Tamil Nadu

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.

Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan today visited Kumarareddiapuram village in Tuticorin district to express solidarity with those protesting against the existing Sterlite Copper smelter plant and its proposed unit in the region.

DMK leader M.K. Stalin was taken into custody today while protesting against the Central government for not setting up the Cauvery Management Board (CMB).

The private schools in Tamil Nadu should strictly follow the rules with regard to summer vacation and not take special classes to the students, Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan said yesterday.

Hundreds of people on Saturday gathered at theMarinabeachin Chennai and staged a flash protest urging the Centre to immediately set up the Cauvery Water Management Board in compliance with a February 16 Supreme Court order on the decades-old river water-sharing dispute.

After five years, a train hauled by a steam locomotive today began its run from Mettupalayam to Coonoor in the Nilgiris Mountain Railway (NMR) section, official sources said.

Locals protesting against the expansion of a copper smelter plant in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin today found support from actor-politician Rajinikanth, who took to Twitter to say the government was not responding to the protests that have been going on for 47 days.

Air hostesses working with no-frills carrier SpiceJet protested at Chennai airport early morning today after they were allegedly strip searched by the airline's own security personnel

Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK has announced that it would hold a hunger strike across the state on April 2, from 8 am to 5 pm, in a bid to mount pressure on the centre to set up the Cauvery Management Board.

The Tamil Nadu government will move the Supreme Court on the issue of constituting the Cauvery Management Board (CMB), state fisheries Minister D Jayakumar said today.