Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu's main opposition party - the DMK - along with other parties like Congress, CPI(M) and CPI will hold a state-wide bandh or shutdown today. The reason behind the shutdown is the Cauvery water issue - a decades-old dispute between Tamil Nadu and its neighbouring state Karnataka. The DMK-led opposition parties are demanding that the Cauvery Management Board, as ordered by the Supreme Court, be set up immediately.

Tamil actor and Makkal Needhi Maiyam president Kamal Haasan said today that the centre is committing a "blunder" by not forming the Cauvery Management Board.

A 35-year-old woman was killed and her husband seriously injured, when a gravel-laden lorry crashed into their house on Sungam by-pass road in the wee hours Wednesday, police said.

At least 30 people fell ill after consuming 'prasadam' at a temple in Mettupalayam, police said Wednesday.

With protests and politics intensifying in Tamil Nadu against the delay in setting up the Cauvery Management Board, the Chief Justice of India today asked the people of the state to maintain calm.

Tamil Nadu on Tuesday saw hunger strikes, blocking of trains, and traders downing their shutters in protest against the Central government's failure to set up the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) despite a Supreme Court order.

Superstar Kamal Haasan, one of the most vocal voices in Tamil Nadu on implementing the verdict on the Cauvery water sharing, has amped up the campaign against Tamil Nadu's E Palaniswami government and the centre for sitting tight on the Supreme Court's verdict

Kamal Haasan, the actor-politician who recently launched his political party, on Tuesday brushed aside a whisper campaign about the Marathi origins of superstar Rajinikanth who is also expected to float his political party. "I am a different man, I don't think that way.... That is not the point I will discuss when it comes to a debate," Mr Haasan told NDTV, pointing that he was, to the contrary, trying to "unite the whole of south as one voice".

With anger sweeping Tamil Nadu over the Centre seeking more time to constitute the Cauvery Water Management Board (CMB), citing elections in neighbouring Karnataka, the ruling AIADMK has called for a hunger strike today. The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu K. Palaniswami and his deputy O Pannerselvam have joined the day-long hunger strike

The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu would hold a day long hunger strike across to slam the Centre on its betrayal as they call it by not constituting the Cauvery Water Management Board (CMB).

Two DMK workers allegedly made self-immolation bids in Coimbatore today amid a state-wide stir for setting up Cauvery Management Board to implement the Supreme Court's verdict on water allocation among the riparian states.

The Madras High Court today dismissed five public interest litigation petitions, filed in connection with the display of late chief minister J Jayalalithaa's portrait in the assembly and related matters.

The opposition DMK and other groups, in Tamil Nadu, are staging a series of protests against the Narendra Modi government, for what they call defiance of the Supreme Court's order, by not constituting the Cauvery Management Board (CMB). The police have detained around 200 DMK protesters today.

Agreeing to take up Tamil Nadu's petition for contempt against the central government over the Cauvery water dispute, the Supreme Court today said: "We will see that Tamil Nadu gets water".

In what appears to be a bid to shift the political onus on DMK on the Cauvery issue, senior AIADMK leader M Thambidurai today said his party would consider moving a no-trust motion in Parliament against the NDA government if Congress supported it.