Tamil Nadu News

Hindi should not be made a mandatory third language in schools, a popular campaign on social media said on Saturday, as Twitter was flooded with messages protesting a draft education policy submitted to the new government at the centre a day ago.

The DMK today likened Congress president Rahul Gandhi to his great-grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, claiming that the country's oldest political party sorely needs a politician with "liberal ideological moorings" like him to take it forward in the years to come.

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Chennai's largest source of drinking water, Chembarambakkam lake, is bone dry with parched and cracked bed all over. The 3,500 million cubic feet capacity reservoir is left just with storage of silt and slush in the middle largely due to deficit monsoon last year. It was this very lake that overflowed and flooded Chennai in December 2015.

On the occasion of the Menstrual Hygiene Day 2019, a sanitary napkin vending machine was installed at the Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Specialty Hospital here on Tuesday.

Two years after Chennai suffered the worst drought in 140 years, the capital city of Tamil Nadu is once again parched, facing an acute water crisis with a 40 per cent cut in piped water supply.

South mega-star Rajinikanth today confirmed that he would attend Narendra Modi's oath ceremony as Prime Minister on Thursday and called him a "charismatic leader" like "Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajiv Gandhi".

The top stars of Tamil cinema, Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, have been invited for the May 30 swearing-in of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister for a second term, sources close to the stars said.

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The union secretary of Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam, Saravanan, was hacked to death by unidentified persons in Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga Sunday, police said.

Tamil Nadu state legislator TTV Dhinakaran said he would file a complaint with the Election Commission over non-registration of votes for his party, the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK), during recently concluded Lok Sabha and Assemblypolls

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader Dayanidhi Maran today asked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami to resign following the defeat of AIADMK in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.

Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan's Makkal Needhi Maiam may have drawn a blank in the Lok Sabha polls, but its electoral performance hints at a potential threat to the AIADMK and the DMK in the 2021 assembly elections. The MNM secured 3.72 per cent votes in the 35 constituencies it contested in, which is no mean feat for a party that was launched just over a year ago.

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) President MK Stalin today said the days were over when it was believed that only Hindi-speaking states made India.

The CBI filed its first chargesheet Friday in a case of alleged sexual assault of a woman in Tamil Nadu's Pollachi and charged five suspects with rape, within a month of taking over the probe, officials said.