Tamil Nadu Accident

Around 2.30 am, the Audi Q3 crashed into a pole and then went over a footpath, killing all seven, including the son of a Tamil Nadu MLA. The driver lost control of the speeding car, according to the police.

Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal and Municipal Administration Minister SP Velumani escaped unhurt after their cars collided near Tirupur, while they were going to attend an election rally in Dharapuram, to be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi this afternoon.

In a rare show of empathy, a group of villagers performed the last rites to a 12-foot long python killed in a road accident here, giving it some of the respects reserved for human beings in their final journey.

An attempt at clicking a selfie on a train engine turned tragic for a 14-year-old boy who died today of electrocution in Tirunelveli city in southern Tamil Nadu.

Actor-turned-politician Khushbu Sundar, who joined the BJP last month, met with an accident in Tamil Nadu this morning when a tanker rammer her vehicle. Ms Sundar escaped unhurt. "Met with an accident near Melmarvathur... a tanker rammed into us. With your blessings and God's grace I am safe," she tweeted, sharing two photos of her badly damaged ca...

Five people, including four biomedical engineering students, died on the spot when the car in which they were travelling rammed into a lorry near Avinashi in Tirupur district in the early hours of Thursday, police said.

South actor-politician Kamal Haasan appeared before Chennai Police today in connection with the death of three men on a film set last month after a crane they were sitting on broke and apart and crashed

Lyca, the production company backing Kamal Haasan's "Indian 2", has said the veteran actor was always in total control, hinting that the veteran actor should accept part of the blame for the recent accident on the set, which claimed three lives.

Actor Kamal Haasan and production house Lyca today condoled the death of three professionals, who were killed in a crane accident on the sets of the veteran star's film 'Indian 2', which left nine others injured.

It was a "black Thursday" for 48 passengers, majority of them Keralites, who travelled in a state-run bus that collided with a container lorry in Tirupur district of neighbouring Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Thursday.

Over 19 people were killed and a few are feared trapped in debris after the bus in which they were travelling in was hit by a container that had come off a truck coming from the opposite side on a highway in Tamil Nadu's Tirupur, the police said. Twenty-three were injured. They have been taken to different hospitals.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Wednesday said six men from the state were among those injured or missing in the LPG tanker blast in Sudan and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct officials concerned to update on their status.

DMK President MK Stalin on Sunday handed over a cheque of Rs 5 lakh to the parents of a 30-year-old woman whose leg was amputated after a truck hit her scooter while she was trying to avoid a falling flagpole in Coimbatore recently.

Four students, who were walking along the railway track near Irugur, Coimbatore, reportedly under the influence of liquor, were killed after being hit by a Chennai-bound express train today, police said.

A 30-year-old woman who was riding a scooter was hit by a truck on Monday morning after she tried to avoid a falling flagpole of the AIADMK on a highway in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore. Anuradha Rajeswari, who was riding the scooter, suffered serious fractures on both her legs after the heavy vehicle's front right wheel ran over them, the police said. S...

Around 2.30 am, the Audi Q3 crashed into a pole and then went over a footpath, killing all seven, including the son of a Tamil Nadu MLA. The driver lost control of the speeding car, according to the police.

Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal and Municipal Administration Minister SP Velumani escaped unhurt after their cars collided near Tirupur, while they were going to attend an election rally in Dharapuram, to be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi this afternoon.

In a rare show of empathy, a group of villagers performed the last rites to a 12-foot long python killed in a road accident here, giving it some of the respects reserved for human beings in their final journey.

An attempt at clicking a selfie on a train engine turned tragic for a 14-year-old boy who died today of electrocution in Tirunelveli city in southern Tamil Nadu.

Actor-turned-politician Khushbu Sundar, who joined the BJP last month, met with an accident in Tamil Nadu this morning when a tanker rammer her vehicle. Ms Sundar escaped unhurt. "Met with an accident near Melmarvathur... a tanker rammed into us. With your blessings and God's grace I am safe," she tweeted, sharing two photos of her badly damaged ca...

Five people, including four biomedical engineering students, died on the spot when the car in which they were travelling rammed into a lorry near Avinashi in Tirupur district in the early hours of Thursday, police said.

South actor-politician Kamal Haasan appeared before Chennai Police today in connection with the death of three men on a film set last month after a crane they were sitting on broke and apart and crashed

Lyca, the production company backing Kamal Haasan's "Indian 2", has said the veteran actor was always in total control, hinting that the veteran actor should accept part of the blame for the recent accident on the set, which claimed three lives.

Actor Kamal Haasan and production house Lyca today condoled the death of three professionals, who were killed in a crane accident on the sets of the veteran star's film 'Indian 2', which left nine others injured.

It was a "black Thursday" for 48 passengers, majority of them Keralites, who travelled in a state-run bus that collided with a container lorry in Tirupur district of neighbouring Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Thursday.

Over 19 people were killed and a few are feared trapped in debris after the bus in which they were travelling in was hit by a container that had come off a truck coming from the opposite side on a highway in Tamil Nadu's Tirupur, the police said. Twenty-three were injured. They have been taken to different hospitals.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Wednesday said six men from the state were among those injured or missing in the LPG tanker blast in Sudan and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct officials concerned to update on their status.

DMK President MK Stalin on Sunday handed over a cheque of Rs 5 lakh to the parents of a 30-year-old woman whose leg was amputated after a truck hit her scooter while she was trying to avoid a falling flagpole in Coimbatore recently.

Four students, who were walking along the railway track near Irugur, Coimbatore, reportedly under the influence of liquor, were killed after being hit by a Chennai-bound express train today, police said.

A 30-year-old woman who was riding a scooter was hit by a truck on Monday morning after she tried to avoid a falling flagpole of the AIADMK on a highway in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore. Anuradha Rajeswari, who was riding the scooter, suffered serious fractures on both her legs after the heavy vehicle's front right wheel ran over them, the police said. S...