Tamil Nadu News

The Madras High Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by the Tamil Nadu government, challenging the Rs 100 crore penalty imposed on the state by the National Green Tribunal for not cleaning the Buckingham Canal, Adyar and Cooum rivers.

The first 50-wagon train carrying water to Chennai arrived at the parched city this afternoon from Jolarpet railway station carrying 2.5 million litres of water. A second train will also carry more water to the city. The Chennai Metro Water has set a target of ferrying 10 million litres a day.

"I have seen signboards in Thoothukudi saying PM Sadak Yojana, with no translation. I would like to ask you how will a villager in my district understand what it is?" Kanimozhi said.

The first train carrying water to parched Chennai is likely to leave from Jolarpet railway station around noon today if everything goes well. "The wagons are being filled. Around noon the first rake with water is likely to leave," a senior railways officer told NDTV. Another official, however, said a decision on whether to send the train today would be taken later.

Tamil Nadu-based environmental activist T Mugilan, missing for nearly six months, was found in a railway station in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh on Saturday. He was brought back to Tamil Nadu after the police handed over the activist to Tamil Nadu police at Katpadi around midnight.

The ruling AIADMK and main opposition DMK Saturday re-nominated their respective candidates for the elections to the Vellore Lok Sabha constituency on August 5.

Three workers died when an under construction building collapsed at Chekkanoorani in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district late on Friday.

In another case of suspected sexual abuse by a gang in Tamil Nadu's Pollachi, nine people have been arrested on charges of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl, police said Saturday.

Tamil politician V Gopalaswamy or Vaiko today filed his nomination for Rajya Sabha polls, a day after the MDMK chief was sentenced to a year in jail for sedition by a Chennai court.

The ruling AIADMK on Saturday named former minister A Mohammedjan and N Chandrasekaran as its candidates for the July 18 Rajya Sabha polls from Tamil Nadu.

A husband and his pregnant wife were hacked to death by a group of men on Thursday, allegedly over their inter-caste marriage in Tamil Nadu.

The Madras High Court today granted a one-month parole to Nalini Sriharan, one of the seven convicted for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.

The Madras High Court on Thursday lashed out at revenue department officials for stopping a woman's old age pension four years ago assuming she was dead, calling it a "reckless act".

The Madras High Court has declared as "illegal" an amendment made by the Tamil Nadu government to the Centre's Land Acquisition Act, exempting three state legislations from its purview.

Polling for the Lok Sabha seat was scheduled for April 18, along with the other constituencies of Tamil Nadu, but was cancelled on April 16 following the recovery of a huge amount of cash allegedly from an associate of a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader.