Tamil Nadu News

More than 3,000 Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu were chased away by the Sri Lankan Navy, who also hurled stones at them and snapped fishing nets of 50 vessels for fishing in their territorial waters, a fishermen association leader claimed on Thursday.

The northeast monsoon sets in over parts of south India today and would expand in the next 24 hours, the regional weather office said.

The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday informed the Madras High Court that the decision to construct a memorial for late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was a policy decision and there was no conviction against her as of date.

Smuggled gold worth Rs 19 lakh was seized from a passenger who arrived from Singapore in Tiruchirappalli, customs officials said today.

This brutal murder has left Tamil Nadu shaken, both because of its gruesome nature as well as the fact that it showed an extremely violent manifestation of casteism. Last week, a 13-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly beheaded by her neighbor in front of her mother's eyes near Attur in Tamil Nadu's Salem district. Dinesh Kumar, who belonged to a higher caste, allegedly shouted caste slurs as he attacked the young girl and decapitated her using a sickle. The victim is reported to have accused Kumar of making sexual advances towards her.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami today launched various projects completed at an estimated cost of a little over Rs 620 crore in the energy, home and highways departments.

The 18 disqualified AIADMK legislators will not appeal against the Madras High Court's order upholding Tamil Nadu Speaker P Dhanapal's order disqualifying them, said their camp leader TTV Dhinakaran.

After the disqualification of 18 AIADMK legislators, their rooms at the lawmakers' Hostel in Chennai have been sealed and the individuals have been asked to settle pending dues. A notice from Assembly Secretary K Srinivasan put up on their rooms also asks them to take their belongings in the presence of an Under Secretary (Hostel Administration) after intimating the official. The action comes in the wake of the October 25 Madras High Court order upholding the disqualification of the 18 lawmakers by Speaker P Dhanapal last year for 'defection.'

A CBI court today sentenced a senior official of Directorate of Light Houses and Lightships to three years' rigorous imprisonment in a corruption case.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami said on Tuesday that the party has not extended any invitation to sidelined AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran to return to the ruling party fold but only to those who had gone "off track."

An eight-year old boy suffering from swine flu died today at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, sources in the hospital said.

Conditions are favourable for the onset of northeast monsoon in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the next two days, the regional weather office said today.

All southern states can burst firecrackers anytime in the day, for two hours, the Supreme Court said today, modifying its last week's order that restricted the use of "safe and green" firecrackers from 8 pm to 10 pm on Diwali to tackle air pollution.

DMK chief MK Stalin on Monday, attacked the ruling AIADMK, saying Chief Minister K Palaniswami was leading a government of 'Corruption, Commission and Collection' and was scared of facing the public in elections.

The ruling AIADMK said 18 disqualified legislators can re-join the party on one condition -- they must "kneel" and "apologise" at the memorial of late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa. The 18 legislators were disqualified after they sided with rebel AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran, following a power tussle within the party after death of the former chief minister in December 2016.