appeared headed for a simple majority.

The Supreme Court today reserved its order on a plea filed against a CBI probe ordered by the Madras High Court into the multi-crore rupees gutkha scam in which a minister and top state police officers and officials are alleged to be involved.

A Chennai auto driver and his accomplice were arrested today for allegedly misbehaving with a woman passenger recently, police said.

This is one punishment Muruganandam , a private bus driver, is not going to forget in a hurry: regulating traffic on a busy road here for the 'crime' of speaking over the mobile phone while driving.

Nine persons were killed in a collision between two vehicles in Tamil Nadu's Perambalur district.

Two 18-year-old boys drowned in a lake at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras today, police said.

A 65-year-old woman was beaten to death in Tamil Nadu and her relatives and a driver were seriously wounded when villagers attacked them suspecting they were child traffickers. The police have arrested 23 villagers after the incident in Tiruvanamalai on Wednesday.

Garment workers in south India are to receive counselling to help them cope with problems from work pressure to sexual harassment after a series of deaths in factories and hostels, a local official said on Wednesday.

Superstar Rajinikanth yesterday indicated there could be a further delay in the launch of his political party, but assured that whenever he floats his own outfit, it would usher in 'good times' for Tamil Nadu and its people.

With a shower of tears and the anguished cry of a bereaved mother, a 22-year old man from Tamil Nadu, who died of injuries after being hit by stone pelters in Kashmir, was laid to rest in a cemetery.

"It is not such an insurmountable problem. If politics will just stand aside, logic will come in place, logistics will come in place, then we can quickly solve the problem," the veteran actor said.

Six people from Kerala on their way to the famous Lord Muruga temple in Palani town in Tamil Nadu were killed and two others seriously injured in a car-lorry collision today, police said.