Jallikattu 2018

The stage is set for the city's first ever bull taming sport of Jallikkattu today.

A 42-year-old man was gored to death during a bull-taming event organised as part of the Pongal festivities at Vadamalapur in the district today, taking the toll related to Jallikattu this season to five police said.

Four people have been gored to death while watching and participating in Jallikattu or bull-taming in Tamil Nadu, but the political importance of the controversial tradition was driven home as both Chief Minister E Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam attended an event and offered brand new cars as gifts for the best performers.

11 competitors were injured while engaged in Jallikattu on Monday in Palamedu, famous for the bull-taming sport.

Jallikattu is a tradition practiced to worship cattle stock, celebrated during the festival of Pongal, mainly in Tamil Nadu. Jallikattu is a sport where a bull is released into a crowd of people and the participants try to hold on to its hump for as long as they can, attempting to tame it.

The government decision to allow Jallikattu, the controversial bull-taming sport, on ground that it was part of Tamil Nadu's tradition and culture could be referred to a constitution bench, the Supreme Court indicated on Tuesday. But till the court reaches a verdict, the judges have declined to stay the sport played in Tamil Nadu as part of next mo...

The stage is set for the city's first ever bull taming sport of Jallikkattu today.

A 42-year-old man was gored to death during a bull-taming event organised as part of the Pongal festivities at Vadamalapur in the district today, taking the toll related to Jallikattu this season to five police said.

Four people have been gored to death while watching and participating in Jallikattu or bull-taming in Tamil Nadu, but the political importance of the controversial tradition was driven home as both Chief Minister E Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam attended an event and offered brand new cars as gifts for the best performers.

11 competitors were injured while engaged in Jallikattu on Monday in Palamedu, famous for the bull-taming sport.

Jallikattu is a tradition practiced to worship cattle stock, celebrated during the festival of Pongal, mainly in Tamil Nadu. Jallikattu is a sport where a bull is released into a crowd of people and the participants try to hold on to its hump for as long as they can, attempting to tame it.

The government decision to allow Jallikattu, the controversial bull-taming sport, on ground that it was part of Tamil Nadu's tradition and culture could be referred to a constitution bench, the Supreme Court indicated on Tuesday. But till the court reaches a verdict, the judges have declined to stay the sport played in Tamil Nadu as part of next mo...