Tamil Nadu News

A woman arrested at the Tuticorin airport on Monday after she shouted "down with Modi, BJP-RSS fascist government" on a flight in the presence of a BJP leader has been released on bail. Tamil Nadu BJP president Tamilisai Soundararajan, who was on the flight and complained against her, had said: "She was not an ordinary passenger, I suspect some extremist organization behind her." 28-year-old Lois Sofia is a research scholar.

Three of a family allegedly committed suicide in their house on Monday by slitting their wrists and necks apparently owing to loss in business, police said.

A woman was arrested at the Tuticorin airport in Tamil Nadu on Monday for raising anti-BJP slogans at Tamil Nadu BJP President Tamilisai Soundararajan.

Five men who came to Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu allegedly to kill two Hindu leaders have been arrested, the police said on Monday. The arrests on Saturday followed intelligence inputs that the men were in the city to attend the wedding of a convict out on parole.

Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam Saturday said the AIADMK would contest the byelections to Thiruparankundram and Thiruvarur constituencies and those dreaming of dislodging the state government would go into oblivion after the bypolls.

Atal Tinkering Labs would be set up in 500 schools across Tamil Nadu in another three months, state Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan said.

A newly married British couple chartered an entire train to travel from Mettupalayam to Udhagamandalam to spend their honeymoon in the Nilgiri hills. The couple paid Rs 3 lakh to charter the special train, introduced by Southern Railway, for a one-way trip, becoming the first people to do so.

Don't touch the feet of MK Stalin, the new DMK president, it makes him uncomfortable, the party advised its members today.

Seven people, including two women, were killed and 30 others injured when two buses collided head-on on in Tamil Nadu today, police said.

A 40-year old hotel staff died in Coimbatore today after allegedly falling down from the second floor of a building while engrossed in a mobile call, police said.

A hospital worker in Tamil Nadu, was seen suturing on a woman's face at a government hospital on Thursday. The state health department has ordered a probe, after a video of the man suturing on an accident survivor, went viral on social media

Top actor Rajinikanth has unveiled stringent rules for "Rajini Makkal Mandram", a precursor to his yet to be launched political party, under which members of religious and caste based outfits are barred from joining it.

Actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief Kamal Haasan on Wednesday said that his party is ready for the 2019 general elections, but are not in a mindset to contest the forthcoming bye-election in Tamil Nadu.

The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to take steps for providing a separate lane at toll plazas for VIPs, including sitting judges, across the country.

A man was today thrashed by the public on suspicion of being a child kidnapper at the government hospital in Coimbatore, police said.